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TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942
RABIES TRUTHS
Capt. Will Judy, Editor of Dog
World Magazine, Chicago, past
isident of the Dog Writers As
ation, Gen. Chairman of Na
_lal Dog Week, presents the
following eleven statements con
cerning rabies:
1. Rabies is not seasonal. It has
no dependence upon hot weather.
2. Mere frothing at the mouth
is not indicative of rabies. Hot
weather causes dogs to perspire
freely and mostly through the
tongue. Dogs actually rabid drool
rather than froth and do "little of
this.
Many dogs are “murdered” by
unthinking people and police offi
cers who mistake a harmless ail
ment, hysteria or fits, for rabies.
A dog suffering fits barks loudly,
runs in circles, froths at the mouth,
has a glassy stare, may fall on
its side; and if it does bite by
accident, the bite is just an ordin
dog bite.
Rabies does not come of its
own accord; it does not “grow”
within the dog. It can be con
tracted only from an animal in
the adult stages of rabies, through
the bite or saliva of such animal.
The germ itself must enter the
system of the victim. The actual
rabies germ can be swallowed or
it can be spread over the skin
without infection if it does not
find an opening (lesion) in the
skin or mucous membrane so
that it may enter within the blood
stream and nervous system.
Rabies is not a dog disease. Any
animal actually rabid can spread
_Continued on Page Two
Additional Contributors to
St. Luke’s Hospital
From Saluda: Gaither Johnson,
R. M. Hall, R. H. Roberts, Mrs.
Nelson Leonard, H. M. Thompson,
Dan Robertson, Lote Lawter, Fred
Thompson, Frank Thompson, Sam
Summey, Bub Bradley, Lawrence
Hipp, Paul Winekin, D. R. Fisher,
Mrs. Woodrow Ward, Mrs. Annie
N. Locke.
Fpom Cleveland, Ohio: Allen
Kerr.
Pass First Aid Tests
The following ladies have com
pleted the Red Cross First Aid
course conducted by Mrs. Martha
Boone: Mrs. James Baker, M!rs.
George Bay, Mrs. James A. Black
wood, Rochester, Mich., Mrs. Geo.
Brannon, Mrs. Jefferson Coe, Miss
Gertrude Copeland, Weston, Mass.,
Mrs. Rupert C. Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
R. A. Franks, Mrs. Walter Hill,
Miss Gladys Lawton, Mrs. Roger
Shaffer, Mrs. Russell A. Walcott,
Mrs. George D. Wick, Mrs. Sam
^uel Woody, Mrs. Harold Crandall.
WEST AT ROTARY
Rev. Chas. L. McGavern will be
in charge of the Rotary program
on Friday at 1 p. m., at Sunnydale.
The guest speaker will be Chas.
West, who will speak on Birds.
Mr. West reported recently in the
Bulletin the number of different
birds he has noted in Tryon. He
is also author of a number of
magazine articles on nature sub
jects and writes the Field Notes
column in the Sunday Charlotte
Observer under the pen name,
“Woods Rider.”