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Show Thursday, February 1, 1979 Page 13 TRIYIA TE What's Up Doc? ST By Doc Murdock My decidedly old friends Marvin and Fido showed up this week, iney were in town for a few days and wanted to go cross-country skiing. Do you remember me telling about Marvin? He's the one who drives the long distance taxi, along with his brother Fido and their loyal dog Elmo. Marvin operates his old '64 Checker cab all over the U.S. sometimes even down into Mexico and up to Canada (maybe you've seen his cab; it's yellow all right, but with the most frightening painting of a midnight black stagecoach on the side, with goulish passengers and angry, skeletal horses breathing orange fire). He won't accept fares within a city, he's in the business to travel and only travels long distances. He negotiates the fee with each customer; it all depends on whether Marvin and Fido want to go there. If they are in some cold and stormy place he might drive all the way to Mexico for a few bucks. Fido likes Mexico, and so does Elmo. But don't ask Marvin to go to Cleveland in the winter; Marvin hates Cleveland and wouldn't driver there for a thousand. Last week they were hanging around the New Orleans bus station and some guy missed his bus to Salt Lake City. Fido decided he wanted to go skiing so they drove the guy here for thirty-one thirty-one dollars and that's a lot less than the bus costs. I got home late one night and they were snoozin' in the cab, parked out in front of my house. Of course, I recognized their strange taxi cab and tried to quietly drive away again; figured I could hide out until they left town. But Elmo started barking and woke up Fido who came bursting out of the trunk (it might surprise sur-prise some of you to learn that Fido lives in the trunk of a car, but he's jot it fixed up real nice in there even has a stereo and an icebox). He runs up to me, grabs my arm and starts raving about going up to Sleepwalker's Pass; skiing. It's two in the morning and we're standing out in the middle of the street while this five-foot five-foot tall, red-haired madman yells about going cross-country skiing as soon as it gets light. Now if you can picture this, we're standing there, Fido's yelling, Elmo's happily running around barking and making a fuss. Pretty soon he neighbor s lights start to come on. "COMECON, DOC! COME ON! YOU'LL TAKE US UP WON'T YA? WON'T YA?" Fido's got a good grip on my arm and yelling real loud now. Fido always yells at the top of his voice; I don't believe I've ever heard him speak in a normal tone. "Fido, quiet down a little," I say in my most calming manner. But, it's like trying to gentle a horse while it's in a full-on, runaway panicked gallop. "Why is it so urgent that you go skiing tomorrow, Fido?" "OH, IT'S URGENT, DOC. IT'S REAL URGENT ALL RIGHT." "Why Fido?" I say trying to pat him on the head while he dances all over the street. "Tell me." "WELL, UH." He looks puzzled. "WHAT'S URGENT MEAN?" Marvin came on the scene and he interupted. Marvin is tall and husky but he exudes a kind of peaceful power. "Now Fido, you just calm down and hop back in your trunk. I'll tell Doc all about it." His voice was very gentle and Fido didn't resist. He ran back to the car and hopped into the trunk; it was obvious that he was happy to get back in there. He slammed down the lid and yellwed a muffled goodnight. Then we could hear him saying his prayers in there. Marvin and I headed for the house while Elmo went off to explore the neighborhood. Marvin describes him as a very independent dog. And smart too. You've heard about those dogs getting separated from their owners and chasing clear across the country after them? Well Elmo is even smarter than that. He once got left behind in Davenport, Iowa and was smart enough not to try to follow the cab. He just stayed there and got a job as a short order cook in a hamburger joint; by the time Marvin and Fido came back, he was quite well set up, living with a modern dancer and even had a little lit-tle savings in the bank. As I said, a very smart dog.'. ' Once inside the house, Marvin told me of Fido's quest. "Seems he got heartsick to see his old 650 Triumph again." "His what?" "His old Triumph motorcycle. He lost it." "Lost it?" , "Yeah. Ran into a tree while trail riding up there in Sleepwalker's Pass. Knocked himself silly." With this Marvin took off his taxi driver's hat and began to slowly polish its silver badge. He smiled to himself, as if imagining Fido trying to ride through a tree. "He walked all the way down the mountain in a daze and then couldn't find the bike when he went back up the next day." ''Was that last summer," I asked. . "No, five years ago." Now he began to polish up the shiney black bill on the cap. ; He went on to say that Fido had gone back up there every summer trying to find that motor cycle. But there was no trace of it. Nevertheless, Never-theless, Fido was still convinced it was up there somewhere, hiding behind a tree, as Triumphs are known to do. Last week, Marvin said, Fido had suddenly decided it would be easier to find the bike in the winter It would stand out in all that white snow. I wasn't so sure. But there was no holding Fido back. Early the next morning he and Marvin Mar-vin went out and rented cross-country skis. Neither of them had ever skied before but they didn't seem too worried about it. We piled into my jeep and after waiting for Elmo to make up his mind if he wanted to go too (he decided to go) we took off for the mountain. moun-tain. I needn't go into the terrible details of how poor Marvin and Fido struggled up that mountain. moun-tain. They fell down more than they were up, and Marvin was frequently ready to turn back. But Fido wouldn't give up. He searched every ridge and every canyon constantly mumbling about his poor bike all alone up there in the snow. And do you know, he found it. It was sitting peacefully under a big pine tree still shiney and black like a Triumph. It had apparently gone under that tree to get out of the harsh winter weather. The only damage was the bent front wheel (from hitting the tree) and a hole in the seat where some animals had bored in and set up housekeeping. Bits of dry grass and twigs jutted out of the hole. Fido was so excited he began to pet the bike all over and even tried to start it. Now, I've never seen a Triumph that would kick start after sitting overnight, let alone for five years. But his one started right up on the first kick; the noise probably frightened and permanently damaged the hearing of every animal within a mile. Of course, Fido got so excited ex-cited he jammed it in gear and drove right straight into the tree again. When he came to, we talked him into leaving the bike there for the time being; there was no way we could get it down through that deep snow. For the first couple of miles on the way down i Fido talked) excitedly of renting a sno-cat and, going back up to get it. "I KNOW JUST WHERE IT IS NOW," he yelled. "IT'S RIGHT UP IN THAT SECOND CANYON, ISN'T IT MARVIN?" MAR-VIN?" "No," answered Marvin gently, "I think it was up on the third ridge, wasn't it?" I was thinking that it was clear over on the other side of the mountain but I decided to stay out of it. And Elmo too was keeping out of it. If he knew where the bike was hiding he wasn't saying. Fourplex Gets Commission O.K. Conditional use approval was granted for a fourplex to be located at the rear of 1384 Park Avenue at the January 24 decision-making session of the Planning Commission. 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