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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 31, 1991
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Detroit guards itself against Devil's Night
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DETROIT — Thousands of volunteers carried fire extinguishers through the streets, and police helicopters thundered overhead as the city used its ground and air defenses against Devil's Night arsonists last night.
Officials imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to clear the streets of youths younger than 18 and minimize the fires that annually besiege the city on the eve of Halloween. Fluorescent green kats捕钞纠 many neighborhoods.
By mid-evening, nearly 30 juveniles had been arrested for violating curfew, said Bob Berg, a representative for Mayor Coleman Young.
A barn behind a house on the city's far east side was gutted by a fire in the early evening. A firefighter who refused to give his name said the blaze appeared suspicious.
About 350 volunteers on Detroit's northeast side spent last night patrolling their neighborhoods. No one were reported in the area by mid-evening.
Detroit needs to be safe. If we don't look after each other, who's going to look after us?" said volunteer Kam Kewson. 49.
Volunteers were heartened by a
Detroit officials reported 281 arson fires and made 22 arrests in 1990 during Halloween and the two days preceding it.
light rain that fell throughout the day and into the night.
"This was the best thing that could have happened to us." Clarence Jackson, 66, said. "Everything's wet, and hopefully it's keeping the arsonists inside."
Officials reported 281 arson fires and made 22 arrests in 1904 during Halloween and the two days preceding it. The suspect was 75 years old, its arson tally would be released today.
Police helicopters equipped with spotlights helped locate fires and flush arsonists Tuesday night and were
used again last night, the fire marshal's office said.
More than 35,000 volunteers were expected to patrol streets until this morning, armed with flashlights, fire extinguishers and citizen's band radios.
Residents were instructed to make citizens' arrests of youths who lingered outdoors between 6 p.m. yesterday and 6 a.m. this morning, city Devil's Night coordinator Georgella Muirhead said.
A similar curfew began at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park, but fire officials in other Michigan cities yesterday played down their Devil's Night preparations.
"We aren't going to do anything special," said Larry Quick, a battalion chief in Pontiac, which reported only a few Devil's Nightfires in 1990. "Welike to keep it as low-key as we can."
Devil's Night turned ugly in the early 1980s when pranksters torched houses instead of tossing eggs. The worst year was 1984, when 810 blazes left dozens of people homeless.
Some officials feared that economic frustrations could spark more fires this year than last. A University of Michigan sociologist said Tuesday the 1984 arson count belied those worries.
The 2,000-year-old Celtic Feast of the Dear is probably the source of today's Halloween celebration. The feast began on Oct. 31, the eve of the Celtic New Year. The Celts thought this night was a "crack in time" when
thought this night was a "crack in time" when the dead could revive the living.
The spirits and ghosts
In the ninth century, the church christianized the feast by naming Nov. 1 the Feast of All Saints (or All Hallowed) and Nov. 2 the Feast of All Souls. Children would go "a-sooling" or begging for sweet soul cakes in return for prayers for the死.
The tricks or treats
A bit of Halloween history
Soul, soul, for a souling cake
i pray, good mussels, for a soulsake
Apple or pear, plum or cherry
Apple or Pear, plum or cherries
good thing to make us merry
Soul, soul, for a souling cake
I pray, good missus, for a souling cake
Any good thing to make us merry
since the alternation was made by the beggar
and that he offered of "treats" or "tricks":
Jack-o-lanters have various origins. An old Irish tale goes like this: There was once a mischievous man named Jack who was barred from heaven for his stinginess and from hell for his practical jokes on the devil. He was condemned to walk the earth with his lantern until Judgment Day.
The jack-o-lanterns
A story from rural England insists that "long ago" the men would go to the annual fall fair and get too tipped oncy to find their way home. The women would make lanters from pumpkins, or "punkies," and set off in the night to find them.
In northern England and Scotland, the term jack-o-lanter was used to describe the night watchman.
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Halloween tradition turns into profitable business for family
DENVER — John Bardeen makes even the fumble-fingered look like artists at Halloween.
Bardeen has parlayed a pumpkincarving method he learned from his father into a family business that manufactures the Carve-O-Lantern kit.
The $5 kit has cutting tools and designs that children 9 and older can use with adult supervision to carve jack-o'-lanterns with ghoulish faces, delicate cats, witches and intricately curved spiders and webs.
The carver tapes the design to the pumpkin and uses a tool to punch tiny holes around it. Then a 11/2-inch blade is used to saw around the outline.
The 5-year-old business is run from the Bardeens' basement and is expected to gross $1 million this year. It has two full-time and two part-time employees.
"this sort of thing makes you really creative even if you're not," said Bardeen's wife, Kea, president of Pumpkin Ltd.
"Now that it is going, this year it's finally burst out of the shell."
Bardeen said.
Pumpkins carved by Bardare are being featured on "Roseanne," "Monday Night Football" and "Entertainment Tonight."
Since age 4, Bardeen has carved intricate Halloween pumpkins, advancing far beyond the garden-variety triangle-eyed, blocked-toothed jack-o'-lanterns that light the way for costumed children across the United States.
"Since I grew up with it, carving pumps was much more important than dressing up," said Bardeen, 46, who by day is a sales manager at a tennis court and running track business.
The Carve-O-Lantern method was developed 50 years ago by Bardine's father to enable his children to cut pumpkins safely. Their works of art were the talk of the neighborhood in Racine, Wis.
The Bardeens took out a $500,000 loan and made thousands of kits, eventually persuading stores to carry the product.
After Paul Bardeen died in 1883, his son decided to try selling the pumpkin-carving method.
Halloween candy, from here to there
For Halloween 1991, U.S. candy manufacturers have produced:
3. 4 million pounds of
3. 4 million pou candy cream pumpkins
6. 4 million pounds of candy corn
That's equal to:
1. 8 billion pieces of candy corn
If lined up in a row, they would stretch 28,409 miles; that's more than the circumference of the earth at the equator (24,902 miles)
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Abortion portrayal at church's haunted house brings on controversy
The Associated Press
DENNIS, Mass. — A church-sponsored Halloween haunted house has raised an outcry because of its portrayal of a woman being sent to hell for having an abortion.
A community group that was to receive profits from the week-long exhibit in the Cape Cod town of Dennis used Tuesday to refuse the money.
inside the haunted house, an actress in a bloody nightgown writes on a stretcher, screaming, "I want my baby. I want my baby. Where's my baby?
Another actor, dressed as a physician, hands the woman a handful of simulated blood and tissue, shouting, "Here's your baby."
The display was put on by the Victory Chapel Christian Fellowship Church, which also has proselytized by inviting summer visitors to rock concerts at which they tell them about the gospel.
the gospel It opened Friday and is scheduled to continue through midnight tomorrow. The church is housed in a warehouse, and the exhibit is adjacent to the sanctuary.
Visitors under age 13 are not admitted unless they are accompanied by an adult. At least one teen-age girl was so
shaken by a visit Saturday that she asked to leave, the Cape Cod Times reported.
"Evidently, a couple of folks who went in there got upset," said church pastor Paul Campo, who planned the exhibit. "We did it so it was scary. We did it so it was a real-life thing. The message is that you have to be responsible for your actions."
After a debate, the Cape Cod Child Development Program Inc. voted not to accept proceeds from the exhibit.
"We didn't want to appear to be endorsing their religious beliefs or any church's religious beliefs," said Philip Sheerin, executive director of the program.
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Sheerin said he had no idea that the display was to have an abortion message.
The day after visiting the exhibit, Amy McGillen joined the growing ranks of protesters picketing outside.
"What offended me the most was that there was absolutely no warning that this was going to be coming up." McGillen said. "You go in there and are taken through a haunted house, and then suddenly you're pushed into hell and have to stand and listen and watch this propaganda about abortion."
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