Third St. Block Becomes 'Skunk Hollow' For Circus
Star Performers In Circus
Pets of a different stripe are held by their little owners in preparation for a neighborhood circus in the 800 block of Third St. on Thursday afternoon. The six-week-old skunks have no names. Their owners (front row, left to right) are Judy Reynolds, Karolyn Reynolds, John Wesley and Carolyn Wesley; (hack row, left to right) Carol Kay Braun, Lloyd Braun and Mickey Wagner. The skunks will be the featured attractions in a menagerie. Proceeds from the show will be given to the Humane Society. So will the skunks — after their owners have played with them a few more days.
Third St. Block Becomes 'Skunk Hollow' For Circus
Chances are it won't be long before everyone in the vicinity of the 800 block of Third St. "nose" about a unique children’s circus to be held there Thursday afternoon.
The reason is that the menagerie will feature six baby skunks.
The skunks are not so infantile, however, that they cannot already do in a small way what every well-equipped skunk is able to do.
Nonetheless, the circus will go on under the direction of Judy Reynolds, 12, Karolyn Reynolds, 10, John Wesley, 11, Carolyn Wesley, 7, and Mickey Wagner, 9.
Chickens Escape
The youngsters came into possession of the little striped pets when their friends, Lloyd and Carol Kay Braun of 2820 W. Northfield Church Rd., discovered them dangerously near a chicken roost on their father's farm.
The Braun children gave the skunks to the Wesley and Reynolds youngsters to get them away from the chickens. But the Humane Society will get them away from the Third St. children in 10 days time —during which their parents hope the pet-owners will get their fill of baby skunks.
The Humane Society will raise the skunks to the age of three months and then turn them loose for their rodent-killing value.
Secondary attractions in the circus’ animal kingdom Thursday will be a pair of ducks named "Jack” and "Jill,” respectively, dressed in sunbonnets, a toad and two dressed up cats.
Fed Special Diet
A shooting gallery, popcorn and lemonade will be found in the backyard midway.
The star performers—the six skunks—are being fed a diet of milk and cereal. Originally, there were eight but one died and a strange fate befell the other.
Pete Mann, Ann Arbor News photographer who took the above picture and a man strongly addicted to small pets, asked for and received skunk No. 8.
Receipts from the neighborhood circus will be turned over to the Humane Society to further that organization's work.