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t'- 8-C THE MIAMI NEWS May 24,1972 xttmmttmmmmmmm il. The New York Times has won wore Pulitzer Prizes than The Miami News. Congratulations to the New. Yp Times lie Miami News has won mork thai any paper in the State ol Coneratulations to The Miami newt Also. we carry the Times' wire w- vice and columnists in The Miami new.

Congratulations to all of us. T-: Ny Lion Country gets stamp of approval by Animal League Fill 'er up with ammonia Tht ttiocfaltd Prtu KNOXVII.LE, Tenn. grojp of University of Ten-nessce engineering students is building a car to be fueled, with ammonia. The students, led by Ronald L. Graves of Maryville, have received a $15,410 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the feasibility of ammonia as internal combustion fuel.

"We're not doing this, just to demonstrate that an engine can be modified to run on ammonia, but rather to establish ammonia as an alternative to 'gasoline as a Graves said. "When our 'gasoline supplies are gone, we're oing to have to turn to another fuel source!" The students are using a fourcylinder engins from a German automobi in their experiment. Background 4 HEAR REV. 1 JAMES MAHARAi; FORMER HINDU PRIEST AT ST. PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 900 N.E.

132nd No. Miami 891-6218 891-8017, May 21 thru May 28 Sundays 11 LM. 1 7 JO P.M. Week niehtt 7:30 P.M. Nursery Available Playing it cose to the diess 1 Carner Bank first vice president Abel Holtz, right, takes a chess step forward as opponent Stephen Carner, the bank president, left, and Miami Beach Chess Club president Norman Mendelson look on.

The bank is 'sponsoring a U.S. Chess Federation tournament May 26-28 at the chess club, 2000 Washington Ave. The winner will get a free trip to Iceland this summer to see the world championship match between American Bobby Fischer and world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. AHVRKOIM) RESIDENT fin HOTEL for HI llf.r.r tlVIXfi or mim Electric firms to discuss plan ONE.BLOCK FROM THE OCEAN Palm Beaeh Hotel meeting will not be urrtil July 12 and that will only be an onsanizational meeting, too late to gnt anyihing. accomplished for the long hot summer and Residence Club 2.1S SaariM Ktt, Pain Brara.

rt. Club IMhii Iih Ui.Ip!,: It Siilrilinii. MViiU Duilv lli-rrraliiin I I i ill KrVnliir Vri A sharing of power resources by all of the electric companies in the state will be under discussion this summer, the Electric Power Council of Florida announced today. But a Florida Power and Light spokesman in Mia.mi said the proposed expansion (of the seven-member council to include all Florida power companies will not have an effect on the power shortage predicted for South Florida this summer. M.

F. Hebb, chairman of the council, said the objectives of the council will be to provide future planning and" to implement a more com-p I e. system of. power interchange among all utilities represented on the council. Lorey' Snipes of said', however, that the first Hrivalr Fiirni-hi Itniiiii Miiiil Scrtirr VI Knlr-Mirr V'rn "Xhe Addtrss at .4 Keamnahlc Prut'' JJJH Your issiil hPmuPn tI Deaer m)s HOI SK By MARYLYN SPRINGER Mliml Ntwi Rfpsrlir The Animal Rescue League In Palm Beach County today said it has uncovered no evidence to support published reports that lions at Lion Country Safari are kept in unhealthy or overcrowded facilities.

Mrs. James W. Bernhard, chairman of the Rescue League's board of directors, said she went to the tourist attraction in West Palm Beach immediately after reports criticizing conditions there were published. "They're overcrowded, but I guess you could say my house is too, since I have a house full of company," Mrs. Bernhard said.

"But this is a temporary condition for them because about 70 of the 150 lions that are there now are leaving in about a month for another facility in Atlanta. This is not a normal condition for the lions there. The reports which claimed that up to 26 lions are caged each night in pens 28-by-30 feet, were based on inforfation supplied by a former employe, Bruce Grant, who quit his job as public relations director for all Lion Country operations last April after working there three years. Lion Country officials call Grant "a vindictive ex-employe who was refused a major promotion last December." Mrs. Bernhard said Lion Country has the support of her organization.

She said a number of representatives of the Florida Federation of Humane Societies recently toured the facilities and had "no criticism" of conditions there. It's 'cageess zoo' covering 640 acres Lion Country Safari is a "cageless zoo" where lions, elephants, giraffes, antelope, zebra and other wild animals run free on the 640 acres of property in West Palm Beach. Several other Lion Country operations have been opened in other states in recent years. The animal preserve near West Palm Beach has been a South Florida tourist attraction for about five years. Visitors drive their cars through the property to watch and photograph the animals.

"It is my personal feeling that Lion Country Safari has done so much to upgrade the position of animals involved in public captivity that it's unfortunate to fault fhem on a temporary condition. "Basically they have a very good operation there and take excellent care of their animals," she said. "Whenever you have that many animal9 and people, the two most unpredictable things on earth, you are bound to have things happen." Employes of Lion Country'Safari also reportedly criticized the shooting of several lions. Mrs. Bernhard, however, said she feels that 'it's a sad thing, but where an animal is a danger to itself and other animals or personnel, sometimes it's the only way." Bill York, vice president and zoological director of the Lion Country enterprises, admitted up to 28 lions are kept in one pen, but said they have more room in the 900-square-foot cage "than they normally have Mon.

lliru am pm Silf Viailuhlr Kin lo-e Ad Kor Yrvr Brorliurp BATTERIES At MOLDS REPAIRS FOR ALL MAKES LUCRE ASSO. INC. 22 in a zoo." The other lions are kept in smaller groups, he said, and are segregated according to prides (a family group of lions). The lions are caged at night to prevent them escaping if a fence should be damaged by a storm or vandals. "We wouldn't like to have lions in the Everglades," York said.

"We've never had a problem and we don't intend to." Fourteen guards patrol the fences around the acreage where the animals run wild during the day, he said, but there is only one security guard at night. "There are some things that need to be changed and they're in the process of changing them," Mrs. Bernhard said. "They are constantly upgrading their facilitities and taking excellent care of the animals." She said she intends to prepare a report on her investigation for circulation throughout the Florida Federation of Humane Societies. "The lions are the only animals confined at night at Lion Country Safari," she said.

"I equate it with putting a horse in a stable at night. It's for the safety and comfort of the animals as well as the owner's security." Official's deny animals mistreated Meanwhile, officials of the "cageless zoo" in West Palm Beach, also denied that the lions are overcrowded or mistreated in any way. Jerome Kobrin, public relations director of the Lion Country Safari, said reports of overcrowding, shooting tranquilizing of lions are "grossly misleading, distorted and inaccurate. "These animals are wild," he said. 'They are not tamed and not trained.

They perform here exactly as they do in Africa except they don't have to kill to survive. They are put in a shelter at night for security reasons theirs and humans'." Jimmy Ashe, zoological director of the Texas.Llon Country, said the lions are to go out in the morning and to go in at night, and in fact, the man on duty has a job keeping them out of the cage in the evening. "Normally lions hunt at night, but we feed them through the day so they have a full stomach by evening and all they want to do is sleep," he said. The animals cages are cleaned every day, officials said, and Lion Country is "proud of our record. "We're proud of our record in animal propagation and proud of the fact that we're sending some back to Africa to restock the population of animals facing extinction there," Kobrin said.

tteit -w i.J.t,rr,...TO:.,,.t,r,,t,...,. A rlvi allwr apped up forttieHolida I Biltmore Hotel feasibility study rejected by Coral Gables board holiday weekend that's coming up is going to find a lot of people and spending time And' alorig with' all the other good food, there's nothing like a fine natural cheese: esneciallv when Bj yfs' wrapped mM0 The government used the hotel as a veteran's hospital. But while the city waits on congressional action, the Biltmore keeps reappearing on the commission with accompanying fireworks. Yesterday's meeting produced a shouting match be- tween Commissioners William Kerdyk and Rebyl Zain, each accusing the other of trying to wreck the Biltmore project. In the only commission action on the a motion by Kerdyk to authorize a feasibility study, was defeated 3-2.

Mayor W. Keith Phillips voting with the majority, said the city should wait until it acquires the hotel before making "a feasibility report." Jit. II', COOL-RAY POLAROID Sunglasses vouMYcernfM ms VOOSff THS MG 14 mm to protect it from whatever, the, outdoors can bring, (like So it is with our natural cheeses like Swiss, Muenster and They've ajl been aged jusfright, sliced and packaged at their flavor peak with individual the fashionable By ED TAYLOR Miami News Reporter The vacant old Biltmore Hotel continues to trouble the Coral Gables City Commission, A commission review of the minutes of the Biltmore Advisory Board yesterday quickly developed into a full-scale battle over the city's next step in its efforts to buy the now empty hotel. The lines were drawn over the necessity for a feasibility study on the cost to the city of renovating and operating the building. Robert Koeppel, chairman of the advisory board, said a feasibility study is unnecessary and would only be a "waste of taxpayers' money." He was challenged by Commissioner C.

L. Dressel who said a study is needed to see if the Biltmore will pay for itself through revenue-generating uses. "Whatever the cost of this study, it would be worth it," Dressel said. "We're dealing with a multi-million-dollar project." Gables voters, in a referendum last year, gave the city $3 million to purchase the hotel from its present owner, the U.S. government.

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