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I 20 Part ISunday. Aug. 3. 1986 Cos Angeles (Times ZOO: Castoff Exotic Pets in Las Vegas Are Core of Nevada's Lone Animal Park HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU? You need drapes, you want them right now) You're In dilemma. Everyone tells you.

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LOH ACH 0M DAYS 1t FRENCH ANTIQUE SALE After 53 yews ot this location we have sold our building. Our entire inventory of Louis XV XVI Empire and Provincial antiques are now reduced 20 to 70. GEORGE GEORGES SONS 1757 N. HIGHLAND HOLLYWOOD 213-465-3941 All SALES FINAL CASH OR CHECK ONLY TOT- a (213) 433-9338 become association members by paying annual dues. The zoo was launched in 1981 by Dingle, who may be the only former cop anywhere running a zoological park.

A radar man aboard the aircraft carrier York-town for four years during the Vietnam War, he joined the North Las Vegas Police Department when he was 21 upon leaving the Navy. He was chief of detectives when he retired in 1980 after a dozen years on the police force. "Since I was a kid growing up in Alhambra, I have always had birds, especially parrots," Dingle said. "My older brother, Sheldon, is editor of Watchbird magazine, a leading bird publication." While a detective in 1979, he opened alocal bird shop, known as For the Birds. "It was an overnight success.

I quit the police force the following year to spend full time with the business," he recalled. At For the Birds he exhibited his personal birds, which some regarded as the finest collection of exotic birds and talking parrots in Neva- Continued from Page 3 house. She gave the lion to the animal shelter, which presented it to the Las Vegas zoo. Other house pets that are now zoo animals include a 4-year-old female Bengal tiger named Zarah and a 3-year-old Asian spotted leopard named Samantha. Some offers, however, are refused.

"We turned away 20 big cats so far this year," Dingle said. "We don't have the room or facilities to house them at the present." The zoo is on a half-acre site on Rancho Boulevard at the north end of the city. Another 5V6 adjacent acres have been purchased, and a master plan has been drawn up for an $8-million, six-acre zoological park. Dingle said lawyers and accountants are preparing plans for the zoo to go public with a stock sale sometime next year. Several prominent Nevadans are members of the zoo's advisory board and board of directors.

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Contractor's license 456345. Home Services, 615. THE BROADWAY da. He purchased several small animals, including goats, sheep, a llama, and started a petting zoo for children of his customers. "There was nowhere in Nevada where children or adults could see lions, tigers, apes and other wild animals except in animal acts at casinos.

They could only read about them in books, see them in movies or on TV or travel great distances to see them," Dingle said. "The idea hit me. Nevada needs a zoo." So, 3V6 years ago, he opened the Southern Nevada Zoological Park. He built a veterinary hospital on the grounds to care for the zoo animals as well as for animals from the public. Today, Dingle's wife Muffye, 42, a former manicurist, and seven full-time keepers operate the zoo.

Veterinarians Scott Bradley, 34, and his wife Ann, 31, run the animal hospital. ISO Birds on Exhibit The zoo, Dingle said, is in a modest, early stage with 50 animals and 150 birds, representing 50 exotic species such as yellow, streaked chattering loris, golden eagles, flamingos, macaws, parrots and parakeets from around the world. San Diego Zoo has been very helpful, giving six rare Barbary apes and a dozen African green grivet monkeys to the zoo. Nancy With the Smiling Face, one of the green grivets, recently gave birth, the third baby that the monkey has had since arriving at the zoo. Describing his concept for the expanded, $8-million zoo, Dingle said, "Nearly all major zoos occupy huge areas.

The San Diego Zoo has 110 acres, the Los Angeles Zoo 100 acres. Here we will have a fair-sized zoo on only six acres, a zoo where visitors will be nose to nose with the animals." SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15 MESS: Marine Corps Tradition May Soon Be Thing of the Past EJ iw" i i rJP jAy11 '('- E. PilnclpM Court Twlbook Ntod to Ovllry For Extm All Homt Study No Trtvt Coal: Ortf tM. ALSO AVAILABLE: RE. Eiam Kit (Only 169 )5) and 14 Hn.

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It's not anything I'm going to miss." Cpl. Christina Enlow, 20, agreed. "Nobody's thrilled to be here," said Enlow, from Ashtabula, Ohio. "Sure, we get the first food on the line, but it's nothing to write home about." About 280 enlisted men and women are switched each day from their normal duties to help wash pots and pans, clean tables, serve food and generally assist in the operation of Camp Pendleton's 18 mess halls. Low-ranking enlisted personnel typically serve one 30-day stint each year on mess duty.

Selection is based solely on need and not considered as a punishment, Marine officers say. Over the course of a year, more than 3,500 out of the 28,000 Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton draw mess duty. The hours are, to say the least, long. Mess personnel generally rise by 4:30 a.m. to help begin preparations for breakfast and are finished cleaning up after dinner by about 7 p.m., with breaks between the meals during the day.

While the three other branches of the military all began supplanting enlisted personnel with civilian workers for mess duty after the Vietnam War, the Marine Corps has stubbornly held off making any change until now. As Solter sees it, the switch didn't come sooner largely because of fiscal concerns among top Corps brass and a feeling that mess duty was part of an enlisted man "paying his dues." Now, however, the proposal to drop mess duty for Marines is almost uniformly accepted by Corps leaders, Solter said. "You might find some old die-hards out there who say they had to do mess duty so others should have to do it," he said. "Most, though, seem to think it's a good idea." And for devout Marine Corps traditionalists saddened by the passing of mess duty, there remains a last glimmer of hope. While enlisted Marines may soon be spared the ordeal, most new recruits will still be required to serve a one-week stint on mess duty during boot camp.

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About 600 acres of dry grass burned Saturday in an inaccessible canyon near Prado Dam in Riverside County, but no one was injured and no buildings were damaged. The fire was reported about 2:30 p.m. in Fresno Canyon, three miles southwest of the Corona city limits. About 150 firefighters were on the lines, aided by six air tankers and three water-dropping helicopters, said State Forestry Fire Capt. Don Feely.

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