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'Ain't No One Here but Abominable Chicken Man OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -There's something out there. It walks like a gorilla, leaves hand prints Lke a man, dps doors off their hinges, and likes chickens. For want of a better came we'll call him Oklahoma's Abominable Chicken Man. It's a long story and it goes like this. An El Reno farmer walked out to his chicken coop one day in December and found its door on the ground, apparently thrown there after being ripped off the walL On the surface of the door, and inside the coop on the walls, uere a number of strange hand prints like none he'd ever seen before.

They were about seven inches long and five inches wide. The farmer called a state game ranger. The ranger had never seen anything Lke it either and he sent the door to the Oklahoma City Zoo to see what experts could make of the prints. The experts were baffled too. Zoo Director Lawrence Curtis says the prints appear to be Lke those of a primate.

A primate is an animal like a gor-rilla or a man that can stand erect. The thumb of the print is unusual. Curtis says it crooks inside, as if it were deformed or had been injured. "It resembles a gorilla," he said, "but it's more Lke a man." "It appears that whatever made the prints was walking on all fours. There were some footprints on the ground out side," he said.

Whatever it was was barefoot Barefoot in December. Since Curtis got the first print he has had reports of similar finds around the state. A man in- Stillwater and a woman in McAlester have told him of discovering similar prints. The woman has a photograph she is mailing to the 100 for comparison. Oklahoma has only four native animals big enough to leave such prints; the black bear, the mountain lion, the wolf and man.

Curtis has ruled out all but the last "We've shown it to several mammologists and several ildlife experts in Oklahoma and some passing through. All agree it is a primate," he said. "These prints were made by some sort of a man, perhaps one looking for chickens." Asked about the wide distances between the points reporting similar prints, Curtis said, "If there is one there is more than one. There has to be more than one unless he's hitchhiking." There are no zoos in El Reno, no circuses and no one known to be keeping a gorilla. In fact the only thing in the area that "keeps" primates in this case men is the federal reformatory just on the outskirts of town.

The Abominable Chicken Man is being compared with reports of similar findings from California. In this case people have reported seeing a seven-foot man-like creature wandering in the northern wilds. They call him Bigfoot, after the large tracks he makes. Curtis is trying to find a DOCK and a nuzazme article that tell about the Eigfoot sightings. He's anxious to make a comparison.

In the meantime he has the chicken coop door in his olfk for reference, and one supposes, for conversation. There's not much else to go on until somebody reports actually seeing the Abominable Chicken Man. There are a lot of people looking. 15c 0 GATE THE VICTORIA AD 123th Year-No. 297 60 Pages! Victoria, Texas, 77901, Sunday, February 28, 1971 Forces: I Jilndochina Pilot Dead In Crash of Middle East Talks Showing 'Progress' Israelis Agree to New Parley; Egypt Heady to Extend Truce aos -T SOUTH Battles Light Plane Bodv Found In Wreckage beyond next Sunday's expiration tO Hq That irftrH am in thA ka- lr THI ASSOCIATED PMSS Israel is ready to talk I i I comif I Egypt about firm Middle East miofficial newspaper Al Ahraml By EDWIN Q.

WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Furious A4vocff News Service EL CAMPO The wreckage of uuuuuajica uui muiuui of Cairo on Saturday ment from Hill 31, eight miles side of the border in support oL inside Laos. I the Laos operation. Antiaircraft The situation was clouded, 'fire in Laos has proved to be however, by later field reports some of the most deadly othe saying fighting was still in pro-1 war. gress around the hill. It ap- Field reports said it was be- private plane bearing the President Anwar Sadat of 1 Column nunaj vi fighting was reported raging ditions, such as the Arab demands that Israeli forces must withdraw from all territories Egypt has said be would agree 1yinoffltsffloil? occupant John: to extension of the cease-f ire tlTlIL Saturday around Hill 31 and two seized in tne 1967 war, V.N.

in- ton county rice farmer, was other South Vietnamese bases along the Ho Chi Minn trail in peared both South and North lieved that two regiments of Vietnamese were clinging to North Vietnamese troops had Laos. With heavy engagements also Parts hiB' by themoved 'm nld Pi0" Uey IWPfl A71ACK I I i 11 I 1 formants reported Saturday. "Th "ifound Saturday morning 22; The Egyptian government gress 10 we iauu' i miles northwest of El Campo was reported to feel "tangible! Ahrara's article said the an(j several miles from his' progress" is being made in -Egyptian government is pre- home. U.N.-sponsored talks in New Parel to accept unanimous deci-j The wreckage was discovered York and that it is willing to ex- sions of Bi8 Four 00 from the air by Larry Holub of tend the Middle East cease-fire Middle East including exten- Louise at 8:45 a.m. to climax an! sion of the cease-fire.

'air search which was started; reDorted in Cambodia the fieht-e cm' nBM- iwcrc wmt ing in the past few days was re-! Part of the confusion was due units that overran a South Viet-garded possibly the bloodiest to restrictions placed by Ameri-jnamese ranger base last week-in the Indochina war. can and South Vietnamese mili-end, inflicting heavy casual- vwmc- tary authorities that have the' ties- SSSrt getting into Laos. jhelicopter gunship pilot: "A col- (led by an armored column rout-1 umn of South Vietnames armor failed to return from aan vnionio. ne naa Israel's reply to the Egyptian alter Goff A mil If I ricl Pace proposals was in a posi-j trip to xa.lUIIIIU A 151 jtion paper handed over to Gun-departed I Israel's reply to the Egyptian after Goff TiaDer handed over to uun-uepaneu STRATEGIC HILL South Vietnamese' troops were fighting Saturday in an attempt to retake Hill 31 in Laos, wrested from them earlier by strong North Vietnamese regiments. (AP Wirephoto Map) num niumu ai ed the North Vietnamese ret iieiore tne spoKesman an-; 4 was supuseu 10 go wio reuevs nar V.

Jarring, the U.N. special 6 m. Friday. jnouncement, Lt. 'Gen.

Hoang envoy on the Middle East. Hej Clock Stopped has been serving as the go-be-i Justice of the Peace itween In the indirect talks in Isaac Garrett of Wharton plac-New York. ed the time of the crash at Officials Silent, But Admit Xuan Lam, commander of 30 operaUon in Laos, said South stalled on Iloute 9 in a counterattack 5 fe movulS all. recaptured half the hill with the laid of U.S. helicopter gunships.

(See BATTLES, Page nc -v. i Ban Urged By Advisor i The U.N. informants said 7:38 p.m. Friday as indicated there was nothing in the position by the clock in the plane. paper that specified that Israel Garrett said debris from the i would not eive back Sharm el one-engine Cessna was scat- 1.

i 1 i. Solid Fighting Out There9 juuuiucia uul live ene tttdtmgtm Pni Mm Wrvtc WASHINGTON A total ban shpikh Kvvr.t F.ast Jerusa-itered over a large area with; City Council To Discuss jatlack on Hill 31 have retreated jpers went out to resupply Hill Hill 30 and this is where if they could. on all nuclear weapons tests; km to Jordan and the Golan some of it clinging from trees is now being publicly urged byifieichts to Syria. The sources in an otherwise open pasture By JACK FOLSIE IfT) Lm Ar94t Timtt Wuhington Pott Ntw Strvic Ui( Vmi a ii Viot- fhtt Viasuv aitinn in one tunc nunum c. rosier, iormer ti.a.iacjQeo: that there was no map or.

coumry. my tanks. Casualties were said to be! heavy on both sides. South Vietnamese spokesmen claimed 1,000 North Vietnamese were killed in three days of fighting for the hilL Another position under heavy assault was Hill 30, a paratroop inaicaung wnere is- nam-This is the rear base in-on Saturday mpmKpr nt PnnirtAnt Kivnn'a i a i. i itself was recoCn zable.

said Highway Consideration of an aeree- rae, WQU1U nam ure umucis a. siae Vietnam oi me emDaiuea tx, advisory committee in the same be. But Unei officials in Id Garrett, who i ru led death Vietnamese f', wLt1 "i f'fW- kviv tror Envinff th r. tr- injuries accidentally sustained tuatlon was accentuated at Foster Mid. "It is fully plane crash.

fightmg desperately, on Hill 30 when 10 Ararican Of the 10 "birds," only one was able to make its cargo drop. Of the other nine, none was able to drop loads because of intense enemy fire, Six were shot-up but made it back to Vietnam. One of the big chop iiiunca uc wkuo in ulna. in ijiiin y-ii er position five miles inside our scienuuc competence to cans Unknown i ue scientihc comnctence to ran fntnnug i lmnooK iias nM tar trrm Ri im. ment witn tne Mate Hiehwav monitor adequately such a total The justice of the peace said moWeT is tense.

double-rotored a chop- The U.N. sources, however, tk- it ican helicopter pilots reported for widening of heavy enemy fire trained on (South pers was shot down. test ban without on-site rib Israeh 'pos ition as' jit not immediately known The Vietnamese 8 7 tions." 'beinff based on free Hussions wnether the crash was due to normally pohte if not overlyjo ll. With our present means of eMXuf. a malfunction or whether helpful to correspondents, on atClIltC rlail Hill 30 Laurent street; win De on tne ine five man crew of the i Jseenria for ine nre was so severe mat incirnmnnToi nn a nn 1 at was lookine for a orivate land-! Saturday were taciturn.

downed chopper, headed by Ttc CouncU meets at 5 D.m. tions. the stnP localGd Kvai- the 'PS 5ir'P Etrv-Dt's ambassador to sources of Information," said Foster, is not conceivable rosier, is not conceivaoie Warrant Officer Greeorv Cook c.mnw tn Municipal Court of Miami, survived unhurt two of them were shot down.ichambers- He said a team ot ederal arrivea ior a comerence wim that the Soviets could carry out .,7 Agency investigators the Vietnamese airborne com- rlnrvfocliru c(in on e-aV at, raiSOQ 8 DOSSlOie prO" manAnr AnnvrtnA UnM.linrwl and were rescued. The five-man crew of oneheli-l discussion was postponed (c) 171 Lm nglw Tim-Wathington Post Newi Strvlc uhirh cca-uraioostacle to taiKs. He objected, in a statement, J-Jin r.

nni Jr nopmaiivl A SHINGTON The Com It was luck and Cook's flying skill which kept the riddled chopper from crashing "in a 'that Israel had not replied to Tim o-, ii.i mumcations Satellite Cornora copter was rescued. The fate 10 Slve Mayr Kemper the crew of the second, an ob-WllIlams Jr- Ume to confer with servation helicopter, was un-'county officials concerning known. jcounty participation in the pro- The U.S. Command previously it01: scheduled to report had acknowledged hA nf wId30 to council on this on Mon- testing, said Foster, put to both -There is sohd fighting going I1 on rTSe Monday con- i sides on Feb. 8 but had chosen 6 86 eistruction of a S250 million wasnout ior tne crew," said a fellow pilot.

He Warrant chological uplift to the climate-tead to reply only to Egypt's, Parti? cloudy to cloudy Sun-, system of om estic com-0fficer "Richard Q'Connel, of was helicopters in Laos, along with y' wtachuiderUMU of our arnu'Pw i riu "ull hr i 10 miles inside Queen City Paving 12 downed on the Vietnamese control negoUations, including! ai suggested mat wis which American pilots reading vi uius SALT." (Strategic Arm was a block in "the way of day night Southeasterly winds A far for such a system. I peace. bui ne oia not nf comsat plan, to be sub- Limitations Talks). "He was of me and we saw him take a burst of fire from the ground even before we were in sight of the drop zone," O'Connel said. Scheduled also is first reading of an ordinance declaring the necessity for strip paving in the Queen City Addition, which Index Positioa Displayed clear whether that meant he night Low temperature cx-j mitted to the Federal Com- Tbe president's prestigious would not accept the Israeli uw upper.

Aant hv nrr rtpnf ae haw hills tuuuiuasiun accidenL as haVe hills Advisory Committee for Arms per from Jarring and respond to; nign, ine upper jin other fights in Vietnam andwouId least three in olhpr fiphts in Vietnam anH "On the radio we heard his Rainfall probability, 20 per cent Control and it. Astioy sbmovks pm'Some residents have said they do "ot-want, preferring to wait Crowort Ftm Sport 1-4B Until a full-fledeeri Tirntrram previous wars. The surviving i'fp satellites and 132 ground We're hit and have lost an-'Sunday night. The Israelis have not which has access to highly Tn Nem SB Tb Nem DMih IA EditorM Piat 4a TV i most of our controls," Cook yelled. "We're going down.

Say I (For Commit WhDw D'il i Sm P9 Ml (See TALKS, Page 8A) Fun confidential data concerning the SALT negotiations is known to; rmrm newi iSouth Vietnamese paratroopers fr, transmitting and Ifrora a North Vietnamese tank1 television programs, telephone calls and computer data. Each satellite could handle 113.400 long-distance telephone (See FIGHTING. Page 8A) Mirktti Other items on the Monday LATE JUDGE UARTZOG 20T1I CENTURY AUCTION agenda include: Consider contract with Op-; timist Club for paddle boat operation on pond in Riverside Park. Council Delegates Appoint two delegates to i calls or 24 individual television jchannels, Joseph Charyk. Comsat's president, told a Saturday 'press briefing.

Of the three satellites, one would be held las a reserve in the event of a failure, he said. be increasingly displaying a more flexible position on negotiations with the Soviet Union than current U. S. policy. Foster is in the vanguard of this movement.

In a speech at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N. Friday night, Foster said there is neeotiating soundness in the U.S.-Soviet decision to keep secret "thei substantive aspects of the SALTj Presentation of Portrait Made in Calhoun Court Dreamers of Yesteryear Diwvn by Memorabilia i Golden Crescent Council of iL Comsat's system is one of at iserved as commissioner from I ideas. uu 6w least eight already made or (c) 171 Lm AimmIm Ttm. Governments. Report on street lights in Garden Villa.

Authorize payment from contingency fund of $4,687 for Ifipal nlnnrnnrr gccicfiniia By MARY BAKER PHILLIPS Advocate Staff Writer PORT LAVACA-Friends, Seadrift from 1941 Wntiingtn fail Newi Swvtc -1967, and Calhoun and adjacent janticipated. Industry sources judge until Barton. I don think any said to si7e the Comsat ments of war, were used on lots for many movies. OOD-Twentieth talks," which next resume ati served as interim ii what Ulan (lvopchnHnvDe i. nthorc iCenturv Fox auctioned off Judge Hartzog's successor was 'Other man wiii ever do Among the props which 20th appointed.

"He was a man of (See PORTRAIT, Page 8A jthey are familiar with. Century put on the block were gram. Shirley Temple's toys from! Final readine nf ordinandi vestiges ot its Hollywood glamor years Saturday and Vienna on March 15. But judges, county and city said. "This privacy is not an un-jofficials honored the memory mixed blessing, for it means of the late Calhoun County that to a considerable extent'Judge Howard G.

Hartzog in these vital but highly complexja memorial ceremony held in bidders paid thousands of (See DREAMERS, Page 8A) Amending gas code. dollars for the memorabilia of which dreams were once made talks become the private; tne courtnouse nere aaturaay afternoon. reserve of technicians. Even insiders connected with Free Immunization Clinic the Los Angeles auctioneer, Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, agreed that many of the 2,000 items put on the market by the The occasion was the presentation of his portrait for permanent display in the courtroom where he presided. It is the first portrait of a county judge to be hung in the new courthouse which 'was built A ban on all nuclear weapons tests, said Foster, would "deal a blow at the very heart of the nuclear arms race." The 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, negotiated when Foster headed the U.S.

Arms Control To Be Given at Stromal! Free polio, -diphtheria and.ministered by the Victoria In-tetanus immunization shots will deoendent School District and financially troubled studio sold for outrageous prices. An empty Scotch bottle, used and Disarmament Agency by Humphrey Bogart in "Thebe administered Sunday from Victoria Citv-Countv Health Left Hand of. God," went to 4 p.m. at the Stroman DeDartment Volunteer mirP (See TEST, Page 8A) $90, a two-seat bicycle from: High School Swill be on hand to assist with in "Hello Dolly' for $2,500, Tyrone Power's bed- from "Blood and during his tenure of office. Ex-j isting records reflect that he served as county judge longer' than any other judge in taking office Jan.

1, 1951, and serving continuously until his; death May 18, 1968. Prior to; his election as county he went to the Texas in frnm the old Sand" for $950. ine free clinic is being ad- the immunizations, Diphtheria and tetanus shots Tmitmniyifmii" should be taken at least once xjimi nuns levery. six years and a polio Sp1h1ii1w1 iti IWf booster shot is rmmended CIlLtlUieulIll Ortwhen polio is' present in the iwcit Newt servic area and an outbreak is believed PORT LAVAGA-Calhoun possible. County children one through! The polio booster is an oral Twentieth Century originally hoped to raise $250,000 from the auction of items which were touched, worn Or used by stars in movies dating back 40 years.

But with $110,000 raised in the first two of six sessions, the: nine years who have not: type shot, studio expected to exceed itsreceived Rubella immunization! Any person may receive the estimate. (may receive their vaccination 'booster, or mav start the seri" Anna Mae Dunn deciding she69tb District, serving Calhoun, will be glad when license plate victoria and Goliad counties for buying slows 'down so she can seven terms, find her faxprite parking place The portrait, presented by again Howard not friends, was unveiled by his sure she likes her new nick-SODi Howard G. Hartzog' name, Kelliher an(j nks daughter, Mrs. Erik explaining a $49.80 steak Stacker, both of Austin, follow-i Ike Gerdes reminding members ing a succession of tributes to of Post O. TP of the business "man who was called by meeting Monday with election 'njs first name from the cour-l Many of the pieces of antique Sunday from 1-5 p.m; in Port Sunday.

furniture, paintings and vehicles were associated with a parti Lavaca. If the first shot is taken in Free anti-Rubella clinics will' the series Sunday, a second be open 'at Travis Junior High'dose may be obtained from a cular movie, others, lite a lance rack fitted with imple- gym and Jackson Elementary family physician or from the School. i Citv-Countv Health Department: The anti-Rubella campaign, Parental permission is re- Cbuckle cosponsored by Calhoun County! quired for children to receive of officers on tap Mildred to the White House." Williams wearing out the napj "My sister and I are deeply on the livingroom rug. by the community's Richards reminiscing about thejtribute to our father," Hartzog "Annie Oaklies" he used to the filled courtroom. Classroom Teachers Association: the immunizations.

and- Texas State Department of VISD and Health DcDartmcnt The portrait was presented Saturday for permanent display in the Calhoun County courtroom were Judge Hart-fog once presided. (Advocate Photo) MEMORIAL CEREMONY Howard G. Hartzog Jr. and Mrs. Erik Stocker, son and daughter of the late Calhoun Cqj.inty Judge Howard G.

Hartzog, stand by a portrait of their father. Health, is endorsed by local officials wee everyone who Mother to her tesn-age daughter: "You'd better get a haircut. You're beginning to look like a boy." on, my Participating in the ceremony were Clarence Barton, who get. Yonet best behaviour." state and federal. the shots to take thera organizations and agencies.

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