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MMWg-g--qyiyP-l-L IUI IM.UIIII1 III July 31, 1983 63 S.F, Sunday Examiner Chronicle One dead in crash with police car Examiner Peninsula Bureaa REDWOOD CITY A city police officer, rushing to assist another officer, was Involved in a broadside collision at a shopping district intersection. The driver of the other I I i (' X' 1 0 car was killed. Officer John Dolan was traveling without the use of a red light or siren when the accident occurred, according to the Highway Patrol Dolan was responding to a call of a police unit that was engaged in a highpeed chase, the CHPsaid. The collision at Broadway and Jefferson streets in Redwood City drove the front section of the police car into the driver's side of the victim's vehicle. The driver, a 65-year-old resident of the Redwood City area, was not released pending notification of his family.

i i A Humana Society's viewpoint Aqualand, Brewster, Maine Cadwalader Park Zoo. Trenton, N.J. Glen Miller Park Zoo, Richmond, Ind. Houser'a Groves and Zoo, Melbourne, Fla. Johnson Zoo, Smithfield, N.C.

Knowland Park Zoo, Oakland Zoo and Petting Farm, Welford, S.C. Nay Aug Zoo, Scranton, Pa. Space Game Farm, Sussex, N.J. Welder Park Zoo, Finton, Texas II AUGUST I 6 ONLY 50OFF iU ExaininarFrtn Ortit Gapt In the bear collection are alleged: Though zoo has these sun bears, It has no polar or grizzly bears Oakland zoo, under fire, says it Family Clrcus will be first-class in a few years rti- (tr i 'III KM 1 "Ij'iJ 1 'A BR I I displays statef-the-art years ago are now considered outmoded, as zookeepers have become convinced that animals should be displayed in areas that resemble their native habitats. Last year, the city agreed to turn over the zoo to the zoological society, which long had been its biggest booster and financial contributor.

Mott pointed proudly to the zoo's "African veldt" display, in which zebras, gnus and giraffes live together in a Kenya-like setting. He also boasts about the ever-popular baby zoo. He said the zoo also intends to begin breeding African elephants on 20 acres that will be the envy of any zoo. The sun bears will also get new digs, he promised. 'How's anybody s'posed to read these books of yours? There ore no pictures in 'eml" -From Page Bl to serve as director of the California parks system.

"But people here in Oakland are writing' to the Humane Society telling thenLlhey dont know what they're talking; about I'm going to write to them myself." Mott said he agrees with many of Pressman's criticisms that some of the animal habitats are too cramped, and that some of the animals, like the sun bears, dont seem to fit in. But he faults the article for failing to acknowledge the giant strides the institution has made in the year since the East Bay Zoological Society took over the zoo from the City of Oakland. In addition, he fears that the aggressive tone of the Humane Society article will make readers think the real problem is that Oakland's animals are being subjected to abuse. The -zoo's veterinarian, Dr. Joel Parrotw said the animals and birds are doing OK.

"Generally, it's a healthy collection," he said. "They're not having health problems any more than (the animals) at any other zoo I've been associated with." Charles Marsh, director of Oakland's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said inspectors have found no signs of mistreatment since August 1979, when rock 'n' roll fans broke into some of the cages after a concert and killed birds and wallabies with rocks. 'But Marsh conceded that in his view, some of the animals' cages are "sterile and "boring," and that the collection of animals is not very large and appears somewhat "scattered." Nevertheless, Marsh said, the future of the zoo has been considerably brighter since Mott and the society took charge last summer. The Knowland Park Zoo is in the East Oakland bills on the grounds of what once was the Durant estate, home of the inventor of the long-since defunct Durant automobile company. In the mid-1950s, the estate's owner found himself unable to keep up the old place.

Mott, who then was Oakland parks director, and Joseph Knowland, then publisher of the Oakland Tribune, devised a complicated arrangement under which the land was donated to -the state as a park, and then turned back to the city for a zoo. Later, the state deeded the property to the city outright When it was built, the Knowland Park Zoo was considered ahead of its time, mostly because the animals were kept not in cages but in open areas surrounded by moats. But the city never bad a great deal of money to lavish on its zoo, which has always been smaller and less famous than San Francisco's, and animals apparently were collected haphazardly. Perhaps the most apparent gaps in the collection involve the bears. The zoo has no polar or grizzly bears mainstays of most such institutions.

Instead, it displays only the sun bears, a species unfamiliar to most visitors. "I dont know why we have the sun bears," Mott said. "They're Just here." In addition, the zoo's moat-style Custom Decorating Sale All this notwithstanding, critic Pressman said Mott's goal of running a first-class zoo without taxpayer subsidy is doomed to failure. For the zoo to succeed, she said, Oaklanders must agree to shell out more cash and the zoo management must try to focus Its attention on showing only carefully selected species chosen according to a rational plan. "No zoo in the country works under the system they're trying in Oakland," she said, But Mott firmly insisted the zoo is on the right track.

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