Nashua Telegraph from Nashua, New Hampshire • Page 9

NASHUA TELEGRAPH. "got scTthat he'd have to go I'd have been dead. "He nearly me two or three times but I thought I was brave enough so that JULY 27, are high strung, very nerv. "You have to handle them lightly different. 'But, that glig-htness the difference between living and -lion act at Benson's is a mixed act with both males behind a stool.

I and femalei. That it more up the stool and finally dangerous than an with)he backed off. We sent him only one sex. male lions are apt to become jealous of the other males in the ring, they may balk at commands and may become murderous; "A few years ago we had three males but one'of them became impossible to work with. He was jealous of the other males.

I didn't want to get rid of him but it finally NO MATCH AT ALt-Joseph 'Area- ris, Benson Wild Animal Farm trainer, spars with Rajah a 500 pound tiger. Two years ago Rajah clawed Arcaris while the trainer's back was turned. Arcaris said that he was lucky to escape with a (TtUgraohoto) clawing. "If a tiger gets a hold with hi teeth he hangs on and will, refuse to release his grip. A lion will bite once and then let go to try again." Arcaris -has been clawed by the big cats several times but has only been bitten once--by a lion.

anything could.be conquered. One day though he came after me and he broke the chair, then he broke the stick and the fork and he backed me to a 200 after that" The thing that Arcaris has in his mind is that if on of the cats really wanted to get him, Arcaris would not be to stop 'him. The chair, the whip, the blank pistol are only mechanized sham against the wild reality of tooth and claw. Next: A trainer eight feet tall. MILL BOCK POMONA GRANGE Litchfield International Farm Youth Exchange student Elizabeth Robinson of Greenfield, showed slides and told of her five month visit to France at the Hill Rock Pomona Grange meeting recently in Naumkeag Grange Hall, Litch- news, Today's oieturti.

field. Master Ralph H. Ford, presided. Also on the program was Master of Naumkeag, Dorothy Laughlin; Ceres of Hill Rock Pomona, Mrs Barbara A. Ford; George Gove, Pinehurst; Mrs Florence Center, Naumkeag; Ralph Ford, Nashua.

Mrs Ethel Twiss, Hudson Grange, was chosen as official representative for the Pomona for the New England lecturer's conference in Kingston, RI Aug 21 to 25. Refreshments were served by members of Naumkeag Grange. Hill Rock Pomoaa Grange at the Chalifoux Farm, Hudson, starting with pot luck dinner at 1 pm followed by a potted plant show, games. Steve Bilko of the Los Angeles in 10 straight field day will be held Aug 20! games this spring. You'll Always Save More FURNITURE WITH LOWER PRICES AT 66 CANAL ST.

NOW ONLY $59.95 CLEARANCE OF ALL SUMMER TOYS SCONTSAS DOWNSTAIRS STORE 173 MAIN ST. Little Tinsel in Scrapbook On Hudson Animal Trainer (Ray Murphy) Scrapbooks a standard equipment with professional performers. The one kept by animal trainer Joseph Arcaris however is on the grim side with more' blood than tinsel. Among the yellowing newspaper clips are reports of the time Arcaris escaped a half mad leopard, or of when he battled five liorts with a board he got a Carnegie Hero Medal for that one. There are grimmer ones how Arcaris was sidelined for five weeks with blood poisoning from a lion attack, or how he was out two weeks recovering from a tiger and.

most recent, a lion attack slowed him down for two weeks. The minor notes have even a heavier counterpoint reports of trainers Arcaris has known or seen who have been killed in the big cage. For the cats may be trained but they are never tame. "You have to watch out all the time," Arcaris said dourly indicating a bandaged arm clawed a lion early last week. have a big male now -Prince who hates me.

He's the one I tease at the end of the act and he charges me. He always turns back and then by the next act he forgets. I couldn't do it with the other male because he would not forget and he'd come all the way. "Prince was ready for action the other day." Arcaris was clawed a week CLOSEOUT FABRIC SPORT SHOES $1.99 pr. Reg.

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"AT THE 69 MAIN ST. NASHUA ago Monday by a lioness named Sheba during his act at Benson's Wild Animal Farm. He was clawed on the arm and went down under the charge of the 325 pound' animal. Arcaris quickly regained his feet and despite his bleeding wounds stayed in the cage. He sent Sheba back through the runway to her cage and completed the act with five lions.

He has been unable to go back with the lions since that day though, while his arm has been healing. He may go back this afternonn. Despite the loss of most of his strength in the left arm, the chair arm, Arcaris has been doing his tiger act. Two years ago, April 19, one of his tigers bit and clawed him while his back was turned. That time, he forced the 500 pound cat back, and again continued the act.

"He gave no hint he 'was going to jump, me," Arcaris recalls. "But he probably knew from the minute we started. I try to keep an eye- on him now, even if I have to turn away to take the other one. one of the first things you teach them anyway, not to move when your back is turned." A tiger, Arcaris said, Is generally dangerous than a lion. He possesses greater speed.

"A tiger is more high strung. The lion is slower to respond, clumsier. You can see a lion coming all the way but a tiger is faster, you don't have as much time." as fast as a tiger is Arcaris says the leopard is three tirnes as fast. "A lion, you can see him coming; a tiger is faster; a leopard is lightning." Arcaris has had experience with all of them. Of the three he thinks the leopard can be the brightest.

"If by bright yo'u mean alertness it has to be leopard. A leopard is the quickest to respond 1 To get a lion to jump you may have to poke him but not a tiger and a leopard you can just tell him once. 1 They Galore During Nashua's LEMON DAYS 3 MG DAYS OF VALUES! THURS. FRI. SAT.

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