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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1058 Pre-Fab Zoo Now On The Market; Adventurous Man Has New, Growing Line By FRED DANZIG NEW YORK (UPD The fine art of pre packaged merchandising sow extends to zoos. You can buy them ready-made. Wyman Carroll, a tall, young Iree-lance wild game hunter ot rugged good looks, is peddling zoos for a mere $120JXH) C.I. (Cages Included.) His pre fab zoo includes two gi ralfes, a pair of elephants, two rtiinos, lions, tigers, jaguars, pan thers, assorted small mammals, numerous reptiles and birds. Before winter arrives Carroll expects to be off for East Africa, filling orders for perhaps three more currently zoo-less American cities. The packaged, or starter-set, zoo is a natural outgrowth of Carroll's career. For about a dozen of his 29 years, he has traipsed and trapped his way through jungles to pick up suitable specimens for various customers all over the world. Moke It Worth Your While BIG Y MARKET fh. TU 4-4620 4710 So. Oth BEEF oP0RK To Investigate NOW! Our Low Meat Price! Will Own a Jeep'? Authorized ports, sales and service for all 'Jeep' vehicles BASIN MOTORS 424 So. 6th TU 4-7778 Now 1$ the Time to Immunize Your Stock Vaccina, Madiclnal and Supplies far Cattle, Hers , Snaap Hogs and Poultry Ovr LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT' h etisned to Save and Servo. CORAL TROLENE Systemic Grub KILLERS Your One Stop Shopping Center We Give 2'K Green Stamps MERRILL PHARMACY Merrill. Ore. Ph. 2451 CUTTING jj Carroll has a complaint about some zoos. "Too many of them have be come static and haven't tried to reproduce the animal's natural habitat as closely as possible. Gorillas must feel dirt under their feet. And zoo directors must con tinually find new ways to make the animals healthier and happier with better diets and cleaner sur roundings. "You know," Carroll said, "in the jungle, lions eat entrails and viscera. But in our zoos, they get big chunks of meat. I once per suaded a zoo director to feed his cats on the jungle diet and the animals started to look better, with shiny coats of fur, bright eyes, and better health. But along came some old dowager-type lady complaining about the cheap food the lions were getting. The direc tor went back to the chunk meat diet and 'the cats went back to their listless, dull ways, too." . Carroll's chief dream is to build a permanent animal world's fair. Vie have the land near Naples, Florida," he said, "and all we need is about two-and-a-half mil lion dollars. We'll place animals on islands so visitors can watch them as they appear 1n the jun gle. We'll build life-size statues of animals that are no longer around, such as dinosaurs." While he finds fault with the operation of many zoos, Carroll believes in the idea behind them. I think there are definite cul tural advantages to having zoos. Yes, we take away the animals freedom, but in exchange, we give the animal food. They no longer must risk their lives in the search for food.TVe take them away from their enemies." During his career, Carroll has been nipped on the arm by a 10 foot dragon on the island of Ko modo in the South Pacific. He has wrestled pythons in Malaya; rid den rhinos in South Africa; been kicked by a wounded leopard; rubbed shoulders at night with gor illas; searched for blue whales off Alaskan waters and for the legen- day abominable snowman in the mountains of Nepal. After 45 days of chasing around for the snow man, Carroll concluded: I m be ginning to think it's just a story." In traveling well over one mil lion miles, he has collected about 150 pythons, 30 tigers, Iff rhinos, 10 giraffes and a comical and highly - prized proboscis monkey. He has been temporarily blinded by a spitting cobra and has suf fered from malaria, dysentery and joundice simultaneously. He also has picked up a facility for such languages as Indonesian and Swa- hili, not to mention Spanish, Ital ian, French and Portuguese. Carroll is not impressed by peo ple who kill wild game. "On our expeditions, we only kill for the pot. We bring the ani mals back alive. As a matter of fact, I've let as many animals go as t ve brought back and l ve giv en away as many as I've sold. I have a great deification for natu ral history. I love these animals. I don't believe it takes any great courage to shoot them," he said. The most dangerous animal in Africa, said Carroll, is the little ant. "They kill more -people than wild game. The most dangerous animal in the world? I'd say the rat. They carry so many d I s eases." His future apparently was laid out when he was a small boy liv ing in Norwich, Connecticut. "My father gave me some maps of the world for Christmas when I was seven. I marked them up," Carroll recalled. "When my dad asked what l was doing, I told him I was planning future trips. I had laid out seven trips: To the Matto (i rosso in Brazil; to Span ish Guinea; to the Belgian Con go; Asia, including China; to the Upper Amazon regions of Peru and to Alaska. My only diver gence from this plan came when I couldn t get into China. I went to Alaska twice instead." SKI SCHOOL chief Bud Johnson, left, seems to be hollering something like "bend your knees" to fellow instructor Buck Martin and pupil Peggy Hanratty at the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. Knees must be bent in skiing in order to keep the weight forward. Photo by Palmer pr" .. ' 13 mmmmmmmmmmumimmmlm tmmm m elSeetfr BOB SLOSS of the Alturas Modoc Record is shown here taking a close up peek at Mount Shasta through one of the telescopes mounted on the deck of the new Mt. Shas ta Ski Bowl. V '"' . - - '. 2 .'V-! J, 7, . . ,1, : -V' A LIGHT FALL OF SNOW early in the season allowed Bud Johnton, Peggy Hanratty and Buck Martin to get in a little pre season practice on a trip up the slopes. The pic ture graphically illustrates the scenery available to visitors to the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. Photo by Palmer
