28 Seymour Dotty Tribune, Seymour, Indiana Thursday, August 26, 1993 Animal rights groups say circus life brings animals undue stress, madness LONDON (AP) Thrill- seeding humans may yearn to run away to the circus, but two life nsncrufiranff unusual supports the charities' plea to end animal acts. Not all authorities agree that punishment Some experts say teaching lions and tigers silly stunts, provides intellectual sti mutation or -at least gives big cats a break from the monotony of feline life. The same goes for elephants, bears and chimps. Most veterinarians have no circuses abuse animals, but certainly not all. -''It's hard to generalize about the psychological" problems 'of these animals," she added.
A bit of paring is normal, just the way -humans pace a room. Obsessive pacing may indicate a problem with the environment, but to "say it's mental derangement is incorrect," she added. Circuses are inspected frequently -by animal welfare officials, often unannounced. Graham a spokesman for the Circus Proprietors' Association, said many of the so-, called cruel circus acts were banned years ago. For instance, bears dance but they no longer have to wear tutus.
cage. An elephant stood behind a circus tent, rocking its head back: and forth Head bobbing is sure sign of mental illness, said Bill Jordan, a veterinarian in the documentary. Jordan had cared for circus' animals, and is now secretary of the Veterinarians Group for the Conservation of Nature. t- 1 In the film, Jordan animal abuse in circuses. He said elephants, who like to wander long distances in large groups, are often trapped in solitary con finement or shackled with ankle chains.
Bears, who prefer privacy, are often stuck with several other bears of various species. Suzanne Jackson, a veterinarian at Wildlife Information Network in London, said some small comes to animal welfare, there is no such thing as a good non-stop stress of jumping balanc-. ihg on seesawg prompts anxiety, and sadness, eventually prog- ressirig into full-blown mental ill--ness, said Creamer. But that's, not all. Creamer's group points to "ramshackle" living quarters and cruelty inflicted by trainers.
So far, 180 local councils here, about 45 -percent, prohibit animal performers. says she is pushing for legislation en- forcing a national ban on animal acts, followed by an all-European ban and then worldwide prohibition. A 15-minute film produced by the showed allegedly stressed-out animals. A tiger paced to and fro in a small, dark deep objection to the performing chology at the University of Exe-of tricks. From the point of view ter, also defends animal acts, but of animals, there is absolutely no evidence that it (circus life) makes them crazy," said Peter Scott, a veterinarian and president of the British Zoological Society.
The anti-circus groups did not "perform a scientific study. They gathered photos, videos and anecdotes to support their cause. falcon program seen as model for environmental that" the three-ring life brings only stress and madness for Animals Animal a division of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, and The International Animal Welfare Alliance called recently for a ban on animal acts in circuses. They claim that ordinary circus protocol includes squeezing animals into tiny cages in the backs of trucks for long road trips and coercing innocent beasts to perform humiliating, sometimes dangerous acts. It contends such cruelty promotes insanity.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Endangered By JOSH LEMIEUX Associated Press Writer LAGUNA ATASCOSA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas (AP) A wooden cage stands on stilts deep in a savannah amid yucca plants and bright blue-green lagoons. Perched stoically inside, aplo-mado falcon chicks exercise their wings to prepare for their first flight Aplomados once soared across northern -Mexico, southern Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. today. the protective cages, may be the only hope of survival for the endangered birds of prey. The Peregrine Fund Inc.
began a program this summer to reirftroduce the aplomado, virtually unseen in the United States since the 195Js, back into the witd. The bird nearly became a symbol of conflict between farmers and environmentalists in south Texas, much like the northern spotted owl represents division between loggers and conserva J5This--bird disappeared before we knew much about it," Thomp son said. Biologists suspect several reasons behind the aplomado's near-extinction: shrinking habitat's, hunting, egg collecting and pesticides such as DDT that wound up in the food chain. Peregrine Vice President J. Peter Jenny said the program will restore "one of nature's finest works of art." And periodic blood tests on the aplomados might prove even more valuable to humans.
Falcons are highly sensitive to environmental contaminants and habitat changes, he said; the blood samples could be an early warning for health risks to people. Jenny noted that Laguna Atascosa is in Cameron County, outlaw becoming cult figure tionists in the Pacific Northwest-Instead, the effort to save the aplomado from extinction shows that cooperation can work, according to Steve Thompson, manager of the Laguna Atascosa Refuge. The Peregrine Fund bred the aplomado chicks in captivity in Boise, Idaho, from a population found in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The fund has released 26 aplomados from three cages at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Atascosa refuge this year; up to 50 releases are planned each year for the next decade.
are predators out here," said Betty Moore, who's spending a hot summer monitoring the fledglings from dawn to dusk for the Peregrine Fund. "These "birds" so- we are looking after them." After a few weeks to allow the chicks to get used to their new surroundings, crews opened the cages for their first flight. The monitors feed the fledglings fro- SERVICE SALON; I 2891 I Expires 83193 This ad is your ticket for a free ride within city limits. Coupon valid through the BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL FOR STUDENTS SAVE 2 OFF YOUR HAIRCUT with this coupon at where experts have been unable to explain alarmingly high rates of rare birth defects in humans, including anencephaly babies born with undeveloped and. ex posed brains.
Beginning in 1985. The Pere grine Fund released 24 aplomados at the King Ranch and Laguna Atascosa as a pilot program for the current project. Two years later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed banning dozens of pesticides in Cameron County to protect the endangered falcons. Terry Lockamy, the county's agricultural extension agent, said the proposal would have created so severe a pest problem it would have put the county's $100 million cotton industry out of business "This had all the earmarks of gantown as part of the BBC's "Different Drummer" series featuring offbeat Appalachian characters.
It played at the New York Documentary Film Festival and at an international public television conference in Dublin, Ireland. Young says it has won seven major awards, including an Emmy from the Cincinnati Television Arts and Sciences and an award from the American Film Institute. It was named the best public television program in 1992. The video shows White's desolate surroundings, where mobile homes shelter hundreds of mountain people, and abandoned cars and discarded trash clash with the natural beauty of the hills. "Throughout, White shows off his unusual combination of flat-foot and tap, and tells about growing up right over the hill from Twilight, the adoring son of "the king of tap dancing." Ray would take me into beer joints," White says.
"He. wouldn't have a dime in his pocket, but he'd come out drunker than hell. They'd set me up on the bar and Td dance and they'd give me pop. As little as I was, I wanted one of the beers to drink like D. Ray." White dropped out of school after the sixth grade.
From age 10 until just a few years ago, White says, he stayed high on a deadly mixture of alcohol, lighter fluid 7 and home-grown marijuana. After his father was gunned White says, "The Lord The distinction between sanity and mental illness, blurry for mans, is even fuzzier for ani- malsTTvo one knows whetherpa; ticular habits adopted in the cir- cus such as pacing or repetitive body- movements 'signals insanity or merely adaptive behavior. Dr. Marthe Kiley-Worthington, an ethologist and fellow in the department of psy believes that most circuses could provide better animal care. Kiley-Worthington published a book three years ago on mental i distress in circus and zoo, animals, including the results of her project observing animals in captivity.
Jan Creamer, director wf'Ani-. mal Defenders, said when it -zen quail each morning so the-b birds use the cage sites as safe homes while learning to hunt for themselves. "I think these birds instinctively fly and hunt," said a raft guide in Big Bend National Park during the rest of the year. "Maybe they do learn more quickly with parents, but basically they do fine without" them." Three newly released aplomados have fallen prey, probably to other raptors or coyotes. Experts expect the aplomados to establish themselves and breed along the south Texas Gulf Coast and into Mexico, feeding on grackles, blackbirds, large insects and small mammals.
But researchers are unsure how the dark-winged, white-brested fal-cohswiH "behavei By ALLISON BARKER Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Jesco White has crooned from the roof of a doghouse, boogied across a swaying footbridge, and tap-danced down the double-line of a two-lane mountain road. He swears dancing and God saved him "from the Devil himself," a low-down life of sniping, sniffing and stealing in the poorest of Appalachian hollows. 1 have a criminal record and I'm no angel, but Tm making up for it with my movie," White says. White, 37, is the hero of a half-hour television documentary first broadcast in 1991.
These days, bootlegged videotapes the program, "Dancing Outlaw," are being passed among white-collar professionals well beyond Appalachia. "Jesco has a devoted following in Philadelphia," says Lt. Col. George Finnerty, a Marine Corps recruiter. Tve been around the world and haven't seen anything as wild as that.
I didn't know people like Jesco really existed. It should be in video stores." "Jesco is famous everywhere, says Julie Cooper, assistant tc Los Angeles Top 40 radio host Rick Dees. "It's the most hilarious thing Tve seen. A friend of mine in New York had a fifth-generation copy from someone in South Carolina. It's become, a cult classic." Cult classic or no, White gets OF BIRTH DAY I VH.
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ADDRESS NO. YEAR8 Dancing cooperation becoming a spotted owl," he saidr But fanners, environmentalists, chemical company representatives and the Fish and Wildlife Service formed the Cameron County Agriculture-Wildlife Coexistence Committee. The members promised to ac- cept each other's expertise and eventually found middle ground for voluntary reductions of certain pesticides, Thompson- said. For example, the farmers agreed to switch to the liquid form of one pesticide because falcon prey had been eating the granular form. Meanwhile, the EPA has yet to act on its 1987 proposal.
Jenny said the private fund wouldn't have picked Cameron County if not for the committee's "effort to work together. showed me in Satan's world you up 6 feet under." White's mother, Bertie Mae, gave him his father's dancing shoes, a gleaming pair of black patent leathers with old-fashioned jingle taps. "My Daddy left me something that'll keep me out of jail. I'm the only one that can fill his shoes," White says. Still, White doubts he will ever match his father's moves.
Ray knew 52 steps more than any other dancer," he says. WNPB-TV can hardly keep up with the demand for copies of "Dancing Outlaw," says Al Pri-chard, director of programming and production. Young-said it is mostly passed from friend to friend, but bootleggers have even tried to sell him a copy. White says he has fans from "all over the world Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Dallas." Christine Willis, an English teacher in San Luis Obispo, showed the tape to her high school students. "The" reaction was incredible," Willis says.
"My students want me to fly Jesco out to California to prove he's for real and not an actor. I show it to everybody I can." Betty Cali, an artist in Marietta, says she has watched" the video more than 20 times. "It's very sad and also the fun- niest thing Tve ever seen," Cali says. "One day I'm going to go and have my picture made with Jesco White, if I can get to Boone County." LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION CataM No. stcei-esoa-EMs In th Circuit Court ef Jackm County, Indiana.
NoUca ia haraby ghran that Mary Etta Hun- audtar wo. an tha 18th day af Auguat, 1993, ap-, pointed peraonal rapraaantattva of tha Batata of Edna M. Hunauekar, deoaaaad, who died on tha 19th day of July, 1993. All paraona who haa daima again thia aa- not now doa, muatola tha claim in tha Offica of tha Clark of thia court within fiva (6) montha from tha data of tha firat publication of thia notiea, or within am (1) year after tha daca- denfa death, whicbaver ia aarliar, or tha daima will be fawnr barred. Dated at Droeiuelowu, Indiana; thia 18th day of Auguat, 1993.
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White says he has given up drugs for dancing, but even his father's best tap shoes, now more than 10 years old, are wearing thin. "My father taught me to dance to stay out of -trouble," White says. "It didn't work, but it kept me out of the cemetery for 37 years." Car wrecks, feuding and suicide have claimed five of White's 14 brothers and sisters. Last month, three cousins died mysteriously after a party: Authorities say all three died from an overdose of the same drug. White's father, D.
Ray White, a legendary dancer in these hills, was gunned down in the dirt in front of his shack in 1985 when a neighbor toting a shotgun came down their hollow to settle a score with Jesco's brother. His slayer was sentenced to five to 18 years for the killing and 30 more for armed robbery, White says, "That shows you what kind of law got: The "Dancing Outlaw" do cumentary was produced by Jacob Young at WNPB-TV in Mor- Contact our Please send me free information about Address City Phone 900 East Tipton SOON Bankruptcy Divorce No credit FOR PHE-APPROVAL Complete and MaH to: ALGOOD CHRYSLER PRODUCTS 1600 WILLIAMS RD. August. CALL 522-HIUt 47421 SR. SOC.SEC.NO.
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