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LOS ANGELES — Alan Beck
fishes through his little green
medicine kit looking for the right
concoction to cure a convulsing koi
or a vitamin to perk up a tired tetra.
Beck, owner of Coral Reef
Enterprises sells and stocks
aquariums and ponds and runs a
24-hour hotline for owners of sick
fish. His staff of 17 employes even
makes house calls.
Beck has designed aquariums —
he calls them “living furniture —
for such stars as Elizabeth Taylor,
Sammy Davis Jr. and Barbra
Streisand and even rents out fish
and tanks.
“Sometimes a studio will want to
rent an aquarium or some fish for a
special scene,” he said.
But Beck spends much of his time
on the phone, helping customers
nurse ailing fish hack to health.
“People get attached to their
fish,’’ Beck said at his showroom in
the Pacific Design Center. “If any
thing happens to them, people get
veiy depressed. You don’t only treat
the fish, you treat the people, too.
They are so into their animals.
“People who name fish are in
trouble. It seems those fish always
go first.”
Beck said his firm sometimes gets
up to 100 calls a night — many long
distance. One frantic call came from
a fish owner in Great Neck, N.Y.
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DURHAM, N.H. — Finally freed
of his 15-inch “Turkish slipper”
hooves. King the Shetland pony
frolicked in a pasture yesterday, “as
happy as a lark.
King was found last week in a
dung-filled stall in Plaistow.
SPCA officials estimated the 10-
’’year-old pony had been in the stall
for years and had existed almost ex
clusively on a diet of hay. The
owner of the horse, Barbara Reed,
faces animal cruelty charges in
Plaistow District Court Sept. 13.
It took Dr. Walter Hilton of the
University of New Hampshire about
two and a half hours to trim the
hooves, which had curved upward
to resemble what one SPCA
member called/“Turkish slippers.”
He found no damage to the blood
vessels.
“He’s as happy as a lark and has
been running around, said
Jeanette Tureotte, who works in the
university’s Veterinarian Diagnostic
Laboratory. “They were very sur
prised he was able to stand right.
And he wasn’t frisky at all when
they were trimming.’
“He’s as good as gold and is feel
ing just perfect, said one of the
stable hands in charge of King’s
care. “He was just perfect through
out the whole thing."
Hilton has said the next few
weeks will be crucial for the pony.
He said if the horse is a fast healer,
he could be back to normal within
six months.
A fund has been set up at the
University of New Hampshire to re
ceive contributions from citizens
willing to help pay King’s medical
costs.
She threw a party and a guest spil
led liquor in her fish pond. What
should she do?
Those fish survived.
But one woman — caring for her
son’s fish while he was away —
thought they were moping. She
poured chicken soup into the pond
and killed the lot, then frantically
sought to replace them before her
son returned.
“The crux of curing a fish is
proper diagnosis, then you have to
give the proper medication, said
Beck, whose firm researches cures
and maintenance techniques for
fish.
He even has a special sling he
uses to give fish shots.
The problem with fish, he said, is
you can’t always tell they’re ill until
it’s too late. “If a dog is sick, he will
let you know. Fish don’t always do
that.
Sure symptoms of illness, he said,
include fish lying on the bottom of
the tank, floating at the top gasping
for air, having faded colors or rag
ged fins, or scratching themselves
along the sides of a tank.
Parasites and bacterial n
are the most common plaj
noted. And most proklei
caused by stress.
Though aquariums arej
biggest sellers, he said pot
with koi, or Japanese carp,
coming very popular.
And when one dies, Bfj
“You can bury them-tin,
great fertilizer.”
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BROWNWOOD — An amended
petition filed Tuesday in the $22
million libel suit by former Lt. Gov.
Ben Barnes claims the Dallas Morn
ing News circulated a libelous arti
cle about Barnes in his home county
hut not in Dallas County.
The 19-page amended petition
charges the newspaper, which is a
defendant along with publisher
A.H. Belt) Corp., circulated in
Brown Countv an Oct. 5, 1976 re-
Phone exec "crude talker’
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SAN ANTONIO — A former sub
ordinate of fired Southwestern Bell
Telephone executive James H.
Ashley testified yesterday Ashley
was a crude talker who put little im
portance on telling the truth.
Antonio office to view a series of
pornographic movies on a video
tape player during office hours.
Joe Cochran, 46, a $39,200-a-year
commercial supervisor, stud he fal
sified expense vouchers and bor
rowed $12,000 from a bank on
Ashley’s orders, helped send Bell
printing to a franchise run by
Ashley’s brother, and joined his
boss and other men in Ashley’s San
“I’d say in general the employes
were afraid of him (Ashley), ” Coch
ran said. “His basic motivation was
by fear. His method of controlling
people was making them afraid of
embarrasment. ”
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Ashley has joined the survivors of
the late T.O. Gravitt in a $29-
million libel and slander suit against
Bell. He says he was fired and
Gravitt, former vice president for
Texas, committed suicide because
they attempted to disclose illegal
wiretaps and campaign contribu
tions by the company.
Cochran testified that Ashley, a
San Antonio Commercial manager
until his suspension on Oct. 9, 1974,
used “frequent profanity and sexu
ally oriented innuendoes,” includ
ing one profane statement in
Spanish which other witnesses have
quoted Ashley as using in the pres
ence of female employes.
ordered him to make political con
tributions, then recover the money
by false expense vouchers. He said
Ashley was regarded as being “very
aggressive in obtaining higher
telephone rates, also in contrast to
Ashley’s testimony.
Cochran said Ashley was told he
was “overextended on credit and
needed help and asked his subor
dinate to borrow $3,000 on short
term from a hank. Ashley paid back
such loans three times but still owed
Cochran $1,300 when he was sus
pended, Cochran said.
Earlier in the trial. Bell attorneys
called 15 female employes and three
male employes to testify that Ashley
and Gravitt were "lechers” and
“ladies men” who stole money from
the company, on false expense
vouchers and handed out promo
tions in exchange for sexual favors
from women workers.
port Barnes was im
hanking scandal.
The petition claims tk
paper and publisher were
attempting to damage Baro
tation.
The original suit was
Barnes in September, 19'
series of articles (lie nionil
connecting him withalu
vestigation.
Barnes alleged the seriesi
eles detailing a govemmenli
gation of alleged bank fad
libelous. He said thepu
stories was to connect pi
sinuation and necessary
tion to other persons d
named in the articles.
Belo answered the orijj
tion by saying it printed Ik
and “in good faith disdn
duty to convey informatioi
public on a subject whichtl
has a right to be informed
The publishing firm also:
tacts or publications cited hr
as libelous constitulrl
“privileged exercise of lit
under the 1st and 14thJ
incuts of the Constitutii
added that the articles wert|
“without malice about a
ure on a matter of public id
It said the fact tire info:
the articles came from a
merit investigation of ban!
tices, directors and shai
meant the newspaper coi
liable.
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in Texas before his first
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Cochran said two of Ashley’s fa
vorite sayings were: “I can’t re
member the last lie I told and “I
never tell the same lie twice. ”
Cochran and other Bell employes
have testified they never knew of
Ashley opposing any Southwestern
Bell practices, as he has claimed in
earlier testimony. He said Ashley
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AUSTIN — An installer of fire
protection equipment says state of
ficials' proposal to change safety
regulations for installations of fire
extinguishers in restaurants would
discourage owners from installing
fire safety systems.
Richard M. Davis of Marshall said
Tuesday at a hearing before the
State Insurance Board the proposal
would not work because commercial
kitchens already have stove hoods
and duct vents before fire protec
tion equipment is installed.
“It (the proposed rule) is not
going to accomplish anything but
make the restaurants not want to in
stall a fire extinguisher system at
all,” he asserted.
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installation of automatic sprinklers
and other fixed fire extinguisher sys
tems in kitchens where stove hoods
and duct vents are substandard.
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LAREDO — City employ!
man the two bridges to]
Laredo, Mexico, have infora
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