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THE BATTALION Page 7 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1981 Missing plane found parked on runway n the \ij tie Cm i 3rd Fi uss seiir 3, Ml fflcllilll beheld L Kt Bent over backwards Photo by Stewart Mitchell Tuper Wood demonstrates his skill on shoe skis at the Texas A&M Waterski Club’s first show held Sept. 5 and 6 at Hilltop Lakes Resort. The club will enter the Baylor University skiing tournament this weekend in Hillsboro. United Press International ALAMOSA, Colo. — Six Tex ans, weary from a Labor Day fishing trip, returned to their air plane Monday to get some less- than-ffiendly attention from Col orado Civil Air Patrol officials. More than 60 people con ducted an extensive weekend search for the plane, found late Sunday night parked on a ramp at the Mineral County Airport at Creede. Maj. Richard Oakes of the Col orado CAP said the pilot of the missing Piper Saratoga forgot to close his flight plan from Dallas to Alamosa Saturday afternoon. Pilot William Scott, 25, of Weatherford was surprised to learn of the search from deputies of the Hinsdale County Sheriff s Department. He was contacted Sunday morning at the Quiet Val ley Ranch, south of Lake City. Scott landed at Creede, 70 miles northwest of his Alamosa destination, and left with five pas sengers for an isolated fishing out ing. He told Hinsdale Sheriff Bur ton Smith he had radioed his change in plans to a ground con trol center in Alamosa. A spokeswoman for the Alamosa Airport said Monday no contact was made with the pilot. Meanwhile, CAP units in Col orado, New Mexico and Texas gathered at Alamosa for an inten sive search of the Sangre De Cris- to mountain range along the Col orado-New Mexico border. By Sunday, 60 people were scanning the range for any sign of the plane. A tip from a co-owner of the aircraft directed the CAP to the small Creede airfield late Sunday night. An airport employee re membered a group of five or six people unloading the plane Satur day afternoon, even though a flight service station official at the field previously told the CAP the plane was not parked on the ramp. “The story has a good ending, even though it is a little bit frus trating,” Oakes said. Redneck to follow? ’Dillos trudge north ck Clt United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It has een a long journey from the louth American tropical rain arests that gave him birth, but the rmadillo has hurdled every tumbling block nature or man has nanaged to place in his way — be wide rivers and deserts, irate mers with shotguns or 18- dieeler semis bearing down on im like some primeval lachyderm. And it’s been a time consuming ip. Dasypus novemcinctus — |thenine-banded one,” so named ecause of the nine scaly bands on back — has been moving orthward for at least the past 0,000 years. He first reached the Yucatan |emnsula about 2,000 years ago. He then was spotted in the Rio jCrande Valley in the 1850’s by aturalist John James Audubon. By the early part of this century he had migrated into Oklahoma ;nd Louisiana. He’s even been een as far east as Florida. So it should come as no surprise lat the little humpbacked ’dillo has finally reached the southern regions of Kansas and Missouri. In late June, Kansas animal con- ol officer Terry Miller captured ne of the first migrants wander- g leisurely across a Haysville, an., yard. Miller tossed it into ie rear of his pickup truck, iffered it unsuccessfully to the loc al zoo and then released it on the outskirts of town where it prompt- y sought the safety of a nearby owskin Creek. When last seen, it was dogpad- lling toward the setting sun. According to Ken Sadler of the bnservation Department, there vere quite a few reports of arma- lillos in Missouri in the early i970s, but a series of cold winters hove them back to the Sun Belt. So now they have returned, .nd now that they have returned, hat can midwesterners do about t, if, indeed, they want to do any- hing about it? One need look only is far as Texas for an answer. In 1968, the ultra-chic Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue iffered armadillos for sale with the Allowing ad: “Armadillo, anyone? Imagine im burrowing quietly under the hristmas tree or at your side for afternoon walks.” Since then the armadillo has also been claimed as the oflicial mascot of the pseudo-redneck, urban cowboy crowd, which cur rently claims the music of Willie Nelson as its own. And the student body of the University of Texas at Austin briefly considered — mostly in jest — changing the name of their football team from the Longhorns to the Fightin’ Armadillos. But Texans have been celebrat ing National Armadillo Week since 1961, usually as an excuse to drink large quantities of beer on a warm summer day. ‘Dillo races now are as common in the Lone Star State as rattlesnake roundups. Armadillo World Headquar ters, a former armory turned beer hall, became the sanctuary for the progressive country music of the ’70s. During this period Gary P. Nunn penned the following re frain for his “London Homesick Blues”: “Coin ’ home to the armadillo. To country music from Am arillo An’ Ab-i-leen. ” The armadillo has even had an effect on medical science. Due to his low 90-degree body tempera ture, he has become the sole animal used in the prognosis and treatment of leprosy. The low body temperature provides a won- , derful storehouse for billions of leprosy bacteria. All this sounds fine, but what about the ’dillo s bad points? Few other creatures seem to re quire as many homes. Stockmen and farmers — those who seem to be the most bothered by armadil los — claim burrowing is the animal’s most common activity outside of breathing. Methods of extermination are few. A superb broken-field run ner, the armadillo can evade all but the most excellent marksmen. 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