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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 6, 1984 Or Musketeer dies, Auburn gets fortune United Press International AUBURN, Ala. — The death of Musketeer, the last of 150 stray dogs that lived off the $12 million estate of an eccentric oil company heiress, has cleared the way for Auburn University to inherit the fortune. The late Eleanor Ritchey, spin ster granddaughter of Quaker State Refining Co. founder Philip John Bayer, adopted the pack of dogs — most of them stray or un wanted — before she died in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Auburn officials learned Mon worm-ridden heart, runny eyes and wobbly legs. Musketeer was the last of the pack that had been kept at a ranch in Jupiter, Fla. He lived alone in a $26,000 concrete dog house. Except for 1,707 pairs of shoes and 1,224 boxes of stationery do nated to the Salvation Army, the 58-year-old Ritchey, who had never married, left her entire for tune to the dogs — including 113,328 shares of Quaker Oil common stock, her home, numer ous real estate holdings, bonds and treasury bills. Warren Williams, 61, a $17,000-a-year caretaker for the dogs for 13 years, said Musketeer died of “just old age.” The announcement of Muske teer’s death by university attorney Thomas Samford III at a meeting of the Auburn Board of Trustees brought smiles and laughter from the panel. Richey’s will stipulated the money would go to Auburn when her last dog died or 20 years passed — whichever came First. “We should declare this a school holiday,” said Trustee R.C. ’’Red” Bamburg. The fortune will be used to fund Auburn’s small animal clinic, which had been receiving $900,000 a year from the interest earned by the estate. Ritchey chose Auburn on the advice of a Florida veterinarian who treated the dogs. Friends buy chimpanzee for $9,000 Missouri chimp goes to new home United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Friends of Chobe, a 3 'A-year-old chimpanzee born at the Kansas City Zoo, raised $9,000 to buy him back from a Texas family and find him a home with other chimps, but a zoo director said Tuesday he’s not sure that’s the best solution. Margaret Cook of Kansas City, a former employee of the Kansas City Zoo who said she helped raise Chobe from his infancy, said Tuesday the chimp was being turrned over to Wally Swett, operator of Primarily Primates, a San Antonio refuge for troubled animals. Cook said the $9,000 was raised by “upset people of Kansas City who are concerned about animal wel fare.” She sharply blasted the Kansas City Zoo for selling Chobe to Tom Hunt, a wild animal dealer in Dallas who in turn sold the young chimp to a family in Texas for $12,000 as a pet for their 9-year-old son. Hunt’s sale of the chimp, Cook al leged, was a violation of the ethics code of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums. But Ernest Hagler, director of the Kansas City Zoo, said Hunt violated no written guidelines by selling the chimp to the unidentified Texas family. Hagler said the AAZPA code of ethics only states that members pledge to make sure exotic animals do not find their way into the hands imals since 1978. “The ethics of sell ing an animal that’s going to mature at over 130 pounds — there’s no way he would remain gentle. good animal and there’s no reast why he can’t be used in a conver®. nal situation. “They’re only docile the first three years of their lives,” he said. “Then they turn into what they “The dealer should have known belter than to sell him into a private situation. The ethics of selling an animal that’s going to mature at over 130 pounds — there’s no way he would remain gentle. ” “It’s not anywhere past the pot of no return. A lot of people you to believe that this animal is# of control. I can’t see it (Primaa 1 Primates) as a constructive envir® merit for this animal. A privatepac can do a better job than Primart Primates at this point.” Hagler said when Cook ma known her concerns about CM* he and the zoo staff offered toat vertise in their monthly newsletter! find Chobe a home at another zoo. of people who cannot care for them properly. In fact, Hagler said he is sorry to see Chobe go to Primarily Primates, which he called “a one-way street for animals.” The issue is whether private indi viduals can provide proper care to wild animals like Chobe. “The dealer should have known better than to sell him into a private situation,” said Swett, who has oper ated the shelter for troubled wild an- really are. The animal itself becomes neurotic because they associate with people. “We have to work very hard to get them into a group situation with their own kind. It’s a long-term com mitment for sure. Chimps can live 50 to 60 years,” Swett said. “She told me they would us to do that, but I haven’t heat from her so she’s apparently maJt decision,” said Hagler, who saidi Kansas City Zoo had to sell Old because they had an excess of mi chimps. Vol. 7S “I think that facility is kind of a one-way street for animals,” coun tered Hagler. “This little animal is a “I wish we didn’t have this sits lion on our hands,” Hagler said would much rather have seem animal remain in a conventit* family atmosphere.” H Gulf War Saudi Arabian warjets shoot down Iranian fighter-bombers in Persian Gulf United Press International ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi rates — Saudi Arabian warjets, guided by an American-piloted AWACS plane and refueled by U.S.- supplied aerial tankers, Tuesday shot down two Iranian fighter- bombers in the first armed clash be tween the two countries in the Per sian Gulf war, officials said. “aerial target” when it ignored warn ings and entered the air over Saudi territorial waters. other U.S.-supplied tankers, which they man themselves. But in Washington, a diplomatic source with access to information from Saudi Arabia said the Saudi Air Force shot down two U.S.-made Iranian F-4 fighter-bombers over the Persian Gulf. The Saudis fired two air-to-air missiles and both hit the Iranian F-4 planes, which were destroyed, the source said. Saud, told a small group of report ers, “We have tried our utmost to find a peaceful solution to this war between Iran and Iraq. Both nations scrambled a total of about 20 warplanes and a tense standoff “of several minutes” fol lowed before the Iranian jets re turned to their base, a diplomatic source in Washington said. The Saudi Defense Ministry, quoted by Riyadh radio and the Saudi Press Agency, said only that Saudi jets scrambled to intercept an The diplomatic source said two U.S.-built Saudi F-15s were directed by an American A WAGS plane to the two Iranian F-4s near a small Saudi-owned island about 40 miles from the western shore of the Gulf. The AWACS radar over Saudi territory then spotted the Iranian air force scrambling three more jets. The Saudis also scrambled three more planes, and the Iranians then sent up 11 jets, which remained in Iranian air space. “Unfortunately, our sovereignty was violated and we reacted just as we said we would all along, in our defense,” he said. Along with a shipment of 400 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, Presi dent Reagan last week sent the Sau dis an American-manned aerial tanker. The Saudis already had Saudi Arabia supports Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, which erupted Sept. 22, 1980. The United States is sending Saudi Arabia improved AWACS planes with radar that can spot sta tionary and moving objects on water to give them the ability to monitor all sea-going traffic in the Gulf, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The Saudi ambassador to Wash ington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al- The U.S. Air Force has had four AWACS in Saudi Arabia. Spokes man Michael Burch said the first im proved version arrived Monday but it was not known if that plane di rected Tuesday’s strike. Iranian jets attacked Saudi and Kuwaiti tankers in the northern Gulf last month. One Iranian F-4 came close to the Saudi coast to fire a mis sile at a Liberian-registered vessel, the Chemical Venture. Iranian President Sayed Ali Kha menei had hinted at retaliation for a Sunday attack by Iraq that set a Turkish tanker abaze en route to Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal. Iran said Iraqi jets Tuesday bombed Iran’s Kurdish town of Ba- neh, 10 miles inside the border, kill ing or wounding more than 600 peo ple as residents celebrated the 21st anniversary of the uprising that led to the deposing of the shah. Iraq did not confirm the attack. Trucks gel new skirts from Ags Rep. I his sup] f sible in | runoff ■ winner, University News Service In a few years, many tractor-tn iler trucks on the nation’s highw may be wearing grass skirls sporting mud flaps of artificial to much like that used fields. 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