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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.
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“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.”
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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.
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