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Horses, burros starving
Adoption fees lower
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment has abandoned transportation
charges on wild horses and burros to
encourage nationwide adoptions of
the animals.
Bureau of Land Management of
ficials said they hope to increase
adoptions of the animals which
trample Western rangelands and
face starvation because of overpop
ulation.
“Transportation costs added to
our nationwide adoption fee were
discouraging adoptions,” said BI.M
Director Robert Burford. “We want
to do everything possible to find
ood homes for these excess wild
orses and burros.”
The government is under pres
sure to increase adoptions under the
10-year-old Adopt-A-Horse Pro
gram because 2,500 captured ani
mals are waiting adoption at a daily
cost of about $5,000.
Congress ordered the removal of
17,000 animals from public lands
during the fiscal year that began
Oct. 1
Many of the animals are corralled
at centers near public lands in Cali
fornia, Nevada and Wyoming.
There are also centers near capture
sites in Arizona, Idaho and Oregon.
The animals, captured for about
$400 each, are transported to Texas,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee and other
temporary sites where people can
adopt them.
A government horse can be
adopted for $125 and a burro for
$75. Horses had previously cost up
“We want to do every
thing possible to find
good homes for these ex
cess wild horses and bur
ros” — BLNT Director
Robert Burford.
to $215 and burros up to $ 140.
“We are reducing the charges be
cause the price wasn’t competitive,”
said BLM spokesman Haywood
Meeks. “Someone could go down the
road and buy the animals cheaper.”
Director Burford said, “We feel
that dropping transportation costs
will increase adoptions in the Mid
west and East significantly so that
animals remain in our corrals for
shorter periods of time.”
Over 50,000 wild animals have
been placed since the program be
gan. BLM officials said they fear a
third of the captured animals may
never be adopted because they are
unsuitable for training in riding,
showing, farm work and packing.
The BLM estimates about 60,000
wild horses and burros roam West
ern public lands where forage and
water resources can adequately sup
port 24,000. When the program be
gan, only about 17,000 wild horses
and burros were on public lands.
The BI.M is required to place
healthy animals in private hands or
destroy them. The Interior Depart
ment put a stop to killing the healthy
horses in 1981, but the number of
adoptions has declined, corrals are
full, and Congress wants more
horses removed.
People may adopt the animals by
promising to care for them properly.
There is a one-year waiting period
for final custody, and during that
time the animals can be reclaimed if
they are mistreated.
Police
facing
lawsuit
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — An East
ern Airlines stewardess, who says
she was mistakenly arrested last
year as a fugitive from Texas, has
filed a $800,000 lawsuit against
Louisiana police and Houston of
ficers.
Sheila Jackson Stossier of Alex
andria, Va., spent two days in the
Jefferson Parish jail after U.S.
Customs agents arrested her at
the New Orleans airport as she
returned from Cancun, Mexico.
Her attorney, Theodore A.
Mars, said Eastern convinced po
lice it was a case of mistaken iden
tity.
Stossier said in her suit she was
“physically and mentally mis
treated” while in jail and had to
sleep on the floor. The experi
ence hurt her back, caused her to
miss work and required her to
seek psychiatric help.
Police Chief Sal Lentini of
Kenner said Stossier was arrested
as a favor to Houston police and
the Harris County sheriff, who
have also been named in the suit.
New strangulation
scares El Pasoans
United Press International
EL PASO - Residents of a quiet
neighborhood have a special fear of
Halloween this year following the
strangulation of an 88-year-old
widow Saturday and the similar
murders of two other elderly women
earlier this month.
Effie Gregory, 75, who lives near
the trailer where Jewel Haygood was
murdered last weekend, said she
dreads Halloween and will not open
her door to trick-or-treaters
Wednesday night.
“The killer may still be out there,
and we don’t know who’s going to be
next,” she said. “We’re dreading
Halloween even more this year.
We’re living in a lot of fear.”
Herman Haygood said he could
not understand why anyone would
want to kill his stepmother.
Haygood found her IkkIv while
paying her a routine visit. Police said
they think she was strangled by
someone who tried to burglarize her
trailer. Officers said bruises on the
victim’s body indicated there was a
struggle.
Police said they are looking for a
I xissible link between the Haygood
ulling and the strangulation murder
of two women Oct. 15 by an un
known assailant or assailantswhojj
pat ently tried to set them afire.
Crime Stoppers, an ElPasoajj
ciation which provides reiqj
money for usetul information 1^
ing to arrests, offered a$l,000(jj
reward for information leading
the arrest of whoever wasrespou
>le for the murders of then,
women.
Officers said Julia F!eenor,jj
and her daughter, Iona Dykes,n
strangled to death by someone4
broke into Fleenor’s home,ah
blocks from Haygcod'shome.
Detective Mickey Duntleysaidii
person or persons who forced
wav into Fleenor’s home also ski
least two fires. I wo otherwontenj
ing in the house, Sara Cass,62,^
Cora Docksteader, 70, were inj®,
in the fire and are retoven^,
I homason General Hospital,
"All of this has happened so sj
denly,” Gregory said. "1 haveni||
a night’s sleep since Saturdayi
never used to nave these probltr,
tins neighborhood.”
She said residents ofthequiti
Passo neighborhood are In®
themselves in Wednesday and 1
not opening the door for anyone
"We're scared,” she said.
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