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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, APRIL, 1975 11 Where The Wild Things An Amur mn m t Not only are animal movies good box office in Utah, but an increasing num-be- f of them ue being filmed here. And if Utah is becoming the Hollywood of animal movies, then Jim Davis backyard could be properly called the new Beverly Hills. G-min- Jim Daviss place in Lehi has also been called Utahs second largest zoo. At last count, its - -- home for ten coyotes, thirty-si- x foxes, nine wolves, two bears, two bobcats, six badgers, a half dozen heaven, a dozen skunks, a pair of black footed ferrets, ten porcupines, six '. woodchucks, a half dozen raccoons, plus, an uncounted inventory of squirrels, rabbits, turtles, chipmunks, and many wolves, theyre about eatin me out of house and home. To keep the wolves from the door, Jim started letting them out to movie, companies, but so far the return has been less than profitable.. His income, from Grizzly Adams, where almost all the animal actors were his, wasnt enough to pay for the d cats. 2,400 pounds of grub his charges consume in a month. Some of them may look fa, miliar. For example, theres To add to his troubles, the resa comely bear that wolves, coyotes, and foxes procued Grizzly Adams in the liferate like fruit flies. On Aprjl movie by the same name. Then 24th, he expects litters from theres Judy, a coyote that had a each of his wolf bitches, and therell be lots more coyotes and supporting role in Warner BrothThe Ballad of. Cable foxes, too. ers I can produce ten thousand Hogue. Chances are when Marwolves in about ten years,-anlin Perkins ventures into the Wild Kingdom, the first theres only four thousand thing he runs into is one of Jims wolves in the country today. He also calculates that in fifteep wolves. Well, this was just my years, he could give every man, hobby, Jim explains, until it woman, and child in the United States a pair of coyotes. But a growed out of it'now. Im gettin to where Ive got a population nationwide coyote rebate is unexplosion here. Ive got to where likely, since federal laws make it I cant feed em no more. Ive very difficult to transport wild got to do something. Ive got so animals across state lines, and ring-taile- Cry-Baby- . so-call- -- state laws, according to Jim, prevent him from selling them, trading them, or even giving them And he cant turn them away. loose, either, else theyd die in the wilds. In other words, Ive got a monopoly, says Jim as he looks over the long row of pens. If he had it to do over again, he might have taken his doctors advice back in 1960. Davis, who had lost a lung to jungle fever during World War II, was told to go fishing for his health. Instead, he decided to try his hand at trapping. At first be caught only chipmunks, but then, sundry other creatures kept falling into his snares, until Jim found himself keeper and nursemaid to a private zoo. As pets, however, wild animals leave a lot to be desired. . - after about two years old, they get to where theyre Well, territorial They get growed up, where theyre not as dependent on you for 7 d. Its just like a bear. As long as the bear is depending on you for feed, hes a friend of yours. But the moment he gets all the food that he wants, why, the heck with you. Davis's pet population problem is compounded by visitors unable to resist the lure of the wild and seemingly blind to the danger signs posted all over his driveway. One of forty-si- x foxes Jim keeps in his backyard Come spring, there'll be more. Beverly HiUs. ... Ideally, Jim would like to move his menagerie out of the U U LJLmJLJ UUVUU U L TECHNIQUES IN GAMBLING JU If you have ever wanted to win at the game of twenty-onyoure not alone. If you have ever said to yourself, Why cant I quit when Im ahead? I have a few pointers that may help. e, . . observes that fourteen low cards, it is commonly called, is the five or below; have been played most popular, card game in as opposed to five high cards, Nevada. Die rules are simple. eight or above, the deck is then Each player gets two cards dealt id's favorable condi$ipn. to him face down. The dealer Why? Because the dealer must take another card if he has deals himself one card up and one down. The count of the sixteen points or less, while the hand is. made by adding up the player has the option to stay. face value of each card; face Therefore; with more than percent of the recards and 10s equal ten and seventy-fiv- e aces equal one or eleven. The maining deck being high cards, the chances of the dealer break--, object is to draw twenty-on-e points, or as close to it as possi-- . ing his hand are much greater. This does not mean that you will ble, without going over. . automatically win the hand, but Simple, rigfil? Wrong! or .blackjack as Twenty-on-e, . Under these conditions,' the house has an approximate edge of four percent This means that for every bet you play, the house is subtracting four cents for every dollaryou bet What can you 4 to better your chances!? There are a hum- 'ber of methods the experienced ; gambler uses to tilt the odds in his favor. The most widely used method is counting.-- ' With this - method, the player keeps track of the cards played and adjusts his bet accordingly. For example; if after the first deal from a . newly shuffled deck, the player . - - , , backyard and into a more natural setting. He has in mind a wildlife park in the mountains where the animals could roam freely in large enclosures, within sight but not bite of curious youngsters. All of which costs money, and thats where the movie comes in. Am Davis would like to make a film and, he hopes, some substantial royalties as an actor. Toward this end, he.has the help or his friends Doug Seus and Mrs. Seus, former TV actress Lynne Freeman. Doug, who recently moved to Utah froUn California, is working up a story idea about mountain men, wherein Lynne will star as leading lady and Jim will play Jim Bridger, frontiersman and legendary teller of tall teles. They got the right man for - less. By betting more when the deck is favorable and less when the- deck is unfavorable, the player lowers his chances of losing. , i Next month I will discuss the dice game and offer a few hints on how to manage your bets. ' ; r Sy Smith preacher and they was playin with this here nude woman, and they didnt waste no words on it either. Theres no dialogue too much to a moving picture. But in my picture Imi going to have some dialogued I want some sounds to em. I want these wolves a howlin, I want these coyotes a howlin', I want the bears a growlin. Get some dialogue in it Given thecast, could it be other than a howling success!? . Mur mm? - home. the part, says Am, who at six foot six (same height as Matt Dillon) certainly looks like a vestige of the Old West. As for acting, all thats needed is a good script to follow. Like the Ballad of Cable Hogue . . . Ive got the script around here somewhere, it was the movie script all fixed up for Cable Hogue. Boy, I mean, it woul make you laugh to read it, because they tell you where to put your hands and everything else It had this here TO PLACE YOUR ADVERTISING IN THIS NEWSPAPER CONTACT BY LETTER . RICHARD N.GOLDBERGER your chances of losing are much It must be remembered that any, system a player decides to use should be given a fair chance. Do not play, hunches' and leave your superstitions at ' Utah's wild animal baron poses with a memento of Warner Brothers' three million dollar flop. Coyotes may be better box office than nudes. g Box 11717 Salt Lake City, Utah 841 IT -- Working out for a movie part, Jim Davis hefts a prop rock left over from the cinema. A lot of what you see in the movies is fake. RATES: $10.00 A COLUMN INCH INCLUDES ALL MAKEUP 80 Column Inches page |