Show LAKE huge turtle spurs search ind imd was wax all about the tha mag moo sier tier curtit in fulks fuiks lake leke dozens of farmers and towns people trekked to the 0 lake for a look took ornith nets niti dmd nd grappling book hooks to help alp catch it it those thoss who claimed they saw the turtle a said it had a hend head aebig as big as two tista fists doubled wj together a thi er and must weigh to pounds uhe the hunt bunt was wax dou sOu spurred by reports tha that t the cincinnati zoo was wap inter ested in buying g the tha reptiles reptile lief ilef tor for T BOO doo another report said thih the turtle had ventured its home in the lake take near hereunto here onto a a su surrounding tarm farm srm arm and that so some bome m 4 cattle had mysteriously disappeared but but dut that aint so farmer fermer gale harris arris said that nat burti turtles as neve never r been out of the tho lake far as we 0 o mow the muddy seven beven acre scra lake 90 feet deep at its center is on harris tarm farm arm and has become the focal point for lor eager searchers harris said we had him trapped in ln a net but he slithered away to the right and dived down into the water used wire net the searchers were using a chicken wire net not about four feet long attached to two fence fenc ePos posts ta men nen in a row bost host crisscrossed the lake take searching for the turtle in order to drop the net not on it helpers on shore held ropes attached to the tence fence posts to pull the turtle ashore it if it showed itself 67 theres beres berea heres no doubt irs irb there mrs harris said she said her husband and ancher her hez son vaughn 12 bad had seen it so had bad her brother charles victim allson and end his son in to law harris said the reptile aphea appeared red ned to be an ordinary snapping turtle but much overgrown other snappers in the area are seldom mors more than 14 or US la pounds be he said gaid in chicago clifford ho pope curator of reptiles at the field museum said the record weight for a snapper is aa 86 pounds be he said only an alligator turtle from the south could run as an high as pounds I 1 i seen sees last bemmer bammer mrs herris harris said her brother charley first saw the turtle last summer but then it disappeared from view until recent recently ln when both her husband and son saw it swimming across the lake she said two investigators tion from the cincinnati zoo came to verify that the turtle was there them she said baid she sure whether they saw it but that they seemed satis batis tied fled the 1800 price has been cincu lating around the area b but u t pm probably b has grown by bv rumor mrs harris chuckled |