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Show LJ' m K'ti&teML$ frflgfflha Daily HeraW Poisonous Snake Are Burma Money-Maker- s e tlon of biles serum to By U Ba Than RANGOON (LTD require, They've nwt local market found a new but dangerous way nients. to make money in the oaddv1 The pharmaceutical firm pays the equivalent of $1 for a small fields of Burma. 4 They are capturing poisonous viper and up to $5 for larger delivered snakes alive in order to make poisonous alive. serum. 4 I Ko Three a farmers Farmers who take off a few Thin V young !? Ai,k, Tin n., days to hunt snakes claim they! , f can earn the equivalent of $5 1U a the Tharawaddv district in That's a lot of money in a, Lower Burma ca'pturing snakei country wh-- e the average per 111 a uusinessuKe way. capita Income is only $60 a Their equipment: Long bam. boo poles fitted with a prong at year. The moasoon season brings one end, a bamboo basket and rain in sheets to this south boundless courage. Asian nation, flooding the rice They called snake catching an fields which are the backbone of easy job if caution is observed. Snake catchers burn rags its economy. The rains drive poisonous soaked in oil to smoke snakes vipers and cobras into the open from their holes. Hunters tease 1 at the very time farmers are the snakes with long bamboo poles until the snakes tire, then transplanting nee seedlings. Snake bites are common and lift them with the prongs into often fatal, both to farmers and bamboo baskets. But agricultural experts fear domesticated animals. e that snake Until recently, the only hunting may produce bit serum available in a new problem. Burma was imported from They say that depletiton of the abroad and expensive. reptile population could lead to Increased Production a population explosion among But the government-owne- d mice and rats, which snakes Burma pharmaceutical industry eat. 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Honor gold pin in recognition of But the road from severely the service of tier five sons in handicapped child to acceptance World War II. Four served in by the Marines was not easy for the Army and one in the Navy Rafael Fernandez. He was born and one died battling the with twisted less and a numb Japanese on Bataan. arm, and his mother told him Although Fernandez was told he would never really be he could never participate in "normal." he refused to activities, physical Because the family did not up. give have much money to spare, "I just couldn't bear the they could not afford to buy the of being left out of braces and expensive thought boy so I worked real hard to things, medical treatment. But through do what all the other kids did," couraee sheer- determination a- he said. he 'and transformed pain, himself into such excellent To strengthen his twisted physical shape he was recently legs, Fernandez took up dancaccepted for the Marine Corps. ing. Weight lifting strengthened He goes to San Diego, Calif., In his numb arm. He still lifts November for basic training, weights to keep in shape. Millions Being Made From rS"v! 00 illicit Animal Pelt Trade N By JOHN A. CALLCOTT world's GENEVA (UPI)-T- he jungles are being decimated by international black marketeers intent on making millions out of .llicit trade in animal pelts. Tigers, jaguars, leopards and public of Europe and America, who control the demand, are prepared to recognize their responsibility and to act accordingly while there is still time." Irresponsible destruction o f the jungle cats occurs in Africa, Asia and Latin America, mostly other spotted cats are fast disaopearing in the face of in the Amazon region. demand from the g High Prices fashion Industry. Prices on both the legal and Experts now warn that if black markets are so high as to nothing is done to stop Illegal induce native poachers and trading these animals may soon hunters to kill the animals for become extinct. their skins, regardless of as 1963, far back As protective regulations. conservation organizations ap are decimated The cats pealed to world governments to without consideration for their restrict the Import and export natural reproduction potential of spotted cats. of skins Sold Illegally Jaguars, leopards, serval cats Their are sent through pelts and cheetahs were mentioned in often illicit channels to big particular. and the But m the following five years centers in Europe United States. worse. has the situation grown Those from Latin America go The tiger, cougar, ocelot, to New York while skins from clouded and leopard margsy are smuggled into also are falling victim to Africa and Amsterdam, Paris London, Indiscriminate killing. conser which is cited by experts as Two of the vation societies are toe World being perhaps the largest center Wildlife Fund and tie Interna of the black market trade. societies The conservation tional Union for the Conserva- tion of Nature art! Natural, make clear ti.ey do not want If - prohibition as such on the Resources. The societies headquartered purchase of fur coats. be in Morges, on Lake Geneva, There must, however, believe that, failing effective international regulations ensur- governmental action, only the ins that demand does not lead buying public can save inc. to extinction, they say. "It is essential to reduce the Jungle beasts. Women Can Help present demand to a justifiable only way to extent thus permitting and in Probably lh defeat the poachers, smugglers fact guaranteeing the continued animal viable of and black marketeers Is for the existence publicmainly women-- to rea-- j populations in the wild state," li?e that by purchasing certain the two organizations said, It is probably loo late to save pelts and fur coats they "help the eventual) s,.me species. There are only an ; underwrite and extinction of estimated three or four Ball elimination such beautiful animals," the' tigers still alive. The Asiatic societies said in t Joint! cheetah has been cut down to less than 100 in Iran, while only slalement. "It is hoped that the about 100 Barbary leopards are and sense fif left in Morocco. Java tigers understanding of the swa! number about nine or 1H while responsibility public may led to stopping In there are probably nu more time the present dargerous than 100 Caspian tigen left ' ed ever-growin- wjQmtmmm SWANSONS CHICKEN 12 $1.00 . ao. 49c TV DINNERS 12 ZEE TOILET TISSUE $1.00 riCTSWEET 39C VEGETABLES r.. 7 c.,. ,.,$1.00 SPECIAL ORDERS ON MEAT PLEASE CALL YOUR ORDER IN SO WE TAN HAVE IT READY FOR YOl! WHEN YOU COME SHOPPING. ROYAL GARNET $1.00 15 89c 3 8 .3 .. 5 for $1.00 for $1.00 2 lb, lor ONION ROLLS best-know- n D0ZEN $1.00 $1.00 It 39c , 12c 4, 69c 4 10 GRAPE JUICE $1.00 SWEET ROLLS 6 for $1.00 .10 ltilMlilillHlH 19c $1.19 .' 79c VP . mm r r? dix-lin- A At XmU of these species and to1 ihem in their natural PASSENGERS nrMrvin9 225 WEST Isf NORTH, PROVO 470 NORTH 9th EAST, PROVO I 2 AAA. KILLED beauty and also to keeping this ALEXNDIUA, Egypt (LTD wonderful heritage intact fori A bus carrying 3$ students Ihe benefit of future genera 'collided Tuesday with one carrying nurses, killing a lota! Jrn." they said. ' This depends n hcllicr the ol nine pcrsgna aiij uijuroig 18. |