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Show Thursday, June 16, 1988 rtAIUKE JK CRAFTS Magna Man Makes Dream Come True On African Safari 3448 SOUTH 5600 966-171- sounded so close he got up and loaded his . rifle, because he realized that a piece of cloth provided no real protection from the denizens of the night. In the daylight he saw the animals as close as 20 feet from his sleeping quarters, and giraffes within 50 yards of the camp. He also learned that the carnivores were fast and extremely unpredictable so he took no uneccessary chances. According to Kelson, every year there are quite a few people sent home in pine boxes because they learned too late that over here you shoot at an animal and it runs away, over there they come after you. If there is an accident in the bush, emergency help can be obtained only by two-wa- y radio. by LaRee Pehrson Green Sheet Staff Writer MAvaiNA. For most of his life Dean Kelson had a dream that was fueled by Tarzan movies, King Solomons Mines and the Snows of Kilamanjaro. In fact, the lure of the "dark continent" had such a fascination for him that it was always in his thoughts and often in his speech. So much so, that his fellow workers at Kennecotts Magna Concentrator began to call him "Bwana Kelson." Although he shared a love of hunting small game and deer, with his dad and brothers, deep inside he felt that there was something lacking in the hunting fraternity on this continent. So from the time he went to work he began saving for a big game hunt in Africa. When he first started to think about it, it cost in the For each safari package there is a list of animals you can and cannot shoot, depending on how much you pay. Kelson was able to get all the game that he was allowed, icluding a Cape buffalo, a Grants gazelle, a water buck, and impala and a topi. "I enjoyed the hunt," he said, "But I killed five animals in three days, which is more than the average guy shoots in five years. "I had no trouble shooting the buffalo because they are mean, though, onery critters," he went on, "But as for the rest, it was hard to squeeze the trigger because they were so incredibly beautiful and free. The impala was the prettiest of all of the animals I have ever seen, I didnt shoot the Zebra because it looked to much like a horse, and I like a Today Kelson is waiting for his trophies, the only tangible thing that he brought back from the "To see the snow capped Mt. trip, to be mounted. But his mind Kilamanjaro was worth the trip is still filled with the sights, the alone," he added, "And I am glad that I got to fulfill my life long sounds and the smells of Africa dream, because it was actually that will not doubt linger in his I had ever consciousness for as long as he than greater "Our guide was a Masia with degree in forestry. imagined." lives. 'MMM neighborhood of $5,000. However, as the years passed the cost continued to increase. In the meantime he married and had children, and other things took precedence over the desire to hunt on the Serengeti Plain. But the longing to walk the earth of Africa never subsided, in fact it only grew stronger with time. One day last fall he got a flyer in the mail concerning an opening for an African Safari. Some stock he had acquired began to pay off, so he decided if not now, when? At age 49, with the enthusiasm of a he flew from Salt Lake to Chicago, and from there to Copenhagen, Denmark, on the first leg of a journey that would make his dream come true. After a short stay in the Scandinavian country to get over the jet lag, he and a doctor from Oregon, to on continued Arusha, Tanzania, where they stayed in a hotel at the base of Mount Meru. Two days later they were on their way to the hunting area, a trip that too 10 hours and passed through the Ngorongoro Crater, here he saw such a wide diversity of animals in such vast numbers that it literally took his breath away. The guides, the gun bearers, the cook, and laundry person and the driver were all from the Masai tribe, and they spoke perfect English. But the night sounds of Africa spoke more eloquently than any human language, causing chills to run up and down his spine. In the darkness he could hear the lions roaring, the bush buck deer barking and the rasping sound of a leopard coughing close to his tent. In fact the animals Intumi ON SAFARI.. . Dean Kelson made his boyhood dreams come true when he went on safari in Africa. Water buffalo and gazelle were among his trophies. Like any other people on the horses." "As a hunter you dont usually face of the earth, water is the key of life, and so it is in Africa. In look at it in that manner, but for wherever there are me, I enjoyed just looking at them Africa, mountains there is moisture, more than I did taking the dont condone because the mountains seem to trophies. . I attract the clouds and most of the wholesale slaughter. If you are people locate near these areas going to hunt, take some good where they can live off the land. trophies and be satisfied with what you get. "I have never seen such abject ' "If I ever get in a position where poverty in all the years that I I can go back, I will, Kelson said, have lived," Dean said, "They "Because in another five years have poor housing, little or no may be gone the way things health care and their material they are going out there now. Instead goods are minimal. But they seem of seeing the great big elephants to be happy, so I guess what you you see in the TV specials, you dont have you dont miss. see only the smaller elephants because the poachers are doing He went on to say that local residents dont hunt the animals, such a good job slaughtering these majestic animals for their only those who live in the bush. The average African never sees ivory." "Every day we came upon them because they are snares set up by the poachers in miles away from the cities. The first day out the doctor shot the bush, and the only thing that a Thompson gazelle, 'and Kelson is saving the game in Africas are discovered that what you shoot in the wildlife parks they have set the morning is what you eat for up to protect their natural dinner that night. Following the resources and to attract the meal the guide said they would be tourist trade." Kelson went on to say that at hunting Cape buffalo the next night all the rhinos in the park day. temporaries We have 80 immediate Job Openings in : Carpentry Clerical Machinists Secretarial General Labor they first sighted the herd the guide picked out a good one to shoot, standing about 80 yards away. Aiming for the shoulder, Kelson pulled the trigger as the animal was running away and the bullet went through the shoulder into the heart. According to Kelson there are no fences in Africa and no litter on the ground, thanks to natures garbage detail. He said the vultures take care of the flesh and the hyenas the bones. 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