Show Lion Veteran of I Films Earns a Day I I THOUSAND OAKS Calif If If you I have a desire to wrestle a lion tiger 01 or panther there are three such ani ani- animals animals mals in this county that can safely I ani-I be shoved around around so so says their trainer I At the Jungle Compound in Cali Calf fornia ornia there are arc 60 lions 12 tigers I 12 leopards 15 cougars 5 black pan pan- panthers panthers and associated other wild ani ani- ani- ani mals ie n wn rs are ll m man Bill R- R an c. c t v hv 0 a n.- n. pend pond on their bread and butter from I earnings of their trained animals appearing in movies For instance a lion by the name of Jackie is a a day veteran of films I Skeptical film film fans shout fake when the Hie hero tangles with a jungle cat t But the animals are real real and and rare There is only one of each type trained well enough to wrestle If you see seea a a man wrestle with a alion alion alion lion on the screen the lion is Jack Jack- J ie fe If its it's a tiger its it's Satan A leopard Bongo A black panther Dynamite Richards said Only one trainer Melvin Koontz Koont does do s the rough stuff with the cats He die has doubled for most of the stars I in Hollywood The big cats are safe I enough for actors to touch gently gentl But Koontz is always standing by just out of camera range Richards supplied the he first animal to appear in movies in 1910 when he was was- with the Al AI G. G Barnes cir circus cir cir- I cus |