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12D Ufa AnntBlOU Sunday, Oct. 19,1975 Satan, UFOs seen responsible attle mutilation stirs ranchers m. 1 UD CLOTH BASKET 1 GABARDINE By BELLA STUMBO Star-Lot Angeles Timet "KIOWA, Colo. The heifer, a 700-pound -black angus, was lying in a pasture a mile off the nearest dirt road, about five miles from town. It was completely bloated, its legs protruding stiffly into the air.

Sheriff George Yarnell, circling the carcass, said it probably hadn't been dead more than a day. He poked the animal with the toe of his boot, disturbing a swarm of flies. -Theru in a seemingly effortless gesture, Yarnell grabbed the animal by a leg and flipped it over, to see if its left eye was missing tod. It wasn't. Neither was the left ear, the heart, the sex organs, the lips or the tongue.

All the had taken this time was the rectum. But that had been removed in the usual expert manner. The hole was almost a perfect, smooth circle where the blade had been. "HELL, THIS IS THE LEAST I seen done to one of 'em so far," Yarnell said. Then Elbert County Sheriff George Yarnell, a big, weather-beaten man of about 50, dressed in the stained Stetson and grimy cowboy boots standard to this part of Eastern Colorado, went to work.

First he photographed the mutilated area from several angles. Then we searched the rest of the carcass for some clue as to how the cow might have been killed. There was none, not even a needle mark, although the animal apparently had died instantly, without struggle. Yarnell finally pulled put his knife to get a skin sample for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. RANCHER LOREN GREEN, his wife Lee and two neighbors, both younger men in their 30s, watched as the sheriff crouched down and grabbed a loose flap of skin firmly with one hand.

With the other he began hacking away at a strip about three inches wide, five inches long. His blade was dull. "Hey, George, you ain't cuttin that critter as smooth as them other fellows," cracked Green, a small, tight smile on his face. Yarnell, by nature a man of few words, only grunted. One of theyoung men, looking half turned away from Yarnell.

"This just doesn't make any sense," he said softly. "They did this is plain sight. Anybody looking over here at night would have seen them, their lights or something." He pointed to two white houses on a hillside a mile away. One was his. "AND WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE would be prowling around out here at night.

To do THAT to an animal? What for? It just doesn't add up." Lee Gree strode up, her face rigid with anger. "They're sick, that's why it doesn't make sense," she snapped. I just hope I come up on one of them outfits doing this stuff. I'll shoot them on the spot if I can. Hell, if we don't fight back, if we just hole up like rabbits, we'll never see the end of this." Since April 7, 65 mutilated cattle have been reported in Elbert County alone.

In the same period, at least 150 cattle mutilations have been reported in 15 Colorado counties, almost all of them in the eastern half of the state. The mutilations run in a funnel-like pattern from Elbert County, located slightly east and almost midway between Denver and Colorado Springs, to the far northeastern and southeastern comers of the state, a spread of more tfian 500 miles. LATELY, THAT FIGURE INCREASES almost daily. So does the danger that law and order in this part of the world is about to become an empty cliche. In the beginning, no one paid much attention to the deaths.

Animals die often out here and decompose quickly in the hot summer suit. It could have been anything, Coyotes. Lightning. Poachers. Disease.

And some ranchers who recognized a mutilated carcass shrugged it off. After all, during the pastecade mutilations have been reported, off and on, in as many as 20 different states. Undoubtedly, they said, it was the work of a bunch of nuts who would get their kicks and move on. But this time they haven't moved on. Instead, mutilated cattle have been discovered with increasing frequency over and ever-widening area.

And ranchers are comparing notes. IN AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER of cases, it seems, the animals are missing the same parts; the left eye, left ear, lips, WIDE 100 POLYESTER SOLID COLORS NEVER IRON POLYESTER sexual organs, rectums and sometimes the heart. Eerie enough in itself. But there is more. Some ranchers insist the blood has been drained from the animal.

Others agree that, drained or not, there is never a trace of blood on the ground around the carcass. Equally bizarre, no tire tracks or human footprints can be found, even in muddy fields thick with hoof marks, although some animals have been discovered miles from the nearest road, others only yards from houses. Stranger yet, the animals haven't been bludgeoned or slashed to death and there is rarely a sip of struggle. How do they die? Concern has turned into alarm and alarm, in some counties into panic. BY MAY ALMOST EVERY SHERIFF in Eastern Colorado had been contacted.

By June, four other states Wyoming, Utah, Texas and Montana had reported similar mutilations, although fewer of them. And by July, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation had been called in to coordinate a statewide hunt for the killers. And, of course, theories continue to flourish. Some students of ancient religions and not-so-ancient cults think the mutilations are the work of Satan worshippers, an explanation which seems most popular in the stricken areas. Some people also attribute the mutilations to men from outer space, which may now rank as the second most popular explanation.

Unidentified flying objects are reported two to three times nightly in some Colorado counties. SOME RESIDENTS OF Elbert County say the UFO is an army green helicopter, the type especially designed for silent maneuverings. And they figure it probably comes from Ft. Carson, an army base located only a few miles to the southwest of Elbert. At the moment, none of the unanswered questions matters nearly so much as the rumors spreading across the state, terrifying ranch women who spend their days alone and prompting their husbands to collect small arsenals of shotguns and rifles.

In Washington County, Don Stitt, a fulltime electrician and parttimk deputy sheriff, sat inside a cafe in the tinyMown of Woodrow DOUBLE KNITS "I NEVER SAW ANYTHING like itbeforer These ranchers are carrying high-powered rifles that'll blow a hole in a mile wide in anything, and they're trigger-happy. They're scared to death about all these damned rumors. Gov, Richard Lamm, addressing the Colorado Cattlemen's in August, called the mutilations "one of the greatest outrages in the history of the Western cattle industry." Three days later, Sen. Floyd Haskell Colo,) said he had asked the FBI to help Colorado officials. The same day, the Colorado Cattlemen's Assn.

offered a $5,000 reward for any tips leading to the thus bringing the total reward money to $8,000. (The rest is offered by the American Humane the Elbert County Cattlemen's Assn. and the Colorado State Grange.) BUT DESPITE THE INCREASING mutilations, the public clamor and the political grand-standing, nothing essentially has changed. And so, the task of catching the culprits remains in the hands of the beleagured county sheriffs and the CBI, which has only 10 investigators in the field. And that explains why Carl Whiteside is committing himself to almost nothing these days.

Whiteside is head of the CBI unit corrdinating the investigation. And as he stands inside his neat office at CBI headquarters in Denver, he knows the buck stops here. "IT MAY BE A HELICOPTER, but we can't say that for sure because we have no evidence, and we must deal only in evidence," said Whiteside. "All I know for sure is that animals are dead, some have been mutilated and the majority of reports show the left eye and ear and sexual organs are missing," he said briskly. "The important thing now is that we deal in fact, not fiction, so that fear doesn't become the victor," he said, "and that's what we've got in Colorado now.

Fear." But most people in Eastern Colorado believe it's going to be up to the ranchers to catch the killers, because the CBI is "just playing cat and mouse with this thing." 4 WIDE 100 POLYESTER SOLIDS AND FANCIES NEVER IRON KLOPMAN YD. I I 2) YD I SLINKY KNITS 51 49 a a Dill would give joo training to inexperienced homemakers DOUBLE KNITS I YD. BLUE i wb i kw i bn DENIM frowning deeply over the currenicondition of Colorado. MM WIDE 50 POLYESTER 50 COTTON FALL SUITINGS I (Editor's Note: This article Is written by Ronald Sanchez, a student with the University of Missouri Washington Reporting Service.) By RONALD SANCHEZ WASHINGTON' Widows and divorcees suddenly thrown into the competitive job market would receive federal assistance if Congress approves a pilot program proposed recently to ease their transition in gaining employment. The Displaced Homemakers Equal Opportunity Act, sponsored' by Sen.

John V. Tunney, would establish 30 model programs across the country to provide counseling and training for anyone who has been dependent on a family member's income and who, because of death or divorce, must enter the labor force with limited experience" or skills. The bill is regarded by feminist organizations as recognition of the homemaker or housewife as an unpaid part of the national work force. UNDER THE provisions of bill, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) would be allocated $2.5 million for the program's first fiscal year of operation. Expansion of the program beyond the initial two-year experiment would be determined by an HEW evaluation.

Although the bill is not limited to women, an estimated three million widowed or divorced homemakers would be included in the proposed model centers. In California, an estimated 47 per cent of women over the age of 35 are either widowed or divorced. The National Organization for Women KNOW) and the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers are both giving strong backing I i POLYESTER-ACRYLIC WOOL BLENDS WASHABLE PRINTED JERSEY WIDE ARNELACETATE WASHABLE BONDED I to the Tunney bill, and are urging passage of similar bills on the state level in New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The California legislature recently passed a bill financing a statewide network of centers to aid displaced homemakers. "A MAJOR PROBLEM the homemaker faces is the employer's reluctance to consider anyone who has been out of the job market for an extended period of time," said Linda Teixeira, national legislative coordinator for the alliance.

"While this can create a sense of obsolescence and. irrelevance, we hope this legislation can help alleviate the discrimination homemakers face." Ms. Teixeira said the programs would stress "a homemaker's innate talents organization, management and communication." In addition, the bill calls for employment of displaced homemakers in administrative positions within the model programs. A spokesman for NOW explained the organization supports the bill because homemakers have been consistently ignored by government benefit programs. "The federal government has a responsibility to make sure this, segment of the population is taken care of," said Bill Frazier, of NOW's Task Force for Older Women.

"The problem of the displaced homemaker is a national, not just a local, one." THE BILL ALSO provides for cooperation with the Department of Labor, the Social Security Administration and the Administration on Aging in establishing the model programs. A spokesman for Sen. Tunney said hearings on the bill by the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare could be held later this fall. in: Horns 1201537 STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE IX of the 1972 Education Amendment! Pursuant to the provisions off Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments and accompanying Regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and approved by the President on May 27, 1975, the Calhoun County Board of Education does hereby specifically and directly PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ANY PERSON ON THE BASIS OF SEX under any of its educational programs or activities. The Calhoun County Board of Education wishes to acknowledge that the requirement not to discriminate in education programs and activities, as set forth in Title IX and Section 86.9(a) of the Regulations, extends to employment with the County Board, as well as to admission to its Vocational School.

Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX and the Regulations thereunder should be referred to Mr. Dan Henderson, Assistant Superintendent in charge of Instruction and Professional Personnel, 4400 McClellan Boulevard, Anniston, Alabama 36201. (Phone (205)236-7641), who is the Title IX Compliance Officer; or to the Director, Office for Civil Rights, Department of H.E.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. The Calhoun County Board of Education has established the following grievance procedure for redress of rights secured by Title IX and its Regulations: Any student, parent OMmpfoyee IX of the 1 972 Education Amendments and the Regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, with regard to any educational program or activity of the Calhoun County Board of Education, shall make written complaint to the Principal of the School in which such violation is alleged to have occurred.

Upon receipt of such written complaint, the Principel shall make appropriate investigation with regard thereto, and shall notify the complainant of (1) the decision reached In the matter and (2) the right to appeal to the County Superintendent within 30 days of such notification. A copy of the complaint with notation of its resolution shall be forwarded to the Title IX Complience Officer: Assistant Superintendent In charge of Instruction and Professlonel Personnel, 4400 McClellan Boulevard, Anniston, Alabama, 36201, for any further inquiry deemed necessary by the Complience Off jeer. If the decision of the Principal is unsatisfactory to the complainant, then en appeal can be taken to the County Superintendent of Education, provided written request therefor is received by the Superintendent within thirty deys after the appealing party has been Informed of the decision of the Principal. If the appeal is timely, a hearing shall be held before the Superintendent, or a dosiqnated representative, within a reasonable time. The complainant snail bo notified of (1 the decision reached in the appeal end (2) the right of further appeal to the County Board of Education within 30 days of such notification.

If the decision of the Superintendent, or the designated representative, Is unsatisfactory to the appealing party, then a further appeal will bo allowed to the County Board of Education upon written request therefor within 30 days after notification of the decision of the Superintendent, or the designated representative. If the appeal is timely, the County Board will either reverse, ratify or modify the decision of the Superintendent or the designated representetlve, without any further hearing in the matter. The complainant shall bo notified of the decision of the Board. If the alleged violation does not occur In one of the several schools operated by the County Boerd, but occurs in some other facility so maintained, then the Initial complaint shall be filed with the Title IX Complience Officer, whoso address Is listed above. The Compliance Officer shall proceed to resolve the dispute in the semi manner that the Principal of a School would if the alleged violation had occurred at school.

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