Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - December 26, 1975, Kokomo, Indiana After lion attacks Her just being alive PALM Fla AP The only thing 1 could think of was getting the lion off says Dennis Pruitt 20 an employe of an animal park who rescued a woman being mauled by a lion It's a miracle 1 am Emma Bates 72 said from a hospital bed It's a real Christmas miracle She had gone to Lion Counthy Safari on Wednesday with 40 pounds of meat for a lioness named Elsa only ing lion of six she has raised over the years Park officials Miss Bates drove up to a enclosure containing Elsa and 12 to 15 other lions The smell of the meat evidently excited the mals and five or six surged from the cage either because a lock broke or was jarred loose from the cage door the officials said All at once there were all these other lions three four five lions all around said Miss Bates I Attacked WEST PALM BEACH Mrs Emma Bates rests in a hospital after being attacked by a lion at the Lion Country Safari tourist at- traction near here She holds tore of the lion cubs she raised eral years ago and later gave to the wild animal attraction Mrs Ba- tes in her 60s was attacked as she made her weekly trip to feed one of hef former cubs Elsa A park ger grabbed a rake and beat back the attacking lion but not before she suffered a broken jaw and facial injuries AP Wirephoto threw down the meat and I ran for my car tripped and fell down in the sand And he was on me in a minute Officials said the attacking lion was a male called Keba I heard all my bones cracking and 1 say Oh I'm going to I'm Great God in Heaven help me Her cry was heard by Pruitt who grabbed a rake and beat the lion until it retreated He took a chance and he beat Keba off Miss Bates said We jumped in the car 1 was bleeding bleeding bleeding Miss Bates who lives near the at- traction and visits about once a week was listed in satisfactory condition Thursday Despite a broken jaw and cuts on the face and back she said she is still not afraid of lions which she began raising about 10 year ago Park officials said about a dozen customers and several employes have been attacked by animals since the park opened in 1967 Visitors usually drive through the park where animals usually roam free Most of the customers who have been attacked were out of their cars at the time although signs warn visitors to stay in their vehicles Last January Malcolm Gallop an employe of the attraction was gored to death by an African cape buffalo Crisis Hotline Call THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE FRIDAY DECEMBER 26 1975 Page two Last-minute shopping trip ends in crisis NEW YORK AP Deborah Mackall took her daughter and son to do some last minute toy shopping on Christmas Eve at a Queens department store She has not seen them since Police said Mrs Mackall told them she took the children Candy and Ro- dell to the store shortly before 6 p.m When they arrived at the toy department she told them to wait because she wanted to make the chases alone so they would be sed on Christmas However she told police when she returned for the children about 10 minutes later they were gone She no- store security guards and they immediate began a search of the building and the subway area be- neath The search both before and after the store closed did not turn up the dren Missing Scores of New York City police aided by state police bloodhounds ched a wide area of New York's borough of Queens Thursday for Rodell Mackall 2 and his half-sister Candy 4 The pair have been missing since they accompanied their mother Deborah Mackall on a last-minute ping trip Christmas eve AP Wirephoto Residents found varied pursuits in snow Driving was a winter sport in itself Tribune photos One tried skiing Around the world Holiday brought extremes of both joy and sorrow By The Associated Press For millions around the world Christmas was the quiet traditional holiday of gift giving church and a day at home But the holiday like any other day also had its extremes of joy and sorrow In East Vincent Township Pa five persons including three children were found slain in their home on Christmas morning In four persons were killed and two wounded in a gun battle Another three persons were killed in an apparent robbery in a furniture store in Florida on Christmas Kve More than 100 died in automobile dents during the holiday In two persons were killed in a fire early Christmas Day A blaze Christmas Kve took the lives of three children in Cheltenham Md An- other fire destroyed two sound stages and caused million damages at the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Los les on Christinas Day were also events beyond the ordinary on the joyful side of mas Marietta van Dorp wife of a Dutch banker gave birth to quadruplets in London Jenny loni's a rean orphan spent her first mas in her new American home after her adoption was held up for more than a year by red tape Her adoptive mother called Jenny's arrival on Christmas Kve a miracle The average family's Christmas was far less miraculous Typical though they arc not a typical family were Ilic Gerald Rudolph Fords dents of While House President and Mrs Ford and their three sons daughter and opened gifts after a fast of pancakes sausage and bled eggs Their traditional dinner included roast turkey mashed toes and gravy green peas with pearl onions cranberry sauce salad rolls Christmas cookies and pecan pie with ice cream The President also went skiing on the snowy slopes in Vail Colo where the family is vacationing The snow was less enjoyable for many others Storms in Illinois and Indiana created hazardous driving conditions There was also a rare White Christmas in parts of Texas and rain or freezing rain in much of the rest of the country It was the kind of day to stay inside but not everyone seemed happy to do so At the state prison in Concord some 140 inmates demanded that another 20 convicts in solitary confinement be allowed out for a Christmas meal and when the de- mand was refused staged a five-hour rebellion They took several prison employes hostage but the hostages escaped with no serious injuries The inmates also set fires that left half the cells un- usable and the kitchen and dining hall heavily damaged State police were called in and fired tear gas forcing the riotous prisoners into a courtyard where they faced near zero temperatures before ing to their cells Another prisoner Patricia Hearst the newspaper heiress awaiting trial on bank robbery charges joined in a party with other inmates at the San Maleo County Jail in California She and the other women were given gifts such as perfume and toiletries from the Service League of San Mateo but were not allowed other gifts A natural flocking A snow sculpture
