European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday september 1, 1978 looks before eating gov. John v. Evans of Idaho looks Over boiled lobster before settling Down to enjoy it at the new England Clambake Wisconsin to Alaska night in Boston for visiting governor attending the National governors association conference. Dpi horseman half Way into far Flung fling stateside . Contemplates Legal action against Agee Washington up the . Jus Tice department is studying whether to take Legal action possibly in the form of an espionage charge against Phil Pagee a former Central intelligence Agency officer who has written another unauthorized Book on the Cia the Washington Post  Post said the department is also looking into possible civil action in an at tempt to halt scheduled publication next month of the Book dirty work the Cia in Western  officials believe the Book names hundreds of undercover Cia opera Tives whose identities Are classified info Havre Mont. A and you com Plain about traffic  Vern Stepp 57, arrived in Havre for a Short Layover on a 4,000-mile trip from Wisconsin to Alaska he figured hews averaging about 21 Miles an hour and 76 cents a  s making the trek by horse. Stepp who pulled in Here monday said wednesday that he started out May 11from his Home town 30 Miles South of Mil Waukee and nearly half the journey is be Hind him by now at an average of about25 Miles a Day with a Saddle horse and two pack  his animals fed and shod is what costs so much he  need special shoes for when he travels on pavement he said. The first set lasted 760 Miles when the Countryside was soft Rock. But near the Missouri River an other set lasted Only 83  in t so costly. At night Stepp uses a portable electric Fence to Corral the horses and pitches a tent beside them. He said Many nights Are spent with Friendly  is a lean 57-year-old retired con tractor with a Salt and Pepper Beard who lives in Kansasville wis., and is hoping to reach Fairbanks by the first of the year despite the approach of cold weather there. Mation under government regulation. Last year department officials decide not to prosecute Agee for secrets contained in his earlier Book inside the company Cia diary which described his activities in latin american in the 1960s with the  Post quoted a knowledgeable source As saying the department walked because a criminal trial might give Agee a Means to discover other Cia secrets. Civil action would be difficult the news paper said because Agee no longer lives in the .the Book is scheduled to be published by Lyle Stuart inc. Of Secaucus new Jersey. Testicle transplanted hails new techniques san Francisco up a surgeon who performed the world s first testicle transplant says new techniques have Bee developed to suture blood vessels and other ducts no bigger than the period at the end of this . Sherman Silber a urologist at St. Luke s Hospital West in St. Louis said the new procedures will have wide applications in eliminating infertility Rei Planta Tion of severed limbs fingers and toes re routing arteries of stroke victims and other , in san Francisco for the world microsurgery Congress said microsurgery has advanced so much in the past dec Ade if the blood vessels Are there no mat Ter How Small you should be Able to do the  noted surgeons often fashion their own Scalpel Blades from bits of razor Blade and manipulate surgical Needles As thin As hairs with 40-Power  testicle transplant last week involved twin , a Pioneer in reversing vasectomies said there Are plans for More twin to twin testicle transplants in the next few months and eventual father to son proce dures. Preyer plays Down weight of cuban interviews Greensboro . Up the chairman of the . House of representatives assassinations subcommittee said witnesses interviewed in Cuba were helpful but he cautioned against making too much of the  l. Richardson Preyer d-., said he and other subcommittee members., were in the process of interviewing witnesses in the panel s investigation of the assassination of president John f.  witnesses happened to be in Cuba he said. Preyer declined to divulge details about the interviews saying Only that the witnesses were persons the Warren commission had been unable to question because of poor Amer ican cuban relations in the 1960s.he pronounced the interviews productive and useful but cautioned there should not be read into interviewing these witnesses any special significance or any Hopes that the course of history is going to be changed by interviewing some new  thieves hold 13 snakes for $250 Ransom he said that the last of his five children has graduated from High school and retold his wife Frances it was time for his  he packed a citizens band radio Bat Tery and Rifle on the Saddle horse and Oats tent warm clothing food and the Fence on the packhorse. So far he said he s shot two rattle snakes and near Pierre s.d., a Snake bit his Mare while she slept costing him two Days for treatment by a veterinarian. Finding water occasionally has been a problem Stepp said but he s solved that by learning to drink alongside cattle at Stock water Ponds. You just say move Over Bossy " he  although there Are concessions to modernity the cd Antenna Sticks up in front of his Saddle there Are also trap pings of the old West his cd handle for example is Rawhide and he can Tell you stories about that too. Truckers who pass him on the Highway do double takes and often Call out hey old prospector where Are you going the handle s Rawhide " he replies. By the time i get to Fairbanks i la Proba Bly be  just because you re 57 you Don t have to Back into the rocking chair to see if it fits you he said. Annapolis my. Up thirteen snakes including three whose venom is fatal to humans have been stolen from suburban pet store and Are being held i or Ransom according to county  spokesman Jack Rayhart said thieves abducted the snakes Worth More than $5,000, from the reptile House in Glen Burnie and left behind a matchbook with the message the snakes will be returned if Rick pays the owed $250." Rick Cales the owner of the reptile store said he did not know he owed anyone $250.Rayhart said the deadly snakes stolen were a six foot Gabon Viper valued at $300, a two foot puff adder valued at $100 and a six foot yellow cobra valued at $650."one thing is for sure said Rayhart. Whoever took them had to know How to handle and transport them without  Avondale to attend Pope s inaugural ceremony Washington up vice president Walter Mondale his wife Joan and son Wil Liam will head a . Delegation to attend the inaugural ceremony for Pope John Paul i in Rome sept. 3, it was  will act As president Carter s personal representative at the ceremony the White House said. A delegation of distinguished americans also will be named to attend the Vatican ceremony the White House said. He Reay needed an emergency Tow truck Pittsburgh up Melvin Jones was in a  doctors kept him waiting too Long for treatment of an injured toe Cut by a Lawn Mower Jones 26, hobbled out of Allegheny general Hospital and started Mak ing his slow and painful Way  Jones passed the new police and fire station on the City s North . A shiny red fire truck was sitting out front so he hopped in and drove  just walked in and took it said fire capt. Sheldon Henry. We leave the keys in the ignition because when we have to go we can t be fishing around  found the fire truck an hour later parked in front of Jones Home. He report edly became abusive when police tried to arrest him so rather than risk a confrontation police said they decided to delay arrest. But Jones got impatient again. J police said he left the House and limped Down a nearby Street where he was arrested. He was charged with burglary and returned to the Hospital for treatment Ota his injured foot