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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday april 12, 1986 Pogo May once again poke Tun at politicos from press dispatches move Over doonesbury and make Way Bloom county the Granddaddy of satire on the comics pages May raise its voice from Okefenokee swamp ga., More than a decade after Pogo and his philosophical friends passed into oblivion. Selby Kelly widow of Pogo creator Walt Kelly said thursday that the strip that gave us the line we have met the enemy and he is us could be coming Back 11 years after it vanished from hundreds of newspapers. I be recently started to negotiate with a Friend to do Togo again she Kelly said in a Telephone interview from her new York office. The strip featuring the shy Possum Pogo and Albert Alligator went into syndication in 1948 and used Politi Cal satire and Homespun philosophy to develop a Strong following among College age people. At the time of Kelly s death in 1973, Pogo was syndicated in 450 newspapers. Its characters included Churchy la Femme a Turtle Rowland owl Mamzell Lle Zibah a female Skunk and Beauregard Bugle boy a dog. Kelly also introduced wily cat who resembled the late sen. Joseph Mccarthy and John Foster dulls a Takeoff on former Secretary of state Dulles. His characters poked fun at presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson and Fri director j. Edgar Hoover among others. Through Pogo Kelly issued what May have been his most famous line in the Early 70s during the Earth Day Cele bration we have met the enemy and he is  his wife continued the strip for two years after her husband s death with the help of his son Stephen an others. When newspapers around the country began decreasing the size of comic strips in 1975, mrs. Kelly decided it would be impossible for the Pogo characters to continue their Long discourses in a smaller strip. Freeze dried of do Dpi photo the late Walt Kelly with his comic strip creation Pogo. Fido or Fluffy can lie by the Hearth forever thanks to the wonders of freeze drying says a Man whose Nisswa minn., company offers pet owners a Way to preserve the remains of their four legged loved ones in lifelike fashion. The natural thing for a human being to do is to hang on to that animal to want to keep it said Roger Saatzer president of preserve a pet. The next Best thing to bringing it Back to life is to have it  Saatzer said that though some people find the idea unattractive others Are very open minded and it has been taken very very  we be done everything from rabbits to turtles dogs cats snakes and gerbils said Saatzer. He has eve freeze dried a lion. Freeze drying gives the animal a far More realistic appearance than traditional taxidermy he said. Everything remains intact Saatzer said. The color the size even the texture of the hair is the  Saatzer who also owns a company that manufactures freeze drying equipment said the idea came to him a couple of years ago when a taxidermist said he was t sure he could afford a freeze drying machine he wanted. Just off the top of my head i suggested he advertise doing pets Saatzer said. He tried it and it  pet owners ship their deceased pets to the company fro zen. They also Send photographs so the company can get an idea of How the owner wants the pet to look Saatzer said. The animal is then thawed and shaped into position. Once the animal s body is shaped it is freeze dried placed in a vacuum chamber at a temperature of 5 degrees below Zero. The process extracts All water from the body without altering its size or shape so that de composition is halted. The animal s remains thus will no shrink and will have no odor. Freeze dried Bobby Ewing Patrick Duffy whose alter ego Bobby Ewing apparently died with his boots off is returning to Dallas in this season s finale and then next season it was announced in new York wednesday. Speculation that Duffy would return to the lbs hit series has been kicking around in the supermarket tabloids for weeks and Lee Rich president of Lorimar Tel pictures has confirmed the Duffy resurrection. In the tradition of Dallas Patrick s character and the storyline surrounding his character will not be divulged Rich said in a statement. We Are extremely pleased to have convinced Patrick to return to the show. He is a Fine actor and a Good Friend of the  Bob Crutchfield a spokesman for Lorimar which produces the series said the few insiders who know How Duffy will return would not amplify. At the end of last season Bobby was hit by a car and seemed to expire in a Hospital room when he was taken off a Respirator. This season he was presumed dead and viewers occasionally saw his Gravestone at Southfork the Ewing ranch. Caveman approach fails a Young Man in Rio de Janeiro dragged his estranged wife by the hair for nearly two Miles because he wanted her Back police said. Jesus Ney de Souza Barbosa 25, faces up to five years in prison if convicted of brutality charges said police officer Cesar Jacob Gomes. Jacob Gomes said the husband entered his Mother in Law s House in the City of Capo Grande waved a gun to prevent his wife s family from interfering and grabbed his wife by Force and pulled her by the hair for More than two  the policeman said the 21-year-old woman screamed and shouted until startled residents and police heard her and came to her Rescue. He said the woman suffered Only minor bruises but said she never wants to see her husband again. Jerry cower blvd. Country comedian Jerry Clower constantly talks about his Hometown of Yazoo City miss., during his 200 appearances a year across the nation. Now Yazoo City will pay him Back by naming a Street after him. A stretch of . 49-e will officially be re named Jerry Clower Boulevard in ceremonies monday. The ceremony will take place on the five Lane Highway in front of the Mississippi chemical corp., the fertilizer Plant where Clower once worked. A photo things Are looking up Frankfurt Road worker Juergen barrels did t lose his head at work. He s merely getting a hand from a co worker As he emerges from a manhole. Read All about it Home delivery of stars and stripes at no extra charge. Keep up with news and sports. Enjoy your favorite comics and columns. Profit from travel tips and consumer advice. Stars and stripes is delivered to mailboxes in most government housing areas for just $4.50 per month. Start your Day with stars and stripes. 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