"SALINA HOLDS PREMIERE OF KEN'S COUGAR CAPER" Salina, Sevier County--People here along Main Street didn't pay much attention Thursday when Ken Nielsen, Salina, said something about cougars. They could hardly hear him above that strange roaring noise out on the street.

Those who looked out their windows saw two cougars, one a male, the other a female, making like pedestrians.

What Ken was trying to say what (sic) that he had CAPTURED two cougars, but they had ESCAPED.

From then on, Ken and the Cougars had the lion's share of Salina's attention, and it was cats as catch can.

The male cougar, paradoxically, preferred window shopping, and prowled Main Street. The female went to high school, lolling around the campus of North Sevier High.

Mr. Nielsen set two trained lion hounds on the scent, soon had one of the cats up a small tree in the south-eastern part of town. The second was tracked to a culvert five miles west of town. Citizens watched the captures, trailing at a discreet distance."

Kenneth Nielsen