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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-07-19, Page 3Claims "Abominable . Snowmen" Zacist People are always saying to me: "You don't really think there is such a thing as an Abomin able Snowman, do you" My reply is always the sane: "No, I believe there are hued - reds, 'if not thousands of un- known anthropoids, of at least half. a dozen kinds, running all over five continents, "But they're not men, none of them lives in snow, and we have no right to call then abomin- able;" To begin with, let us dispose of the ridiculous title "Abomin- able Snowman.", It is a complete and extremely misleading mis- nomer. Worse, it is usually' prefixed with the article "the," as if there Was just one lone, nateiess, child- less and parentless monster that has been pounding about the eastern Himalaya and South Ti- betan upper snowfields for fifty years, Whether they may be called men is also debatable. In my opinion, some are and some . are. not, I am firmly convinced that they range from extremely pri- mitive Humans, without true speech, tools or knowledge of fire -snaking, and still in varying degrees hairy, to one or two still undiscovered large apes in Af- rica, But it is the word snow that is really misleading, Many tracks have been found on permanent mountain snowfields - but there is nothing at all under these snowfields which could sustair any living creature. While they cross them to move from one place to another, thus leaving the tracks which have been seen by Sir EdmundHil- lary, among others, they actually live in the forests which, admit- tedly, often border the snow - line. I will now answer the second question which is always asked: "But how on earth could there be such creatures running about all over the world?" In the first place, a very large part of the land surface of our earth is uninhabited, A consid- erable part of this is still un- mapped, and has not even been explored, About a seventh of it is said to be covered with permanently frozen soil, and over most of this, which lies in the Arctic and sub -Arctic, there, sprawls an end- less forest of tightly packed spruce trees known as the tinge. This runs right round the top of the world from northern Rus- sia through Siberia, to the Bering Straits, and then picks up again on the lowlands of the Canadian Northwest Territories and con- tinues unbroken right across to Labrador. It is virtually uninhabited, and only in the last two decades have roads been driven into it. Of the remainder of the land surface, a third is either unin- habitable hot desert or its sur- rounding scrublands. Even in Europe there are great tracts of complete wildernesses, but even more fantastic are the uninhabited blocks in sub -tropi- cal and tropical countries like southern China proper and India, which we think of as positively bulging with population.. Another reason why I am so certain that "Abominable Snow- men" can be existing in many areas of the world is that many huge creatures have been dis- covered - even in regions where the local people had no idea that they existed, . • In 1960, for example, the reg- ular "Mountie" air -patrol spotted in the Canadian Northwest Ter-. ritories herds of what is either the second or third largest form of the ox tribe. These were groups of pure - ISSUE 26 - 1962 blood woodland bison (Bison atllabasca), an' enc;mous ice -age species not known to exist in a pure strain, anywhere, At this point you may be say- ing to yourself: "Yes, this is all very well, but those are real animals. These snowmen are nothing but stories, Is there any definite physical evidence of their existence?" The answer Is definitely "Yes," Feet tracks are fairly definite, so let's begin by taking another look at those of ABSM (as I will refer to them from now on), and at the cir- cumstances in which they were found. Despite all the fuss about those found in snow, far more have been found in mud and sand. Eric 'Shipton, t h e famous mountaineer, was exploring a range of mountains near the Everest. Block named the Genii Sankar, on the South Tibetan Rim. On the afternoon of November 8th, 1951, he and his party stumbled upon a fresh track made by an ABSM. This was in .powdery snow on the south-western slope of the Menlungtse. The individual im- prints were absolutely clear- cut, Their maker walked on two feet, writes Ivan T, Sanderson in "Tit -Bits", The -tracks and prints were photographed, And the form of these prints and the • stride of the track corresponded with sim- ilar discoveries of others made both previously and since, When we consider that tracks have been reported by Mongol- ians, Chinese, Nepalis, Tibetans, Russians, Persians, Africans, Ma- lays, Dutch, Belgians, and mem- bers of most other European na- tionalities all over the world, and by Canadians and other North, Central and South Ame- ricans - year in and year out for over a century, it becomes very hard to see how anybody can really doubt the existence of ABSM. Apart from tracks, the physi- cal evidence for the' existence of ABSM consists of scalps, a few whole skins; reported by Mon- golian scientists; some mummi- fied hands; several collections of fresh droppings; a considerable number of hairs and some an alyses of old blood. But perhaps the most concrete evidence we have are two'"or -. three mummified hands. Two° _ are preserved in a monastery.in.' a small place in Nepal called. Pangboche. This brings me to the question which follows from this: "Then, why hasn't anybody seen one?" This, to -me, is an astonishing question because there are lit- erally dozens of reports of all kinds having been seen all over the world. The first definite sighting in modern times was made by the famous explorer and mountain- eer, Col. C. K. Howard -Bury, during the first real attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1921. On November 21st of that year the party was on the way from a placed named Kharta to the famous Lhapkala Pass, when somebody spotted a number of large, dark objects moving about on a high snowfield well above them and some distance away. These were observed by the whole party through binoculars, but they were too distant to identify. - When the mountaineers reach- ed the area. the next afternoon they .found a large number of huge tractus which they des- cribed as being "three times as big as normal • footprints." SPEED REQUIRED A beggar accosted a lady with a time-honored, "Can you spare a quarter for a starving man?" The lady fumbled with her purse, whereupon the beggar urged her sharply, "Hurry up, lady. I'm double-parked!" region 31. New-born 7. Mottled iamb 8. Part of the eye 34. Vapor 8. Smooth 37. Terrestrial 10. Binding 30. 17. Indian 11. aer. river mahogany 16. Low caste tree Hindu. 41. Noblemen ACROSS' 68, Cutter 20. Separate 43, Frog genus 1. Machiavelli ., 69. Spread to dry 22. Ma ee 44. Black child • DOWNmanifest .- 46. Leaping 4. Succulent part 1. Arab, tribe 23. 8a ter amphibian of fruit - 2. Manufaotured 25. Coniu nekton 46. Lime tret- 8. Quote 3, Ownership 26. Braze. 48. wine measure 12. 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The program aims at establish- . ing 10,000 acres of new farm forests by 1966 with repayment of principal and interest by farmer's spread over a 20 -year period and with interest set at 5 per cent (3 per cent on capital and 2 per cent on fire insurance). The minimum area to qualify under the loan plan is five acres, and the maximum is 20 acres a year or 100 acres in any five-year period. The total amount of pri- vate planting is limited 'in any one year to 10,000 acres to preserve a proper series in age classification of trees. On the other hand, a lower rate one year may be made good later. * * * Paralleled with this encourage- ment of private farm plantings, the New Zealand State Forest Service planting program will be increased to provide 600,000 acres of the additional 1.000,000 acres of new trees needed by the year 2000. By that date New Zealand is expected to have 3,000,000 acres of exotic species developed with an annual surplus sustained yield of 150,000,000 cubic feet of wood for export, New Zealand has acquired its present exotic -forests industry in., the comparatively short span of about25 years. Concerned ever the depletion of native forests in the early years of tnis century, the government evolved the pre- sent afforestation policy, which has paid off so well Both private enterprise and state organizations are encour- aged to plant trees under this policy, but World War I prevent- ed earlier development, of official plans, The result was an un- planned delay in establishment of the present great forests of exotics, y, * -. * However, this delay worked to the good of many New Zealand- ers in the depressed 1930's when workers found welcome and re- warding employment in planting the more than 500,000;000 seedl- • ings started in that period. The cost of bringing these early forests to maturity was about $40 to $50 an acre. Today the cost is more than five times that amount. Thus the men who planted these forests in the so- called depression years made a huge contribution to New Zea- land living standards, The unforeseen extent of the treasure locked in this great soft- wood chest has inspired careful thought among New Zealand for- esters and economists. Some hold that forestry in New Zealand to- day has at least an equal claim. to the country's capital re- sources as 'grasslands farming, the principal export industry, writes Albert E, Norman in the Christian Science Monitor, * * * It is argued in this context that increased additions of farm products to world markets would serve to depress world prices, whereas a New Zealand addition of pulp and paper products at export would not have a com- parable depressing effect. In short, there is more immedi- ate room for New Zealand forest products on export markets than for new amounts of farm prod- acts, Australia, for one, can absorb more New Zealand for- est products, but it will not en- tertain imlports of New Zealand butter, for example, to compete with Australian domestic butter. The cubic footage yield per acre in New Zealand exotic for- ests is three tines greater than the highest yield in Canadian western forests and five times greater than those of Scandina- via. Moreover, the technical quality of the predominant New Zealand softwood (radiata pine) is equal to any known softwood species in the world. This productivity ratio is an important factor in the forest - versus -farm argument in New Zealand land utilization. Poor lands under forest are yielding financial returns 2y times great- er than blase of better lands under grass. Forestry experts accordingly are asking what would be the productivity ratio if good lands were under forest? Rich river lands, it is estimated, would yield as much as 600 cubic feet of wood per acre per annum! By world standards, this yield would be impressive. * * 4' At present, New Zealand exotic -forest industries are pro- ducing approximately $70,000,000 worth of goods annually. Most of these goods are either saving or earning overseas exchange, a contribution of more, than purely. cash value considering the diffi- cult nature of the problems fac- ing New Zealand in its present balance of payments. It is possible, it is believed to double this output by 1975 and, in fact, to increase New Zealand Scandinavian countries as pulp and paper producers. The farmer's wife called to her husband, "Tom, that M.P. you don't like is coming up the road. What'll I say if he wants to kiss the children?" "Don't say anything. Hurry up and give the kids bread and molasses." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 015I9";:riga i . 10000 ©©ET' MOIRE (nlir111 m0©OD mono Sx DDD DDD :. mitERN 0 : ©©©C]C] CIIM1311 !RUM OC1121ID Jk2 UBE- 1IL F' on EgOC❑J mmi moo :001E1 . �© .00 ®RI maim EMU By Rev. R. llarclaY Warren, B.A., B.D. Jeremiah Announces Impending' Tragedy Jeremiah, 111.8; 711-7) 25;1-1, 1Vlemory Scripture: Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, Jeremiah 25:5. The prophet of doom is alwatys unpopular, This was the role which Jeremiah had to play for forty years, He began his min- istry in the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign, about the begin- ning of the reformation. Jere- miah was probably intimately connected with this reform but he saw that it did not go far enough. God's wrath would be poured out upon this people who, when they had committed abom- ination, were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Jeremiah attacked sin wher- ever he saw it, Of the prophets and priests he said, "Every one dealeth falsely. They have heal- ed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying peeve, peace; when there is no peace." Jeremiah was truly called of God to this work. He was con- scious that he was delivering God's message, "Thus saith Je- hovah" is repeated hundreds of times by the prophet, On one occasion he cried out, "I am in derision daily. Everyone is mock- ing me." But he kept on. It requires a lot of courage to con- tinue as God's - faithful messen- ger under such circumstances. Jeremiah delivered his mes- sage in great tenderness and love for his people. This is seen clear- ly in such cries as, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" By the yardstick of populari- ty, Jeremiah was a failure. Nei- ther did he witness a great burn- ing to righteousness that would avert the outpouring of God's wrath. He exclaimed, "The har- vest is past, the summer is end- ed, and we are not saved," Yet, his predictions came true with amazing exactness.. He did his part but the people ,would not heed. God who judges right- eously, will have an abundant reward for Jeremiah. He was faithful. Are Those Mountains Still Cursed? Snow'beard the Dutchman turned up in the saloons of Phoenix, Ariz., in the 1870s, flaunting a nugget -fat peke and boasting of the rich gold mine he had found. Jacob Walz (or Wolz), for that was his name, never filed a mining claim and discouraged, with well -aimed . rifle balls, the prospectors who tried to trail him eastward into the Superstition Mountains. When he died in 1891, he either did or did not, depending on which deathbed legendone pre- fers, discloes the location of his mine. Over the years since, many a hopeful prospector, armed with crumlbling map, a fragment of myth, or simple faith, has explored the Superstitions for the Lost Dutchman Mine, If any of them have found it, they have kept the secret as well as Ja- cob did. Perhaps the most persistent of the searchers is Ed Piper, a slow- spoken, quick - shooting prospector of 67, who encamp- ed five years ago sat -the base of Weaver's Needle, a 4,435 -foot volcanic spire in the shadowy Superstitions, Since bhen with time off for weekly hides to nearby Apache Junction for sup- plies, Piper has recruited al small crew to pursue his patient explorations. Three years ago, Piper got some competition, a group Led by Celeste Marie Jones, a Negras singer who said she had aban- doned the concert stage to seek the Lost Dutchman on a OP supplied by a Los Angeles astrologer. Almost immediately, charges of claim -jumping flew between the camps and, since both parties were armed, bullets soon followed, On the grounds that only pistols were necessary "for snakes and things like that and possibly for self-defence," Norman Teason, the justice of the peace at Apache Junction, ordered all rifles confiscated. Despite the judge's order, Piper subsequently reported, he saw Robert St. Marie, sone of Mrs. Jones' crew, approach him, rifle in hand, Piper shot and killed him. "I figured I'd rather stand trial for murder than, him," Piper laconically explain- ed. The Arizona authorities, true to the code of the Old West, decided Piper need not stand trial. With that, the War of Weav- er's Needle subsided into uneasy truce, interrupted only by an occasional stray shot, and pre- sumably Piper and Mrs. Jones resumed their search for the Lost Dutchman Mine, Up until last month, that is. First, Piper strolled into Apache Junction, carrying fuur rifles which he said he had taken from the Jones camp. "You toad us no rifles," he $aid to Justice of the Peace Teason. Next, the Jones contingent lodged charges of armed rob- bery and burglary against Piper, Justice Teasen, tentatively' scheduling a trial for this week, said he didn't think Mrs, Jones and her crew would appear to testify against Piper. if they do, the U.S. Forest Service intends to charge them with setting a brush fire. As a result, the judge said, "I don't think anything will come of it (the case against Piper)." But the search for the Lost Dutchman Mine has been inter- rupted again. Perhaps there is some truth to another part of the Lost Dutchman legend - that the Superstition Mountains are cursed. - Frans NEWS - WEEK. - FAIR QUESTION A lady had just taken over her car from a parking attendant, but paused at the gate to call out a last query to him. "Tell me," she urged, "just what do you fellows use to clean the grease off your hands when you run out of steering wheels?" - B G DADDY - Haystack Cal- houn, 601 -pound Wrestler, is a mighty proud father as he looks at 6 pound, 11 - ounce daughter, Kathy Elizabeth, al a Charlotte, N.C., hospital, ;APHING A CHANGE - Weather front pushes cold winds to southern California from Ctlnada, causing snow in the mountains and a spectacular cloud display along the coasts All happens as Mrs. Henry Butz walks her dog along Redondo Beach, Calif. ,