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Claims "Abominable Snowmen" Exist People are always saying to met "You don't really think there is such a thing as an Abomin- able Snowman, do you" My reply is always the same: "No. I believe there are hund- reds, if not thousands of un- known anthropolds, of at least half a dozen kinds, running all over five continents. "But they're not nten, none of them lives in snow, and we have no right to call them 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, mateless, 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 tire-making, 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 lving creature. 1 While they cross them to move from one place to another, thus leaving the tracks which have been seen by Sir Edmund Hil- lary, among others, they actually live in the forests which, admit- tedly, often border the snow- line. I will now answer the second Sesion 'which is always asked: ut 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 sxplored. . 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-Arctie, there sprawls an end- less. forest of tightly packed spruce trees known as the tiaga, ---=This-runs right round the top of the world from northern Rus- sla 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- ritorles herds of what is either the second or third largest form of the ox tribe. These were groups of pure- ISSUE 26 -- 1962 a blood woodland bison (Bison athabasca), an enormous 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 thelr existence?" The answer is definitely "Yes." Foot 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, the famous mountaineer, was exploring a range of mountains near the Everest Block named the Gauri 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- figd 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 a high snowfield well above them and some distance away. hese 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 tracks 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 8 quarter for a starving man?" 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Turmer >. 3 Senior 35 p amber (Fr) . WSDA T cATIoAtUre 4 oy i Jot rv; Reon * Sabrent : 3 eh n On o lana . " many TT, = a ATS i ¥ aid 7 shment - Cn Hein He o] | BIT . King of beasts 10 i Gis [I od . "A ay GRAPHING A CHANGE -- Weather front pushes cold aa, winds to southern California from EER Canada, causing snow in the mountains and a spectacular cloud display along the coast. All happens as Mrs. Henry Butz walks her dog along Redondo Beach, Calif. Farm forestny in New Zealand has been encouraged recently by legislation to lend farmers about $2,000,000 for planting and tending softwood stands on their lands. } Announcing the national gov- ernment's plan to encourage New Zealand farmers to be part-time foresters, Minister of Forests Richard G. Gerard told the New: Zealand Farm Forestry Associa- tlon that loans would be granted to farmers in timber-hungry dis- tricts such as Canterbury Pro- vince in the South Island. The program aims at establish- ing 10,000 acres of new farm forests by 1966 with repayment of principal and interest by farmers spread over a 20-year riod and with interest set at 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 perlod. 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. LJ we. LJ 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 about 25 years. Concerned over the depletion of native forests in the -early years of this-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, " 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 perlod. THEFARM FRONT a4 John Russell 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 Zeaiand 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. . Ld * * 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- ucts. Australia, for one, can absorb more New Zealand for- est products, but it will not en- tertain imports 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 times 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 "argumeént ~ in ~ New Zealand land utilization. Poor lands under forest are yielding financial returns 2% times great- er than tnose 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 cubie feet of wood per acre per annum! By world standards, this yield would be impressive, . © a 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 STILL LIE Wide-éyed Kitten poses with miniature spin-- ning wheel in Ottawa, capturing a still life effect. es EW BIG DADDY -- Haystack Cal- houn, 601-pound wrestler, is a mighty proud father as he looks at 6 - pound, 11 - ounce daughter, Kathy Elizabeth, at a Charlotte, N.C., hospital. 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 possibie, it is believed to double this output by 1975 and, in fact, to increase New Zealand Scandinavian countries as pulp an dpaper porducers. Are Those Mounting Still Cursed? t he Dutchman Snowbeard turned up in the saloons of Phoenix," Ariz.,, in the 1870s, flaunting a nugget-fat poke 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 legend one pre- fers, discloes the location of his mine. Over the years since, many a hopeful prospector, armed with crumbling 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 at the base of Weaver's Needle, a 4,435-foot volcanic spire in the shadowy Superstitions, Since then, with time off for weekly hikes to nearby Apache Junction for sup- plies, Piper has recruited a small crew to pursue his patient explorations. ; Three years ago, Piper got some competition, a group led by Celeste Marie Jones, a Negro singer who said she had aban- doned the concert stage to seek the Lost Dutchman on a tip supplied by a Los Angelos 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 ordee, Piper subsequently reported, saw Robert St. Marie, one Mrs, Jones' crew, approach rifle in hand, Piper shot a killed him. "I figured I'd rathes for murder tham stand trial him," P laconloally explaln- ed. The song authorities, to the ogde of the Old West, decided Piper need not stand trial. hg: that, the War of Weav- o's Needle subsided Into uneasy truce, Interrupted only by an oocasional stray "shot, and pre- sumably Plper and s. Jones resumed their search r the Lost Dutchman Mine. Up until last month, that is. First, Piper strolled into Apache Junction, carrylng four rifles which he sald he had taken from the Jones camp. "You told us no rifles," he said to Justice of the Peace Teason. Next, the Jones contingent lodged charges of armed rob- bery and burglary against Piper, Justice Teason, 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 sald, "I don't think anything will came 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. -- From NEWS- WEEK. Maybe You Think Our Winters Are Cold! It you were asked in a quis to name the coldest spot in the "world, what would be your as the coldest place geo- knew, but Soviet sol- entists have decided recently that there's an area much colder than that. } It lies between 373 and 440 miles south-west of the Sovlet "Vostok" Antarctic observatory, reports Mr. Valentin Drlatsky, who was head of the sixth Sov- fet Antarctic expedition. Temperatures there often reach minus 90 degrees Centl- grade (minus 130 Fahrenheit). The Russians have fixed the area as the "Pole of Cold." Medical abservation of the human nervous and cardaic- vascular systems and other organs shows the human body underwent great physiological changes "in--these almost incre- dibly cold Antarctic conditions, says an official report. And the load on the heart was Increased 15 to 20 per cent. So Verhoyansk must now take second place in the "cold stakes." Even so, if you wink there for a few seconds in winter your "eyes glue up. If you have a beard you fre- quently can't open your mouth because your frozen - breath glues the strands of beard to- gether on your upper and lower jaw. It you put out your tongue it freezes to your lip. And if you put up your hand to "blow hot" and release your tongue, your hand freezes to your face, too. : The story goes that once a man sncezed in another man's face at Verkhoyansk -- and temporarily blinded him! The moisture froze in mid-air and hit the other man like pellets. It is said that no trapper -there dare put his bare hand "against his cold gun-barrel -- because the skin of his palm would be torn off. So practically none of the few hundred inhabitants of Verk- hoyansk goes out in winter, but they can visit each other be- cause their wooden houses are By Rev. R, Barclay Warren, B.A, B.D, Jeremiah Announces Impending Tragedy Jeremiah 1:1-8; 7:1-7) 25:l-1, Memory Scripture: Turn ye agaln now every one from hiy evil way, and from the evil of your doings, Jeremiah 25:5, The prophet of doon is always unpopular. This was the role which Jeremiah had to play for forty years. He began his min- istry in the thirteenth year of Joslah'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 peaple slightly, svn peave, peace; when theres n peace." Jeremiah was my called of God to this work. He was con- solous that he was delivering (lod's message. "Thus salth Je hovah" is repeated hundreds of times by the prophet, On one oocaston he orled out, "I am in derision dally. Everyone I» Boa) {ng me." But he kept on. requires a lot of courage to acon? tinue as God's faithful messen- gor under such oircumstances. Jeremiah delivered his mes- sage In great tenderness and love for his people. This {s seen clear- ly In_such orles 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 turn. ing to righteousness that would avert the outpouring of God's wrath. He exclaimed, "The har- vest is past, the summer is end- od, 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. 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