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THE MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1967 PACE 10 SECTION A 1 earners rrevare for Pay Hike Talh t- rS those already in existence which! Rose commented on over-rid Ford May Face Block in House By J. F. ter HORST INDIANAPOLIS (UP I -I boards on 1968 salaries, work ing consideration which may Although serious negotiations for school teacher salaries and ing conditions, fringe benefits and other employer-employe matters. make negotiations more difficult this year than in the past. benefits for the school year be outline to school boards and superintendents the approaches and subject matters of negotia-j lions.

He said the ISBA and the Indiana School Superintendents Association also will hold a One of the problems this At Bloomington, a conference WASHINGTON (NANA) The ginning next September are still months away, three Indiana organizations are making preparations this weekend. spring will be that so many ends Sunday on collective bargaining issues and techniques, 1368 elections are still a year away but signs already point to large schools are at or near the tax ceilings," he said. "It's got sponsored by the Indiana Feder Meetings were held in Indi ation of Teachers AFL CIO a sharp leadership contest among w- it- ui: if rrn workshop session dedicated to negotiation techniques at Ben to be an item. You cant have any meaningful negotiations when school districts are at the anapolis and Bloommgton by two statewide teacher groups and in association of school and conducted by the Indiana University Labor Education and Davis High School, west of Indb anapolis, in January. Research Center.

WHILE the two organizations tax ceiling." ROSE SAID 30 Indiana school wins control lor the Iirst time in 15 years. Ordinarily, House GOP leader Gerald R. Ford would be a shoo-in for the House Speaker, the 3rd most powerful office in gov GENERALLY, fringe benefits board members amid indications negotiations may be toughened next spring because of a property tax rate ceiling estab representing the teachers were are expected to be a more impor districts advertised' general fund stressing their somewhat differ lished by the 1967 Legislature. ent approaches' to contract nego tant issue this year than ever before, partly because 1968 is not a legislative year and the new minimum teacher salaries tiation, the directors of the Indi TEACHERS from 300. Indiana ernment.

The Michigan lawmaker has been dreaming of that day for most of his 19 years in ana School Boards Association set last winter remain in effect. tax levies above their legal maximum as of Aug. 31, and among them are big cities such as Gary, Hammond, South Bend and Indianapolis. East Gary, at $8.48 per $100 of taxable pro- perty and Hobart Township, Lake County at $8.64, compared to a county adjusted maximum also met in Indianapolis to work on new negotiation guidelines to school districts met Saturday for an all-day workshop directed by the Indiana State Teachers Association and the Indiana There also is a growing sense of competition in some areas the employers the school Congress. But Ford may have his work cut out for him before the dream comes true.

boards of the state. between the much bigger ISTA. Classroom Teachers Association, They were briefed here by ex which stresses the professional approach, and the IFT, which ceiling of $6.03, were the two Lowell Rose, executive secretary of the ISBA, said the guidelines were a revision 'Of Not all House Republicans are Ford fans, for one thing. Some perts of the two organizations on how to negotiate with school utilizes labor union techniques. I highest.

liberals and conservatives com plain he is too much a middle- roader. For bargaining purposes, they are still "shopping around." More importantly, however, are the indications of division and rivalry within the House GOP's for the coveted posts of majority MOON-BEAMED This television photo of the Moon's surface taken by Surveyor 6 shows a bowl-shaped crater about eight inches across and a small clump of lunar material directly beneath the spacecraft. The object above the crater is one of three crushable blocks to absorb the shock of the Surveyor's landing. leader and majority whip. UNLESS GOOD natured Ford can prevent an open break in the GOP ranks, he may be forced to make a deal with one of the con Films Cited tenders for the majority leader's job in order to secure enough votes to make himself House Speaker.

Zoologist 'Buys' Sasquatch Yarn Prime candidate for the ma ml tSi. tit "ie 1 jority leadership is Wisconsin's mm sltic worms not known to Infect normal human beings. Melvin R. Laird, possibly the shrewdest political mind in the House GOP. As chairman of the Republican conference there have been times in the last three years when Laird, not Ford, seemed to be calling the shots for House EDITOR'S NOTE: The author, who holds degrees with honors in zoology, botany and geology from Cambridge University, England, has led scientific collecting expeditions to several continents for leading institutions, such as the British Museum.

He is the author of "Animal Treasure," "Following the Whale," "The Monkey Kingdom," "How to Know the North American Mammals," and, especially relevant to the following article, "Abominable Snowmen." Now Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin offer the best evidence yet of the California "Big Feet." Gimlin, a part-Apache woodsman and tracker, has been searching with Patterson, a self-employed inventor, for the "Big Feet" for three years. Republicans. Three others are In the majority leader picture. One is veteran Illinois Rep. Leslie Arends, the longtime GOP whip who holds down the old-line conservatives' portfolio In the Ford cabinet.

From my careful viewing of A COllECTiON TrlAT comes bETWEEN you ANd tHe coldl the film footage, here is what the "Big Foot" or "Sasquatch" is like: Another is Arizona's Rep. John The creature seen Is a fe all the available evidence of abominable snowmen, in all their varieties, for over 30 years. Few if any trained zoologists have spent the time and effort I have spent in collecting and analyzing reports, hair, droppings and foot prints of these elusive creatures, which have been sighted everywhere from the Himalayas to the Southern Congo, to our own California. I first heard of the California creatures in 1946. They are called "Big Feet" in the U.S.

Northwest male, judging from its clearly Rhodes, Barry Goldwater's congressman, who is chairman of the House GOP Policy Commit ton! By IVAN T. SANDERSON NEW YORK (NANA) The most compelling evidence to date that "abominable snowmen' exist was brought here this week by two men from Yakima, Wash. The evidence consists of a reel of color film clearly showing a hairy, sveen-foot creature ambling along a creek in the mountains of Northern California. THE CREATURE was sighted Friday, Oct. 20 by Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson near Bluff Creek, in rarely penetrated forest country, and the film footage already aroused widespread interest among U.S.

and Canadian scientists. hanging breats. She is about seven feet tall, tee, the steering body that seeks to set party positions on floor weighs about 400 pounds, and issues. walks upright like a human, with The third is New York's straight legs. Charles E.

Goodell, a Phi Beta She is covered all over with shiny, jet-black hair and, as she Kappa man who, with 9 years in Congress, is the junior man in walks along in the film, she 0.85 the leadership group. and in Canada they are called swings her arms. A Ford ally, Goodell was given "Sasquatch Men." In 1959, 1 went HER HEAD is covered with out there for a look-see and interviewed hundreds of woodsmen Dr. Ion McTaggert Cowan, hair which comes up to the bot dean of graduate studies of the more familiar with their own ha the specially-created post of, chairman of House GOP plan-) ning and research when Ford was unable to install him as policy chairman in place of Rhodes. GOODELL ALREADY is being tom of the cheek bones and down over the forehead to join with bitat than passing-through scien University of British Columbia, curator Don Abbott of the Mu tists.

The stories were consistant the Jack Frost foiled again! To the rescue come the. brr-banishers. Great car coats many with the snuggliest insides from here to the North Pole. seum of Natural History In Vic and the evidence cumulative. Her face is flat, not like a gorilla's, and with a toria, B.C., and 15 other scien encouraged by some young Re CORDUROYS ALPACAS THE EVIDENCE goes back wide, pug nose.

The eyes are tists viewed the footage at a showing in Vancouver two weeks publicans on Capitol Hill to com-pete with Laird for the major small and deep-sunken. well over a century, and there Is a report of the capture of a ago and the consensus was that ity leader's job. With Ford as Her head rises to a crest. She has no neck, and the shoulders evidence definitely called for Sasquatch on a railroad track in British Columbia in 1884. Dur further investigation.

None de are three feet wide. The stomach speaker and Goodell as majority boss on the floor, the argument goes, the House Republicans would be able to present a posi clared It a hoax. "What we need ing the California gold rush they FLEECES IR.5T015 is flat. now," said one of the scientists were sighted all the way down The film last about one minute and shows the creature walking 1 to the outskirts of San Francisco. present, "is a skull.

-r Ever since, there have been THE FOOTAGE was also along a dry sand bank, littered with logs and driftwood. At one reports by mountaineers, woods shown to the special effects tive, problem-solving, image to the country. So far, Goodell has not said yes or no to such talk. The obvious move would be to challenge Ford's own claim to the speakership. point she turned around and department of Universal Pictures men, road builders and trappers of very large footprints, both in looked directly at the camera, in Hollywood, and the experts the snow and mud, all the way Then, as Roger Patterson con said it was impossible that the tinued after her, holding his mov All of this, of course, is pegged to a big "if." The Republicans from the Yukon to Humboldt County in California.

They are just like a man's, except they ie camera, she ambled off in creature was a man in a monkey suit. The film company's photo laboratory saw the film, the bush. She left clear tracks in need 31 more seats before they can constitute a majority of the are 16 inches and longer. "Nests" too, and said it was not faked. the sand measuring 41 inches from left heel to right heel and or "beds" of these large crea House of Representatives and that last happened when Gen.

Life, Look, and television companies have been bidding for tures have also been found, and four huge masses of "scat," un Eisenhower swept into the White rights to the film this week. CASUAL. CORNER 288471 like that dropped by any known each print is 16 inches long. I have studied the animals of American and all the continents for several decades. Nothing like this one has ever been captured animal in the West, have been House in 1952.

But the scent of a GOP victory is so strong that House Republicans already are examined in scientific laboratories. These were of human form I myself have viewed and studied the footage and can vouch for its authenticity. I say this after having studied beginning to squabble over the for science. To me, there is no shop mon 9:30 to sat, 9:30 to 5:00 but contained the eggs of para-1 doubt it exists. prospective spoils.

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