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preserved in a Buddhist ported to have a family born monastery. Members of the expedition NIMITZ 1941 CAR SOLD FOR $10030 of a Yeti mother and a Sherpa father. This is the picture the Keeping Old Movies Urged WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (B Sen. Thomas H.

Kuchel said on their return they were fully convinced that Sherpas paint of the mys "Yeti was a biped, human terious creature of the rocks. How much of it is fact and how much fiction is yet to (R) wants the Library like animal which dwelt on the Himalayas and it was not a bear monkey or langur as suggested by some peo be determined. However, reports brought of Congress to preserve a collection of Early American motion pictures. Kuchel introduced a bill 1 Part IA-SUN-. FEB.

23, 1958 ZoS gngrlf 4 Qmfg FABLED SNOWMAN HUNT CONTINUES Centuries-Old Tales Keep Alive Search in Himalayan Area for Abominable One BY P. K. PADMANABHAV, Times Asian Bureau NEW DELHI, Feb. 22 A seven-man American expedition now is on its way in a search for the Abominable Snowman half -myth, half -fact creature of the icy Himalayan rocks, mentioned for centuries in legend and literature but never captured and never photographed. ple.

back by western explorers of the Himalayas seem to Similarly, an advance par-j lend substance at least to ty of the present American HONOLULU, Feb. 23; Ltw Back in World War II Adm. Chester Nimitz rode around Pearl Harbor and Honolulu in a black Navy limousine. Nimitz retired years ago, not the car a 194.L model The Navy sold it yesterday for $100.50 to Ernest A. Ross.

He said he would turn it over to his 14 -year -old son, whose hobby is tinkering with old cars. part of these Sherpa beliefs. expedition undertook a re- yesterday to provide an appropriation of $250,000 to transfer to permanent "safe Tracks in Snow eonnaisance trip early last year. Peter Byrne, who led As far back as 1887 Col. ty film movies made around the turn of the century.

tne trip, told this corre W. A. Waddell of the British spondent that data collected The Senator said the de army reported seeing Yeti by tho party offer unmis tracks in the Himalayan takable proof of the exist snows. teriorating pictures are a "rare bit of Americana which should be perpetuated for researchers." ence of the Abominable Reports of having come The search will take the across Yeti tracks were also The beast has a flat face, Snowman. Huge Foot Prints strongly resembling that of brought back by members of the French expedition to the Ma.kalu, by Sir John He said they came across footprints, 12 inches long a monkey, very wrinkled but without hair.

Its head is high and conical. The nails Hunt, leader of the success "'tit ful Everest expedition of ana six inches across at its broadest, which could not have been that of any known on its long fingers look like 1953 and by Jules Detry, a the claws of a big bear. It has no tail. Belgian anthropologist who animal. They also collected black and bristly hair which accompanied the Swiss ex the cry of the Yeti re pedition to Ganesh Himal in sembles the high-pitched zoologists could not identify.

Notwithstanding all this. 1954. yelp of a puppy dog. An Englishman, Henry The Yeti feeds on raw there are many anthropologists and zoologists who be meat, roots and fruits. It John Elwes, was the first westerner to claim that he lives in the Himalayan jun lieve the whole story of the Yeti is a myth, similar to saw Yeti.

That was in 1906 gles situated 8000 to 10,000 CLOSE SCRUTINY A 6-year-old Nepolese child, who reportedly once saw a Yeti, examines pictures of bears and apes to find out which Yeti resembles. team over a 150-quare-mile area in the desolate and dead-cold upper reaches of the Himalayan Mountains, between 14,000 and 20,000 feet above sea level. The area lies in Northeast Nepal. Starting from a town called Biratnagar across the Indian border, the expedition will trek 150 miles along the banks of the Arun River into the Himalayan heartland. Himalayan Mystery Organized by Tom Slick, a Texas oilman and rancher, and sponsored by the San Antonio and Ft Worth Zoological Societies, the expedition will seek to solve one of the great Himalayan mysteries whether the Snowman is a bear, an ape, a man or a myth.

Stories of the existence of the animal have circulated for centuries among people bmce then similar ac feet above sea level and trav that the unicorn. Photographic Attempt counts of run-ins with Yetis els as high as 21,000 feet in -LOWERS THE NURSE'S WORK search of food. were brought back by a Ml. SO Dwy The animals would drink There are reports of male Greek explorer, A. N.

Tom- Walking usually on two the alcohol and die in large Yetis caring for female hu baji, in 1925; two Nor The present expedition will attempt to make photographs of the creature, if. they come across one, and also "try and numbers. legs, but sometimes using all fours, it normally moves wegians, J. Thorberg and B. man children and female The Yeti population has Frotis in 1948, and by a Rus Yetis nursing ana rearing capture a Yeti if we can.

about alone. But groups of three and four have also sharply declined now. There sian explorer, A. G. Pronm, "Simmons" hospital bed waist high for care of patient without stooping.

Keeps him comfortable at the turn of a crank. Inner-spring or "Foamex" mattress included. Lboys. But the male Yeti has are very lew left tne In the event it succeeds in the latter effort, the expedi a few weeks ago. a strong aversion for the hu been occasionally sighted Great Numbers The testimony of these man male and the, female Himalayas.

Even those that survive stay clear of human habitations. Seeing a Yeti explorers, however, lacked corroboration. Even though In the days when the Himalayan jungles were tion will invite anthropologists and zoologists to come and see the animal at the spot where it is captured. Since the Yeti is conditioned there were many photo graphs of Yeti tracks, there ft denser than they are today and men seldom ventured too high, the Yetis lived in was none of the Yeti itself. is supposed to bring bad luck.

Selective Diet Occasionally the Yetis kill human beings they run into. for the human female. The female Yetis have very long breasts, stretching down to the waists. They throw them over the shoulders when they run. Father Was a Yeti There have been cases of Yetis cohabiting with hu to living in the rarified air of the upper Himalayas it may Consequently, the London great numbers and inhabited of the Himalayan and eventually found their Daily Mail organized in 1954 not survive in the dense air extensive regions of the up When this happens, they eat a nine-man scientific expedition to locate the creature.

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3-tlOS Olendal. CI. 3-2101 Pasadena SY. 5-7041 B.I If lower Whittior Lena Beach Santa Ana San Divga The Yetis practice polyan mans. The village of Tarke in North Nepal is supposed to have a family of Sherpas per Himalayan reaches.

In those days the Sherpas had to fight vigorously to protect their villages and cultivations from marauding Yetis. They even had to resort to mass' extermination by leaving pots of poisoned see a Yeti. However, mem pedition which will last for three months. The Tibetans call it Mi-Go, the man from the wilds. The Nepalese know it as Yeti, dry.

The senior female is the chief of the fribe. bers of the team said they descended from a Yeti father and a Sherpa mother. saw many evidences of the Male and female Yetis are the animal of the rocks. existence of the Yeti mclud- Another family in a village Tales of close brushes and in some cases even fatal often strongly drawn to humans of the opposite sex. named Melumche is re-ling a scalp of the creature alcohol outside the villages.

encounters with the Yeti GOQQ enjoy particular currency among the Sherpas. cele semi-annual storewide I mm G3Q0C? 00 Q3Q0D GIlIDCmEO brated Himalayan porters. Tensing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt. Everest, believes IGIS30QID that "the Yeti is as substan $500,000 STOCK BEE OFF SALE STARTS FEB. 24TH 9 to 5:30 DAILY SAT.

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Scores of Sherpas claim to have had experiences of a similar nature. Recently an -effort was made to collect these firsthand accounts in order to gain a clearer idea of the mysterious animal. The emerging picture is indeed weird. The Yeti is a creature midway between man and animal. It is between 6 and 7 feet tall.

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