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40 T. H. TRIBUNE-STAR. Sunday, July 14, Operation Noah Rescues Animals By ADRIAN PORTER KAR1BA, Southern Rhodesia. July 13 big bull buffalo struggled from the water after a two-mile swim, pulled itself through the mud to dry land, moved off slowly into the African brought to an end the biggest animal rescue operation since the ark.

The buffalo was the last of nearly 6.000 from foot-long snakes to six-ton WORLD SPOTLIG from the rising waters of Lake Kariba. It is the biggest manmade lake in the world, as the flow of the tion appointed game warden Rupert Fothergill to head a team of four whites and 60 Africans to take on the mammoth Zambezi River backed up J0b of getting the animals to against the huge dam built safety. across its path in Kariba Gorge 0W i before more than four to provide hydro-electric power vears 0f COaxing, forcing and for Rhodesia. carrying reptiles, animals and as the birds from fast-disappearing is- rescue was dubbed, began lands in the rising lake, Fother- years ago, before the founda- giR and his men are able to call tions of the Kariba dam were a day. Some animals were laid.

Lake Kariba was planned left on big islands on which to extend 250 miles up river game rangers were satisfied from the dam and reach a max- they would be able to survive, imum width of about 50 miles, Fothergill says the job was a In this area lived a complete tough one. range of African wild life which worked more or less on had to be moved or be drowned. a trial and error basis and we or stranded on islands without learned as we went along, sufficient food. For instance, we found from Big Job. experience that nylon The Southern Rhodesian de- stockings were ideal for tying partment of wild life conserva- antelopes legs without hurting ZZ or damaging them too much.

TO DEDICATE LAKE NEAR MARTINSVILLE New Methods. Fothergill also learned from experience that firing drug- filled hypodermic syringes at rhinoceros was the easiest way MARTINSVILLE. handle these bad-tempered 13 mile-long lake paid for beasts. Once drugged, rhinos with contributions philanthropic were tje(j by the legs, loaded organizations and a business on rafts and towed to the main- man who asked to remain iand where the game rangers anonymous will be dedicated loosen the knots and retired to Sunday at Bradford Woods a safe place as the beasts northwest of here. gained consciousness.

The large camp where the Normally mild antelopes lake is located is a recreation choked and screaming in fear U. S. Conqueror Of Mt. Everest Tells of Feat By PAULS WELLS SEATTLE. July 13 Suddenly 50 tons of snow broke loose from an overhanging cornice at Mt.

summit and Jim Whittaker found himself down between my feet at 000 feet The moment was one of mortal danger for the first American conqueror of the highest peak, but Whittaker did not slip and his Sherpa companion, Nowang Gombu, was unaware of what had happened. Gombu, roped to Whittaker 50 feet away as they began their descent, failed to hear the great roar of the falling cornice because of 90-mile-an-hour winds. I And he was too intent on his work to notice. Relaxing at home, the 34-year FIRED FOR WASHING MANCHESTER, Engl and, July 13 Gilroy, 23, an electrician, was fired when a house wife complained that he washed his socks in the bathroom wash basin of her house, where he was doing maintenance work. old, 6 foot 5 inch Whittaker talked with pride and a touch of wonder about the consuming drive that sent him fighting to the top of Everest almost against his will and the constant threat of death.

For more than a month before the final push Whittaker and several of the others had been above 21,500 feet. just stay up there that he said. stayed that high that long before. You get weaker and weaker as you deteriorate. Diet Important.

matter how much you eat, you loose Whittaker said the urge was to return to the base camp and recuperate for another start, but problems of time and tics weighed against it. we just sat up there, with storms swirling around, and The psychological tracks, a height of more than four miles play on the mind, proved the biggest problem. become much more of an Whittaker said. on your boots or crampons takes a long time. You get frustrated and irritated.

storm would come along and think: the hell am I doing on this you have to keep pulling yourself together and realize that up here for a great goal. just a matter of building up your drive again. we decided that if we try in the next four or five days never make it. I felt the whole team effort hung on me. I had motivation.

So on April 27, he and bu set out for the top. committed Whittaker said he was then in his weakest condition, but he pushed over the ice soft enough to kick steps taking Continued on Page 43, Col. 8. area for crippled children, Boy and Girl Scouts and Boys Club ANIMALS SAVED BY 20TH CENTURY African tracker holds a couple of antelope rescued from Lake Kariba in Southern Rhodesia. The animals were among some 6,000 sasved from drowning in the waters of the Zambesi River, which rose to form a huge lake after the construction of the Kariba Dam.

The rescue Operation Noah completed recently after more than four years of effort. AP Wirephoto. and threshing about with sharp hooves as they were captured, members, as well as an educa-igave Fothergill another head- tion center operated by In ache but he soon found that the diana University. Gov. Matthew big species could swim for them- Welsh and IU President selves and only the smaller Elvis J.

Stahr Jr. will partici- kinds had to be carried in boats, pate in the dedication. He found, too, that elephants Funds for a boathouse, boats could swim for miles if coaxed and other beach facilities were to the mainland with boats be- rionated bv television person-; hind them. But snakes had to be alitv Ruth Lyons. handled.

One of his worst jobs was moving around partly suborn trees catching branch -1 rlUINCCK UlCD bound snakes in loops of rope jje MEYER WEST LOS ANGELES. afngeriy WASHINGTON, July 13 into any U. S. embassy in July 13 James 1 a 1 in sacks the world, except perhaps in areas of Africa where things are MII.TO. Cardinal McIntyre today cele t0 his head.

not too comfortable, and what do you see? UNITED NATIONS. N. brated a funeral mass a 1 St. "jturna to 11 11 Attaches, administrators, rehabilitators, military men, infor- July 13 I pressures on paper work and most of his mation specialists and men tieing up loose too many on Portugal and South Africa Kalmus pioneer fn the develop- team will be disbanded A white are mounting at the United Na- U. S.

Embassies Filled-Diplomat African Groups Mount Pressure On U. N. Body ment of technicolor. ranger and African assist- Kalmus, president of Techni- will remain at the lake to color Motion Picture Corp. from keep an eye on game left on the 1915-62.

died Thursday of ajislands and those living in the heart attack at the age of 81. bush around the lake This, at least, is the way be served for 37 years. tions, with possible far-reach- things seem to Ellis 0. Briggs. He expressed his views in an ing consequences for the world 63.

who has set Washington interview, and also in testimony organization, abuzz with his observations to a Senate subcommittee on jn prospect are meetings of about the diplomatic missions national security staffing and the U. N. Security Council, at operations, headed by Sen which representatives of the 32- Henrv M. Jackson, D-Wash. African group will make Many embassies, Briggs says, new demands for punitive ac- could do with half or less of tion against Portugal for al- their staffs.

In nearly every leged acts of repression in its case the people are loyal, con- African territories. They will scientious and hard working seek similar action against just that there are far too South Africa for its refusal to many of Briggs says, abandon white supremacy clutter up the policies. Debate along these lines is Too Many Chie s. new guj. some heacjs 0f Briggs added that about 30 Western delegations are appre- per cent of the over-staffed hensive about these two possi- embassies are headed by polit bilities in the wake of the coun- ical appointees as inexperi cjj meetings, tentatively set for ence in diplomacy as in direct the end of this month: ing an army corps, a fleet of and South Africa warships or an air force.

United Nations. Most Cabinet departments nations may especially Defense, Commerce. sencj into Treasury. Agriculture and Jus- places like Angola and South people in the euHwest Africa and set the stage bassies, and so do other agen- for outbreaks of even greater cies the way trom one end vj0lence than encountered to of the alphabet to the a Question Raised. The average U.

S. embassy. Brings says, is grosslv over- In inf past, Portugal and staffed particularly by agen- South Africa have raised, them- cies other than the State Depart- selves, the question of whether ment they should stay in the United State Department officials Nations and remain targets for shied away from any direct an- increasing attack, swer to comments. They The decision to bring new did say Foreign Service per- pressure was reached by the sonnel were not sent abroad un African nations at the recent less it was felt they were neces- heads of state conference in sary. Addis Ababa.

Briggs declined to name em- Alex Quaison-Sackey, bassies he considers overstaffed, ambassador to the United Na- but implied such a list would tions, said at a news conference be quite long. Africa, he said, at U. N. headquarters one pur- has not seen the big influx of pose is to discover are personnel because some posts our among the big are not in comfortable climates, powers on the Security Council. AMBASSADOR TO INDIA ENDS Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and his family bounce along on the back of an elephant during a visit to an Indian zoo.

The 6-foot-8 envoy, who is well-liked by Indian Prime Minister Nehru, ends his two-year assignment to India this week to return to Harvard seminars and writings that have made him one of the best known of modern economists. AP Wirephoto. John K. Galbraith Quits Indian Post the problem, he went on. Teachers Needed.

got to get people out village by village, state by teaching birth On agriculture, ministries create the impression of dispersion of energies. They 1 should concentrate massive energy on fertilizer, water, plant NEVA DELHI, India, 13 Kenneth (islhrsith pfotcction and possibly also slouched in his chair, sandalled feet on a coffee table, in an improved varieties of plans, tffort to keep his 6-foot-8 frame from appearing too tall. The capacity 0f the Indian vil- I never very starry-eyed about the economic problems in receive new ideas should of the Harvard economist said. The fascination of India to an economist is that the problems are so stubborn and serious.1 going Gal- Galbrai rejects the idea tha braith added. a slow, hard Galbraith listed the basic gnomic selMdem within the foreseeable future.

struggle, but going problems as an uncontrolled in- crease in population, insuf- Fascination with the struggle ficient progress in raising ag- of India to get ahead econom- ricultural production, low in- ically brought him here as the dustrial efficiency and com- American ambassador. Now, petitiveness of exports, and lack after more than two years, Gal- of jobs. braith is returning to Harvard The greatest problem is the seminars and writings that jn population by about have made him one of the 1Q a year. The Indian best-known modern economists. economjst has to run hard just the problem of unemploy- To Come Home.

to keep up with this rising rate, ment. sad prospect is that Galbraith who leves Monday and run even harder to im- if faces a very substantial and for home reflected in an in- prove low living standards. mounting unemployment for a terview on the problems of In- got to cut the birth very long because there 461 million persons. The rate Gailbraith average person has an income said. But present birth control of a year.

efforts are not really touching will have in one form- or another to import capital, by grant or loan, for some time to come, as growing countries have always had to do. Savings in the United States or Europe are abundant and should come here where they are India only nibble away is not enough equipment or resources to put everyone to work. Too Many People 1 am absolutely sure that the seven embassies where I served as ambassador, and some others I know about, have about twice as many people as they Briggs said the United States should quit musical and shunting around its ambassadors. there is only one American ambassador in the entire world (Howard Jones, ambassador to Indonesia) who has been at his post for as long as five years. The average, the last time I looked it up, was less than a year and a One way to cut down embassy staffs, he said, is for staffs of foreign aid missions to pull out when projects are finished.

you terminate a program you automatically get rid of the he said. try to remain indefinitely, tieing up loose ends, they explain it to LINCOLN SOUVENIRS FORT WAYNE, July 13 Sen. Homer E. Capehart has given a collection of 79 Abraham Lincoln souvenirs to Lincoln National Life Foundation in Fort Wayne. Included are a Lincoln bust by Gutzon Borglum, the most valuable item in the collection and two notes in handwriting.

both dated ni 1865. had the items in his Washington office. John Napier was the inventor of logarithms. This puts the United States, Britain and France, as Atlantic allies of Portugal, in a difficult the obvious pleasure of the Soviet Union. Ask Penalties.

Last December the three Western powers voted against a resolution in the General Assembly that requested the Security Council to impose penalties on Portugal unless it took immediate steps to place Angola on the road to independence. With Soviet bloc and A-sian- African support the resolution was approved 57 to 14. with 18 abstentions. It put on record a statement that noncompliance with previous resolutions is inconsistent with U. N.

membership. The Western powers took a i similar stand on a resolution recommending that member nations impose severe trade and diplomatic boycotts against South Africa in an effort to force abandonment of its white) supremacy policies. If such measures fail, the resolution said, the council should consider ordering South Africa expelled from the United Nations The Africans will try at the coming council sessions to seek implementation of the assembly resolutions. Thus far the appeal to member nations to boycott South Africa economically has been largely ignored. The continental Congress deliberated a dozen years before deciding on the bald eagle as YOU'RE Buying YOU'RE Keeping It YOU Want It The One Answer For You '63 PHILCO Instant Cold ff REFRIGERATORS WITH RESERVE POWER! These refrigerators don't care how often you open the door! 14 Cu.

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