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Next comes Gorgo Tapanese hunt Loch Ness monster (C) 1973, The Los Angeles Times LONDON-According to a story about St. Columba written in AD 565 by one of his follwers, that good man was crossing Loch Ness one day when he saw a monster bearing down on a swimmer. “Think not to go further nor touch thou that man!” St. Columba is said to have shouted at the beast. ‘‘Quick! Go back!” As the story goes, the monster thereupon promptly submerged into the depths of Loch Ness, a 24 mile-long, one-mile-wide lake southwest of Inverness. And as far as is known, that was the first time the monster was sighted. But it is said to have been spotted several thousand times since, undulating around the lake, silent, unconcerned with a swimmer, trailing a foamy wave as it cruised at up to 13 knots along the surface of Loch Ness. Now, for the first time as far as is known, a 10-man team of Japanese is going down to the bottom of Loch Ness to look for the monster. Equipped with two miniature submarines, sound detecting devices and underwater cameras and financed to the tune of 500,000 dollars by various Japanese firms, the monster-hunters hope to plunge into the loch shortly to try to find the answer to that intriguing, centuries-old question: “Does the Loch Ness monster exist?” “It is a very difficult project, but we are very hopeful,” one of the team members said at a news conference in Inverness before starting this week for the loch and a first look at it. The Japanese do not want to capture the monster, team captain Shinsaku Yoshida ex plained. just “collect evidence” on whether it lives in the loch. The team plans to prowl and listen for the monster until the end of November and then, if their efforts are fruitless, to recess the project, go home, and return again early next year for another try. Suppose they meet the monster while in their submarines? “If we do, our biggest effort would be to take as many photographs as possible,” one of the team replied. “But it may be a dangerous situation, and then we would have to run away.” Holly Arnold, 26, secretary of the Loch Ness pheno mena investigation 'bureau which looks into reported mon ster sightings-there have not been many recently-was pessimistic about the Japanese U.S. consumers face a really jarring crisis LOS ANGELES- Clever consumers who thought they had devised a partial solution to the food crisis-putting up their own fruits and vegetables-are running headlong into the major jar crisis. Supplies have become scarce while demand has burgeoned to the highest level since World War II. A spot check of retailers shows few are able to stock enough home canning supplies. The frustrated jar manufacturers blame the impasse mainly on a shortage of soda ash, indispensable to the glassmaking process. And they say the situation isn’t likely to get much better until the big crop harvests are over. By then, of course, all those carefully cultivated or hastily bought tomatoes, peaches and cucumbers will have started to get overripe. “It’s pretty well a nationwide situation,” comments Howard Jones, Marketing Manager at the Consumer Products Division of Ball Corp., the Indiana-based company that turn out roughly a third of the 2.3 billion jars to be produced in the United States this year. “With all the demand, plus the shortage of raw materials, we haven’t been able to keep up.” “Our inventory is just totally cleaned out,” adds William Kerr, President of Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp. of Los Angeles, the other-and dominant-firm in the field. Production has been hobbled by several factors, but soda ash which makes up about 15 per cent of the raw materials used in glassmaking-is the biggest problem. S<xla ash is needed to make the glass soft enough to shape in machines, but detergent makers have found it to be a handy substitute for controversial phosphate compounds. As a result, soda ash producers have been rationing the supply to customers. The jar makers also suffer from the paper shortage which has made shipping cartons scarce in many places, and they have had trouble getting materials for metal caps and lids. Some jar-making machines have had to be switched temporarily to other products at one company because the needed caps and lids for mason jar ship ments were sitting on an Eastern Railroad siding waiting for a ride west. Meanwhile, demand grows. “We do know there’s a tremendous increase in the number of home canners,” Kerr says, “because the demand for jars this year is unusually big in proportion to requests for cans and lids. People who have done canning before are able to reuse old jars and need only new caps and lids. The upsurge in jar sales means more new customers.” Both companies say they’ve been subjected to some blistering complaints from angry consumers faced with relentlessly ripening produce. “I guess everybody cleaned the stores out early,” Kerr says. We started the year with the highest inventory in 10 years, and now it’s gone. We’re shipping jars as fast, as we can make them.” cyderecyclere submarine search. She predicted the Japanese “won’t see Nessie” as headline writers affectionately have named the monster. “The noise of the submarines will drive them off.” Arnold said she believes there my be “at least 10 large creatures in the loch.” There have been hundreds of times that many reported sightings of the monster by Scots, Englishmen, American, Dutchmen, by clergymen, monks, a police in spector, bankers, a member of Parliament, an architect and three gamekeeDers. And Nessie has been photographed scores of times-or photographs taken of objects the photographers believed to be the monster. Some of the photographs, at least one taken at a distance of 250 yards, show something with humps on the Lochs surface, and there is one photograph of what appears to be a creature with a long neck and a reptilian head protruding from the water. One member of the Japanese team said his group reckons there are at least six monsters in the loch, “huge reptiles, mam mals or something never even thought of before.” Whatever it is, if it is, the monster is wary of lures. One American team tried to entice the monster to the surface with a potion described as a “sex scent.” The monster would have nothing to do with that. Nobody knows how many persons have gone to Loch Ness hoping to see the monster, some of them spending weeks or longer peering along the lake. But its reported appearances have been spasmodic. Two years ago, a whiskey company offered 2.5 million dollars to anyone who might capture the monster alive, 12 bottles of whiskey monthly for one year to anyone who took a 12 second color moving picture of it and one glass of whiskey daily for one year for anyone who snapped a color photograph of the beast Nobody collected. I CLASSIFIEDS I Deadline Place in 301 Allen, Emerald Office, or at the EMU Main Desk by 2:00 p.m one working day preceding publication Classified Rates 8c per word the first day, 6c per word for each consecutive insertion Ten word minimum charge All ads must be paid for in advance (Emerald policy is not to give refunds upon cancellation. 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