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.
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