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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1958)
, Monday, June 23, 1958 Quotoc From the News o Wt Vaitel Free International Moscow newspaper Komsolskaya Pravda, official Soviet youth orf as, en the arrest of Russia's top soccer play er on rape charges: "Drunk as ajneX ft perpetrated a grave criminal act and will toon aiym f curt as a hooligan and rapist." Micosia,oCypru Cyprus Gov. Sir Hugh Foot, on Brit ain's determinatioft te carry out its seven-year "partnership" plan for Cyprus: "We're been put bed around long enough. Now we have declared our policy ud the important thing is that we should have the guts and tee will te go through with it." Louisville.oKy. Jesse Presley, 62, grandfather of Elvis Presley onQhis contract to record an album of songs he learned as a Mississippi cotton picker in his youth: "I don't want te ride ia ex Elvis, I want to make it on my own." Is Thai So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Beirut This 3,500-year-old city is the locale of one of the earlier se& serpent stories and one that may have t basis in fact. Briefly, the story is that St. George's Bay, on the northern side of theity, was the site of the famous struggle be tween St. George nd the Dra gon, almost invariably de- scribed fts ft four-footed lizard of enormous size. St. George won fcnd stuffed the body down veil. There aye all kinds of opin ions as to who St. George was and whereo and when he fought. And without ventur ing to say whether that fa mous conflict did take place on the shores of St. George's Bay, it is distinctly possible that some early Lebanese did kill a strange creature from the sea and that the Saint fi nally got the credit for it. What the creature may have been was a plesiosaurus. The plesiosaurus was an enormous lizard one'dug up some years ago near Fort Wal laceKan., measured at least 42 feet from tip to toe. His small head, mounted on a long narrow neck, had a huge mouth stuffed with conical shaped teeth ideal for grab bing the fish and animals on which he fed. His favorite haunts were estuaries and bays, though occasionally he swam out to sea. He had a smooth skin, according to traces that have been discov ered and his long paddle like limbs were equipped with five fingers. Buy why is it possible that .such a creature from the dis tant Reptilian Age may have invaded St. George's' Bay in historic times? Other Survivors Possible One reason is that since the coelacanth, a fish believed ex tinct for ages, is very much alive today, there may well be other survivors on the or der of the plesiosaurus. Another reason is that there is a hard core of sea serpent reports by competent observ ers which cannot be, rational ly explained away except by the appearance of such a creature, or one that would be even more extraordinary. A third reason is that since our knowledge of the sea, cov ering seven-eighths of the globe is so infinitesimally small, it would be absurd for anyone to say that monsters, such as the plesiosaurus, do not exist. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume,set of this world-fammous refer ence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each, week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I samply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to Is That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. 4 CLUB NEWS Willing Workers Meet The Sams Valley Willing Workers 4-H club met at the home of Mrs. Alfred Gowen Friday night. The Outdoor Cooking club will have a cookout at Tou velle state park, Friday, June 27, 6 p.m. The sewing club will meet at the Delores Sanderson's home Tuesday, June "24, at 1:30 p.m. The next regular 4-H meet ing will be held at 7:30 D.m.. July 10 at the home of Ricky and Kathy Hake. Refresh ments were served at the close of the meeting by Rickv and Kathy Hake. D wight James, Reporter. Life expectancy for the av erage American worker is now 69 years. This is almost four years better than in 1948. SNIDER'S MILK- THE MING FAVORITE U.S. Working To Reach Compromise On Cyprus Problem Nicosia, Cyprus (UPI) The United States is working behind the scenes in hopes of reaching a compromise solu tion of the dangerous Cyprus problem, well informed sources said today. Ankara sources said Ameri can Ambassador Fletcher War ren's frequent visits with Pre mier Adnan Menderes in re cent days were the result 'of a British appeal for the United States to use its considerable influence with Turkey and Greece in an effort to get them to soften outright rejec tions of Britain's seven-year plan for the embattled island. Deep Concern Until now the United States has remained aloof from the Cyprus issue but the increas ing danger that it will result in the collapse of NATO in the eastern Mediterranean has caused deep concern in Wash ington. ( At the moment there are no signs of a compromise. The Turks, in fact, has committed themselves so irrevocably to partition that it may be diffi cult for the government to modify its policy without jeopardizing its' exis t e n c e. Popular opinion, increasingly aggressive by the day, has be gun to demand the whole of Cyprus for Turkey instead of partition. The Greeks are just as adamant in favor of Cypriot self - determination, which would result in Cyprus becom ing a part of Greece. ' 'Passing Brainstorm' Mayor Themistocles Dervis of Nicosia, who has just re turned from Athens where he led a delegation of Greek Cypriot mayors for talks with exiled Cypriot leader Arch bishop Makarios, Sunday night cabled the British plan a passing brainstorm, tie said the mayors fully agreed with the archbishop and the Greek government in reject ing the plan. The British governor of the island, Sir Hugh Foot, is just as determined to press ahead with the plan which envisions Turkey, Greece and the Cypri ots themselves running the PIANIST DIES Hamburg, Germany (UPI) German pianist and com poser Professor Eduard Erd mann died of a heart attack here Sunday night. island in partnership, except for foreign defense and se curity affairs which would re main in the hands of the British. 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