, Monday, June 23, 1958
Quotoc From the News
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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.
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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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