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Time Is By DAVID BISHAI United Prttt International Cairo Five men are meeting here for possibly the last chance to save the threatened jewel of the land of the Pharoahs, the tern-' pies of Abu SimbeL Time is catching up with the 3.500-year-old temples Pharoah Ramses II built on the Nile river's west bank for his wife and for him self. The scheduled November, 1964, completion of Egypt's Aswan High dam will send the Nile waters backing up ,. over the temples' site. Any rescue work must start this October. The five experts of the United Nations Educa tional, Scientific and Cul tural Organization (UNES CO) must pick one of two 'multi-million dollar meth ods of preserving these gi gantic souvenirs of man's ancient history. :: Saving the temples is a task akin to moving a moun- Catching Up With 3,500-Year-Old Temples! YHAKiKl Counselor To Attend Training Session '.. L. V. Young, counselor at the Medford office, of the Oregon state employment service, has been selected to take additional counselor training at the University of Oregon from June 17 through July 12, Eldon Cone, director, Oregon state employment service has announced. The four-week course in employment counseling is de signed to develop further the counselor's competencies in placement of applicants in jobs and helping employers find qualified employees. Course director at the Uni versity is Dr. Haron J. Battle, director of guidance in the Gary, Ind. public schools, and Dr. R. N. Lowe, University of Oregon, is coordinator. KlieverTo Workin Sen. Morse's Office Douglas Kliever,- son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Kliever. 1008 Mira Mar ave.. Medford, who recently com pleted his junior ; year at Princeton university, will spend the summer working in the Washington, D.C., of- iice.of U.S. Sen. Wayne L Morse. Two Princeton S t u d e n t s were chosen for the special training and educational op portunity offered in the field of political science through tne assignment. The students are not being paid lor the work they do, but part of their expenses will be financed by a cooperative program with Princeton uni versity, Kliever's father said. ' 1 sb. m mm HOPE TO SAVE The ancient Egyptian temple of Abu-Simbel, shown here during repairs in 1960, is in danger of being flooded with the completion of Egypt's Aswan High dam next year. Efforts are under way to save this temple, which is ac tually a mountain. Best plan submitted so far calls for the temple being cut into 20 or 30 ton pieces, which would be lifted to the clifftop. The cost would be $36 million. (UPI) tain. But the reward can be seen in the first rays of sunrise. - The temples rise against a 250-foot-high rose granite cliff where the Nile cuts through the yellow land of Nubia. It is located near the Tropic of Cancer, a 35-mile riverboat journey down from the Sudanese border. Greenery is fare, and only an occasional palm grove or a Nubian village with its rainbow - colored houses breaks the view of the yellow sands. But the riverboat comes into a nat ural harbor at the foot of the- cliff. A visitor is in luck if the boat comes at sunrise. Changes at Sunrise Sunrise changes the giant facade of four seated fig ures of Pharoah Ramses from rose to gold. The first rays illuminate the fore heads and shoulders of the 66 -foot -high figures and then begin descending. The rays pierce the open doorway of Abu SimbcU leaping into a series of enor mous chambers that go 180 feet into the rock. More statues of Ramses, gargan tuan and as fierce as a pa gan god, line the corridors in semi-darkness. The early sun rays strike each one and shoot briefly into the tem ple's inmost sanctuary. ' They spotlight for a few minutes the bas-reliefs and carvings and color. There on the wall is Ramses, lunging with his spear at his enemies. Ramses, whom scholars say invoked the op pression that caused Moses to lead his people out of Egypt," almost comes alive. Queen's Tempi About 60 yards down stream ' lies the temple of Queen Nefcrtari. the Phar oah's wife. But there too is Ramses, the proud, conquer ing god-king, hovering and protecting over his elegant and beautiful queen. The twin temples, the yellow sand, the red cliff and the Nile form an undivided, un forgettable scene. It has been that way for 35 cen turies. No wthe five men of UNESCO must decide how to carve up and move the temples or leave them to drown. There is a French plan and an Egyptian plan for saving them. The French plan would have men cut the temples from their rock home and float them to their new site. The Egyptians suggest carv ing the temples into chunks and lifting them to the top of the cliff where they would be put back together. Previous plans to salvage the temples have been drop ped as too costly or too fan tastic. Polish experts sug gested a Jules Verne style plan for erecting a tight concrete dome over the tem ples, guarding them when the water rises. Water-tight elevators would pop tourists up and down to lake bottom to glimpse the temples. This was rejected. Also rejected, because it would mar the scenery, was an earlier French plan for erecting a mammoth earth and rock dam to bar the waters from the temples. ' Italians' Plan The Italians brought forth a plan for hoisting the tem ples with gigantic hydraul ' ic jacks inch by inch to the cliff's top. But a worldwide drive for funds brought less than a fourth of the $70 mil lion needed for this. Then in April came the new French and Egyptian plans billed as less costly and within man's ability to car ry out. The French claim they can do the job for $30 mil lion. But U.A.R. Culture ministry sources told UPI the French plan is doubtful and would actually cost al most $90 million. This would leave the Egyptian rPENNEY'S-"C0MPARE" Penney's ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY "X OUR SWIFT SHIFT they're new and bound for a busy summer 95 Wide-faced flowers fall on this really sensational looking shift in petti-point cotton piquet lined in smooth solid cotton nd bowed near the knee. It's tftt coolest, freshest, nicest bit of fashion you'll ever seel Sizes 8 to 18. Penney's Mezzanine Fashion Floorl ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY 1 Charge i Complete Set- Use Our Time Payment Planl Back again! By popular damandl rife Exclusively Penney's! travelers ft luggage made by Samsonite VERY SPECIAL PURCHASE!! Pullman . . . Weekender . . . Train cases $ 1 priced to make dollars go farther! 15-Inch Beauty Case 48 LADIES' WEEKENDER AND MEN'S COMPANION Molded style, extra-strong and light weight tool All the interiors match the outside colors, ladies' in blue or ivory; men's in charcoal or brown. 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