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.
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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
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plan - and it Is up to the
Egyptian government to fi
nally okay or reject the
five-man UNESCO recom
mendation. The Egyptian plan would
have the temples cut into
20 or 30 ton pieces. Each
piece would be lifted - not
floated up, as the French
suggest - to the clifftop for
reconstruction. The bill
would run to an estimated
$36 million. The U.A.R.
would give $11.5 million,
the rest coming from UNES
CO members.
Once the UNESCO ex
perts agree and the Egyp
tian government gives the
go ahead, bids will be in
vited and work would start
later this year, One factor
is especially cheering ar
chaeol-Bists concerned over
the possible loss of the tem
ples. U. S. delegate to UNES
CO Charles Cooper has de
scribed the new plans as
"promising" and has indi
cated Uncle Sam Is willing
to foot part of the bill.
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