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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 19S3
me Ml. Everest expedition
paid a day-long visit to the
University of Oregon recently
where they met with Peace
- Corps volunteers undergoing
training for their assignment
in Nepal.
nmuiig me anerpas was
Nawang Gombu, who along
with James Whittaker, scaled
r the top of the peak May 1.
The other tour, who carried
loads 27,000 feet up the moun-
1 tain, were Capt. P. Rana (of
the Nepalese army), Ila Tse-
rmg, Nima Tensing, Ang
Dawa and Girme Dorje.
Dr. James Lester, who
luuuuiicu psycnoiogicat re-
: search on the expedition, was
apuncMnan ior tne group.
A luncheon in honor of the
mountain climbers was held
at Carson hall, followed by a
tour of the Museum of Art
and an informal session with
Peace Corps trainees in Moore
Lounge at Bean hall.
The Sherpas and Dr. Lester
are on a five-week tour of the
United States sponsored by
the State Department and the
Everest Foundation. San
Francisco and Los Angeles
will round out their tour, the
psychologist said.
Complete Reports
EX-PRESIDENT DIES
Montevideo, Uruguay -IUPD-Ex-President
Faustino Harri
son died suddenly Tuesday at
the age of 63.
Kuchine. Sarawak (ITU
The United Nations inspec
tion team seeking to deter
mine if British Borneo real
ly wants to be part of .vet
unborn Malaysia has made it
official with an announce
ment that it was unable to
complete its work before the
scheduled birthdate-Aug. 31.
U.N. spokesman Abdul Da
jani said the team's exten
sive field trips into Sarawak
and North Borneo hinter
lands would be completed on
Aug. 31, but the final report
would then have to be pre
pared for Secretary General
U Thant.
Dajani said the nine-man
mission would use cars,
planes and speedboats to
visit and talk with Sarawak's
various local councils.
He also announced an open
door policy in that the Unit
ed Nations would see any
one who wishes to come for
ward to give views on Ma
laysia.
In the meantime, the situ
ation here remained tense,
with developments on several
fronts:
Gurkha reinforcements
were flown to a remote sec
tion of Sarawak near the In
donesian border, where a
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A N INSURANCE broker in California sent his friends this
announcement when his irrepressible 67-year-old mother
graduated from college: "I announce with pleasure and re
lief that my mother final
ly nailed down her Bach
elor of Arts degree this
week. If you think it's
tough putting your kids
through college just try
your mother!"
A big chicken farmer
from. Oregon went to Las
Vegas one weekend and
won ten thousand dollars.
he ordered his wife by long1
distance, "and join me for
a trip around the world."
Six months later the two
of them were back in. the
U.S.A. and broke. "Well," sighed the farmer, "it's home to Ore
gon for us, I guess." "To recoup our losses?" suggested his wife.
"No," said the farmer, "to re-coop our chickens."
From Charles Billings' collection of "famous last words": 1.
"Liquor never affects me." 2. "If he won't dim his bright head
lights, I certainly won't dim mine." 3. "I understand the Rus
sians' psychology, and can tell exactly what they're going to do
next." .
1963, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate
British patrol was ambushed
Friday by terrorists.
Indonesia, which said it
would send 30 observers to
watch the U.N.'s operation,
has not been heard from since
the British colonial govern
ment said only two would be
permitted.
Two Philippine observ
ers arrived in Singapore on
their way to Sarawak, but
said they would not leave for
the British protectorate
pending further instructions
from Manila. The Philippines
wanted to send five-man
teams to Sarawak and North
Borneo.
Sarawak police warned
that all residents would be
prosecuted if they failed to
report missing persons. Au
thorities were concerned
about scores of missing Chi
nese who were believed to
have crossed into Indonesian
Borneo for subversive train
ing. The Gurkha reinforce
ments were flown into an
area where terrorists recent
ly attacked a party of Gur
kha troops en route to inves
tigate reports of bandit
activity near the Indonesian
border.
One Gurkha was wounded
in the clash. A military an
nouncement said the terror
ists, who were armed with
shotguns and automatic wea
pons, appeared to have suffer
ed one casualty. The raid was
the 17th allegedly made from
Indonesian Borneo since last
December.
Indonesia has consistently
opposed the formation of Ma
laysia, composed of Malaya,
Singapore and the British
territories in Borneo. It was
Indonesian and Philippine
pressure that brought about
the summit meeting in Ma
nila two weeks ago when the
agreement to have the U.N.
survey the Borneo people
was reached.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Regiiter and Tribune
Syndicat.. :963)
Judge to Hear Plea
Of Former Official
Prosser, Wash. - (UPII - Judge
Albert N. Bradford, Walla
Walla, is expected to hear the
plea of former Benton County
Treasurer John Grigg, 58,
Thursday on charges of mis
appropriating county funds,
according to Benton County
Prosecutor Herb Davis.
Grigg is charged with mis
appropriating $548 and is free
under $1,500 bond.
Three earlier appearances
for arraignment were continued.
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Thert't Something About
That Lett-Handed Whelk
The world of the mollusks
is large and varied, compris
ing thousands of species of
shellfish and thousands of
millions of individuals of mos
varieties. They inhabit just
about every square yard of
ocean bottom throughout the
entire globe, and are divided
into two great groups . . . the
bivalves and the univalves.
The oyster is a bivalve fa
miliar to most everyone, along
with the scallop, clam, cockle
and coquina. These and a
few other bivalves, comprise
about 25 per cent of the mol
lusks. However, the majority
(about 75 per cent) of tne
world's shells are univalves
or single shelled.
In this group the list is
long, complex and varied, and
the species are less familiar
to the casual visitor at the
seashore. The periwinkle,
cone, tooth shells, whelk,
conch, and an almost endless
list of others are just a few
of the many varieties.
Trap Door
Having only one valve, the
animal that lives inside must
have some method of closing
the opening once it has with
drawn itself inside. Niture
accomplished this by equip
ping most univalve shells with
a little trap door or opercul
um, a device that is shaped
the same as the opening and
completely closes the door
once the mollusk is inside,
thereby saving the skeleton
less, body from predators.
You may never have notic
ed, but holding a univalve
shell in your hand with the
top, or apex of the shell away
from you, the opening will
not be in the middle of the
shell, but off to one side.
Chances are it will be on the
right side. This then, is a
right-handed shell. The twist,
or spiral of the whorl runs
upward and from left to right.
Actually, the shell is buili
somewhat like a spiral stair
way, turning in graceful
whorls around a central axis,
called a columella. When
these whorls turn in the di
rection of right - handedness
we say the shell is dextral
and the overwhelmingly ma
jority of the world's shells
are therefore right-handed.
This holds true for both fresh
and salt water varieties of
mollusks; mollusks meaning
soft-bodied.
Exceptions
In the seas and in some sec
tions of tropical or semi-tro
pical countries, there is at
least one glaring exception to
this right-handed business.
The lightning shell, so-called
because of the zigzag streaks
of brownish color on the out
side of the shell or left-handed
whelk, is always left-handed.
Its whorls turn in reverse,
turning to the left instead of
to the right; these are sinis
tral, and, of course, are left
handed. Because just about all uni
valve shells in all of the seven
! TWA Considers 28
New Boeing Jets
New York-lUPIl-Trans World j
Airlines, whose financial for
tunes have taken a turn for
the better recently, said Tues
day it is weighing the possi-
bility of purchasing 28 new
Boeing medium-range and
long - range jet aircraft by
1970.
TWA President Charles C.
Tillinghast said the carrier's
board of directors will meet
with Boeing Company offi
cials in Seattle today to dis
cuss the possible purchase
which could cost the airline
as much as $150 million.
seas are right-handed, they
are accepted as the normal
way a shell should develop.
Any departure from this rec
ognized form becomes an od
dity in the minds of those
only familiar with the right
handed shells. So some enter
prising individual, with an
eye for business and the ac
companying profit, introduced
into foreign countries many
of these left-handed shells.
In lands were anything un
usual is often considered in
a supernatural nature, the
left - handed whelk became
something very significant.
Some peoples of the Orient
hold the left-handed whelk in
reverence; they use the shell
with the zigzag markings in
secret riles, perhaps because
it is reminiscent of the light
ning or because it, being dif
ferent than shells they know,
is definitely left-handed.
Peace Corps Volunteers Training at University
Ellliene - With a hne. a At ih,. K,, , ,.f i., ,., , , . .. Y
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tugene - witn a hoe. a
shovel and a few other simple
tools, 40 Peace Corps volun
teers have completed several
outdoor construction projects
in and around Eugene in prep
aration for their stint in
Nepal.
The volunteers, undergoing
an extensive 11-week program
at the University of Oregon,
have constructed roads, rede
signed trails and built picnic
facilities without the aid of
modern power equipment or
materials.
"We tried to create realis
tic situations which they will
have to face in Nepal," ac
cording to Roscoe Day, super
visor of outdoor operations of
the training program. "They
have to learn how to solve
problems using old-fashioned
tools and available materials.
My biggest concession was the
day I gave them a handful of
nails," he chucKled.
Spencer's Butte was the
site of a number of outdoor
projects. Among them was the
reclaiming of a spring for a
usable water supply; building
of picnic tables, latrines and
cam pout shelters; and the re
designing of part of a trail for
older persons.
At the bureau of land man-, portion of the road which hart
agement s Marten Creek site
on the McKenzie river, Peace
Corps trainees diverted a
stream, relocated and built a
Pilot Lands Small
Plane on Highway
Poitland-IUPD-A 23-year-old
pilot returned here Monday
after landing his light plane
on U. S. Highway 101 about
20 miles north of Hoquiam,
Wash., Sunday afternoon.
David Bjerke of Portland
said he was forced to land his
single-engine Cessna 150 on
the highway when he encoun
tered heavy rainstorms while
on a flight from Vancouver,
B. C, to Portland. He nearly
ran out of fuel in attempting
to detour the storms.
Bjerke telephoned Execu
tive Flight Services in Port
land, owners of the plane,
after his forced landing.
Three men from the firm flew
to Hoquiam, took the plane
off the highway and ferried
it to Hoquiam where Bjerke
was waiting.
been washed out. This called
for building up the road and
installing culverts for drain
age. The project which required
the greatest amount of inge
nuity was at the Camp Fire
Girls site in Veneta, Day said.
An eroded old road had to be
reconstructed for year-round
use with provisions made for
drainage; at one point, a
bridge had to be built. The
trainees are still putting the
finishing touches on this proj
ect. As "extra hands" for the
Nepal Panchayt Development
program, the Peace Corps rep
resentatives will work In
groups of about three, demon
strating to natives what can
be accomplished with avail
able materials. "They will be
going into a type of culture
where they must rely on the
skills within their g r o u p,"
Day said.
Most of the 40 trainees are
from cities, and have had lit
tle outdoor experience,, proj
ect director E. G. Wengert
said. The outdoor training, in
addition to instruction in the
Nepali language, American
studies and world affairs, and
Nepal area studies are includ
ed in the university's training
program.
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Four FFA Youths
Receive High Award
Salem - IUP1I - Four Future
Farmers of America IfrA)
members from Oregon have
been nominated to receive the
organization's highest degree,
thai of American Farmer, at
the 36th annual national con
vention of FFA in Kansas
City. Mo., Oct. 9-11, it was an
nounced today.
The nominees are Merle Al
len Miller Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Merle A. Miller Sr.,
Moro, member of the Sherman
FFA chapter; Perry Melvin
Johnston Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Perry Johnston Sr., Wal
lowa, member of the Wallowa
FFA chapter; and Thomas A.
and Richard A. Cline, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F.
Cline, Milton - Freewatcr, I
members of the McLoughlin
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Salinas, Calif. - U'PU - The
one-millionth carload of let
tuce shipped from the Salinas
Valley departed today for
New York to be auctioned
off, with the proceeds going
to the American Red Cross.
The first shipment of iced
lettuce left the Salinas Val
ley in 1921.
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