1955-04-30 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1955.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

Himalayan Climbers Will Safe and smart at the workbench

Search For The Abominable Snowman

Landon

A record number of 500 climbers will be scrambling up the slopes and glaciers of the Himalayas this season and veteran Everester, Eric Shipton hopes at least one of the expeditions will find an Abominable Snowman.

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It was 66 years ago this month that the trail of the "Snowman" was first spotted by a British hunter in north-east Sikkim.

The President

Who Makes

Worried because his frighten- ec porters babbled that they had come across the dreaded "Metekhangmi," Colonel LA Waddell assured them they had seen only the tracks of a yellow bear.

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there is no question they were not the trucks of langur mon- keys or bounding walyes sceptics have suggested,

New is the Abominable Snow- man, as othe

as other sceptics declare, a beast sayn only by Sherpas

Bles In the

of the Royal Colonel Waddell Anally per- Geographical Society there is a suaded even himself, although notation

by

While a surveyor.

above the snowline, explorers and Mount Everest saw what appeared to be a fure covered man ambling across a climbers are sure he was wing snowfield a quarter of a mile only a few are NC away. He disappeared into some

Eric Shipton, diplomat and famous limalayan climber, who is convinced that on the roof of the world dwells a strange man-animal.

H

A Few Dollars he know yellow beas rady mapping a Himalayan area, be

On The Side

Chicago.

Toni Janulis is a solidi citizen who leads a double life.

later

as

What else can you believe when you have seen his actual them for al In the morning be is chief tracks and trailed

asked Mr elevator starter in a big ofertast two miles?"

building. In the afternoon he is President of ar $11,000,000 savings and loan association

""Nothing like making a few dollars on the side," he said.·

It may seem strange, but Mr. Janulis regards his clevator post as his "regular job." The presidency of the district savings and loan association is a sideline. Actually it doesn't puy a great deal.

But it is a pretty good side- line for a man who came to America, from Lithuania as boy of 18, alone,

Nothing Strange

♫

Mr Janulis, a big, friendly man with iror. gray hair, sees nothing strange in his dual role, He has been an employee of the huge office building at 175 W. Jackson ever since they built the place 42 years ago.

"I worked my way up to chief starter and the pay is good," he said. "I've got 51 men under me, and there are 16,000 people in this building who ride the elevators

He became President of the savings and loan association during the depression 20 years ago, and ho's been re-elected every year since.

"

"But you can never tell about elections,"

said, smiling. he "Maybe that's why I keep my starter's job."

י

Began Humbly

Shipton.

Tensing Saw One

the

"In the 1951 reconnaissance (that paved the way for successful Mount Everest climb 1953) we measured and We photographed the tracks. lest the trail of the "Yeti, our Sherpas called It, un Flacier."

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Another reason Mr Shipton believes in the existence of the "snowman" is that Tensing, the trustworthy Sherpa who climbed Everest with Sir Edmund Hill-

ít Himself ary, Thyangboche Monastery the great peak.'

saw

at below

. He described it to Shipton as about Avt ft six tall, standing somewhat stooped. It was cover- ed with reddish-broWIL hair except the face, which was bare

and red.

The footprints discovered by

Shipton were 12 inches across.

at crevasses

Nail scratches showed where the thing had leaped them. Mr Shipton says

Painting In

The Basement

Brantford.

brush

Sir John Hunt's successful! Everest expedition of 1953 was told by the monks of Thangbeche That they had had to frighten blowing by away som: Yetis conch shells when the animals invaded the monastery precincts.

One of the expeditions this. year

Swiss-Austrian · 23- | sault on Lhotse Peak, Its mem- bers will attempt to bring back!

alive.-United "mowman"

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Press.

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Audrey Lambert, 20-year-old London model, de-- monstrates a full-length nylon overall and protective goggles, for the worker operating a lathe. Audrey is one of a team of mannequins who displayed industrial protective clothing at the 3rd National Factory Equip ment Exhibition recently held at Earls Court, London.

Children's Railway Track

Prank Would Put 'Russian

Roulette' In The Shade

Montreal.

Veteran railroad detectives who thought they knew all the dare devil stunts children were capable of dreaming up have come across a new, blood-curdling game.

Groups of boys in suburban Notre Dame de Grace have been re- ported running down the tracks in front of onrushing trains. The last to jump aside wins.

Such deliberate cauiting of Last year, two 14-year-old side of the overpass onto death fortunately is isolated in Monreal boys were fined $25 hervy rush-hour traffic. the long records of the CPR and and severely reprimanded by CNR police.

a full-grown menace,

Not satisfied with

merely

of people."

"

WANTED: A HEBREW WORD FOR COWBOY

Tel-Aviv.

So far, no one has invent ed a good Hebrew word for "Cowboy" and the biblical letters look rather queer es- pecially as the sound "ow" has no equivalent in the tongue of Moses,

Only in the last few months did an urgent need arise for the

ward when 16 YOUrg farmers took a course at the Agricultural Station at Tiberias. They returned to their col- kelive villages.

adept in the art bareback riding and

a herd

of stelts.

lessoing, Tamding-up a

Redno

mally adme has been

to the Medi-

terranean climate. Instead of a wide-brimmed hat, they wrap

Bedula starf round their heads which goes much better with an Arab steed.

Instead

tight-Atting breeches the wear a pair of khaki pants wide enough to let. a draught through.

Stock-breeding

But American experts of the point four programme have convinced Israeli cattle-raisers that rodeo kit is not the most important feature of a cowboy. The U.S. Foreign Operations Mission

boosted

a scheme for pasture improvement at the big W-

ranch dubbed "Operation Cow- by which covers the rolling 03 the shore of Lake

in vested in a herd of 2,000 sheep and

300 American heifers, Stock-breeding for beef has only just begun to find popu- Jarity 4 ⚫ among

conservative

Israel farmers.

While poultry-farming and milk-production

enjoyed huge

Government subsidies, beef catte had a raw deal.

Slowly a

have

official

economics

come round, to the iden that chickens eat more dollars than heifers.

Indian Mothers

It takes 3 kilogragames of.

make ode kilo of chicken, but only ones kilo of fodder to produce the came weight of beet.

Cattle can graže on natural pasture all year, except for the driest season

the winter before rains.

imported fodder to

Due to Governmental hesi

Pare

Capitel

TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 ̊F.M.

ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

GIRL OF THE

YEAR bat CUMMINGS – CAULFIELD

They're proposes

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M. "DARD" An Indian Picture with Suraiya, Munawar Sultana, Suresh Released Thru GIAN SINGH & CO.. H.K. LTD.

RITZ

3 SHOWS TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 6.30 & 9.20 P.M.

is Born JUDY GARLAND

MASON

LUCK CARSON CHARLES BICKR

TOM MOONAN »MESÍ VART - GAMES LEFT-BUNGE -

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY. AT 2.30, 5.30, 130 & 9,30 P.M.

Broadway's Musical Stocess Comes to the Scream! In High Fidelity, Perspecta Stereophonic Sound!

THE DANCING, ROMANCING MUSICAL THAY DAZZLED BROADWAY 1

BRIGADOON GENE KELLY-

CINEMASCOPE VAN JOHNSON

GYD CHARISSE

**i* COLORI - ELAINE STEWART -

་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་P་་་་

tation no more than 10,000 head SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12:30 p.m. chew the grase of Israel. today.

The herda were motherød

ment

malaria.

of

were

consig

Indian.

resisting

the

But the 1,400 mea Judge J. G. Nicholson for layYou might have been responsi- cows-Brahmins which had

Commented Judge Nicholson: four years ago by a

dark-grey who patrol Canada's 51,000 miles ing tla plates along the tracks

advantage, of excitment-seeking youngsters as Boulevard. of track learned long ago to fear at the CPR overpass at Decarle ble for the deaths of hundreds the

Less Meaty The problem; however, is not

They

acclimatised at nearly is acute as in the United

and soon felt quite at home by the States, where 354 obstructions Acre Agricultural station

Jordan Instead of the Ganges. 1951, But we're not taking any

Brahmins chances of letting the situation than Exaropean pedigree cattle, mins being less meaty"! get out of hand," said Mr G they will raise a family to Shes, director of the CNR's in-gether with imported Hereford vestigation department.

and Dutch cattle, will cross-breed

At a later stage, Acre station Естети with

Sgt. Charles Allaway, who A Nicholson is painting a playing, some children often idly spotted the boys, testibed in slant mural three feet high and

wonder what would happen if Social Welfare Court that the 40 feet longin his fancee's they placed some obstretion on train scheduled to pass within basement,

the track. Generally, they get minutes would

been "There's lots of room," the 25-more than they bargained for. derailed and toppled over year-old commercial artist ex-

The district sayings and loan, plained. "It's a dry basement like Mr Janulis, started life so we didn't even bother water-

run

proofing it”

humbly. Their stories parallel, and are marked by old fashioned thrit and hard work.

The mural will be made up of four outdoor scenes. It will be

A group of Lithuanian im-painted with automobile calamel migrants founded the associa

and a brush big enough to paint

tion in 1897 with assets of a house. $14,100 and headquarters in the back room of a saloon. The members thought they were doing if

"well they saved 50 cents or $1 a week,

By 1952, the organisation had its own modern office building and-was a nationality group no longer-United Press.

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"I don't bother too much with subtle colours," he said. "I take red, yellow, blue, black and white and make whatever shaće I want

"Sometimes it's hard to paint details on cement Otherwise it's simple."United Press,

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

cht ze well say yes. Herb let us got married anyw

parents

have

the

36 Million Americans

Enjoy

Coffee

A Daily Break

New York.

resulted in

41 derailments

In

In a bid to educate youngsters

tick-fever and

* 10 the consequences of local Arab cows which with- trespassing or tampering with

drying railroad equipment, both rail- ways have encouraged

their heat. agents in towns along tracks to The cowboy tradition is still

in its

infancy here. The com- give lectures in classrooms,

bined

efforts of Iguel's cow- Even Alms dressed up by boys could not supply a 100- weaving dramatic continuity gram meat ration for the whole through to "safety-first population time to

For &

come, meat

there, are available for show- ing. The movies may not will have to be imported with have a slick, Hollywood polish, a subsidy so that the poorest Every working day 36 million Americans take a brief but they get their message family can at least endas 100 grams at festival times-United break at their place of work to sip the brew of the bean across.

Press. that Brazil has an awful lot of,

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Pulled A Switch

The figure-supplied by the his firm went in for coffee-. The star in one of those resis

success

New

Coffee time, Inc., and Detroit's Uke-named coffee time,

•

athe

Madrid's Claim To Antiquity

Madrid.

AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES —

BUD & LOU in "LOST, IN HAREM" M-G-M Film

The LINDEN PLAYERS

BY PUBLIC DEMAND

A FURTHER PRESENTATION

of

"WHILE THE SUN SHINES"

at

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

on

MONDAY & TUESDAY, MAY 2nd & 3rd at 8.30 p.m. TICKETS: $5 and $3

AT MOUTRIES OR THE DOOR.

TAI SHUN JEWELLERY CO.

Wholesaler & Retailer

Diamond, Jade

and Jewellery

COREPTOLOSTOR certifients of origin available: for export

72, Queen's Rd., C. Hong Kong. Tel: 20664 & 20618

H.K.S.P.C. FANS.

Neods financial support for the sekce of poor, shildren

Pan-American Coffee Bureau breaks catering "very deeply." Is the youngest train-wrecker

is an up-to-the-minute sti

Every morning from the lon record, who practically mate on the basis of industrial chain's restaurants special carta, crawled into the arms of the and business surveys, and it's up equipped with thermos jugs of law after a string of freight one million over last year. And coffee, pastries, orange juice, cars, including CNR at CPR it does not include farmers or and paper cups, go out to about wagdas, jumped the track at Not content with having been housewives!

300 client firms. They serve Wickersham, Wash., just south the leading world power around the 18th century when Spaniards in The calce break, starting about 40,000 customers daily in Vancouver,

Investigators found

prominently that figured So during World War II, has come New York, Philadelphia, and

the new world, Boston

switch opening up someone had pulled a on with a rush. It's now

Madrid

now

to trying American institution, as sacred The Wall Street Journal carelessly let: unlocked by the

child establish a claim for its civilise- to stene indoor toilers as the quotes two big New York re yard crew. But only a

tion 4,000 years ago. was seen in the vicinity a few afosta is to the populace of some staurant chains

as stating the

Archaeologists tave unearthed is tre hours before the mishap.. sunny climes.

coffee-break business

interesting finds near Madrid on mendous." It saysTM a-Chicago

Detectives doubted that the banks of the Manzanares National jokes have been bulit.

child could manipulate a River revealing evidence of upon it. Romances have flower-catering concern hit a $300,000

sales figure last year and quotes switch! But going through the housing, eating and drinking ed in the steamy fragrance of e

of Dallas'

motions

of exploring every utensils and even ancient fauna the cardboard cups, A whole

toddler of about 2000 BC. new business has been founded

land, they picked a out of the crowd to try it.

A committee for archarole to supply its demands. The

gical excavations has been National Security Council hasi To curb time-loss caused by The four-year-old threw the formed to exploit the diggings

so easily and expertly the decree setting up exodus of numbers of people switch given it a pat on the back as a

the fatigue-reducer -Labour con- from the premises during coffee that suspicions were aroused committes says that its aims are tracts bave inchadled it, in some breaks, a majority of companies Sure enough, he was the vil

to give. Madrid the importance that have regularly-set breaks plan United Press.

that would pertain to it as the of 1,160 have provided for service A national survey.

capital at the pre-historic world. the premises.

-United Press. companies disclosed that 80 per cent of them bad breather! The most widely used method periods for coffee in effect only now seems to be the company since 1941, the year the United cafeteria. This is followed close- States entered the war Almostly by portable canteens, vending half had started the coffee break machines, and stationary en after the war ended. teens The latter three can be "Metro akinis to be the most hood of tourists comptaluing In Chicago, a survey of 120 placed closer to the worker's heavily used tube service in the that. It was almor Impossible to companies disclosed 151 of them desk at beach, and thus save world. It carried almost one hear damenco singing, in Madridi have a policy of regular rest time and reduce congestion. million people a day on an without going slumming

night club, prices

the Employer cilter on whether average in 1954, according to paying perinde

business of catering to the coffee break is good, bad, agures just released,

Government has sponsored a Pleqae- address The the coffee-breais trade is a brisk or fadiferent as far as produe»

Madrid cabaret where the tions: Secretary Altho coe, with dis big opetus coming divity zoes Bat & seems to stay. Although Madrid has popula-genuine article can be heard at Society in the last two years. In New After all the bosses like a little ition of only 1,800,00010948,443 a reasonable cost United Press. Torka spokesman for the break for

bpbUafted people travelled in the Metro * A style of Andalusian gypsy Scherfit's Restaurant chairs said Fres

daily tast year United Prem, singing and dancing.

instances,

Popular Metro' Madrid

The Madrid underground rail- way, familarly known

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