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CHAPLAIN FOR ETU?

PRESS

"It opens up a fruitful field, Peverell. if the unions

pay

a political lovy might they not pay wi

Decumenical levy ?"

THE CHINA MAIL

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1966,

HILLARY DISCUSSES HIS NEW HIMALAYAN VENTURE

MY SEARCH FOR THE YETI

From deep within the jagged layan Mountains of Nepal, Sir

in the snow. It is possible that A. Well. she is very fond of but I'm afraid she some animal unknown to us. Or doesn't like me to go on difficult perhaps they were made by a expeditions.

Hima- the tracks have been made by mountains

Edmund known animal, though it is

strange they have been found at such high altitudes. The whole

Hillary, conqueror of Everest, may tell thing is a puzzle.

▼

the world soon: "We have found the Abominable Snowman."

Don't forget

AS

Billie Holliday

By Johnny Dankworth

SK any jazz musician over 25 his favourite jazz singer of all time male or female and there is a pretty good chance he will say "Billie Holliday,

recording

cornet-playing of a young " who was to become a legend of

inzz.

His Beiderbecke died before he reached his 30s, but he left enough the music on recurd in

a serious loss for jazz.

His plano-playing--as well as bis sparkling cornet is to be heard on four of his best ro

curdings (BIX BEIDERBEGKE,

Philips BBE 12388).

TTILLARY will lead

H

A

party of British and Americans up Mt. Malaku, the world's fourth highest mountain, to search for the Snowman. It will be the most intensive search yo made for the creature, which so far has never been seen, but which leaves behind it such glant. human-like tracks.

Here is an Interview which Hillary ave to Sid Ross, American journalist,

for America

leaving

[Himalayas:

2427 before the

Q. What Impels you to go to back to the Himalayas elimb again?

A. I get a thrill every time

on an expedition. A moun in is always a challenge, 17 matter how many times

yu

have climbed one. Or, for that

matter,

tany

the

a

no matter how times 3u have climbed same mountain. You climb

And the Himalayas are stil mountain because "It's there."

Lady Day, as she was known, lay dying in a New York hospital while my band was touring that his early death wis the States last year. 1 remember the news of her death coming as a shock but not as a surprise.

Billie never required the art Four of these have just been (KING OLIVER, of living. however great her reissuce

"there." Clarinetist-bandleader Woody musical talents. And tragically, Philips BBE 123691. Despite the towards the end, bếp music was pernitive

methods Herman is also the subject of a affected by her failm health. wiel du amount of 1000-style reissued EP this month, includ- But at her best she had o rem- 'face-lifting can hide pe rack in the famous "Four Brother" pletely original ppm.ch which will appreciate the band's un- track made by the 1847 band. bridged the gut betweins instru- rialled ontharity, its carefully But Early Autumn is a later mental and vocal Jazz 020 alized yet uncontrived rou- versipit

Ralph Burn successfully 11.0 anyone else fines, dolurry Dodds pines the emiposition, not to be confused has done before or stage, clarinet on them in a style stb with the faments one featuring closely followed by British the tor-sax arlistry of the At her Best

"Trad" clarinetists patie Za great Stan Getz years later.

--(London Expycas Service).

It is at her very host that we bear her on FABULOUS BILLIE (Fontina TPE 172H, Barty 20 years did when thes were recorded, her freshness and sense of fun seems to infert fle musician arenanying

h

Oliwy himselt was at 197 time playing first trumpet my some would grey "swceed fielelf"> to his brilliant young sidauraty 1.

Aarsing.

And the personnel of the hand aan hently

ready lika Wha's Who of Juzz

mt always featur

4 the path. Bs Oliver's

playing.

in the Thirties. No jazz enthus fut of the lifeblood of his

siast who wants a cross section

of the best in jazz enn possibly pass this one by.

alive New Orleans, that guided the destiny of the trumpet in jave for m: ny years to come.

A legend

The first really great series of jazz recordings-leaving aside the controversial Original Dixie

A1 adomu! land Jazz Band-was that which King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Oliver's bond Band made in Chiengo armed Chicago, that

and clubs were 1923.

Cummings

Blacks

of thu

TALKING

POINTS

Q

In that challenge the only reason for this tript

Oh, no, I am very much interested in the scientific side of the expedition. For example, we hope to bring along a zoologist to help us study the trueles of the Yes. We'll make and tive first study of gincter weather conditions in the oren. And we'll have physiologists with us to ind how human bodies acclimaUse to high altitudes.

have **In the past WC observed that certain things happen to the body at high altitudes, but we made no scientific studios, This tiane learn scien- the People who make no noise we're going to

what happens to tifically are dangerous.

body as it grows accustomed to thin air most important sub- Ject unday.

DE LA FONTAINE

מן.

Q. Is this expedition more dangerous than the Mi Ever- cst attempt?

tlar time King Boved North to city's dance halls,

echoing to the

Human history essence a history of ideas. -H. G. WELLS. (Lundon Express Service),

A. I'll tell you when I backs.

Napoleon

Nkrumah

TO KATANGA,

"Africans! You, too, have your Man of Destiny! You, too, shall have your Glorious Dead!"

London Express' Herrian:

get

Q. What is your definition of courage?

A. Courage is difcult to ar- fine because it's such abroad topic. But I think that courage: often means being ofrald and yet carrying on a though you didn't know what fear was.

Q. How do you feel when you reach the top of a moun. tain:

A Physically, I'm *pretty tired. Mentally, there's first a rellef, feeling of considerable followed next by one of certain satisfaction,

feel pretty pleased, you know. But I don' to in much for exhilaration, The last feeling I have up there, 15 tell you the truth, is usually one

of concern: How am I going to get back down?

A.

Q. Will any women go with you on the hunt for the Snowmant

Na. But not because women are poor climbers, Some are excellent. They have a neat

and very ness of movement, good sense of balance.

Q. How does your wife feel about the trip?

Q. Do you think your child- zen wit koine day follow your trails in the Himalayas

A. My three children are all under 5, and they have no opin- ians on the subject as yet, 1 have no ambitions in the climb. ing game for them, But they' be given an opportunity to climb if they like. My wife, you know, is a musician. Frankly, I'd rather have one of my child- ren become a famous musiclan.

SUDDENLY.

-*not*

".ge triit

នាង every climb. lain:" Si+ Ed mund Hillary, Below, the tur rain where ke may find the

Yalk

ONE WORD SET THE ELECTION

In the race-tense

South religion becomes

a hot issue

New York.

Q. How do you relax after THE solid South is cracking. Large sections of

an expedition?

A. Anything that makes me

laught is the best tonle for me enjoy laughing. And I enjoy

being with the person who, in a sticky situation, can say some thing to make you laugh,

it are not merely saying "No" to the mixing

of black and white in schools, lunch rooms, and playing fields-they are also saying "No" to the Democratic Party which they have embraced so long.

And they

i

ure turning dreds of thousands of normally

FLAMING

octopus, covers the entire world and threatens those basic free- doms for which our forefathers died.

"Even if Kennedy wins with strong emphasis on the separa-

"

parlour shops and schools. The entire South Is tense.

Kennedy himself is pained angry. Ho has played ais religion down and has

and

tion of Church and State then barred photographers from tak- the doors open for

another ing pictures of himself and his wife, Jacqueline, entering or Roman Catholic later on who leaving church, But he is proud

gives the Pope recognition

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

of

of

of his Roman Catholicism and has said over and over again: "I believe in the separation of Church and State"

Vice-President Richard Nixon, Kennedy's opponent, tempor- arlly out of action with a knee infection, has pleaded with his supporters, not to bring up the religious issue, and said any such action would be "cowardly and un-American,"

Giving

4. On this trip, what are against the Democratic Democratic Southerners do not your chances of success" candidate John Kennedy be- What Kennedy at any price bo-

Nixon is a Quaker. Today It gol, A. Reasonably

has made big Our cause he is a Roman Catho- cauce he is a Roman Catholic.

Lost Sunday from a hundred one Church above all others in looks as if he

inroads in the solid South. chances of anding the Yet acelic. In Jacksonville, Florida, Folie in Southern and neigh- America"

The Vice-President is already probably not very, high since we

States,

Hundreds of thousanda Ministers, don't know if it even exists. But the gateway for the tourist bouring our chances of climbing the to the Sunshine State, there mostly Methodists or Baptists, copies of this sermon are being ahead in Florida and Virginia;

and appcTIN preachers and

to be leading in mountain and accomplishing all have been race riots, curfew denounced the Roman, Catholl- clrculated

businessmen at their request. North Carolina and South Caro-

Hina, with the other of the. If our weather, and glacfer observa-

Southern States close according tions are reasonably high.

to the last polls.

Q. If you lind the Brow man on this trip. would the discovery be Your Frontent thrill?

A. I have no idea.

Q. Wan Dealing your greatest thrill?

Everest

measures by the City Coun- cm and rejected Kennedy,

Ever since America's most

cil, bloodshed and the killing of a coloured boy.

Band of angry while men brandishing baseball bats patrol the streets, the police are on an emergency basis, and have been using riot guns and tear-gas to quell the outbreaks.

Loitering

Mayor Haydon Burns telig

we find any group

A. No. My greatest thrill, 1 think, come In Antarctica in 1057. We lifted three farm mo" tractors from an lee shelf to

of more than four persons, re-

of the Dolly Mail, is being anti-Roman fed, with

choots,

10

Pleading

Edy's

but the

Bre

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famous cvangcitat, By Graham, sald that a man's

The Southern Baptiste Con- religion cannot be separated vention is actively campaign- There are many reasons for Southerners from politics, the denunciation ing against Kennedy's Ronan this. The whito ut Jack Kennedy has swelled.

And Dr Catholicism

Hamboy feel that Kennedy's 'Detaocratic The young standard bearer of Polard, the President of the Party

Dir too platform Is the Democrats has formed Convention,

bluntly: Liberal on the question of civil special department to answer all "Senator Kennedy has a per- rights "giving the Nigder avery.... questions concerning his religion, feet right to bellevo as he thing he wants."

So far the department has not

The Roman

white Southerner

that the been very effective.

Nbcort Every

newspaper office, in Catholle Church is more than a belleves

religion, it is political State, Republican Party platform is cluding the New York bure

These expremions of antie more balanced and conservative,

opinion

actually Nixon Kennedy

Bat allhough info, Shmilar statements come out as strongly for civil. are being made all over the rights for the coloured ries as Boath, the Deep South, and Kennedy, the Mladi Wai,

Remnants of the hooded order The race riots and the re- Jection of traditions) allegianon

It is an eziy altuation and of the Ku-Klux-Klan are still to the Democratic Party ard

dangerous. The outbursts from active in the South, boll

They ololm Diverly

Dne of the loading Southern the pulpit and the platform connected and,

million are led up with the Presiden- preachers, the Reverentl W. against Kennedy and his ro- members and are violently anti Uial Election campaign.

A Chriswell, a power among ligion have come at a time Catholle and Senotor

Kennedy's the Depilats, spoke solemnly in when Negro youths in Florida, Kennedy,

Sunday: "Tom

bech firing rifles and it in oulous the taclái Brid as the Sherpa natives do, that Roman Catholicism has become a sermon an

is not only a pistols into shop windows, and religious crials In the Bouth half-human "and, half-beast. n explosion

the Catholicism point In Southern States and also in the rellafor, it is a political tyranny, parked cars, hurling Molotov will intensity, as, the campaign Is something making, those træske, Middle West Bible Belt, Hun- a political system that, los en cocktails at garages, tuneral roaches its climax

plateau when everybody sold tgardless of their race, foltering couldn't be done. You got anywhere in the city they will

palan is well organised, great deal of satisfaction out of be subject to immediate arrest Catholic literatures The doing something people say is impossible.

While planning this trip, have you developed Eny theories about the Snowman? A. I find it difficult to belleve

However, I am sure that there

John

Preaching

over a

therofóra, anti-