The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 June 1967 — Page 4
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U.S. Ship Attacked By Mistake; 10 Yanks Die UN Fights to Preserve
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military casualties of the brief
Middle East war.
Ten Americans were killed and about 100 wounded Thursday when Israeli jets and torpedo boats made two separate raids on the lightly armed communications ship. Liberty had just taken up position 15
ever, said the ship was flying the U. S. flag, had her name on the stern, and identification numbers on the bow. When Liberty first radioed word she was under attack, the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, cruising in the Mediterranean southeast of Crete,
miles north of the Sinai Pen- launched jet warplanes to go
insula in international waters when it was attacked without warning. Israel later apologized for the attack and said it was a mistake. An Israeli military spokesman issued a statement Thursday night declaring the ship bore no identification. The Navy Department, how-
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to her assistance. But the U. S. planes were recalled when Israeli government acknowledged responsibility for the attack. The White House disclosed that before it heard from Israel, the United States used the “Hot Line” teletype circuit linking Washington and Moscow to inform the Russians of the attack and to explain why U. S. planes were scrambling. A White House spokesman said the message was “an advisory that something had happened to one of our ships and we were sending planes in.” The Pentagon said an undetermined number of Israeli Jet fighters made about six strafing runs against the ship, which is armed only with four 50-caliber machineguns. About 20 minutes later, three
torpedo boats approached Liberty from her starboard side and fired at least two torpedoes. One torpedo passed 25 yards astern. A minute later, the second torpedo struck the ship. At least one of the Israeli torpedo boats also made a machinegun attack on Liberty. The Pentagon said Liberty reported “extensive but superficial damage topside and some lower deck spaces forward destroyed,” but was in no danger of sinking.
WldTife of The World
UNITED NATIONS, N. T. (UPI) — A traveler in Africa in 1903 wrote that he saw thousands of gazelles marching on the horizon, countless lions snoozing on the road. Today the tourist is more likely to see animal tails lined up in curio shops to be sold as
fly swatters.
Man’s appetite for the hunt, for meat, for leopard coats, maribou-trimmed dresses and other trivia, plus the modernization of Africa, Latin Amer- | ica and Asia, is cutting deeply into the wild life population of
the world.
One unsung United Nations
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SAN RAFAEL,Calif. UPI — J. Wamock Walsh Jr. dropped into an auction of restaurant
equipment in San Francisco success story is that since 1948
recently, and was attracted by! the UN Economics, Cultural and wild life formfeed, roads, fences a painting of a voluptuous Social Organization (UNESCO) ' - ■
UNESCO auspices in Washington in 1968 on conserving natural resources. Last October the U. S. Congress approved a resolution calling for a world conference under UN sponsorship tq keep many species from
vanishing.
Sir Julian Huxley, famed British naturalist and first di-rector-general of UNESCO, in 1963 wrote a report for UNESCO in which he mentioned “the shocking slaughter.” His and other UNESCO reports say wild animals have all but disappeared from South and western Africa since the Europeans brought gun-toting hunters, cattle which compete with
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reclining nude with a cherub. While others made bids on pots and pans, Walsh successfully offered $100 for the painting and took it to an expert who promptly identified it as an Eduoardo Tojetti worth $3,500. He said the frame alone was worth $250.
has been fighting to keep the lion, the rhinoceros and other creatures of the wild, and other natural resources, from ex-
tinction.
The battle has reached a near panic stage with many conservationists. The next major step is a world congress under
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and cities. The Barbaray lion and the quagga (a type of zebba) already are gone forever.
FIRST CONFERENCE
The first international conference on the protection of nature was held in Bern, Switzerland, in 1913, followed by a Paris meeting in 1923. At a 1930 London meeting many countries signed a pact to pre-
serve wild life in Africa.
UNESCO took over the job in 1948, organizing the International Union to Conserve Nature and Natural Resources, headquarters in Switzerland. Paris and at the UN in New York, experts also work on UNESCO’s Natural Resources Research Program, begun in 1948. covering the world’s soil, geology, water, climate, plants,
animals and minerals.
UNESCO’s reason for involvment is economic: wild animal conservation can help poor countries because the beasts bring tourists revenue and also often are more economical to grow for food than domesti-
cated animals.
UNESCO conferences have resulted in creation of National Conservation Boards in each African country, laws against wasteful killing, and education of Africans to respect | wild life. Some Africans, say j UNESCO reports, regard wild animals as a shameful sign ofj primitive life and wish to elim- ! 'inate the creatures. Others think thej^re in an infinite supply and slaughter animals for their tails or hides, leaving the
it to the hospital just in time to see the ambulance drive up—but instead of the sick man climbing out, it was his wife. "Didn’t you realize this ambulance was for your husband?” asked the doctor. "I tried to tell her,” broke in the husband, who had just come tottering on the scene, "but one word led to another, and, aa usual, I Gama oa-
the bus.” • • •
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Nebraska Girl Wins National Spelling Bee
By Sheila Moran WASHINGTON UPI—Though she lives thousands of miles from the blue water where they’re used, a 14-year-old Jennifer Reinke of Deshler, Neb., probably will never forget the yachting term “spinnaker.” “Spinnaker” a large triangular sail set upon a long light pole on the side opposite the mainsail on fore-and-aft-rigged yachts, used when running before the wind—Webster’s was the one word Jennie missed on her way to the championship of the National Spelling Bee Thursday. The pretty eighth grader said she’d never heard of the word— not surprising since they probably don’t do much yachting in
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river near her home. She spelled it “spiniker,” and for a moment it appeared she would wind up second in the contest, which drew 73 spelling champions, the best of some 6 million youngsters under 16 who participated in local elimination contests. But Jennie’s competition, Anne Clark, 14, of Huntington, W. Va., another town where the ocean is only a word, spelled it “spinnecker.” So both girls got new life. Then came the word “Chihuahua.” Smiling through her tears, Jennie spelled it correctly and was proclaimed the nation’s champion speller. Jennie plans to use her $1,000 cash prize for college. In addition she’ll be getting a weekend in New York, an appearance on the Ed Sullivan television show and a three-day trip to Canada's Expo 67.
Jennie was sponsored In ths Bee by the Omaha World-
INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Herald - which hasn,t had a win ” Indiana State Board of Health ner since Vir ^ nia Ho 8 an in
remove 1 ^ 2 ^’ The contest is sponsored
carcasses to rot. The rhinoceros announced it wil ,
is killed by some tribes who be- from se rvice five mobile X-ray by 016 Scripps-Howard newspa- „— - - pers and 57 other daily and
Sunday papers.
lieve the ground-up horns are units which have been used to an aphrodisiac. j combat tuberculosis. UNESCO also is helping' Dr. Louis W. Spolyar, execuAfrican nations to train con- tive secretary of the Indiana servationists and has laid down Tuberculosis Council and
rules for establishment of nat-
ural parks. Member
have been urged to control the trade of animals for zoos, medical research, skins, oil and
species will not patronize the
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be used.
Naturalist Huxley warns that before 1970 Africa will know whether its wild life is doomed. If so, future generations will see in zoos only those wild animals which can be born in cap-
tivity.
a
board of health official, said
nations thi g does not mean the state is
quitting the fight against TB, but that the people who most need the chest X-rays wouldn't
vans.
80 Per Cent Of Corn Is Planted LAFAYETTE UPI—About 80 per cent of Indiana's com crop was planted by the end of last) week, agricultural statistician Robert E. Straszheim has reported. Straszheim's weekly crop report said the percentage was the same as this time last year but behind the five-year average of 90 per cent Com averaged two inches tall compared with a normal four inches. Soybean planting was 45 per cent completed, below the 50 per cent a year ago and the average of 70 per cent Topsoil and subsoil moisture were reported as fully adequate last week.
The vans have been used since 1950 but will be returned to the motor pool Jan. 1 and the X-ray machines will be turned over to the other health officials who can be use them for the same purpose. He said the $70,000 a year cost for operating the vans will be used in other ways. Nebraska, even on the little blue'
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