The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 February 1972 — Page 10

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed M Feb. 16, 1972

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Cairo, Land Os The Pyramids, Cradle Os Civilization

By DELLA And ARCH BAUMGARTNER CAIRO, Egypt, Fri., Feb. 4 — "Once you have drunk from the Nile you will always return." This little gem came from the smiling lips of our guide whose multi-syllabic and ancientsounding name we quickly reduced to Frank. The encounter with Frank came on Friday, Feb. 4, our first day out as tourists of the fabulously historic city of Cairo, Egypt, on our first leg of a MidEast tour with the National Newspaper Association, which will eventually take us to a number of countries and set us down on both sides of one of the hottest international conflicts in the world today. This little excursion is the second for Della and myself with the National Newspaper Association, and we couldn't find ourselves in better company. Our initiation came last February when we toured the emerging nations of Africa on what we considered a most enlightening trip. This tour of the Mid-East began in New York Wednesday, Feb 2. We found ourselves landing in LaGuardia airport in NYC. and to be flown to JFK Airport on Long * Island in our first helicopter flight. As a host of loaded aircraft awaited their turn on a packed runway, we lifted off from a small pad and soon found ourselves over a forrest of tall buildings in Manhattan ’ Our group of 28 assembled in the Swissair lounge at JFK, and following a get-acquainted session of several hours, we boarded a Swissair 747 for a seven-hour ride to Zurich. Switzerland Our initial ride on a jumbo 747 came a year ago from London's Heathrow airport to JFK. another seven-hour ride Anyway, we landed at Zurich International airport at 10:30 am Thursday, Feb. 3 (or 4.30 am Indiana time), and spent two hours there We were captivated at the merchandise on sale, and couldn’t resist the purchase of a little bird cage with two birds chirping away. We found this to be a piece of Swiss handicraft made by a reliable local firm of long standing All one does is wind it up. and set it for constant or intermittent chirping Both birds sing away in the most realistic manner En route to Zurich our plane passed over Basel, the Swiss city on the Rhine River known as a cultural center. Leaving Zurich we stopped briefly at the Geneva airport, then on to land at the Athens, Greece airport. We landed at Cairo at 8 p m Cairo time — seven hours ahead of Indiana time, and our group was taken to the famous Nile Hilton hotel where we occupied room 716 overlooking the Nile We had a view overlooking part of the city of five million souls, and on a clear day two of the three Giza Pyramids were visible from our window Enter Frank While our very able tour guide was Mohamed Beltagui, president of the Egyptian Aviation and Travel Services, he turned us over to “Frank ” We were off and running on Friday in what was a whirlwind tour of spots all tourists must see in and around Cairo. A first stop was the Egyptian Museum, not far from the Nile Hilton. Among other things we saw here were treasures found ’in 1922 in the tomb of King Tutankhamun (King Tut to most Americans) by two English archeologists We visited the actual tomb site of this youthful king at the Valley of Kings near Luxor on Sunday Frank would expound on the wonders of these ancient treasures, dating back 3.300 years, and end each dissertation with "Oh, Boy!” He sheperded us by bus down the rich and fertile Nile valley to Memphis, which is now a small village. But at one time in antiquity this was the capital of an Egyptian principality. The city’s time in history dates back about 5,000 years ago. Egyptians call it a Holy City. Here we saw an 80-ton

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alabaster stone body of a Lion bearing the head of a man, facing east. This had particular significance. In an adjacent building was a huge limestone statue of Ramsses II (sometimes called Ramsses The Great). He lived to be 110, and reportedly had 70 wives and 120 children. Great, indeed! A Fertile Valley Frank pointed out to us that Arabic Egypt has 35 million inhabitants and five million of them live in Cairo. Alexandria has about three million. Os this country, 95 per cent is desert, five per cent habitable, and all this lies within the seven-mile strip called the Nile valley. For three and a half miles on either side of the Nile are plush, green fields, made so by innumerable irrigation streams. Beyond that there is nothing but arid desert. It was pointed out to us that before the revolution of 1952 when the army generals headed by the late Lt. Col. Gamel Nasser ousted playboy King Farouk, two per cent of the wealthy class held all the land The new regime made it illegal for anyone to own more than 52 acres of land. The land reform plan gave land in small plots to former peasants. Along the roadway we saw the new landowners working their small fields. Like other African countries we visited, the everpresent donkeys are to be seen, and camels heavy-laden with sugar cane. What a pleasant experience to see a smiling boy sitting atop a head of sugar cane on a camel! . Before lunch we visited the Step Pyramid at Sakkara (the Necropolis), the Serapeum of the Tomb of Ty. the tomb of PtahHotep. and thie Ounas Pyramid. A Camel Ride We had lunch at the ornate Mena House, dining on cold fish, chicken and an assortment of vegetables Della and I ate with Doug and Marion Attaway of Shreveport, La., good friends we first met a year ago and who visited us in Milford this past summer. With them we ordered coffee on the patio of the Mena When it failed to arrive, we responded to a call to start for the Pyramids, located several blocks away. As Doug and Marian boarded a bus and Della and I were ready for a camef ; ride. wouldn’t you know it: here comes the white-clad waiter scurrying down the steps to the bus with a tray with four cups of very’ strong coffee. We had the feeling he wanted the customary "backsheesh" (tip) more than he wanted us to have the coffee. A camel ride is an experience everyone should have at least once in a lifetime. We had ours! It was a trip of about two city blocks up a cobblestone street to the Giza Pyramids All the way our youthful ’ guides’’ made unmerciful and mournful pleas for "backsheesh" They took our pictures with our cameras with enthusiasm and alacrity. There are three Giza Pyramids — the Cheops, Kephren and Mypherinous The first and largest was built by King Cheops, some 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, and is considered one of the seven wonders of the world. It is 146 meters high and covers 13 acres. It consists (rs 2,300,000 blocks of limestone, each weighing 24 tons. Frank told us it took 10 years to build a road from the Nile to the site, and another 10 years to build the Pyramid, working about three months out of each year. In all. 100,000 laborers were involved for 20 years in the project The limestone slabs were cut from the quarries in the Aswan area, about 500 miles south of Cairo in what is known as Upper Egypt, floated on barges to Cairo, then taken 10 miles to the site of the Pyramid. We went into the monumental Pyramid, down a long incline several hundred feet in a crouched position to the tomb of Cleops We were told it is thought there are many rooms within the Pyramid undiscovered, but that modern x-ray should be able to detect them. Our obvious thought was: all this with no power equipment.

Old King Cheops built this fa himself, and the Kephren Pyramid nearby fa* his wife, and another smaller Pyramid of the same design is near that for a son Mykerinous. Na far from the Pyramids is the famous Sphinx, sitting in mute silence in the desert, her face scarred by French artilleryin a battle long forgotten. Carved out of rock in one solid piece some 4,500 years ago, > this ancient beauty truly belongs to the world. Os course we had our photos taken in front of her, and little did she note our passing. That night we attended the pageant Sound and Light on the sight of the Pyramids and Sphinx. There was no cast. All narrative and a display of lights on these monuments of antiquity that took one back through all recorded history in a matter of 45 minutes. One felt he was a grain of sand on a beach of a thousand miles. We were immensely impressed. Aswan Out, Luxor In While Saturday, Feb. 5, was spent visiting various ministers, of which we will speak in the second series, Della and I had planned to spend our 29th wedding anniversary at the now famous Aswan Dam. Our tour guide Beltagui said, "If you’ve seen one dam. you’ve seen them all.” He advised us to go to Luxor. That’s all right, but what and where is Luxor, we asked. Mr. Beltagui said. /’lf you haven’t seen Luxor you haven’t seen Egypt." He continued to wet our appetite to the pant where Luxor became a rear must. So it was on Sunday, Feb. 6, in the dark of night we arose at 4:15, part of a party of 17 departing for the airport for our day at Luxor. To our surprise we boarded a four-engine Russian turbo-jet fa* the trip. I couldn’t help but naice out my window on the side of the engine nacel were the words in English: "Oil Tank. Fill Here.” We landed at Luxor, an ancient city with few cars, a la of donkeys and horse-driven carriages We were taken by bus to the Winter Palace hotel and from there on a paddle boat across the Nile to the west side. Anaher small bus took us to the Valley a the Kings. King Tut's Tomb A highlight of our visit to Luxor was the visit to the tomb of King Tut. He reigned only six years, passing away about 1,350 BC quite suddenly at the age of 19. He had no children. Many ancient graves of kings were robbed, we learned, but youthful King Tut was buried in a grave below another king. When the latter’s grave was robbed, stone fell in front of King Tut’s grave, leaving it undetected. Then, in 1922, two English archeologists working on a grant discovered his tomb. Our guide said they were so excited by what they found they soon died a a heart attack. They found his vault in three parts, the two inner caskets of solid gad, the outer one a gad plated cedar wood. The walls and ceiling were decorated with paintings and etchings in the stone. Another room they found filled with treasures of his time — and all this 3.300 years ad. While many of the treasures are in the Egyptian Museum, others are in the London Museum. . We found the caor of the wall paintings very real and vivid. And many in the modern world thought the ancient Egyptians were nothing but a bunch of sheep herders’ Actually, the Egyptian civilization predates the Greeks. Well, we visited aher graves in the Valley of the Kings There was the grave a Neferteti, mother-in-law of King Tut. the

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Temple of Deir El Bahari and the Temple of Ram esse um. By noon we were getting mighty leg-weary from going up and down these steps. These graves were several hundred feet below ground level. By boat back to* the Winter Palace hael, and from there by horse-drawn carriage to the Karnak Temple, the Temple of Amoun. Mut and Kronsu. Waiting for our carriage I ga a shoe shine from a street merchant to eliminate a layer of dust from the Valley of Kings. Moments later I found myself trodding in thick dust that would make Neil Armstrong wince. We went through the unimaginable Avenue of Sphinxes, each bearing the body a a Lion and the head of a lamb, alkcarved from limestone. We weren’t prepared for the wonderful Hypostile Hall of 134 gigantic caumns and the Obelisk a Queen Hatshepsut. These huge caumns rise high into the sky in an 80-acre tract, part of it having the original limestone ceiling. All blocks of limestone, some weighing several hundred tons, are so smoothly carved so as to require no mortar. And we were told they fit so well that the roof did not leak! All these columns to their height are carved with numerous figures and Heiroglyphics that mean nothing to a layman, but certainly meant something to an Egyptian of ancient .times. Any description here is inadequate, but if it only sends a reader to an encyclopedia for a more authoritarian description of what is to be found at Luxor, time here will be well served. A City In Siege? Cairo is not a city in siege by any means, but one is mindful of security measures being taken. As our Russian-built plane lifted from the airstrip at Cairo to go to Luxor we could see many gun emplacements bristling v around the airport perimeter. After all, in June 1967 the Cairo airport was hit by Israeli fighter planes in the six-day war. When we landed at Luxor I began engaging in my favorite hobby of photographing the airport building. An airport official came down on me with arms flailing in protestation. Even before that, as we came in to land at Luxor, I aimed my Topcon camera out the window fa a sha of the blooming Nile valley with the desert in the background, when a warning came over the loudspeaker from the cabin warning us against taking pictures. We found Americans welcomed in Cairo, although we were told they wished we as newsmen could change our government’s policy in the Mid-Elast. Our host Beltagui said of all the peoples of the wald Egyptians want most to immitate the Americans. Many Russians are seen around Cairo, but English remains their second language here. We got the usual friendly greeting: "Ah, American, welcome.’’ We felt a sincerity in gesture, and a belief in the saying: "Once you have drunk from the Nile you will always return.” We want to return some day. Bar row Meeting Set For Thursday The people who exhibited their hogs at the north-eastern Indiana barrow show will had a report meeting on “The Carcass Quality of the Hogs which Were Exhibited." This report meeting is February 17, at 6:30 p m. at the Whitley county 4-H center. Leroy Naris and Nellans and Russell, bah from Mentone, exhibited champion Kosciusko county boars.

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Windows Shot Out Os Kinder Homes Vandalism repats have been given to the Syracuse paice department and authorities continue to investigate windows being broken by BB shas in several Kinder homes on Lake street in Syracuse. Unoccupied at the time, one of the hones was to have been occupied this week. Amount of damage has been unestimated at this time. LEGALS NOTICE NOTICE OF FILING OF THE PROPOSED FORM OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD JUNCTION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COM MISSION AND THE HOLDING OF A PUBLIC HEARING WITH RESPECT TO FINAL PASSAGE OF SAID ORDINANCE Notice is hereby given that the Town of Milford Junction Economic Development Commission has been Resolution approved the form of an ordinance entitled: "An ordinance authorizing the acquisition of an industrial faculty under the Municipal Economic Development Act of IMS by the Town of Milford Junction, Indiana; authorizing the leasing of said facility to Checkerboard Properties, Inc.; authorizing the issuance of $875,000 industrial development revenue bonds (Ralston Purina Project) to finance the cost of such acquisition; prescribing the form of a mortgage and indenture of trust to secure said bonds and authorizing the execution thereof; prescribing the form of a lease and agreement and authorizing the execution of the lease and agreement for said facility; authorizing the acceptance of a guaranty agreement; providing for the approval of a bond purchase agreement; providing for the approval of the indemnity letter; and providing for the security, rights and remedits of the holders, from time to time, of said bonds." NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that the Commission has .filed the above titled ordinance with the Clerk of the Town Board of the Town of Milford Junction. NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Chapter 402 of the Indiana Laws of IMS. as amended, a public hearing will be held with respect to the final passage of the above captioned ordinance by the Board of Town Trustees of the Town of Milford Junction. The public hearing will be held on March 6,1972, at 7:30 o'clock p.m. at the Town Hall. All taxpayers may appear and be heard at said, meeting. Doris Wolterman Town Clerk F. 14 REQUEST FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the Board of School Trustees of the Lakeland Community School Corporation will until the hour of 7:30 p.m. EST on the 14th day of March, 1972, at the Administrative Office of said corporation in Syracuse, Indiana, accept bids as follows: Category A— Audio Visual Equipment Category B I LRC Equipment — Wawasee High School Category B II LRC Equipment — Milford Jr. High Category B 111 LRC Equipment — North Webster Elem Category B IV LRC Equipment — North Webster Jr. High Category C — Mathematics Laboratory Equipment Specifications and instructions to bidders are on file in the office of the Superintendent of Schools and may be obtained by any interested bidder Bidders will be required to furnish a bid bond or certified check in the amount of S per cent of the total bid along with Form 95. The Board reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids and to

waive any informalities therein. Dated at Syracuse, Indiana, this 11th day of February, 1972. Board of School Tr stees Lakeland Community School Corporation P.O. Box 638 Syracuse, Indiana By: Floyd H. Baker, Secretary F. 16.23 LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Kosciusko County, Indiana, will, at 10 AM on the 7 day of March, 1972 at the Clerks Office. Court House in the City (or town) of Warsaw, Indiana in said County, begin investigation of the applications of the following named persons, requesting the issue of the applicants, at the locations hereinafter set out of the Alcoholic Beverage Permits of the classes hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicants, and the propriety of issuing the permits applied for to such applicants at the premises named: Harold J. 8, Barbara J. Gladieux dba Sports Inn Tavern (Restautant) Beer, Liquor 8, Wine Retailer, Box No. 94, Hwy. N0.*15, Leesburg, Ind. Merlen H. & Velurah M. Keener dba The Grill (Restaurant) Beer, Liquor 8, Wine Retailer, 204 S. Buffalo St.. Warsaw, Indiana SAID INVESTIGATION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. AND PUBLIC PAR TICIPATION IS REQUESTED. INDIANA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION f By AAARK Y. BROWN Executive Secretary JOHN R SMOCK Chairman NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of Kosciusko County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place, in the Court House In the City of Warsaw, Indiana, at 9:00 A.M., on the 22 day of February, 1972 will consider the following additional appropriations, which said Officers consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time. County General: Recorder 102 F Extra Help 5L695 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have the right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally determined will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Commission will hold a further hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor's Office, of Kosciusko County, Indiana, or at such other place as may be designated. At such hearing, taxpayers objecting to any of such additional appropriations may be heard and interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor, when and where such hearing will be held. Lawrence Butts Auditor Kosciusko County F. 9,16 STATE OF INDIANA KOSCIUSKO COUNTY SS. IN THE KOSCIUSKO SUPERIOR COURT 1972 TERM CAUSE NUMBER SC-69-162 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WARSAW, Warsaw, Indiana Plaintiff VS 1 HUFFER FOUNDRY CO., INC. Defendant NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Charles Ker, Sr,, Receiver of Huffer Foundry Co., Inc., has presented and filed herein his final account, petition to settle and allow account, petition to determine priority of claims and petition for authority to distribute assets and that the same will come up for examination by the Court and hearing on said petitions on the 16th day of March, 1972, at the hour of 9 30 A M., on said date, said hearing to be held in the Courtroom of the Kosciusko Superior Court, Courthouse, Warsaw, Indiana, at which time all persons interested in said receivership may appear in said court and show cause. If any there be, why said account should not be approved and the petitions acted upon by the Court Dated this 26th day ot January, 1972. BESSIE I. HIMES Clerk Kosciusko Superior Court Rockhill. Kennedy, Pinnick, Sand 8. Bent Attorneys for Plaintiff, Warsaw, Indiana F. 2,9,16