| Show Page 8 Monday Nov 18 1974 From Indus river's waters Pakistan government attempting to save ancient cities by BRIAN JEFFRIES government and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural KARACHI Pakistan (AP) - On the sunbaked Indus plain 250 miles north of here the mortal remains of Mohenjodaro — center of one of the greatest early civilizations known to man — are Organization (UNESCO) plan to start work early next year on a $14 million scheme to preserve it tor posterity To lower the water table at present only five feet beneath what remains of the city they will sink a series of tubewells around the site and pump out the water which will be used to irrigate 9000 acres of land Once the water level is down — eventually to 65 feet beneath the but slowly remorselessly crumbling to dust The ruins of the city which fluorished some 4500 years ago in the heartland of the Indus civilization are in danger of becoming completely waterlogged and salt released from the ground is attacking bricks surface — archeological experts start preserving the crumbling ruins Meanwhile engineers will also be at work diverting the Indus from the site Mohenjodaro and Harappa were the two dominant cities of turning them to powder Possible serious flooding from the nearby mighty Indus river poses an additional threat To save Mohenjodaro from final destruction the Pakestan will move in to the Indus civilization which in its heyday stretched from the Arabian sea near Karachi to the foothills of the snowcapped Himalayan mountains 1000 miles to the north What makes both cities remarkable is the fact that they were laid out to an orderly and preconceived plan Mohenjodaro — which means Hill of the Dead — had a population of some 40000 into oblong blocks of houses and shops stretching a mile toward the banks of the Indus A municipal administration including a sanitary squad weights and measure inspectors and tax s collectors controlled well-ordere- d Mohen-jodaro’- life Its population like that in the rest of the empire is thought to have worshipped a voluptuous “Great Mother” goddess people At its heart was a fortified Archeologists including citadel containing a great ven- Britian’s Sir Mortimer Wheeler tilated granary buildings which have been able to piece these may have housed high religious facts together from the ruins of officials a substantial open brick Mohenjodaro and from bath and a large structure that terracotta statues figurines could have been a college vases copper utensils and other Below the citadel lay the lower items of life unearthed in the city regimentally divided by region arrow-straigh- t But they have still to unlock the drained strt ets Rosetta Stone of the Indus civilization — a pictographic script which so far has defied all attempts at coherent in- terpretation For Pakistan which was born 27 years ago as a for Moslems homeland separate of the Indian subcontinent on the withdrawal of the British Mohenjodaro and the Indus civilization represent more than just an archeological curiosity in blood The two cover more or less the same And for territory Pakistanis still striving for basic unity within their new nation the growing revelations about the Indus civilization provide proof that their existence is deeply rooted in history Corporate farms to become Protein factories EDITOR’S NOTE — First Colony Farms is to small farms what a computer is to an abacus The corporate giant eventually will become a protein factory where crops are untouched by human hands And it’s all based on a continuing rise in food prices by ROBERTB CULLEN Associated Press Writer CRESWELL NC (AP) There’s no dirt under the fingernails of the man who owns the largest farm in North Carolina He is Malcolm P McLean a New York investor who is wagering more than $60 million that the mucky black earth of North Carolina’s coastal plain can be turned into a profitable farm -- IVJc Lean’s investment his farm’s managers are quick to say is a bet that the price of food will continue to rise Rising prices have suddenly made the huge investments needed to open new land seem feasible Large farms appear to be American dominating agriculture today US government figures show that 109000 “super farms” — with sales of at least $100000 annually — produced 50 per cent of the nation’s food and fiber in 1973 But they were only a small percentage of the 28 million farms in the country ’The 375000 acres of woodland and fields which McLean began puchasing in 1972 is half the size of Rhode Island It’s named First Colony Farm after the unsuccessful English colony s established nearby in the 16th century by Sir Walter Raleigh Since Sir Walter’s time few men have found it profitable to till the coastal plain Most North Carolinians went inland to the Piedmont to plow tobacoo and cotton Timber companies became major landowners in the four counties over which First Colony farm stretches But that was before the price of soybeans went to $8 per bushel before experts began studying the growth of world population in relation to arable land and the possibility of a world food shortage McLean 60 has a history of capitalizing on opportunity He was born poor ‘the eldest son of a mail carrier in Maxton NC about 150 miles from First Colony During the depression he scraped together money to buy a single truck He won a contract to transport cigarettes for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co and McLean Trucking Co was born Then he diversified and became a pioneer in containerized freight shipping “He loves to look at new things He wouldn’t last a month without some sort of business Money is just a tool to him rather than something to sit on” said farm engineer Robert Campbell who has known McLean for 20 years AND COFFEE SHOP Today McLean lives in a hotel suite on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue He sold his company for a reported $150 million in 1969 to the RJ Reynolds Co and he has a seat on the Board of Directors He also owns part of Diamon-dhea- d which owns the Corp NC Pinehurst golf resort Not that the land lacks nutrients First Colony Farm sits on soil so organic that it burns when dry Brascoe White who supervises the grain elevator 'and doubles as farm tour guide explained how it got that way “For years and years the trees have been falling and rotting and building up A fire comes over then it builds up some more” He picked up a handful of soil “Feel this It’s still got chunks of wood all through it” Not everyone in North Crolina is happy about the superfarm McLean refuses newspaper interviews On the telephone he would only say “Farming is the oldest industry in the world It usually stables out as a reasonable sort of business” First Colony will bear the same relation to a farm that a comhave puter does to an abacus It will Environmentalists really be a carefully engineered questioned its existence so close to the fragile coastal marshlands protein factory of will track State officials say they will keep Computers farm resources and the variables monitor the farm for evidence of that could affect production and chemicals being leached into the water or other environmental prices Grains will be sown nurtured damage Campbell says they will and harvested by machines not find any “What makes sense for the environment makes sense including airplanes They will be fed to the cattle for us” and the hogs Eventually First “The era of the family farm is Colony will have a capacity of 50000 hogs scattered about the gone and people might as well farm in stations forget it It takes risk capital to touch Those animals will never farm nowadays and capital the ground They will be bred investment requires a profit suckled and fed to maturity in That’s the American way The specially designed pens before housewife will be paying m e for being sent to market Their food but Americans spen less wastes will be collected in pools on food now than any other below the pens and returned to nation The American consumer the earth starting the cycle all is spoiled rotten but it’s going to over again change” CACTUS CLUB IfFFttE HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE 1351 East 7th North TUF:S NITE the Fabulous Dancin SUPPORJ THE BUSINESSES Sam DISPLAYING THIS POSTER Burgers Chili BBQ French Dip Sandwiches Chicken & Shrimp to 1 0 OPEN 8 AAA 1 A im PAA p J & COMEINANEAT 'ipg’ggrartfygfifspl'pt Sex Week Monday Dr J Skidmore Styles of Intimacy C :30 1:30 Marshall Rice Christian Morality Tuesday 1:30 VD Film 1 1 1 7:30 FAC Dr Charles Scott Drugs and the Unborn Child UC Auditorium sponsored by £ THEY SUPPORT YOUR PAPER I |
