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Show W fdm iryvynyn rtTiiijr-fl- I'nijifflimiHl ESERET Bored? Climb Mount Everest Again Nepal Rescinds Its Ban On ?K Himalaya Hikes : . NEPAL For the the roof of the world is gd enturous, open again and ready for challenging. r Alter a ban, the Nepalese government has lifted its prohibition against any attempts to climb 29,028-foMount Everest, the worlds highest mountain, and other giants of the Hima- vi layas. .. 44 1 A Future expeditions will find it easier to get there, too, by saving themselves weens of trekking over difficult terrain. During the ban that closed all mountains over 18.000 feet to international expeditions, airfields have been constructed closei to the jumping off places. The reason for the rule Imposed four years ago was that, according to Nepals government, climbers had disregarded regulations ar.d taken some foi bidden routes, resulting in complaints from Communist China that they had crossed into Tibet. 4 Success on the climb lequires superb mountaiiieermg technique, selection of good Sherpas and favorable weather, plus endurance to stand the cold wind and isolation at the great heights. em., the third peak from the right in the photo. it easier for climbers ic reach. will airfields make constructed Newly nearby Mount Everest, world's highest mountain During the period of the ban, the government greatly reorganized the setup in the mountains. Everest, once 21 days in trekking time from Katmandu, can now be reached in six days by landing at Lukla Airfield. The Dhaulagiri and Annapurna ranges have By LAVOR CHAFFIN at 29,028 feet, is been brought to within a vv eeks reach instead of nearly a months hard slog. As a result, climbers can now do" a mountain in three weeks instead of the minimum three months previously required. Guards have been posted at doubtful approach routes to keep teams out of THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS Deseret News Education Editor - Out travail comes new life and promise. Five years ago the Cache School District was torn with over controversy the proposed consolidation of North and South Cache than 600, and South Cache at Hvrum, with a st . lent body cf just 800, were consolidated in 1964. The new .bool, Sky View High School at Smith-fielnow has a student body of 1,345. Demonstrating outstanding stature, many who opposed the consolidation united in the common purpose of improving educational opportunity. As one board member who opposed consolidation said at the time: Weve lost the battle, now lets make Sky View the best high school in the state. Sky View may not be the best high school in the state, but at the very least its one of the best. The important thing is that the faculty and students of the school believe its the best and are determined to prove that it is in both academics and athletics. You dont need to be an expert to sense the spirit at Sky View. Its impossible to walk through the building and not of fewer r,-e- r schools. Schisms within the district, and within the board of were bitter and deep. The agonizing into the throughout Today the situation is different. Out of the torment has come a remarkable birth of optimism and moment- um. The Cache James will also have to report their arrival and departure to headmen in villages along the route, who will have been told in advance to watch for them and help guide them. Sherpas willing to join expeditions have been licensed. Local village organi- - Tibet. Expeditions two small high schools, North at Richmond, with a student body YOUR HEALTH be aware of the enthusiasm and energy of the faculty and student body. Intense pride in school and self is written in the faces and attested to by the attire of students. This is the best student body, the best faculty and the best high school in Utah, principal Kenneth Webb declared when I visited the school earlier this week in company with Dr. T. H. Bell, state superintendent of public instruction. Consolidation of the high schools was the start of a movement which has created the new spirit and a new momentum in the district. That same year, 1964, the district's four junior high schools were consolidated into two. Since that time 16 elementary schools have been consolidated into eight. Along with consolidation has come other improvements. Its not my purpose to detail them here. Responsible for much of the new and dynamic spirit in the district is Superin- - When 'Symphony In What Causes By HAROLD LUNDSTROM MUSICAL WHIRL Deseret News Music Editor Ankle Swelling? The ballet, Bizets Symphony in C should be very close to the heart of its choreographer, George Balanchine. This By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. is the ballet that the Utah Civic Ballet is dancing for its first time Dear Dr. Molner: Cun too mu'h thyroid cause swelling of the ankles? Mrs. A. C. next unless the Answer: Ordinarily not patient also has congestive heart failure. But rather than expanding on that rather unusual situation, lets take a broader lopk at swelling of the ankles. Tnere are quite a few causes and, as "ith other instances in which any of Severn! causes may be responsible, there is little chance of selecting the right treatment until the correct cause has been determined. Heart or kidney disease can caime the edema, or swelling of the ankles bo Iv no longer tiirows off wastes and 'taler as efficiently as it should so the tissues become water - logged. That is "bat edema is, retention of fluid in the tissues. Since the ankles aie at the lowest part of the body, gravity alone makes 'bat a prime spot for edema. There can, ef course, bo water accumulation in other parts. interfering with circulation rut be a factor: phlebitis, or inflammation of a vein; varicose veins; tight Rtt tiles or garters if they impede blood How through the veins. Ain thing olonged standing also can cause Note that J say swelling. walk-lostanding, as distinguished from or otherwise moving. The jeason for tins is that the play of the muscles in the logs helps the flow of blood, so the person who has to stand in one place, as belaud the counter of a store, will do "oil to move as much as possible, even it it is only a step or two this way and that. i some week in (Oct. Kings- bury Hall. Balanchine returned to Parts from New York in r to revive three of this earMr. dAmboise lier ballets for the Parks Opera and to mount after only the Symphotwo weeks preparation ny in C, a work that has proved highly successful. Just how successful the ballet was to become for Balanchine came wdien he took the New York City Ballet to Russia in 1061. (It was on this trip that Jacques dAmboise and Victoria Simon wore struck by a streetcar in front of the theatre in Hamburg; both were seriously injured. Jacques was not able to dance until the middle of the Russian engagement, eight weeks later.) 1947 Balanchine took to Russia a repertory out of which five different programs wore made. The opening audiwith ence responded bureaucratically and with puzzlement tinged politeness, suspicion. of 18 balets, The critics next day expounded offi tion, also is due high credit. Supt. Draper has not worked alone. Behind him has been a board of education whose members have achieved an unusual degree of unity and effectiveness. Talk to them now and you pet the same expressions of optimism voiced so strongly by Principal Webb. Teachers, students and citizens have responded to this leadership. Consolidation has turned small communities into a larger community with, as far as education is concerned, a unity of purpose. Dr. Bell believes that in five jears Cache has moved from the bottom ten to the top ten among Utahs 40 districts. The Cache experience should be an example to other Utah districts, ard perThe excitement haps groups and achievement of change should be contagious. once-divide- d C Turned cially the response the audience had manifest. To be sure, they wrote, the company was recognized immediately as an extraordinary brilliant ensemble, who had mastered to a point of virtuosity the classic technique. Khachaturian, one of the critics, wrote of the impeccable classic technique cl which the artists are in brilliant possession. G. Balanchine in his creative practice adheres to the principle of plotlessness. This principle is foreign to Soviet artists and spectators. Without an idea, without a subject, there cannot be emotional art. this was just about what one have might predicted. What no one had expected, though, was what happened subsequently. In the huge Palace of Congresses, one began to be aware quite early in the engagement of a sense of glowing interest on the part of the audience, a sort of deepened concentration. AH Then spontaneous murmurs of appreciation began to be heard here and there which giew, one evening, into an outburst of enthusiasm. The breakthrough came quite suddenly. The distinguished dance critic, John Mai tin, who was accompanying the New York City Ballet's tour, wrote back to his paper, the New York Times, that the point where the tide of understanding turned was the first presentation of the Bizet Symphony in C. The Tide Though the program had opened with the Raymonda Variations received an all but stony silence, he wrote, the Bizet work brought forth not only applause throughout and repeated cur tain calls at the end but also rhythmic until the choreogcries of to come forced was forward and rapher bow his acknowledgement. e Mr. Martin thought that a possible explanation for the audience reaction might have been the frank titling of this ballet as a symphony; it eliminated all possibility of confusion as to whether or not it had a plot or subject to be puzzled over. Be that as it may, nearly all Russian critics who saw it agreed that Symphowas sheer joy a ny in C ballet, as Golovashenko hailed it, a true festival of dancing . . . agile and light, diversified and wonderfully harmonious." Even Petipa, wrote one critic, could not have invented such a breath-takindisplay of classical choreography as Balanchine had done in this g work. one of BalanAfter that night, chine's biographers, Bernard Taper, wrote, regardless of whatever the critics might write, whether in praise or blame and the critics would always have their doubts and reservations and dutiful scruples the spectators were unequivocal in their enthusiasm. Night after night excitement was sustained at a high pitch. Now nearly every ballet in the repertory went over well, including those which were supposed to be the most difficult and alien. g the small society by Brickman Unfavoiable weather means a mountain may take several years to climb. The British expedition made 10 attempts on Everest before Hillary and Tenzing got there. On The Nature Of Light Beams By HANSEN PLANETARIUM TWE UNlloM WANTS To lt Slflf vndt. at, tic. UtiZi c. jAVO STAFF In our everyday lives, the sense that we rely on most is our sight. And it is by light that the stars speak to astronomers and tell just what exists in the heavens. But what activates our brain and warns us, for instance, Look out, there is a tree in front of you? Physiologists tell us that a complicated series of chemical reactions transfers the light impulses from our eyes to our brain. But just what is this thing we call light that triggers our eyes? Throughout the ages scientists ana others have pondered this question. Before this century, there were two schools of thought. There are two ways which energy can be transported; one is a particle transport, the other a wave transport. Anyone who has ever caught a line drive knows very well that energy can be transported by particles, in the case of a line drive, by a baseball. On the other hand, anyone who has been knocked over by a wave at the sea shore knows that energy can be transmitted by waves. According to one school, light is made up of particles; what we see, then, when we are looking at something is a stream of tiny little particles continually bombarding our eyes. Sir Isaac Newton was the first to foicefully put forward this idea, and he based his belief on, what was then, good scientific reasoning. If light were a wave then it should bend around corners. Sir Isaac tried many times to observe this phenomena, that we call diffraction, but unsuccessfully. He thus thought that light was made up of particles. Newtons achievements in physics and mathematics were many and diverse, and most of his work proved to be very accurate. But, as so many times happens to the work of a great man in science, the pronouncements of Newton became dogma. Not until the 19th Century did scientists again begin to look seriously into the nature of light. But with the work of Fresnel, a French physicist, who observed some of the properties of a wave in light, Newtons corpuscular theories of light were for the most part rejected. Then in the later part of the 19th Century, the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell unified the theories of electromagnetism and optics. By the turn of the 20th Century most physicists felt that all the basic laws of physics had been enumerated, all that remained was to better measure the physical constants. Yet there occasionally were problems that mittee com- is pleted a dog will bite a mailman at least times. that is a 17,500 Now busy dog! On top of that, Goodell, Robert director of Labors Office of Occupational Safety, said the committee is more concerned w ith motor safety in the Postal Department. And has that got Mr. Rademacher frothing at the mouth . . . hes fit to be tied up! I investigated the local scene. Maybe they used all the MACE up in Chicago, but the mailmen here dont seem to be armed. Or maybe the word has gone out from some official Dove stop the bombing ! But the investigation shows that a dog biting a mailman has nothing to do with the nature of the dog! all dogs . . . hate mailmen like Dogs they hate cats! If your dog doesn't bother the mailman there is something wrong cither with the dog or the mailman. We had a dog for years. lie was finally dying of o'd age. He was lying on his side breathing his last, and we were standing around crying. Well, the mailman came and the dog aroused himself enough to get up on shaky legs and go after him. That dog lived another two years! One man told me tnat ids dog has lived his whole life in the backyard. He wouldnt know the house from the front because he had never been out there. The dog hasnt been within 100 feet of a mailman. Yet he bristles and tries to jump the backyard fence whenever the mailman goes by. Even if the mailman doesnt deliver any mail that day. One lady told me that her dog just about breaks down the front door when her neighbor, a mailman, walks down the street to his home. He doesnt even deliver in that area. But does that dog try to 'get at him! I was watching an inspection of the ROTC one day. And a small dog ran down through the ranks of two platoons and bit a mailman who was walking past! Mr. Rademacher said letter carriers are dog owners and pet lovers. But we do feel We are not anti-dothat the government should conduct an education program to get householders to restrain the dogs when the mailman comes around, he said. My investigation shows that most dogs in America originated in the North. It isnt the mailman that disturbs the gray pooch . . . Its those uniforms! Wit's End: My wife looked at the card that popped out when I got on the scales. It said I was wise, dynamic, and a But she said, It has your weight wrong, too! uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmitii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ittiiiiiiiiiti;iiitiiiiiiitiii;ii BIG TALK cropped up. One of these was the photoelectric eifect. If light si ines on a piece of properly prepared metal, then electrons are ejected from that metal. Yet, by assuming that light was a wave, the photoelectric effect was inexplicable. But by assuming light was corpuscular, Albert Einstein was able to easily explain the effect. This leaves us in a tion of the photoelectric through the present time. 7 Rademacher, president of Letter Carriers, ... lather strange predicament because fiom other experiments (the bending of light as exhibited by Fresnel) we know that light also behaves as a wave. This is our first taste of duality, the curious phenomena that light can behave as either a wave or a particle depending on how we lock at it. In a later we will trace the development of the theory of light from 1905, where we left off today with Einsteins explana- Dear Dr. Molner: Can you pick up tapeworm nr worms of any kind from a cut? M. P. Answer; Transmission of paiasifus b opt maybe fleas) from pets io I'nnian beings is so rare that we should p'n.Oot ignore the thought. Most diseases toe passed from person to person, not animal to person. The Sherpas easily carry loads of equ'pment weighing 40 to 60 pounds at altitudes above 25,000 feet where the air is so thin that an ordinary man can feel out of breath and lose his strength to work. SKYWATCHER tondent C. Bryce Draper who accepted a formidable challenge by coming to the district at the height oi its tin moil in 1963. His careful and persistent leadership has contributed tremendously to the change. Former superintendent Dr. Oral L. Ballam, who first proposed consolida- 11. thp National Associated said that bv the tune a study being made by the com- s Sky View High: Consolidation At Its Finest spilled The mailmens union is up In arms again and mad. Don't woity, they arent going to slow down the mail or anything like that. Thosie going to let ZIP Code handle tn at pa 1. Inoy aie mad at the dogs around the count! y and at the government. They probably won't picket the pet stores, but they have charged that a government committee is dragging its feet on while dogs are lunching world. In the Alps, for example, the summits are below 17.000 feet while in the Himalayas the base camp1 is established at 16,000 to 18 000 feet. This base camp is only reached after a hard trek through rising between 8,000 and 10,000 feet. Mountains are, so to speak, booked up in advance by getting climbing permission from the government and paying a royalty. Standing license rates, which may go up, are $50 for a peak below 20,000 feet, $300 for one between 20,000 and 23,000 feet, and $500 for the monsters above 25,000 feet. struggle out of board meetings and schools and flowed unchecked this beautiful valley. Bv HARRY JONES In planting clmibe g permission, the government said it wnl give preference to scientific expeditions and treat the sporting ones as seiendaiy. The Himalayas ate quite different from mountains in other parts of the Also, there were complaints that some expeditions had ill treated local promoters native mountain climbers and Sherpas that they had climbed the wrong mountains and, generally, were causing a bad situation. New rules have been established to keep order in mountain climbing in the forbidding Himalayas. education, A Bite!' Most of the 30 peaks above 25,000 feet in the Himalayas have been (limbed but about 100 above 20,000 leet are still virgin. However, some of the ranges aie still closed to clnnbts until the new arrangmems have been extended to them. four-yea- high 'What a KATMANDU, NORTH LOGAN Cache County 27, '.963 Mail Call: alteady unique! ed three the dieam of mountaineers, to attempt ban, pcinus-uosought bv men fiom Japan, West and an led by Ten nop Not hay, who fust conquest with New Zealander Sir Edmund 1'illaiv in 1953. By MADAN M. GUPTA September UR MAH JONES clothing will be paid by the expedition. M, United Press International of Friday, rat'ens have been enti listed vvi'h engaging inn lets. The government will provide a liaison oftuer expel lenced with the locality. His salats, food and mountain ,fi Jifv ft 23 NEWS, eifect, on Have an astronomical Send it to question "The Skvwatcher " carp of the Deseret News P O Box 1257, Salt Lake Ctfy 84110 Utah. your aupstion is used in this column, you will receive two tree tickets to the star program of the Hansen Planetarium. 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