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Show D.SERET 4 Strange Life For Those Who Wait At Suez By LEO HEIMAN Copley News Service BITTER GREAT LAKE. SUEZ ANAL German Jerry is a 3 car-ol:iug of uncertain ancestry who enjoys plomatic immunity and extraterritorial rivileges along the Suez Canal. Left by his master to guard a rotting shing trawler near the canal's intersec-o- n with the Great Bitter Lake, he is a mascot of the Israeli troops deployed the vital waterway's eastern bank. r long Whenever life gets boring aboard the boat he is supposed to guard with his iceth and claws, Jerry jumps into the ater and swims 100 yards to the Israeli fpositions where the soldiers feed him corned beef, baked beans and mishes. To show his neutrality in the Israeli-Aia- b conflict, Jerry also visits regularly the Egyptian garrison at Deversoir, a email village ''n the canal's western bank, less than 50 yards away from his boat. Hes been shot r' by trigger-happsentnes who mistook iiim for a swimEgyp-na- n ming saboteur. And a sergeant who claimed that Jerry is la Jewish spy carrying secret messages to the Israelis nearly butchered him with ja Russian bayonet. A few weeks ago, when the Egyptians at Deversoir forgot to fill Jerrys private trough wuth water from a well, he let out such howls of protest that soldiers from both sides rushed out of their bunkers to see what was going cn. Yet all attempts to entice Jerry to opt for one side or the other have failed, as did efforts to make the dog leave his boat. Jerrys freedom to move about as he pleases is envied by the crews of 14 ships stranded in the Great Bitter Lake since j IJL W4rw v 11 ' y - ko-h- or -- i r MilftI, rrwvR p .... f i ,.trr V freighteis aie woith. ' & - 3"'jr im- Iigvptian police have confiscated shoitwave radio equipment, and sealed with ted wax the radio and radar rooms of all ships. Once a week, a Red Cross supply boat delivers water, fiuit, vegetables and mail to the stranded convoy. Egvptian police launches pi owl among the slops at night, to make sure no one leaps into the water to swim toward the Israeli coast Once a month, the captive vessels are allowed to activate their engines, hoist anchors and change positions 100 yards north or south of taeir previous anchorage. This is designed to make sure the engines are capable of turning over, the propellers still churn the muddy water and the barnacles that grow from the hulls do not reach the oottom of the lake. skeleton crew Best off are the of the 11,000-loAmerican freighter African Glen. They receive salaries ranging from $820 to $3,620 a month, and opeiate an Americ. community center for crews of nearby ships. Two Americans paint pop-ar- t pictures on the deck, three write books, one plays the trombone, two collaborate on a motion picture script and two work on a invention designed to convert the way-ou- t suns rays into electric current. Worst off are the 14 officers and men of the Bulgarian freighter Vassil Levski. The old ship has no refrigerators or air conditioning. The internal water supply system has oroken dowm and their low wages have been further i educed to a ridiculous $75 a month (for deckhands) and $125 (for officers) by the Bulgarian government, which claims they do not work but loaf. Li vir - r y 3r : Ml g Wr I June , 19f7. More than 200 officers and men from eight nations are still aboard the rusty freighters blocked by Israeli tanks and Egyptian artillery batteries for the last 18 months. The Israelis initially agreed to let the foreign ships sail out of the canal. But -- Jerry guards fishing trawler stranded scuttled Egyptian government barges on both ends of the lake, declaring the international convoy will bo free to leave only if the Israelis evacuate the canals eastern bank. Jews and Arabs shot it out for a few months, until the canal filled up with sand drifting in from the desert. Dr. Gunnar Jarring, the United Nations mediator in the Middle East, obtained an agreement from Cairo and Jerusalem to let the ships sail before their hulls are seriously damaged by erosion, barnacles and rust. The Israelis agreed, on condition the stranded convoy moves out through the canals southern end toward the Red Sea. The Egyptians also agreed, on condition the cement-fille- d it - in the Suez Canal since last year's the ships move north, to reach the Mediterranean via Port Said. The Israelis said its an Egyptian trick. The moment the canals northern end is unplugged and dredged clear of obstacles, Soviet warships massed at Port Said will rush in to eject the Israelis from their positions along the eastern bank, under the pretext of securing the waterway for undisturbed navigation When Egyptian tugboats and dredges attempted to clear tire northern route, without Israels permission, asking major fighting erupted, several canal crafi were sunk and new wrecks piled on top of the existing ones. In the south, sandstorms and tire sinking of an Egyptian torpedo boat and Israeli-Ara- motor launch by Israeli guns hammered the final nail into the canals coffin. The Suez waterway is now plugged for good, at both ends, and the owners of ships stranded in the Great Bitter Lake would ha e abandoned their vessels with all cargo aboard, but for two reasons: The Egyptian authorities do not allow the crews to abandon ships. For every sailor who goes home for reasons of health or family problems, a replacement must be flown in by the ship owners. The officers and men are thus virtual hostages, with little hope of ever sailing out to freedom as long as the Israeli-Aradispute remains unsolved, which b may take years. "With the constant motion of the earth about the sun, dnferent groups of stars pass overhead during the months of the year. Just after the glow of twilight has faded from view in October, the constellations of fall are well above the eastern horizon ; and to be seen in the east is the constellation of Andromeda, the Chained Malden of ancient mythology. In this cons.ellation, on a clear, dark night, can be seen a hazy patch of light known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy. On the star map it is designated M 31. This glow represents the most distant object visible to the unaided eye. It Is 2.2 million light years away. This actually means that the light left this island universe of 300 billion stars 2.2 million years ago and is just now reaching the earth. Back in the early 1930s, Kanabs npw doctor rushed to nearby Orderville, placed a little girl cn a kitchen table and operated on her ruptured appendix. It vas a perilous problem. The infection from that burst could than any other planet and can be as near as 35 million miles. But Saturn is always more than 700 million miles from the earth. Besides this, Venus very thick, white atmosphere makes a fairly nice surface for the suns light to reflect from. The ability of a body to reflect is referred to as albedo, and Venus has a higher albedo than any other planet in the solar system. On Sunday morning an eclipse of the moon was visible throughout the United States. The moon remained totally eclipsed in the earths shadow until as late as 6:14 a.m. M.D.T. During this time, the moon appeared deep bronze in color due to the sn.all amount of light icfracted through the fringes of the earth's atmosphere to the moons sur- face, Havq an astronomical question? Send It to "The Skywatcher," care of the Deseret News, P O Box Salt Lake Ctv. Utah, WHO If your question It ucd in this column, you will receive two f'ee tickets 'to the star program of the Hensen Plan hip-dee- p spread in the abdominal cavity and kill the patient quickly. Such an operation in a hospitals sterile conditions didnt al- ways have the happiest outlook, but on a kitchen table . . . I was afraid to go to that house the next day," said Dr. George R. Aiken. "But when I did, I found the little girl doing fine. She grew up to become a nurse. to difficulties. The physician was His first case as a doctor had involved the U'-e- With the Andromeda Galaxy, we are privileged to view a system of stars that resembles our own Milky Way Galaxy, of which the sun is a member. Slightly closer o the horizon, from the constellation Andromeda, is the bright, star-lik- e object, Saturn. It is one of two planets paying a visit to the evening skies of October. The other one, Venus, is seen as a very bright object in the west just after sunset. Venus, however, is much brighter in appearance than Saturn for two reasons. First, Venus aver-- t ages only 67 million miles from the sun in its orbit while Saturn is often more than 800 million miles away. Furthermore, Venus approaches the earth closer ix delivery of a baby in a home and hed had to cut the umbilical cord with a paring knife and tie off the bleeding with twine. Dr. Aiken, a 1921 graduate of Ohio State, rattled to such emergencies in an old Ford. On the Christmas Eve of 1934 the car broke down. Dr. Aiken found himself in snow and many miles from home. He decided to build a fire and hope somebody would come along and give him a ride home. He had to keep running back and forth gathering wood to keep his fire going. "Nobody came by the road that night, he said, "not even Santa Claus. Then Dr. Aiken thought to himself: "I'm always away from that fire gathering more wood, and it isnt doing me any good. Why, thats the way my medi- cal practice is. Things are changing. I just cant treat everyone out of that little black bag any more. So after he got home and thawed out, he started building a nine-behospital. There was only so much of him to go around. He could do more good, he reasoned, if the people came to his hospital at Kar.ab for treatment. d e. World War II found him in the U.S. Navys Pacific Fleet, sailing into 19 dif-ere- invasions as a surgeon patching GIs in a rolling, pitching up wounded LST. A Kamikaze plane struck the craft Lt Cmdr. Aiken by only eight and missed feet. After the war, Kanab residents called him to doctor their governmental affairs. They elected Dr. Aiken mayor. on MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor At the time of Bela Bartok's death, in September, 1945, many of his compositions might- -o far as the listening public was concerned have been considered unknown. Since then there has been a burgeoning of interest In his music, some of it. perhaps, set off by the somewhat romantic circumof his stances death, in exile, sickness, and financial stress. Robert Evett, writing in the "New Republic in April, 1953, was less than optimistic about the chances for survival of Bartok's music: 'Die prestige which Bartoks work received after his death was too spectacular to last. Since its zenith about five years ago, the vogue has been declining noticeably, and every year the important performances are becoming less numerous. Bartok may well follow Shostakovich into that limbo that seems reserved for composers who, for one reason or anfor a other, have been short time. going into "that limbo, Bartoks musical stature has continued to grow, and it isnt too difficult to start a pitched battle between musicians and buffs who believe that musics great "Three Bs Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms will eventually become "Bach, Beethoven, and Bartok. Far from Without taking any announced position himself, Maurice Abravane! will let those who want to get into the discussion have lt both ways at the gala opening concert of the Utah Symphony Orchestra 1968 69 season this Wednesday (9) in the Taber' naele. The conductor and music director has programmed a classic of each: Brahms "Symphony No. 2, and Bartoks "Concerto For Orchestra. Neither is an unfamiliar work in the Utah Sym- phonys repertoire. Mr. Evetts gloomy prediction appears not to have been borne out. There was a tapering off in number of performances after a period of time. But this was apparently accompanied by the absorption of many of Bartoks works into the "standard repertory, and thpre they are now, firmiv entrenched. Die more accessible compositions were the first to become generally accepted, espe rJfiTW'IT.Two- -' xJ CP hit iimrrii Wit itm Tumitiniii Latest star chart locates i niMMWrri,rirnaiMiuxiajLUUL- Must The Giving Go? By HARRY JONES It wasnt a transplant . . . Terry just inherited his fathers stout heart. And I lie father, S of Bountiful, had ti. be stout of heart. He was a "dogface who sloshed onto the beaches . . . acioss the Rapido River. He fought into . . . Vosges. His outfit battled its way out of the Colmar Pocket and fought into Moselle. He battled the cold and the enemy at St. Italian Cas-sin- o Marie Pass. He had been wounded, but was back with his outfit and Velletri fell, opening the road to Rome. Italy he fought and seven he was wounded. It must have seemed like the whole German army had a vendetta against him. All through times Once, when a bullet ripped through his shoulder, he was carried into a first aid station. While he was sitting to have the shoulder dressed, enemy shell fire ripped through the aid station and into his other shoulder. He mended and went on to .each his outfit. It was many months a id operations later when the sergeant was discharged from the service with honor. And the ins formal title of "The Wests Most-Time- Wounded Soldier. And he came home to Bountiful . . . broken in bony, but not in heart. And he and his lovely bride, the former Josephine Buckles, looked forward to the future with faith and hope. Of Cynics? In one of his most famous epigrams, Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. In one respect, we seem to be becomin that we ining a nation of cynics creasingly tend to judge the value of everything by its price. Last week I was lunching with a friend who is a widely known novelist. He told me that he had become exhausted on the lecture circuit and decided to double his fees in order to cut down on the number of groups that could afford to hire him. "You know what happened? he asked. "I got twice as many requests for lectures. When these groups learned I was twice as expensive, they wanted me twice as much, because they thought I was twice as good. What can you do with that kind of thinking? Of course, with many products there is a direct ratio between price and value. I have never bought a "cheap suit of clothes that looked as good, or felt as good, as an expensive suit. But this is by no means true of all products. I know some people who started a cosmetics company years ago, putting out an excellert cold cream in a small plain jar for a dime. They lost a great deal of money until a "packaging expert designed a fancy jar for them, and increased the price to $1.50 for the same amount of rieam. The women were soon beating down the doors to buy this "exclusive formula. Of course, in one sense, any commodity is "worth what the people are willing to pay for it, Diere is a psychological as well as a merely economic factor in all was Judy, now Mrs. Dieir first-borGerald Kinghorn . . . then Terry B., who was a chin off the old block the one to carry on a proud family name. n ... Because Elbert was totally disabled and Terry the only son, the draft left Terry alone. He graduated from Bountiful High School and then went on to Weber State. And because it is a law that all students must ask for deferments, Terry had to ask at the end of each quarter. Deferments, when he thought his country needed him, didnt fit the cut of this boy. So on Aug. 23, 1966, instead of walking up for his deferment, he turned Instead to the recruitment office. He enlisted in the proud United States Marines! His closest buddy, Randy Brummett, also of Bountiful, went into the Army. Eut they kept in touch. Because of Elbert3 total disability, Terry was trained as a mechanic for the Marine helicopters . . . stationed near Da Nang. He did not have to do combat duty because he was the only son of the wounded veteran. And the time w'ent by fast for him . . . slow for his parents. He and Randy had leaves coming at the same time. So they planned to come home together to the hills of Bountiful the hills they both 40 or 45. loved. They counted the days ... Last Sunday, a helicopter crew was short a gunner, and Terry volunteered. Randy Brummett Is coming home . . . escorting the body of his fallen buddy, Terry. And now as never before, Sgt. Elbert and his pretty bride have to be stout of heart. S. Day BIG TALK S. ,vn Vv Pv VX bujing. I r A Nation Not far behind are his string quartets, followed by his "Music for String Instru- a a. The county named him "Neighbor of the Year and gave him a gold cup. His colleagues in Uth honored him as "Physician of the Year. The other day, the Utah State Medical Association elected him honorary president. Dr. Aikens 72. Hes been thiiJring about retirement, but doesnt want to leave some old patients doctorless. Kanab doesnt have another physician, but others live at Page, Ariz., Panguitch and Hurricane. So Dr. Aiken isnt retiring yet. "Im thinking about it, though, he said. "A lot of patients who are younger than I am are in old folks homes. cially the "Concerto for Orchestra, "Third Piano Concerto, and the "Second Violin Concerto. ments, Percussion, and Celesta, "The and the "Sonata Miraculous Mandarin, It is for Two Pianos and Percussion. tine that the two sonatas for violin and piano rarely appear on recital programs, but perhaps this is because of the enormous technical demands they impose Bartok's keyboard upon performers. works, on the other hand, have become almost as essential as those of Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. The "Concerto for Orchestra" was written for the Koussevitsky Foundation, established in memory of Natalie Koussevitsky, and given its premiere by Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony in January, 1943. The score is called a "concerto, meaning a work cast in the 18th Century, rather than the 19th Century, mold with, of course, contemporaneous idioms. This is not a piece for a soloist and orchestra. It is a series of movements in terms of instrumental parts that form an ensemble. There are also elements of the classic symphony in structure. Only two of the parts have musical relation to each other. Each is individually complete and different in form from the others ; all are subjective in feeling. How Deep y the O n Then Kanab built a new hospital with lab technii ians, six nurses, a superintenmadent who also operates the chines, a clerk, cook, two housekeepers and 21 beds. SYDNEY J. HARRIS This Is Not A Piece For A Soloist barium iimhrt irmiMiMiM Tim ii After a dozen years of that, Kane County sent him to the Utah State Legislature for six years. Dr. Aiken did the hernia repairs, the tonsillectomies, the broken arm setting, administered a nurse and his wife the anesthetic. "I did everything from removing toenails to cataracts, he said. He scorned "city practice, which he calls a "rat-rac- October 7, 1963 He had just crossed over into Germany when a Nazi burp gun blazed steel slugs into his head. And Elbert feU for the last time. Between delivering 3,000 babies, he oversaw the development of a new water system, sanitary sewage system, sidewalks and an airport. Deseret News Medical Writer October miii iii war. THE MEDICAL PULSE By STEVE HALE By HANSEN PLANETARIUM STAFF rm-- b n Salute To A Pioneering Utah Physician A It's Andromeda ; it. O n SKYYATCHER In V - Monday, is that the InsurThe second rea-o- n ance companies refuse to compensate the ship owners for losses incun ed in the canal. They ciaim that war riM insurance does not apply to slops and caigoes atiamied in the Gieat Biller Lake because they have not boon toipedoed, shelled, filed upon or otherwise damaged The slops and caigoes aie intact, but the companies which own them have than the a heady lost nice money d A 19 NEWS, - star and constellation positions for any October night at 9 p.m. MDT. J The outrageous scalping of theater tickets to Broadway hits has loss to do with the intrinsic value of the play than with the vanity of having seen it before others have. But when price becomes so divorced from value, there is then a great temptation to stress the superficial aspects of a product and to sacrifice the inherent value. "Now there's a new car called the Wallace. It has an extra low gear for driving over anarchists!" From photoj taken by Lionel V. McNealy tor ftia Deseret News popular dally Baby Birthday feat.ra. |