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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Fortunately, these mighty
ones do not peck at window
panes. though some Of them
may be seen along the Po-
tomac in the vicinity OF
Alexandria.
The window pecking should
not annoy anyone who
claims to be a friend Of
birds.
1t is just an interesting
alteration.
Just as human beings are
now known to have COM
plexes, as they are called, Of
one sort or another, so the
birds have built up a few Of
their own, and this window
pecking is one of them.
What If a robin does peck
every morning at 5 o'clock?
Is 5 o'clock so early that
you cannot stand it?
Must you be frightened,
and call the police?
This is exactly what one
couple did several years ago.
II a bird annoys one, there
is one way to drive him away,
and that is to go outside re-
peatedly until he stops.
He is not immune to an
noyance, either.
If you really make a point
to reprimand him visibly, he
will give over the fun.
Another way to stop him is
to coat the pane with some
cleaning powder, to break up
the reflection.
He may go to another win
dow, if his determination is
high, but this also may be
treated in the same manner.
Strips Of paper, hung from
the upper frame of the win
dow, may deter him,
The best thing, however, is
not to look upon this bird
as an offender, in any real
sense, but as a comic.
Birds usually offer us no
comic touches, and when they
do seem to, it is not so much
from their sense Of humor as
from some slant striking the
mind and spirit Of the
watcher.
If the latter will regard the
window-pecking bird as a
rare treat, and laugh with
him, he will find that any
little human touch Of annoy
ance will melt away, always a
good thing in a world in
which annoyances are build
ing up two a minute every
where. {
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Good Question

1 am in the fifth grade at
Blessed Sacrament, Alexan-
dria, Va.
AS a citizen of the United
States I would like to make
a request. My family and I
were discussing that most
everything on the front page
either is crime, riot, or small
wars going on in the world.
Can't we put good before
bad?
John Michael Kierhan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

A 900-square-mile wild
chaos OF tumbled boulders
and Of lakes that remain ice
free all winter at tempera-
lures as low as IS r. has
been explored during the last
few months by scientists Of
the Australian international
Geophysical Year party In
the Antarctic.
Al the southern edge Of
the area, under the shadow
OF the high. white cliffs Of
the continental ice cap. q
scientific station. Davis. has
been established which prob
ably win be occupied perma-
nently. Named for the Aus
tralian explorer. Capt. J. X.
Davis, who FIRST sighted the
coast In this region In 1912,
this probably will be the first
human settlement anywhere
on the Antarctic continent.
Ice-Free All Year
But aside from man, the
weird wilderness Of rock is
almost completely lifeless, as
described by DR.. Phillip Law,
leader OF the Australian
I.G. Y. explorers. in a report
TO the National Academy Of
Sciences in Washington. De-
spite the temperature. he
said, at is more Of a desert
even than some permanent
ly iee-covered areas" Still.
because Of the temperature
and the fact that the region
remains ice-free the year
around. he calls the site Of
Davis the Antarctic Rivi-
era"
The area is that Of the
Vestfold Hills, stretching
southwark from the Austria
lian-claimed sector of the
Antarctic coast, at about 80
east longitude. 1t is the Sec
ond permanently ice free
. area to be discovered on the
Antarctic Continent. First
was the so-called Burgers
oasis, off the Knox coast
which also is in the Austria
liam sector. 1t was sighted in
l947, during the High Jump
expedition of Adm. Richard
E. Byrd, by Lieut.. Comdr.
Bunger Of the U. S. Navy. 1t
was about 100-miles square,
like the Australian discovery
a region of desolate rock
chaos, with green and red
dish lakes the color of which
was believed at the time to
be due to algae in the water.
Bunger was able to land on
one of these lakes.
Two years later the
"oasis." considered as the
most significant discovery Of
the High Jump expedition,
was visited by the U. S. Ice
breaker Burton Island. 1t
was such a tangled wilderness
of boulders that men became
lost within a few yards of
each other. Both visits were
in the Antarctic mid-sum-
mer so that what is probably
the most remarkable phe-
nomenon, reported by DR.,
Law from the Vestfold oasis,
was not observed. At the time
there was much speculation
as to the source of the heat
which kept the area ice-free.
Some subterranean heat
source was poStulated. A
Russian party now is estab-
lished near, but not in, Bun
gers oasis. The Soviet scien-
fists have made detailed OBJ
servations of the pheno-
menon which they have re-
ported to the Australian;
and both groups are arriving
at common conditions.
There seems no need, DR.
Law says, to postulate any
extraordinary source of heat
All summer long the Antarc-
tic sun. in virtually cloudleSs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
BY THOMAS R. HENRY
LifeIess Antarctic Desert Explored

skies. shines "a hours a day
on the black boulders. These
absorb an enormous amount
OF solar heat radiation which
they give out slowly. The
rocks, DR.. Law says. do not
have time completely 10 dis
sipate their heat during the
Antarctic winter. In only one
month Of the year. May. is
there complete absence OF
sunshine, he says. During the
other winter months there
apparently Is Just enough
sunshine 10 balance the heat
loss Of the rocks.
Still the temperatures
drop well below zero. Even TO
IS F., very warm as Ant
arctic winter temperatures go.
The fact that the lakes do not
freeze over has been a prob
lem for both Australians and
Russians. There can be at
least a tentative explanation.
DR.. Law says. These lakes.
although well inland, actually
are saltier than the sea and
the water will not CONCEAL
even at temperatures which
would make the ocean sur
face a sheet Of ice.
Another puzzle is the utter
lifelesSness Of what ordinar-
lily would be considered the
most hospitable region Of the
Antarctic. The middle Of the
Vestfold oasis is, so far as
the Australians have been
able TO determine. absolutely
devoid of life. Only near the
southern edge are some very
primitive algae found. They
are close to the lowest forms
Of plants. The complete dead
ness of the interior probably
can be explained in part, DR..
Law says, by the continuous
salt spray from both the
lakes and the nearby sea
which is blown over the land
by the hurricane-like Antarc-
tic winds.
Both Vestfold and Bunger
cases, it is believed, are areas
scraped clear by retreat OF
the glaciers in the last $4,000
years. Because Of local condi-
tons not clearly understood.
the ice has not been able to
build up again in its various
readvances toward the sea.
Volcanic Rocks Found
The rocks, DR.. Law and
his associates have deter
mined, are mostly pre-Cam-
brian granites-dating from
the earliest traces Of life on
earth-which were thrown
up by volcanoes. In only one
small area are there traces
of sedim ent ary rocks.
Through the ages a consider
able amount of soil is being
built up in both cases. Some
is blown in and some Is the
result Of the continuous de-
composition Of rock. In fact.
one of the dangers encoun-
tered by explorers in the
Vestfold region is that Of
getting stuck in the mud. In
one place wet clay six feet
deep was found. But 1t IS
poison earth for all plant
life.
The landscape is one Of
relatively low hills, from 900
to 1000 feet in altitude,
which extend southwestward
from the coast for about 40
miles. These hills actually ex-
tend about eight miles into
the sea itself where they be-
come barren. jagged islands.
The uneven land slopes
Steeply to two ridges. about
500 feet high. The long ice
free coastline. where there is
an abundance of seals and
penguins, is probably access
sible by ship each year and
thus offers an attractive place
for future exploration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Mid-Air Accidents

day.
Your editorial mid = Air
Madness" mixes fact and
misstatement in such a way
that it all appears as truth.
You say, Control Of COM
mercial flights has been
strengthened substantially by
the Civil Aeronautics Admin
iStration in recent years, but
military aviation has largely
been free to go where it
pleaSes, when 1t pleases."
This mixture Of truth and
misinformation Is misleading
to the public at a time when
emotions are high because
of two military-civil mid
air collisions.
No one wants collisions,
mid-air, ground, boat, auto
mobile, bus, train, or any
other kind. Because I've been
a pilot sometimes civil,
sometimes military for "a
years, 1 am particularly in
tereSted in not having the
mid-air kind. I cannot see
where your misleading state
ment can contribute any
thing to the problem.
As a civil licensed pilot
there are certain flight reg
ulations I must obey when I
fly. They are the Instrument
(blind) Flight Rules and the
Visual Flight Rules. So far
these rules have not pre-
vented collisions between air.
liners, between private planes
and airliners and between
civilian nonairline planes.
Human error, not rule, has
generally been responsible.
When I have flown as a
military pilot over United
States soil I have been subject
to a set Of military rules that
go beyond the Civil Air Rules
in their restrictions. These
rules certainly do not permit
the military to be "free to
go where it pleaSeS, when it
pleases," any more than avi-
alton in general can do that.
However, it is also obvious
that the military set Of rules
has not prevented accidents
any more than the civil set
Of rules.
In recent days there has
been a lot Of comment in
your columns about military
aircraft being on CONNER
cial airlanes." Where can a
nonairline aircraft fly and
not be on a commercial
lane?"
If you will refer to a stand
ard airway charitable the
Eastern Seaboard States for
example-and make an ex-
animation Of all the airportS,
civil and military. all the
airways including the green,
red, amber, blue, the Victor
numbered airways, the hi
altitude Always, the control
zones and the like, I think
you will find that an air.
craft hardly can fly five
miles in any direction with
out already being ION" or en-
countering some CONNER
cial airlane."
Everyone in aviation is
concerned with the collision
problem. No one questions
the service that the press
can perform by writing in
formative editorials to the
point. However, / can see no
point in loose statements by
the press that can stir up
more trouble than aviation
already has.
Robert E. Trimble.
X IS
The latest mid-air collision
resulting in indignation, fear,
and the demand for someone
to assume positive control"
Of the skies has gone far
enough. This sheer madness
is unnecessary and must be
stopped!
In the days of slower pro-
peller aircraft, the rule was,
never climb or descend, ex-
cept in a turn, to prevent the
possibility Of climbing or glid-
ing into another aircraft"
When two aircraft are sit
uated vertically from one an
other, it is impossible for
either to see the other, and
when flying in the same d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

ciouS), Pilot with Sti1 neck
soon have company Of stiff
body: pilot with head on
swivel live to trade in for
platform rocker on retire
ment!"
Pilot.
49,
Let's get the facts straight,
please. am referring to your
May % editorial keep Out
for Safety" In it you i'm
piled that American military
aviators are daily deviating
from prescribed civil avia-
ton flight rules and paths.
This is just not true. In
practically all cases Of near
misses, and the mid-air col
lisions themselves, the mill
tary aircraft have been flying
strictly within the rules as
. prescribed in Civil Air Reg
lations, Part so. They have
been operating under the
visual fight rules of this reg
ulation which amounts to the
"see and be seen" theory.
now tragically obsolete.
It's true that military air.
craft are allowed to deviate
from the rules, but only after
receiving the expressed per-
mission of the CAA admins
traitor, and it is seldom asked
for except in true cases of
military emergency or cur
rent military necessity essen
tial to the defense of the
United States" Our Govern
ment has spent huge sums of
money to train our military
f1iers and they are somewhat
selective in whom they train.
I would also like to COM
ment on the letter appear
ing in the same edition Of
your newspaper signed by
Mrs. Arthur o. Woodbridge.
1 just wonder If she has ever
seen an aeronautical chart Of
the United States. If she
wants to keep all jets COM
pletely out Of all civilian air.
lanes just where does she
suggest they fly? I believe
her letter is another example
of someone hitting that we'll
known panic button"
Charles H. Townsend.
So
For the last IL years I have
been an occasional but en-
thusiastic patron of the air.
lines. taking pleasure in the
enterprise and courtesy of
their people, both on the
ground and aloft. Lately I
have found new admiration
for their skill. in checking
my watch and seeing as
many as five big craft in less
than four minutes move on
and off the dangerously
overworked National Airport
without mishap.
Then, just a month ago, 1
was Mortified like everyone
else when the military air
arm scored a direct hit
against them by knocking a
plane from the sky near Las
Vegas. But, I thought, that
was one time in millions. 1t
couldn't happen again in a
hundred years. And surely
something will be done any,
way.
Two days later, driving
across Memorial Bridge, I was
able to count no less than ten
vapor trails being laid at once
by military jets in the sky
over and around Washington.
But still I thought, surely. by
Gods grace, the Las Vegas
tragedy can't happen again.
So now it has happened
again, Just outside our en-
virons. And I, for one, shall
be desperately afraid to fly
any more until the hazard Of
this military stupidity is
cleared from our skies.
Camera 0hScura.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
LETTERS. TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IL
letters carry priters' correct
names and addresses. An
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Old New England Johnnycake

N1orn is the most typical of all Ameri-
can foods. That corn was cultivated
throughout the Western Hemisphere for
thousands Of years is proved by excava-
tons from ancient tombs built before
the time Of the Pyramids. The early set
tiers learned from the Indians to enjoy
green corn freshly roasted over hot
Goals. They learned about corn hulIed,
pounded, ground.
Squanto "a Pawtuxet Indian who
befriended the early settlers - taught
the Pilgrim mothers the Indian way of
succotaSh. that corn-and- bean combina-
ton, and the way of Indian pudding.
Corn meal is woven through the warp
and wool of the American past and into
the present too.
Corn bread is the lineal descendant Of
the Indian aShcake and that was but
corn meal and water mixed to a stiff
dough and sailed to please the primitive
palate. Hoecake and journeycake were
but an aShcake twoSome. Now corn
breads descendants range all over the
reservation. Recipes can be counted into
the thousands. Controversies rage. No
two states agree on how corn breads
should be made. From the corn pone
and hush puppies of the South to Rhode
Islands johnnycake, all may be classed
as American originals. (The recipe for
Southern hush puppies will appear in a
later iSsue.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04

'*ateE lo- the required liquid. When
fudge is ready to pour "a minutes). add
cherries. Pour onto a double sheet of
waxed paper to cool.
When cool, knead until smooth and
divide into three parts. Form each into
a roll approximately inch in diameter.
From one roll, pinch off I-inch pieces;
form into balls and roll in tinted COCO
nut. The other two rolls will form the
centers Of the chocolate nut rolls.
Green coeonut: Make the second pack
age of coconut quick fudge mix accord
ing to package directions. Pour half of it
onto double sheet of waved paper to
- Continued on HerT page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Seronae 8 Goden

Rhode Islanders want their johnny
cake made with white stoneground meal
of Rhode Island corn, little sugar, no
eggs. But as to the exact formula even
Rhode Islanders can't agree. The State
Federation Of Women's Clubs once held
a contest to determine what should go
into authentic johnnycake. They re-
ceived over 200 recipes, no two alike.
Here is our fayorite johnnycake which
comes to us from Mrs. EFT. H. Metcalf
of Providence.
Rhode Island Jolnnnycake
3 cups jOhnnycake meal (wmfe corn
meGD
2 tablespoons sugar CT az
2 teaspoons salt La WN
quart boiling water ~
1s cup milk, about 81
Sift meal with dry ingredients into mix
ing bowl. Stir in boiling water and mix
thoroughly. Thin with milk, using more
or less Of the quantity specified as
needed for thin batter. Drop by spoon
fulS onto hot, well-greased griddle.
Cook slowly on both sides. Frying time
is about 20 minutes for each griddleful
of cakes each cake three inches in
diameter. Yield: D johnnycakes. What
do you eat with johnnycake at the break
fast hour? Sausage the first round,
maple syrup the second.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
FUDGE GOES Continued JTonpr preceding page
Candies For Mothers Day
: Continued from preceding page

.h- sweets IA : crystal candy jar
two-in-one gift.
CoIorful Fudge Assortment
? packages cOcOnHf quick fudge mix
packages chocolate quick fudge mix
tablespoon Bl1r0SchiH0 cherry juice
? tablespoons water
tablespoon finely cut n10r0SchinO
cherries, well drained
Pink-fnfed cOcoHaf Al
Green food cOI0riHg SM g
" cup finely chopped pec0ns al
Pink coeonut: Make package coconut
quick fudge mix, using cherry juice and
Evening star., 1958-07-06
PERSONALITY PARADE
Cracking BuIIwhips, Hunting
It's Just Routine for Judith

skating since she was 8. She's
-also been climbing poles and
thin ledges around houses since
she was a child.
Il was brought UP in a neigh
borhood with Is boys-no
girls" she recalls. 'They tried
to ditch me and they put
worms down my neck. I was
tackle and sometimes I thought
/ was the football in the games.
I guess that's why I'm such a
tomboy.
Hunting is one of my ia
vorite things. I want to get a
moose with a bow and arrow.
I've been on the three big game
hunting trips to the northwest
with my father"
mot long ago my mother
and I were walking into q
store when someone yelled,
Stop that man, he stole my
pocketbook.' I chased him
down the street into q deadend
alley and blocked the entrance.
I'm coming out he told
me. When I disagreed. he hit
me in the jaw with his fist and
knocked a tooth out. I re-
membered what my father told
me. Always follow through
he said. I did. I slugged the
big man right in the stomach.
1t knocked his breath out.
Then I called the cops that
were nearby and they took him
away"
Judy says that she's going to
major In history at college be-
cause if she fiops on the stage
she'll be able to teach.
It looks like Judy has more
than that to choose from.
Evening star., 1958-07-06

Judy wrote one of her prize
winning poems. It's called
"H2O." 1t won first prize in
the National High School
Poetry Association contest.
II wrote it on the church
bulletin suddenly" Judy said,
after the preacher mentioned
water in his sermon. I've also
written poetry at 3 am. on a
balcony in CzechoSlovakia. 1
spent last summer there as the
guest of Jennifer johnson, 15-
year-old daughter of the
United States Ambassador
there then. While there /
swapped a rock and roll dance
lesson for a folk dance lesson
with some Czechs."
Judy has written more than
100 poems on all kinds of scraps
Of paper, on all kinds of sub
jects and in all kinds of places.
Sitting in trees inspires me
the most for poetry" she says.
"The piano inspires me for
composing. Sometimes I stay
at the piano all day.
KILLER, my 11-year-old cat,
Is my best critic" she adds.
"She sits on the piano while
I play. ! know it's not good If
Killer walks out Of the loom. So
I change the notes. and then
Killer comes back to her critics
seat"
Evening star., 1958-07-06
By Fiji 6oRSKA
star stan Writer

Mother doesn't think it's
ladylike-cracking 14-foot bull
whips. big game hunting. climb
ing trees. playing baseball,
slugging thieves and things
like that. But ! feel you should
be versatile"
Judith Mae Harris, 18-year-
old contestant for the Miss
washington Of 1852 title. was
speaking. The same blondish
651a-inch tall beauty who also
writes poetry, composes SYM
phonies, acts, sends arrows into
the center of bulleyes. pans for
gold in Alaska, and is in the
middle of writing an opera in
English.
Judy was graduated from
Western High School in June.
but not before she had cap
tanned the basketball team.
played on the girls baseball
team. won the softball throw
for accuracy at 80 yards. run
on the track team and been
president of the Bible Class.
Evening star., 1958-07-06
PrizePoem

The teen-ager who hopes to
-go on the stage when she
finishes Lincoln Memorial Uni
versity In Tennessee. has acted
with the Foundry Players. She's
active In Foundry Methodist
Church where she has been
president Of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship and right
fielder on the boys baseball
team.
In fact It was in church that
Evening star., 1958-07-06
Composes Music, Too

Judy has written three SYM
phonies, Music. The Storm"
and Running Water" She is
writing poetry to go with the
first movement Of Music. |"
In the winter. Judy is a
figure skater. She's been ice
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-30
Miss. Vocational
College Opening
September |

Itta Bena, Miss. - Mississippi
Vocational College will open its
doors for the 1958-59 session Sep
TENDER 1, 1868 with reistration of
Inservice Teachers for the Fall
Short Term.
Dormitories will be open to new
students on September 7; fresh
men orientation is scheduled for
September 9 thru IL; and regis
tration for freshmen and new stu
dents will be held September IL
thru Is.
Dormitories will be opened to
upper classmen September IA and
registration is September Is and
16. Class work begins September
II.
President J. H. White will issue
the welcome address at the Con-
vocation Service October 1; thus
he will offer the services of a
modernistic institution, dedicated
in the task of creating better peo-
pie for a better nation, through
sound educational principles.
The Institute for Faculty Mem
bers will be held September 8, and
coop planning will take place for
the most successful year in the his
tory Of this institution.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-30
Tots Mixed
Peacefully In
Nashville School
ForSecond Year

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. Is The
second years registration Of "a
cially mixed first graders began
quietly and without incident here
today.
Five six-year-old Negro pupils
joined dozen whites in enrolling
in Buena Vista, north Nashville
school where two Negroes attend
ed classes last year.
Negro pupils in small numbers
were expected to show up at sew
eral other elementary schools be-
fore registration ends at pm.
School Supt. w. H. Oliver, tour
ing the schools, said Everything
is in perfect order. The situation is
just as good as it could be-"
Police watched the schools close
ly but generally remained in the
back ground.
Last year little beside threaten
ing phone calls marred the city's
first desegregated registration of
first graders, but violence broke
out when classes started and ona