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Evening star., 1959-05-25
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

blows of a stick on the back
of the small head.
< Y 4
The head is a tipoff, per-
haps, to the fact that this
animal is often run over In
traffic.
The skunk and the opossum
are most often seen lying
along highways.
They are run over as much
in daylight as at night.
An opossum crossing the
road does not use even as
much brains as the famous
chicken.
He puts his head down and
just saunters across. One
could not expect him. of
course, to know anything
about modern highspeed
traffic, but he at least should
have enough sense to see
something coming at him.
Apparently he does not
look except in the direction
he is going.
The failure cannot be due
to his eyes. because he has
very good ones, and they are
so positioned that he ought
to be able to have good side
vision. Opossums never suffer
from glaucoma.
The 'possum prefers white
bread and ground meat, or
beef cut into small pieces.
Do not serve wheat bread
the average specimen does
not care for it.
He will accept white bread,
any kind, and will eat it be-
fore taking beef.
First he eats bread. then
the meat. If there is a human
intruder. he may leave the
foods and retire under the
porch or into shrubbery.
Opossums in nearby Vir-
ginia often come to bird feed
ing stations at windows and
sometimes have a flash por-
trait taken there.
A few houses down the
street from our own a family
made a habit for a time Of
handing out slices of bread to
a 'possum seated in the bird
feeder. and he accepted them
gravely. holding them with
his hand-like forepaws.
The opossum is one of our
most wonderful animals. being
a marsupial, the only one of
its kind in North America.
Our raccoon is related to the
bear family. In these two ami
mails we have creatures to be
proud of, but the normal way
of treating them seems to
overlook their beauty and in
terest.
Evening star., 1959-05-25

Synthetic Proteins Believed Created
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Creation of substances
very similar TO proteins. basic
building stones Of all animal
life. has Just been reported
by two Florida State Uni
versity chemists.
They produced so-called
"proteinoids" of the same
general structure rs proteins
by keeping mixtures Of
amino acids at temperatures
close to 200 F. for 3 hours
under a blanket of carbon
dioxide gas.
The results described by
Drs. Sidney w. Fox and
Kaoru Harada may have far
reaching implications on the
origin of animal life on earth.
They themselves disclaim any
theories.
Proteins themselves. Of
which there are multiple
kinds, are extremely complex
chemical structures. All con-
tain carbon, nitrogen. hydro
gen and oxygen. Sulfur is
found in most Of them and
iron in a few. They can be
broken down into the So
called amino acids-nitrogen-
containing acids Of which
about 90 now are known.
Presumably the proteins are
built up from various combi-
nations Of them, or were
created in this way in the
beginning.
Continually Replenished
Proteins are the major
constituents of muscles,
glands and blood. One or
more is found in every cell
of the animal body. They
must be continuously replen-
ished by protein-containing
food. They also exist in
plants but whether vegetable
proteins can be thoroughly
utilized by animals is de-
batable.
No animal can make its
own proteins. The animaI
kingdom had to wait on syn
thesis by nature before il
could have come into exist
ence.
During the past few years
there have been at least two
successful syntheses of amino
acids out of mixtures of gases
such as presumably consti-
tuted the primordial atmos-
phere of the earth. The acids
have been created both by
subjecting such mixtures tt
Short-wave light radiation
and by sending electrical dis
charges through them. How
ever this happened in nature
it may be considered the first
step toward animal life.
But combining these amino.
into proteinS, or even into
polypeptideS - amino acic
combinations into which pro-
teins can be subdivided-iS
something far more difficult
and a hurdle which must be
crossed before there can be
any adequate explanation oi
the origin of life.
The Florida chemists de-
scribe their results as quite
unexpected. When the heated
mixtures we're cooled by spe-
cial techniques they obtained
solids containing at least Is
per cent of proteinlike SUBJ
stances. When these were
analyzed. one yielded is pei
cent of glutamic acid, II pei
cent of aspartic acid and Il
per cent of the other aminoS
placed in the mixture. An
other yielded 48 per cent oil
glutamic acid and 80 per cent
of all the others. Studies
now have revealed ways oi
Evening star., 1959-05-25
Security Findinqs


Council Of Christian Church.
es commended the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities and called upon
the secular press to publish
more extensive reports of the
hearings and findings of con-
gresSional security commit
tees.
Impetus for this resolu-
ton was a recent release, by
the House committee. of
testimony by Peter Deriabin
id tifying Metropolitan
Nicolai, second ranking
churchman in the Russian
Orthodox Church, as a Soviet
secret agent of long standing.
In June, 1856, Nicolai headed
a party of Russian church.
men invited to the United
States by the general board
of the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the
U. S. A. Deriabin is the high
est ranking Soviet secret
agent ever to escape the Iron
Curtain.
The council resolution de-
clares: Metropolitan Nico-
lai, the second ranking
churchman of the Russian
Orthodox Church and head
of foreign relations for the
church, came to the United
States as the official guest Of
the general board of the Ma
tional Council of Churches.
He and his party of fellow
travellers were ushered
around the country by the
then president of the NCC,
DR.. Eugene Carson Blake.
The spectacle of the National
Council of Churches enter
tanning and commencing to
the American people as a
Christian leader this agent in
the Soviet secret police rep
resentS the way the Russians
use their so-called exchange
delegations. The sight of this
agent occupying church pull
pits, being received at de-
nominational headquarters of
the Protestant Episcopal
Church and the Presbyterian
Church U.S.A., and sitting in
a meeting of the general
board of the NCC in Toledo,
Ohio. emphasizes the Krem-
Inns use and debauchery of
the church for its cold war
purposes. The failure of re-
ligious publications related
to the National Council of
Churches and of leaders in
the NCC to comment upon,
or to report, this information
constitutes the silence of
guilt The American Council
of Christian Churches calls
upon the Christian people of
this country to recognize that
peaceful coexistence is peace
ful deception and that this
church leadership is direct
ing the mind of the country
along the wrong road to
peace. The American Council
commends the Committee on
Un : American Acc ~vities for
revealing such facts to the
country and calls upon the
secular press to provide a
more adequate news coverage
of the hearings and reports
of the security committees of
the United States Congress.
the House Un-American Ac-
.tivities Committee and the
Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee"
John Grier KOOntZ.
Evening star., 1959-05-25

And the things that can and
must be done will fall largely
to ZOOS of one sort or another.
We can help ourselves and
future generations to a fuller
and richer life by helping the
zoo, by praising the advances
that are being made, instead
of running it down.
Ethel Quillian Bixby
X x 4 4
/ used to take groups of
children to the Zoo, but
switched to happier places a
few years ago.
Everyone has his favorites.
I think the Saddest is the
small-animal house. Perhaps
some of the really small ami
mails are well off, but l re-
member especially a creature
like a medium-sized dog that
trotted up and down and up
and down his short glass
showcase with desperate eyes.
There were larger animals
with equally little room.
Our local animal shelter
won't place its dogs and cats
for adoption under infinitely
better circumstances. Can't
we do better by captive ami
mails?
Gerda Zander,
Evening star., 1959-05-25

increasing the percentages.
they say. and the experiments
will be continued.
These experiments" they
say. do not prove that pri-
mordial protein was produced
thermally. nor interpreta-
tions of biochemical origins
suggested by the unexpected
results. But the entire out
look seems worthy of more
serious consideration because
Of the findings"
49,
A man can stand brieny
temperatures of more than
500 F.
This has been determined
by Air Force experiments,
looking ahead to days Of
space flight when crews may
experience heat above this
for four or five minutes when
re-entering the earth's at
mosphere. They should be
dressed. however, somewhat
like Antarctic explorers.
These experiments are re-
ported to the American AS
sociation for the Advance
ment of Science by DR.. Paul
Webb of the Aero Medical
Laboratory at Wright-Pat-
terson Field, Ohio.
The crucial time will come,
he said. during the terminal
dive ending the flight. Men
inside the craft will be pro-
tected by insulation and
water-cooled walls. But these
might fail at any time, or
they might be left out to
save weight. The craft would
heat up from friction at a
rate as high, as 500 F. a
minute.
1t is known that heat as
high as $50 F. for prolonged
periods leads to internal body
heating, collapse and death
from heat stroke. A brief ex-
perience, however. might be
quite different, DR.. Webb said.
Probably" he reported,
-four or FIVE minutes exposure
would be too brief for any
appreciable internal heating
but there would be rapid
heating of the skin surface.
Therefore, covering the skin
would be the most important
measure of protection.
Special Oven Used
ITO test this hypothesis an
oven was constructed with
light metal walls heated ex-
ternally by banks of radiant
heat lamps. A man was
seated in the 4-foot cubic
space variously unprotected,
covered with light clothing, or
dressed in heavy Arctic flight
gear. Two heating rates were
applied-50 F. and 100 F. a
minute. Exposure was con-
tinued until the subject called
a halt.
THE nude subject was able
to stand a slow heat pulse
with a peak at $50 F. to 400
F. The lightly clothed man
could take it to about 450
F. The heavily clothed man
hardly felt the heat until 500
F. was reached. The pulses
were not carried higher for
fear of igniting the clothing.
THE tolerance limit was
set by pain. Little body heat
ing occurred in any of the
tests. On the other hand,
measurements of the temper
ature of the exposed skin
showed that surface tempera-
lures were reached which
matched the established
levels for pain from radiant
heating"
Evening star., 1959-05-25

terfere further with the project. Canoe
lists and other boating enthusiasts use
that portion Of the river despite the pol
luton, and undoubtedly will continue to
do so. 1t is only sensible to provide them
with needed facility and, at the same
time, to hope that their interest in the
Potomac will spur efforts to do some
thing about the pollution.
Evening star., 1959-05-25
No Room for Veteran

Inc sunday star, May II,
records in its obituary notice
the achievements of my hus-
band for his country as a re-
search chemist in mustard
gas in World War I, and his
permanent contribution to
science while working for the
Department of Agriculture Il
might add at the usual in
adequate and unappreciative
salary of scientists at that
time).
For this service he was re-
warded by his Government
with refusal three times to
a Veterans hospital when he
was an ambulance case, be-
cause there was no bed avail
able. At the time of his death
he had been on the waiting
list for over a year. In the
meantime he used private
hospitals.
When it is the law to pay
farmers for retired land or
for surplus crops the payment
is made because it is the law,
and not on the basis of
whether one is destitute. 1t
is not the fault of the local
veterans hospital when there
are not enough beds. How
ever, in such circumstances,
the Government should reim-
burse the private hospitals
for their use. When a gov
ernment can no longer honor
its own rulings. then it is a
matter for grave public con-
cern.
With this in mind I note
Senator Kennedy's proposed
new immigration legislation.
I also noted at one time a
proposal to admit tubercular
relatives not on a quota basis,
And this when a bed due a
veteran is a year overdue!
When l was a youngSter
my mother had a saying she
used when we boasted or
talked foolishly: Put up or
shut up" This I would say
to our legislators. When you
have a shortage of class
rooms for the children al
ready here, when there is a
two-year backlog of veterans
waiting for care, then you
are in no position to say:
I'VE can and must do so
and So"
How can one have conf
dence in ones lawmakers
when they meet reality with
such unreality? How can one
have confidence in the wis
dom of the men with whom
we trust the guidance of our
country in these grave times
when they solve the slippery
floor problem in the new
Senate building with wall-to-
wall carpet when shoes with
walking-heel type would do
the same thing? Are fashion,
model shoes for secretaries
more important than keep
ing your promise to a vet
eran?
Kathryn H. NicOlet.
Editors note: The writer's
husband was DR.. Ben H.
Nicolet. retired senior chem
ist of the Agriculture Depart
ment and former president
of the Washington Chemical
Society,"
Evening star., 1959-05-25
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry wrtter's correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtton.
Evening star., 1959-05-25

Editors note: The writer's
husband was DR.. Ben H.
Nicolet, retired senior chem
ist of the Agriculture Depart
ment and former president
of the Washington Chemical
Society,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
nd or nowadays makes things

the world go round or nowadays makes things
go round the world.
In reporting, some of the best sports
scenes mislaid, crowded out by space limi-
tatiOns, scores, or individual heroics.
The most memorable leftout story for this
reporter in 1858 was little scenario which took
place late in the hardfought football contest that
saw Gathersburg beat arch rival Richard Mont
gomery, 7-6.
The Rockets completely dominated the first
half play for a, CO. lead. Gaithersburg reversed
the situation and dominated the second half play
but made good on its conversion for the, 76, mar
gin With time running out Gaithersburg had
drive stalled by penalty in the shadow of the
Rocket goal and Richard Montgomery took to the
air.
Jackie Smith threw long down field to John
Auber for an apparent S0yard touchdownpass-
play. Gaithersburg reserves who had moments
before crowded to the sideline cheering for an
other score against their rivals froze in their
tracks as Auber raced for the goal The reporter
lost track of the play The sight of quick
a detection that seemed to freeze the Gathers
burg players faces and limbs in silence as bed
lam broke across the field kept his attention.
Then pause!
The nearest boy to the reporter thrust out
pointing arm
There's a flag! :! A flag! 1! +! A flag! Z!
he shouted and Immediately his teammates
took up the cry and to the rhythm of their
cry jumped in unison some two three feet
off the ground.
Laughing and crying at the same time the
boys in blue who an instant before felt three
months hard labor sweeping quickly in the direc-
ton Of the drain behind the far goal posts toward
which Auber ran, performed their movement
again and again.
1t might take ballet instructor 10 years to
reproduce that harmony and grace in 20 dancing
football players caused by the fusion of small
red handkerchief and bit of arc-lit November
air.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
Tickets Available
For Colt Contest

Manager-coach Don Benson, of
the Montgomery County Senti-
nePs cage team, says he expects
standing room only for the game
between the Sentinels and the
transforming basketball team OF
the Baltimore Colts at Gathers.
burg High on Saturday, January
II.
People were after us for tick.
cts before we even got them from
the printer" Benson said. Tickets
are available at the Sentinel, the
Rockville Supply Company and
from all team members.
The Colts have promised to put
on a Globe Trotter type show
with court clowning mixed in
with first rate basketball. Johnny
Unitas, Andy Nelson, L. G. Long
Gone" Dupre, Jim Mutscheller
and Gene big Daddy" Lipscomb
will lead the Colts.
The Sentinels currently unde
feated in the County adult cage
loop and are composed chiefly OF
former college stars. The Mont.
gomery County Sentinel sponsors
the team in the adult basketball
league.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
Up-County Rivals
Play for First
Time This Season
By George Bragaw
Sports Editor

Gaithersburg takes what it
hopes to be its first step to-
ward the State Class "B" bas-
ketball crown when the Tro-
jams entertain Sherwood Fri
day night.
This may be Gaithersburg's last
year as "B' school and it might
be many a year before Pat Nc
earthly, who has done a fine job
in his years at Gaithersburg, gets
another shot at a State champion
ship.
The Trojans were runners up
for the State title last year and
quarter finalists the previous sea-
son.
Only three class "B" schools,
Gaithersburg, Damascus a n d
Sherwood are left in Montgom.
cry County. With the steadily
growing enrollments both Gath.
ersburg and Sherwood should be.
come class "A" schools before
too long.
Both Sherwood and Damascus
have stronger clubs than they
had last season. Whether the
Trojans, who still remain heavy
favorites to take the county col.
ors into State play, are as strong
as last season is yet to be seen.
Gaithersburg Favored
The old unreliable, comparative
scores, should install Gathers
burg as a heavy favorite over
Sherwood Friday. Against a com
mon opponent, Wheaton, Gath
ersburg dropped a closer contest
than the slap final score would
Indicate, while Wheaton dominat.
ed its game with Sherwood to
win by 27-point spread, 1929.
Another factor giving the Tro-
jams the edge is the injury to
Starke Evans, Sherwoods lead.
ing pointmaker. Evans who has
14-points-a-game average aggra.
waited an old ankle injury in a
New Years Eve practice session.
Last season Gaithersburg had
little trouble with the Warriors
disposing of them by 1922 and
56-35 scores.
Neither coach has seen his OPP
ponent play thus far and both
look for a tough contest.
Mccarthy has been pleased
with the progress of 5-foot-11
Bobby carp over the holidays.
Carl Shipley, an All-County Sc
lection last season has also
looked sharp over the break.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
5pmtans Hope
add to Blair
Woes Friday

1t was Blair who blasted Wal
ter johnson twice over the Christ
mas holidays last year and it took
the Spartans the best part of
January to recover. The two
square off at WI this Friday
night.
Blair has been taking it on the
chin this season so far and the
Spartans figure to get in a few
ticks too, as everybody is point
ing for the Blazers who held the
basketball limelight in these re-
gions for two straight years.
Blair, without returning start
err from last years championship
team, is cursed by lack of height
this season.
Walter Johnson has essentially
the same squad that absorbed a
pair of 25 point losses from the
Blazers last year. Bill Butler, 6.
foot-5, and Bob Woodward, g.
foot-3, should have little trouble
controlling the boards.
Blair is depending this year on
speed and hustle. So far the
Blazers haven't been able to com
pensate for the experience and
size of last season.
DeMatha crushed the Blazers,
55-33, last Friday for their fourth
loss of the season, virtually as
surfing the Big Red ifs worst
season in five years. The Blaz
ers have posted three unbeaten
seasons in the last four years
TO show the best overall record
of any cage team in the Metro
politan area.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
Baker Injured;
King to Start
Against Laurel

Damascus, still riding high aft.
er a fast start hopes it can repeat
an early season slaughter of
Laurel on the Hornets home
court this Friday night
In their most lopsided win of
the season, the Hornets buZzed
past Laurel by score that sounds
like it was borrowed from pro
football, 1917. Laurel failed to
score from the floor in either
the second or third quarters.
Damascus suffered blow
when Danny Baker, broke a fin.
ger in holiday practice. The 5.
foot-11 senior has averaged IL
points a game thus far and will
be missed. In his place will be
Leonard King, 6-foot-2 junior,
whose best effort so far has been
seven points against the alumni
as a sub for the injured Louis
Abraham.
Coach Leon Swart rates King
as good rebounder and ballhan
dler but says he will miss Baker
scoring.
Abrahams is still having trou'
bic with his blistered feet. Louis
has had trouble with his feet be
fore when playing basketball, ac
cording TO Swart and although
Abrahams has been wearing
padded shoes it still doesn't seem
TO help too much.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
Wheaton Faces
MeHBotth
Against Height

Wheaton is again cast in its
familiar bi-weekly roll of Jack,
the Giant Killer" this Friday
when B-CC struts its weary hour
upon the Wheaton stage.
It's the same old cry" says
Coach Don Drown. Were going
to surprise somebody before it's
over. When a big team like Wal
ter johnson only beats my tiny
ones by two points it shows we're
going to beat somebody"
Floris DAVIDSON of Bethesda is
probably cycling that two point
win by Walter Johnson carefully
too. B-CC won over WI by one
point and a three point spread
doesn't leave much room for re-
taxing.
We've improved over the holi-
days" DAVIDSON said. Were
coming but l don't know how far
we'll go. l was very pleased with
the last practice before school
reopened'
Both Wheaton and Bethesda
found themselves with entirely
new squads at the beginning of
the year with all the starters
from the year before having
graduated.
The difference is that Davis
son had some height to bring up
from the reserves and JVs
whereas Drown has Melvin Case
at 6-foot-l as his monster Fred
Role at 6-foot-3 and Brad Brooks
at 6-foot-5 give the basketball
Barons sturdy lookouts over the
Knights bastions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-08
Tall Indians
Look Down on
Tiny Rockets

Richard Montgomery should
have about as much chance
against the Northwood Indians as
Custer had at the Little Big Horn.
Whenever a Rocket looks UP
Friday night he'll spy an Indian
looking down on him. Only Den.
mis- Floyd at 6-foot-3 keeps the
entire Rocket squad from being
over-sighted by the Northwood
five.
Northwood has the talIest av.
erage height in the county at al
most 6-foot-3 and Dave Ramsey
is the midget at shade under
6-foot-2.
The tallest Indian is Kirk Stew.
art, 6-foot4 hook-shot artist
who could be the best basketball
player in the Bi-County.
The Indians squeaked past
Blair, a team that had walloped
RMHS 1928, in its poorest game
of the season just before the Holt
days.
Aside from the Blair game
Northwood has been averaging
close to 30 percent shooting from
the floor. Anything near that per
Torrance should prove too much
for the Rockets.
Rocket Coach Carl Fahrner has
been mixing his sophomore and
senior units which he worked sep
arately before the holiday. AS il
looks now seniors Duck Milne and
Jackie Smith will be working with
sophomores Bob and Kenny DoanC
and Bruce Mackey. Fahrner also
intends to work in three other
seniors, Dennis Floyd, Phil Case
and Russ Mullican for rebound
ing.