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Evening star., 1959-11-25
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Multitude of Minor Planets
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

tenn is regarded by eminent
authorities as primitive mat
ter that failed to condense
into a single large planet"
Thus, it is explained, their
makeup may be quite close
to that of the matter from
which the earth and other
planets originally were form
ed.
Mortality of leukemia, can
Ger of blood-forming organs,
is increasing at an alarming
rate.
Thirty years ago. according
to statistics of the American
Cancer Society which is sup
porting leukemia research at
a rate of 81 900 900 a year, the
death rate among males of all
ages was 2.5 per 100000. It
now is IA. Among females,
less susceptible, the increase
was from l.8 to 81 per 100,-
900.
The reported increase, ac-
cording to the Society, can be
explained partly by better
diagnosis but this is far from
telling the whole story.
Treatment Improved
In the face of this increase,
however, there have been
great improvements in treat
ment. Life expectancy in
acute leukemia, usually
found in children, used to be
a matter of weeks, or months.
Now new drugs have stretched
this in some cases to as much
DIS d lew years.
Chronic leukemia usually
occurs after the age of 25,
and the survival period is
much longer.
Although leukemia often is
thought of as a child disease,
according to the Society's
report, it actually strikes
many more adults. In the
United States it now claims
about 1000 lives annually,
nearly 1000 being children
under IS.
The report also reveals:
The incidence is greater in
the more than in the less
privileged class and in urban
than in rural populations.
The disease rarely is pres
ent at birth. Only 20 cases of
congenital leukemia ever
have been reported.
There is some possibility
suggested by experiments
with mice, that it may be
caused by an unidentified
virus,
Evening star., 1959-11-25
Wrong Remedy

1t is not surprising to residents of
Fairfax County-and to motorists gen.
orally who are familiar with road con-
ditionS there-that Virginia State High
way Commissioner Samuel D. May has
found the county's secondary road net
work one of the worst in the State.
There is reason for this disgraceful
Situation-but the remedy suggested by
Mr.. May is not the right one.
The highway commissioner said he
would ask the General Assembly to ap-
propriate more money for the States
secondary road system. But that would
not materially benefit Fairfax County's
roads unless, at the same time, the out
moded formula for allocating second
ary road funds to Northern Virginia is
radically changed. Under the present
formula, adopted when nearby Virginia
was largely rural in character, the VOL
ume of traffic is not considered in dis
tributing road money. The main factors
bearing on the ALLEGATIONS are popula-
ton and miles of road already built.
And nine-year-old census figures are
used - although Fairfax County has
grown phenomenally in 10 years.
We hope Commissioner May not only
will succeed in obtaining more highway
funds from the Legislature, but will in
duce it to approve new and fairer basis
for allotting highway money to counties
and towns. Until the formula is revised,
the nearby Virginia area will continue
to suffer the dubious distinction of hav-
ing secondary roads that are about
the worst in Virginia.
Evening star., 1959-11-25
Bucks Color Line

There are at least 48 COL
ored players on the 36-man
rosters of the II other Ma
tional Football League teams.
There are none on the Wash
ington Redskins. The pres
ence of such players has
been common for several
years. The better clubs re-
Gently have generally been
those with several colored
players. Today the four lead
ing clubs-Cleveland, Balti-
more, San Francisco and
New York - also have the
most colored Players, 6, 6
and S, respectively. The Red
skins have never had one
colored player, have never
even invited one for a try
out. and have even after in
advertently drafting a player
who happened to be COL
ored, refused an offer when
they learned of their mis-
take" The Redskins are also
usually low in the league
standing.
The pro game is SO highly
developed, the skillS are so
nearly equally distributed,
and the teams are so closely
matched that any even slight
advantage pays off hand
Somely in victories. Marshall
Systematically cuts the Red
skins off from conservatively
10 per cent of the available
talent, and simultaneously
this gives several players on
all opposing teams additional
incentive. About 10 per cent
of the population is claSsi-
fed as Negro, but over IL
per cent of those on the
rosters of the other teams
are Negro. On the starting
teams IA to 16 per cent are
colored, and 5 of the % ALL
Pro selections of 1853 were
colored.
But Marshall prefers to
remain the only owner of
any of the major profess
Sional sports, football, bas-
ketball, or baseball, to imple-
ment his own prejudice and
so deny Washington fans a
better product. Marshall is
simply interested, beyond his
racism, in the profits from
the telecaStS of Washington
games to Southern viewers,
rather than in serving well
the market to which he
should be devoted. the fans
of the Washington area.
BY no means should Con-
gress or the District govern
ment sanction this indefen-
sible. not to say illegal, dis
elimination.
John H. Dalton,
Assistant Professor of Eco
nomics, University Of
Maryland.
Evening star., 1959-11-25

@. Please settle an argu-
ment. Does any part of the
Mississippi River run uphill?
IN. B.
A. This question has been
asked frequently over the
years. The United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey
states that the answer de-
pendS on the definition of
uphill" Its rotation causes
the earth (including the
ocean, to bulge at the Equa-
tor. The Mississippi's mouth
is farther from the earth's
center than it's sources, and
in this sense the river does
run uphill. But elevation is
Evening star., 1959-11-25
THIS AND THAT
) BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Eggs, sugar and -four we're
used in its composition.
When think of a dough-
nut" said Templeton Jones.
1 think of the heavy, solid
round sort, with a most de-
licious smell.
In recent years I have
discovered that they are not
good, as We say, for gall blad-
der patients and some
Others"
A cruller, to Jones, was one
OF the twisted sort, usually
made, he thinks, from a
dough in which yeast is used.
This is the present raised
doughnut," as it is sometimes
called. often and usually
honey dipped, or coated with
white sugar.
Often the real doughnut.
as Jones calls the solid sort,
is coated with chocolate.
He calls this an abomina-
ton.
And then there is the sticky
KIND. that looks very nice
until you lift it, and then you
have an overpowering desire
to lick the stuff off the
fingers.
These things are not. says
Jones, what he calls dough.
nuts.
Even the shape is fixed, in
his life.
1t must be round, he saws.
with a hole in the middle
That is the real doughnut.
according to Jones.
The rest, he claims. are
triedcakes, as the dictionary
says.
Templeton Jones says one
OF his most fragrant memo
rieS is of doughnut shop in
Northwest Washington.
He was coming along there
one morning when this heav-
emily smell smote his delicate
nostrilS.
He shifted the air
DoughnutS!
Doughnuts of the old
fashioned kind, without choc-
olate, or honey, or white
sugar.
Just solid doughnut all the
way through, and what a
wonderful aroma!
1t billowed out over all the
traffic, softene the gasoline
smell, and prevailed all in its
own sweet way.
Temp Jones says the fra
GRANGE IS the payoff.
If it smells that way. and
is round, and has a hole in
the middle, why, it's a
doughnut, that's all.
Evening star., 1959-11-25

measured from sea level at
the same latitude, and in this
sense the Mississippi's sources
are higher than its mouth
and it runs downhill.
@. When did the ICC
change the definition of
Glass 1" railroads.&c.. G.
A. Effective January l,
1856. the Interstate Com
merce Commission revised
the classification for all
Class l railroads to include
carriers having annual op-
eratingt revenues of SO mil
lion orr more. In prior years,
this amount was 81 million
or more.
Evening star., 1959-11-25
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry Driters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SGtton.
capital. Certain excuses early
in the century brought down
the mountain of political
regulation on the railroads.
To this day they remain all
but smothered by the debris.
X. Fritz Schumacher.
Evening star., 1959-11-25
ALEXANDRIA. Va

Dear Sir:
1T has occurred to me that
you or your readers may pro-
vide an answer to a question
that has developed over the
past two or three months
into a sizable controversy
among a group of my aSso-
ciateS.
The question is: How does
a cruller differ from a dough-
nut? Some say the two are
the same. Some say that a
doughnut is round while a
cruller is twisted in shape.
Some say the two differ in
ingredients only, i.e., a cake
mixture versus a bread mix
ture
References to dictionar-
les, encyclopedias and cook
books have failed to provide
any help.
"A few days ago I stopped
in at a coffee and doughnut
shop that advertised so or 10
varieties of doughnutS and
crullers. I thought that here
I would get the answer.
When 1 asked the ques-
ton the lady in charge an
swered: I don't really know.
Just point to the kind you
want
Can you provide the an
SWer?
very truly yours,
u. w. A."
\ y
We turned this one over to
Templeton Jones. He is an
expert in such matters, being
the originator of the now
famous Temp Jones pan
cakes.
He did just what we eX-
pected him to do. and it is
really not a bad idea, when
you want to find out some
thing.
He turned to that great
compendium, Webster's New
International, End Edition.
Here is what Jones found:
"Cruller - probably fr rom
Danish krullen, to curl. A
small sweet cake. made of a
rich egg batter, cut into rings,
strips or twists, and fried
brown in deep fat; loosely, a
fried cake.
"Doughnut-A fried cake,
specifically, and usually, a
cake made from yeast-leav-
ened dough-"
Templeton Jones was not
satisfied with these defini-
tionS, as our correspondent
evidently is not.
Jones says that back home,
when he was a child, a
doughnut was made, specif1- =
cally, as the big books says,
with baking powder.
1t was always round, and
thick through.
Evening star., 1959-11-25
Rubbing the Sore

AS he repeatedly demonstrated dur
ing his visit among us, Premier Khru-
shchev, together with the Kremlin as a
whole, is acutely sensitive to questions
about Hungary. He wants the issue
swept under the rug and kept there, out
OF sight and out of mind, buried forever.
To raise it, to bring it to the fore, to
remind the world of it year after year
amounts to nothing, in his opinion, but
an embarrassing and infuriating cold
war provocation-an act that rubS the
sore instead of treating it with the plas-
ter or ointment of forgetfulness.
So it is not surprising that the
Soviet representative on the Steering
Committee of the United Nations Cen
eral Assembly has laShed out with great
bitterness and anger against the COM
mittee's 15-to-3 vote (RusSia, Czecho-
Slovakia and Romania alone diSSenting)
to place Hungary on the AsSemblys
agenda once again. This means that
the overwhelming majority of the 81
member body, which almost automati-
cally follows the lead of its steering
group, will openly explore and debate
what has happened to the Hungarian
people since the Kremlin'S brutal sup
preston of their 1856 revolt for freedom.
This prospect, according to the
Communist SpokeSmen, constitutes gross
outside interference in Hungary's inter-
nal affairs, and 1t gravely violates the
sovereignty" of the Budapest regime
(Which is in fact merely puppet of the
Kremlin). More than that, again ac-
cording to these Spokesmen, it does vio-
lence to "the spirit of Camp David"
meaning the vague sort of amiability
displayed by Mr.. Khrushchev and Mr..
Eisenhower last September at the PreSi-
dents retreat in Maryland. AS to that,
however, Ambassador Lodge, our chief
delegate to the U. N, has given a singu-
larly eloquent reply, and the following
excerpts from it are we'll worth quoting
and remembering
What is against the spirit of Camp
David is the subversion of small countries.
What is against the spirit of Camp
David are acts which turn a brave little
country into a moaning colonialist Slum.
What is against the spirit of Camp
NdNAu ally WIllCn makes
veritable mockery of peaceful coexistence
Mr.. Chairman, nothing happened at
Camp David which requires us to condone
evil.
Nothing happened at Camp David
which requires us to pass by in silence
on the other side of the street when a
brutality is being committed
Nothing happened at Camp David to
prevent us from acting like human beings
made in the image of God when cruelty
is being practiced.
The spirit Of Camp David was not
intended to be Soporiic to peoples in
the democracieS to put them to sleep.
In sum, although he may be irritated
beyond measure by the U. Ms action,
and although he may cry to the heavens
about how it does not fit in with Camp
David or with his campaign for relaxing
tensions, Mr. Khrushchev would be we'll
advised to reconcile himself to the fact
that it will be long, long time before
free men anywhere ever forget what
naked and savage Soviet force has done
to Hungary. The United Nations would
be stultifying itself if it were content
just to sweep the matter under the rug.
Evening star., 1959-11-25

More than 1000 minor
planets" now are known in
the solar system.
Some are rocks several
miles in diameter. Some are
hardly more than dust par
ticles. Regardless of size, all
are legitimate members of
the suns family. Each moves
in its own orbit.
The multitude of them has
become known only lately,
according to Drs. Carl c.
KieSS and K. LaSsovzsky,
Georgetown University as
tronomers, in a report on
space conditions prepared for
the Air Force, which even
tually may have to navi-
gate among them.
Up to $50 years ago, ac-
cording to the report, the
little planets were unknown.
At first the rate at which
they were discovered through
visual telescope observations
was very slow. With i'm
provements of Photographic
methods and the increasing
light gathering power of
telescopes now as many as 100
a year are being discovered.
Doubtless there are many
still unknown, the George
town astronomers say. To-
gether with comets, also
members of the suns direct
family rather than satellites
of some of the major plan
cts, they may well constitute
a menace to space naviga-
ton until all are known anc
mapped.
Differ from Planets
These comets, says the re.
port, always have been con.
sidered as a class apart from
the planets, due largely tC
the extreme eccentricity O.
their orbits and the fact thar
they have tails. Many O.
these also doubtless are un,
known since they can b,
seen only for relatively Shor
times when at their closes
approach to the earth.
They are so fragile tha
they are likely to be broker
into fragments under tn
intense radiation from tn
sun and these make up som
Of the shooting stars, O
meteorS. But, they stress. no
all the meteoric material cal
be considered of planetar,
origin, as was thought in tn
past. In the light of recen
Investigations much of tn
meteor stuff in the solar sys
Evening star., 1959-11-25
liked at Acheson

Dean Acheson should re-
member that when he was
Secretary Of State after
World War II, in the
opinion Of many people, he
left undone things he ought
to have done and did things
he ought not to have done.
Hence our present predica-
ment. Despite Mr.. Acheson-
past or present-the Ameri-
can people will survive!
A. c. Harrison
Evening star., 1959-11-25
Questions and Answers
By THE HASKIN SER

By THE HASKIN SERVICE
A to question
Information
Evening star., 1959-11-25
Wants Ringside Seat

X. Fritz Schumache
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Patient Cost
Than
Average

Every day the Holmes County
Community Hospital at Lexington
spends an average of $17.61 for
the care of each patient, as com
pared to $3.50 per patient for
other Mississippi Hospitals.
The medical and scientific mira
cles of recent years have had an
enormous impact on hospital costs,
according to c. B. Read, admin
istrator of the hospital.
Hospital costs are going up all
over the country, not only because
OF initiation, which affects all of
US, but because new treatment
methods call for expensive new
drugs, complex equipment, and
more highly-trained personnel.
Last year 1878 persons were adj
mitted to Holmes County Commu-
nifty Hospital for a daily average
of 24.5. There we're 1893 out pat
tents and emergency cases treated.
This is SAG more admitted than 10
years ago. There were 5427 lab
oratory tests performed and 1435
x-rays were taken.
Surgical cases numbered AIS,
Electrocardiograms 143; Patho-
logy (tissues), 168, and newborns,
132.
MI. Read said the average num-
Der of days a patient spends in
Holmes County Community Hospi-
tails 5.
The patient returns home and
gets back to his job sooner as a
result of modern care. But since he
receives more services than ever
before in a shorter time, this
means hospital costs are concen-
trated rather than spread out over
a longer period.
The hospital provides more skill
ed hands and more costly tools in
constant r eadiness to serve, "a
hours a day, seven days a week,
all year around, to the increasing
number of people that come for
help.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07

We salute the dedicated men of the
South's own 32nd Air Division
(SACE), Air Defense Command.
From their battle stations, they chart
every plane aloft -. send armed jets
screaming to challenge those that are
unidentified. And they keep this vigil
that helps keep us safe euery minute
Of eoery dayi
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Baptist Circles Hold
joint Meeting Mon.

Both circles of the Baptist
W.M.U. held a joint meeting at the
church on Monday afternoon, with
Mrs. ]. P. Love as leader.
The meeting opened with prayer
by Mrs. Love. The devotional was
led by Mrs. E. E. Long.
A special program for Commu-
nifty Missions vas presented in the
form of a round table discussion.
Taking part on this program were:
Mrs. J. P. Love, Mrs. D. D. Rick
els, Mrs. J. Orlander, Mrs. w.
Marshall, Mrs. L. Hester. Miss
Agnes Sproles and Mrs. WOODY
Estes.
Mrs. Orlander closed the meet
ing with prayer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore honored
their sons. Bobby and Billy with
a birthday party Saturday night.
Only the family was present.
Friends are sorry to hear that
Mrs. Leila Paul entered the Holmes
County Community Hospital Sun
day.
Congratulations Tchula Baseball
Team for games well played. Keep
up the good work and you will be
the Champs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Bennett
and Marshall, Jr. visited in Canton
Sunday. While there they attended
a reunion at the Madison county
Chapel of The Cross Church.
Everyone is happy that MI. j.
M. BedWell was brought home from
the hospital Saturday.
MI. and Mrs. Bob Chapman of
Arlington, Virginia are spending
their two weeks vacation with her
mother, Mrs. Warner and brothers,
K. M. and r. D. Warner.
Mr.. c. T. Cobb had to be taken
back to the hospital in Lexington.
Everyone wishes for him a speedy
recovery. -
MI. and Mrs. j. B. Kelly are
visiting his brother-in-law, Mr.. W.
A. Farmer in Mansfield, Louisiana.
Weekend guests of Mrs. Thomas
Richards were her sons, Franklin
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
These People Staff The
Hospitals In County

Forty people are regularly en-
ployed at the Holmes County Com
nunity Hospital at Lexington and
fifteen, including four Registered
nurses, two graduate nurses, live
practical nurses and 6 nurses
aides. There is a Dietician, and
two Laboratory Technicians in adj
dition to administrative person
mel and kitchen and maid help.
At Durant twenty n people are
regularly employed including three
rms five practical nurses, a lab
oratory technician, a dietician and
administrative personnel a n d
maids.
At Lexington, administrative
personnel, in addition to Mr.. Read.
the Administrator, Mrs. Opheha
McLemore is Bookkeeper of re-
cords and Mrs. Johnnie Davis is
clerk.
Mrs. Sally Kate Rosson is head
nurse ando Their Registered nurses
are Mrs. Martha Parker, Mrs.
Rena K. johnson and Mrs. Frances
Ward. Graduate nurses are Mrs.
Sybyl Williams and Mrs. Peggy
Buchanan Practical nurses are
Miss Truitt, Mrs. Karo1ine
Chisolm. Mrs. Minnie L. Sims,
Mrs. Ethelyn Jenkins. Mrs. Bea-
trice Buck; and nurses aides are
Mrs. Lucille Rogers. Mrs. Velma
Davis, Mrs. Callie Waldrup. Mrs.
Grace Byrd, Mrs. Marion johnson
Mrs. Georgia Divine and
and Mrs. Helen Burchfield. Mrs.
Johnnie Baughn is Dietician and
Mrs. Sammie Hill and Mr.. Joe
T. Shows are laboratory techni-
clans. Mrs. Dorothy Wigley is
housekeeper and j. B. Sims is head
of maintenance.
Colored employees are: Kitchen:
Gertrude Cobbins, Carrie Patton,
Alice Redmond, Minnie Lee Bry-
ant. Iney TORY, Joe Willie MCGEE,
Matilda Walker and Catherine Mil
Ter; colored aides are Earlene
Pitchford, Bessie Washington, Car
dine Redmond, Zerlene Rowe,
Anna Ellis, Mary Lee Redmond
and Ceola Glover.
At Durant Hospital in addition
to Miss Norris, registered nurses
are Mary Alexander and Virginia
Land. Graduate nurse is Joy Arnold
and practical nurses are Elizabeth
Campbell, Elizabeth Aldridge,
Johnnie Kate Cummin, Evie Nc
Crory, Margaret Aldridge. N. AS
are Lena Perry and frankie
Farmer. Mrs. Sid Derrick is Lab
oratory and X-Ray Technician and
Mrs. Earl Culpepper is Dietician.
Mrs. Norma Thornhill is assistant
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Hospital Doors
Open

There is a door that always
opens in this community. When the
windows of homes and stores are
dark and the whole city seems to
be sleeping, a light can be seen
behind a door marked "Emer-
gency Entrance in your hospital.
May 10 marks the beginning of
National Hospital Week which viii
be observed by communities
throughout the country.
In an age filled with tremendous
medical advances. your hospital
looms high as one of the most I'M
oortant buildings in the commu-
nifty. The smallest and simplest
hospital today can offer services
recovery-that were unknown even
N the great medical centers yes
terday. The great medical centers
today are developing the routine
hospital services of tomorrow.
For every medical advance that
has reduced the need for hospitali-
cation for one group of patients.
there are other advances bringing
to the hospital new groups of
patients with new hopes of recov-
cry.
Your community hospital stands
ready "a hours a day, Z days a
week. around the year to meet the
most unpredictable needs. It must
be prepared for individual emer-
gency and community disaster.
One week is hardly enough time
to saltue an institution which never
its doors.
Holmes County herald., 1959-05-07
Calendar
Of Events
Lexington Women's Clubs

0OAAASVOk WVkAAOM . OAOO0
B&PW - End Tuesday 7 P. M.
Garden Club End Tuesday
3 P. M. at the City Hall
V.F.W. Auxiliary - End Thursday
7:30 P. Nj. Alb Taylor Memorial
Home
American Legion Auxiliary
LIST Thursday. 7:30 p. M. All
Taylor Memorial Home
Lucky Twelve Club End Wed
nesday, 800 Pm. with club
member.
Eastern Star - LIST Friday, 7:3(
P. M. Masonic Hall
OAR. - LIST Thursday. 7:S0 Pm
Home Of club member.
Home Demonstration Club - Is
Thursday
Lexington Jr. HID Club - Fourtf
Tuesday. 7:30 P. M. at the City
Hall.
Arts and Crafts Sewing Club :
Bird Thursday, Home of Clut
member.
Forget-Me-Not Club - 3rd Thurs
day 3 pm. Home of Club Mem
Der.
, Lexington Mems Clubs
Rotary Club = Every Tuesday
1900 Noon. Grammar School
Lions Club = LIST and 3rd Monday
7:30 PM. Grammar School
Methodist Mems Club Second
Tuesday, 7 P. M. at the Churol
Lexington Lodge No. "a 2nc
Monday, 7:30 PM.
Lexington Chapter No. 8 - Sec.
ond Thursday, 1880 P. M.
Lexington Council No. 3 3ro
Thursday, 7:30 P. M.
Lexington Commandry No. 3 :
Bird Tuesday, 7:30 PM.
y.F.W. Post 2589 Business
Meeting, LIST Tuesday. 7:30. AL
Taylor Memorial H o e :
Social Meeting, 3rd Tuesday
7:30, Alb Taylor Memorial Home
Big Black Farmers Club 1e
Thursday, 1880 P. M. Horne:
Jr. College.
Daniel w. Beall American Legion
Post No. Is - LIST Thursday a
7:30 pm.
Durant Women's Clubs
American Legion Auxiliary, 2rn
Tuesday, 1880 P. M.
Castalian Street Garden Club
LIST Thursday, 8 A. M.
HairdreSserS Association 3rt
Tuesday, 7:30 P. M.
Twentieth Century Club - 2rt
and 18th Tuesday, 800 P. M.
0. E. S. - 3rd Wednesday, SO
P. M.
B&PW Club - End and 4th Thurs
day, 7:30 Pm.