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Evening star., 1960-12-27

Investigators have an op-
portunity to test out possible
environmental factors, such
as differences in climate,
geological strata, water sup
ply. diet and occupational
patterns"
Semi = starvation produces
notable changes in the
chemical makeup of blood.
This has been determined
by DR.. J. P. Hannon and
his associates of the bio
chemical branch of the Aero
Medical Laboratory at Ladd
Air Force Base, Alaska. The
study was on the effects Of
various survival rations of
pemmican and sugar, such
as probably would be car
ried by flyers forced down
over Arctic wastes where no
other food would be OBJ
tainable.
The experiment was car
ried out with 10 volunteers
and two members Of the
chemical staff in an isolated
field camp where tempera-
lures ranged continuously
from 10 to -4S F. There
were daily blood examina-
tions. The report has Just
been published by the Armed
Forces Medical Journal.
Laboratory Findings
Magnesium concentration
Gin the blood plasma) in
creased sharply during the
first day in the field" says
the report. This was fol-
lowed by a progressive fall
during the next four days
and by the fifth day it was
below the original level be-
fore the experiment started.
Calcium behaved in
exactly the opposite fashion.
It decreased during the first
day or two, followed by q
progressive increase, leading
to slightly greater than con-
troll values on the fifth day.
Phosphate decreased to what
appeared to be q minimum
value by the end Of the fourth
or fifth day.
with the exception Of
potassium, which remained
essentially unaltered, all the
remaining blood constituents
such as sodium, chloride and
hemoglobin underwent
changes of similar magnitude
and direction during the
course Of field exposure"
How far these effects de-
pend on the constant ex-
posure to cold and how much
to the limited diet could not
be determined. Similar ex-
periments will be carried out
with other diets which 1t
would be practicable to carry
as emergency rations.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Voices From Home

Reference Is made to the
Letter" Of December II,
1860. signed by Peggy L.
Bowen, regarding the ex-
penditure Of Red Gross funds
In sending recordings Of fam
lily voices to servicemen on
foreign posts. The facts are
that the recording equipment
and discs used were donated
by Soundscriber Corp. and
the actual recording Is done
in the chapter house by vol
unteer social welfare aides.
The only financial cost to
Red Cross Is postage.
The following letter Just
received by Red Gross from q
serviceman and his wife's
comments point out the sig
niflcant value Of the "VoiceS
from Home" program:
Dear Sirs:
II received the record you
made Of my wife, Bette. I
would like to take this op-
portunity to express my
thanks to those who made
this possible.
1T makes it so much better
for US in foreign countries to
know that our families are in
good hands If anything
should happen. When I get
depressed and blue because
maybe the mail plane didn't
come In when I thought it
should have, I put on the
record and it makes me feel
like. well maybe the whole
world isn't against me after
all. So again I say thanks
from me and the rest Of the
men overseas.
Sincerely yours,
(S) A/1c Carroll w. Rollins"
Mrs. Rollins says her hus'
band Is stationed in Sander.
Strom. Greenland. Even be-
fore she had heard about the
Voices from Home" program
her husband had written to
her. asking If there was not
some way she could send him
a recording. He said often
the mail plane would come in
and then be unable to land
and turn around and return.
This made the men and him
very blue. II he had a record
he would be able to put 1t on
and be less depressed.
BrysOn b. Rash,
Chairman.
Public Relations Com
mittee, D. c. Chapter,
American Red Cross.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
From weep to weep

E; The report that Vice President
Nixon has approved wide-ranging rec
concentrations to tougher up the Gov
ernment's campaign against racial and
religious discrimination under Federal
contracts will hardly come as a welcome
New Years legacy to Lyndon Johnson.
Mr.. Johnson gets Into the act
because he has been designated by
PreSident-elect Kennedy to step into Mr..
Nixon's shoes as chairman Of the PreSi-
dents Committee on Government Con-
tracts. One Of the main functions Of
this committee is to promote Negro
employment by cracking down on con-
tractors doing business with the Gov
ernment who discriminate in hiring.
It is tough and largely thankless
assignment. The reason for this Is not
sg much because contractors pose o
problem. They can be handled. But the
situation Is different where a contractor
depends upon certain unions for his
supply Of workers. If q union practices
discrimination and claims that it cannot
refer qualified" Negro workmen to q
job, the contractor finds himself very
much IN the middle. And so does the
Presidents committee. An illustration
is. the effort to force employment Of
Negro electricians on Federal construc-
ton projects in Washington. The COM
mittee tried and so did the contractors.
But after months Of effort only one
Negro had been hired, and this, in our
opinion. was due primarily to the efforts
of.the Urban League.
Consequently, there should be cer-
tain sympathy for the incoming Vice
President II he looks with some mis-
givipgs on the craftsmanship which he
tnherits. And 1t also would be quite
understandable II Mr.. johnson Is won
dering why the tougher procedures in
dorsed by Mr.. Nixon were not adopted
end put into effect under the outgoing
We President instead Of leaving them
aga thorny bequest to his successor.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
THE POLITICAL MILL
The Soviet Bid to Kennedy
By GOULD LINCOLN

What is back Of the Soviet
bid, almost on Christmas
eve, to the Kennedy admins
tration and, Of course, to the
peace-loving American peo-
pie, still remains to be seen.
1t was voiced by Russian
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko in an address to the
Supreme Soviet, with Pre-
mier Khrushchev looking on.
Whether it is just another
peace offensive" on the part
OF the Communicates it
may very well be-or signifies
q real desire for peaceful
relations, or better relations,
between the Soviet and the
United States has still to be
developed. It seems signifi-
cant, however, that no Sug-
gestion was made Of any
change in the policy of inter-
national communism to take
over the world; no indication
that Soviet Russia was will
ing to come to an agreement
on the Berlin and West Ger
man problem, for example,
or on many other problems
which divide the West and
the East, the free world and
Communist bloc.
What Mr.. Gromyko said
was interesting and along the
line Of earlier messages by
Mr.. Khrushchev. He said the
Soviet Union was ready to
improve relations with the
United States, following the
Inauguration of President
elect Kennedy. And he added
that the Soviet Union hoped
that relations between the
two countries would revert to
the state they were in during
the administration Of the late
President Franklin D. Roose-
velt. Considering that it was
during that administration
the Soviet government was
recognized by the United
States and diplomatic rela-
tions resumed, that American
industrialists were helping to
build industry in Russia with
the approval Of that admin
istration, that this country
came to the aid of Commu-
mist Russia In its battle
against Germany, and that
Russia received many con-
cessions at the Yalta confer
ence in which President
Roosevelt met with Stain
and Churchill on Soviet soil,
1t Is scarcely surprising that
Mr.. Gromyko should have
couched his talk Of better
relations" with the United
States in such words.
Reds Got Concessions
Those were the days in
which Communist intlltration
into the United States was
active, with c Com m m u n 8 t
cells" organized in almost
every part Of the country
cells that included . very few
government officials. They
were the days when the FBI
and the House Committee on
Un-American Activities were
doing their best to make the
American people and the
Government aware Of the
danger from the Commu-
nistS-and without too much
success. Mr.. Gromykn's use
Of the name Of the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his bid to
the Kennedy administration
was not idly made. He real
lied well that FDR was i'm
mensely popular In this
country.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Heart Ailments Vary SectionoIIy
By THOMAS r. HENRY

Heart maladies, leading
causes Of death in the United
States, vary widely in differ
ent parts Of the country and
in different cities.
This Is revealed in q three
year study just reported by
the United States Public
Health Service.
Death rates for coronary
heart disease were more
than twice as high in some
cities as in others. In cities
the rates average 81 per
cent higher for men and
46 per cent higher for wom-
en- than outside metropoli-
tan areas.
Cities which ranked high
or low in their coronary
death rates tended to rank
correspondingly high or low
in their total death rates.
Among 1853 cities studied the
death rate from 299 per
100000 white men between
ages IS and "a in Lincoln,
Nebr., to 826 in Savannah,
Ga. Other population groups
were excluded from the
statistics for technical rea-
sons.
Exceptions Noted
Although neighboring cities
tend to have similar rates,
many exceptions were noted.
In Harrisburg, Pa, for ex-
ample. the rate was 607.8
while in nearby Lancaster it
was only 438. It was 730 in
Sacramento compared to 467
in San Bernardino, 615 in
Seattle compared to 461 in
Spokane. SIT in Birmingham,
Ala, to 439 in Gadsden.
Outside cities, the region
with the highest coronary
death rate ran three times
above the lowest region. Ex-
ceptionally high death rates
were found in a strip along
the Atlantic coast from Del
aware to central Georgia,
much of the northeastern
and Great Lakes region, the
Mississippi delta and much
Of the area west Of the
Rockies.
Low rates were prevalent
in most Of the area between
the Mississippi and the
Rockies and in the area i'm
mediately west Of the APP
palachianS.
This study" says DR..
Arthur E. Rikli, chief Of the
Public Health Service heart
disease control program,
"pinpoints for the first time
the specific areas where
death rates from coronary
heart disease are extremely
high and relatively low,
These areas can be thought
Of as natural laboratories,
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Safer Drivinq

Our sincerest thanks and
commendation for your edi-
torial, ITO Make Driving
Safer" In which you out
lined and Endorsed Balti-
more Transit -Traffic Com
missioner Henry Barnes
recommendation Of periodic
re-examination Of all Mary
land drivers. plus related
special licensing attentions to
chronic trafic law violators.
Your outspoken advocacy
Of these measures shows you
are aware that the area Of
driver control through strin-
gent licensing actions Is one
Of the two principal potentials
for significant Maryland traf-
fic improvement and.
tragically, one which usually
is under-utilized by our pub
lie ofncials' trafilc manage
ment programs in most
States.
Dollar values these days
are relative. A $25 speeding
fine crushes one family ffnan-
cially. Is smiled away a.
transportation costs by an
other. The driver license is
equally precious to both fam
lilies, however. and they will
do anything-yes, even learn
trafiic laws, obey them, and
have their glasses corrected
If pressed, in order to pre-
serve this certif1cation. Pro-
gressive States such as Con-
necticut have proved 1t.
On January !, Maryland
will take Q giant step forward
with institution Of its legis-
lated point system for con-
trolling the chronic violator
Of so-calIed lesser traf1ic laws.
II the system Is not
fouled by unreported or un-
recorded convictions, paper
work backlogS in the Depart
ment Of Motor Vehicles, or
political influence anywhere
along the functional line;
and II the DMV can act
swiftly and surely in each
case.
AS for periodic re-examina-
ton Of all drivers-plus the
second great improvement
potential. driver education in
high school for every physi-
cally capable student ap-
preaching legal licensing age
the Maryland General As
sembly's mandate and re-
sponsibility are defined with
sickening clarity by current
Maryland traffic crash sta
tistics. At nine months this
year, total traf1lc crashes
were 2 per cent higher than
during 1859, and human cas-
ualty was up 10 per cent.
Subtract the City Of Balti-
more from these figures, and
combined deaths and in
juries were up exactly one
third over last year. State
wide, young drivers comprise
1S per cent Of the licensed
driver total. but last year
were involved in 81 per cent
Of Maryland'S trafic crashes.
Driver education in high
school to originally qualify
every driver, plus periodic
re-examination - even If at
10-year intervals at first
to keep him qualified, to-
gether would be q precious
highway safety package for
the coming Maryland Gen.
eral Assembly to write into
law.
n. Z. Collier,
Regional Manager. Allstate
Insurance Co.
Evening star., 1960-12-27

There is no reason, how.
ever. to believe that Presi-
dent-elect Kennedy win be
soft" in his dealings with
Communist Russia or the
Communist bloc, or that Mr..
KhruShchev and Mr.. Gro
myko will pull the wool over
his eyes. Indeed, quite the
contrary. Wisely, the Presi-
dent-elect has made No an
swer, no comment on the
Gromyko suggestion that
things may improve 100 per
cent in the relations between
the two countries. Mr.. Ken
nedy will want to know Just
what the price Is to be, what
concessions the Communists
will demand for o slackening
Of the cold war. But Mr.. Gro
myko's obvious effort is to
soften up the American peo.
ple-and so the Kennedy ad-
ministration. However, the
President-elect and his Sec
retary Of State, who is to be
Dean Rusk, are fully. aware
Of the huge drive that is now
on by the Communists to
move into many countries Of
both hemisphereS. They know,
too. that this drive goes on in
the United States itself, as
shown by Director j. Edgar
Hoover Of the FBI and by the
continuing investigations Of
congressional committees.
q. S. Has Baked Reds
The Truman administra-
tion learned about the Com
munists the hard way. But
to the credit of former Presi-
dent Truman. it should be
said he acted with prompt
ness and determination when
he used the influence and
power Of this country to
check the Communists In
their efforts to take over
Greece and Turkey and when
he sent United States forces
to fight in Korea when the
Reds invaded the republic.
The Eisenhower administra-
ton, in power for the last
eight years, has acted again
and again to check Commu-
mist aggression in the Far
East, in the Near East and in
other parts Of the world. It
has been detested by the
Communists-particularly by
the Chinese Reds. who con-
tinue to urge that force be
used to press for Communist
domination Of the world, in
cluding the United States. It
Is no wonder that the Soviet
Foreign Minister spoke as he
did Of q return to the atmos-
phere Of earlier days.
How long the Kennedy ad-
miniStration will have to wait
for q real inkling. for knowl-
edge Of the demands Of the
Soviet-and Of Red China
and the Communists gener-
ally-remainS to be seen. The
awakening may be rude. But
1t could be equally rude for
Mr.. KhruShchev and the Red
rulers Of China. This coun-
try wants peace and so does
the Kennedy administration.
Not peace at any price. how
ever. And that Is something
that neither Kaiser Wilhelm
nor Hitler and the Japanese
war lords were able to under
stand until too late.
But for q moment at least
the saber-rattling by Mr..
Khrushchev has ceased.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may Be used "
letters carry iDrtteTs' correct
names and addresses. Al let
ters are subject to coRdeHSG.
tjon. Those not used SOtl be
returned only tOhen accom-
painted BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1960-12-27

parking which can be followed by both
the White House and Congress on
existing facilities as well as new con-
struction. The establishment of such a
policy would be an eventful step, and one
which should have been taken long ago.
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Wholesale drug CO.. requires sales
trainees 2.3S, MS; grads: sell
Oil co. requires man to 80. college,
supervise and service several sta.
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AUCTION SALES

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SPECIAL NOTICES
CONTINUED

lNACOSTIA NATIONAL BANK OF
WASHINGTON. SHABEHOLDERS'
MEETIN6.-Notice Is hereby given
that. pursuant to call Of its direc-
tors. Q special meeting Of the share
holders Of Anacostia National Bank
Of Washington will be held OF Its
banking house at $3.50 8. Capitol
ss5ss wasSSn'sS S i b g. Sn rs f
o'clock moons for. the purpose Of
considering and determining BY
vote whether an agreement to
me National Bank Of wssh-
ington. located in Washington,
D. c., under the provisions OF
the laws Of the United States,
shall be ratified and confirmed.
G &ssRinSsca 81 c. the and cqis cr e:
purpose Of voting upon any other
matters incidental to the proposed
consolidation of the two banks.
A copy OF the aforesaid agree
ment, executed BY Q majority Of
the directors of each of the two
banks, providing for the CONSOLE
dAtiop, 10 on flle ct the bank and
may DO inspected during business
J. N. HARRIS,
President.
WILL NOT BE REsPONsIBLE for
any debts incurred By anyone
other than myself. GEORGE N.
ARGERAKIS, 45O3 Sigsbee I'd,
Silver Spring, Maryland.
rHE NATIONAL BANK OF WASH
ING.-Notice Is hereby given that,
pursuant to cali Of its directors,
Q special meeting OF the share
holders Of The National Bank Of
Washtngton will be held at Its
banking house at 619 l4th Street
NV, WASHINGTON. d. c.. on Tues
day. December 90, 1850. At twelve
considering and determining By
vote .., whether an agreement to
tie 'V Anaeestia ne national oG 0i BANK a9 oi
WASHINGTON. located in Washing-
ton, D. c.. under the provisions Of
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shall be. ratified and confirmed,
subject TO the. approval of the
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Washington, d. c., and for the
purpose Of voting upon any other
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on sSnS " ,s Of the I've sarss
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the directors Of each of the two
banks, providing for the consoli-
dation. Is on file at the bank and
NAV be inspected during business
hours.
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President.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the
stockholders Of the National Capt.
tai Insurance Company OF the
District OF Columbia, for the elec-
ton OF trustee and the trans
action Of any other business that
may be brought to the attention
Of the meeting will be held at the
once Of the Company, Pennsyl.
vania Avenue and Fourth Street,
Southeast. Washington, D. c.,
Wednesday, January IL, 1901, be-
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noon and l O'Clock pms r. ED
WARD EARLY, Executive Vice
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