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Evening star., 1960-09-21
One Tax Bill Cancelled

Local employers are indebted to
the Metropolitan Washington Board of
Trade and to Congress for a $3-million
tax saving to be accorded them under
legislation approved during the final
days of the 1860 session. The act null
lif1es a provision of 1858 law which
would have imposed on certain employ
erS the burden Of paying for expanded
unemployment compensation benefits as
an emergency antirecession measure. In
lieu of the tax increase, Congress has
authorized payment of the bill from the
fat unemployment compensation trust
fund-now in excess of $50 million.
The Board of Trade had waged a
vigorous fight against the proposed spe-
Cial tax boosts, scheduled to take effect
in 1868 and 1864. Private employers of
four or more persons would have been
required to pay nearly So million under
the 1858 provision. Yet the benefits to-
tailed just half that amount. The re-
mainder was to have been paid into the
trust fund. Now the fund itself will pay
the bill-a sensible arrangement from
every standpoint.
Evening star., 1960-09-21
Foirfox's S Explosive Future

Fairfax County, still struggling to
cope with the impact of too-rapid
growth, is taking wise steps to meet the
shock of what planners predict will be
a population explosion" exceeding any
thing felt heretofore The growing pains
which the once-rural county has suf-
fered in the past will be mild compared
to those which will aff1ict the county
unless proper planning is done now to
soften the shock.
According to Planning Director
-%ISliam c. Burrage, Fairfax will expert
ence a phenomenal expansion of popu-
lation during the next two decades, fol-
lowing in the wake of large govern
mental projects such as the Central
Intelligence Agency building and the
Dulles International Airport at Chan
tilly. With the population growth will
come vastly increased demands for
public facilities and ServiceS-demands
which must be met if the county is to
fulfill its responsibilities. The impact
will be particularly severe on highway,
school, water, sanitation and similar
services required by urban communities.
And Fairfax County is being steadily
transformed from a predominantly
agricultural area to thriving suburban
Evening star., 1960-09-21
Hope in Vienna

Although altogether overshadowed
by the United Nations General Assem-
bly, in New York, the two-week atomic
meeting under way in Vienna offers
at least little touch of brightness at
a time when events elSewhere-espe-
cially the U. N. clash between the Com
munist East and the free WeSt-make
it only too easy for the world to feel
gloomy.
Thus, by way of contrast, the Vi
emma get-together has not convened as
an urgent gathering to hear angry
charges and counter-charges in a su-
perheated atmosphere that conceivably
could explode into war. Instead, unlike
the tense Manhattan conclave, it will
go about its business, quietly and in
spirit of hopeful calm, as the fourth
annual General Conference of the TO
nation International Atomic Energy
Agency. In that respect, it is wholly
peaceful in character, with all it's agenda
items relating solely and simply to the
task of Harvesting nuclear power in the
fields of industry, agriculture, health,
etc., for the betterment of peoples every
where.
Established as result Of PreSi-
dent Eisenhower'S celebrated atoms-for-
peace address to the U. N. in 1853, the
IAEA now is only four years old, but it
has already achieved enough to dem
onstrate that it has tremendous poten-
tialS that promise to be of immense
benefit to all nations, big and small,
advanced and backward alike. Worth
noting, moreover, is the fact that the
Soviet Union-whose new representa-
tive at the Vienna headquarters is for
mer Foreign Minister Molotov (recently
of Outer Mongolia )-thus far has COL
laborated satisfactorily with the United
States in the agency's work. And that
work, in turn, has been progressing
steadily and significantly, even if non
Spectacularly.
Our American delegation to Vienna
is headed by Chairman McCone of the
Atomic Energy CommiSsion-a fact that
serves as a measure of the Importance
the United States attaches to the IAEA.
If Mr.. Molotov co-operates with him at
the conference, that in itself, by encour-
aging further advances in the atoms
peaceful uses, should help to ease ten
sion. At any rate, the world must hope
so.
Evening star., 1960-09-21

community of homes, shopping centerS
and light industries.
ForecaSting a population of half a
million by 1880, Mr.. Burrage expressed
hope that the county would adopt a
general master plan Of development in
the near future. Several phases of such
plan already are under study. One
difficulty facing the planners is the
uncertainty over further Federal incur
SionS in the county. There has been
talk of little Pentagon" in Fairfax
County to house crowded defense agen-
cieS.
1t is clear that unless there is close
cooperation by Federal and county
planners the orderly development of the
county will be hampered. This sort of
cooperation has not always been evi-
dent in Federal dispersal plans of the
recent past. Coordination of planning
is good business both for the Federal
Government and the nearby counties.
Evening star., 1960-09-21
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
alternating Humans Could Defy Age
By THOMAS r. HENRY

A normal human life span
of about 1,400 years may be
achievable.
1t depends on mastering
and applying to men and
women the secret of hiber-
nation, long since achieved
by some mammals.
This is a prospect, admit
tedly dim at present, evoked
at an Office of Naval Re-
search symposium on hiber-
nation, attended by experts
from all over the world. This
winter sleep" of certain an
imals, such as some Of the
bears, is only vaguely under
stood by Psychologists. 1t is
not. they agree. sleep" as
the term generally is under
stood. 1t is the reduction,
in some way, of the body's
vital processes to the point
where they barely function
a sort of vacation from liv-
ing.
Described by Doctor
AS described by DR.. Albert
r. Dave, of the office of
Naval Research staff:
"a alternating animal sur
wives on about Tooth of its
normal food and oxygen.
Within limits an animal in
Information is relatively un-
influenced by IA diation.
sound, light and temperature
but is highly sensitive to tao
tile stimuli.
IF Information could be
attained for man, the space
capsule in which he would fly,
or the submarine in which
he would ride, could be kept
constantly at a low tempera-
ture, perh aps zero Cent?
grade. Food and oxygen re-
quirementS mis- ht be only
Tooth that of an active man.
In Information mans ar
rest of time might be such
that he could possibly exist
for about 20 normal lifetimes,
or 1,400 years. Some hiber-
mating bats apparently may
live 20 times longer than
non-hibernating mammals of
the same body weight. Dur
ing Information a man would
not suffer from radiation.
Mammals endure tremend-
Gus doses without effect
while alternating. Upon re-
turning to activity, however.
they showed most of the US
ual signs of injury.
aside from space travel,
a method may be developed
Evening star., 1960-09-21
THE PASSING SCENE
Nixon Settles on Election Strategy
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

He will proceed with
great care and restraint to
avoid one of the two basic
dangers in his path-the
danger that he might seem
in some way to be attacking
Senator Kennedy's motives
as distinguished from Sena-
tor Kennedy's policies. The
Vice President will do every
thing possible not to open
himself to any "low road"
accusation that he is in the
slightest way questioning the
integrity of his rival. Equally,
he will be concerned truly
and actually to lay to rest
the so-called religious is
sue" - Senator Kennedy's
Catholic faith.
Fear Boomerang
For the Nixon people are
fully aware that if this busi-
ness is pushed far enough,
many presently uncommitted
Catholics might feel driven
to vote for Senator Kennedy
if only because they felt their
religion to be under persist
emily unfair attack.
Senator Kennedy, for his
part, will go on meeting Mr..
Nixon head-on over the peace
issue. He will not dilute his
argument that the Republi-
cans have allowed the country
to become soft in its military
posture and Intellectual in it's
foreign policies. He, too, how
ever, will hit with rising force
at homegrown isSues-the
Republican farm subsidy and
interest policies and so on.
But if Mr.. Nixon's perils lie
like a minefleld before him,
so do Senator Kennedy's.
His appeal to so-called
minority groups is far less
general to date than some of
his hackers had hoped-and
his right-wing critics had
claimed. At the same time,
the ultra -liberals-like Amer
leans for Democratic Action
persist in their Jealous and
sticky embraces of him, in
just the way to give maxi
mum comfort to Nixon's de-
veloping charge that John F.
Kennedy has become their
captive.
There is a possibility, in
deed, that they will kiss John
F. Kennedy to death before
they are through, in spite of
his embarrassed lack of re-
sponse to their enthusiasms.
1t is a very hard thing to find
a decent way to tell people to
quit, for heavens sake, liking
you so much.
Evening star., 1960-09-21
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE
"A reader get by mail


@. What is the legend about
Devils Tower monument in
Wyoming?-M. A.
A. The Sioux called this
huge monolith 'Matio Tipi,"
meaning Bear Lodge, and had
a legend explaining its origin.
The huge rock, which looks
like a petrified tree stump
hundreds of feet high, was
said to have risen out of a
rock on which several Indian
maidens had taken refuge
from bears who had inter-
rupted their picking Of flow
ers. The columnar formation
was dug by the claws of the
bears as they attempted to
climb the rising rock. Finally
the rock grew SO high the
exhausted bears fell to their
death. The maidens then
made a rope of the flowers
Evening star., 1960-09-21
Costro's Copers

EVeH GIlOugQ Manndttan'S Shell
burne Hotel may have been annoyingly
and unjuStidably f1nicky about the
credit standing of Cuba'S delegation to
the United Nations, one must still
marvel at the subsequent mixture of
rage and tomfoolery displayed by Pre-
mier Fidel Castro and his revolution
ary" colleagues from Havana.
The performance has verged on the
unbelievable. Dressed as always in his
soldiers suit "a Hitlerian or StaIinist
affectation), the bearded young dictator,
after oStentatiously threatening to camp
out on the grounds Of the U. N. or in
Central Park, has transferred himself
and his party to hotel far uptown in
Harlem. This he has done as noiSily as
possible (and apparently at more cost
per Suite), and he has lost no opportu-
nifty in the process to issue bitter COM
mentarleS on New York'S "inhoSpitality'
and the "bruSque methods" of the police
assigned to the difficult task of protect
ing him.
In view of revolutionary" Cuba's
conf1Scation of hundreds of millions of
dollars of property owned by United
States groups, and in view also of its
ceaseless campaign of hate breeding lies
against our country, it seems almost
laughable for Fidel Castro to complain
that people in New York are not being
hoSpitable toward him - except, of
course, for those puzzling thousands who
have cheered him in Harlem. Indeed,
the temptation is strong to ridicule his
whole performance to date as an exam
pie of low-comedy exhibitionism by a
mountebank who hardly deserves to be
taken seriously in the gaudy role he
plays as statesman and national leader.
Nevertheless, there is something al
together sinister about the capers of this
man. An indication of that is the fact
that he has been visited and embraced
in his Harlem retreat by none other than
Nikita KhruShchev. This speaks for it
self as yet another measure of how
closely Dictator Castro is collaborating
with the Krenllin'S effort to use Cuba as
base for the spread of Soviet subver-
sion throughout the Americas. And
down in Havana, meanwhile, Fiders
younger brother Raul has staged an
"impromptu" mob gathering to use the
hotel incident as the springboard for a
vile new attack on our "barbarouS and
uncivilized country"-a land of "aggres-
SorS" and place of enslavement where
"the hour of rebellion is arriving"
This poisonous propaganda has be-
come old stuff in Cuba, but still the mobS
down there can be aroused by 1t. The
hotel hullaballoo is simply another de-
liberate move in what seems to be a
systematic effort by the Castro regime
to bring about an irreparable break in
relations between Havana and Washing
ton.
Evening star., 1960-09-21
Hiring Traitors

Neither Representative Walter nor
Representative Kilday, whose respective
subcommittee have investigated the de-
lection to Russia of Bernon Mitchell and
William Martin, has told the whole story
OF how these traitors happened to be
hired by the National Security Agency.
Apparently the Congressman do not
know themselves, since Pentagon wit
nesseS, relying on an executive order, re-
fused to make available to the commit
tees all of the relevant information.
1t is clear, however, that there is
something very wrong with employment
practices at NSA, supposedly one of our
ultra-secret agencies. According to Mr..
Kilday, NSA had information when the
two men were hired in 1857 which
showed them to be unstable. His per-
Sonal view is that neither should have
been employed in sensitive agency"
Mr.. Walters says that NSA hiring pro-
cedureS are very sloppy" And he adds
that NSA had given consideration to
establishment of clinic at the agency
because 'perversion was quite problem
and they didn't know what to do about
it."
The public concern with this situa-
tion is not so much question of moral
ity as it is matter of security. The
information to which these traitors en-
joyed access as NSA employees was not
the private property of that agency 1t
belonged to the Nation and there can be
no possible excuse for hiring or for con-
tinuing to employ Mitchell and Martin
after their reliability had become SuS-
pect. Yet there is reason to believe that
NSA had ample basis to diStruSt these
two long before they took off for Moscow.
In this situation it would be inexcusable
to invoke executive privilege as device
to cover up the truth. If there are
other MitchellS and Martins in NSA,
as Mr.. Walters statement suggests, they
should be rooted out And there should
also be house cleaning among the peo-
pie and procedures through which they
were hired. The responsibility in the
last analysis, rests on the President. We
think he ought to do something effective
about it.
Evening star., 1960-09-21

they had gathered, and low
cred themselves to the ground
in safety.
@. After an automobile ac-
cident, can speed of cars be
determined by measuring
marks made by tires when
brakes were applied?-W. F.
A. Measurements of tire
brake burns on the pavement
have long been believed to
furnish accurate evidence of
how fast a car was going.
However, proving ground
tests have shown that many
factors must be considered
when measuring brake marks
among them being the type
of tire, friction character
iStics of the road, tire tenn
perature, and weight dis
tribution in the car.
Evening star., 1960-09-21

for holding a man in sus-
pended animation for future
activity, medical treatment
or other reasons"
There are, the port
points out, many popular
misconceptions on the sub
ject. 1t is generally believed,
for example, that it is asso-
ciated with the onset of cold.
But, says the report, cold
does not cause Information
nor do animals arouse from
1t in the spring because of
greater warmth. However,
cold applied to an animal
about to hibernate increases
the profundity of the torpor
into which it will sink. But
it is not restricted to season.
1t can occur at any time of
the year.
"Hibernation is not simple
sleep. 1t is so all-inclusive
that body tissues actually un-
dergo changes which can be
seen and measured, and can
be shown to function in new
ways. For example, the
mouth is sealed.
1T is probably closely
linked with both hormonal
nd nervous impulses.
Changes in functions of al
most all endocrine glands and
nervous systems can be
shown to occur before the
animal hibernates, while it
is alternating and when it
recovers.
Squirrel Case Cited
The phenomenon has been
developed by nature to en-
able certain animals to exist
through the winter under
Semi-Arctic conditions. Every
measurable life process is
profoundly slowed down. A
ground squirrels heart beats
$50 times a minute in nor
NAL activity. During hiber-
nation it slows down to three
beats a minute. Living func-
tions are so feeble, it's state
often has been mistaken for
death. Yet there are no bad
after-effects. Yet, it was
stressed at the symposium,
a alternating animal can be
aroused to full activity quite
easily.
The Office of Naval Re
search has set up an office
for Information information
exchange to keep in touch
with developments in the
field all over the world.
Evening star., 1960-09-21

The presidential campaign
has now entered the second
and formative stage just in
advance of the period of acute
crisis which will open about
the end of the first week in
October.
At this halfway point, the
evidence on balance suggests
that the Republican contend
er, Richard M. Nixon, is
slightly ahead and would be
favored to win, if narrowly,
if the election were held
tomorrow.
AS in autumn's football
games, however, the half-time
score is not the payof. And
the ablest Republican pros,
like the ableSt Democrats, are
still far from ready to bet
their own money on the No
vember result.
But if the outcome remains
wholly in doubt, some other
things are now becoming
clear. The basic strategieS
of both candidates are now
fairly firm, after a good deal
of early September testing on
both sides in campaign phase
No. l. And the biggest poten-
tial dangers to each candi-
date are now also in fairly
plain view.
Mr.. Nixon will go on to the
end hammering most of all at
the one issue he believes will
win for him-his seven-and-
a-half years of experience as
President EiSenhower's dep
uty in dealing with large af-
fairs. He will still center on
what the politicians call "the
big picture" or "the peace
issue" He will continue to
say that he would be the
safer man for the country, on
the basis of maturity" for
directing the cold war.
Counterpart Action
But while this will remain
his main theme and point,
we shall see increasingly
sharp counterpoint action
from Mr.. Nixon. The purpose
will be to suggest that Sen
ator Kennedy has become
the symbol, willing or not, of
the Democratic ultra liberals
on domestic matters.
The cry will be that the
Democratic Party of Jeffer-
son has now become the party
of Ivy League professors
Now, these are mostly great
and brilliant men in theil
fields, but they are, perhaps
not the best of all possible
politicians. So. Mr.. Nixon vii
be happy to point to them as
Kennedy associates.
Evening star., 1960-08-11

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Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03

Ralph Hendrickson and John McGowan of Columbia River Pack CTS, flew in for a visit to the can nery. Steig OSman returned from Kodiak so the six of us had won- derful fried chicken dinner in the cannery Blue Room.
 1 left Lazy Bay on the tender Ermine with Ralph and John for Moser Bay. AS the tide was out, l had to climb down the dock ladder to the tender deck and along the side to the end of the barge. For one who hates to climb down more than three rungs I was proud of myself.
 What these politicians will do! A fine trip although it was misty and not too good visibility. The skipper was Wynn Brendle and his assistant at the wheel was a student from Washington State, who took courses from my cousin in Business Administration What a small world. Many gill netters came out in skiffs to pick up their supplies and mail, as we travelled along. Wayland and Metzger were first, then few minutes later King and Dale Mower of Dead Mems Bay came for theirs.
 We passed the Reefer King tied up at Trap Point freezing king crab. They have been there a couple of weeks. We passed the Larry Matfey camp. Bob Spring hill and his wife Pearl were my hosts at Moser Bay. That is the old Libby, McNeill and Libby place. This cannery is not operating so has only a skeleton crew. The fishermen come in weekends to mend nets and supplies. A very beautiful country, good harbor, and free of storms.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03
4 Forfeit Bail

Four men, arrested on charges of being drunk, forfeited bail of $25. The four men were Senafont Feeder, Arthur Matfay, Jacob Sin eonoff and Carpa Norell.
 Steven Farsovitch, minor ar rested on a drunk charge, was fined $25 and given a 30 day sen tence which was suspended. In one other case Reginald Gunder- sen, brought into court on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, was fined $50 and had his drivers license suspended for 60 days.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03
Lazy Bay
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 came in with a load of salmon. Owners, MT. and Mrs. Peacock and their three daughters, are from Friday Harbor, Washington. This is their first trip so far north. They are we'll known in Southeastern particularly Ketchikan and Peters burg. We were delighted to find we had many friends in common.
 Mrs. Peacock was saying that the fish here seem to be smaller than those in Southeastern as 18,- 900 fill the brine scoW here to the same level as 12,000 to 15,000 do down there. I had already been told this years catch is smaller in the size fish caught That has made it tough for the canneries as they are not getting as many cases out of the fish handled. 1t may be necessary to pay the fish ermen by the pound in the future rather than per fish as has always been the practice. This, of course, will also reflect on the fishermen A serious situation.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03
King Crab Story
 Showing at KIAHS

The new Alaskan film, The King Crab Story, will be shown at the quarterly meeting of the Kodiak and Aleutian Island Historical So- ciety, which will be held Wednes- day, September ', beginning at 8 pm. in the old science room of the downtown school building. An nual election of officers will be held.
 Most of the story of the king crab industry, which was produced by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce, local busi. nessmen and packers, was filmed in the Kodiak area.
 The Historical Society's presi- dent, Donald Clark, stated that the group will discuss projects for the coming year. Would-be amateur historians, archaeologists, natural historians, and prospective SUD- porting members are welcome.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03
Informal Dance At Marine Club

The first informal dance of the season will be held tonight (Fri- day) at the Marine Enlisted Club on the Naval Station. The dance will begin at 8 pm.
 Dress is informal, according to the announcement, and free soft drinks will be supplied.
 A bus will leave the Post Office at 7:30 pm. for the convenience of the young ladies of Kodiak who wish to attend the dance. Two chaperones will be aboard the bus, according to M/Sgt. Garcia, presi- dent of the Board of Governors of the Club. A bus will also be avail able to return those attending from town.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-03
Brisk Sale Of Lots At Auction

A total of 162 lots offered in the East Addition last week by the Bureau of Land Management were sold in brisk bidding at a sale in the Courtroom above the Post Office. Sales brought a total price of $31, 100.
 The lots sold for prices ranging from $65 to $500. Every lot offered for sale was sold. Sixty-three of the lots went for the minimum allowable price.
 Bulk of the land purchases were made by Frank Trick in the name of the Aleutian Broadcasting Com pany, and by Norm Sutliff.