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Milford chronicle., 1960-03-25

Thomas Jefferson was an enthus-
lastic book collector; spent hours
browsing through the sidewalk
carts of book peddlers in Paris.
Milford chronicle., 1960-03-25

The main storehouses of water
power in the world are in sparsely
populated regions in Central Afri-
ca and the Himalayas.
Milford chronicle., 1960-03-25

Favorite amusement of Henry
Ford, as boy, was taking a watch
apart and putting it together again.
Milford chronicle., 1960-03-25

In Ladakh, a tiny, cold province
in the Himalayas, a bride has the
right to take the younger brothers
of her husbands as No. 2 and No. 8
minor husbands.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

toll to 1864 In the United Air
Lines DC-S. a In the Trans
World Airlines Constellation
and 8 persons In apartments
and on the streets where the
Jet crashed.
Stephen was In the Jets tail
section. It was wrenched from
the rest Of the craft and the
boy was thrown clear, about
80 feet away. His clothes were
ahame. People went to bis aid,
q crying woman, Q deeply con-
cerned man. Someone put an.
umbrella over the boy, to shield
him from the light snowfall.
Boys Words Recalled !
Rushed to the hospital, the.
boy-as boys are bound to do
talked although doctors tried.
to keep him quiet to conserve
his strength. He told this Of
his trip:
Il remember looking out the
plane window at the snow be-
low covering the city. It looked
ike q picture out Of q fairy
book. It was 9 beautiful sight.
Then all Of q sudden there
was an explosion. The plane
started to fall and people
started to scream. I held on
to my seat and then the
plane crashed. That's all I
remember"
Stephen. all dressed UP in his
gray suit and gray gloves and
gray hat with the little feather
In the band. was flying from
Chicago to New York to Join
his vacationing mother and
sister.
12AS HTSt thoughts were to
have his mother at his side.
Can you get my wallet?" he
asked nurses and doctors. "My
mothers name Is in it. She's in
Yonkers and I want to see her."
The boys father, who had
put him aboard the Jet in Chi
cago. new immediately to New
York on learning Of the acci-
dent. Finding that his boy Still
was alive, he said:
We're grateful to the Al
mighty for this miracle"
While Stephen lived-while
there was hope-each moment
was ticked OF as so seconds of
o continuing miracle. This was
the word most used to describe
the breathing human wreckage
that had been a fine looking
boy.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

in America Of q pure Jet air
liner carrying passengers.
The cause could have been
human error to which we are
all subject" said Elwood r.
Quesada, head Of the Federal
Aviation Agency. He said the
two planes should not have
come closer than three miles. "
But, for some reason. the
complex and elaborate system
that Is used for. guiding the
congested air trafdc above the
city didn't work in this case.
Mr.. Queseda said no evidence
has been found Of any mechan-
ical malfunction. Also, no hui
man blame has been assessed,
The fury Of the impact aloft
was underlined today when one
Of the Jet engines Of the United
plane that fell in Brooklyn was
found amid the wreckage Of the
TWA plane on Staten Island,
|erasing any doubt tnat the two
had collided.
In the plane-swarming sky
over the metropolis, with traf-
&c moving in and out Of the
two New York fields plus nearby
Newark IN. il Airport and
several surrounding air bases,
many planes must be directed
e once.
They are supposed to be as
signed different attitudes and
|separtely timed approaches to
keep them apart.
I Snow and fog obScured the
skies when the two airliners
rammed. They were operating
ION instruments" under such
heather conditions. Mr.. Que
sada said.
Normal procedure Is for In
coming planes to be guided by
the air traffic control center
at Idlewild until they near theil
destinations. Then control Il
transferred TO the specific air.
port where they are TO land.
Evening star., 1960-12-18
Rcdio Is Like Clock

TOKYO.-A Japanese firm is
ting out round radios, de-
signed for hanging on walls.
They use transistors, look like
Kitchen clocks, weigh 5la
pounds, and have two speakers.
Evening star., 1960-12-18
Search for Cause, Bodies Is Pushed
AS Lone Air Collision Survivor Dies

NEW YORK, Dec. II (AP).
-History'S worst air disaster
took on an added note Of heart
break today as investigators
began q sweeping hunt for the
elusive error-or malfunction
that caused two planes to
collide in the air.
Only q few fragmentary
hints emerged.
AS they did, new grief struck.
OF the 12S aboard the two
planes, one passenger, Stephen
Baltz, IL. of Wilmette, nl.Ahad
clung to life for more than "a
hours.
But he died today.
The overall toll Of death
thus rose to 1875 from the air
collision yesterday that rained
fiery destruction on the city.
All aboard both planes per-
ished, along with eight others
on the ground.
More Bodies May BE Found
Police said still more bodies
may lie in the wreckage and
torn buildings. A search Of
the ruins continued today.
As the broad. rapid-fire in
quiry proceeded, there were
these inklings Of what hap
pened:
One plane was being watched
on radar. The other appar-
emily was not. One must have
been Oh course.
Both planes, q United Air
Lines DC-8 jet and a Trans
World AirlineS four-engine Con-
stellation, were descending for
landing when their paths In
extricably crossed.
A top Federal Aviation
Agency oficial said that under
such circumstances, "if both
planes were under positive con-
troll at the time one was
Of course" +,
One Traced on Radar
Phillip Goldstein, chief Of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, also
said the TWA plane was being
traced at the time on radar
scopes at La Guardia Airport,
its destination.
OF the let, headed for Idle
wild Airport 10 miles away. he
said: ''I don't believe that the
United Air Lines plane had
been identified as such on the
scope"
The hard-pressed CAB in
vestigation was described as
the most extensive ever under
taken by the agency.
It brought q vast corps of
experts here, many Of them
working through the night ex-
amining radio communications
records, plane remnants,
charred equipment. flight pat
terms and other material.
$50 far there is no definite
lead" Mr.. Goldstein said as the
investigators assembled for
their first session to coordinate
separate findings.
Meanwhile, nearly 800 police
and firemen still dug through
the ruins In Q crowded Brook
lyn neighborhood where the
huge Jet fell. gouging walls,
shearing roofs and setting al
dozen structures aflre.
S1 Bodies Recovered
Ninety-one bodies have beenj
recovered there. 50 Of them pre-
sumably plane victims. t1el
other 3 killed on the ground.
On Staten Island, where theI
exploding TWA plane scattered
widely along the Eastern Shore,
bodies Of 43 Of the A known|
killed-all on the ane-haye|
been found.
Most Of the bodies remained
individually unidentified. In
many cases. because Of dis
fiurement, it was necessary to
rely on fingerprints or other
laboratory methods.
An FBI team was aiding in
the process.
Quesada Comments
The double crash, the worlds
deadliest since the invention Of
mechanical flight 81 years ago,
surpassed In deaths the pre-
viouS high Of l29 killed on an
Air Force Cha Globemaster
near Tokyo on June 10, 1858.
It also was the first crash
Evening star., 1960-12-18

damage" said the Rev. Donald
s. Stacey, hospital chaplain.
Stephens death brought the
Evening star., 1960-12-18
Mother Under sedasion

The mother was under seda.i
ton and kept in o private room
Of the hospital.
The burns and bruises con-.
trihuted to death, but o hoSpi-
tai spokesman reported that
the major cause was extensive
flame damage in the lungs.
There was very little that
could be done to stop the lung
Evening star., 1960-12-18
BOY

Continued From First Page
and medicine Is well as the
boys viii would save him.
In the morning-24 hours
after the crash-there was O
slight note Of optimism as the
hospital reported che has
shown some response (and) 1t
Is hoped that this progress will
continue"
Hes extremely brave. we'll
contained and accomplishing.
said one Of the attending doc
tors.
Tension Mounts
Then in late morning there
was feverish activity Of doctors
and nurses. The tension Of de.
termined people embraced In .
losing battle communicated it
self to hospital personnel.
At / pm. Stephen Balts lost
the battle.
A weeping hospital worker,
hardly able to control her voice.
said:
'The little boy closed his
eyes and went to Sleep"
The father came to speak
with newsmen. The tears shed
IN the privacy Of the boys
room-were gone now. Con-
trolled, bravely. William Baltx
said his SON was dead. There
was more to say.
II appreciate very much the
attention and kindness Of the
people Of the City Of New York.
The police department and IRE
department were superb. The
effort to save my son and the
work done here In Methodist
Hospital was simply magnii-
cent"
| - a.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
School Fairgrounds Go Modern,
Swings and SeesoWs Junked

policy of paving entirely all
playground areas of less than
an acre will, however, be con-
tinued. If more than an acre is
available for playground space,
only $4,000 square feet (three-
fourths Of an acre. will be
paved. +
There is a chance that the
paving material of the future
may be a rubber compound, ra-
ther than asphalt, according to
Mr. Woodson.
The new playground stand
ards will make it possible for
some 200 students to use equip
ment simultaneously; old play
grounds can only handle Y
youngsters.
The modern apparatus also
will, according to Mr.. Woodson:
cut down accidents, encourage
children to use their imagi-
nations, and build up muscles.
Lawrence C. Lennon, direc-
tor of planning and develop
ment for the D. c. Recreation
Department, approves of the
new school playground stand
ards, many of which he has
already adopted.
School officials, he says, "are
definitely on the right track" /"
He adds that II don't believe
we've scratched the surface yet
of playground equipment for
children"
Evening star., 1960-06-12

walk out of the convention and
hold its own trump" meeting if
it loses the fight. Then, they
said, rival delegations will be
sent to Los Angeles to contest
for the right to cast Texas 81
votes at the national conven-
ton.
If that happens, the Texas
fight could set off the first big
battle of the national conven-
ton, with far-reaching conse-
quences not only for Senator
Johnson but for other conten-
ders as well.
Democrats narrowly averted
a Southern walkout over the
emotion-laden loyalty oath
question in 1852. The loyalty
oath requires delegates to
pledge their support to the
party ticket, no matter who is
on it or what the platform says.
Threaten WalkOut
One side in the current
Texas squabble wants to re-
quire such an oath from every
individual delegate to the Aus
tin convention. The other side
opposes that demand.
Advance indications are that
the so-called 'loyalists," led
by Mrs. r. D. Frankie) RAN
dolph, Texas national commit
.teewoman, will lose their fight
for a loyalty oath.
In that case, Mrs. Randolph
said yesterday in a telephone
interview, well walk out and
hold a convention of our own
and send a slate of loyal dele
gates to Los Angeles"
The leader of the opposition
Evening star., 1960-06-12

and the swing seats in the
basement, he says.
The trouble with them is that
they have too small a capacity,
they require constant super
vision, and they cause many
accidents. Youngsters often
get hurt by inadvertently cross
ing the path of a swing, Mr..
Woodson says. And it isn't
rare for too many youngsters
to get on the same See-saw.
with resulting injuries to them
and the see-saw board, which
breaks.
"The physical education peo-
pie also complain that swings
and see-saws don't built shoul-
der and arm muscles" he adds
About the only old-fashioned
piece of equipment which will
remain in use is the slide. But
even this will go modern, Mr..
Woodson says; the same struc-
ture will have a pole and a
slide for children to come down.
Other new features of school
Fairgrounds will include special
areas for playing jacks and
marbles, benches, and a 30
inch high wall around all the
equipment.
A concerted effort will also be
made to keep as many trees as
possible on Fairgrounds, Mr..
WoodSon says. The existing
Evening star., 1960-06-12
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Celtic Ash Wins
Belmont Stakes:
Griffs Just Last

Celtic Ash, ridden by the
controversial Bill Hartack,
scored a stunning upset by
winning the Belmont Stakes,
last of the Triple Crown races
for 3-year-olds. yesterday at
Belmont Park.
Celtic Ash, owned by Joseph
O'Connell of Boston, beat the
Kentucky Derby winner, Vene-
tian Way, by 51a lengths and
paid $3.50 to win. Disperse
was third and Tompion, the
odds-on favorite, was fourth.
Baseball
In baseball, the Senators
survived a rocky finish to nose
out the Tigers, 81, after build
ing up>an 80 lead at Griffith
Stadium. The Yankees won
their fifth straight, Ga, over
Cleveland 'on homers by Elston
Howard, Yogi Berra and Roger
Maris, who leads the majoE
with II.
!, In the National League, st.
Louis beat Pittsburgh, T-6. but
the Pirates maintained the
one game lead over San Fran
cisco which lost to Milwaukee,
9-s.
"Details in Sports Section)
Evening star., 1960-06-12
HowMentoI 7 eIepothist
Probed Jackson Case

turning on ana of his radar
he reports the process is
"tiring"-he had impressed po-
lice, magistrates and the wife
of a man now committed to a
mental hospital as a result of
Mr.. Herkos' activities. He is
still working on the case,
searching for the type of evi-
dence the law still demands in
place of brain waves.
Mr.. Herkos' entrance on the
scene was instigated by a
prominent Washington area
psychiatrist, DR.. F. Regis Rie-
seminar of 8O9 West Broad
street, Falls Church. Va.
DR.. Riesenman, so, a staff
psychiatrist at st. Elizabeths
HoSpital-and a graduate of
the Georgetown Medical School,
hired the telepathist after
reading of his experiments in
the field of extra sensory per-
ception.
DR.. Riesenman had long been
See HERKOS, Page A-24
Evening star., 1960-06-12

DR.. BENJAMIN FINE, deon Of
American education writers, todoy
storts q new question and answer
series dealing with every phose Of
education, The first column Of this
informative series oppeors on
Poee D-9.
VlRGlNlA'S Executive Mansion
is loeoted in q serene park in the
center Of industrial Richmond. The
Stor hos photographed the lovely
old monsiOn in color, and you eon
visit the home by turning to
Poee HI.
A CENSUS of the shod. rock
fish and herring in the muddy
Potomac hos run into trouble.
Marlin E. Tosutz, biologist at the
Snake Island Fishwoy, who is sup
posed to be counting them, coat
see ohy TO count. chorles coveiI,'
The Stor's outdoor editor, tells
obcut this problem on POse B. r
Evening star., 1960-06-12
WAsHINeToN's POPULATION

WASHINGToN'S POPULATION
not only hos dropped since the
last notionol census it hos shifted.
A graphically Illustrated oeeount
Of this ehonse in the population
oppeors tOdoy on Pose A-lS.
BEETLE BAILEY finally wins O
promotion. The soldier who hos
been q privote longer thon any
other mon in the ranks is now
privote first Gloss. What happens
when Beetle gets the promotion con
be seen on Page I Of the Comic
Section. -'
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S BIRTHDAY
wos ceIebfoted here in the eIesout'
style to which Washington dipIo-;
mats hove becdme accustomed. For
q complete report on the onnudI
surden-porty OF the British Embassy.
seefPOseGI wv
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Typhoid Epidemic
Hits East Germany

BERLIN, June II (AP).-
Spoiled sausage has set off a
typhoid epidemic in Communist
East Germany, Adm, the off,
cial East German news service,
said today. Eleven persons have
died and numerous others at
Zittau on the Czechoslovakian
border have been stricken, ADM
reported.
The agency said a slaughter
house was the source of the
contaminated sausage. 1t has
been closed and preventive
measures were ordered to keep
the disease from spreading.
Evening star., 1960-06-12

Picture on Poee b-l
forms which the kids can
Chamber over or crawl through.
The District School Board
quietly approved the change
at its meeting last month. New
Fairgrounds will be the first
to get the up-to-date equip
ment. But officials hope to re-
place outmoded apparatus at
existing ones, too.
See-Saws are eliminated al
together from the boards new
set of playground standards.
Swings may still be installed
but they will only get very
low priority" according to
Granville w. Woodson, archi-
tectural engineer for school
buildings and grounds.
1--WE will only put in swings
where there is enough space to
isolate them" Mr.. Woodson
promises.
He contends that mo one is
satisfied" with either swings OF
see-saws. Some schools, in fact
have stored the see-saw boards
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Citizen Group
Prods House
On D. {. Vote
Push Amendment
In Debate Tuesday.
Members Urged
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star stan Writer

A citizens committee repre-
Senting votelesS Washington
ians yesterday wired all mem
bers of the House of
Representatives to urge their
votes for District suffrage
Tuesday.
A constitutional amendment
to grant District residents the
right to vote for President and
Vice President is scheduled for
floor debate Tuesday afternoon.
This proposal, originally
linked to a section promising
District representation in the
House, has rallied citizen sup
port through this Joint Com
mittee on National Representa-
ton. Never before this year
has the issue been put to a
vote in Congress, although it
has been an active one for 40
years. The Senate already has
passed an amendment for both
the presidential vote and House
representation.
There appeared to be little
chance that the representation
clause could be reinserted in
the House resolution. because
thte House Rules Committee
has recommended against
amendments being offered
from the floor.
Message Sent
F. Elwood Davis, chairman
of the Joint committee, signed
the telegram, which said:
Debate on legislation grant,
ing District residents right to
vote for President and Vice
President is scheduled Tues
day, June IA. Citizens Joint
Committee, speaking for 100
local and national organiza-
tions, totaling nearly 100000
disfranchised citizens. urges
your affirmative vote as active
support of this legislation"
The language was cleared
yesterday with the committees
executive board by w. Herbert
Gill, executive director.
Every Representative should
receive the message tomorrow
morning, according to Mr.. Gill.
VOteIess for Generations
He said some members of
the committee have been press
ing hard for a District delega-
ton in the House. 1t appeared
to be the consensus, however,
that approval in the House
of the presidential vote alone
would be a major victory.
Generations of Washing
tonians have been deprived of
the right to cast ballots in
presidential elections since
1900.
In another development, the
n = PonkerS AcSooiot tioyo in
convention at Hot Springs, Va,
passed a resolution urging con-
greSsional clearance.
The association "has sup
ported for many years the de-
mands of citizens of the Dis
trict to vote for President and
Vice President. 1t supports
this long overdue legislation,
the resolution said.
Evening star., 1960-06-12

cloud the control dugout remains But its floor is deep
in drifted sand and tumbleweeds choke the entryway
New Fears, New Hopes
Since that July morning the atom has reached ma
turty central factor of the world power struggle
The mushroom cloud is universal symbol of the new
fears mankind has acquired his constant companions
But there is another aspect of the atom-esS mature
than the bomb less familiar than the cloud but no less
worthy of attention 1t an atom to live BY rather
than one to die by.
s. The symbol of this peaceful atom can be found in
the heart of atomic reactor In it's way it is just
aweSome the mushroom cloud, and just ethal.
1t brilliant white glare, called "Cerenkov radiation
after the scientist who first described it. The name is
pronounced che-REN-kof"
Cerenkov radiation is energy incarnate 1t is caused
by tiny PARTICLES smaller than atoms racing through
transparent substance faster than light will travel
If this to clash with the fact that nothing
See ATOMIC, Page A.
Evening star., 1960-06-12

SyShdbiSt SuIS teieputUtST SnoWe0
Powers From the Start Poee A-24
fed police for more than a
year. He had used what he
calls my gift"
The gift of Peter Herkos, 40,
is an ability, he says, to pick up
brain waves. He discovered
this ability in the early 1940s
after falling 35 feet of a ladder
and fracturing his skull. Civ,
ing up his job as a house
painter after the accident, Mr..
Herkos began practicin g
mental telepathy and earning a
reputation. In Europe, he's
known as "The Man with the
Radar Brain"
The radar has been fuzzy
sometimes but as clear as a bell
on others. In April of 1859, he
predicted the Washington SEN
ators would wind up the sea-
son in fifth place. They came
in last.
Mind on Murder
But in the same prediction,
published by This Week mag
azine, he said the Los Angeles
Dodgers would win the Ma
tional League pennant. They
went on to do just that. even
the series.
Last week, Mr.. Herkos did
not have his mind on baseball.
but on murder.
After five days and nights of
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Six Children Drown

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, June
II (AP).-Six boys and girls
aged IL to IA drowned while
swimming in the Drina River
today at Badovinci. They were
lost when they attempted to
retrieve a ball that had been
thrown far out into the river.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Disorder Subsidies
japanese F!out Wins
Oregon Parade Prize

PORTLAND. Greg, June IL
(AP).-A crowd estimated at
more than 425.O0O lined down.
town Portland streets today for
the annual floral parade of the
Portland Rose Festival.
A float entered on behalf of
Sapporo, Japan, won the inter-
national trophy.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Eisenhower
TakeOff Set
Hugerty to Meet
Chief in Anchorage
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press STAR Writer

Associated Press Stan Writer
Despite huge mobs prowling
the streets of Tokyo under
hostile banners, the White
House said Yesterday Presl-
dent Eisenhower certainly"
intends to visit Japan on his
23,000-mile Far Eastern tour
beginning today.
But Eisenhower's public ap-
pearances in Tokyo may be
sharply curtailed because of
the danger of leftwing violence.
The White House disclosed that
his schedule is being reviewed.
Indications are it will be re-
viSed.
The journey is the riskiest
Mr.. Eisenhower has under
taken as President, involving
both personal and diplomatic
dangers. High officials are
worried over the prospects.
Alaska First Stop
The Chief Executive is
scheduled to take off at 9 am.
on his unprecedented jet sweep
around the rim of the Pacific.
His first stop is Anchorage,
Alaska, IA hours later. Mon
day he will fly on to Manila.
In the next two weeks, the
President, his son and daugh-
ter-in-law, 1t. Col. and Mrs.
John Eisenhower, and a staff
Of 35 officials and aides will
visit the Philippines, Formosa.
Okinawa, Japan. Korea and
Hawaii. They will return to
See EISENHOWER, Page AT
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Khrushchev Takes
Black Seq Holiday

MOSCOW, June IL (AP)-
Pravda informed its readers to-
day that Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev is on a holiday at
the Black Sea. The Commu-
mist Party organ reported he
conferred there with Sopho-
cles Venizelos, visiting Greek
Liberal Party leader.
Mr.. Khrushchev is expected
back in Moscow before June 20,
when he has a date with Presi-
dent Rajendra Prasad of India.