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Evening star., 1960-01-18

circle of Is miles diameter
centered at Lebanon on Ma
sons Neck. This year marked
the 10th annual census of the
area, which was covered by
38 people in l3 teams by car
and on foot. They compiled
a total of Sc species Of birds
numbering 20,729 individuals.
This is the second time in
which robins have appeared
in tremendous numbers in
midwinter. On the 1855 CEN
SuS l 1895 robins were counted
on January 2, 1856. Lay bird
watchers may be surprised to
learn that robins have been
found on IA of the l6 GEN.
suses but normally in num-
berS totaling less than so.
The two cenSuSeS with big
robin counts indicate abnor-
mally mild weather up to the
census time coupled with a
good berry crop in the low
land swamps and woods
which is their winter habitat.
Preferring worms and bugs
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Wrong Rx for Pilots?

Carl E. Wilbur makes much
Of the fact that critics of the
Federal Aviation Agency's
medical program are laymen
and not medical men. That
is not the point at issue. The
point is that medical people
no matter how we'll quail
fled they are medically-have
no business dreaming up ir-
responsible, baseleSs rules and
regulations, just because they
happen to be experts in medi-
cine; it is that they have pro-
posed and enacted a number
OF rules and regulations in
the FAA that have no rela-
tionship whatever to the cold
hard facts. In other words.
neither Mr.. Wilbur nor any,
one else in the FAA can pro-
duce factual justification for
any of the steps they have
taken to date, or for those
they propose.
It is quite proper that the
rulings of medical people in
certain areas be subject to
careful scrutiny by non-medi-
cal arbitratorS. If the type of
medical man that Mr.. Wilbur
extols was given his way, the
ordinary human being, with
all of the many deficiencies
he admittedly has, might Just
as we'll forget about flying.
Mr.. Wilbur makes much of
the fact that the criticism
leveled at the Civil Air Sur
geon of the FAA has been
careless, irresponsible criti-
cism." If the insistent and re-
peated demand for factual
justification for doing what
Evening star., 1960-01-18
On-And Runninq

The Vice Presidents talk at the
anniversary of Florida, his first since
formally tossing his hat in the ring, will
not be ranked in the history books with
Washington's Farewell Address or Lin
coins remarks at Gettysburg. But it
served notice on the political opposition,
if notice was needed, that Mr.. Nixon is
going to be tough man to beat.
This was an informal talk, and parts
of it can be skipped over quickly. There
was nothing electrifying, for instance,
in the Vice Presidents comment to the
effect that no President should diSarm
this country merely because Mr.. Khrush-
chev has made a speech in which he
proposed to reduce the size of RuSSia'S
armed forces. This is sentiment in
which all of the presidential aspirants,
declared and otherwise, can and will
heartily concur.
1t was in response to questions from
the audience that Mr. Nixon emerged as
a formidable contender.
He said there would be no reason
for the people Ito rush to the hills" If
Democrat should be elected President.
Someone asked if he expected support
from David Mcdonald, president of the
steelworkerS, who has said Mr.. Nixon
would make good President. The Vice
President answered that Mr.. Mcdonald
is a Democrat; that he expected him to
support the Democratic nominee, and
that II respect him for it." Another
question dealt with the settlement OF
the steel strike, in which Mr.. Nixon
played a prominent part and with re-
Spect to which he has heretofore said
nothing. He gave reasonable and, we
think, persuasive explanation of the role
he and Secretary Mitchell played. Then
he added: IF it works you're hero; II
it doesn't you're bum."
This, as much as the description
outrages his more bitter critics, is the
new Nixon" talking the language Of
the common man." And the cheers
from the 10000 people in the audience,
one heckler excepted, indicate that 1t
is an effective Nixon. We suspect that
the hopefuls in the Democratic camp
would be the last to disagree.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
LETTERS TO THE STAR

they are doing fits his de.
scription, then I frankly ad-
NIT to being careless and
irresponsible.
Mr.. Wilbur is a Navy cap
tain. and heads up the ac-
cident studies branch of the
Medical Standards Division
of the office of the Civil Air
Surgeon. At the very least, I
think he ought to be COM
mended for making the old
college try" in defending
what appears to be some Of
his own doings.
Max Karant,
Vice President, Aircraft
Owners and Pilots
Association.
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was the desire Of the public
to do this. If your writer will
look up the facts in 1855
when Mr.. Chalk assumed the
role of savior Of the Capital
City Transit System, he will
find that said Mr.. Chalk
knew he had a stranglehold
on patrons Of city transit, so
he demanded conversion to
buses. with some fairy tale
of the savings that would
accrue-it wasn't quite clear
to whom. But we had to ride.
so he spoke and the city
fathers and the P. U. C.
Jumped through the hoop"
for him and knuckled down
to his demands. Now we are
faced with the certainty Of
higher fares and poorer serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1960-01-18

in the warm months, robins
subsist mainly on berries in
the winter.
Some other interesting
species counted on this years
census we're: 1853 Canada
geese, l whistling swan in
Pohick Bay, 2.166 ruddy
ducks and 800 scaup ducks
off Mount Vernon. 10 bald
eagles, 3 common terms at
Sycamore Point on Mason's
Neck (the first time this
species has appeared here in
winter, 2 catbirds, "a blue
birds, 284 meadow larks,
Baltimore oriole (the second
time for this species to be
counted here in winter, 80
evening grosbeaks, SO tow
hees and 1879 "snow birds"
or juncoes.
This should be a pretty
good indication that birds are
here in winter. If you look
foEttthem.
Jackson Miles Abbott.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Licensed TV Repairs

1t is distressing that so
many members of the pub
lie have experienced abuse
and unscrupulous practices
connected with television re-
pairs in the District, but vet
find no time or have no inter-
est in eliminating such prac-
tices by speaking up for IL
censing television repairs.
A House subcommittee
under Congressman D. r.
Matthews is presently con-
sidering a bill to regulate and
license televiSion repairs in
the District. The Television
Service Association Of Metro
politan6 Washington. an as
Sociation of television service
dealers, has pressed for such
licensing over the years, and
is now attempting to show
the committee the serious
and immediate need for such
legislation.
The TV association is TAX
ing up the battle for the pub
lie, but there is scant support
for the bill from the public
to date. There is even less
support from the press, citi-
Zens associations and other
organizations, who tradition
ally speak up for public pro-
lection. Apparently, we have
lived with the problem so
long without relief that it has
become a f1xation with. the
public and the organizations.
Such a state Of mind actually
is like a vote against the bill.
The Television Service AS
sociation of Metropolitan
Washington is entitled to
have public support for this
legislation, and it should be
given now. not later when the
bill has already been defeat
ed If the public does not sup
port licensing Of TV repairs,
then such should be openly
stated. In any event, we feel
entitled to some opinion. The
press, the public and public
minded organizations should
communicate their views to
Congressman Matthews, or
better still. appear before the
subcommittee in support Of
the bill at the next hearing.
Hyman NuSsbaum.
Attorney for the Television
Service Association Of Met
ropolitan Washington.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

honor me at all. I honor
them.
This idea cheers me up,
all of a sudden, on a blue
Monday.
Sincerely, J.H.S."
+ y 50
Mental pictures of old
schools are likely to be de-
pressing.
Famous books have been
written on the theme.
Tom Browns schooldays
were not his alone, but those
OF thousands of other boys,
IN England and America and
all around the. world.
School rolls off the back of
a fortunate few.
They are born students, or
think they are, at least
enough so to get by" easily
and pleasantly.
The rest manage to find
school difficult or something
much resembling difficult.
Often the latter make the
best marks in later life.
Often enough, as everv-
one knows, these manage to
shine in another school.
= * = 4
So the best thing to do, we
have always thought. is to
take such a student out of
the school and put him in
another.
The all-men's school often
is the solution.
We can recall one small
boy who entered school
where much stress was placed
on athletics.
The gym teacher was a bit
OF a sadist and managed to
pick on this one small boy.
whom he derided before the
whole class.
Instead of accepting the
challenge of lad whose CO.
ordination was not good and
showing him how to over
come the handicap, this man
merely held him up to ridi-
cule.
The boy was placed in an
other school where, under
real teachers, he shone in all
branches of school work.
Today's educational sys-
TENS are far superior, we
think, to the old. Today as
much stress is placed upon
the teacher as upon the stu
dent. The teacher, too, must
study.
This makes for co-opera-
ton all around, and less
blue Mondays in the future,
we are sure.
Our correspondent already
has discovered the way to
overcome low feelings. Think
of something pleasant! It is
that easy. if you can do 1t.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Rush to Recovery

Government statistics on the state
Of the economy as 1859 ended indicate
that much of the bright promise for
what is being called the Golden Sixties
rests upon a solid foundation of accom-
plishment in the 1950s. For despite two
clearly marked receSsions, the economic
dislocations accompanying the Korean
conflict and the strains of global cold
war, the record for the decade just ended
was an impressive one. p
Comparison by one index alone
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Sour at Uncle Suour

Here is one taxpayer who
agrees most heartily with
Constantine Browns state
ment about the mushrooming
growth Of our bureaucracy.
The other day we were re-
minded that. We pay Federal
bigwigs' costs of circumnavi-
eating the globe to the tune
Of 50 million a year. What
for? Good will, Of course.
Cementing our international
relations while we chase our
selves down the road to
bankruptcy.
In the same edition as the
letter from Vaux Owen pro-
testing Browns smear"
comes the news" that the
"Pentagon Surveys Weapons
Plant" and that a Team at
Site Seen as Step to Find New
Uses. Avoid 1000 Layoffs."
Under the new American
system, when a plant comes
to the end of its usefulness
the bureaucrats gather round
and find new uses and avoid
layoffs. while the rest of us
pay the bill, more or less joy
fully, with all due blindness.
And so we have two, three,
four or five people paid full
salaries to do one persons job,
and that with full benefit Of
all the benefits conceived and
unconceived, not to mention
ill-conceived, that is, as much
Of said one persons job
which can be sandwiched in
between the also mushroom
ing coffee breaks.
Donald b. Haynes.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
RHODE ISLAND AVE,

1SAAOO6 4ObAND AVE.
Dear Sir:
Il find Monday the most
depressing day in the week,
and I wonder if you know
anything or any way to over
come this feeling.
There is absolutely no
reason, as far as I can see,
why Monday should affect
anyone this way, except
that it is going back to work,
and maybe work is this way,
or isn't it? I do not know. I
am staggered by the way
things are.
Somebody wrote me the
other day and said my old
school out West wanted to
honor me at the February
semester.
"Since it was IS years
since I graduated, and no.
body had arisen to honor me
before, I wondered about
this, and it made my Mon
day all the more dismal.
THE old school was a
dirty, ill-kept building in a
poor part of town.
THE teachers, female,
were all neurotic and the few
men teachers worse.
There was nothing about
the place I recalled with
happiness, or a near ap-
proach thereto; all of us or
dinary, everyday brats were
outshone by one boy who
was the athletic star.
This bright specimen
'honored' the school. some
years later, by stealing all
the money in his firm and
throwing hundreds of help
less people into the street.
They put him away, but
they had already 'honored'
him. so there was nothing
they could do about that.
Now they want to honor
me, too.
Il hate the very memory
and mental picture of the
place. They had no idea
there how to handle a boy
who needed help.
They told you to stay after
school for two weeks in the
principals office.
What good did that do?
1t didn't help a boy, and the
man who inStigated it must
have known it was no help,
so why did he do it? Because
it was the easiest way, l
guess.
so they want to honor
me at this late date.
THE fact is that l have
honored The school by my
conduct and life. They can't
Evening star., 1960-01-18

because he thought he had
failed and only reached
about 100 feet. Actually he
was down 210 feet and had
considerably bettered the
record
A French description Of
the condition quoted in the
report: THE first stage is
mild anesthesia after which
the diver becomes a god. If
a passing fish seems to re-
quire it, the diver may re-
move his mouthpiece and
offer it to the fish as a divine
gift. I like this nitrogen rap
ture and at the same time
fear it like doom. 1t destroys
the instinct for life"
A British Navy report de-
scribes the condition as "a
form of intoxication, some
loss Of clear thinking, and,
rarely, hallucinations and
mystical states. There is lack
Of coordination and clumsi-
ness is noticeable"
1T seems" says the Office
of Naval Research report on
the Investigations to date.
that this phenomenon is
quite similar to alcoholic in
toxication and the subjective
symptoms are in part de-
pendent on the personality
structure of the individual
exposed"
A tough engine" that
regulates the chemistry of
all living things has been re-
ported to the American
Chemical Society.
Engines are substances
that initiate and regulate
biological reactions without
forming part of them.
The substance reported by
DrS. E. j. and Mary K. John
son of the University of Mis-
sissippi regulates the forma-
tion of inorganic phosphate.
a mineral essential to the life
OF all cells. They call it a
biological work horse" 1t
is pyrophosphatase which is
remarkable in that it with
stands temperatures that de-
stroy most vital living cell
constituents. 1t can with
stand heating at 167 F. for
several hours without losing
any of its properties.
FROM One-Celled Organism
The two chemists isolated
the material from a one
celled organism, one of the
common bacteria. Its func-
tion, they reported, is to sep
arate two phosphate mole
cules linked together into two
separate molecules and thus
help replenish the depleted
cellular warehouse of this
essential mineral"
The atoms making up this
engine, they found. were
linked by exceptionally strong
bonds. These resist not only
heat but various chemicals
that usually are strong
enough to disrupt biological
materials.
When one of the biologi-
cal work horses of the cell
displays such unusual prop
critics" says the report to
the chemical society, "it af-
tords an opportunity to con-
quer another area of ignor-
ance of life, whether of man
or microbes. This should pro-
vide an understanding of the
molecular basis of heat re-
slstance, one of the most
perplexing phenomena of liv-
ing cells"
Evening star., 1960-01-18
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Lower Diver Goes, |Hiqher He Gets
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Navy deep sea divers
measure depth In martins"
One hundred feet, for ex-
ample, is equivalent to three
martins. After that, even as
at a cocktail party, one be-
gins to lose count.
This is due to the weird
phenomenon, rapture of the
Deep" now being inveSti-
gated by the Office of Naval
Research. The condition is
caused, tests have shown, by
breathing compressed air in
which there is an excess of
nitrogen, the chief compo-
nent of natural air! It is of
great Importance in plans
for rescue operations or
demolition work at great
depths where the workers,
probably total abstainers, get
riotously drunk in a few
minutes.
The description. of the con-
dition by the divers them
selves apparently is quite
adequate, the tests show.
Nitrogen narcosis" is almost
identical with alcoholic in
toxication, according to a
report on the progress of the
investigation by Ralph j.
Kiessling of the naval ex-
perimental diving unit and
DR.. Clinton H. Mag, chief of
the psychological branch of
the Office of Naval Research.
Pleasant but Confusing
The further down a diver
goes the drunken he gets
and the sooner. 1t is a very
pleasant experience, divers
report, but they don't know
what they are doing. The
Navy has overcome the con-
dition partially by an arti-
ficial air in which nitrogen
is replaced by the extremely
light gas, helium.
Attention of Navy doctors
was focused on the condition
following rescue operations
for the trapped crew of a
submarine in $50 feet Of
water off the New Hampshire
coast. The divers breathed
compressed air and worked
in extreme cold and total
darkness. Although the op-
Grafton was partially success
full. the men soon lost con-
troll Of themselves. AS one
man reported: Il found the
torpedo hatch, then went to
the starboard rail. I started
to tie the descending line to
the rail and then suddenly
realized 1 was just waving
my arms and accomplishing
nothing"
The condition first was re-
ported, according to the re-
port. about Is years ago when
the French diver Dumas tried
to set a record for depth. A
line, knotted every 5 feet,
was lowered over the side of
the boat to a depth of $50
feet. Dumas was to remove
his belt and tie it onto the
line at the deepest point he
reached. In the course of his
dive he reported to the boat:
THE damned rope doesn't
hang straight. I really feel
wonderful. I have a queer
feeling of beatitude. I am
drunk and carefree. My ears
buzz and my mouth feels
bitter. The current staggers
me as though I had had too
many drinks. 1 am going to
sleep but I can't fall asleep
in such dizziness"
The diver finally succeeded
IN tying his belt to the line
over the side. He was mad
Evening star., 1960-01-18

Pen names may be used II
letters carry DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtton.
Evening star., 1960-06-10
Artist Hopes To Capture
Congress on T Her Canvas

pressed by "the number and
quality of parks in Washing
ton, its stately buildings and
countless statues.
i am out to get the feel Of
them on canvas and to pre-
serve their spirit in my brush
strokes" she said.
Currently Miss Spandorf is
painting the back courtyard
scene of Barney Neighbor-
hood House, 470 N street
S.W.. because it reminds me
of an Italian cortile or court
yard.
1T is so beautiful and
peaceful that I think it
should be preserved. But
since the decision has been
made to demolish it, I think
I would like to preserve a
record of these, its last days"
The Oldest community CEN
ter in Washington is due for
demolition as part of the
Southwest renewal.
Miss Spandorf, who has
been in the United States for
the past several months, well
comes a return to realism in
painting in this country.
THE trend today, which
grew out Of the two World
Evening star., 1960-06-10

Wars and the Atomic Age,
is away from abstract paint
ing. Here and in Europe the
style reflects uncertainty, yet
rapid scientific development.
art is a reflection of his
tory. Every age produces its
own form. With growing
scientific maturity, realism
is coming back to its own in
painting" said Miss Span
dorf. who calls herself a neo-
realist.
Her own preference is for
paintings that can be both
seen and read, and which
have a certain amount Of
content and subject matter.
Captures Mood
I'm painting, you have to
capture the mood. atmos-
phere and emotion of the
place, and give it beauty and
meaning. A good painting is
a poem in color.
Painting has to touch
chords, other than just what
the eye can see. 1t should
arouse emotions and a sense
of harmony with what is
permanent and lasting, with
Evening star., 1960-06-10

what is known as eternity"
she said.
Miss Spandorf, whose
father was a newSpaperman
and mother a painter. was
graduated in art from the
famous Vienna Academy Of
Arts. She also studied in
London.
During the war she helped
with the American Red Cross
in Scotland and painted
pictures Of visiting American
soldiers to send back home.
Numerous exhibitions Of
her work have been held in
Europe and New York.
Evening star., 1960-06-10
y MOHAMMED A. RAUF, JR.
Contributing Writer

A Vienna-bor British art
Ist is regretful that movement
scenes on Washington streets
DO not lend themselves to
kanvas.
In stead Lily Gabrielle
6pandorf would like to paint
Congress in session. She
thinks it would be a most
interesting subject.
Miss Spandorf, whose
paintings are currently on
display at Georgetown's
Collectors Gallery, says: THE
bnly movement scenes in
Washington are of automo-
biles flashing past and of
people coming and going.
Likes Parks Here
Its not like in Sardinia,
Tor instance, where you have
aualnt market scenes to
paint; people spinning and
weaving before their houses
and women gossiping near a
we'll" Miss Spandorf likes to
travel in search of likely sub
Iect-matter for canvas.
She is, however, most i'm
Evening star., 1960-06-10
Photos of Berlin To Be Exhibited

A display Of photographs
depicting scenes and people
in Berlin will be on exhibit in
the lobby of the Statler Hill
ton Hotel beginning today.
Evening star., 1960-06-10

The Washington showing,
which will close June II. will
be followed by a nationwide
tour.
Evening star., 1960-06-10

The pictures are the work
Of Mrs. Lynn Miller, q WASH
ingtonian who spent four
Evening star., 1960-06-10

years in Berlin with her hus-
band, a State Department
Foreign Service officer.
Evening star., 1960-06-08
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Evening star., 1960-06-08
WORD GAME
Find 80 or more words in
HAN ERS

meaning, has a vehement de-
sire for" Average mark, 25
words; time limit, 80 minutes.
Rules Of the game: l. Words must be
of four or more letters. 2. Words which
acquire four letters by the addition OF
IS" such as bats" "cats," are not
used. 3. Only one form of word is
used. 4. Proper names are not used.