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Evening star., 1960-02-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

A mouse watching TV is a
sight not given to most of
us. A cat, now and then,
and perhaps a dog, but no
rodent.
S. NJ. P. of Girard street
writes:
In a recent column your
correspondent raised the
question as to whether or
not household pets recognize
images seen on television.
He tells of his cat paving
at a pigeon shown on the
screen, and says that at
times this cat will appear to
be watching intently as he
reclines with head propped up.
Along this line of thought,
it has been related to me
by resident of Ontario
road that she and her family
were each evening hosts to
a mouse which appeared
about time for the TV pro-
gram.
"She said this little mouse
would sit up before the
screen, and watch with ap-
parent great interest, turn
ing his head now and then
toward her husband. as if to
say, Pretty good show, huh?'
This story has a sad end
ing. in that the mouse was
finally caught in a trap. I re-
marked that I would not have
had the heart to trap such a
human little creature.
L never miss reading your
eXhllarating column.
after years of following
it, it is always new.
Many thanks. I some
times wonder if you ever feel
down Do you ever have to
give your spirits a shot in the
arm?
apparently you are always
on top of things"
4 = =
Thanks. thanks. kind soul.
1t helps a lot if people
think you are ION top of
things"
Life is partly pretense,
after all, and if we seem to
, be on top. maybe we are
This is good everyday psy-
chology.
The mouse our correspond
ent tells about PROBABLY did
not come out to watch TV, as
nice as that story is.
1t probably came out at
that time because it was the
time mice roam.
They have millions of years
of existence behind them.
every furry one Of them, and
they have found out that
evening is the best for them.
4 < 4 =
They discovered this in the
old days before electricity.
For many thousands of
years mankind lived by SUM-
light, and then it was
candles.
In all this endless amount
Of time the life patterns for
Evening star., 1960-02-17

youth and beauty substances
can be found in food-if they
are different from those
which contribute to good
health in general.
= -
Real synthetic coffee may
be just around the corner.
1t will be chemical prepara-
ton with the precise taste
and flavor of the actual cof-
fee bean according to a re-
port of the Southwest Re-
search Institute of San
Antonio, Tex.
Taste, per Sc, was rather
simple to reproduce in the
chemical synthesis, but when
it came to aroma the institute
chemists found 19 different
volatile substances necessary
in just the right proportions
to duplicate the exact coffee
smell.
This aroma is responsible,
according to the institute re-
port, for between 80 and 80
per cent Of the sensations re-
ceiVed when one drinks a cup
Of coffee. The taste, basically,
is rather bitter. This taste
sensation is modified to a
considerable degree by the
aroma, which is sensed at the
same time, perhaps sub
consciously.
"One difficulty in our odor
research" says the institute
report, results from the ex-
treme sensitivity of the hu-
man olfactory organs. Odor
sensations usually are caused
by mixtures of many differ
ent chemical compounds and
the amounts of these required
to produce an odor senisa-
ton are extremely small. In
many instances a few parts
per million in air is enough
to : definitely noticeable"
New Technique Works
For many years, according
to the report, little progress
was made in identifying the
aromatic materials in coffee
because these were too nu-
merous and in concentrations
too low to be measured by
ordinary chemical tests. In
many instances a few parts
per million in air is enough
10 be definitely noticeable.
Development of a new ana
lytical technique called gas
chromatography made the
Identification possible for the
first time.
BY means of this it became
possible for the first time to
separate a complex mixture
into its constituents and
measure extremely small
amounts of material. By this
technique, says the institute
report, it was possible to
identify each element in an
extremely minute amount Of
the aromatic constituent of
the coffee bean.
To date, the report SAYS,
all the constituents of coffee
aroma have been isolated and
1t is only necessary to put
them together again. The
rest of the procedure for
making synthetic coffee Of
ferS little difficulty to the
chemists.
Evening star., 1960-02-17

@. What is a quick
match?-H. C.
A. This is a cotton wick.
dried after being saturated
with a paste of gunpowder
and starch, or other in
fiammable material. 1t is
used in lighting flares or
to carry the fire from one
part to another in the more
complicated fireworks.
@. Is the bittern a heron?
r. Y.
A. A bittern is any member
of the heron subfamily Bo-
taurlnae. Bitterns are small
and medium sized birds, fire.
quenting bogs and reedy
swamps. Among the smallest
OF them are the least bittern
OF America and the little
bittern of Europe.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Diet Secret of Youth and BeoUfv7
By THOMAS r. HENRI

Diet. rather than some
witch's brew or quack'S nos
trum. may be the long-sought
elixir of youth and beauty.
There is accumulating evil
dence to this effect, says DR..
Hazel K. Stiebeling, director
of the Department of Agri-
cultures Institute of Home
Economics. The thesis. she
admits, is very difficult to
prove because experiments
are confined to short-lived
animals which can be fol-
lowed through several gener-
ations. She outlines some of
the evidence as it affects
humans:
From long experience with
domestic and laboratory ami
mails, Prof. Elmer V. McCol-
lum, of the University of
Wisconsin and Johns Hop
kins, has concluded that hu-
man diets could contribute
to what he called the pres
ervation of the characters
tics of youth if they were
richer than average in GER
tain components Of food-the
nutrients calcium and vita
Minis A and c. Outstanding
for these nutrients are milk,
dark green and deep yellow
fruit and vegetables and cit
rus and some other fruits.
Animal Ration Cited
Maintaining certain of the
characteristics of youth for
a large part of the life span
is important to the individ-
ual and to society. Creative
thinking and outstanding
productivity have tended to
occur oftenest in early adult
hood. Prof. Henry c. Sher-
man and his associates at
Columbia have found that
they were able to accelerate
growth and development in
laboratory animals by feed
ing a ration richer in cal
Cium protein and vitamin A
than the usual ration which
had been adequate enough to
produce 88 generations of
animals that were considered
normal by all usual stand
ards. The richer ration also
prolonged life by about 10
per cent and deferred the
onset of visible old age in the
same animals that had
gained their growth and ma
turity relatively early in life.
The extra time of life was
thus an extension of the
prime of life"
Somewhat slighter is the
evidence presented for an
effect of diet on beauty. Her
first predecessor in Office, DR..
Steibeling says, commented
on the contrast between the
great beauty of the children
and young girls in some parts
OF the Appalachian high
lands and the prematurely
aged appearance of the
women by the time they
reached their mid-30s. He
attributed this largely to the
poor quality of the diets in
the region"
Much the same, she says,
has been reported recently
from British studies in India
and Africa. But there still
is far to go, DR.. Steibeling
stresses, before any specific
Evening star., 1960-02-17
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry DriterS correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE

reader can get an answer, by
mail, to any question of fact nv
writing The Star Information Ru-
reau 635 F street NV Washington
d. Please incloSe return postage
or sef-addressed stamped envelope
Evening star., 1960-09-19
Hurricane
Hulk May Be
Viking Ship

MANASQUAN, N. j., Sept.
10 (AP).-The remains of what
may be a 600-year-old Viking
ship rests on Albert Maraziti's
property, a block from the sea
it once conquered.
Appropriately, the copper
Sheathed remainder Of a bold
and adventurous people was
washed ashore by Hurricane
Donna last Monday.
1t has not been authenti-
Gated as yet, but Robert Max
we'll, a former Naval architect
of Red Bank, says the boats
construction indicates it was
built before the year 1400.
Made of three kinds of wood,
the segment is 40 feet long and
boasts hand made bronze and
iron fittings. Mr.. Maxwell
thinks the original vessel was
about 100 feet long. 1t has no
keel.
Kenneth Perry. associate
curator of the division of trans
portation at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, says
he wants to examine the hulk.
Mr.. Maxwell figures the
craft sank near here centuries
ago. He discounts the possi-
bility 1t could have drifted from
another part Of the world.
Meanwhile, the Marazitis
Evening star., 1960-09-19
Anthony Perkins
7 olks Of Soqun

LONDON. Sept. 10 (AP).-
Actor Anthony Perkins, one Of
Hollywood's most eligible bach
elors, gave a certain smile to-
day, then talked about romance
and 25-year-old French novelist
Francoise Sagan.
Il like her very much" he
said.
And I'm tired Of being a
bachelor. I want to get married
soon."
Whether the vivacious au-
thoress is likely to become the
first Mrs. Perkins the rangy
actor wouldn't say.
But he has read all her books.
He admires her writing. And
he is starring in a film of her
romantic novel "Aimez Vous
Brahms?"
Perkins, %, met FRANCHISE
at a party in France a few
weeks ago. She and her pub
lisher-husband, Guy Schoeller,
were divorced last June.
Il have a date with her when
I get back to Paris" he added.
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Evening star., 1960-09-19

have made a family project out
of the boat.
Albert Maraziti and his
brother Salvatore's two children
went close to the beach to
watch Hurricane Donna kick
up the waves. They actually
saw the hulk wash in.
After winds subsidized, the
Marazitis worked three days
digging the craft from the
sand and finally hired a tractor
to haul it away for them.
Evening star., 1960-09-19
LATEST TV
INFORMATION

Television programs for
the week are carried in
TeleVue Magazine e with
Sundays Star. Following is.
supplementary information
on today's programs re-
ceived after TeleVue went
to press.
4::30. WRC (D-U. N.
General Assembly. Special
coverage of events at the
U, N. session replaces Ad-
venture Time. See TV Key.
Evening star., 1960-09-19
Rocket Fired to Test
Earth Radiation Belts

growth of the recovered mold,
biologists will be able to tell
what effect radiation has on
its ability to reproduce.
A polished plastic cylinder
will record the impact Of
micrometeorites - space dust
met by the rocket.
Recovery of the capsule is
essential. It carries no instru-
mentS to radio its findings
back to earth in fight.
Evening star., 1960-09-19
"A Group to Meet

The Northern Virginia Inter-
group of Alcoholics Anonymous
will meet at 8 pm. Sunday at
Mount Olivet Met h odist
Church, Sixteenth street and
Glebe road. Arlington.
Evening star., 1960-09-19

POINT ARGUELLO, Calf.
Sept. 10 (AP).-A 62-foot rock
ct designed to sample the radia-
ton dangers man will meet in
space shot aloft today from the
Naval missile facility here.
Mission of the four stage
solid-fuel projectile, a new type
called Argo D-8. is to carry an
83-pound capsule 1900 miles
out into space.
Officers said the capsule, con-
tanning sensitive emulsion to be
exposed to hazardous belts of
radiation surrounding the
earth, will fall into the Pacific
Ocean some 1900 miles TO the
south and west.
Tracked by Radar
The fight will be tracked by
Pacific Missile Range radar
stations.
After parachuting into the
ocean, the capsule is to be
located and picked up by planes
and ships of the Pacific Fleet.
The firing is the first of sew
eral West Coast launchingS
planned by the National Aero
nautics and Space AdminlStra-
tion.
Heavy fog prevented ground
observers from watching the
launching, but officials said all
four stages fired properly.
Dr.. John E. Naugle, project
manager, said it would be four
to six weeks before he could
say what kind of radiation the
capsule encountered.
Smaller Than DiScOverer
The capsule is smaller but
similar to those carried aloft
by Discoverer satellites. Like
the 300-pound Discoverer cap
sule. today's is equipped with
a parachute to slow it's fall,
but there will be no attempt
to catch it in the air.
If Navy ships fail to re-
trieve the capsule, three others
like it are on hand for future
launchings. If today's firing
is successful, the capsules will
be modified for later expert
mentS.
The four capsules and rock
cts cost a total of SIT million,
DR.. Nauger said.
Explores Dangerous Area
Radiation belts spread from
about 500 miles to $4,000 miles
into space. The most danger
Gus portion of the belts, how
ever, is believed to extend well
into the region these 1900
mile rockets can explore.
In addition to 25 small
waters of film to record radia-
ton. the capsule contains a
tiny bit of living matter =
mold spores from Florida State
University. BY checking future
Evening star., 1960-09-19

Federal tax to cents gallon in addition to district
tax of cents gallon.
Looking at it another way in the last ten years gaso-
line taxes have skocketed 5I9o-yet the price of gaso
line itself has risen only $50 during the period.
$lol a year for gasoline tuxesl Gallon by gallon,
these taxes add up to lot of money. Each year the
average motor vehicle owner in the District pays $IOI
for gasoline taxes alone. That's actually than the
average weeks pay for most people!
Evening star., 1960-09-19
HIGHWAYS AND GASOLINE rAxEs

Your gasoline retailer, naturally favors construction Of
the roads that the motoring public needs He believes
in fair and reasonable taxation for this purpose but
feels that gasoline have reached unreason
ably high levels He also believes that all special taxes
on the motorst should be used only for highway pur-
poses Yet last year, out of every automobile tax dollar
collected by the Federal Government from highway
users more than 40 cents went for non-highway pur-
poSeS If these automove tax revenues were dedicated
for highway purposes there would be no need for the
latest increase in the federal gasoline tax.
Evening star., 1960-09-19


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Evening star., 1960-05-04
Arms Measure
Wins Support
In House
By RICHARD FRYKLUND
Star Stan Writer

After a day Of debate on the
fiscal 81 defense appropriation
bill. the House today appeared
well on its way to accepting
the broad outline of the ad-
ministration's defense policy.
Specifically. Chairman Ma
hon of the House Military Ap-
propriations Subcommittee. the
leading Democratic spokesman
on defense budget, told the
House in major speech or
the state of the Nations de-
fense that there will be nc
deterrent gap in the next few
years if the pending bill is
passed and present improv
ments are continued.
Debating Bill
His speech had the effect, as
far as the House was con-
cerned, of taking the steam out
of Democratic charges that the
missile gap is so weakening this
country's defenSes that in the
next few years. it will be un-
able to deter communist ag-
gressions.
The House is debating a S39
billion appropriation bill for
Evening star., 1960-05-04

called Mr.. Stern "one of the
most generous donors the Ii
brary ever had"
Mr. Stern took occasion to
tell how he became interested
in Lincoln and his times.
"One of my sons. as a boy of
8, had difficulty learning to
read" he recalled. Il shopped
around for some books l
thought might help. and found
one of Lincoln's 'uncoIlected'
writings. The words were sim
pie, expressive and to the point,
so l bought the book. I have
been reading and collecting
Lincoln's works and anything
that had to do with him and
the Civil War ever since.
AS the years of acquiring
went on, Mr.. Stern-who re-
tired from the clothing busi-
ness az the age of 45-inevi-
tably ran into resistance from
his wife. Their expansive Chi
cago home, she pointed out,
was getting overstuffed with
Lincoln books. papers, prints,
maps, broadsideS and other
odds and ends.
"One day. she said to me. no
more books" Mr.. Stern said.
Consequently. he added. his
collection went to the Library
of Congress.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Mitchell Prods
.Congressfor
Labor Action

Labor Secretary Mitchell to-
day chided Congress for engag-
ing in rhetoric" instead of
action on the Eisenhower ad-
ministration's proposals for
labor legislation.
In a speech prepared for
delivery at the convention of
the Building Service Employees
international Union in New
York, Mr.. Mitchell demanded
congressional action before ad-
journment to:
Increase the $l-an-hour min
imum wage and extend coverage
to several million workers who
now are excluded.
Relax restrictions against
pick keting by construction
unions.
Aid economically depressed
areas.
Extend coverage and improve
financing of unemployment
compensation.
Strengthen the law requiring
financial reports on union
welfare and pension plans.
Increase payments and i'm
prove financing of the Federal
Employees Compensation Act.
Administration proposals in
several of these fields are more
limited in scope than demands
by the AFL-CIO, which yester-
day also criticized Congress for
lack of accomplishments. Mr..
Mitchell, for example, proposes
increasing the minimum wage
TO $l.l0 or $1.15 an hour, while
the AFL-CIO proposes SIPS.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Talent Search Boosts
Logging Pupils Work

eight youngsters actually moved
from the project group-ir
which the average los were
"low normal'-into honors
classes.
The project is financed by
an annual $4,000 grant from
the Eugene and Agnes E
Meyer Foundation. The money
is used to hire a counselor. q
psychiatric social worker, and
three remedial teachers in
reading and mathematics, as
well as for special supplies and
other services.
These extra personnel help
the children make up their
academic deficiencies and also
try to get them to adopt a
more positive approach to
learning, so that they will
want to succeed.
In addition, with the CO.
operation of various commu-
nifty groups, the youngsters
are taken to various cultural
events in the Washington area
events they would normally
never take into provide them
with cultural enrichment and
to widen their horizons.
School officials hope to pro-
vide these additional services to
the same group of students
throughout their six years in
high school.
Evening star., 1960-05-04

A special talent search
project at Mcfarland Junior
High School seems to be living
up to expectations.
The project. covering about
half of the schools 400 seventh
graders, started last fall. Its
purpose is to show that the
academic performance of un-
derprivileged. under-achieving
youngsters can be greatly i'm
proved with the help of special
school and community services.
Although it is still much too
early to form any final con-
cluSions, John D. Koontz. as
sistant school superintendent.
said in a recent report, there
is already evidence of the prof.
ect's success.
Course failures decreased 43
per cent, Mr.. Koontz said and
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Cuban Airstrip
Labeled Reds
BY the Associated Press

A former chief of Cuba's mill
tary intelligence told Senate
investigators today that Rus
sian technicians are building a
gigantic airstrip in a swamp on
Ithe southern coast of Cuba.
Col. Manuel Antonio Ugalde
lCarrillo said the strip is IL
miles long and about 260 yards
lwide. He said his informants
told him the concrete base is
$50 thick it could support any
type of plane.
Col. Ugalde, one-time field
commander of the Fulgencio
Batista forces defeated by rebel
Leader Fidel Castro, testified
before a Senate Internal Secu-
rity subcommittee. The group is
examining what it termed
Communist danger to the
United States from the Carib-
bean.
/ Col. Ugalde said military
missions of experts from the
Soviet Union, other iron cur
tain countries and Red China
ARE now all over the island
of Cuba"
He displayed a drawing he
made showing the location of
the concrete strip in the center
of the Cienaga de Zapata
swamp south of the border be-
tween Matanzas and Las Wallis.
The colonel said a Cuban
magazine, Bohemia, had re-
ported regarding the construc-
ton that "the most beautiful
tourist resort in the world" is
to be built in that area
q You mean a tourist resort
In the middle Of the swamp"
asked Committee Counsel j. G.
Sourwine.
The colonel grinned and re-
piled:
That's what they say"
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Navy Show to Boost
Relief Fund Is Set

An entertainment program to
help the Navy Relief Fund drive
at Cheltenham (Md0 Naval
Communications Station will be
given at the station Saturday
beginning at 5 pm.
The Naval Band, the Sea
ChanterS and the Sea Enchant-
resses. will perform on the pro-
gram. Miss District of Colum-
bia, 1860, Shirley Hobbs, and
six local Miss Universe con-
testants also will attend.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Free Hearing Set

D. Free hearing tests are being
given by the Washington Hear
ing Society as part of Better
Hearing Month from 9 am. to
4:30 pm. today through Satur-
day at a mobile unit parked at
Seventeenth and L streets NV
The Star yesterday enormously
gave another location for the
tests.
Evening star., 1960-05-04

private vehicles that fail the
Districts inspection.
Calling the commission order
'capricious action" the hack
erS said 1T is impossible to ex-
pect normal tax service under
such conditions. due to limited
repair facilities in the District
with such a large volume Of
cabs in the limited time allotted
for periodic inspections"
The protest was drawn up last
night at an organizational
meeting of the cab drivers as
sociation. Spokesman for the
I association say it now has about
100 members.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Hackers Protest
Repair Ruling

The United Hackers of D. c.
fired a sharp protest to the
Public Utilities Commission to-
day scoring the recent commits
sion order denying hackers
whose cabs failed inspection a
grace period to get them re-
paired.
In an April 29 order, the
P. U. c. made it clear that cabs
cannot take advantage Of the
Today grace period offered
Evening star., 1960-05-04

criticized elimination of money
for a new aircraft carrier; ard,
saying this is the only big coun-
try in the world that arms its
soldiers with a World War II
rifle, he said more money
should be voted for Army mod
ernization.
The House is expected to laS'
the bill aside today. and take it
up again tomorrow. considering
amendments offered.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Alfred W. Stern Dies;
Collected LincoIniono

CHICAGO, May I (AP)-
Alfred Whital Stern, 70. noted
collector of books and manu-
scripts on Abraham Lincoln,
died yesterday in his Lake
Shore Drive apartment.
In ceremonies in the Library
Of Congress last month, mark
ing Mr.. Stern's gift of 81 mil
lion worth of Lincoln literature
to the American people, Mr..
Stern was described as Lin
coins best posthumous friend.
Mr.. Stern's gift Of Lincoln
lana to the Library of Congress
was announced in 1850. Addi-
tional installmentS of the COL
lection were presented between
1851 and 1854.
He also had donated Lincoln
and Civil War material to sew
eral other institutions. These
included Brandeis University,
Northwestern University, Uni
verSity College of London, Jeru-
salem University in Israel, the
McCaster Library of Hamilton,
Ontario, and the Illinois State
Historical Library in Spring.
field.
Mr.. Stern, a retired executive
of B. Kuppenheimer Co., said
his interest in Lincoln began
in 1923 and that the Civil War
Presidents character, success
and limited formal education
inspired him.
He was a former president
of the Civil War Round Table
Of Chicago and a member of
the Lincoln Sesquicentennial
Commission.
Mr.. Stern was born in New
York but came to Chicago at
early age.
Survivors include his widow,
Agnes; a daughter, Mrs. Nancy
Warner of Buffalo, N. Y; two
sons, John Alfred, Toulouse,
France, and Thomas Whital, a
geologist with the Geological
Survey. Washington, D. c.,
and a sister, Mrs. Noise Refus
of Chicago.
Evening star., 1960-05-04
Praised at Ceremonies

At last months ceremonies
at the Library of Congress, Mr..
Stern was presented with the
first copy of a catalog of his
Lincolniana collection.
Librarian L. Quincy Mumford