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, 1961-11-16
SWEDEN PLANS A
CHANGE TO RIGHT
HAND DRIVE SOON

The government of Sweden
is contemplating changing to
"right-hand" drive, according
to news reports. Very serious
thought is being given to shift
ing motorists to the right side
of the road.
After an exhaustive inquiry
into the problems involved in
shifting traffic from left to
right the recommendation was
made that a changeover date
be set. The cost is estimated at
$50, GOO, 900 to move traffic
signs and lights, to seal the
doors of buses and streetcars
and to cut new doors on the
other side.
The overwhelming majority
in use in Sweden have the
steering wheel on the left.
There has been pressure for
integrating Sweden's high
ways with those of the Cont
nent before the war.
Proponents Of RICH thand
traffic suffered a setback in
1855 when the Government
asked the people to vote on the
question in a consultative re-
ferendum. More than 80 per
cent of those participating
favored the left-hand system,
which is linked to the days
when knights passed each
other on the left so that they
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Evening star., 1961-11-12
by JOHN F. POTTER, MD.

Research in cancer, which is being conducted
on an unprecedented scale, has been achieving
in turn, raised new biologic questions. The vast
scope Of this research attack has challenged the
investgative efforts of many scientists including
physicians, biOchemists, geneticists mmunologists,
these Investigators has emerged in recent years
pattern Of research activity which has concen-
rated on the study of the cell-the unit of living
matter An extensive effort is being made to define
cells and to find the factors which produce these
differences.
The fine structure of the cancer cell can now
be seen in far greater detail than ever before by
magnfying objects by one hundred thousand times
more. These detailed observations reveal dis
tinct differences in minute particles in the
and normal cells.
Biochemists are analyzing the chemical nature
Of the living cell and are determining the chemical
composition Of cellular c0mponents These studies
reveal that the nucleus or central body Of the cell
is composed Of protein substance called desoxyri
surrounding the nucleus is composed largely of
ribOnucleic acid or RNA. Current Interpretation
indicates that these two proteins are intimately
associated with the determination of the nature
OF the cell and its future generations DINA of the
NAL cell is probably different from that of the
cell and 1t is probable that modification of DINA
Is associated with the cancerous Transformation
of the cell.
Virologists have known for many years that GER
tain animal cancers are produced by virus. Inten
sive study is being carried on to discover If any
human cancers are also produced by viral activity
Under the electron microscope virus particles can
be seen in the cells Of animal and similar
particles have been seen in some human cancers
However, mere INSTALLATION of particles in human
cancer cell does not prove that virus is present
lsh whether or not these particles are vruses and il
so are they actually causing the tumOr, merely
growing in association with it. This question is
Evening star., 1961-11-12

These are few of the attacks which are being
made on a highly complex disease process. A cure
for all forms of cancer will probably not be attained
lieve that most forms of this disease eventually be
durable or controllable.
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locus on the Apparatus.

department O surgery, Ge0T0et0On UnsOefSaty Meotc0
difficult to answer because viruses grow in living
cells and their presence may be coincidental and
have nothing to do with the cancer Despite the i'm
plicaton OF the term virus cancer in human beings
cannot be considered q contagious disease. Gene
ticists have shown that genes which the carriers
of hereditary characteristics, and viruSes are re-
markably similar in that both are composed of DINA
1t has been pOstulated that a virus may enter q
cell and by its close similarity to the gene become
incorporated in the genetic mechanism and so
alter the nature of the cell that it becomes a can
cerOuS one.
Another active research area is the study of the
establishment Of secondary cancerous growths by
cancer cells which have broken away from the orig
inal tumor and spread to other parts of the body
via the blood stream or lymphatic channels. This
development of distant cancer0us deposits is the
factor most responsible for the lethal nature of
the disease If q method could be found to control
b0dys resistance to these circulating cancer cells
a significant advance would have been made.
The search for a chemical to control cancer has
cenered the interference Of synthesis building
up of chemical substances in the cell, especially
DINA This complex protein must be constructed
If a substance similar to- but not identical with,
of the required constituents is presented to the
cell it will attempt to this foreign sub
stance metabOlicaly in its synthesis of DINA. This
substance, however, cannot be successfully en-
ployed and therefore the metab0lism of the cancer
stances are called antimetabolites. Unfortunately
the differences between the normal and malignant
cells are more quanttative than qualitative so that
a certain amount Of injury to actively dividing
normal cells, such as the blood cells, is sustained
in this process Present investigations seek to dis
block the metabolsm Of cancer cells without injury
to the normal tissues.
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technician prepares radioactive solution for the
patient drink Later the patient will return TO the
hospital where sensitive Geiger counter will be used
to determine whether the solution has been absorbed
in the malianant area.
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Professor Surgery Head Division OncoIO0ic Surgery
Department Surgery Geor0etoOn University Medical Center
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This supplement sponsored listed e
Evening star., 1961-04-23

joying it. instead of huddling
on the bench against the cold
wind"
Further evidence of the kind
of day it was came from the
straw hat atop the college boy
driving 2, red convertible. the
r-eor1et ou-r7er +17irr1i'1o n1r+ +I7e
ivv IN hor front 1ou-,o IN ho-
tween eiroe ~ -i,7 o,oI +o,-:o.
tho wolters a,od tho ',ioroic,-e,'e
IN short. It was the kind of
day Charles G.. D. Roberts
wrote about: Winters done
and April's in the skies. Earth,
look up with laughter in your
eyes!"
Despite this, the weather was
certainly hard on the herring
trying to get up river to spawn
Fathers, mothers, children
and even a few dogs encouraged
by the warmth of the air,
waded out into the streams
and rivers to go at the herring
with hooks, rocks and huge
wire nets.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
City Heads Urge
TaxBi|IAmendment
TREE GRIEVOUSLY INJURED;
u. S. FILES $500 SUIT

The United States Government is seeking $500 in
damages behalf of injured American larch tree.
The tree the proper name of which is lark larcna
stands the Walter Reed Medical Center grounds the
formal gardens the Georgia avenue entrance. The
Government claims truck owned by a Maryland stor-
age company collided with it in August, 1856
AS result of the accident according to suit filed
in District Court against the company the 50-oot tree
lost two-thirds of its cambium layer 35 inches
of bark"
This is a serious injury" Assistant United States
Attorney Sylvia Bacon reported.
She said the arch has required special feedings
waterings fertizngs and wound dressings and may
require surgery
In addition Miss Bacon said, it's life expectancy has
diminished its vgor has declined and there danger
the surrounding trees take advantage of its weak
ness by stealing its food and sunlight.
She said the suit filed at the request of the De-
partment of the Army after years OF negotiations
with the storage company for damages failed.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
School Paper
Wins 5 Awards

The Beacon, newspaper of
Woodrow Wilson High School,
was named winner of three top
awards yesterday at the Mary
land Scholastic Press Advisers
Convention in Frederick.
The paper was named first
in the senior high school divi-
sion for letter press papers in
schools with enrollments of
1000 to 1899 students. The
Beacon also received the Mary
land Gazette Trophy for the
best newspaper in the senior
high school division.
The newspaper was named
winner of the Marylander
Award for the best newspaper
in all divisions.
Woodrow Wilson juniors Lois
Schiller and Steven Block ac-
cepted the awards for the news
paper staff,
Evening star., 1961-04-23

of the virus through his blood
stream he was being vaccinated
over and over toward possible
death.
The mortality rate associated
with this condition ranges from
4 to 40 per cent. Among in
fants it is 40 per cent. 1t is
rare, however. A New York City
study showed that among 5
million persons vaccinated dur
ing a one-month period in l947
only As developed it.
Physicians at Childrens Hos
pital expressed hope that par
ents would not react with fright
at Rays unusual case. Vac
cinations on a mass basis have
all but wiped small pox out OF
this country, Without such i'm
munization it could return.
The last reported smallpox
case in the District was in 1882
The United States Public
Health Service said the dis
ease is virtually non-existent
in this country today with only
a rare imported case.
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Agreeable IT Degrees
Waited in by Spring

1t was a great day for all but
the haplesS herring.
After weeks of unkind wind
and cold and houSebound chill
dren, April smiled her warmest
smile on Washington yesterday.
And she is expected to do the
same today.
The Weather Bureau said
the temperature climbed to II
degrees while a southerly breeze
famed the greateful populace.
The sun-worShiping set turned
out-not exactly in force-on
the P street beach at Twenty
second street NV. Most of
them sat in bathing suits on
their blankets, like so many
immutable BuddhaS.
Others were more active
such as the two men playing
tennis in Montrose Park, even
though the court had no net
Their low serves were deadly.
In the same park, Mrs. Edwin
F. Black, of 1920 Cambridge
place NV, was one of the
mothers out in the open with
her children and actually en-
Evening star., 1961-04-23
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

The kind of diamonds most
familiar to members of one
baseball league are those that
go on the third finger, left
hand.
These are the wives of
baseball players, a little league
banded together through COM
mon problems as we'll as COM
mon interests.
The commonest problem is
houSing-finding homes-and
this year with an all-new SEN
ators team, the problem is even
more acute. Some of the wives
are still in hotels; others are
waiting to move in June when
they may be able to rent for
the summer; others had to
double up.
For the first few weeks of
the season Mrs. Marty Keough
ran a hotel filled with her
three children, Mrs. Dutch
Dotterer and her 4-month-old
baby and Mrs. Sisler and her
boy. Mrs. Dotterer said:
IF it hadn't been for Sharon
Keough I don't know what we
would have done. Janet and !
went out looking every day for
three days and Sharon took
care of the children. We looked
everywhere. Places we're either
too dumpy or too expensive or
they didn't have furniture or
didn't want children or you had
to sign a years lease"
She finally found a place in
Alexandria, a bit too far from
the ball park and Washington
TO suit her.
But you get so you'll
take anything, and actually
this is one of the incest I've
SEEN" she says.
Mrs. Dotterer, married less
than two years says I'm from
Evening star., 1961-04-23
District to Stand Firm
On Juvenile Court Plan

The District Commissioners
are expected to stand fast be-
hind the proposal to add two
judges to the city Juvenile
Court.
A House subcommittee is rec
ommending that the Judge
court be transferred to Munich
pal Court.
Under the initial draft bill
by the subcommittee, headed
by Representative Davis. Dem
ocrat of Georgia, the age limit
Of the youth handled by the
new court branch would be
dropped from l8 to 16, and a
judge would be added to Mu-
nicipal Court.
In the past. the Commission
ers have urged expansion to a
three-judge Juvenile Court.
This legislative proposal was
blocked by the Davis unit.
] The Districts new Board of
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the ones I've lived in really
needed a cleaning"
Mrs. Dotterer and Mrs. Tom
Sturdivant live in the same
apartment buildings.
"One of the first things you
try to get is a place where two
or three other ball players can
live so you have a car pool
and baby sitters," said Mrs.
SturdiVant, who has been mar
ried nine years. She has two
boys, Tommy, 7, and Paul, S.
The second thing, If your
children are school age, is a
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Commissioners. headed by
Walter N. Tobriner, repeatedly
will indorse the city's earlier
position that the answer to the
problem is the addition of two
judges to Juvenile Court, and
not the move proposed by the
subcommittee.
1t was understood that the
Commissioners will take the
position that no new facts have
been developed that would call
for a switch in the city's stand.
The Davis subcommittee is
to hold another conference on
the draft bill Wednesday.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

Home Run for Bopoyers Wives Has Meaning All Its Own

of dishes, linens and every
thing. Comipg back I had to
hire a trailer. You accumulate
so much in six months. Some
times bring a favorite coffee
pot or pan and that's it," said
Mrs. Sturdivant.
Mrs Qotterer laughed. II
brought a Mixmaster, electric
frying pan, toaSter, Dutch's
books, But I'm getting better
:. last year I brought the hi
fl record player. But I still like
to bring my own silverware and
dishes"
I'VE are a very close group.
We learn to help each other. If
you couldn't rely on each other
sometimes I don't know what
we'd do" said Mrs. Sturdivant.
The wives develop a certain
independence out of necessity
looking for homes by them
selves, taking care of the chill
dren alone when the husbands
are on out of town trips.
you just have to-" said Mrs.
Dotterer. But before I was
married I thought there were
four teams and the American
and National league were all
one. Guess I thought the wives
went on all the trips and stayed
in one city and all the teams
came to them"
Many of the women say they
have an acquired interest" in
baseball, but get nervous when
their husbands are playing and
prefer not to watch. When hus-
bands go out of town they
often get together.
DO you ever think ahead?
Well, actually you may worry
ahead" said Mrs. Dotterer.
But as Janet Sisler once said,
when you're a baseball wife
you don't think any farther
than the next day.
Actually you never really
think of yourself as settled-the
season, spring training, a few
months back home between. It's
like one big long holiday.
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juggling her 10-month-0ld
daughter Dale on her lap and
keeping a wary eye out for
Staci, 2, and Matthew, 5, she
said, You can make anything
very difficult if you want, but
I'm for making things easy. OF
course, we were lucky. We're
renting from another baseball
player" she added, looking
around the spotless and taste
fully furnished home in Mary
land. You always have to find
a furnished place and some OF
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Janet Sisler, Sharon Keough
and drove, caravan style.
II had the crib with the baby
in the back seat and I'd give
him his bottle with one hand
and keep my other on the
wheel"
Mrs. Keough, married for
seven years, takes it all with
veteran calm. Besides theiI
home in California. the Keoughs
have lived in Boston, Louisville,
San Francisco and various
spring training camps.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Millers National
Federation opens a four
day convention at the
Shoreham.
The Customer Relations
Council of the American
Trucking Association. opens
a four-day session at the
Shoreham.
The Animal Health ms
titute opens for five days
at the MayfloWer.
This information is supplied
by the Convention and Visitors
Bureau of the Metropolitan
Washington Board Of Trade.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

place convenient to schools
Third, you want a place con-
venient to the ball park"
The last request is the most
difficult. Because most of the
families have children, this
means a home in the suburbs
anywhere from 80 to IS minutes
from "the office"
AS Mrs. Dotterer says. the
wives learn to bring few things
from home.
when Tom was in the
minor leagues I brought a box
Evening star., 1961-04-23

a non-moving family-same
town, same place, same school
Saskatoon, SaskD.
She spent her honeymoon in
Tampa-"at spring training" "
They lived in Cincinnati. She
went home to have her baby,
and when he was six weeks old
she flew back to Syracuse to
stay with her husbands par
ents, then went down to Pom
pano for spring training and
now Washington.
That trip back from Florida !!
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Seek to Save
Parking Units
Right to Build
By JOHN McKELWAY
Star staff Writer

The District Commissioners
will try tomorrow to pull an
Objectionable section out of the
sales tax bill, gambling that
their efforts will not prejudice
the SO million in additional
revenue the bill is designed to
produce.
A subcommittee of the SEN
ate District Committee has
scheduled hearings on the bill.
passed by the House but oddly
weighted down with sweeping
proposals which would practi-
cally wipe out the Motor We
hicle Parking Agency and any
plans it might have.
The bill, as amended by the
House District Committee,
turns over a surplus of $3.1
million, now held by the Park
ing Agency, to the Highway
Fund. But it also would re-
strict the agency from any
future attempt to build public
parking facilities.
The Commissioners have de-
clded, despite the bind the
amendment placed them in, to
accept the transfer of the So
million, but to fight for the
agency's future role in redevel-
opment of the city. They are
convinced private parking op-
orators will not be able to fur
nish the parking space created
by new centers of activity which
will appear in time as the fu-
ture city takes shape.
Also hiding under the head
ing of the sales tax, is the pro-
vision which would wipe out
the force of civilian attendants
who have been patrolling down
town streets and ticketing park
ing violators. The Commission
erS are not concerned over this
portion of the bill and viii.
make no protest if the chore is
returned to the police depart
ment, This is the wish of Rep
resentative Mcmillan, Demo-
crat of South Carolina. anG
chairman of the House District
Committee.
Still the amendments-added
in executive session by the
House District Committee with
out hearings-have forced the
Commissioners to object to the
sales tax bill as written, the
revenue from which is desper-
ately needed in the next fiscal
year, according to District Of
ficials.
In effect the House turned
the relatively inoffenSive sales
tax boost-from 2 to 3 per cent
into a controversial measure
which could have trouble in
the Senate and, if not there,
in conference.
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, for example, will object
to the bill tomorrow-stating,
as he has done in the past, that
a sales tax hits those least able
to pay.
The sales tax was a keystone
of the Commissioners tax pro-
posals for fiscal 1862. They
have lost so far in an attempt
to sell the House on the need
for an increase in the tax on
alcoholic beverages and ciga-
rettes, another part of the
package. as we'll as an increase
in the authorized Federal pay
ment, from $32 million to $36
million.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Swift Diagnosis Saves Boy
Facing Death From Virus
BY CHARLES G. BROOKS
star Staff Writer

| star Staff Writer
1 A 2-year-old child whose
imitation smallpox" set off a
quiet medical scare, is home
and well today.
But it took a swift diagnosis
ruling out the apparent small
pox case at Children's Hospi-
tai. and treatment with a rare
blood component provided by
the Red Cross Washington Re-
gional Blood Center to end the
alarm.
Late last month, Ray Whit
tington, 2-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Brendon Wilmington,
1909 Arlington terrace, Alexan-
dria, became seriously and
frighteningly sick.
For two days he vomited and
suffered a high fever with a
severe rash on the elbows,
knees, ankles and face. He was
rushed to the emergency room
at Alexandria Hospital.
Tentative medical opinion
of smallpox was reached.
| Ray, in need of isolation IA
cilities, was quickly transferred
to Children'S Hospital, where a
team of physicians went to
work. Virginia health officials
were alerted. If it were small
poX, a communicative vacci-
nation program would probably
be needed.
And then some medical clues
became apparent: Ray had
been treated for eczema since
he was six weeks old. At the
time he was admitted, there
was excessive crusting of skin
LESSONS and severe itching.
Diagnosed as Eczema
And doctors learned that a
baby brother had been vacci-
mated for smallpox several
weeks before, Ray played with
the child while the vaccination
scar still had not completely
healed.
This ruled out smallpox and
a diagnosis of eczema vaccina-
tum was reached.
Because of his skin condition,
Ray had never been given a
smallpox vaccination. There
was danger that the vaccinia
tcowpoX) virus would spread
and erupt all over his body,
particularly where the eczema
LESSONS were located.
And this is exactly what hap
pened except that Ray absorbed
the virus from his little broth
er's unhealed vaccination scar
rather than from a direct in
oculation.
Victim Is Immunized
DR.. Robert H. Parrott, physi-
cian-in-ch of Children's
Hospital, explained the use of
the only known substance that
can cure this condition. DR..
Parrott is an alternate on the
Committee of American Red
Cross Volunteer Consultants for
the Distribution of Vaccinia
Immune Globulin.
This is actually gamma glob-
ulln with a high level of cow
pox antibodieS. 1t is taken from
persons who have just had
smallpox vaccinations, usually
SCI IFlCS p6ISUIlIlel.
1t is carefully preserved by
| Red Cross Blood Centers and
doled out only through this
committee.
Ray was given WIG and, Mrs.
Wilmington said, it took only
a day to notice the change for
the better in the boy.
Boy Faced Death
The danger that loomed for
Ray was real. Each smallpox
appearing lesion was actually a
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Named by Governor

BERKELEY SPRINGS, w.
Va, April 22-Gracen B. Heare
has been named superintendent
of the Berkeley Springs SAM
tarium here by Gov. w. w.
Barron.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

THE AUTHOR, A. Trystan
Edwards, a fellow of the
Royal Institute of British
Architects, then adds this:
The essential modernity
of the Georgian style should
be widely recognized.
The sedate and comely
forms of the 18th century
houses are a perfect embodi-
ment of the social spirit.
yet these houses are
nearly all different from
each other.
Their variety is endless
and most surprising.
The buildings are aiming
at uniformity but they
achieve diversity"
Never was a style more
appropriate for cities, Mr..
Edwards says, and there's no
reason for continuing to call
it Georgian.
Let us, then, call this style
not Georgian, but Urban" he
adds, "for in the Georgian
era the attribute of urbanity
in home design was more
clearly expressed than at any
other time"
Residents of Georgetown
and Washington's 9th e r
restoration areas would Ger
tainly agree with him. They
are using the old wisdom in
architecture to good advan-
tage.