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LA GRANDE OBSERVER Qburvr, Li Grand, Of., ThurTTbct. 15, 1959 Page 9 Ike's Elephant Pet Is Friendly Little Fellow Of 14 Months Age By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writtr 1 WASHINGTON VVl What nobody told President Eisenhower about his newest pet can now be revealed. " Dzimbo, the 440-p.und baby ele phant he accepted this week from the French Community of African Itepuhlics, has been quartered in one of the few spots in our na tional zoo where the roof can be counted on not to leak. Well. It's not leaking at the mo ment, anyway. Dzinibo is a fine, friendly' little fellow, 14 months old and about waist high to an elephant keeper. Zoo officials are delighted with him. So was Ike, who wondered wistfully if he couldn't install him on his Gettysburg farm instead of at the National Zoological Park. In recent memory, Dzimbo is the only critter of such matini tude to be personally received by a president on the While House lawn, where even squirrels lately have not been welcome. But he is the latest in a long line of valued animals acquired by the zoo as ceremonial gifts to our leaders. The only trouble is, none of our animal loving friends overseas ever seem to give us any of the tarpapex, tile or money necessary to keep a tight roof over the ani mals' heads. So there is nothing fur the zoo folks to do but keep requesting these incidentals Irom Congress, which keeps saying no or not yet. Director Chides President I 'asked J. Lear Grimmer, the " rtrMDrno ES .!a.altUlllU LOCAL UNION 1272 UNITED STKIWORKCRS OiSTRHu WOMEN PICKETS Women pickets are on duty for the first time in history at J & L's South Side plant in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Gladys Jackson and Mrs. Hilda Bricks, checking supervising personnel into the mill, are among 27 women who are employed in the steel - mill's cafeteria. Newest U. S. Satellite Has Beep Silencer WASHINGTON t'PIi Amer " ica's newest satellite carries an - automatic gag to make sure it . won't make a bccpjng nuisance ol - itself. This will please space scientists t'.:e world over. If there's any- thing they hale, it's a satellite "that keeps talking long after it has anything new to say. Aboard Explorer VII, launched Tuesday at Cape Canaveral. Fla., is a tiny timer developed by the Bulova Watch Co. for the express .'purpose of telling the satellite, a year from now, to shut up. Will Lose Voice The 91.5-pound Explorer VII it self will stay in orbit 20 to 25 years. But it won't be permitted to use its radio voice, however dePghtfully modulated, for more than 12 months. There are only so many radio .frequencies in this noisy universe, and any satellite that hogs- one too long is Just keeping newer and possibly smarter ones from speaking their pieces. From now on, it is what scien tific bureaucrats call a "require ment" that all U.S. satellites be equipped with "shaddup" devices before launching. , If Vanguard l's antennae were 'ears, they would be burning. His tory's littlest satellite (weight: 3'!i pounds) also is the gabbiest. Outlive Crea'or Launched March 17, 1958, Van guard I may live 1.000 years. Its yipping little voice, powered by. the sun, may last nearly as long. Nobody has any idea how to 'squelch it. As one scientist said, -"all we can do is listen around it.'' i Unless a transistor fails or an 'errant little meteor scores a hit, JV'anguard I will beep-beep long alter the scientists who created ;iier are dust. f i NO HOLDS BARRED ! GREENFIELD. Ind. UPH "Bars do not a prison make." as the song goes, for Casey J. 'Adams, 35, and Mrs. Mary Ann Mcl'herson. 38. Adams is awaiting trail on a forgery charge at Hancock Coun- ty jail. Mrs. McPhersen who went to the jail to visit her son met Adame there some time ago. They plan to be married across the visitors' counter Sunday. Tot Tells Court Her Dad Didn't Strangle Mother CHICAGO (UPI i A 6-year-old girl fidgetted in front of a hushed court room today and told a sim pie story of a Sunday morning which may save her father from Conviction of strangling her mother. Little Nancy Hansen didn't know her school teacher father, Dun can, 29, was on trial for his life. She didn't even know that her blonde, socially prominent mother. Susan. 25, was dead, her neck broken by the strangler's hands. All she knew was that- she had to tell the truth about how she got up on the morning of May 24 and found her mother lying on her bedroom floor. It was after that, Nancy said, that her daddy telephoned, came to their home, and found the body of her mother. Nancy's story thus became the key testimony in one of Chicago's mcst sensational murder cases in recent years. Hansen, a spindly ex-athlete who was divorced from his wife early last spring, contends he was in his bachelor apartment early on the fatal morning. The prosecu tion has produced witnesses who said they saw him on the side walk in front of the home and in a nearby restaurant at least an hour before the time Hansen says he arrived to take his three chil dren to Sunday school. zoo's associate director, how this has worked out. and here's what he said: "We have the finest collection of animals in the world, I think. But thev are housed in the world's worst slums." ' At the White House ceremonies Grimmer couldn't bring himself to nut it that bluntly to Ike. About all he could do was chide the President politely for not having showed his face at the zoo for the nast 15 years. Grimmer is no dummy, tnougn. He figured that once the Presi dent sees for himself the sorry state of our national zoo, he will get behind the drive for mo-e money. Currently, the zoo has a budget of around a million dol lars a year. That's just enough to keep it going, said trimmer. It s not enough to replace leaKy roofs, rotting timbers, and falling plaster that have ha: assed zoo ot- ficials for years. Grimmer says reptile and small mammal houses are in the worst shape of all the zoo's many buildings. Boasts Rare Animals Our zoo boasts the rarest of animals. They range from the aardvark, an indescribable ant eater useful mainly to word-puz zlers, to the zebu, a big Indian cow. It claims the biggest croco dile in the United States, and the only linsang in captivity any where. The linsang is a long kind of cat. resembling a fat snake with feet. . In the small animal house lives a fossa, which looks like a com bination cat and dog and which Grimmer says may be an ancestor of both. The zoo's snow leopard was raised in Grimmer s home, where reindeer, chimpanzees, hy enas, and pretty near any other animals you can name have been nursed through babyhood. There's no place at the zoo to take care of babies, he says. The zoo and its park cover 176 acres in the heart of Washington. Four million Americans visit it yearly. Its collection totals 3.000 "important" animals and no tell ing how many not so important. The number does not include the termites that infest one 154-year-old zoo building, and that current ly is swatmlng ov er its sagging floors and creaking stairway. This structure was condemned years ago. Fortunately, this is the head quarters building, and none of our valuable animals are in it. Just a lot of people, like Grimmer. torn HH&Va .f. fete 'TOUGH GUY' Looking more like a college student than a "tough guy" Jac k IV Cody I right I arrives in Los Angeles, Calif., in custody of Minneapolis Detective Wally Chall. Cody will be a witness in the Carole Tre-goff-Dr. Bernard Finch murder case, lie alleges that the pair tried to hire him to kill Finch's wife, Barbara. U.S. Doubts Khrushchev Will Try To Revive Stalin Tactics By THOMAS J. FOLEY UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON I UPI I U.S. of ficials believe that any effort by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to bring back the late Joof S'a lin's terrorist rule would mean the downfall of Khrushchev. The keenest American observers of Soviet affairs believe the West is only beginning to see the con sequences of Khrushchev's aboli tion of mass terror. If Russia continues to become more normal internally, they feel, there is official hope that the West can eventually work out some of its problems with Soviet leaders. Public Opinion Important More and more, they say. Khru shchev and Soviet leaders must answer to the will of the Soviet public. There will be no democra cy in Russia, they believe, but each step of freedom necessarily leads to another. These observers are convinced that Khrushchev cannot set back the clock to 1952 when Stalin held the Soviet Union in an iron grip If he tries, they say, it will be the end of Khrushchev. U.S. officials are looking to the future with some optimism be cause they believe the Soviet Un ion's internal changes mean that hme is on the side of the West, II was hi iilt-tl out that even thouuli there is still a secret po lice, nulilic opinion is playing an iiiMrt.nt role in Soviet otfieiuls' thiiikip". Ami that means, prima rily. Khrushchev's thinking. American experts see two fea tures of Soviet public opinion (hat are imiwrtant as far as East-West relations are concerned. People Pro-American One is that the average Soviet citizen cares little about how for eign affairs are handled as long as his country is at peace. The other is that the Soviet pub lic is more pro-American than anything else, except, of course pro Miuet. Americans are very impular in Russia, it was noted. Hence, the warm reception for Vice Ptesident Richard M. 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