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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, March 27. 195S Diversity Studen Career as Dancer Editor's note: Followins is the sec ond of two dispatrhes on the Bridey Murphv case. A L'.P. reporter tells how he tried the kind of hypnotic age regression experiment that pro duced the Bridey .Murphy story from a Colorado housewife. By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN United Press Correspondent New York CU.RJ A pretty 19-year-old sophomore at Colum bia University can "remember" under hypnosis when she was a Russian ballerina, dancing the ballet "Les Sylphides" in Mos cow in 1395. The student, Paula Abrams, came up with her tale while a hypnotist was demonstrating to me how age regression can pro duce a "Bridey Murphy" in al most any good hypnotic subject. I had called on the hypnotist to check on the prospects of taking a journey into the past such as that described in the best-selling book "The Search For Bridey Murphy." The whole country h talking about Bridey, whose story comes through the lips of a Colorado housewife in a deep hypnotic trance. Not One for Quick Plunge The hypnotist, a shapely pro fessional named Lynn Gordon, son found that I was not one for a quick plunge into yester day. She managed to get me into a so-so kind of trance (my feet became glued to the floor and my arms outstretched so rigidly I couldn't for the life of me move them) but beyond that my resistance t ohypnosis was too great. This is not uncommon. Perhaps if I worked with you some more some other time . . ." Miss Gordon said. But she had a subsitute handy. The lark-eyed Miss Abrams, a native New Yorker, had cut a class to come down and stand ready in case Miss Gordon need ed a subject. "It's a wonderful experience," Miss Abrams as sured me. Excellent Subject "I've worked with Miss Abrams five or six times. She's an excellent subject but I've never tried this sort of thing with her before," Miss Gordon said. "You are falling asleep . . . deep asleep . . . deeper and deeper asleep" Miss Gordon in sisted as Miss Abrams stared fixedly into her eyes. Miss Abrams vent under in no time at all, and after some demon strations that proved she was trulv hypnotized we were ready to begin. "I want you to rem- ber," instructed Miss Gordon, "when you were 12 years old. Tell us what you see." "I'm jumping rope." Miss Abrams began. "But I wish I had something else to do. Jumping rope is boring . . ." She describ ed the sidewalk and street corner where she was playing. Then Miss Gordon told her to go back further. She was six years old and would tell us what she saw. Miss Abrams gave us the names of the children who sat on eithei side of her in the first grade. She started sobbing when she told how she had lost one of her favorite dolls. Then the hyp notist took her to the age of three, and finally to the age of one. "My father is down on his hands and knees . . . I'm trying to walk toward him," the girl said. At the age of one month, there was not much going on. ' I'm in my crib, lying on my stomach." What did she see around her? "Just the bars of my crib." Then Miss Gordon told. Miss During Hyp arlier nosis Abrams she was going back "through space and time, far, far back . . ." A Theater, of Course "I'm dancing," Miss Abrams smiled, her eyes still closed. Where was she dancing? "In a theater of course. We're dancing Les Sylphides. The other dancers don't realize how I feel when I dance. They don't understand what it is to dance the way I do." Where was the theater? "In Moscow." On what street in Mos cow? Miss Abrams hesitated and frowned. "I can't remember. I think it begins with an 'L'." What year was it? "1895." What was her name? "Rana-Ranya . . . no, it's Iranya." Then Miss Gordon asked her subject to go farther back and see what she would remember. Miss Abrams gave a hazy acount of riding with some Mongolian warriors along the bottom of a "very high wall." Doesn't Prove Much Miss Gordon, after bringing Miss Abrams back to New York, and 1956, said it was an interest ing demonstration but doesn't prove much of anything. Hyp notic subjects have been spin ning such "recollections" for years, she said, and in her opin ion they are pure imagination. Miss Abrams was not much help. "I can barely remember Curfew on Cyprus Lilted by British Nicosia, Cyprus (U.P.) British authorities have lifted a 24-hour curfew which had placed 200,000 residents of Cy prus under house arrest to pre vent wholesale violence and bloodshed It was the most rigorous cur few imposed on the island since Britain occupied it in 1878 and authorities said it was success ful. Only one fatal incident was reported during the 24-hour pe riod. The curfew, clamped down on 13 major communities includ ing the capital of Nicosia, was lifted everywhere except in the village of Vasilia. Turks and Greeks clashed last week in Va silia, and tension still was high there. what we were talking about," she said. When awake, she never thinks about ballet or Russia or the Great Wall in China. But she likes being hypnotized. I I MEDFORD ft if vA Gas Turbine Auio Starts Test Jaunt New York (U.R) A sleek, 1956 Plymouth powered by a "cyclone in a box" crawled through heavy New York traf ric yesterday on the start of a history making 3000-mile jaunt across the country. The car, powered by a revo lutionary gas turbine engine, had to buck rush hour traffic as it pulled away from the Chrys ler building in midtown New York and headed for New Jer sey. . Chrysler engineers said the purpose of the coast to coast trip was to get information about the turbine and to see how it would react to varying road conditions. The "low whine" of the pis tonless engine will be heard in a dozen states before the car arrives in Los Angeles about Friday. The turgine engine eliminates the radiator, cooling hoses and McMlnnville (U.R) Zoe Ann Warberg of Twin Falls, Ida., will be May queen at Linfield Col lege this year. Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department said today farmers' cash income totalled an estimated $4,100,000,000 during January and February, a 5 per cent drop from the same period last year. fan, carburetor, distributor and transmission. It has only one spark plug and this is used only when starting the engine. BORDER CRASHED Hamburg, Germany (U.R) Three East German employees of a Communist-run agricultural company literally smashed across the Iron Curtain Mon day. They crashed through a border barrier from East Ger many in an automobile and asked for asylum. They said they were "fed up" with Communism. Use Tribune Want Ads Easy, Just Dial 2-6141 OPEN IN NEW LOCATION Wakefield Drapery 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Same Phone 2-6010 Is That So? Off Formosa, with Japan Air Lines We are flying over the westerly edge of a tremendous eddy part of a gigantic 20,000 mile stream which circles the North Pacific Ocean from the Philippines, past Formosa, up to Japan, across to Alaska, down from California to Panama and across again to the Philippines, round and round ... It is the Japanese-North Equa torial current. The deep dark-blue stream be low us and its boundaries against the much lighter sea are clearly defined is one of the most majestic sights an airborne passenger is ever given to see. Varying with place and season, this current flows at a rate of about 30 miles a day in some places less than Vz mile an hour, in others at a speed ex ceeding 6 miles an hour. Although this over-all speed may seem slow, the amount of water carried by this great cur rent is so immense that one can ,3-26-SS scarcely grasp it. Over 25,000, 000 tons of water, every second on the second. Translated into comprehensible terms this is the water of thousands of Mississip pis: about 25 times the total water carried by all fresh water brooks, streams and rivers in the whole wide world. Like all ocean currents, this great Japanese-North Equatorial eddy is a part of a tremendous circulating system that is with out beginning and without end. These currents 'are the life blood of the oceans: without them, oceans would stagnate. Affect Daily Lives They tie together remote reg ions; they aerate the water to great depths so plants and ani mals can live there; they carry warmth toward the frigid poles; they carry coolness to the equa torial lands. All in all, they not only affect plants and ani mate, but they affect the daily lives of millions of people. For example, this current flowing below us affects the inhabitants of the Philippines, of China, Korea, Siberia, Japan, Alaska, Canada,. U. S., Mexico, Central America roughly hundreds of millions. Earlier beliefs notwithstand ing, this black current is not a single integrated stream, flow ing in one great mass round and about the North Pacific. Instead it is made up of narrow streams, separated by counter-currents meandering in wavy paths which continually change position and even occasionally break off into broad 100-mile wide eddies. Its general course, however, is clock wise (South of the equator, the Humboldt-South Equatorial cur rent, is counter-clockwise). The depth to which the water By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist moves with the drift at the sur face is not very well known but probably it is limited to the up per crust of the oceans a few hundred yards, except in spe cial areas. Below this, the velocities de crease and in the great depths of the sea, water moves exceed ingly slow. This Japanese current off Formosa is warm about 78 de grees now in late March, and as it flows northward to Japan it holds this temperature through thousands of miles. In Warmer Water So well, in fact, does it hold its original temperature that when a ship crosses into this Japanese current off Japan, the ship's bow may momentarily be in water 15 degrees warmer than that of its stern. But when this river of warm water sweeps past Japan, it meets the cold waters of the Kurile current rushing down from the Icy Bering seas. Where the humid warm air meets the cold, there is fog one of the densest fog banks in the world a thick blanketing whiteness which is not even dissipated at times when a 40-mile-an-hour wind blows. I know, I've been there. As a result of the current, Tokyo is bathed with a climate not unlike Rome's. 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