Cornell Students
Design Buildings
For Mining Town
Ithaca, N'.Y. (U.R) A 20th
century version of a frontier
mining town, for the world's
largest uranium center, is being
designed as a class project by
30 city planning students in
Cornell's College of Architecture.
The students are charting
modern residential, business, civ
ic and recreation areas for a
new city rising near Elliot Lake,
Canada, in the Blind River area
north of Lake Huron.
Until an estimated three bil
lion dollars worth of uranium
ore was discovered there in 19
49, the area's chief claim of fame
was its excellent hunting and
have moved in, another 25,000
are expected by 1960.
The kind of population in a
mining community presents
some problems to the young
planners. About 40 per cent are
single mcnt, and the turnover
of mine employment is about
50 per cent a month. So a large
number of transient residences
nd trailer facilities are needed.
The great number of French
speaking persons will require
separate schools, and the large
Catholic population will mean
more parochial schools than us
ual. Unlike a mining town in
the Klondike days, Elliot Lake
is giving schools top priority.
The one-commodity economy
threatens the area with a ghost
town status. Other uses for the
area, in case the uranium mar
ket declines, are being investi
gated by the students. Among
these are lumber and wood prod
ucts industries, increased tour
ist and recreation facilities, and
a university specializing in sub
jects related to uranium and
lumber.
The topography adds construc
tion problems. A layer of gran
ite is near the surface in the
whole area, with outcrops in
many places, and a high ridge
runs parallel to Elliot Lake.
The 30 students, directed by
Prof. F. W. Edmonson, come
from 11 countries and include
persons trained in law, engin
eering, economics, sociology,
and floriculture, as well as in
architecture and city planning.
Working with them on sew
age, power and other facilities
are sanitary engineering stu
dents in Cornell's School of Civ
il Engineering and thermal en
gineering students in the School j
of Mechanical Engineering.
The Canadian government has
established the 369-square-mile
Blind River area as an improve
ment district under its "new
town" program. The students
receive data and help from D. F.
Taylor, community planning di
rector in the Ontario Depart
ment of Planning and Develop
ment. Base information about the
land and its uranium deposits
comes from Franc Joubin, the
man who discovered the area's
potentials after a 20-year search
all over the world for uranium.
Instruction Booklets
Plug for Communism
Mainz, Germany (U.R) The
Communist Party, banned in
West Germany, is distributing
propaganda here disguised as in
struction booklets for pedestri
ans. After the first few pages
the booklets shift from traffic
tips to Communist doctrine.
Last year the Reds mixed
Marx with Mozart in booklets
sent to music lovers.
Fight
Highway Program
Creates Big Job
For Researchers
Washington (U.R) The new
33 . billion dollar highway pro
gram has created a giant job for
the Agriculture Research Serv
ice. Problems to be solved in build
ing the 41,000-mile highway sys
tem in the next 15 years include
planning to provide the best safe
ty for motorists and making the
rights-of-way more beautiful.
There also are such problems
as erosion control along the high
ways and low-cost maintenance.
Those are jobs for Agriculture
Reaserch scientists. They already
are cooperating with planners
and engineers in many states,
studying the special problems of
soil, water, and plant adaptation
involved in roadside development.
Plantings along highways con
stitute a new kind of agriculture
with unique requirements, espe
cially for water diversion and
run-off control.
Millions of tons of earth will
be moved in making cuts and
fills for the new highways. Sub
soils frequently lacking the nu
trients necessary for healthy
plant growth will be uncovered
and it will be an ARS job to see
that these exposed surfaces are
made to produce vegetative cover
to prevent erosion.
Road shoulders must be kept
firm and smooth to provide safe
emergency turnouts for motor
ists. Fills must not wash out to
form dangerous gullies and
ditches. Erosion of cuts must be
checked to keep eroding mate
rials from damaging farm lands,
filling reservoirs, or from wash
ing onto highways to endanger
occupants of fast-moving cars.
Vegetative cover also is needed
to reduce highway repair and
maintenance costs resulting from
uncontrolled erosion.
Once a right-of-way has been
graded, soil preparation is the
first step, according to ARS en
gineers and agronomists. Then
proper plant nutrients must be
applied to the freshly exposed
subsoils. Cuts frequently require
surface working with tillage ma
chines before and after they are
fertilized and before they are
seeded.
ONE OF SEVEN
Newport, R.I. U.P.) Lt. Mary
T. Lynch, the only woman doc
tor stationed at Newport Naval
hospital, is one of only seven
women doctors in the U.S. Navy.
Physicians Leading
To Abolish
Coca Chewing
Lima, Peru U.RJ Two
physicians are leading a fight to
abolish the coca-chewing habit
among Peru's four million In
dians the western hemisphere's
oldest narcotics "jag."
Dr. Luis N. Saenz and Dr.
Carlos A. Ricketts appealed to
the public this week to support
their Anti-Coca League (Liga
Anti-Coca). They said a tour of
the country, just completed, con
vinced them nothing can be
done to raise the living standard
of the Indian until he stops
chewing the juicy leaf.
Spanish conquerors decreed
coca for everybody 400 years
ago. They thought of it as a kind
of harmless poor man's tranqui
lizer pill. It was supposed to
keep the Indian from worrying
about politics and working con
ditions. Indians have been chewing
coca all day, every day, ever
since. They now spend 150,000,
000 soles (S7,000,000) per year
on the habit, despite intense
poverty.
Coca is the plant from which
cocaine is derived. With a wad
of coca leaves in his jaw, an In
dian feels happy, satisfied. He
does not eat enough food. In the
end his health suffers.
The government set up a state
monopoly of coca sales eight
years igo, hoping to reduce na
tional consumption by a gradual
tightening of supply. Dr. Saenz
said this system resulted instead
in an increase in use of coca.
"The monopoly has had no ef
fect except to fill the govern
ment's coffers with the profits
of a constantly increasing con
sumption of narcotic leaf," Dr
Saenz told newsmen. .
Dr. Saenz is seeking members
for the league in Lima. Dr. Ri
cketts will organize in Arequipa,
P iru's second city. They hope to
interest lniiuentiai citizens in
their campaign to reduce plant
ings and educate Indians against
the habit.
Dr. Saenz said the coca-chew
ing Indian is holding back the
material progress of all Peru.
The pure-blooded Indian of the
provinces' still is not an effective
part of the nation's social or ec
onomic community, he said.
The physician said a powerful,
natonwide civic organization
must help the government wipe
out the practice. He believes
business and industry will join
the league's campaign.
The coca shrub grows abun
dantly in Peru and Bolivia. In
dians in these countries, and in
adjacent parts of Brazil, sprin
kle the leaves with lime and
chew them like tobacco. Before
the Europeans came, the Inca
empire restricted the e of co
ca to nobles and priests. They
used it in state and religious
ceremonies.
Today the male Indian begins
chewing coca about the time he
reaches manhood. Few women
are heavy users. Indians claim
coca reduces hunger pangs and
makes it easier to breathe in the
high altitudes of the Andes.
Thursday, May 9, 1957
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Five-Cent Subway Ride Most Widely Used
Escape Route by Berlin Anti-Communists
Berlin (U.R) A five-cent sub
way ride through the Iron Cur
tain is the most widely used es
cape route to freedom.
Here in isolated Berlin anti
Communists literally use an un
derground railroad to flee to
the West.
They use the subway which
still connects East and West in
this split city. And usually the
escape trip is as uneventful,
short and fast as the 17-block
ride on the New York subway
from Times Square to Colum
bus Circle.
Since refugee records were
started in 1949, the flight of
1,800,324 East Germans has been
recorded in West Berlin and
West Germany. Many, many
thousands more fled to the West
without . registering.
Perhaps as many as half of
those who sought asylum in West
Berlin came by subway.
Barriers Crashed
There have been dramatic es
capes. Soviet Zone residents try
ing to flee have been shot on
the East-W est border. Heavy
trucks with open throttles have
crashed through permanent bar
riers erected by the Communists.
Men have swum the Havel
river and border canals to free
dom. People have escaped on
bicycles, horse-drawn carts, ca-,
noes, motor boats, rowboats, i
buses and excursion launches.
Young children have been
brought across the border in
baby carriages. Older folks have
been pushed across in wheel
chairs. Four members of a family
from Ruedersdorf, a few miles
east of Berlin, asked asylum in
the French sector of the city
after a roundabout t h r ee-day
journey of 200 miles over canals
and rivers in a passenger ex
cursion boat belonging to the
family.
A group of three f a m ilies
from a village near Magdeburg
rode the 75 miles to Berlin by
funeral cortege. They were dres
sed in black and carried wreaths
their passports to freedom. In
stead of going to a West Berlin
cemetery , as they told border
guards, they reported to a ref
ugee reception center.
But most of the flights are
less spectacular. The great
drama and dangers come when
refugees try to enter West Ber
lin from surrounding country
side of the Soviet Zone, as dis
tinguished from the Soviet sec
tor of East Berlin. Only four
roads are open and all are
guarded. Along 75 miles of bord
er are barbed wire entangle
ments, r o a d b 1 ocks, ditches,
watch-towers and posts manned
by police with tommy guns.
At the 28-mile border between
East and West Berlin, it is an-
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other story. The Iron Curtin has
great holes in it.
The Reds have channeled traf
fic through special checkpoints
and instituted customs checks
but for some reason have never
placed great restrictions on
traffic.
Subway and elevated trains
cross the border without regular
checks. People cross it on foot
merely by showing identity
cards. East Germans excite su
spicion only if they bring along
suitcases.
Most come with only the
clothes on their backs, but one
dog lover brought six dogs with
her. She made six subway trips.
On each trip she brought one
dog.
Center, Neb. (U.R) Farmer
L. H. Mentel, 61, told a judge
here he hadn't tried to get a
driver's license in more than
35 years because he feared he
would fail the eye test. Mentel
said he always stayed on back
roads. However, he was arrested
when the State Highway Patrol
made a spot check on cars in
the area. Judge Ore Ballard
fined him $10 and costs.
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Watch Spring
Inserted in Heart
Detroit flJ.R) A team of sur
gons has disclosed a remark
able new operation in which
a "wach spring" was inserted
in a woman's heart.
Mrs. Mabel Streeter, 34, was
operated on April 5, 1956, and
has carried the metal spring in
her heart for more than a year.
The operation, another devel
opment in the rapidly expanding
field of heart surgery, is de
signed to correct a c o n d t ion
known as "mitral insufficiency,"
in which the mitral valve of the
heart fails to open and close
properly.
Prior- to her operation, doc
tors gave Mrs. Streeter, a moth
er of five, about six months to
live. They hope now she may
have a normal life expectancy,
but they won't say for sure.
She is the first person in his
tory with a. metal spring in her
heart.
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Court Records
MUNICIPAL COURT
Conrad Johnson, drunk In public,
$10.
B. C. Kennedy Jr, violation of ba
sic rule. $10.
Manfred Wood row Olson, violation
of basic rule. $10.
Richard Ebenezer Swan, violation
of basic rule. $10.
Ladale Jacob Herrmann, disobeyed
stop sign. $5.
Dean Wesley Allen, improper left
turn, $5.
Laurence Joseph Nichols, disobeyed
stop sign, $5.
Paul Arthur Svoboda, no muffler,
$5.
William A. Dyer, violation of basic
rule. $10
Gerald Keith Perkins, disobeyed
stop sign, $5.
DISTRICT COURT
Guy Leslie Warren, no mud guards,
$10. bail forfeited.
Jack Melvin Workman, overload.
$91.
Charles Ernest Bennett Jr, inade
quate muffler. $10.
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