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CONFESSING SHOTGUN SLAYING of Guy F. Roberts (right), 45, meat packing execu
tive, Charles Guy (left), 22, says he is unable to explain Santa Monica, Calif., motel shoot
ing. Roberts occupied motel with Mrs. Nina James Angus (center), 37. They planned to
marry next week. Mrs. Angus formerly practiced law in Dunn, N. C. (International)
Sailors in Operation Deepfreeze
Tunnel Ice to Get Fresh Water
Br DICK GROWALD
United Presi Correspondent
Syracuse, N.Y. TO Ice, ice,
everywhere, but it might as well
be parched land as far as drink
ing water is concerned for 18
Americans making scientific
studies at the bottom of the
world.
The sailors of Operation Deep
Freeze have to tunnel through
the Ice to reach fresh clean snow
which they melt for drinking
water, a ham radio operator
.here in contact with the expedi
tion said today.
The warmest outside work is
in the snow. It's usually a rela
tively warm 60 degrees below
zero. The average South Polar
temperature last month was 80
Is That So?
A pocketful of wry: In space
all objects, big and little, float
at the same speed side by side
around the earth. Without fuel
to 6hoot them out of this path,
they will gc right on floating
around the earth.
Nothing on earth ever stays
the same. Everything changes
slowly in shape, size or consis
tency.
A steel ball will bounce high
er than a rubber ball. It dents
just like a rubber ball when it
hits a hefti surface, but it snaps
back into shape faster than a
rubber ball. It is the snapping
back into shape that makes a
ball bounce.
Smoke is not a necessary part
of fire. It just means that the
fire is not burning properly.
Bits of unburned material are
escaDinz into the air.
The mixture of all colors from
the sun makes white. The ab
sence of all colors makes black
It is just the opposite with paint
pigments. A mixture of the three
primary colors makes black
whereas absence of all three
makes white.
The reason men's hats have a
little book inside them is that
at one time hats were made to
fit by loosening or tightening a
drawstring.
We taste sweet and salty
things with the tips of our
tongues, sour and salty things
with the middle parts of our
tongues, and bitter things with
the back parts. To swallow a
bitter pill, therefore, place it on
the tip of the tongue and "chase"
it with a gulp of water.
A leopard may not be able
to change his spots but some
fish can. When flounders swim
over sand their spots become
small but when they swim over
rocks or pebbles their spots
grow larger. This, of course,
makes it more A'ficult for their
enemies to find them.
Put Fledgling Back
If you find a fledgling out of
its nest, the best way to save
its life is to put it back into the
nest if you can. There is no thuth
in the belief that if you do this
the parents will not go near the
nest again through fear of hu
man smell. Most birds, you
know, have no sense of smell
and a very rudimentary sense
of taste. But birds do see in col
or something most mammals
cannot do.
A day-old pronghorn antelope
can outrun a man.
A sperm whale is one of the
few lopsided animals known. It
has its blowhole on the left side.
The chemicals in one's body
are exactly the same as those in
the sea . . . only, happily, the
amounts of these chemicals vary
considerably.
Bending light rays changes the
color of things. For example,
an object which looks red on
dry land looks bright green in
deep water.
The custom of shaking hands
started long ago when men used
to offer their right, or weapon
hands, in greeting to show that
they were not carrying weap
ons. For some more wry, better
look into Surprising Facts by
Francis N. Chrjstie (Watts, N.
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below. "An hour is about the
longest period we can stay out
side, Lt. Jack Tuck of Auburn
Mass., commanding the Navy's
antarctic international geophysi
cal year station, reported by ra
dio.
Disdaint Sleep
The story of the frigid life at
the South Pole filtered 9,000
miles to the $10,000 amateur
radio station of ham Paul M
Blum, a man who disdains sleep
is "mere habit." Blum's radio
is the only link the polar crew
has to -the warmer world other
than official Navy communica
tion.
Through Blum's radio came
Tuck's baritone describing the
wacmest day of the past month
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Y.). And now, one to close on:
About one-tenth of the surface
of the earth is covered with
melting ice. Scientists say that
in about 18,000 years the oceans
wili rise 100 feet. This of course
would place most seaports, such
as New York, London, and Cape
Town, competely under water.
(Copyright. 1957, by Eugene
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as a "balmy 41 degrees below
zero." The weathered-in crew
takes a Texan's pride in a recent
98-below zero reading.
Blum, a senior buyer for the
General Electric company, dur
ing the day, uses the night to
funnel messages to and from
the pole and six other Antarc
tic naval stations. Blum and
four friends handled their 10,-
000th message this week.
After three hours' sleep Blum
rises at midnight, steps into his
cellar radio room and sits down.
Pole Flickers In
After jiggling a panel of dials
and knobs Blum switches on the
microphone, glances at the
chunk of polar rock atop the
set and chants into the universe,
"W2KCR calling KC4USN." The
coldest spot on earth flickers in.
"Hello, Paul," says KC4USN.
Blum, shuttling between the
radio, a teletype machine and a
facsimile machine for sending
photographs to the pole, begins
his seven-hour vigil. First he
copies messages from Antarctica
for the folks back home.
"I'm thinking of staying an
other year ... I feel great . . .
I can't deep very well . . . tell
everyone hello . . . tell Myra to
learn shorthand . . . happy birth
day ..."
. Then he reads to the polar
operator the short messages, ga
thered by the Red Cross, which
invariably contain the word
'love."
Low-Down on Social Life
"Some of the boys down there
talked a Russian scientist into
giving us a message for trans
mission to Russia," Blum said.
After I sent it through the Red
Cross to Russia we got a reply."
Through Blum's radio have
come the story of polar social
life: Three nights a week movies.
Two weekly lectures on medi
cine. Old Antarctica hand Dr.
Paul Siple talks three nights a
week on his favorite subject,
Antarctica.
Some sailors spend spare time
studying for advancement in
rank. Nearly all the polar crew
are camera bugs. "They tell me
they've a million pictures of the
stars," Blum said.
The photo fans work under
handicaps. "I went outside to
day to take a photograph," ra
dioed sailor Bill McPherson of
Long Meadow, R. I. "My camera
froze and a finger froze to the
shutter. But I got my picture."
Men Leading in
Fathead Division
Columbus, Ohio (IP! Men are
fatheads, but on them it looks
good.
This is one finding of a scien
tific study made by Dr. Stanley
M. Garn, associate professor of
anthropology at Antioch college,
Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Dr. Garn based his conclu
sions on a study of 81 men, age
40, and 107 women, age 39. He
concluded that men have more
fat in their heads than women.
Another weighty conclusion
the doctor reached in his survey
is that women are 41 per cent
fatter than men. Nearly one
fourth of female weight is fat.
With men, fat accounts for about
one-sixth of the total weight.
It's obvious women have more
outer fat," Dr. Garn pointed out.
"This you can see. It makes life
more interesting."
On the other hand, the "inner
fat" that can't be seen on men
may be shortening their lives
and endangering their health.
"Women are like polar bears,"
Garn said. "They have an outer
fat which serves as insulation."
Then he theorized that it may
be that fat orf women on the
outside and at a lower tempera
ture increases their life span.
Garn's study was part of a
continuing research project on
fat, its effect on metabolism and
growth.
His "guinea pigs in the ex
periment were from the south
ern Ohio area.
For women who want to lose
some of their fat, Dr. Garn's ad
vice is not to lose too much
weight at once. A rapid initial
loss of weight won't bring de
sired contour changes.
"We may be fatheads," he
said, "but we like you just the
way you are."
Painting Season .
The painters were overdue.
The last two summers the old
boompond shack had lured us
away too often to date the brush
men up ahead, so we had shut
our eyes to blisters and cracks
on the bevel siding and around
kitchen and laundry window
frames. Three metal downspouts
were falling apart.
So we called up Ed Wyman
at last, he came down and
climbed around the six - room
house, and then gave us the bad
news. But first he said, pretty
grimly:
"It's plain to be seen that you
ought to stop drying clothes in
the basement. Get a dryer that
will pipe out the dew. Or you
might even save money in the
long run by sending your wash
to the laundry on a rough-dry
deal. Other things you can do,
like putting keyhole ventilators
in your siding. Just don't play
around with vapor in the house
anyhow, not when it's raining
all summer."
Then he said he could give
our walls a new start for 3520,
including replacements for the
corroded and crumbling down
spouts. We took him up.
Hope in Sight . . .
Meanwhile, I had the oppor
tunity -to put paint questions to
forest products men who have
been working on the problem
for many years. They had no new
answers but hoped that the na
tion's paint manufacturers had
them coming, in improved for
mulas for house paints to meet
modern requirements paints
that would allow the housewife
to go her way rejoicing with
automatic washers of all descrip
tions and even to hang the wash
ing up to dry indoors.
"And these will be real, true,
beautiful, durable paints," I was
a jdif c 1 at&te .
RED TIPSTER? Mrs.
Martha Dodd Stern, daugh
ter of the late William E.
Dodd, one-time U. S. Am
bassador to Germany, has
reportedly flown behind the
Iron Curtain with her hus
band, Alfred Stern, and
son, Robert, 11. U. S. offi
cials want the Sterns for
questioning in connection
with Soviet espionage. Sen
ate investigators in Wash
ington are expected to quiz
movie producer Boris Mor
ros on the possibility that
Mrs. Stern was the "prom
inent American woman"
who tipped off the Russian
Embassy in Washington
that Moros was an FBI
counter-spy.
"Why did daddy
have to die?"
How can you explain it to
a heartbroken child? Most
traffic accidents don't have
to happen. Yet last year,
40,000 died on our high
ways. This tragic killing
can be stopped if you help.
Here's how you can help:
Drtvt safely, courteously yourself.
Observe speed limits, warning signs.
Where traffic lews are obeyed,
deaths go DOWNI
Insist on strict enforcement of ad
traffic laws. They work for you, not
against you. Where traffic lews art
' strictly enforced, deaths go DOWNI
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assured. "The new house paints
will be tough in texture yet able
to conduct moisture through
from the interior wall and dis
sipate it in the atmosphere."
When I told veteran painting
contractor Ed Wyman about
these prophecies, he said that
this might be so. A scientific age
that could work the wonders it
has with electronics and atom
splitting should easily lick all
house paint problems, Ed said.
Complications ...
The problems in choosing ex
terior finishes arise today from
the non-wood wall as well as
from the house with exterior of
beautiful bevel cedar siding.
Masonry and stucco walls are
now coated with a variety of
paints and sealers. Metal walls
have their specialty coatings
vinyl, neoprene, epoxy, poly
ester, with zinc chromates and
iron oxides among standard
primers.
Most of us like the wood wall
best, even with paint troubles
of yesterday and today. On our
own old- house blisters came
first with wartime paints. The
last job, done in 1950, has held
up well, despite the old coats of
paint accumulated since 1925.
Now Ed Wyman has the little
old house looking just as we
want it to look gleaming ivory
white with forest-green trim.
We expect to keep it that way.
A first move is to write Lenore
Kent, 1500 Rhode Island ave.,
N. W., Washington, D. C, for two
free booklets on how to protect
house walls wood, brick, ce
ment, masonry or metal
against sweating. They are the
work of the National Paint, Var
nish and Lacquer Association. In
simple terms, they will tell you
what to do on a paint protection
program of your own. '
Election Prospects
Good for Adenauer
Berlin (IP! Election pros
pects looked brighter Saturday
for West German chancellor
Konrad Adenauer as a result of
the savage attacks made on him
by Soviet Communist leader
Nikita Khrushchev.
Western observers, who heard
Khrushchev lambaste Adenauer
during his recent East German
tour, believed the attacks, which
ranged from comparing Aden
auer with Adolf Hitler to warn
ing he -was leading Germany
along the road to war, have vir
tually clinched the Sept. 15
elections for Adenauer.
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Quigg: A Decentralized Executive
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
Greenwich, Conn. (IP) Vic
tor Muscat says you can talk all
you want to about decentraliz
ing industry, but he's the only
man he knows of who's a de
centralized executive. He works
at home and likes it.
What's the sense of wasting a
couple of hours each day com
muting to a hectic office in a
jammed place called New York
when you can sit with a seven
line phone and secretary beside
your swimming pool and work
serenely while your wife and
three kids splash happily in the
foreground and birds tottle tend
erly in the background?
Thafs a good question. It's one
Muscat asked himself three
years ago. He's been working at
home ever since.
Think More Clearly
"I've found you . can think
much more clearly work out ;
your problems much better,
away from the center of activi
ty," he said. "And I can get on
the phone and give orders just
Kuykendal! Named
Power Chairman
Washington (IPI President
Eisenhower Saturday designated
Jerone K. Kuykendall as chair
man of the Federal Power com
mission for another five-year
term.
The Senate approved Kuyken
dall's reappointment to the com
mission Thursday night after a
lengthy debate. Sen. - Wayne
Morse (D.-Ore.), in leading the
fight against Kuykendall, charg
ed that the President's appoint
ment of him "regged" the FPC
on the side of private power in
terests. Kuykendall's first five-year
term expired June 22.
About one-third of this coun
try's tractor fatalities occur on
highways.
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as well here in Greenwich as I
can from any central office."
One of the things he's been
thinking about is where tubes
are going. He's in toothpaste
tubes. He has 11 factories dotted
around the United States, Cana
da, and Venezuela, and is presi
dent of the Victor Metal Prod
ucts Corp. He's in tubes up to
his well, to the tune of 200,
000,000 a year made for tooth
paste, shaving, and cosmetics
outfits.
As I say, he's been thinking,
and I'm afraid I got him going
on the subject of whither tubes
are drifting by asking what was
intended to be a nonsense ques
tion. Why couldn't the ketchup
problem how to get it out of
the bottle be solved by putting
it in tubes?
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butter, jams and jellies, mustard,
soft cheeses . . . why, it's all
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Switzerland, for instance, that's
the biggest . use of tubes. You
can get butter in tubes there.
"You have to keep it the right
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toothpaste.
"And peanut butter is a na
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child make a sandwich all by
himself, . without leaving a
knife around, by just leaving a
tube and some bread on the
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mother sending the child to
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