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Congress: Those Weekly Newsletters By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Correspondent Washington OP) The lighter side of Congress: Close to 300 of the 531 members of House and Senate are estimated to be getting out weekly newsletters to their homefolks. These fre quently are done in the form of "columns" ready for print ing in the local papers. Kuns of 5,000 to , 10,000 '"Who savs the Senate is he confessed unhappily that slow?" he mused. ' By next I his college average was a year we'll be debating state-! mere C. hood for the moon.' The Senate Anti-Monopoly subcommittee was consider ing problems of competition in the auto industry. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) asked Chrysler Presi dent L. L. Colbert: "What, for example, is copies of these literary gems j keeping Chrysler back of CM are not at all unr-nmmon. In and Ford?" many cases the publishing i Replied Colbert: MGM and ' "That's all right," consoled Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.). "When I was in law school they always used to say that the A students made the pro fessors, the B students made the judges, and the C students made the money." , Nomination approved. ef-"-t has gotten so big the ' ssional authors or ghost writers resort to facilities of the Ford." Larger Payments Due for Homes into the mails. Here machines stuff the copies in envelopes, which he claims to have friends on both sides of the aisle. He quotes a prominent previously have been run off ! Demoorat, whom he tactfully on the members' addressing machines. Then the envelopes arjj automatically licked and sealed, and the postman does the rest. Sen. Norris Cotton (R-N.H.) is one member who has known all along about keep ing his readers smiling. This week he was writing about the Senate's new space com mittee. This group, he noted, has been directed to investi gate "all aspects" of outer space, and to report its find ings by June 1. retrains from naming, as making him recently a gra cious and sincere offer as follows: "I'll come . down to your district, Bruce, and Speak for you or against you, which ever will help you most." A young foreign service officer, nominated to the corps for the first time, was being questioned by the Sen ate Foreign Relations Com mittee. Surrounded by other recent graduates running heavily to Phi Beta Kappas, Rep. Bruce Alger is Texas' . Canitol I only Republican House mem- n,n m, ,a. folding rooms to get them b, among 21 Democrat! t. But be home owners wiu haye to i step up their savings if they Officials of the United States Savings and Loan league, representing 4,300 savings and loan institutions, said they see little chance of a return to low down pay ments. Norman Strunk, executive vice president of the league, said two developments have intensified the need for larger down payments: The impact of the Federal Reserve Board's "tight mon ey" policy upon borrowing for home buying. The trend toward larger and more expensive houses. Strunk said the Federal Re serve Board's anti-inflation policy has had the effect of reducing the availability of FHA and VA loans, normally the most "liberal" of all home loans. Strunk said the need for a larger down payment actually may be a blessing in disguise for the average home buyer. "By putting up a bigger down payment, today's home purchaser is saving himself a considerable sum in interest cost that usually goes with the taking out of an excessive ly large mortgage," Strunk said". "The home purchaser who puts down 35,000 on a $20, 000 home, for instance, pay ing the remainder off in 20 years at 5V2 per cent, will save $1,628 in interest cost in this period over the home buyer who "puts down only 82,500 under the same terms." Quotes From the News By UNITED PHESS Dallas, Tex. Stripper Candy Barr, on the guilty verdict and 15-year sentence imposed for her possession of mari juana: ' "All I can says is it's an unfair verdict." Dallas, Tex. Assistant District Attorney Bill Alexander, in his plea to the jury, on why the stripper should be con victed: "She may ' be cute but under the evidence she's soiled and she's dirty." ' Palm Springs, Calif. Police Chief August Kettman, on the pilot who successfully crash-landed his disabled Western Air Lines plane saving all 21 aboard: "The pilot did a fine job putting the ship down in the rugged area." San Antonio, Tex. Lt. Col. George H. Steinkamp, direc tor of the Department of Space Medicine at the School of Aviation Medicine, on the condition of Airman Donald G. Farrell, on the fifth day of his simulated flight to the moon: "He is in perfect shape. He's in much better shape than the crew watching him." The average temperature of Mars is somewhat below 32 degrees F. German Scientists Have Consolation in Sputnik, Explorer General Electric Co. in Schenectady has developed an instrument called the re- Friday, February 14, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THMt cording "spectrophotometer" which is capable of disting uishing more than two mil lion colors. The human eye, at best, can distinguish about 100,000 different colors. - Frankfurt, Germany OP To space-minded West Ger mans, Dr. Wernher von Braun is the man of 1958. It was the next best thing to having space ships of their own. Peering at the sky for a glimpse of Sputnik II or list-1 ening for Explorer s whisper ing radio voice, West Germans wryly recall that both are off spring of the wartime V2 which nicked the edge of space before falling on Eng land. Only hours after the Ameri can satellite was in orbit beer hall wits were telling the story of the Sputnik and Ex plorer meeting in outer space, pausing and then inquiring: "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"( Only Consolation Such bittersweet pride is about the only consolation for science-minded West Ger mans. There is no doubt they would love to back in the space-platform, moon-exploration business. It's the sort of scientific challenge at which this nation has always ex celled. There are thousands of en thusiasts, but not a penny of government funds for rocket research. So far, the enthusiasm is confined mainly to detailed reporting of the American and Soviet launchings and the part played by the hundreds of German technicians divid ed up between the two at war's end. Balked by Occupation American forces collected about 150 top rocket scientists as Germany collapsed in the spring of 1945. Russia round ed up about 5,000 technicians and assistants. Most of those who went to the United States have remained there and 103 have become citizens. Those taken to the USSR were eventually allowed to return. The last returned only this week. The absence of virtually all trained space scientists and a 10-year ban imposed by occu pation authorities on any sort of German flying or weapons research has left the country which started the race to space barely off the ground. There are numerous rocket societies but they have little money and less equipment. 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The company said that pis tons for many years have been contour-ground for maximum efficiency, but this grinding has been limited to a few set patterns. The new develop ment, complex grinding, is ex pected to make possible infin ite varieties of piston skirt shapes by merely touching a hydraulic lever on the ma chine. The new piston skirts, by greatly improving piston lub rication, permit more oi to reach the critical area of the skirt and the part wears long er and operates more quietly. Alcoa said the new skirt grinding operation also is ex pected to perform a vital func tion by reducing friction be tween the part and cylinder walls to a minimum thus en abling the unit to perform more effectively as a force transmitter, heat conductor and bearing conductor. CULTURED ENGINEERS Lowell, Mass. (IP) A course in Shakespeare is being of fered to budding engineers at Lowell Technological Institute this semester. 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