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Sensory Deprivation
On HumanMind May
Affect Soace Travel
Los Angeles-a?B-The- big
gest obstacle to manned space
flight may be the effect of
"prolonged" sensory depriva
tion" on the human mind, ac
cording to a neurosurgeon.
Dr. John D. French, coord
inator of the mental health
training program at the UCLA
Medical Center and a leader
in the school's vast brain re
search program, explained
sensory deprivation simply
man's lack of "familiar earth
rhythms, sights, sounds, smells
and pressures.
French was appointed this
week to the executive council
of the Armed Forces Nation
al Research Council Commit
tee on bio-astronautics, set up
to promote research aimed at
"establishing space as an op
erational medium for man."
Hard to Think
The scientist said research
shows "man's ability to think
properly deteriorates pretty
rapidly when he is subjected
to sensory deprivation, a man
deprived of his sense of bal
ance, which could happen dur
ing "weightless" space flight,
might find it quite difficult to
think properly."
French described two clas
sical experiments:
"Human subjects wearing
ear plugs were locked in dark
rooms, unable to see or hear
anything of the "outside"
world.
"They soon developed hal
lucination," French said.
"Minor stimulation of the
tenses produced exaggerated
mental reactions. They placed
undue importance on small
things. For instance, interest
might become centered on a
' bead of sweat running down
the face."
A scientist, using a breath
ing tube, lay at the bottom of
a swimming pool for hours.
He soon reported strange hal
lucinations. May Go Insane
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French pointed out, but .this
will be artifical and even
small differences may affect
his ability to think and react.
"And unforeseen things will
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pose something goes wrong
and we can't get a man down
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"If we can't modify the
space environment to fit man's
brain," he continued, "we'll
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some ways to fit the environ
ment." How?- Through use of drugs
sleeping pills (weightless
ness may produce insomnia),
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"I feel it is urgent that we
conduct as much research as
possible into this problem
with animals before the first
men go into space," French
concluded.
Explosion Kills
Two at Los Alamos
Los Alamos, N. M.-flJPD-In-vestigators
attempted to de
termine the cause of an ex
plosion which killed two em
ployees of the Los Alamos
scientific laboratory Tuesday
night.
The victims were Leo G.
Guerin, 35, and Raymond A.
Means, 31..
A spokesman for the top
secret atomic laboratory said
no radioactive material or ra
diation was involved in the
blast.
The men, he said, were en
gaged in a "normal machin
ing operation of chemical ex
plosives, used by the labora
tory to study the physical
phenomena of shock waves."
The blast occurred inside a
building. The men were kill
ed instantly. "
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The Family Council
Editor! note: The F-mily Council consists ot a judge a psychiatrist,
tlree clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary ' an actual report. The Family Council does
not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt
with by responsible agencies and counselors.
Paul R. - It's still Christ
mas at our house.
Rose R. - This is the worst
part.
Paul R. In our house
Christmas lasts about . four
months - two months before,
and two after. And I don't
like it!
My wife goes absolutely
crazy figuring out gifts for
everyone and trying to budget
each person according to a
lot of different factors. Then
she stays awake nig hts trying
to figure out what each per
son spent on the gifts they
gave her so that she'll give
them back in equal measure
next year. Sometimes she
goes around talking to her
self because she gets so mad
at some mistake she made in
giving a too-cheap or too-expensive
gift.
It's gotten so bad that I'm
just about ready to stage a
disappearing act for four
months of the year. The after
math is the worst part, so I'm
ready to take off now.
Rose R. Paul takes no re
sponsibility at all for this
very important matter. The
whole burden is on my shoul
ders and he won't even talk
it over with me.
It just happens that there
are some poor relatives and
some very wealthy ones in
both our families. Some of
the poorer ones give us nicer
gifts than the wealthier ones,
but you can't give a wealthy
person a cheap gift in return
because he has so many good
things of his own he won't
pay any attention to your
gift.
The post-Christmas letdown
sure is the worst part. That's
when I start realizing that at
least half the things I did
were wrong. If Paul talked it
over with me in advance I
wouldn't make so many mis
takes. The Council: We are fairly
certain that Rose's "Christ
mas neurosis" isn't confined
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Pages 1-6
to the holiday season and its
aftermath. This season is
merely the occasion for an
intensification of her ordi
nary, everyday feelings. She
undoubtedly spends a good
part of her time ' thinking
about whether or not others
are treating her "right" and
punishing herself for real or
fancied offenses she has com
mitted against others.
Rose's behavior shows that
at bottom she is still wallow
ing in childish feelings of
envy and greed. She is deeply
engrossed in the question of
whether others love her
enough to give her her due
and she is overwhelmed by
the problem of having to con
ceal her basic selfishness. She
probably resents the power of
her rich relatives and would
like to "put them in their
place" by giving them a
better gift than they gave
her, yet she is furious at what
she interprets as their scorn
of her in giving her a small,
inexpensive gift. Quite possib
ly she would like to "lord it
over" the poor relatives by
giving . them a fine gift, but
is disconcerted when they fail
her by being generous with
their gift.
There is only one way ouf
of such a dilemma and that is
to make a change in basic at
titudes and relationships. Rose
might try making her Christ
mas project a 12-month one
this year. She should make a
real effort to conquer her
pettiness and try to like and
understand others. The more
she thinks about them, the
less will she be concerned
about herself and their . atti
tude toward her.
If she succeeds in doing
this, we believe Rose and her
husband may begin to ex
perience the pleasures of the
holiday for the first time
when Christmas 1959 draws
near.
(Copyright 1959.
General Features Corp.)
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WINNING TOP HONORS in twenty-seventh annual .Na
tional Cherry Pie Baking Contest, Chicago, Karen Gun
ning, 16, Mulberry, Ind., samples her product. She will
receive college scholarship, trip to Washington for victory.
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There is an unsavory mem
ber of the strange world, of
the fungi that comes about as
close to being an ogre or a
ghoul as any living thing can.
Even the habitat and the sur
roundings in which it grows
are gruesome and weird to
the point of being eerie and
actually spectral.
Even the beliefs and super
stitions that have been built
up around it are. ugly and re
pulsive. They concern them
selves with mysterious and un
canny meetings between it
and venomous serpents during
the dark hours of night, for
many people believe that
ground rattlesnakes gather
about this plant and hold some
sort of mysterious rites known
only to the lowly creatures
of the world.
This uncanny plant is call
ed, "stink horn." It belongs to
the fungus family.
Unless you know differently
you would think this plant
grew from an egg. For up
from the ground, in dark, un
pleasant places, first appears
a round, egg-shaped case, dirt
y white in color often about
the size of a pullet egg. If you
touch it, it feels like dead skin.
French Songstress
Undergoes Surgery
New York-flJPD-French sing
er Edith Piaf, 43, was report
ed recovering -satisfactorily
today . from surgery to halt
internal bleeding caused by
gastric ulcers.
Surgeons operated on the
tiny chanteuse Tuesday night
at' the Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical center where she
had been rushed earlier in
the day from her hotel suite.
She became ill last Wednes
day and was forced to cancel
her singing engagement in
the Waldorf - Astoria hotel's
Empire room, a Carnegie
Hall concert and an appear
ance on the Ed Sullivan TV
show.
The former Paris street
singer is the composer of sev
eral modern French classics
including "La Vie En Rose"
and "If You Loved Me."
School News...
Shady Cove School
Rita Spain, Editor
Shady Cove school observ
ed the birthday of Oregon
Feb. 14. Most of the girls in
the seventh and eighth grad
es and all the women teach
ers wore old time dresses.
The eighth grade has paint
ed two large pictures of Ore
gon for the lunch room show
ing Oregon in pioneer days
and in modern days.
The third grade had a col
lection of pioneer articles in
cluding a bell worn by a cow
crossing the plains in 1853
and an old brass candle stick,
that came across then.
The first and second grades
have collected pictures and
are learning songs of Oregon
in olden times and the Ore
gon song.
Fourth, fifth and sixth
grades have collected pictures
of Oregon and of pioneers
then and now. The seventh
grade has a bulletin board of
Oregon; the lunch room has a
large display of valentines
made by the seventh grade.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
By the time two-thirds of the
egg rises above the damp
earth, the leathery skin breaks
open and a grotesque series of
twisted branches or fingers
slowly unroll and writhe, like
a creature in agony.
These "fingers"' look like a
badly crippled hand. Bright
red in color, the outer surface
is pebbled with tiny holes that
look like magnified pores in
unhealthy skin.
Should you be foolish
enough to get close to this
plant you would detect a pu
trid odor, like decayed flesh,
rising from it the reason,
of course, why this fungus is
called "stinkhorn." Within a
few hours the bent and twist
ed "arms" begin to collapse.
At the same time a black, mu
cus material begins forming
on the lower sections of the
plant. It is this substance that
superstition associates with
the charm the plant has for
venomous snakes.
By the end of 24 hours the
eerie arms have shriveled and
collapsed into -a mass of de
caying vegetation. The brief
life of this plant has ended
But clustred around this dy
ing one, on the damp, mouldy
ground in ugly bumps and hid
eous distortions, other "eggs"
are opening. Other soft, clam
my "arms" are resting them
selves, ready to spring into
the warm, damp air.
The race of the plant ogres
know as "stinkhorn" are pur
suing their evil ways; com
pleting their weird and ghoul
ish existence. No wonder
strange tales are told about
this repulsive character with
the cold, clammy skin that
hatches from an "egg" in dark
and gruesome places.
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1959)
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Slaying of
In 1900 Continues as
By JAMES R. RENNEISEN
Frankfort, Ky.-flJPD-A rifle
cracked. The frock-coated fig
ure staggered and fell. Four
days later, after being sworn
in as governor of Kentucky,
William Goebel died of a bul
let that had pierced his body.
Who fired the fatal shot?
Though these events took
place 59 years ago, the iden
tity of the assassin is still
cloaked in mystery and doubt.
On Jan. 30, 1900, Goebel
was walking to the Statehouse
to attend a joint session of the
Legislature which he confi
dently expected would upset
the results of the 1899 elec
tion and declare him gover
nor. Election Contested
Three months before, Re
publican William S. Taylor
had defeated Goebel by 2,383
votes in a bitterly-disputed
gubernatorial election. Goebel
charged fraud and contested
the election in the Democratic
controlled legislature.
An army of mountaineers
flowed into Frankfort from
eastern Kentucky when it
seemed certain that Taylor
would be unseated. For more
than a week, groups of gaunt,
rifle-toting mountain men
roamed the capital's streets
muttering threats at Demo
cratic legislators.
Secretary Arrested
Then came the fatal shot.
Virtual anarchy followed as
Goebel died after lingering
four days in a room of the
Capitol Hotel.
Secretary of State Caleb
Powers, from whose office the
shot was fired, was arrested
by state troopers on a train
bound for Louisville. The Leg
islature, barred from the
Statehouse by troops, met at
the hotel and named Goebel
governor. On May 21, the Su
preme Court upheld the ac
tion, and Governor Taylor
fled to Indiana to escape
prosecution for conspiracy.
Three men were tried and
convicted, but all were par-
Mother Saves Young
Girl From Flames
Pittsburgh- (UPD -A 12-year-
old girl, turned into a human
torch Tuesday when her
clothes caught fire, was saved
from death by her crippled
mother who smothered the
flames with a blanket.
Marilyn McElroy had stayed
home from school because she
had a cold. The girl was dress
ing to go see a doctor when
she apparently got too close
to an open gas fire which ig
nited her clothes.
Marilyn was listed in ser
ious condition at Allegheny
General hospital with second
and third degree burns over
30 per cent of her body.
Mrs. McElroy, who has
been a wheel chair victim
since contracting polio 11
years ago, said her daughter
ran down the steps in panic,
her clothes afire, following
the accident. The mother
smothered the flames and
called a neighbor who con
tacted police.
Marilyn's father is a guard
at Western Penitentiary.
clock, George
Sf
Kentucky
doned by subsequent gover
nors.
Powers was sentenced to
hang at one of his four trials
for conspiracy, but after his
pardon he served four terms
in the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives from a Republican
district in eastern Kentucky.
Henry Youtsey, a State-
house clerk, and Jim Howard,
a mountain feudist, were both
convicted of the shooting.
Both denied firing the shot,
although Youtsey testified he
pointed Goebel out to Howard
and handed him a rifle.
'Confession Heard'
In recent years, an elderly
mountain woman has claimed
she heard a man named Tur
ner Igo confess the shooting
at a family reunion in 1903.
Igo was also accused in a
deposition made by Taylor's
secretary shortly after the
shooting.
Dr. Bennett H. Wall, a Uni
versity of Kentucky historian,
recently uncovered another
story told by an elderly moun
tain lawyer. He claimed a
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