oiise Democrats Seek Support for RQedicaD Care Program
Washington (UPD Liberal
House Democrats sought sup
port today for a compromise
program of medical care for
the aged after the administra
tion came out against a broad
er labor-backed plan.
The liberals aimed at gain
ing enough votes in the House
ways and means committee to
tie some version of the medi
cal aid plan to an administra
tion measure which would
provide new or increased So
cial Security benefits for
1,175,000 persons.
Welfare Secretary Arthur
S. Flemming told the commit
tee Wednesday the adminis
tration opposed a labor-supported
proposal to expand So
cial Security benefits to in
clude medical care. He said
the administration had no
counter proposal at present
but was "exploring" an alternative.
Some Democrats believed
chances were good that Con
gress might pass a medical
care program despite the ad
ministration stand.
Kitzhaber Defends
School Report in
Face of Criticism
Portland - (UPD - Dr. Albert
Kitzhaber today defended his
report on Portland schools in
the face of criticism by three
officials of the State Educa
tion department.
The criticism was leveled
Wednesday by B. L. Simmons,
director of curriculum and
publications; John Conway,
director of secondary educa
tion, and Willard Bear, assis
tant superintendent.
Recent Experience Lacking
They said the $592,000 Ford
' Foundation - financed report
was prepared by college teach
ers and that none as far as
they knew had recent train
ing or teaching experience at
the secondary level.
Kitzhaber declared the of
ficials had "picked on a few
-peripheral matters and wound
up with praise for the bulk
of the report."
' He said some of the criti
cism centered on a split among
school leaders about goals of
education. Some, he said, seek
to '"teach life adjustment" and
others believe the first goal
of schooling is to "liquidate
human ignorance."
The report sought to exam
ine courses which would pre
pare students for college
study.
The three officials made
their report to the state board
of education.
They said the Kitzhaber re
port was "replete with recom
mendations that do not seem
consistent with the philosophy
and objectives suggested for
Oregon schools."
Frowns on Separation
Dr. Kitzhaber said 2o per
cent of the consultants for
the report had taught in high
schools.
The criticism took issue
with proposed separation of
college - bound students from
those not planning to continue
their education at the college
level. Kitzhaber replied that
consultants believed the stu
dents should not be separated.
He said the idea was to han
dle the students by subjects.
"If the student is unusually
capable in math and only
average in English, he will be
put in a fast math class and
an ordinary English class," he
said.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
ONE OF THOSE fast-talking insurance salesmen called up
a wealthy prospect and gave his spiel for 10 minutes
traight probably the first time he ever had gotten that far
. uninterrupted. Suddenly,
however, there came
from the other end of the
; phone a series of blood-
-curdling shrieks and
hisses -followed by a
r butler's apologetic voice.
- "Begging your pardon,
! sir," said the butler, "but
.- very time I'm not look-
ing, the chimpanzee an- i
- swers the phone"
A company of big gama j
' hunters had had a hard day
in the African jungle, and :' j
all but one, nicknamed
' "Tireless" by his companions, was content to relax in camp with
a gin and tonic. Not "Tireless," however. He decided that a good
'- walk before dinner was in order.
' Six hours after dinner, everybody was rolling out the sleeping
bags when the group noted that "Tireless" hadn't returned.
"Hm-m-m," mused one of the more tender-hearted hunters, "I
. wonder what's eating him now?"
1960. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Featurei Syndicate
These Democrats thought presidential campaign and
Vice President Richard M. that the "Democratic Congress
Nixon would endorse federal should take the initiative be-
aid to help the elderly pay cause of the issue's voter ap-
their medical bills , in his peal.-
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Blue Chips Pace
Sharp Stock Rally
In Early Trading
Offer congressional news:
Gas: House investigators
hinted they might summon a
member of former President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
"brain trust" to testify on behind-the-scenes
contacts with
federal power commission
members in a gas rate case.
Sources said a House subcom
mittee has several investiga
tors checking the role of lob
byist lawyer Thomas G. Cor
coran in an FPC decision last
Oct. 31 involving rates for
gas to be piped from Canada
by the Midwestern Gas Trans
mission Co.
Farm: Organized labor ap
peared strongly behind a
Democratic-backed farm bill
based on marketing controls.
The AFL-CIO told the House
agriculture committee in a
statement that it was "enthu
siastic" about the bill spon
sored' by about 21 House
Democrats. The bill would al
low farm commodity commit
tees to draft new stabilization
programs for surplus crops.
New York -(UPD- The stock
market rallied sharply in the
early trading today paced
by blue chip industrials and
leading electronic, steel and
metal shares.
American Motors reported
that Rambler sales rose sharp
ly in mid-March and the
stock gained nearly a point.
Ford added a half on expec
tations of record truck pro
duction in the first quarter.
Chrysler added more than a
point and General Motors a
small fraction.
Electric Storage Battery
fell 2 points in the initial
trading after a run-up of more
than 8 Wednesday. The com
pany said there was nothing
to account for the stock's
strength in the previous session.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York-TCPD-Dow-Jones
final slock averages: 30 in-,
duslrials 622.06, up 3.S7; 20
railroads 145.34, up 0.79: 15
utilities 88.33, up 0.57, and
65 slocks 205.77, up 1.28.
Sales Wednesday were
about 3.020,000 shares com
pared with 2,490,000 shares
Tuesday.
Wednesday's prices on selected
stocks:
Allied Chemical
Alum Co. Am.
American Can
Texas Gulf Sulfur .. 16
Texas Pac Land Trust 173
Transamerica M 27
Trans World Air 14?
Tri-Continental 35
Union Carbide 134
Union Pacific 28
United Aircraft 36 9
U. S. Hubber , 53 T
United Air Lines 27 ,
U. S. Steel 83',
Youngstown S & T 116
51
91
40 V
23,i
88 'i
American Motors
AT&T
Anaconda Copper 52 V
Armco Steel 62 3,i
Bendix Aviation 67 3
Bethlehem Steel 463,i
Boeing Air 25 ,i
Caterpillar Corp. 29 3.
Chrysler Corp. 52 4
Continental Can 423i
Crown Zellerbacn 44
Curtiss Wright 21
Dow Chemical 90Ys
Du Pont 226 "4
Firestone , Z0sa
General Electric 90 Vi
General Foods 101 Vi
General Motors 451s
Georgia Pacific 48
Graham Paige 21, 4
Greyhound . 2 Hi
Gulf Oil 311s
Homestake Mining . . 44
Idaho Power 47 Vi
Int. Paper 114
Johns Manville 52 Vi
Katy 5
Kennecott Copper 78
Lockheed Aircraft 25
Montana Power 24 V2
Montgomery Ward . 46
TTat'I Biscuit 50
New York Central 23
Pac Gas & Elec 64 Vi
Penney's. J. C. 115
Penn RR 137i
Radio Corporation 68
Richfield Oil 73
Safeway 38
Sears 50
Shell Oil 37 Vi
Socony Mobil Oil 38
Southern Co . 42 Vi
Southern Pacific 20 Vi
Standard California 44 Vi
Standard Indiana 41 Vi
Standard N. J. 45 Vi
Sun Mines 6
Texas Co. 77
Surgery Snips
Spring in Ear
Miami, Fla. (Science Serv
ice) Persons, with bat wing
like or cupped ears can now
have beautiful and normal
ears by undergoing a simple
surgical procedure that snips
the "springs" in the ear shell,
a reconstruction surgeon re
ported here today.
The "springs" are actually
sections of cartilage in the
ear's shell. There are four
such distinct springs, Dr. Louis
Joel Feit reported at a meet
ing of the American Otorhinc
logic Society for Plastic Surg
ery here.
He said his studies of the
physiology and mechanical ac
tion of the ear have shown
that there are three springs
with "leaflet" action like the
leaf spring in an automobile,
all in the outer shell, and with
a torque action ike a coiled
wire, directed into the ear.
Two of the leaflet springs run
up and down the ear, the oth
er runs horizontally.
The surgeon's method is to
break one or more of these
springs surgically, depending
upon the deformity. He em
phasized that the result is not
only an ear in the .correct po
sition but a beautiful ear with
all the natural "landmarks"
or folds. In the past, ears were
merely pinned back surgical
ly, so they would not be seen.
Police Waiting to
Quest ionTrucker
In Triple Slayings
Sprague Carter
Taken To Hospital
Portland (UPD - Sprague
Carter, Oregon selective serv
ice director, was in Provi
dence hospital today for treat
ment of a cardiac condition
diagnosed in a routine physi
cal examination.
The Island of Angelsey,
known for its base metal de
posits, is 21 miles long and
19 miles wide, near the coast
of Wales.
Starved Rock State Park,
IU.-(UPD-Police waited today
for an Iowa truck driver to
awaken from a nine -day
drugged sleep so they can
question him about the sex
murders of three women in
this park.
The trucker was found in
a stupor in a Rock Falls, 111.,
hospital the day after three
Chicago-area society matrons
were trapped, beaten, to death
and raped 50 miles away in
a scenic dead-end canyon here.
Slill Asleep
Authorities said the 39-year-old
man, a psychotic, in
duced the conma by swallow
ing a packet of barbiturates.
He has not awakened through
his transfer from the hotel to
Device Locks
Stove Controls
Washington -(Science Service)-
A newly invented safety
device for kitchen stoves
locks the operating controls
so that little children cannot
turn them on.
The safety system earned
patent No. 2,926,656 for Pres
ley E. Hale of Ypsilanti,
Mich., and works like this:
A light beam from a lamp
mounted on the wall opposite
the range shines on a photo
electric element located on
the rear top surface of the
range. The light beam im
pinging on this element causes
a photoelectric relay to open
its contacts. Several solenoids
are thus deenergized causing
coiled springs to lock the
valve-operating rods of the
stove against operation by a
child.'
If the light beam is inter
rupted, however, the photo
sensitive element receives no
light and the relay contacts
close. This energizes the sole
noids, . resulting in release of
the valve-operating rods.
The light beam from the
opposite " wall is inclined at
such at high angle that only
the upper part of the body of
an adult can intercept it. A
child, even when standing di
rectly in front of the stove,
will not be tall eiough to in
tercept the beam.
a Sterling, 111., hospital, then
to the Veteran's Admistration
hospital at Iowa City, Iowa.
State police chief William
Morris said the trucker re
sembled the description of a
man seen with Mrs. Frances
Murphy, 47, Mrs. Lillian Oet
ting, 50, and Mrs. Mable
Lindquist, 50, shortly before
they were murdered and left
lying side by side in a cave
in a St. Louis Canyon.
Iowa City psychiatrists
placed the man in a maximum
security mental ward and re
fused Morris' request that Il
linois state police be allowed
to question him immediately.
Description Fits
Morris said the truck driver
was about 5 feet 8 inches tall,
weighed 150 to 160 pounds
and had blond hair. -
The description also fit that
of a husky, blond young peep
ing torn reported in nearby
Utica, 111.
The drugged trucker was
the only fresh lead in a day
that saw the murder probe
slow to a crawl. Several prom
ising former leads were writ
ten off as bum steers.
Weather Research
Claimed Ignored
New York-(Science Service)
-The U.S. is ignoring weather
research because of "apathy,"
asserts Adm. Luis de Florez,
a former assistant chief of Na
val Research. He said he
thinks weather research is of
greater immediate importance
than landing a man on the
moon.
In a speech prepared for the
Institute of Radio Engineers
meeting here, Adm. de Florez
said that "practically no ef
fort is being made to deter
mine whether storms can be
diverted or dissipated . or
whether the energy developed
in such atmospheric disturb
ances can be used as a weapon
for us or against us."
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