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MONDAY. JUNE 27, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Plane Crash in Brazil Claims 51 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-dPll-A Brazilian airliner crashed into Rio's Guanabara bay in bad weather Friday night, killing the 51 persons on board In an accident that re called the crash of a U. S. Navy plane In the same area during President Eisenhower's visit earlier this year. Search parties found bits of the wreckage and bodies of the victims near Jurubabia Island Saturday morning. Ef forts were under way to re trieve the remains of the vic tims and the aircraft. The plane was an American built, twin-engined Convair operated by Real Aerovias, part of Brazil's largest domes tic airline system. A spokesman for Real Aero vias said the plane was on a 600-mile flight from the new capital of Brasilia to Rio with a stopover at Bclo Horizonte, a mining city about midway between, and had 4b pas sengers and five crew mem bers aboard when it crashed The plane, piloted by Maj Joa A. Fabricio Belloc, ran into heavy fog and rain as it neared Rio. Unable to land at Santos Dumont airport on the bay in downtown Rio, it circled overhead for some time and then disappeared. fcrjCV h fit u t -. y f f Sa - - t People 120 Years Old Said To Be Commonplace in Himalayas THE OLD LOOK YOUNG Men 120 vears old and women of 80 looking vounger than American women of 40 are commonplace in Hunza, a tiny kingdom high in the Him alayas, forgotten by time and history. The strange land was rediscovered by Dr. Allen E. Banik, a Kenrnry, Nco., optometrist, who made his journey to Hunza last year. He is shown above with some Hunzakuts eating Chappalis. made from whole wheat and deep fried in apricot seed oil. tUPl Telephoto) New Air Base Commander Named Portland - (UPD - Col. Don ald H. Lynch has been ap pointed as the new command er of the Air Force's 337th Fighter Group at the Portland air base. Col. Lynch replaces Col. Younger A. Pitts Jr., who next month will leave for Oslo, Norway and a North American Treaty Organiza tion (NATO) assignment. NAMED TO GROUP ' Salem-IUPD-Cecil P. Watt, Brookings, has been named by Gov. Mark Hatfield to the state soil conservation com mittee. He succeeds Glen W. Johnston of Tillamook, whose term expired. Economic, Social Bei&ersiient Work Said U.Ns LifebSood United Nations, N.Y. -d'Pll-Conflict makes headlines for the United Nations. Its less publicized work for the eco nomic and social betterment of mankind is its life-blood. In the ornate, modern U.N. headquarters, the Economic and Social Council chamber is designed with the motif of a factory or workshop. This is because ECOSOC is the one organ of the United Nations which deals with the problem of daily bread and butter for the world, many of whose millions subsist on near-starvation diets. One of ECOSOC's many problems is the U.N. technical assistance program - a global projection, with 82 countries having a voice in it, of the U.S. Point Four Program ini tiated by President Harry Truman. But the United States spends more on its uni lateral aid program than the entire United Nations is able to raise for its global project. The argument often is ad vanced - and Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold is one of its chief protagonists - that the underdeveloped countries prefer the U.N. technical assistance program to aid from the United States, Russia or any other country because they need not fear political strings in the world organization's program. The latest U.N. project is a special fund, administered by former Marshall Plan admin istrator Paul G. Hoffman, to provide S100 million for long term major development proj ects in backward countries. The initial fund-raising goal has not been reached. Associated with, although technically not an integral part of the United Nations are a dozen specialized agencies. In order of their length of New York - (UPD - Men 120 years old and women of 80 looking younger than Ameri can women of 40 are com monplace in Hunza, a tiny kingdom high in the Himalaya mountains forgotten by time and history. The strange land's redis coverer is Dr. Allen E. Banik, a Kearney, Neb., optometrist. His accomplishment should at least net a consolation prize in mankinds Fountain of Youth sweepstakes. Banik, a man who accepts the disciplines and methods of scientific inquiry, makes no claim to having uncorked the magic elixir Ponce de Leon unsuccessfully sought in Flor ida some four centuries ago. Instead, he tells of a re markable mountain people who seem to have solved the way of living, eating, thin ning and exercising that has substantially lengthened their life spans. It is no wonder, then, that the land and its people, the Hunzukuts, served as the in spiration for James Hilton's widely read novel, "Lost Hor izon," which told of a lost, Himalayan paradise where men and women of moderate actions and philosophy lived to be as old as the biblical big man in the line-up And a big man in your house . . . not too very far away from college, either. Make sure you'll be able to help him develop all his talents. Plan lifetime insurance protection for him and all your family, and create a substantial savings fund at the same time, with BMA's 30-Pay life insurance plan. You will have $10,000 (or more) life insurance. After 30 years protection, your policy is fully paid and, at most ages, the paid-up cash value exceeds your total deposits. This flexible BMA plan can fill your needs. Ask your BMA rep resentative about it today. 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Educational Scientific and C u 1 1 u ral Organization (UNESCO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). the Inter national Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Bank), the In ternational Monetary Fund (Fund), the Universal Postal Union (UPU). the World Health Organization (WHO), Hie International Telecom munication Union (ITU), the World Meteorological Organi zation (WMO), the Interna tional Finance Corporation (IFC) and the International Maritime Consultative Or ganization (1MCO). In addition there are the U.N. Children's Fund (UN ICEF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Best Known Probably the best known of these is UN ICEF, whose ma jor project is providing child and maternity care through out the world. It is for UNICEF that Amer ican school children "trick-or-trcat" on Halloween for pen nies to help children else where. But UNICEF -works hand - in - glove with other agencies on health and wel fare problems. There is a close association between UNICEF and WHO. WHO now is engaged in a campaign to eradicate malaria throughout the world in this decade. It made history in 1!)4H when it quarantined an entire country - Egypt - and stamped out a cholera out break. Its co-ordination of public health programs and research is an unsensational work that fills a gap never faced up to before. Can Produce Enough FAO deals with improve ment of the world's food sup ply. Its experts do not fear t h e "population explosion" dealt with in this year's head lines. FAO holds that the world can produce more than enough food, whatever its population. A striking ex ample of its work is the intro duction of fish-farming, prov ing in many areas that an acre of water can produce more protein value than an acre of land used for grazing. ILO is concerned with rais ing labor's lot throughout the world. ICAO co-ordinates civilian flying on uniform standards everywhere. UPU undertakes to administer the delivery of mail any place, re- K.jrrlli.t... r.f nnliti....! ...I..,: ships between governments. WMO is aiding navigation, and its weather ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are not only weather, but safety aids as well. The financial agencies - the Bank, the Fund and IFC -have largely self-explanatory roles. They lend money for development and budget-balancing, at easier terms than the friendly, smiling loan man in the second-floor downtown office. UNESCO may be the most publicized, and some authori ties feel the most maligned, of all the U.N. agencies. Its field ;s mainly education. It has found itself under almost con tinuous attack on the charge of advocating world govern ment nnd a surrender of na tional sovereignty. Its sup porters contend its program is aimed at advancing peace and the ability of mankind to live pearelully together. Methuselah "Men there die young at 90," said Banik. "There are considerable numbers of people of 120 in Hunza, and sime I met said they were 140. Some are said to have lived to be 250 years old." The secret of this phenom enal longivity? Probably diet, said Banik. "They eat much the same foods that we do-fruits, grains, nuts, vegetables, milk products and once a month meat," he said. "But they pre. pare and eat their foods dif ferently. "We cannot match the Hun zukut diet in our civilization with its depicted soils, pro cessed foods robbed of life giving elements, and cooking methods and effectively de stroy a substantial percent age of the vitamins and trace elements that are essential to sound bodies." In his book, "Hunza Land." written with Rcnee Taylor about his visit last year to the remote health bastion, Banik offered the following eating suggestions gained from his ''Hunza lesson:" -Buy organically grown vegetables and fruit either di rectly from a grower or a grocer who purchases his pro duce daily from a nearby grower. - Buy fresh produce only in such quantity as can be con sumed sunn. There is value to freshness. -Always select choice look ing vegetables and fruit. It is false economy to buy less than the best. -Never skin or peel vege tables: Hie skin contains the larger number of nutrients. - Steam or cook vegetables in as small a quantity of water as possible and do not over cook. Use the juices and the water. -Eat liberal portions of sal ads and raw root vegetables twice daily. -Include anomim hm hm -Include animal organs Ui.iui, Kinney, liver, eic.l 11 meat is used. Insist upon whole-meal bread, stone ground if pro curable. Oddly enough the Hunzu kuts do not completely ab stain from spirits and tobac co. "Some 20 per cent of these people smoke." Benik said, "and they live all winter long in rooms densely filled with smoke from their fires. "Their Hunza-pani is a potent wine. They drink it by the bottle seemingly with out becoming intoxicated. I had two glasses and would have to admit to being drunk." Banik made his journey over dizzy mountain trails to Hunza last year with money for the expedition comim; from Art Linkletter's "Peoplo Are Funny" television program. ESS laikiMfc SHORT ROUTE EA via Crater Lake Leaves Medford at 9:45 a.m. Daily See Crater lake at no extra (are! Lowest bus fares to many pointsl Save up to a day on Air Ride Trail ways Thru Buses to: BOISE, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, DENVER, DALLAS. 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