MONDAY. JUNE 27, 1960
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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.
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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
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association with the world or
ganization they are tile Inter- I
national Labor Organization
(ILO), the Food and Agricul
ture Organization (FAC), the
U. N. 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-
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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
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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.
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