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MUSICAL ROME.
NEW YORK (AP) Ancient
Rome is getting musical and dra
matic attention in two scheduled
productions.
' Casting is on for Upton " Sin
clair's "Cicero," a play anent the
declining days of the Empire. The
nlnnned musical is "Un-Roman
Activities." I
MYSTERY ANCHOR
STURGEON BAY, Wis. AP
Skindivers have recovered a 1,300
pound anchor found embedded in
the sand of Lake Michigan off
Baileys Harbor.
The anchor bore the name H.
Duncan Poole. Salvagers have
been unable to find any record of
a ship with that name.
: FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR, now by coincidence working for the California De
partment of Fish and Game in Mount Shasta, are, from left, Vernon Strotchein,
Chester O, Chase and John L. Andrews, Photo by J. O. McKinney.
Former Prisoners Can 't Forget
Years They Spent In Manchuria
' Three men who are employed
by California Fish and Game De
partment and are stationed at
Mount Shasta Fish Hatchery
have something n common aside
from their vocations. All were
.Japanese prisoners of war for
more than three ycars.:
' That they are at the same loca
tion is a coincidence.
The men are Vernon Stroschein,
Chester 0. Chase, and John L.
Andrews. They go about their du
ties showing no effects of their
experiences But all say they
want lo see no more wars during
their lifetime and would bar it
forever if they had that power.
While all came to their present
locations alone, Stroschein and
Chase knew each other in the
with the fall of Corregidor May
5, 1942. They were each held in
Mukden in Manchuria.
Andrews, with tlie medical de
partment in the Army, was cap
tuied at Bataan April 19, 1949.
He was held mostly in Japan
proper, along with Canadians.
English, other allies.
Stamps In The News
By SYO KRONISH
AP Newsfeatures
Santa Lucia, one of the four
Windward Islands in the Carib
bean Sea, has commemorated the
100th anniversary of its first pos
tage stamp with a set of three.
The design on each includes the
Royal Cypher with the St. Ed
ward's Crown and features the
stamps of the first issue as fol
lows: 5 cents original rose red
in a blue border, 16 cents orig
inal 4 pence deep blue in a green
border, 25 cents original 6 pence
deep green in a red border.
St. Lucia has a delightful his
tory." Although little information
of its early days is available, it
is believed that the island was
discovered by Columbus. The first
recorded settlement attempt took
place in J605. The British and
French fought for it several times
until St. Lucia was finally ceded
lo Britain by the Treaty of Par
is in 1814.
Minkus Publications has added
four new albums to its "World
Series" set. They are for Turkey,
Poland, Europa and the New In
dependent Nations of Africa. The
Turkey, Poland and Africa
editions come in 2-post albums
Research
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place, Sandine will know that new
procedures must be worked out
to protect bacterial cultures from
virus infections. He also hopes to
use the transduction process to
develop ne.v bacterial cultures
that will be more stable during
fermentation.
As part of the research proj
ect. Sandine will also1 study the
characteristics used to identify a
number of species of lactic acid
bacteria, and try to develop a
more .satisfactory classification
system. Will Brown and Lois Ken
dron, OSC department -of- bac
leriotogy research follows, will as
sist him in the project.
The only national memorial in
Missouri is a bust of George Wash
ington Carver, west of Diamond,
where he was born of slave parents.
Thair ni-icnn wan th ' i,l
iwv, iney w?e KM --P.'stockade surrounded by a high
board fence, topped with barbed
wire charged with , electricity
Staying there was bad. Trying to
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album
Of interest to many collectors
is the Africa book which contains
the 19 new independent nations
including such countries as the
Congo, Gabon, Nigeria and So
maiia' and sells for $4.85.
The new album entitled "Eur
opa covers NATO member courf
tries, Ireland and the Saar.
Japan will change all of its cur
rent regular stamp issues in 1961.
i he lust change will appear
about April 1. It will be a 10 yen
depicting cherry trees and will
replace the present Kwannon 10
yen stamp. Also to bey issued in
1961 by Japan will be a series of
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The
Japanese flower stamps
first will be the narcissus. -
Pakistan has ' issued a new-
stamp to commemorate the cen
tenary of the King Edward Med
ical College at Lahore. The 2
anna black, blue and yellow and
the 14 anna black, carmine and
green, bear the same design
the College insignia, the - dates
'1860-1960" and word Pakistan in
Urdu and Bengali. This college is
the oldest medical institution in
Pakistan and is honored because
of its important role in the sphere
of medical education in this suW
continent.
Brazil has honored its interna'
tionnlly famous tennis queen Ma
rin Ester Bucno by issuing a spe
cial commemorative stamp de
picting Miss Bucno on the tennis
court. The 6 cruizeros is brown.
Miss Bucno. in addition to many
women's court titles also holds
the Wimbledon crown.
It couldn't have been much
worse. Of the prisoners captured
during the early days of the war.
only about 20 per cent survived.
That these men .did, speaks for
their ruggedness.
Stroschein and Chase in Man
churia were allowed some leisure
from labor in a tannery. Baseball
games were staged when teams
could be formed by men physi
cally able to run bases.
But for the most part, seden
tary habits were the, rule. Many
prisoners studied the Chinese lan
guage from the many Chinese
people there. Some learned both
to speak and write the difficult
tongue.
All throe men said that it u.s
easy to follow the course of the
war by the treatment accorded
When Japanese forces were vic
torious, the prisoners were given
some consideration. When the tide
turned, brutality was the rule.
Even Red Cross supplies were
taken away.
Liberation by commandos, and
transportation away from the the
ater of war marked the end of
their captivity. Chase became a
commissioned officer after the
wars end. The other two men
soon were civilians.
Now all three are carving out a
very respectable civilian life. All
are skilled fish culturists. All are
active in lines other than their
work. Stroschein is on the board
of directors of a fraternal group,
the Scottish Rite Masons.
Chase, the retired naval officer
has a daughter, ' a talented girl
and a student in high school, ac
tive in the social and school life
of the town. '
Andrews spends his snare time
sculpturing. With a hammer, a
wood chisel, and a bit of cedar
wood, stately figures emerge with
lew sKitllut passes with his
liands and tools.
NOT OVLY CHILDREN'
Leukemia, one of the foremost
disease killers of children be
tween the nges of 1 and 15.
actually kill five times more
adults than children.
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