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ALASKAN WINTER . . .
a real Alaskan winter, the kind of winter most
world thinks Alaska has every year, with snow and more
snow and some ice added for good measure from time to time.
We don t know yet, because the winter is not over, just what
the snow removal expense will be to the city, but we do know
that every effort has been made to keep the streets passable every
day this winter. City officials and the State Highway Department
deserve a vote of thanks for their efforts from not only the drivers
of vehicles but the pedestrians as well. They’ve done a good job
over and over again.
Joseph Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Gives $1.1 Million to Stanford
University School of Medicine
BOSTON UP) — The Joseph P.
Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation
lias made a $1.1 million gift to
the Stanford University School of
Medicine for research in mental
retardation.
Announcement of the gift was
made Friday by Mr. and Mrs.
Sargent Shriver, who jointly ad
minister the foundation’s activi
ties. Mrs. Shriver is a sister of
President Kennedy. Shriver is
director of the Peace Corps.
The foundation was established
16 years ago by the President’s
father, former Ambassador Joseph
P. Kennedy, as a memorial to his
son killed in World War II.
The foundation said one million
dollars would be used to build a
new research center for studies
related to mental retardation. It
said the additional $100,000 would
be used over a four-year period
to stimulate new research projects
in the field.
Dr. Joshua (Lederberg, 1958
Nobel prize winner will coordi
nate the research and educational
facilities of the laboratories. They
will be known as the Lt. Joseph
P. Kennedy Jr. (Laboratories for
Molecular Medicine.
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"No Pictures, Please" . . .
PALM BEACH, Fla. UP) —
Caroline Kennedy had definite
instructions for a photographer
here, but he cheerfully ignored
them.
“No pictures,” said President
Kennedy’s 4-year-old daughter as
she and her father settled into the
back seat of a car after landing
here Friday. The photographer
smiled and snapped away.
But Caroline had the last word.
Before the car left to take her
and her brother, John, 1, for a
visit to the home of their grand
father, Joseph P. Kennedy, she
repeated, “no pictures.”
Icebreaker Easiwind Heads
Home From the Antarctic
BOSTON UP) — The Coast Guard
reported Saturday that the ice
breaker Eastwind has started
home after witnessing successful
tests of a new nuclear power plant
at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
She will call at Port iLyttleton,
New Zealand. By the time she re
turns she will have cruised near
ly 40,000 miles.
Eastwind left Boston last Sep
tember 19. She is tentatively due
back in mid-April.
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KENNEDY SAYS
U.S. Has Ability
To Face World
In Space Effort
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Uf) — Pres
ident Kennedy said Saturday
! night the orbital flight of astro
naut John H. Glenn Jr. proves
the United States has the ability
to pace the world in this new area
of progress.
Speaking in the heartland of
the U.S. space effort, Kennedy
said humanity is on the brink of
an age of undreamed discovery.
“An age,” he added, “which
may well dwarf the explorations
of Columbus, Magellan and Sir
Francis Drake.
“It will be an age in which
many of the predictions of imagin
ative fiction will be coming true.”
The chief executive, in re
marks prepared for a $100-a
plate Democratic fund-raising din
ner, keyed to the Florida setting
his praise for what space scien
tists already have achieved and
his claims for the future.
Only last month, Kennedy said,
world attention focused on the
coast on Cape Canaveral, where
Glenn was launched on his mo
mentous triple orbit of the globe.
More dramatic moments—set
backs as well—face the country
in the years ahead, Kennedy said.
“But the flight of John *Glenn
and the Friendship 7 make clear
that we have both the will and
the capacity to lead the world in
this vast new dimension of space ”
jvenneay saia.
Sponsors of the dinner reported
the sale of 3,000 or more tickets,
meaning a $300,000 gross before
expenses. Proceeds will go to the
national, state and local party
committees.
The affair served as a testi
monial and campaign kickoff for!
Sen. George Smathers, who is
seeking his third term. He and
Kennedy are old friends.
Jackie Hailed by Italians
As ''America’s Queen”
ROME MP> — Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy, hailed by Italians as
“America’s Queen,” arrived Sat
urday enroute to India and Pak
istan and immediately paid a
courtesy call on President Gio
vanni Gronchi.
Mrs. Kennedy was received by
Gronchi and his wife and spent
25 minutes with them.
The jet airliner that brought
the President’s wife from New
York touched down at Rome’s
airport about an hour late due to
headwinds.
Mrs. Kennedy was loudly ap
plauded by a crowd of about 1,000
who watched her leave the plane.
FALSE ALARM . . .
MIAMI, Fla. — Bill Tanner
raced to telephone police when he
saw a man tuck a body into an
auto trunk, then get into the car
and drive away.
i Police flagged the car down.
Sure enough, the trunk contained
a body — a live one. A garage
mechanic was listening for an
elusive squeak while his co-work
er drove around the block.
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X-RAYS AND YOU-2
New Diagnostic Method Combats
Heart Disease
Every step forward in the fight
against heart disease offers addi
tional hope to thousands of
Americans. Heart disease, and spe
cifically the dreaded heart attack,
is a major killer among our most
productive people during their
most productive time of life.
Such a step forward was re
ported recently by Dr. John A.
Evans, of the New York-Cornell
Medical Center, a leading radiol
ogist and specialist in the uses of
x-ray. The new technique Dr.
Evans discussed involves x-ray vis
ualization inside the heart itself
and of the vessels around the
heart. This visualization or view
of the heart provides crucially
important information to the doc
tor—information that can be used
to forewarn of an attack or infor
mation that can be used for pos
sible surgical repair.
"This technique has been
proved now clinically feasible,’'
Dr. Evans reported. This means it
will be used more and more
among patients who have, or are
suspected of having, heart disease.
By way of explanation, the ra
diologist pointed out that the cor
onary arteries are the canals
which carry blood from the heart.
These canals can become hard
ened or grow narrower, diminish
ing the heart’s ability to pump
blood through the arteries. Or an
actual clot can occur in the canals
which, when the blood supply is
cut off, means a heart attack and
possible death.
This is the second in a series
of reports on recent advances
in the diagnostic and thera
peutic use of medical x-rays.
Today's report discusses a
new technique for diagnos
ing heart ailments. Subse
quent articles will deal with
advances in cancer treatment
and the use of television
techniques in fluoroscopic
examination. g
The new method used to visu
alize the heart involves the use
of a hollow tube, called a cathe
ter, inserted through the blood
vessels into one side of the heart.
Opaque liquid is injected into the
tube. This liquid is dense enough
to "stop” an x-ray beam so that
when x-ray films are taken, the
vessels and structures of the heart
filled with the fluid are outlined
on film. The radiologist interprets
these films and reports the vitally
important information to sur
geons who can begin surgical
correction.
Dr. £vans and his surgical col
leagues believe this new advance
indicates that we may be able to
eventually control heart attacks.
NORTHERN LIGHTS TO
BE SHOWN AT C-21
Thanks to research at the Uni
versity of Alaska, the State of
Alaska exhibit at the Seattle
World’s Fair will include a dra
matic animated presentation of
the Arctic phenomena, the aurora
borealis.
Gov. Wm. Egan said the north
ern lights display, now a part oi
the well-known Griffith Park Ob
servatory presentation in Los
Angeles, has been made available
to the State through the courtesj
of Los Angeles Mayor Samuel W
Yorty and the California City’s
Board of Recreation and Parks.
In making the display avail
able to Alaska, Mayor Yorty de
scribed the action as an expression
of appreciation to the University
of Alaska whose research into the
aurora borealis made possible the
engineering of the special projec
tion cameras used to giVe realism
to the presentation in the ever
changing shape, color and inten
sity of the lighting effects.
The aurora display, together
with the Big Dipper and North
Star found on Alaska’s flag, will
be an integral part of the narra
tion, centered about a map oi
Alaska on which pertinent por
tions will be illuminated as dis
cussed, will be a continuing
feature of the exhibit.
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Through With Rose Cake
Decorations for a While
SEATTLE UP> — Roger Brager,
of Palmer, Alaska, is through
■with roses (cake decorations) for
a while.
Brager graduated from the Edi
son Technical School Friday. He
has been making the 1,000 separate
rose icing decorations which will
be placed atop the 25,000-pound
Paul Bunyan cake planned for
the Food Carnival at the Seattle
World’s Fair.
Sponsors say it will be the big
gest cake ever, standing 20 feet
high. It is of the fruit cake
variety, permitting baking in ad
vance. Taste size souvenir pack
ages will be available for mailing
and the bulk will be sold on the
fair grounds.
Brager said he plans a summer
job as a dinner cook in the
iMatanuska Valley. He then will
take restaurant courses at San
(Francisco City College on a $500
scholarship, he said.
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