Dr. Edward Teller:
Continued Testing
Needed to Develop
Missile Defense
WASHINGTON UP>— Dr. Edward
Teller said Tuesday he believes
the Soviet Union is ahead of the
United States in the field of nu
clear explosives and may be the
first to develop an effective de
fense against missiles.
Teller, known as the “father of
the nuclear bomb” addressed about
100 House members at a breakfast.
The session was arranged by Rep.
Stephen Derounian, (R-N.Y.), a
leader of a congressional group op
posing nuclear test bans without
wide-open inspection.
Most of those who attended were
Republicans. Among the Demo
crats was House majority leader
Carl Albert of Oklahoma.
Teller said there “are strong
indications” the Soviet Union has
outdistanced the United States in
nuclear testing and experimenta
tion. He theorized some of the ex
periments may deal with work
on a defense against missiles.
Continued testing, he said, is
necessary to develop a missile de
fense, but the tests do not have
to be of big bombs. Although there
are ways to detect testing of large
bombs, he said, it is next to im
possible to detect explosions with
less than 1,000 tons of TNT blast
force.
Should the Soviet Union develop
any effective missile defense, he
added, “we may be only a few
years away from total destruction.”
Teller said he did not believe
the United States should have nu
clear weapons available to all of
its .allies but should give them
“the know-how.”
“We are treating our allies as
children,” he said. “We keep
secrets from our friends; secrets
the Russians already know and
our allies know the Russians
know.”
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Mt. Everest Climber
Wins Varsity Letter
The Hard Way
SEATTLE Of) — Jim Whittaker
finally won a varsity letter and he
only had to climb to the top of
the world to do it.
The letter was presented Mon
day to the 32-year-old climber,
first American to reach the top
of Mount Everest, by Seattle Uni
versity from where he graduated
11 years ago.
It was just one many tokens of
praise and affection that greeted
Whittaker, Luther Jerstad, 27, and
Barry Prather, 26, Gig Harbor,
Wn., Ellensburg, Wn., when they
arrived here on a jet flight from
London.
They were given a tickertape
parade through downtown Seattle
and a welcoming ceremony at
Seattle Center. Redmond, Whit
taker’s hometown near Seattle pre
sented him with its own version
of a key to the city, a climber’s
ice axe.
Redmond’s mayor, Gary Craep,
also presented him with a certi
ficate of honorary citizenship for
Gombu, the Sherpa who made it
to the top of Everest with Whit
taker May 1.
The only sad note of the cere
mony was the tribute paid by the
climbers to a companion, Jake
Breitenbach of Jackson, Wyo., who
was killed in an ice fall on the
side of Everest. Breitenbach, a na
tive of Port Angeles, Wn., was the
son of a prominent Vancouver,
B.C., businessman.
Democrats Will Hold
Presidential Nominating
Convention in Atlantic City
WASHINGTON (A*» — The Demo
crats will hold their 1964 presi
dential nominating convention in
Atlantic City, N.J., the week of
Aug. 24.
That decision announced by the
party’s national committee Tues
day puts the session the width of
the continent away from, and six
weeks after, the Republican na
tional convention which opens in
San Francisco July 13.
The full Democratic national
committee unanimously accepted a
recommendation from its site com
mittee to return the convention to
the east coast for the first time
since 1948. That year Harry S.
Truman was nominated at Phila
delphia.
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Secretary Dates
Two Dolphins
SAN FRANCISCO OP — A pretty
secretary at the California Acad
emy of Sciences is dating two
dolphins in her off-duty hours these
days.
The 250-pound marine mammals
will be feature attractions when
world-wide famous S t e i n h a r t
Aquarium in Golden Gate Park re
opens Friday after being closed
two years for a $1.5 million face
lifting.
Fresh from the sea, they have
yet to be tamed and trained.
Secretary Phyllis Cobb, clad in
rubber suit and mask and with
underwater breathing equipment
strapped on, disports with dol
phins in their 63,000 gallon tank
at the aquarium.
At first they were extremely
wild and afraid of her. But now
they gulp fish she hands them
under water. And they playfully
sneak behind her to try to yank
her blonde pigtail.
“They love to play,’’ Phyllis
said, “but they could be danger
ous.”
She explained that they have
a mouthful of sharp teeth and also
use their hard snouts for butting,
dolphins will take on sharks and
usually win, she said.
Aquarist Fred Jenne was forced
to make a hasty exit from the tank
recently when the pair decided to
play volleyball. Jenne was the
ball.
Phyllis is secretary to Dr. Earl
Herald, superintendent-curator of
the aquarium and program host for
television’s “Science In Action”
series. She spent two nights a week
for three months taking a scuba
course in pursuit of her hobby.
Many of her weekends are de
voted to collecting expeditions for I
the aquarium—“really hard work
but fun,” she says.
The dolphins will be trained in
the leaping and balancing stunts
featured at Marineland of the Pa
cific near Los Angeles. Marine
land presented the pair to the
aquarium.
BRITAIN AGREES TO GIVE
KENYA ITS INDEPENDENCE
LONDON UP> — Britain has
agreed to give Kenya its inde
pendence by 1964, informed sources
report.
The sources said Britain assured
Kenya’s Justice Minister, Tom
Mboya, that a constitutional con
ference would be held this year
to arrange the transfer of power.
Mboya was elated as he wound
up negotiations with British offi
cials and left for home Monday
night.
The former East African colony
won self-rule June 1. Britain still
controls Kenya’s defense and for
eign affairs and also has a vote
over domestic legislation.
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Robert Summers, popular young
engineer who has been with the
State Highway Dept, and who has
been stateside for several months,
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“Lifer” to be Granted Full
Pardon For His Part In
Lung Transplant Surgery
j .JACKSON, Miss. UP — A con
victed murderer who agreed to
help medical science by under
going an historic lung transplant
operation looked forward to his
freedom today.
Gov. Ross Barnett said yester
I day that John Richard Russell, 58,
would be rewarded with a pardon.
In making the announcement,
Barnett disclosed for the first time
the identity of the patient in the
widely publicized operation.
Russell is serving life for a 1957
slaying.
The governor said he would take
proper steps to grant a full and
complete pardon for Russell, who
has “an excellent record.”
The transplant, believed first of
its kind, would “alleviate human
misery and suffering for years to
come,” Barnett said.
A spokesman at the University
of Mississippi Fedical Center in
Jackson said Russell’s transplanted
lung was functioning satisfactorily.
Surgeons disclosed almost two
weeks ago the lung had been trans
planted from an unrelated donor.
Leading up to the transplant,
the medical center surgeons made
detailed studies in more than 500
experimental animals over a 7
vear period.
nnnwuncemem was made today
that the Pilgrim Springs, which be
long to the Catholic Church, is now
under lease to Teddy Johanson,
who is making plans for future de
velopment of this area now that the
road is so near.
The public is advised that any
one going to the springs will be
tresspassers unless they have per
mission to go their from the leaser
and if caught will be prosecuted, as
this is private property.
Teddy Johanson has taken a con
tract with Gus Krutch to take up
the rails of the old Kougarok Rail
road and prepare them for ship
ment to California where they will
be used for a narrow-guage rail
road at Catalina, as a tourist at
traction. Mr. Krutch and family
will be arriving soon to assist with
the work which will stare on
July 1.
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If the poor old car looks kind of dreary
And its motor’s acting sort of weary,
Baking soda and loving care
Will give it back its youthful air.
Use it dry and bugs skiddoo
From windshield where they block your view.
Banished, too, are grime and tar
Which stick to chrome and paint of car.
A soda solution on battery parts
Removes corrosion which slows up starts.
And to keep the cooling system cool
In heat and heavy traffic, you’ll
Flush it out with good old sal,
Another soda that’s a pal.
Sal, used dry, routs mud and mire
Which hide the white of white-walled tire.
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So that all this summer you can cruise
In style on tires instead of shoes.