Dr. Astin Remains Head
Nat’l Bureau of Standards
WASHINGTON, UP—,Dr. Allen
V. Astin remains temporarily dir
ector of the National Bureau of
Standards, with assurance? of
continued government employ
ment and regard- for his profes
sional ability and integrity.
Astin’s resignation, forced by
Secretary of Commerce Weeks in
a row over the bureau’s adverse
report on a powder to rejuvenate
batteries, was to have become
effective Saturday. But Friday
night Weeks announced that:
1. Astin will remain as director
for several months while a special
scientific committee evaluates “the
present functions and operations
of the Bureau of Standards in
relation to present national
needs.”
2. “No question is involved of
Dr. Astin’s permanent retention”
* . . . but he will be offered a post
in his present grade “where his
professional skill and abilities
may be utilized.”
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IKE AND TAFT TEED OFF
WITH LOW GOLF SCORES
AUGUSTA, Ga., UP —President
Eisenhower and Senate Republi
can leader Taft—a couple of golf
ers somewhat unhappy about their
scores—hope to do better in an
other joust with par today.
The President and the Ohio
senator played 18 holes at the
Augusta National course yester
day, but kept their tallies a deep
secret.
Defense Secty. Wilson
Earned $581,000 Last
Year With G. M.
NEW YORK, iff) — Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson earned
S581,000 in salary and bonuses
k during his last year as president
of General Motors Corp.
Wilson and 65 other top execu
tives and directors of the huge
concern earned a total of $11,
878,712 in salaries and bonuses
during 1952.
An accompanying G.M. chart
showed that the corporation’s 16
top executives paid 70 percent or
more of • their compensation in
federal income taxes.
Wilson now earns 522,500 a
year as a member of President
Eisenhower’s cabinet.
ROLAND R. HUGHES NAMED
ASSISTANT BUDGET CHIEF
AUGUSTA, Ga., iff)—President
Eisenhower today appointed New
York banker Roland R. Hughes as
assistant director of the Budget
Bureau.
Hughes, 57, is vice president of
the National City Bank of New
5:ork.
How To Live To Be 100
NEW YORK, UP) — Charles
Eisenberg, a retired clothes press
er, celebrated his 100th birthday
yesterday and gave this formula
for longevity: hard work, no
smoking, never go beyond the
first drink.
The flesh of pythons is used for
food in New Guinea.
Scientists Believe They
Have Found Key To
Changes Brought by Aging
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE |
SAN FRANCISCO, MV-'Vitamin
B-6 may be a key to preventing
hardening of arteries, or slowing
down the wearying changes of
aging, a scientist finds.
The evidence comes from mon
keys, fed only chemical pill diets
in which one or another vitamin
or essential chemical was missing.
If they didn’t get vitamin B-6,
pyridoxine, the monkeys in six
to 18 months developed signs like
those of hardening qf human ar
teries. The walls of the arteries
thickened.
The monkeys grew old more
quickly. Their hair grayed and
lost lustre, said doctors James F.
Rinehart and L. D. Greenbarg,
pathologists of the University of
California Hospital.
If the B-6 was added to their
food soon enough, the signs of
artery hardening cleared up. Giv
ing B-6 didn’t make their gray
hair turn back again to youthful
color, though.
Dr. Rinehart is studying the
possibility that human hardening
of arteries may come either from
too little B-6, or some error or
inefficiency in the way that hu
man bodies may use the vitamin.
Hardening and too-quick aging
might come from some such fault.
His tests on humans or animals
do not show that taking vitamin
B-6 could cure hardening. But it
might be slowed down or pre
vented if tests could show which
people were possibly not getting
enough vitamin, or were not mak
ing the right use of it over the
years.
Beans and peas are rich in B-6.
Meat gives it to you, too, as well
as other foods, Dr. Rinehart said.
SABRES DOWN 18 MIGs
SEOUL, —In the week end
ing Friday night 7,790 individual
flights were flown against the
Reds—an all-time high for the
nearly three-year-old Korean con
flict—the Air Force said.
U.S. Sabre jets bagged 18 Com
munist MIGs in sky battle during
the week, the biggest weekly kill
since last October. Only one
Sabre fell in combat, but nine
more Allied planes went down to
ground fire or mechanical trouble,
the Air Force said.
Justice Dept. Reorganization
WASHINGTON, U>) — President
Eisenhower today sent Congress
a reorganization plan for the Jus
tice Department. It would make
the deputy attorney general sec
ond in command at the depart
ment instead of the solicitor gen
eral.
Gromyko Is Promoted At Home
LONDON, (j'P—Andrei Gromy
ko, Soviet ambassador to Britain
since last July, has been appoint
ed first deputy minister of foreign
affairs, Moscow radio announced.
He will be replaced in London
by Jacob Milik, now a deputy
foreign minister under V. M. Mol
otov, the announcement said.
ALASKA FRIENDS
PRESENT CAR TO
ERNEST GRUENING
Former governor and Mrs. Er
nest Gruening will complete their
trip to Washington, D.C. from De
troit in a new ’53 Chrysler auto
mobile, the gift of friends in Al
aska.
Presentation of the car license
No. 22 and certificate of title was
made to Gruening at an informal
gathering of his friends in the of
fice of the Secretary of Alaska,
the last day the governor was in
office, April 9.
A group of about 50 Channel
residents and others from Alaska
towns who were in the city as
sembled to make the gift and
wish good speed to the man who
had been the Territory’s chief ex
ecutive for 13 years.
The gift was a complete sur
prise to Gruening, it was said, and
when he was asked into the Sec
retary’s office where his friends
awaited Rim, and the presenta
tion of title to the Chyrsler car
was made to him, he was entirely
without words to express his ap
preciation. He quickly rallied
from his surprise, however, to
thank his friends for their gift
and their good wishes.
The presentation of the license
and title of ownership for the car
was made by T. A. Morgan, presi
dent of the Columbia Lumber Co.
Morgan said the gift was an
acknowledgment of Alaskans from
all over the Territory to Gruen
ing, in %recognition of his long
service and work for Alaska.
It was said the idea of making
a gift of an automobile to Gruen
ing was started by Robert At
wood, Anchorage newspaper pub
lisher and that Alaskans from
various sections of the Territory
participated.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday wtih winds
light and variable. Low tempera
ture expected tonight 26, high to
morrow 42.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture 48, lowest 27. Max. wind 10
mph from N.E.. Sunrise at 4:10
a.m., sunset at 7:53 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 26, lowest -5. Extremes
this date since 1907: high 43 in
1940, low -13 in 1929.
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