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PAGE 4 'N CUM SATURDAY. MAY 195! -y if STRAIGHT ARROW U55R- A QSL card to an American from URSa3-1474 in Moscow. Russians Warmin On Ham Air Waves? By JERRY KLEIN Central JPress Correspondent HELMETTA, N. Russians, at least those who operate ham radios as a hobby, are occasionally showing that they'd like to be a little friendlier with Americans. So says Henry Yahnel.

who operates a QSL, clearing bureau for radio hams in the states of New York and New Jersey. QSLs are the fancy cards amateur radio operators exchange after a long-distance conversation on the air-waves. QSLs coming in from foreign countries for the 8000 hams in New York and New Jersey are distributed through Yahnel. He Jooks up the radio call letters to which the cards are addressed and sends them on their 'way to the hams using those call letters. "The Russians still aren't too anxious to talk to an American ham," he says, "but once in a while lately one of them warms up and has a word to say- about the weather." Usually, Soviet radio amateurs don't bother to send the courtesy QSLs, but now one comes in occasionally from Moscow with a request the American write to his brother ham in the Soviet Union.

In the code language of amateur radio operators, the cards from Russia ask Americans to "pleasjs write" and send him "love and kisses." Thomas A. Kenny of Summit was "talking" to a business associate in Indianapolis recently when a Russian named Bagt broke in to say a few words. Bagt asked Kenny about ex- and a few'months later, Eagt's card from Kiev. It bore the numerals "SS," which in ham language mean "love and kisses." Strangely enough, the same numerals are the postal box numbers of the Moscow censorship bureau which clears al! QSL cards. Yahnel says that radio hams reach the crest of their artistic talents in choosing their individual GSLs.

In America, many of them are hand-printed or painted. But in Russia the cards bear mass-produced pictures of public buildings, national heroes or scenes on. collective farms. Yahnel, QSL mailman; who also is police chief of Helmetta. says chances of a Russian starting to talk to an American ham by accident are slight.

He points out that the Russian knows that call letters beginning with the letter belong to an American. Russian hams' identification begin with the letter There are about 85,000 amateur radio operators in the United States. No one can say how many there are in Russia. The Soviet, and the sateilite'countries, do not allow their names to be listed in the international directory of radio hobbyists. Yahnel does the job without pay, receiving, checking, filing and mailing about 300 every day, seven days a week.

Yahnel has himself made many friends via the radio waves. Once he became acquainted with the first mate of a ship running between New York and Chile. On one of the voyages. Yahnel got through to the ship with news for the mate that he had just become the father of a baby boy. Whales May Provide ACTH New Homone Drug Source Is Found By PAUL F.

ELLIS UP Science Editor whales of the E2a may become a practical source of the wonder hormone drug, ACTH. The drug, now isolated from the pituitary glands of swine, is scarce and costly and scientists don't have much hope it ever can be synthesized. But word from a Danish scientist indicates the whale, used by man for food and oil for centuries, might be a good source of ACTH and there appear to be plenty of whales in the oceans. scientist. Dr.

H. Hennings, reported in the Journal of Endocrinology, Copenhagen, that studies on 56 fin whales and blue "suggest that the whale pituitary should prove a value source" of ACTH. An abstract of his reoprt is being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hennings said that whale pituitaries, in one experiment, yielded about one-fith the amount of the hormone that is obtained from corresponding' quantities of fresh hog pituitary tissues. However, the activity of the whale-produced ACTH was re- Yule Trees Called arm Honey Crop JIORGANTOWX, Va.

Farmers seeking new sources of income might consider growing Christmas trees, the "vl'est Virgin- la University School of Agriculture says. WVTJ Agricultural Experiment Station foresters have observed that Christmas trees can be raised on nearly any soil except pos- sibjy the driest and the poorest. The experts warn, however, that producers of the holiday trees should consider the elevation and soil moisture before planting. Balsam fir, Douglas fir. red spruce and Norway spruce are recommended for planting on moist soils.

Scotch pine, red pine, pine ar.d eastern red cedar grow best on dry soils. Balsam fir. red spruce and red pine should be most successful at high elevations, the university ag- rfcalture school adds. Lake Texoma To Get New Excursion Boat all-steel excursion boat is being'broaght from of the Ozarks by way of the Missouri, Mississippi and Red River-to Lake Texoma and will bo available to the public by July G. E.

Hibarger announced today. HTfaarber said he bought the 65- foot'Idle-Time, which has a maximum capacity, of 160 passengers, from Ezra Kansas City. Hlbarger said the. boat. started down the Missouri the 1700- mile trip to- Texoma on May IS, arid he ported to be "about three times as high as that of hog pituitary hormone," the scientist said.

He pointed out that the anterior and posterior lobes of the whale pituitary axe easily separated. Such is not so easy in the hog pituitary. "It is possible to omit the purification for hormones of the posterior lobe, which would further increase the yield of ACTH and give a product of great Hennings said. Assuming that the average weight of the whale pituitary was about 25 grams, then there should be about 400 SOO pounds of whale pituitary tissue available every year, resulting in about 400 grams of ACTH, according to Hennings. "It is likely that the yield will be greatly increased by improved methods of extraction and purification," he said.

ACTH is selling around S150 a gram. If Professor Hennings 7 research is proven by other investigators, then the whaling buis- ness may be in for a boom. DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Native Mohamme- dans (Phil.) 6. Scoffed Take as one's own 12.

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Their tour of hospitals in this area coincides with an American Legion contest for the best letters from disabled servicemen telling how they overcame their handicaps. The S7000 contest has prizes ranging from to $1000. Details are available at local Legion posts. COON OUT OX LIMB MIO, took a little tree rgery to revive a raccoon believed to be doad. Conservation Officer Ralph Fisk noticed the animal first in a tree but when he approached more closely it re- its struggle to get free.

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