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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1962 On Guard Tomorrow! Some predict -calamities as the result of an unusual grouping of five planets plus sun and moon topped off by an eclipse Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter ft SUN Venus Mars Br JOSEPH LANDAU Courier-Journal Staff Writer OUT WEST, there's in organization calling itself Understanding, that has Issued dire warnings: something terrible is going to happen to the world on February 4. They claim they have learned of this impending catastrophe from outer space that is, from the sky. The event that has led an astrologer named Tab a lit a Mantzuranl to predict "hell in nature" it something everyone can see for himself an unusual grouping of five planets and the sun and the moon in the western sky. Tomorrow and Monday, the five a 1 1 "naked eye planets" Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn (all of which can be seen without telescopes) will be near the sun. At the same time, there will' be an eclipse of the sun (visible in the United States only on the West Coast).

From this combination of events the astrologers predict all sorts of calamities. The last two times such a grouping occurred were in 1524 and 1186. This time, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will seem to be close together, lying respectively 1, 2 and 3 degrees ea.st of the sun. Mars will be 13 degrees west of the sun, and Saturn right next to it, only 12 degrees west, grouping will last hours. And this about 71 Chart AdapUd From kky And Taleacop MaiazUM This chart showing planets in their paths about the tun (S) on reveals they aren't, after all, to close together.

The stands for Mercury. The grouping of planets will appear this way to the eye on Monday. The tun will be in eclipse at the tame time, hut that will not he in iew here. A solar eclipse will start about sunset Monday on the West Coast and will continue westward across the Pacific, where it will be total. (See article below, right.) Such groupings are unusual, and irregular, depending on a happenstance of the travels of the planets around the sun.

On occasions, they just happen to be in line with Earth, so that they seem to be grouped. This coming one will be the 11th such grouping since the year 1000. The next one will come in the year 2000, on May 5, if you want to wait up for it. Such a grouping raises the possibility that the so-called Star of Bethlehem might have been a similar grouping. Such groupings have always aroused the astrologers, and brought forth all sorts of predictions, so the warnings of the Understanding, group are nothing unusual.

For example, in February, 1524, there was a similar grouping. It occurred in the area that astrologers have marked off as "humid" the constellations of Aquarius and Pisces. As a result, they predicted terrible floods. Astronomer Jean Meeus, of the Kessclberg Observatory in Belgium, reports in Sky and Telescope Magazine that the particular February in question was in many places, however, the driest month of the year. SECTION 1 Good View Of Total For New Guinea Jungle Men In one danger spot, maybe the seers have something: Costa Rica Girds For Election Day By CARLOS VARGAS, Copley News Service SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA COSTA RICA, colorful little Central American republic that considers itself one of the most democratic nations of the Americas, is afraid that tomorrow's presidential election could lead to revolution.

ch- t- C-mP --v-z if I directly between the earth and sun, and is close enough for its shadow to reach the earth. Astronomers are fond of recalling the legend of the first recorded eclipse, which supposedly occurred around 2000. B.C. The Chinese classic "Sha Ching" relates that the two royal astronomers, Hsl and Ho, were so "drunk in excess of wine" that they failed to warn the populace of the pending -eclipse. The unexpected black-' out caused a riot, and the angry: emperor had the bibulous pair beheaded.

Ever since, astronomers have studied eclipses with $o-briety and diligence. the century. A sudden bank of clouds covered the sun, and only one party saw the event. The disappointed Swiss expedition flew its flag at half-staff. Basic Data Provided The discomforts, dangers, and disappointments are worthwhile, however, for the study of a total eclipse provides basic data about the sun, moon, and earth.

Observation of eclipses has given fundamental information about temperatures and pressures in the sun's atmosphere. The corona, a fantastic halo of pearly-white gas around the sun, bursts clearly into view during a total eclipse. Scarlet prominences tonguelike jets of glowing hydrogen ordinarily are visible only when the sun is blotted out. Eclipses have aided in precisely computing the movements of moon and earth, and in calculating the earth's exact a coalition against him and elect their man. Whether Calderon or Ulate or Orlich, for that matter-would accept defeat under those circumstances is the question Costa Rican voters are asking themselves.

There are feart in Cnta Rica that scenes such as thit rebels and government forces involved in the 1918 revolution may repeated at an aftermath to election day. The republic will vote on a new President tomorrow. Kid' Ready With Arms National Geographic Society ECLIPSES have a perverse habit of passing over desolate and uninhabited regions and the one coming up tomorrow is no exception. On Sunday and Monday, the moon's shadow will sweep eastward over the Pacific Ocean, obliterating the sun to ground observers along a narrow path stretching some 8,700 miles from Borneo to a point about 600 miles southwest of Baja California. The path of totality cuts over mountains and jungles of New Guinea, sparsely populated islands and vast expanses of empty ocean.

In Hawaii and Australia, however, the eclipse will be disappointingly partial. An eclipse specialist leads a frustrating life. He often is so busy with his equipment that he may have time for only a glance at the awe-inspiring spectacle. At best, he has little opportunity to look at the obscured sun: it is in total eclipse only about four hours and 50 minutes each century. In 50 years, one veteran astronomer has traveled nearly 100,000 miles to see 26 minutes of total eclipse.

Scientists have journeyed literally halfway around the world and set up 20 tons of equipment in barely accessible wasteland, only to have clouds obscure the sun at the crucial moment. In 1955, teams of astronomers from all over the world gathered in Ceylon to observe one of the longest eclipses of 'Billy The whose 1,000. numbers may reach In the 1948 revolution the handsome young rebel commanded the forces of Jose "Pepe" Figueres, who set down plans of Dr. Rafael Calderon Guardia to take over the presidency after a defeat at the polls by Figueres-baeked candidate Otilio Ulate. Figueres and Marshall threw Calderon out of the country and, after running Costa Rica with a junta for 18 months, put Ulate in office.

Figueres, who was president from 1954 to 1958 and is barred by law from running again until 1966, has enlisted Marshall's support in the current campaign. told me he and his followers belong to no political party, but are independent. His eyes are cold. He did not smile during the interview. Some Costa Ricans claim that in the 1948 revolution Marshall never took a prisoner alive.

United States embassy officials say Marshall usually votes in the United States' interest on important Issues in Congress. He himself claims to be firmly anti-Communist, as is most of this tiny country. "But ever since Frank had on a uniform in the revolution, he never forgot it," remembers a schoolmate. "He is nuts about military and marching and giving orders." The more the publicists of four parties try to whip up in terest, the more Costa Rican voters feel they should stay home on election day. Their reasoning is not hard to follow.

Three of the four presidential candidates Dr. Rafael Calderon Guardia, Otilio L'Ute and Francisco Orlich, who is backed by former president Jose Figueres represent the political forces that plunged Costa Rica into revolution over a presidential election in 1948. The fourth candidate is Enrique Obregon, standard bearer of the Communist-front Popular Alliance. As things stand now, Calderon, a former President, appears to have a slight but not a decisive edge, over Ulate, another ex-President, and Orlich. If no one gets 40 percent of the total vote, the top two vote-getters face an April 1 runoff election.

Although all three major parties are campaigning on similar platforms, they are deeply divided over personalities and if, for example, Calderon qualified for the runoff balloting, voters of the other parties probably would join in The Neighbors TO V(U It flOOn HEALTH Nerves Often Cause Of Rapid Heartbeat By JOSEPH Mmf San Jose's Uy CHARLES KEELY Copley News Service SAN JOSE TROUBLE starts in this country'! presidential election Sunday, Costa Ricans wager that Frank Marshall will be the first to pull a trigger. Marshall, a 38-year-old Congressman, is an extremist of neither right nor left. He is a successful businessman one of San Jose's leading businessmen, in fact. But Costa Ricans tell you that ever since the 1948 revolution, which erupted over an election featuring the tame candidates, Marshall has commanded a private armed force By George Clark a Sal 14- Son of a Costa Rican mother and German father, Marshall twice was near death from alcoholism. Costa Ricans tell numerous tales of his drinking bouts during which he inevi-tably ends up pulling a .45 and shooting out the lights and busting bottles like a Billy the Kid.

Marshall operates his many business ventures including farms, tractor sales and real estate out of a dingy upstairs office squeezed between two of San Jose's largest office buildings, both of which he owns. Seated quietly behind his desk with only a naked light bulb in the ceiling and no windows to the outside, Marshall My advice: pony-tails are cute, and if you like 'em, use this hair-do but don't try to pull them so tight that they pull the hair strongly at the "wrong" angle. "DEAR DR. MOINER: I roctntly hod cobalt thorapy and would like to know mora about it. MRS.

A. To boil it down to the important facts, cobalt therapy is treatment with rays from metal (cobalt) which has been made radioactive. The rays are the same as from a high-voltage X-ray instrument. (Lower-voltage X-ray machines have softer rays which do not focus as sharply, but that the only essential difference.) Whether the source of the rays is colbalt (or cesium, or perhaps we'll have other sources presently) or from rays, the rays are useful, help ful, life-saving and powerlui. Where we obtain the rays is a technical question for the radiologists.

Dr. AfoZner is interested in all his readers' questions, and whenever possible uses their questions in his column; but because of the great number received daily, he regrets that he cannot answer individual letters. Copyrifht, mi Co ii ii fry Parson "Most people who com- plain about the high cost of living probably are liv- ing too high." ft fo;" "Let's eat out After that beautiful, romantic story I hate to go home to our leftover liver and onions." CIVIL A A It .11 size and shape. Bent Starlight Star photographs made by a National Geographic Society research team during a 1952 eclipse of the sun confirmed that starlight can be bent by gravity. The photographs and later measurements tended to bear out Dr.

Albert Einstein, who predicted that one of the proofs of his theory of relativity would be an apparent shift in the position of stars whose light rays passed through the sun's field of gravity. A total eclipse of the sun occurs when a new moon slides a.p.o. hi IIGHT-HEARTED 16 PROOF ir I "DEAR DR. MOINER: What it tachycardia? Would it hava any btaring an brtath robl.m?-MRS. T.

It means a heartbeat that is more rapid than usual. In a great number of cases it appears to be mainly a nervous reaction, and getting the nerves settled is the answer. (It can, however, be due to serious physical defects such as overactive thyroid or heart disease.) As to a "breath problem," I 'presume you mean a feeling of shortness of breath, which can accompany a fast heart rate. If, in any case, serious physical conditions are involved, they become readily apparent in an examination, so see your doctor. "DEAR DR.

MOLNER: It it trua that continuaui wearing of pony-tail hair stylo by child will roiult in bald-nan? Would it ba temporary er permanent? M. A convincing number of cases have been observed in which a tight observe that word! pony-tail has resulted in loss of hair. But many pony-tails show no such result. Here's what we don't know: Whether it affects some people and not others; how long it takes; whether it is permanent. Did BlftUCKT STRAIGHT SOU MO WWW 1 UL I MnMI.FOtiMN DrSTIum tOWOW" rViii III I mm3 Decisions, Decisions THREE historic figures were wrestling with decisions on February 3, 1862.

Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase had the problem of a "nearly empty" Treasury. With the war costing the United States $2,000,000 a day, something had to be done. President Lincoln's problem of the day was military. His Special War Order No.

1 of January 3) had forced General McCIellan to produce a plan of action. Instead of moving directly against Manassas, however, McCIellan was urging "the lower Chesapeake Bay" as the base of operations against Richmond. February 3 was the date of Lincoln's letter a set of questions asking McCIellan to prove his plan's superiority. Across the Potomac Joseph E. Johnston's problem was Stonewall Jackson's resignation.

Instead of forwarding the letter to Richmond, he held it. Perhaps Jackson would reconsider. Sergeant Dalselt I 5 1 I i i II It tt 5-Hour-Day Union Unhurt By Automation Old ci s.a.iir til hi ii em 1 Foresteh select the proof of your have been getting for 35 hours, including overtime. It so happens that I.B.E.W. Secretary Keenan was one of the men who buttonholed Democratic delegates at the Los Angeles convention in 1960 to secure John F.

Kennedy's aomination. One labor leader who worked with him was Arthur Goldberg, now Secretary of Labor. Despite this, President Kennedy phoned Secretary Goldberg prior to his press-conference statement criticizing the New York electrical-worker settlement, to say he planned to make a critical statement based on the fact that the agreement was a threat to price and wage stabilization at home and our trade program abroad. "Go ahead," replied the former counsel for the United Steel Workers. "I'm with you 100 percent." 4o( Van Arsdale sent the terms of Local 3's new contract to other union leaders around the ration as an example they might follow.

The response was not enthusiastic. coarrtoto mi a long way from the poorhouse. With total assets of over $113,000,000, it is one of the richest chartered by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The international's president, Gordon M. Freeman, is paid about $34,000 and its secretary, Joseph D.

Keenan, about $48,000 in salaries and expenses. In addition, 12 I.B.E.W. vice-presidents get average salaries in excess of $17,000 each. As for the electrical-worker members of Local 3 being faced with possible unemployment due to automation this is one of the biggest canards ever put over on the public during a wage strike. The exact opposite is true.

There is a shortage of electricians in New York's construction industry, and Local 3 wants to keep it that way by limiting its own membership to 9,000. The five-hour day is also a myth, since Local 3s members ill not actually be limited to five hours a day but will be paid $7.40 an hour overtime for all the time they put in over five hours. In other words, they will be able to work a 35-hour week and earn $198.20, compered with the $165 the WASHINGTON BEHIND the New York electrical workers' strike which resulted in a five-hour day at $5 an hour with $7.40 for the sixth hour are some interesting figures. They show that Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is by no means a struggling union hard hit by automation. On the contrary, it's one of the wealthiest unions in the nation.

Financial records filed with the U.S. Labor Department show that Local 3 has assets of well over $1,000,000, including investments of $746,392 and cash assets of $239,000. The records further show that the local collects well over $2,000,000 a year in dues and pays over $420,000 annually in salaries, plus $230,000 in pensions and other benefit payments to members. 12 Vice-Presidents Harry Van Arsdale, Local 3's business manager and the roan who masterminded the new contract for New York's construction trade, gets about $15,000 a year in salary plus expenses. The international anion itself is also ISRMCNT SOUMOa WMWW 4 WHWIast HttiHI BOTTLED IN BOND 100 PROOF ft ffaVrf ft a af mimmuiwBL.