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TIE EVENING TV-RADIO Todai Program Schedule and Special Notei-TV Page SUN SPORTS Results, Coming Events, Columnists Sports Pages PAGE 1 BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. 1907 PAGE Bl In Stereo And Technicolor I i I Do-lt-Yourself College Biology Lab raw INSIDE BALTIMORE Wit I II TTr 1 0(5' ittm HNfrrt Villi' It Not all citizens, It seems, mind tipping their trash men at Christmas time, Some insist on it. For example, there's Mrs. John E. Rigney, of 4044 Hillen road, who asks help with her problem of getting in touch with the fellows who collect her trash.

Mrs. Rigney writes that she was on vacation during the holiday week and, therefore, was unable to give her regular trash men evidence of her gratitude for their services. She finally caught up with a truck crew In her neighborhood but a member of that crew was honest enough to say that it was not the regular crew. "The fellow was honest enough to say that I should keep my money until the next collection day when my regular men would be back on schedule," says Mrs. Rigney.

She adds that she usually works during the day, when the regular crew comes through her neighborhood, and would like some help In contacting the group. Having learned long ago that in dealing with problems of such magnitude you must go right to the top, I sought advice on Mrs. Rigney's problem from that dedicated public servant and devotee of aquamarine garbage trucks, Chief Sanitation Engineer Edward J. Moore and it worked. Mr.

Moore says he'll get word to the regular crew and Mrs. Rigney can expect a visit from one of its representatives soon. i Short Honn By George Rodgers Biology lessons coma in stereophonic sound and technicolor at the University of Maryland's new campus in Catonsville, Instead of work tables and blackboards, the biology laboratory has sixteen one-man booths, each stocked with a tape recorder, miniature fiim projector, test bottles and charts. Students visit the do-it-yourself lab at their convenience. Directions for the lesson are recorded, freeing Prof.

Andrew Snope to assist his charges individually. This week's lesson was on genetics. One featured film was "Mitosis in Endosperm," highlighted by chromosomes slithering across a blue background. The projector was equipped with stop action for those who wanted a second look. And when the freshmen snapped the four-track tape recorder on they heard Dr.

Snope's voice say into their earphones: "The inheritance of a particular characteristic cannot be explored unless. One Of A Dozen "The lab is really great," said Royce Bradshaw, 22, of Baltimore, removing his headgear. "I'm not a science major, and if you don't understand you just replay the tape." The experimental lab, believed one of -only a dozen in the nation, pleases the chairman of the college's sciences division even more. "I don't know of a single student who has missed a lab," Dr. Walter A.

Konetzka said. The new campus opened last September with 760 freshmen. Almost 150 are taking general biology. Open from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., the lab has proved so popular that Dr.

Konetzka's better students may put in double the required three hours a week. "The main advantage," he said, "is that students can work at their own speed. "With the directions recorded, it's possible to lead them through rather advanced experiments. "If they goof they can start all over tives or art themselves employed by the industry, and they hold a shindig like this every year to celebrate the repeal of prohibition. In coming up with a new kind of Christmas gift for its friends, WBAL-TV sent out blind invitations to an evening for two at one of fourteen restaurants and night clubs.

The recipient had to call the station, tell the folks there which number he had picked, and then learn which eatery or club had been assigned the corresponding number. Maybe it was New Year bravado, but the most popular number, picked by about 40 per cent of the recipients, was 13, which had been assigned the Club Venus. Ill Wind Department: Considering our town's appalling rating in that air pollution survey, WMAR-TV got a break in planning its January 24 documentary on the subject, "Sewer in the Sky." It wasn't necessary to go on-location to make the background shots. Orators at Work Anyone who has ever sat through a seemingly interminable series of introductions at such an affair will understand why one of the warmest rounds of applause at Wednesday's housing conference luncheon at the Sheraton-Belvedere came when toast-master Harrison M. Robertson, announced.

"We do not plan to introduce those at the head table." Chesapeake Charlie Sayst Those CBS and NBC commercials promoting their competitive TV coverage of Sunday's Packers-Chiefs football game have become so tasteless and monotonous that they've had a curious effect on one fan I know. He's now so absorbed in their battle for the teleboob audience that he's lost all interest in the game itself and has decided not to watch it. But he simply can't wait to read the Nielson ratings to see which network comes out on top. Statesmen at Work Senator William (Bip) Hodges offered another suggestion yesterday after the Board of Public Works improved its relationship with the town gendarmerie by squelching finance director Charlie Benton's delayed-pay plan. "What we really need," Bip whispered to Senator Harry McGuirk, "is better relationship between the Board of Estimates and the finance director." WHERE'S THE TEACHER? University of Maryland students taped biology lessons at the school's new campus In Catonsville.

Jay Goldscher, left; Kathy Cutler and Robert Goldstein tune in The experimental lab cost only $6,000 to equip. again, throw the mistake down the drain, so to speak. That's how I work in the research lab." Dr. Konetzka will try the experimental lab until the spring of 1968,. then evaluate it.

He's already optimistic, though. "I'm really impressed with what students get out of it. I have a strong feeling it's better than a standard laboratory arrangement." It definitely is cheaper. Dr. Konetzka step," said Dr.

Konetzka. Meanwhile, in the lab, the freshmen happily picked their way through the week's worksheet which required them, among other things, to: "Placing the two pairs of alleles on two pairs of chromosomes, diagram on the back of this page the essential features of meiosis to show how gametes with parental and recombinant gene constitutions can arise." said the facility cost $6,000 to equip. Extra instructors and floor space needed for the regular arrangement would cost at least twice as much. The originator of the do-it-yourself biology lab was Dr. S.N.

Postlethwait, a botany professor at Purdue University. According to Dr. Konetzka, students kept pestering Dr. Postlethwait for notes of missed lectures, so he recorded them. "The biology lab was a logical next Custom Job After trying everything from charging admissions to selling coins made of its spikes, citizens hopeful of raising enough money to restore the Constellation are mulling over a new possibility a lottery.

Part of the plan calls for special promotion of the idea and sale of the lottery tickets throughout the Navy. It's tough to believe when you hear how enthusiastically Johnny Desch talks up the City College production of "Ross," opening a two-night stand tonight, but this is the fortieth show directed by the durable little guy at the Castle on the Hill. Traffic jammer: the motorbike driven down Guilford avenue yesterday by a young man with a passenger a young lady wearing blue jeans, dark glasses and a fur-trimmed coat. i One of the town's more colorful parties will be held January 30 in the Emerson's Hawaiian Room by the W.A.A.-B.L's. That's not a tribe.

It's the Women's Auxiliary of the Alcoholic Beverages In-dustry, composed of ladies who have rela- Yard Making Viet Harbor Patrol Craft "laying up" begins with applications of liquid resin and fiberglass cloth. It takes about two weeks for this to harden and cure, and the result is the mold, which is removed from the plug. From the mold the craft is built. The mold is sanded and polyvinyl alcohol is applied, after which it is waxed smooth. Polyester resin is then sprayed on.

The next day workers lay on precut fiberglass and fire-resistant resin. Generally the Coast Guard applies five layers of fiberglass. Each layer is rolled to remove air bubbles. This must be done in one day to assure proper bonding. Prefabricated, bulkheads, framing and longitudinal supports are added during approximately two weeks of curing.

The hull is then pulled from the mold and then moves down the production line, where various parts, hardware, engines and decking are added. Finally, the vessel is put in the water and tested before the paint is added. Water Testing Part of the water testing program includes running the boat four hours alongside the dock and then four hours at top speed in the Chesapeake Bay. The first boat completed in a class also gets a drop test. Weights are put in the hull and the boat is dropped from various heights into the water.

Then it is swung against the bulkhead to further test its strength. Another test of the prototype is to fill it with water and see whether it will sink. If it does, the Coast Guard starts again. It's not supposed to sink because of the foam sealed in watertight compartments. READY TO GO These 30-foot plastic utility boats were built by the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Creek and will soon leave for Vietnam harbor customs patrol.

By Louis Granger The South Vietnamese Government in the next few months will receive a dozen tough, fiberglass boats made by the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Government officials said they will be ready in about two months and probably would be shipped to Vietnam from the port of Baltimore. Known as "plastic boats" by local Coast Guard personnel, they are the first made at Curtis Creek to go to Vietnam. For Customs Service The Vietnam Customs Service will use the 30-foot utility' boats for harbor patrol. Unless modified on arrival, the vessels will not be armed. Driven by 300-horsepower General Motors engines, the boats have a top speed of 25 Although the Coast Guard has been building plastic boats for the past seventeen years at Curtis Creek the only boat construction yard for the Coast Guard in the United States builders are still adding to their knowledge of the "art." Lt.

Cmdr. Barry C. Roberts, assistant chief of planning, said fiberglass boat builders are still in the process of building up knowledge of how plastics vary under stress, strain and weather. "Subtleties" In Construction "The art is not as advanced in design strength criteria as it is in other materials," he said. There are subtleties in plastic boat construction, Commander Roberts noted.

Dust, high temperature and humidity are harmful while the boats are being put together, and materials such as liquid resins, polyesters and adhesives must be used in a certain period of time or they will loose their effectiveness. Plastic boats present other drawbacks. It is difficult to make revisions after the vessels are completed, and major repairs are also difficult because of the problem with bonding. Repairs To Steel Hull A damaged steel hull can be repaired by welding and can be as strong as it was originally, but not so with a fiberglass patch. Basically it is cheaper and faster to build plastic boats than it Is for steel and wooden ships.

Minor damage is easier to 65 And Over The word around City Hall is that a majority of Baltimore City Councilmen oppose a nocturnal curfew for persons under 17. Yet the council judiciary committee laughed hard the other evening when John Skozilas, a Loyola High School student, testified that the proposed ordinance would interfere with his social development. On weekends, Master Skozilas said, dates that keep him out to 1.30 A.M. to 2 A.M are "a prime factor in my education." The curfew law would make it illegal for him (and all his peers in Baltimore) to appear in public between midnight and 6 A.M. on Fridays and Saturdays, or between 10.30 P.M.

and 6 A.M. otherwise. "Would you' inhibit me?" he asked. "Wo.uld you deny us the opportunity to learn how to behave with the opposite sex?" The council chamber, rocked with such mirth after the statement that the judiciary chairman, Councilman William D. Schaefer Fifth), apologized to the youth.

"That's all right," Master Skozilas replied. "I understand that many adults are immature." Mr. Schaefer promptly snapped at him, advising him to "learn some courtesy," and the audience at the hearing suddenly became solemn. The exchange illustrated the considerable dilemma that responsible politicians face vis-a-vis a curfew. For that matter, it involved the bigger dilemma that confronts all "enlightened" adults if they try to discipline their children.

The kids had better act humbly grateful for the "permissive" environment in which they have been raised. Lord help the boy or girl who takes it seriously enough to talk back to the authority he has been taught to doubt. (Councilman Schaefer also scolded the police commissioner for being absent At 1 made and tested in a towing tank for speed and seaworthiness. The next step is to make a "plug" or exact copy of the vessel's outside dimensions. This can be done with almost any type of material wood, masonite, even cement.

Wax is then applied to the plug and the repair and maintenance is considerably lessened. Once a mold is made, it takes approximately eight weeks to finish a 25-foot boat, thirteen weeks for 30-foot vessels and about seventeen weeks for a 80-foot boat. The prototype of a fiberglass boat class begins with a design on paper. A model is statistics presented by the curfew sponsor, Council President Thomas D'Alesandro, 3d. And much of the mischief (exactly how much was not disclosed) is done by juveniles from neat, articulate suburbs.

It's time for Daddy to try spanking Junior, instead of reasoning together, the pro- ponents indicated. To be more exact and more "enlightened" it's time for Big Dad-. dy (the government) to start spanking parents and proprietors of public places. They not juvenile delinquents would be subject to fines andor imprisonment for violation of Mr. D'Alesandro's proposed curfew law.

Police testified that "selective enforce-ement" exempting school dances, etc. would prevent the penalizing of good kids, the majority, for the sins of bad kids. But Walter Lively, a young adult civil rights worker, testified that when he was subject to the Philadelphia curfew, police there detained more kids going home from church socials than they detained kids who roamed the streets casing neighborhoods for burglary. Councilman Clement Prucha Second) said that "more than 99 per cent are good boys and girls." Councilman Maurice Soypher Fifth) said that his son, when a student at Baltimore Junior College, had been stopped "no less than fifteen times" under the police method that was once used 'here to keep juveniles in cars under surveillance. Opponents indicated that bad kids in cars could dash across county lines out of city curfew jurisdiction.

Three former assi- stant State's attorneys testified two for and one against the curfew. Proponents praised WJZ-TV for asking the nightly, question: "It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" They said, too, that curfews are "useful tools" in Richmond and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The only witness who alluded to the historic use of curfews as tools in Europe was Joseph Okrasinski, of East Baltimore, who said: "I have relatives behind the Iron Cur-V tain. The word 'curfew always reminds me of 'hammer and J.

G. Would Seek Out Mental Illness The State Department of Mental Hygiene has developed a pilot program to train labor union counselors to recognize early symptoms of mental illness in factory workers and to direct the ill workers to available psychological care. Dr. Maxwell N. Weisman, the director of community psychiatric services for the State, said the start of the program depends on whether a Federal grant is obtained and if the State Council of the AFL-CIO accepts the program.

The State labor council will meet this month to act on the program because the application for the grant should be filed next month. Dr. Weisman said the program will seek to train labor counselors to detect changes in personality and other symptoms of emotional disturbance and to serve as "a link" between the disturbed worker and his job once he undergoes treatment. Dr. Weisman said the program has never been tried before in Maryland.

"It has been tried in other states," he said, "and has proven to be effective." Treatment Factor In many cases the success of treatment depends on the ill worker's ability to retain ties with his place of work and with his family, Dr. Weisman said. With the labor counselor, "this link" with the job is maintained, Dr. Weisman said. He said the counselor would visit the hospitalized laborer, exchange shop gossip, distribute magazines, and also contact the union member's family.

The counselor would also be expected to ease the transition of the rehabilitated worker from the hospital back to the shop, but he would not interfere with the normal union duties of a shop steward. irom me nearing. It was Impossible to believe that neat, articulate Master Skozilas would ever, do anything wrong-or that he felt he was wrong when he described the council committee as immature. Yet almost half of the serious crime is the work of juveniles, according to police, Senior Citizens Get Important Advantages The Better Half Plxlee .11 KCIFE CXTEST Ninth of fourteen articles By Ray De Crane who reached taxpayers. Then, only medical expenses Senior citizens anyone his sixty-fifth birthday by December 31, 1966 received several important advantages on their annual income tax return.

Instead of the normal $600 personal exemption accorded all under-65 taxpayers, senior citizens receive two $600 exemptions. mm exceeding 3 per cent of adjusted gross income will be deductible and drug expenses will be considered only after exceeding 1 per cent of adjusted gross income.) Profit is tax-free when they sell their home for $20,000 or less, regardless of how much profit was made on the sale. Even when the selling price exceeds $20,000, there is a major tax saving. This a once-in-a-lifetime election. A joint retirement income credit is allowed which would exempt, in effect, an additional $2,286 in income from tax at a 15 per cent rate if husband and wife are each 65 and they file a joint return.

In another option, each one can compute separate credits beginning with $1,524. And here's a $600 tip for some lucky II husband and wile are each 85 or older they receive a total of four exemption credits. Full deduction for all their medical expenses. Including all -1 I hit ing guide to filling out tax returns, containing the material in this series plus additional information, is being made available by this paper. Send name, address and 50 cents per copy to CUT YOUR OWN TAXES, co The Evening Sun, P.O.

Box 489, Dept. 212, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019. MONDAY Who is a dependent? senior citizens. Your age is determined on the day before your birthday.

So if you celebrated your birthday on January 1, 1967, you are considered by Uncle Sam to have been 65 on December 31, 1966. This entitles you to two $600 exemption credits on your 1966 tax return. lCopjrrlht. Newspaper Entrrprttt Auoelttlon A newly devised line-by-line, money-sav "Originality counts Left see now-first you blend in a mixing bowl two tomatoes, three chocolate bars, horseradish, oatmeal and a dill pickle'. their drug bills, is allowed.

This is the last year for this special privilege. (Beginning on 1967 returns filed a year from now those over 63 will be treated like all other.