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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS CLASSIFIED PART 3 VOL LXXYIII T.me Orotfed Advertising Number. MAdlson 94411 FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1959 CC Tmei Offices 202 Wed Street, Uf A9! 53. CaM. MAa'Iwn 5-234J Drivers Periled by Slides at Palisades, Says Expert Recording of Danger Areas Recommended "Thousands of motorists risk their lives daily using 1 I 'A RESEARCH CHIEF Dr. Wilfried F.

H. M. Mommaerts, "bright young man" of heart research, shows electrodes for stimulating isolated musries. Times photo BY THE BILL STUDY CHANGES Krikor Seraydarian, foreground; Harold Broenkow, study chemical changes in contracting tissue in the laboratory of Dr. Morrimaerts.

Times photo ELECTRICAL OR CHEMICAL? WASHINGTON In this town things work just a little like those old-fashioned stereopticon machines for showing pictures one slide is shoved out by the next one coming in. It was something like that this week when our officials fired off a farewell telegram Researchers Seeking of Causes That Make WAY. HENRY to Russia's Mikoy an while galloping to the airport to welcome Argentina's Arturo Frondizi. After Mikoyan's ill-concealed insolence at his farewell National Press Club appearance it is quite likely that the state of his health is a matter of complete indifference to our people but with Senor Frondizi, the first freely WINS SUPPORT Actress Janet Lake, 22, scans paper at hearing where she won $20 a week support for daughter Jana from husband, actor Robert Dix. Actor Robert Dix Must Pay $20 Week to Child Judge Orders Son of Late Movie Star to Support Daughter Pending Divorce Trial 5 the Pacific Coast Highway through Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica." Dr.

Robert Stone, consulting geologist of Los Angeles who has examined landslides in this area for 11 years, made thi3 statement at a press conference yesterday at the Sutler Hilton. "I drive along this area cnly when I have to," he stated, "and then I go fast and keep away from the cliffs." Dr. Stone, who is assistant chairman of the geological hazards committee of the city of Los Angeles, met the press as a prelude to an address he will deliver today before the seventh annual convention of the California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors. $200 Million Threat He declared that more than $200 million worth of valuable hillside residential property in the Los Angeles area is threatened with geo logic hazards. This figure does not in clude the value of human lives, which are in jeopardy in more than 30 areas of Los Angeles County," Dr.

Stone said. "And it is a miracle that only one person has been killed by slides along the Pacific Coast Highway." The geologist said the next slide will occur at the east end of the Via de Las Olas between Potrero Canyon and sunset where a man was killed last year. This is because of the cracking now progress, he said. Slides Can Be Halted Dr. Stone declared that most of the slides can be halted by drainage to divert the seepage of water, though the process is an expensive one.

He recited the case from 1933 to 1938 when drains and a blower were operated at Potrero Canyon, and he said no slides developed there during this time. An earthquake could trigger slides and mudflows in any number of the 30 ma ior slide areas of the coun ty," he disclosed, the Newport-Inglewood Uplift, the fault that caused the Long Beach earthquake in 1933, could go at any time." The most dangerous slide areas he cited as being part of the Palos verdes Hills, Pa cific Palisades, Baldwin Hills, Portuguese Bend, Santa Monica Mountains including Hollywood Hills, Glendale- Verdugo Hills, La Canada- La Crescenta-M where 40 were killed by a mudflow in 1934; Sherman Oaks and the San Gabriel Mountains. Recording Recommended He said the geological haz ards committee has recom mended to the city of Los Angeles that any land that has had slide difficulty should be recorded in such a way mat the lmormation would show up in the title search while the given prop erty is going through escrow. Principal causes of the trouble are the mountain-building activity under way in most of Southern Califor nia, which he called "tectonic activity," that is going on Please Turn to Fg. 2, Col.

5 1 I tssmmm tu Secrets Heart Beat v. Times pfcoto line new homes for him in Houston and in Aspen, Colo "He finally told me not to come to see him, she cried. Hedy says she is struggling to finish a book she is writing. It is titled Ecstasy and Me." Plane Crippled; Flier Parachutes Marine Maj. Kenneth Fiegener, 38, of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, es caped unhurt yesterday after parachuting from his disabled jet fighter 20 miles southeast of El Toro.

FANTASTIC STUDY Dr. Luddo Nonninga demonstrates equipment in which he uses extract from fireflies in study of constituent of heart muscle. Actor Robert Dix, 23, son of the late screen star Rich ard Dix, yesterday was ordered to pay $20 a week for support of Jana, his year-old daughter, pending trial ofj the divorce suit brought by actress Janet Lake, 22. Miss Lake had asked $250 monthly alimony and $100 a month child support, but Superior Judge Pro Tern John Leslie Goddard took in to consideration the young husband plea of debt. Dix said he had borrowed $10,000 from his mother, and though he has no fear she will resort to the courts to collect, he knows he is expected to repay it.

Awarded $1 Monthly Blond Miss Lake said her earnings as a model were $25 to $30 an hour when she was thus employed, and $80 to $100 a day when she played in films or on television. Judge Goddard awarded her $1 a month alimony. Through Atty. John S. Hunt, she said that her hus band struck her and that she feared he might do so again unless restrained.

An order was granted restraining each from annoying the other, until the divorce trial. They were married May 31, 1956, in Las Vegas, and have had a series of separa tions and reconciliations since. Dix was represented by Atty. George F. Wasson Jr.

at the hearing. TATTOOS REPLACED Hedy Tells Woes, Sues Her Mate for $51,000 Miss Lamarr Says Oilman Lee Is Behind in Payments, Claims She Still Loves Him In a few years. Lot Angela hoi become a leading center ior all types of heart surgery. In three articles, oi which this is the third, The Tiroes describes financing of the work the intricate operations themselves and the extensive research under way at medical schools and hospitals here. BY HARRY NELSON Times Medical Editor What causes heart failure? Researchers believe that in order to answer thi3 ques tion they must first learn what causes the heart to beat.

Is the stimulus electri cal or chemical? What are the physical and chemical steps by which the heart muscle contracts? Is heart failure a reversal of these same steps? Nobody knows yet. The only way to learn these an swers is Dy means of pro longed, costly laboratory ex periments. This is the field of basic research. As indi cated in yesterday's article, Los Angeles has suddenly be come one of the nation's lead ing centers in heart research as well as reconstructive heart surgery. UCLA Laboratory One of the many local in stitutions encaged in basic heart research is the labora tory of Dr.

Wilfried F. H. M. A.ommaerts, professor of medicine and physiology at ULLiA. Dr.

Mommaerts is one of the "bright young men" who nave recently been attracted to this area by the ferment of activity which has char-; acterized the city's emer gence as a heart center. A Hollander, he did research in Europe and elsewhere in the United States before coming here. A visitor will never see an ill person at Dr. Mommaerts' lab. Instead he will find rooms full of electronic equipment and glassware.

One room is devoted to a study of the regulation of, he living heartbeat. It is so full of electronic equipment that it resembles the con trol room of a missile launch ing station. Studying; Reaction But the imposing array of equipment serves only to study the reactions of a 10- milligram sliver of heart muscle carefully dissected and provided with oxygen and nutrients. Fine gauges record the tension and shortening of the heart muscle which, though only a part of the whole heart, reacts in its accustomed manner. By means of submicroscopic electrodes, the researchers are able to record the electrical activities of the cell.

"We hope," says Dr. Mom- Please Turn to Fg. 26, Col. 2 Comic Dictionary BIGOT A narrow-minded man who thinks the straight and narrow path isn't narrow enough. Copyright, bv Eviti Eur Arturo Frondizi elected Argentine president in quite a few years, the presumption is that we would like to return him to his people in a good state of repair.

In fact our State Department went so far, when it became evident that he was going to get here in a frigid downpour, as to issue a special protocol dispensation relieving all concerned of the necessity of standing hatless out there in the chilling rain during the ghastly duration of the double-barreled playing of two national anthems. Those of you who can remember to the 1932 Olympic Games will recollect that the then-anthem of the Argentines went on most of the afternoon. It isn't quite that bad now but when coupled with "The Star-Spangled Banner" on a cold day a healthy guy could almost catch pneumonia, die of it, and be buried while the Presidential 21 -gun salute wasn't more than halfway through. Everything went fine except that the State Department ppparently wasn't talking to the White House and the first guy to doff his Homburg was President Elsenhower and that called for a similar sacrifice by all concerned. A BUSY SCHEDULE If you're reading this column at breakfast, President Frondizi will be wending his way to talk to us at the National Press Club, always presuming that he will have survived up to this time.

He arrived here with the sniffles which weren't helped much by standing bareheaded alongside President Eisenhower at the airport. With Senora Frondizi and the President he rode to the Blair House and barely had time to tell hostess Victoria Geaney, whether he likes his breakfast eggs straight up or over before they had him galloping out the door and off to deposit a few wreaths at the feet of sundry statues. He got back in time to put on his tails for the White House dinner in his honor. INTO THE SWING OF THINGS By early Wednesday the good senor was off and running. He had a 10 o'clock date with Secretary of State Dulles, an 11 o'clock date to meet the local Argentine colony at the Embassy, a noontime.

appearance on Capitol Hill to address a joint meeting of the Congress, followed by a luncheon at which Vice-President Nixon was host. Oh yes, there was an evening dinner at the Lars Anderson House hosted by the Secretary of State. That's the way things have been going and the suspicion is that Senor Frondizi may be glad to go back to the comparative peace and quiet of the rioting and bombing In his home country rather than face any more of what is laughingly known as American hospitality. DIPLOMATIC ODDMENTS The Frondizis were hosts to the Eisenhowers last night at the beautiful Argentine Embassy, where the eating is reported to be very good. The Argentine Embassy was the scene shortly after the end of World War of the debut of Harry Truman's pal Gen.

Harry Vaughn in one of the ultrafancy-dress uniforms just authorized in the postwar delirium. Harry had so much gold braid on his coattails that he leaned over backward like a longshoreman balancing a 200-lb. crate in the days, of course, before Harry Bridges and the machine age relieved longshoremen of any such wearying Hi I MUST PAY Actor Rob ert Uix, ordered to pay for support of his child. Times photo Two Students Win -Awards of Legion Two 14-year-old student! at John Burroughs Junior High School were chosen yesterday as A r.i ca-a Legion Award winners from the winter '59 class. Awards in the form of certificates, medallions and lapel pins were presented to Mary Heldman, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Morris J. Heldman, 972 4th and Ha raid Andersen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Andersen, 3S29 Ingraham St.

SCARS The photographs had giyea no indication of tattooing in that area. But instead of needle scars his left arm showed a large tattooed cross and on the right was a tattooed pair of boxing gloves. Hooker testified he had been carrying these tattoos, since Novem ber, 1957. Found Not Guilty Judge Kepple, shaking his head in perplexity, found Hooker not guilty. The defendant announced planned to leave town immediately.

But police found him and booked him on suspicion of perjury after reportedly' learning from a city jail trusty that he had tattooed Hooker with a common pia and some colored ink whila both were in custody, Perjury Laid to Man Freed in Dope Case BY WALTER AMES "I gave myself to Howard But everything I did for, him was taken for granted." that was screen siren Hedy Lamarr's comment yesterday in explaining her reasons for filing a $51,000 federal court suit in Hous- ton Wednesday against her estranged husband, oil mil lionaire W. Howard Lee. Hedy, speaking from her Beverly Hills home, said Lee is $9,000 behind in monthly payments due her under a separation agreement she signed with the wealthy Lee last August. No Christmas Card "He didn't even send me a Christmas Hedy, whose beauty has caused strong men to swoon for many years, continued. "But I still love him.

He's the only man I really ever loved." The actress said Lee's failure to keep up his end of the agreement had placed her under a severe financial strain. "I have been quite ill," she confided. "Then -Tony, my son, was struck by an auto mobile while riding his bi cycle. He almost died. I just haven been able to accept any of the film or television offers made to me." She said she had tried to make a go of her marriage to the Texas millionaire, build- Perjury involved in his testimony winning himself acquittal of a narcotics ad diction charge last week was charged yesterday to Edd Lee Hooker, 37, jobless laborer, in a District Attor neys complaint.

Hooker was arrested Nov. 16 by city police and lodged in my Jail until his trial Jan. 12 in Municipal Judge Gerald C. Kepple's court. Takes Stand Himself After police witnesses had testified to the authenticity of two photographs of Hooker's arms showing hypo dermic needle injection scars, Hooker took the stand in his own defense.

He rolled up. his sleeves and showed Judge Kepple the areas portrayed in the SHRINE ABLE TO SEAT 6,500 FOR CONCERTS The Shrine Auditorium seats 6,500 persons. Los Angeles is lucky to have it. It will come in handy Jan. 31 for the first Promenade Concert to accommodate the thousands who are hungry for gay, light, melodic music.

This first of three Saturday night musical entertainments answers a need not quite filled by symphony concerts, the opera season here or the annual series of civic light operas. It is music for the "young in years," music director Johnny Green said yesterday. Frankly, it is romantic music and there isa place for it. 'You can buy tickets at the Southern California Music 737 Hill St. prosecution's photographs.

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