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.1 i METROPOLITAN NEWS SECTION VOL. LXXXI Timej Classified Advertising Number, MAdison 9-441 1 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1962 Times Office: 202 West First Street. Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 dentists Convinced Intelligent Life on Some Far-Distant Planets J. PICTURE OF GALAXY -This could be a photograph of the Milky Way, taken from its sister galaxy, Andromeda.

If it were, arrow would show approximate position in galaxy of our solar system. This is actually photograph of Andromeda, taken from Caltech's observatory on Mt. Palomar. Both are similar in size, shape. VPS vmtf- BY THE WAY Many Believe that Earth Will Eventually Find Way of Communication Ever since men first realized the stars and planet are other suns and other worlds, and not mere pinpoints of light in the night sky, they have been wondering if life exists elsewhere in the universe.

This i' the first of three articles discussing the attitude oi modern science toward this question. BY GEORGE GETZE, Times Science Editor In 1835 the American and British publics wei excited by the story of the great astronomical "'di; coveries" of Sir John Herschel, the famous Englis! astronomer. Sir John, son of the even more respected Sir Williai Herschel, was reported to have set up a unique); powerful telescope near Capetown, South Afric Through this great optical telescope he was said 1 have seen amazing sights on the moon's surface. Among, them were bat-winged men and womei some -of the women cradling babies in their arnv animals that look like polar bears but which lived i huts and were obviously much more intelligent than any earth bear, and trees and foliage as lush as thos in a hot-house. Only a Hoax It was all a hoax the "Great Moon Hoax" it wr called but Sir John, instead of being angered, we amused by the "science" series that first appeared i a New York paper and later in English and America pamphlets and books.

Newspapers in New York and London reached ne highs in daily circulation during the hoax, and mar, notable scientists were fooled. One might ask how people could be taken in by su an obvious trick, even 127 years ago. But you shouldr wonder. Many people still believe stories of "litt: MTA Prepares for Hearing on Transit Bonds Twist Mastered, Strategy Next? iw rr ill it IMC. 1 ili i BY BILL HENRY Armed with renewed local support, Metropolitan Transit Authority directors pre LIFE ON THE MOON These bat-winged people are what Sir John Herschel was supposed to have seen on moon through his great telescope.

It was part of the "great moon hoax" of 1 835, one of chapters in history of man's ideas of life on other planets. This picture appeared in an English pamphlet published in(1836. pared Saturday for congres sional hearings on legislation to pave the way for construction of a proposed 22.7-mile backbone rapid transit system through SAFETY NEED CITEDCaltech Man downtown Los Angeles. Reaffirmation of the MTA's $250 million backbone route came from the Board of Supervisors at its ON HILLSIDE HOMES Building Department Chief Declares Current Laws Don't Go Far Enough Photographs Sun Bubbles meeting last week. The board coupled this action with an endorsement of the authority's revenue bond 'guarantee bill now before i Congress.

BY PAUL WEEKS The sun is like a boiling Bund Insurance lliis measure, if adopted, Prior to October, 1952, anyone could gouge a chunk Pt on the kitchen stove in of mountain out of one of the view slopes in this area, whicn hot bubbles constant-build his little dream house, then sit on his patio and rLse t0 lhe t0P- burst and would permit the federal idlv watch the litrhts below. let the cooled water sink to government to insure pn- If, when the vate revenue bonds to provide funds for a high speed rains came.i enacted the ordinance. Mean combined subway surface system linking Century City in West Los Angeles and El time, we've, created 40,000 more building sites in the hills. Still, even with more the bottom to be reheated by the flame under the sauce-' pan. Only in the sun's case it is gas, not water, that is' being heated and reheated, and the temperature is millions of degrees Centigrade rather rain this last series of his patio started slipping down onto the neighbors downhill, that was just too bad.

The rains did come in the winter of 1931-52. And, that October, the city passed its first comprehensive grading storms, we've had but one-sixth the damage we had in than 212 deg. Farenheit. 'ol-o2. Monte.

A. J. Eyraud, MTA chairman, said work can begin on the subway project next January if the legislation becomes law by July 1. Eyraud and other MTA directors and oflicials are expected to go to Washington to testify at Senate Robert B. Leighton, Cal- tech physicist, has succeed One stumbling block, lie said, is that laws cover origi ordinance, setting up re ed in taking pictures of these quirements for cut-and-fill, nal construction, but don't ru holes ot unite not gas for compaction of soil, for cover maintenance.

with a special camera that drainage and other factors. makes it possible to distin guish between material mov Nothing City Can Do Owners sometimes take a fancy to change the slope of Recalls Difficulty That was the most diffi ing away from the camera and material moving toward cult legislation we ever had a lawn or to switch the drain age around to what they to get," John C. Monning, general manager of the City it. Motions Observed With a series of such pho think will be an improvement without having any Department of Building and Safety, said last week idea of the engineering, tographs the motions and hearings on the measure. No date has been set, but the hearings are expected to open early next month.

Financing Aid The supervisors also called upon MTA to explore. fully the possibility of obtaining financial assistance from the Federal government for construction of a rapid transit line between Los Angeles and Long Beach. Mayor Yorty and Mayor Edwin Wade of Long Beach had suggested that Federal ine recollection was a men landing irom space snips ana nying saucers. Just last week a man in London seriously that we must be on the watch for "spies" from Veni who, although existing in the form of fireballs on the own planet, appear to us to be ordinary earthmen earthwomen. What Science Thinks As for the scientists, chiefly the astronomers, vvh: do they think? First, they are sure that no intelligent life exis on any of the other eight planets of our solar syste -and are very doubtful that any kind of life exists them, with the possible exception of Mars.

Second, most are convinced that intelligent life do exist on other planets in the universe. The laws probability have convinced them of this, and althou' they do not believe we ever shall meet these forms life "face to face," they do think it possible or evi likely that we shall eventually be able to communica with them. Some of the most respected astronomers in tl1 world have already begun to listen for communicatic signals from other worlds. Dr. Frank Drake, of the National Radio Astronon Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., recently spe some time studying two of the 11 stars closest Earth, Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti.

Hope for Signal Using the large radio telescope, Drake and his ft low workers hoped to find among the gibberish interstellar static a coherent, recognizable signal th would indicate the presence of intelligent beings planets that might be orbiting one or both of the stars. Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti were chosen for th study because they are much like out own sun, Sol, brightness, size and energy. Their distance from Earl Please Turn to Pg. 5, Col. currents of the sun's surface Or drainage channels get timely one for Monning can be observed.

wants to ask for more legis clogged. There's nothing the city can do about that. lation. The bubbles, which last a day or longer, show up in the Leighton photographs as "Why," he was asked, "do Another source of trouble patches 10.000 miles across. is the grading for vast new developments in the rainy lii all probability nothing has astounded official Washington more completely than the gossip, presumably correct, that at the big White House party for Kennedy brother-in-law Stephen Smith the other night, Defense Secretary Robert Strange Mc-Namara brought down the house with an energetic demonstration of the Twist.

It was a whale of a apparently even the President was up well into the wee small hours saying adieu to the Kennedy in-law who, in the emergency caused by the illness of Papa Joe Kennedy, has been assigned the task of nursing the family fortune. The gay young friends of the energetic Kennedys, many of them from New York, were wriggling enthusiastically to the teasing rhythm of Broadway's newest dance craze when, to the astonishment of all concerned, Secretary McNa-mara not only attempted it but, according to imports, proved to be sensationally good. It wouldn't have startled any of those who know McNamara well. They expect him to be mighty good at anything he tries. That's his record.

But for those who have only known him by hearsay, it's almost unbelievable. McNamara's reputation in Washington is that of a 15-hour-a-day man; a no-nonsense, studious, all-business type who shuns Capitol cocktail parties, who presumably sits up all night at home studying and mastering his problems. If they know him by previous reputation, it is as a furiously-concentrating business executive who, when he had any spare moments during his Detroit automotive career, chose to spend it in the company of the intellectuals of the University of Michigan faculty at nearby Ann Arbor. The Twist? Incredible! His Ability Widely Acknowledged A poll of the Congress, published the other day, discloses that McNamara is ranked by the legislators at the very top as the best member of the President's Cabinet. He didn't achieve this position, you may be sure, through any social graces or performances on the dance floor.

He earned it the hard way. Congress is full of fellows who were studying government when McNamara was working with his slate and pencil in school in California. They pride themselves on the most intimate knowledge of military detail. "Admiral" Carl Vinson of Georgia, an acknowledged expert of long standing on defense matters, has been left spellbound by McNamara's intimate insight, gained in only a year as secretary of defense. Vinson has characterized McNamara as "a genius the best who ever held the job." A Genuine Demonstration of Genius McNamara's attention to.

and command of. detail has led to only one fear. That is the possibility that, like so many civilians who arrive in high places, he may confuse political or business authority with military genius. Then he might, like Franklin Roosevelt. Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, come to regard himself as a great strategist.

Everybody respects McNamara's impressive reorganization of the Pentagon where the interservice rivalry has tended towards wastefulness and duplication in peacetime. The details of wartime military strategy and tactics are, however, another matter. Business administrative operation and political maneuvering which are most admirable in times of peace can be fatal to the successful waging of war. Most of the people who really understand the lessons of military history hope that McNamara and the White House learned something out of the Cuban debacle on the of mixing civilian notions with military matters. If McNamara can should an emergency arise apply his admitted genius to administrative matters and leave the fighting to trained military men who have devoted tlv" lives to the art.

he'll be a genius Indeed. we still have front-page pictures in the newspapers of homes being wrecked by mud and water and earth- The photographs show the hot gas from, the sun's in season. terior rising to the surface "We have a resolution by demonstration grants, pro slips if we have legislation on 1 1 fanning out in all directions vided under a transporta the books which is supposed to keep this from ca.nnot hav a hS as it cools, and then sinking tion bill approved bv Lotv cress last vear, could he again into the suns inner vt open Dciween uec. anu ms; layers to be reheated. April 15, Monning said, but earmarked for this rapid' transit route.

At their meeting this Leighton estimated there may be about 5,000 such Obviously, he pointed out, the legislation didn't go far enough. But it was a giant step in it is only an administrative rule. But that is not an ordinance enacted by the City Tuesday, authority members Please Turn to Pg. 5, Col. are expected to act- on a formal application for the grant monies being admin "We had $74 million aid the commission age during the winter o'f 13 besieged by developers istered by the Housing and Home Finance Agency.

1931-52," he said. "Then we I Please Turn to Pg. 7, Col. 5 LECTURE ON COMMUNISM SET TONIGHT Final lecture in a five part series on "Commu Doctors Fight Charge of Red Plot in State's Mental Health Program Insurance for Hospital nism in Theory and Practice" will be given tonight by Robert Sea-la pino, professor of political science at University of California, in UCLA's Royce Hall. IIY HARRY NELSON (have infiltered key positions Physicians who disagree Times Medical Editor 'M the state and local with Sullivan's views nae Volunteers to Be Askec rhuw that thi mpntal'Brain oixler lo pervertpsy-been sparked into action by the recent endorsemfr.t cf ,.,1.1, nnf.

and brainwash tin is oi a heaitn program part "Accident insurance protec Sullivan's statements by the tion for 3,700 volunteers who! monthly as members of i tending staff associatior Others are women. Communist conspiracy to brainwash the public have leen countered by a group San Fernando Valley District of the Los Angeles contribute 310,500 hours of He objects to current commitment procedures, legislation (Short Doyle Act) which makes state money available for local mental County Medical Assn. work annually to county hos- jof incensed physicians who Hollinger will sugge The endorsement came i a 1 a will be requested brand the accusations "twisted half-truths with a after a speech on Nov. 16 in Tuesday of the Board of Su adoption of a plan for a $1' deductible reimbursement all and hospital which Sullivan repeated his pervisors. health clinics and surveys sprinkling of outright lies." accusations before an audi L.

S. the coun-1 which point up the need for More than doctors penses up to a 51.000 max ence of San Fernando Dis ty's chief administrative of more clinics. mum and a Sj.OOO pay me; signed a petition protesting the assertions and also helJ ficer, said these workers now Each of these Sul trict doctors' wives. The endorsement infuriat in event of accidental deat are treated like any other The talk, scheduled for 8 p.m., will be followed by a panel discussion. in which Scalapino vvill be joined by other specialists from UCLA and other colleges.

Scalapino will talk on Communism in China, the Internal scene, foreign policy and Sino-So-viet tensions. Speakers in previous weeks have been Sidney Hook, Merle Fainsou, Marshall Shulman and Stephen Spender. Scalapino has been a consult- ant on Far East affairs to the Department of State and the Senate Commits tee on Foreign Affairs. livan says, represents an at a meeting recently 10 ior- ed a number of Valley phy- visitor on county property in Cost to the county would 1 year. tempt by subversive Indivl mulate a point-by-point reply to the charges: case of accident.

First aid is uu sicians. mobuy dual3 in uic luminal niiuiui I administered but no further ii was mey wiiu imuhi A principal spokesman tor movement to set up a socialized, state controlled noint-bv-noint answers to assistance extended. the anti-mental health group bu livans charges. has been Tom Sullivan, a Hollinger saki many hospitals in this area Although Sullivan says he While similar accusations i attacking the "mental provide such accident insur Comic Dictionary DIVORCE A legal device whose chief virtue Is 4hat it puts a lot of marriagabU men back In circulation. Copyright, 1H2.

by tt tur have been sporadically health promoters not psv public relations executive in the free enterprise department of a savings and loan company. ance. chiatrlsts, part of the medi Of the volunteers, 2.1CC leveled at the mental health program for years, Sullivan's intensified attack has once cal profession feels it is be are private physicians donat Sullivan has tlaiced in ing an average of, 4.1 hours Tleasc Turn to Pg. 8, Col. 1 speechci that Cummunistsimore revived the issues..