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PART II Los Angeles Times EDITORIALS METROPOLITAN NEWS LXXXII CC MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1963 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 Teamsters Reach Loans Nearly in Vegas $22 Million Ulcer Freeze Treatment Stirring L.A. Hospitals Get Set for Expected Rush of New Patients BY HARRY NELSON Times Medical Editor One of the "hottest" medical procedures in years a "frozen stomach" ulcer treatment which replaces surgery is sparking a race by Los Angeles hospitals to get set for the expected 1 rush of patients. It is also the a object of considerable debate a among some doctors who wonder whether the experimental technique is ready for widespread application. Developed at the University of and first used only 15 months ago, the new treatment.

involves freezing the stomach until it is literally as hard as rock. Reason Not Known For reason not some yet completely understood, lowering the temperature of the stomach to nearly zero deg. F. for 45 minutes to an hour results in an abrupt cessation of acid secretion. Spectacular results have been achieved by the Minnesota surgeons who developed the procedure.

Potentially it offers a relatively fective inexpensive, means painless of and efavoiding surgery for a major propormotion of duodenal ulcer victims who are candidates for an operation. The approximately 2. million peptic (duodenal) ulcer victims in the nation are expected to clamor, for the non-surgical procedure. Still Experimental It is this, anticipated in view of the still experimental nature of the technique, which is causing some doctors, the greatest, concern. They point out that nobody knows precisely the nature of the changes in the stomach wall which result' from freezing.

In addition, there have been reports of gastric ulcers (ulcers in the stomach in contrast with those in the duodenum) being caused by the procedure in a small number of paa tients. To submit large numbers of persons to a procedure which has not been th oroughly worked out would be a mistake, they believe. While the conservative proponents insist that freezing would be used only on patients who otherwise would have to be operated on, the skeptics say that the Please Turn to Pg. 8, Col. HERE WE GO AGAIN--Four of the 41 residents Mrs.

Charles DeFreese, Zachary Martinez and his of Surf, leave their homes during evacuation mother, Mrs. John Martinez, and Mrs. Harriett caused by rocket test. From left to right they are Whitehead. Evacuations sometimes occur at night.

Town's Days and Nights 'Shot' by Rocket Tests Residents of Surf, Are Evacuated as Often as 2 or 3 Times Every Week BY CHARLES HILLINGER "Evacuate the town!" Guard families and When marine sentries sound that alarm in the railroad town of Surf, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles, no one panics. The entire community is evacuated as often as two or three times a weekeral times each month. Surf, on the Southern Railroad's main line, lies due south of Vandenberg Air Force Base missile launching pads. Every, time a rocket is blasted into the heavens in a southerly direction over the Pacific Missile Range, Surf becomes a ghost town. Removed From Hazards The community's 41 resiIdents, who live in 14 beach homes, are removed from the hazardous corridor which extends two miles inland and 10 miles down the coast to Point Arguello.

For three years the railroad telegraphers, section crews, maintenance men, their wives and children have had to leave at all hours of the day and night. "It sure gets monotonous," said Mrs. Vivian Diaz, in an observation that sums up the sentiments of the peopple of Surf. Told Before Shot The evacuation is supervised the Naval Missile Facilities, Point Arguello. Marine sentries drop by the village a day before a shot and warn "Mayor" Bob Wolfe, Surf trainmaster, and other residents of an impending blast-off.

Also alerted are three families at Sudden Ranch, 30 Coast Guardsmen and their families at the Point, and Arguello Loran Station Mr. and Mrs. George Page, who supervise the Santa Barbara County Park at Surf. Soon before launch the Robert Strausz-Hupe Federation of NATO Nations Urged at UCLA The director of the University of Pennsylvania's Foreign Policy Research Institute called Sunday night for a federation of Atlantic nations to be built on the foundations of NATO. Robert Strausz-Hupe expounded the idea before an audience of about 1,000 at UCLA's Royce Hall in the first of four Sunday evening critiques on United States foreign policy.

"An Atlantic federation must be created and must be created pretty soon otherwise our civilization will go to pot," he said. Coherent Foreign Policy Strausz-Hupe said such a federation composed of then countries participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, would help create a "coherent, overall" foreign policy for the United States instead of the pragmatic and opportunistic policy of the past and present. said the nation-state of today must be replaced through the leadership of President Kennedy. The Soviets are not interHested and the new nations are too busy establishing themselves, he said, so it is almost an "historic duty" of Mr. Kennedy.

Calls for Unity "Let us unite with what can be united," he said "That happens to be the Atlantic community. It is with these people we must tackle the job of replacing the nationstate system." Strausz Hupe warned against hoping for a mellKhrushchev. "The only warrant of his power is to be the chief interpreter, the high priest, if you will, of communism," he said. On the Cuba crisis, he said the only conclusion the Russians drew from their setPlease Turn to Pg. 2, Col.

2 TOWN DESERTED FOR BLAST-OFF Lance Cpl. abandoned for a Thor-Agena rocket blast-off from Robert Tuvell swings arm toward the community Vandenberg Base, beyond water in the distance. Times photo More of Pension Funds Invested in Stardust, Dunes Gambling Hotels Federal investigation of multimillion-dollar Teamsters Union pension fund loans is believed to be ing fruition in Chicago. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times' investigation of nearly a year brings new disclosures. BY GENE BLAKE AND JACK TOBIN Copyright 1963 by The Los Angeles Times Teamsters have reached taling $11 gambling Although near the tion, the gambling competition resort area ing ground Union pension fund investments in Nevada nearly $22 million with two new loans tomillion for the Stardust and Dunes luxury hotels on the Las Vegas strip.

the state bottom in popula- Vegas by United Resort Holure of legalized tels, and by Karat, Inc. has put it in close United Resort Hotels, operates the hotel under with the Florida lease from Stardust, as the main sow- and leases the casino operafor Teamsters' tion to Karat, Inc. pension fund money. Based on The Los Angeles Times' disclosures of the last year, about one-fifth of the pension fund's estimated $170 million mortgages are in Florida largely in the $200 Million Assets The newest loans in Nevada bring that state's share to about one-fifth and put it far ahead of California and New York. Source of the money is the Teamsters' Chicago based Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund with current assets of about $200 million.

One of the eight union trustees of the fund is Teamsters' president James Riddie Hoffa. The other eight trustees represent employers. Documents filed in the Clark County (Nev.) recorder's office show the new loan of $6 million on the Stardust hotel was made Dec. 17. $2 Million More It came first from the Bank of Las Vegas to Stardust, which executed a trust deed on the hotel real estate as 3 security.

An agreement provided that $4 million would be disbursed between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 1962. The remaining $2 million will become available between next Nov. 1 and 31 if the borrower qualified.

But no payments on any of the loan, including interest lat are due until Jan. 1, 1964. Also filed as additional security was a conditional assignment of leases and rents to the Bank of Signers of Papers the ranchers take refuge underground shelters. The Pages are evacuated on a Navy bus with the residents of Surf an hour before the firing, If it's a daylight shot -evacuees are taken to nearby Lompoc, where they treated to a picnic in Ryon Park or dinner in one of better restaurants. Navy Pays Bill If it's a night firing the families are put up in a motel.

The Navy picks up the tab for supper, buys the townfolk their breakfasts land packs lunches (school-age children and delivers them to class on in the morning. "That's the least we can do. They've been good sports through it all," said a Navy officer. The Navy gets into the act because of its responsibility for ground and in-flight safety over the cifie Missile Range. Typical comments from those in Surf: "If it helps the country to send these things in the air, I'm glad to leave," said Mrs.

Charles Defreese. Kids Like Motel "The kids like it. they sure get a kick out staying in a motel when have to leave at night," John Martinez said. Chief complaint is that hard to plan from day day. "I was going to wash day.

But they're firing Thor-Agena. Another shot," sighed Mrs. Martinez as she dressed her small children and prepared to leave. Her son, Richard, 9, the thrill of his life recently. Home with the measles had to be taken from in a Navy ambulance.

Mrs. Harriett Whitehead, Please Turn to Pg. 2, Col. On the same day these documents were, executed however, the bank's interest in the loan and leases was assigned to the trustees of the Teamsters' Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund. E.

Parry Thomas, president of the Bank of Las Vegas, executed the assignment. The other documents were signed for Stardust, by Jerry Rolston, Beverly Hills attorney, as president, and John S. Halley, Reno attorney, as secretary; for United Resort Hotels, by J. A. Donnelley, San Diego attorney, as vice president, and Bernard Rothkopf, Las Vegas gambling licensee, as secretary, and for Karat, by Donnelley as vice president and Rothkopf as assistant secretary.

Being Reorganized 'OK, WE'LL MOVE' Mrs. Peirce Ferriter and daughters Susan (in arms) and Kathleen get the word from Pfc. William Sepeck to leave the beach. FOOTBALL FADE-OUT Winter Rings Down Curtain at Coliseum BY ART SEIDENBAUM The long theatrical at the Coliseum ended in a comedy of errors as the per-, formers from the West kept falling down, dropping cues in form of footballs and refusing to play heroes. Pro Bowl curtain: East, 30; West 20.

It was a funny year. Well had the great repertory crew from SC which played only for happy endings. The UCLA group was more erratic, often refusing to follow the script when favorites or underdogs. The Rams? Pure Greco-Roman tragedy. The football finale yesterday was climatically out of character.

At performance time the temperature read 67 deg. but listening to the wind, you'd have thought the game was staged in Yankee Stadium. One man sat near me with white wool hat pulled down over his ears. Another kept raising his binocular to his mouth, not his eyes, obviously trying to satisfy another of the senses. There were enough blankets to open up a roadside stand in New Mexico.

And the concessionaires ran fresh out of their lukewarm hot dogs. The comparative cold, I guess, was also responsible for the season ending without the faith shouter who usually appears after each game in the tunnel that leads to the dressing rooms. He was absent; so was his portable loudspeaker. There was no one to urge salvation on the 300 or 400 autograph seekers crowding outside the players' dressing rooms. But neither winds nor charity kept the scalpers from coming.

I stood for five minutes outside the ticket windows before game time and got three different offers to buy $5 tickets for $7.50 each, The Coliseum still has these parasites Please Turn to Pg. 8, Col. 4 JAPANESE PAY RADIO STATION GOES ON AIR A subscription radio tion broadcasting in Japathese went on the air here Sunday with 2,000 paying listeners already signed up. The FM station, broadcasting with a power of 58 kilowatts, sends out scrambled radio waves which can be picked up in homes only with the aid of a special receiver converter. The station, operated by the Homecast 6115 Selma carries no vertising relies on subscriber fees for revenue.

Rental is $6.24 a month Principal ownership of Stardust, was acquired from John and Rella Factor in August by the Desert Inn management, and process the of corpo- being reorganized. The Desert Inn management also has been operating the Stardust through the United Resort Hotels Corp. Latest records in Carson City show officers of United Resort Hotels Corp. to be Wilbur Clark, president; Allard Roen, executive vice president; Rothkopf, secretary; Morris E. (Moe) Dalitz, treasurer; Morris Kleinman, a director, and Donnelley and Marshall Ruben, assistant secretaries.

The records show officers of Karat, (the Stardust Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 1 Record Crowd Expected to View Masterpieces BY HENRY SELDIS, Thousands of school children and college students are expected to join record crowds to see two worldfamous Italian Renaissance masterworks by Antonio Del Pollaiulo that will be on view at the County Museum from 10 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday. "Since this special exhibition was unexpectedly made possible by the Italian government and the couple who have had the panels in their possession, we would like to invite Times Art Editor the art teachers in this area to bring their pupils to see these great works by Del Pollaiuolo," Dr.

Richard F. Brown, museum director, said. The museum has custody of the paintings while negotiations for their return to the Uffizi Gallery continue between the Italian government and Mr. and Mrs. Johann Meindl of Pasadena.

The small wooden panels disappeared from Italy during World War II and 1 were rediscovered here a month alllago. $41.24 installation and deposit fee. Tadao Kimura, Homecast president, said the station is the first to use the bled transmission system here. He said the Homecast station can be heard in Los Angeles, Riverside, Ventura and Orange counties. The station broadcasts from 8 a.m.

to 11 p.m. and features music and programs taped in Japan. The openad-ing day's programs also included translations of statements by Mayor Yorty, and Supervisor Dorn. ART EXPERT IN FAMED PAINTINGS CASE DIES Arthur A. La Vinger, Funeral services will be who recently iden- conducted at 11 a.m.

Tuesrestorer, tified two famous Italian day in Pierce Bros, Beverly Hills Mortuary. Interment paintings owned by a Pasa- will be the Chapel of the dena couple, died Saturday. Pines. The paintings became the object of an international Comic Dictionary dispute when the Italian WORLD government announced it A place that seems to would seek title to them. Mr.

La Vinger, 60, of be. growing worse, but leaves his only. because the news Westbourne Al- coverage is growing betwife, Stephanie; a son, ter. len; his mother and two sis- 1963, by Evan Esar Copyriaht, Iters..