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The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 18

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ywwni The Austin American Thursday, May 5, 1955 Actors Eye TV Page 18 Austin, Texas Viewer Ills ing work for the unemployed and giving the Nazi army good communications lines to takeoff points for invasions. West Germany now has over 1,300 miles of such A new law provides over 300 million dollars a year from road taxation to help finance the network extensions. German transport officials hope that in 20 years the highway net will be more than doubled. Bonn To Add To Highways BONN, Germany, W-At a cost of around $900,000 a mile West Germany plans to add 62 miles a year to its Hitler-built superhighways for the next isix years. The four-lane highways were built by Hitler to connect the strategic areas of Germany.

They served a double purpose of provid meeting this week. The proposal to charge homo viewers of television plays was made by a television player, John Justin. Equity President Felix Aylmer "asked whether he was advocating a form of subscription television. Justin said he was not suggesting any "exact method." Players complained that they are paid inadequately. A good supporting actor, an Equity spokesman said, may get up to $176 for appearing in a television play of first importance.

LONDON, May 4 W-British Equity, the actors' trade union, is trying to devise some method of collecting "admission fees" from those who watch television plays in their homes. It is a difficult problem, officials admitted, but they were ordered to undertake it by Equity's annual mm A Are YOU in tune SlL .1 i 4 M.I 1 'f I v. p1 i i fl with the times? Why? Because it makes such good mmmm lf mA Am sense, and womenfolk and mentolk today have more good sense than ever before in history. The world is full of things to buy, trips to take, improve- ments to make. But most people know that nothing takes the place of having some good old dollars stashed away for a future emergency or a future chance at greater success.

Open your account today it's insured safe. United Press Telephoto cident in which the rabbi's 21 -year-old bride was killed and he was injured. Miss Giesecke was given three years' probation and ordered not to drive during that time. FREED BY PLEA Miss Joanne Giesecke, 26, a Philadelphia secretary, escaped a possible jail term in Chicago after a plea from Rabbi Lipman Rabinowitz, right, pictured with his mother. Miss Giesecke had been convicted of reckless homicide following an automobile ac- vJ dadela, a huge rectangular court with minor pyramids inside and on Mexico For Vacation Site Offers Bargain Army Stand On Capture In War-Don't By JACK RUTLEDGE MEXICO CITY, May 4 GW-A WASHINGTON, May 4 UP) LOAN devaluation of the peso plus a wealth of scenic and historic attractions have combined to make its corners.

Xochimilco, the famed floating gardens, is even closer to the capital. It is best observed Sundays when the flower-lined canals are so crowded with primitive gondolas that there are occasional traffic jams. You can make a trip to Cuernavaca and Taxco in one day, but it's better to take two. Cuernavaca is a famed resort city about 45 miles from Mexico City over a superb superhighway. After touring Cuernavaca, drive on another 50 miles and you're in Taxco, an old mining town whose silver mines gave up millions in wealth.

Production has declined sharply now, but the ancient city has regained its place in Mexico's economy by becoming the home of the silvercraft industry, and a tourist center. Mexico a popular spot for Americans seeking bargain vacations abroad. ASSOCIATION EABL T. HO WELL Piadal ELEVENTH end LAVACA CTRHDIT ANNUAL WVHENf To get to the pyramids from the Basilica, continue out the Laredo highway, turn right at a well-marked fork, and at 30 miles from the capital you find the ancient location of an ancient city, with the pyramids its focal point. The largest is the Pyramid to the Sun, 216 feet high and considered the largest artificial mound in the Americas.

There is disagreement as to its age some say 1,000 years old, others date it before the Christian era or over The peso has been cut to 12 to the dollar, and by trading in Phone 2-7258 Evans S. Swonn. Chairman of the Board $100 the tourist can go a long way south of the border. DIRECTORS The capital of Mexico and its Don't get captured. That's the Army's prime advice to its soldiers on how to avoid brainwashing by the Communists in any future wars.

But if you are taken 'prisoner, the Army tells its men: 1. Try to escape. 2. If questioned by the Reds, give them only four elementary facts and remember that as a POW you are still obligated to i risk your life for your country. 3.

Keep in mind the virtues of the American way of life as against the Communist system. it This was the Army's outline to a House Appropriations subcommittee last month of its program to prevent American POWs from succumbing to Communist brain-Washing techniques as the Army says many did during the Korean War. environs are at their best during the summer months. Everything is in bloom, the weather is cool. 2,000 years old, still others contend Earl T.

HowelL President E. H. Perry Coleman Gay Rex D. Kitchens John Ross Ireland Graves W. T.

Saunders I. E. "Pete" Smith its much older than that. Nearby is the Pyramid to the Moon, much smaller, and the Ciu- Mexico City is no more Mexico than New York is the United States. But it's exotic, it's foreign, it's cosmopolitan, and there are short and inexpensive side trips which give you.

an insight into all mm m- 9 phases of Mexico's life 'and its fascinating history. If you come by automobile, as the great majority of tourists do, UVJ iThe Army told the House group Lru in testimony made public today you can make it from the Texas border to the capital in two easy there was the following difference in the combat situation of soldiers days driving. You 11 find gasoline cheap (17 cents a gallon for top grade) and motels along the way less costly than in the States ($3 or $4 a night a couple). Mexico City with its 3 million population is a mile and a half high, sits in a cup of a valley surrounded by mountains, and has and airmen: Force crewmen, when shot 'down or forced to parachute over enemy territory, have no option but to land in such regions. In ground combat the circumstances are different.

In the confusion of combat on the ground, much Responsibility rests with the individual soldier who in actuality may decide whether to Sght on to death "tst raise his hands in surrender tinder crucial circumstances." I The testimony disclosed that GI's are getting special evasion and escape training overseas as it ap a springlike climate throughout the year. Assume you're in Mexico City. What now? You have obtained a hotel reservation in advance that's almost mandatory and you're comfortably situated In a modern, clean room. (Hotels range from 20 pesos $1.60 for a double to almost anything you want to pay. The lowest double in the swank Del Prado is 50 pesos $4 plies to that locality, and two new training films on the subject are planned.

'-Also, the Armv said, it expects io issue soon a new regulation lay ing down the duties of all soldiers but the average is twice that.) The things you see or do depend entirely on your own inclinations. There are things of historic interest. Mexico City was a metropolis long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Or there are sports, golf, horse races, jai-alai, bullfights and night clubs by the In the downtown area itself If SS Wfesiligbotse tal-to Refrigerator J--- rl -v v-K A 'X a -ir TXzi i fs t-- fZ' 1 (r 1 "'from combat to prison camp. Among other things, the new order will require a captured GI to no more than his name, rank, serial number and date of birth," as customary under international law.

Another Army step a a i is brainwashing is a forthcoming pamphlet telling soldiers what to expect if captured. Ex UT Prof Fears Result Of Radiation easily toured afoot there are the famous Palace of Fine Arts with its gorgeous murals and the Na tional Palace, where the President has his offices. The huge cathedral on the Zocalo 'the city's main square) is a must. Built on an Aztec temple back in 1525, it expanded through the vears until it is now said to be the largest cathedral in North America. It is the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Mexico.

You can drive through Chaoultec Park and its great castle, once the home of Emperor Maximilian and Carlotta. It is now the nation's greatest museum, housing historic treasures. -WASHINGTON, May 4 UP) -Prof. H. J.

Muller, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, asserted tonight that radiation from H-bomb tests could cause "tens of thousands" of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans. 'The Indiana University professor, in a speech prepared for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, said the mutations won't undermine the heredity of the entire U.S. population significantly, "but each individual harmful mutation is, however, an evil, and we have no right to dismiss it lightly. we must base our case for the continuation of the No trip to Mexico City is complete without a look at the 30-million-dollar University City, the most elaborate educational project of the century, and recently the site of the Pan-American Games. The huge campus, built atop a lava bed, includes about 80 of the most modern buildings found on a Serves delicious fruit juice freshly mixed instantly college campus anywhere.

Quick inexpensive sidetrips can (atomic) tests squarely on the fact De taken to the pyramids, Xoxhi milco, Cuernavaca and Taxco. FROST-FREE fully automatic defrosting. And look at these Food File conveniences: that they are at the present staue NOTHING TO MIX OR STIR. Just imagine! Cold drinks freshly mixed glass by glass instantly, automatically at the touch of a finger. Two kinds always on tap.

The ancient pyramids are not far from the capital. On the way in mrwrn' necessary to prevent our being put at a military disadvantage. Only form a position of all-around your own car, by guided tours, or by taxi you can stop bv the in 5U- wwk os low as Cheese Compartment Fruit Bin 18-lb. Meat Keeper Roll-Out Shelves 4 Egg Keepers Butter Keeper 5 Mb. Freezer Beverage Keeper Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's shrine.

The Virgin Mary is supposed to have appeared nearby in 1531. strength, I think, can we finally reach a situation where gentral disarmament is feasible." -At the same time, Muller said Americans are receiving more radiation from X-rays and radioactivity in medical treatments than from all atomic and hydrogen test explosions. JL.t ii a I efter small down payment Bridges' Friends 2 Vegetable Humidrawers it-. xKxmimri To Petition Ike "Most of the genetic damage from medical uses of radiation i -ar- Hi SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (jPS Pptitinns nsL-inff Procirlnn! Picon. could be avoided if only physicians HYDE PARK ELECTRIC 4403 GUADALUPE APPLIANCES PH.

53-4321 would admit its existence and take hower to halt citizenship revoca-certam simple precautions to re- tion asainst Ham- Brides wPrP being circulated on the west coast and in Hawaii today. Bridges, head oi the independent International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, goes to trial on a civil suit June 20. An ILWU spokesman said dead duce it, $uch as shielding the re-producth organs, and limiting and keeping track of the total amount of exposure of each patient over many years," he said. "It is largely this reckless attitude on the part of physicians which has influenced extremists to claim that nuclear explosions are harmless or even beneficial." ouse YOU CAN BE SURE. ITS line for signing the petitions Is May 31, and they will be presented ftwry week be cm le WESTttiGttOOS SUCrtO Ode TV man poea Onwwtk- Sfcow to -isennower June 6,.

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