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Life Begins At 40 By ROBERT PETERSON Most men retire at 65. But Dr. Sigmund Spaeth was 70 when he accepted the editorship of the Msic Journal. Next month be 80 and still at the helm of this monthly publication. Why did he take the job? "Because the publisher, A1 Vann, was very replied this amiable, legendary figure who knows just about all there is to know about music from the stone age to modern times.

heard so much about old folks being unemployable that I was quite astonished by offer. It seemed almost irresponsible to accept an executive post at an age when everyone else was retired. But always maintained that music keeps you young, and figured I must "be younger than my It should be noted that Dr. Spaeth is no mere figurehead on the staff of this respected music magazine. He casts his sharp and practiced eye over every line of copy, and actually writes or initiates many of the articles.

His touch has been golden, for the circulation has doubled and its advertising revenue has tripled during his ten- year reign. Dr. Spaeth worked his way through school all the way up to an earned doctorate at Princeton University. His chief interests have always been music and sports. During his remarkably productive life been a music critic and lecturer, a radio commentator on both music and sports, and is author of 32 books on music.

How does he feel about present state of popular music? suppose 1 should be reassuring the optimistic but I get depressed at times by what appears to be retrogression. My tastes are catholic and embrace everything from Wagner and Straveinsky to Rodgers and Dis- ieiand Jazz. I see no merit in and and the type of music associated with the Beatles and others These assorted heats and sounds have no musical signifi- cance and represent mere primitive his health? good, despite a decline in energy and some vexing medical restrictions on what I can eat and drink. life is still very much worth living. My usual day has me getting up when I feel like it usually around nine.

Then I have a light breakfast, read the papers and stroll to the office for my work. or thre evenings a week I attend some significant musical event. Then I play bridge with friends once a week, and derive great satisfaction from armchair sports television is simply for baseball, football and How does music keep people young? has a relaxing effect on emotions and tends to smooth away cares and frustratins of age. Music has always been associated with liveliness and gaiety and these are youthful qualities. If we listen to, or create, some beautiful, uplifting music daily we help feeling younger than our This saga of a success in a new career should inspire elders everywhere.

It should also awaken personnel directors to the possibilities which exist for finding superior executive talent among those carelessly labeled as superannuated. U.S.-Britain Open Talks On Asian Crisis WASHINGTON (UPI) Thej United States and Britain Mon-j day opened a series of high-level talks on peace and war in Southeast Asia. Both nations have heavy commitments in the United States in South Viet Nam, Britain in Malaysia. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart opened the talks with a two-hour and 45- minute session covering a wide rantge of problems, including the United Nations, the North Atlantic alliance and disarmament. At the end of the talks, Stewart said it was time we met in view of the current international situation because we want to be sure that our two governments are aware of one minds on these There apparently were few questions at issue.

Stewart said that there was a measure of between him and Rusk, t'lt he said that had been so even before they met. VALLPV MORNING STAR HARLINr-EN, TEXAS Tuesday, March 23, 1965- Ground Breaking For CAF Museum Is Held CAF MUSEUM GROUNDBREAKING A groundbreaking ceremony at Rebel Field, north of Mercedes, Monday afternoon signaled the official start of construction of a Confederate Air Force Museum for World War II fighter planes and a Pilot's Hall of Fame. Taking turns at the shovel (l-r) were Mayor Joe Stephens of Weslaco, Mayor John Bowe of Mercedes, John C. Jones of La If you would like a booklet Most Popular Retirement write to Robert Peterson, Begins at e-o King Feature Syndicate. 235 E.

45th New York. N.Y 10017, enclosing a stamped, self addressed envelope and ten cents to cover handling costs. Do FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH, powder to 1 on upper or lower false teetii firmly In p.ac« Do not slide, slip or rock. No Rummy, gooey, psMv taste or fwltng (non- arid). Does not odor breath" Get FASTEETH at drug countars averywhere Murray Attending Governor Meeting Rep.

Menton Murray is heading a Texas delegation at Southern Regional Conference of the Council of State water discussion at Atlanta. Murray, chairman of the House Conservation and Reclamation Committee, is accomapamed by Felix McDonald of Edinburg and Bill Clayton of Spnng Lake The two-day conference ends this afternoon Murray was appointed to head the Texas representatives by House Speaker Ben Barnes the perfect pair ANYWHERE! TOP STEER SOLD Woods Christian of Mission, representing the V. F. Neuhaus Properties, bid $3.65 a pound for the grand champion steer of the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Monday. With him are Bryan Moore of San Benito, who owned the calf, ad Laura Tobin of Brownsville, Cover Girl of the show.

(Star Photo) radar smooth Convairs to Houston Convenient connections with DELTA. jets to: Chicago New York leavt Arrive Arrivi HARLINGEN CHICAGONEW YORK 6:30 a.m. 2:19 p.m. 12:44 p.m. 2:31 p.m.

8:49 p.m. 9:17 p.m. 7:23 p.m. 4:58 a.m.2:47 a.m. RESERVE CHAMP, BUYER Bascom Spillar of the First National Bank of McAllen bought the reserve champion steer of the Valley Livestock Show at $2 a pound for the First National Banks of McAllen, Edinburg and Mission and the Security State Bank of Pharr.

Flanking him are Cover Girl Laura Tobin, left, and Debbie Keir of McAllen, who took home nearly $2,000 from the sale. (Star Photo) Hope Abandoned For Lost Girl Lot book you all the wayl For information and confirmad vations phone GA 3-7300 or your Travel Agent. TtiAMS TMXA mirvmmym nei ta I bmms I the air lint with tht BIG JETS TYRONE, Pa. (UPI) Disheartened searchers combed through dumps and limestone caves Monday with little hope they would find 6-year-old blonde and blue eyed Kathy Shea alive. chances are getting dimmer and R.K.

Meredith, area civil defense director, said. this point our people feel pretty The girl left her home last Thursday to walk four blocks to a kindergarten at the Adams, School. She never reached jit. A woman who knew her spoke to her a block from the school. That was the last anyone saw of her.

think somebody picked her up right about said father, James Shea, pointing to an alley near where the woman saw the girl. bloodhounds lost her scent here. gave police a blanket she slept with every night. She called it a GETTING PERSONAL HOUSTON L. Leone of the Computer Sciences Corp.

envisions the day in which the man who works as a computer operations manager be automated himself. The automation system of the future will be able to handle such presently done-by-man chores as inventory check and control, manpowers needs for certain projects, and other decisions, Leone said know how little girls The mother, Mrs. Mary Shea has spent most of the daylight hours sitting on a sofa in her living room looking out a window. is where I used to watch for her every she said. think now that someone took Kathy Shea, 40, is a foreman at the finishing mill of the West Virginia Pulp Paper Co.

here. He and his wife have two younger sons, Kevir, 3. and Todd, 14 months. Nearly 9,000 persons, including National Guard personnel, combed an area 100 miles square in this mountainous region in central Pennsylvania during the weekend. jLjffljiit i Feria, president of the Valley Chamber of Commerce, County Commissioners Charlie Curtis of Pharr, Ramiro Guerra of Edinburg and Herbert Pike of Weslaco, Col.

Lloyd Nolen, CAF deputy commander, and Col. Shelley Collier chairman of the building committee. (Star Photo) MERCEDES Colonels of the Confederate Air Force and a few guests turned the first spades of dirt Monday afternoon for what thev believe eventually may be a $2 million museum and Combat Pilot's Hall of Fame. The ground-breaking was coupled with a plea for financial backing and moral support from the Valley, which reaps the most benefits trom the world famous organization dedicated to preserving World War II fighter planes and traditions of the old South. got something now whether it came about accidentally or intentionally, worth millions of dollars in publicity to the Valley and with an unlimited Col.

Lloyd Nolen, deputy commander of the CAF. said at a meeting of the general staff and county and city officials. The CAF now has 176 colonels from as far away as Denmark and Canada. Some of the better known colonels everybody in the CAF has the same rank are Joe Foss and Gus Grissom. Nolen displayed plans for the museum, which is being started on a 60 acre tract at Rebel Field.

He pointed out that wherever CAF planes there are accompanied by from two to 30 officers, of where the planes go, the Valley will be Nolen said. He said when the museum is completed, many of the planes as practical will be kept in flying Current plans for the museum or memorial park a name is still to be chosen call for four buildings, a fighter wing, a bomber wing for both light and heavy aircraft and the Hall of Fame. The CAF signed a contract with EdrHeblute Construction Co. of La Feria recently for the first phase of the designed to get a basic shelter for the vintage aircraft maintained by the organization. It will cost approximately $55,000.

which already has been raised among the colonels themselves. Chasing Rocket By Plane Not Easy Job CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)Chasing a rocket streaking into the sky is not an easy job, even when an imaginary one. Several Air Force pilots have been doing it for the past few months, but it will be different target will have two men in it. Capt. John D.

Musgrove, 36, of Sutherlin, made a practice run last week. I took the place of the regular observer for the exercise in an F4C Phantom. The Project Gemini countdown, simulated for the drill, was nearing zero. We were flying eight miles above the Atlantic, waiting. The Cape Kennedy ground controller continued counting.

T-minus-3. 2. 1, liftoff. s- grove, knowing that precision timing is needed for a od picture-taking session, waited patiently. Eight seconds after launch, we nosed over.

The make-believe rocket was climbing skyward and we had to find it. A small television set in front of me flashed on. It showed a puffy blanket of clouds way below us. On launch day, the observer would spot the accelerating rocket. Suddenly, I weighed 7 0 0 pounds.

We were pulling out of the dive, zooming up at 1.21 times the speed of sound to be-1 gin our picture run. Now was the time to take notes, but I couldn't lift my! arms. The pull of gravity forces four times normal kept them glued in my lap for an instant. We climbed steeply with the; twin engines on the McDonnell-' built Phantom putting on 37.000 pounds of thrust to keep the. imaginary Titan-2 in view for several seconds.

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