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THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW! 14-SAUNAS CAUFORNIAN Monday, Doc. 23, 1353 Shorten and Whipple YOUR MONEY'S WORTH PROGRAMS ore published bf the Solium a public service and ore compiled logs furnished by the individual (9 In color. TV Shows To Watch Tonight Night -Movie, 7:30 on 4 The Power and the Prize. Robert Taylor as a young executive who jeopardizes his career by jilting the boss niece. Leonard Bernsteins Young Peoples Concert, 7:30 on 5 In this hour from Philharmonic Hall, New York, Bernstein presents five talented young musicians a harpist, a flutist, a clarinetist, a pianist-composer and a cellist.

The orchestra is the New York Philharmonic. Outer Limits, 7:30 on 7 and 11 Tourist Attraction. A sea monster used as a tourist lure attracts other sea monsters. Hollywood and the Stars, 9:30 on 4 A look at Bing Crosbys career. East Side-West Side, 10:00 on 5 and 8 Creeps Live Here.

Light-hearted story about a group of semi-recluse tenants facing the prospect of losing their home to a supermarket chain. Little University JUST THINK TEN MINUTES A DAY! by Sylvia Porter The Metric System-What It Is (First in a Series of Three Columns) Say you weigh 125 pounds, are five feet, four inches tall and measure 36-24-36. What if your weight became approximately 57, your height 1.63 and your measurements hold fast-91-61-91? This is not pre-Christmas nonsense. For what Ive done above is simply translate our familiar English pounds, feel and inches into their equivalent metric weights and measures kilograms, meters and centimeters. Impressive evidence is piling up that we finally are moving toward adoption of the metric system for weights and measurements the international language of science and trade used in 88 countries, including 90 per cent of the worlds population today.

Item: A Metric Study Bill is slated to be introduced in the next session of Congress to lay the basis for conversion here to the metric system over the next generation. Chances for passage of the bill, which would call for an exhaustive study of the feasibility and problems of the changeover by the National Bureau of Standards, are considered the best in years. Item: This Saturday, Dec. 28, in Cleveland, the Metric Association, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, will hold its annual meeting in connection with the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Leaders of science, education and industry at this meeting will push for conversion as soon as feasible.

Item: Editorials are now appearing in record numbers in the nations most influential scientific and trade journals urging a changeover to meet the demands of space-age industries and to bring our measurement system into conformity with most of the rest of the world. Never before has there been such tremendous pressure to convert to the metric system, says Democratic Congressman George Miller of California, chairman of the House committee on science and astronautics and sponsor of the metric study bill. Miller expects that the study will be completed by 1967, that it will recommend conversion and that we could be actually converting before the end of this decade. What is the metric system? It is beautifully simple system of weights and measurements, invented by the French at the close of the 18th century, which educators say could be mastered by most of us in less than an hour. It divides all weights, distances and volumes into neat units of 10, 100 and 1,000.

There are only THREE units involved the gram, the meter and the liter, to measure weight, length and volume. For weight, there is the gram and there are 1,000 grams in a kilogram (about 2.2 pounds). For length, there is the meter and there are 1,000 meters in a kilometer (about half a mile). For val-ume, there is the liter (which is about a quart) and there are 1,000 liter in a kiloliter. In addition, there are such measures as the millimeter, the milligram, the centimeter, but the entire system is in those neat units and there is no such nonsense as 5,280 feet in a mile or 12 inches in a foot or 86 4564 quarts in a barrel of cranberries but 105 dry quarts (whatever they are) in most other barrels of fruit.

In contrast, our system is, as the Science News Letter puts it, a tangled spaghetti of systems, an ordeal for young and old. Aside from feet and inches, we all must learn there are 160 rods in an acre, 640 acres in a square mile, four gills in a pint, 32 quarts in a bushel, 144 square inches in a square foot. How many do you still remember? If you are an engineer, a surveyor or a scientist, you also must deal with links and chains, drams and minims, short and long tons, points and perches, grains and scruples. You must know the difference between statute and nautical miles, Troy and avoirdupois ounces and you must not forget that a pound of feathers does NOT weigh the same as a pound of gold. Against the metric systems three units, there are more than 80 units in common use in our country today.

Ours is a tortuously complicated, monstrously mixed up system in a world in which trade and exchange of scientific information demand simplicity and uniformity. Tomorrow What a changeover would mean to you. By Better English 1. What is wrong with this sentence? The weather was excessively cold, and every one of us were uncomfortable. 2.

What is the correct pronunciation of debacle? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Balustrade, ballast, balbriggan, balloon, balistics. 4. What does the word chary mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ul that means beyond what is manifest or avowed? Answers 1.

Say, The weather was EXCEEDINGLY cold, and every one of us WAS uncomfortable. 2. Pronounce dee-bah-kl. accent on second syllable. 3.

Ballistics. 4. Reluctant; cautious; frugal; sparing. He was inclined to be chary with his words of praise. 5.

Ulterior. Modern Etiquette Q. One of the girls in our neighborhood is to be married in our church, and although my husband and I have not received an invitation to the edding, we should like very much to attend. Would this be all right? A. If your church is so small that the invitations had to be limited, it would be wrong for you to attempt to squeeze in.

If, however, your church is large, it would be quite all right for you to attend and sit somewhere at the rear of the church. Q. Some of my friends have told me that it is improper for a person, even when dining alone in a public place, to read at the table. True? A. Not true.

There is nothing at all wrong with a person, who is dining alone, to read at the table. Q. I know I should, as a woman, offer my hand first in greeting a man, but if the man happens to offer his hand first, what should I do? A. Accept it by all means and without hesitation. A Problem a Day If two numbers differ by 4, and their squares differ by 48, what are these numbers? Answer 4 and 8.

Let equal smaller number, and (X plus 4) the larger number; form equation: (X plus 4) squared minus squared equals 48; solve for X. By Elsie Hix Ul Presicferrf oA the Sot Reouhfo, CHOKED A PANTHER TO DEATH WITH BARE HMDS-AUD PERSONALLY KILLED MORE THAW ZOO UOKI5 -South Atrics, fCs- Tomorrow 5:50 DAILY WORD ffl 5:52 FARM 5:55 FARM ffl NEWS 4:00 CLASSROOM ffl SUNRISE SEMESTER MAHALIA SINGS (7) 4:25 LEARNING ffl 4.30 INQUIRING ffl ENGLISH 6:55 DICK TRACT ffl 7:00 TODAT ffl 0 MARSHAL 0 DEBBIE DRAKE ffl 7.25 FARM DATELINE ffl 7:30 TODAY 90 FOR NEWS ffl 8 00 CAPT. KANGAROO 8:30 EN FRANCE 0 9:00 SAY WHEN 0 ffl 0 NEWS MOVIE ffl "Private's Progress," British, 1956. HOCUS POCUS 0 9:25 NEWS ffl 9:30 WORD FOR WORD 0 I LOVE LUCY 9:50 RELIGION 10:00 NEWS CONCENTRATION ffl 0 REAL McCOYS JACK LA LANNE 0 10:30 JACK LA LANNE LINKS PETE GLADYS PIONEERS 0 "Birth of a Boom." 11:00 ROMPER ROOM IMPRESSION 0 ffl LOVE OF LIFE PRICE RIGHT ffl 0 11:25 NEWS 0 11:30 TRUTH OR 0 fflQ TOMORROW SEVEN KEYS ffl 0 11:45 GUIDING LIGHT 11:55 NEWS ffl 12:00 HOUR OF STARS ffl "Linder Your Spell," Lew-rence Tlbbett, Wendy Barrie, Arthur Teacher. PEOPLE TALK 0 ffl NOON DAY NEWS ERNIE FORD ffl 0 HIGH NOON 12:25 NEWS 0 12:30 DOCTORS AT WORK ffl 0 AS WORLD TURNS FATHER KNOWS ffl 0 1.00 BOLD JOURNET ffl "Jea nie of fhe Far North." LORETTA YOUNG ffl 0 PASSWORD GEN.

HOSPITAL ffl 0 1:301 WANT TO KNOW ffl YOU DON'T SAY 0 HOUSE PARTY ffl DON SHERWOOD DIVORCE COURT 2:00 MOVIE "Sea of Lost Ships," John Derelc, Wanda Hendrix, 1953. MATCH GAME TELL THE TRUTH 2:25 NEWS 2:30 ROOM FOR DADDY ffl EDGE OF NIGHT DAY IN COURT ffl 0 2:55 NEWS ffl 0 3:00 OUTLAWS ffl SECRET STORM QUEEN FOR DAY ffl 0 GOLD COAST MATINEE "Let's Face It," Bob Hope, Betty Hutton. 3:25 NEWS ffl 3:30 CAPT. SATELLITE ffl MIKE DOUGLAS WHO YOU TRUST ffl 0 4:00 WHIRLYBIRDS TRAILMASTER ffl 4:303 STOOGES POPEYE EARLY SHOW "Going My Way," Part II. 4:45 WEBS.

WEBFOOT ffl 0 ffl ffl Answer to Previous Puitle 27 Solemn appeal 41 Twenty 28 City in Nevada 42 Hop. and 29 Wiid plum jump SI Simple 43 Mr. Martini 34 European 44 On by aircraft blackbird 4iMix 37 Comstock 47 Prince von mini's ttismarck 38 Hcvcrnee 48 bird home 39 Take into 50 Recede custody 51Jnyous 0T IbOK PtATIOG AIL DIMMER TO GET THE AT BRIDGE Beware of Gift From Experts NORTH 23 AK92 VAQ 4 1094 KJ872 WEST EAST AJ63 AQ1054 VJ10 94 865 862 A7S 4Q53 1094 SOUTH (D) A87 VK732 KQJ 5 A6 No one vulnerable South West North East 1N.T. Pass 3N.T. Pass Pass Pass Opening lead By Oswald Jacoby This is Christmas week and it seems an appropriate time for gifts.

Of course, when a defender gives a present he expects a greater present in return. It doesnt require much effort on Souths part to make six no-trump. He simply wins the opening heart lead in dummy. He plays a club to the ace, finesses the jack of clubs on the way back and winds up with five clubs, three diamonds, three hearts and two spades. However, if East shows a little pseudo-Christmas spirit and plays the nine or ten of clubs on the first club lead an expert South is likely to wind up with 11 tricks instead of 12.

Expert South will pause a moment after that nine is played. He is likely to ignore the possibility that East has played the nine from ten-nine-small and decide instead that it is either from ten-nine or queen-nine doubleton, queen-ten-nine or just a singleton nine. He will see that it makes no difference what he does if the nine was from queen-ten-nine or ten-nine, but that if it happened to be played from queen-nine doubleton he will do one trick better if he rises with the king of clubs on the second club lead and plucks that queen. Expert South will want that extra trick and will go up with the king of clubs. West will make his queen and South will have no recourse except to make a New Years resolution to beware of that particular East.

Almanac Today is Monday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 1963 with eight to follow. The moon is at its first quarter. The evening stars are Saturn. Jupiter, and Venus.

On this day in history: In 1783, George Washing-ton resigned his Army commission and returned to his estate at Mount Vernon. In 1928, a permanent coast to coast radio network (NBC) was established. In 1948, ex-Premier Tojo of Japan and six other war leaders were executed in Tokyo by an Allied war crimes com mission. In 1953, the former head of Russias secret police Lavrenti Beria was executed. A thought for the day according to the Gospel of St Matthew, Love your ene mies, bless them that curse you.

TV Tonight CHEYENNE ffl "Wagon-Tongue North." RIFLEMAN 0 "Six Year, and a Day." MICKEY MOUSE SEA HUNT CO RECORD HOP CD :00 TOMBSTONE Cl) HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY CO NEWS (X) MAVERICK ffl "Bold Fenian Men." 4:1 NEWS CD 4:30 YOGI BEAR (2) NEWS ffl ID SPORTS ffl) 7:00 FLYING DOCTOR SANTA RIDES AGAIN CO PALADIN "The Englishman." NEWS DR. KILDARE 0 ZANE GREY Q) "License to Kill, 7:30 MOVIE 0 ffl "Don't Go Near the Water." Glenn Ford. MOVIE CO "Power and the Prlre." YOUNG CONCERT Leonard Berstein. OUTER LIMITS CD 0 "Zanti Misfits." ONE STEP BELONG "Anniversary of a Mur- 1:30 LUCY SHOW fl WAGON TR. 0 ffl 0 0:00 DANNY THOMAS fiO fl 0:30 DOCTORS NEWS ffl HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS ffl "The Binq Crosby." ANDY GRIFFITH 0 10:00 NEWS SING MITCH 0 EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE "Creeps Live Here." BREAKING POINT 0 "Body of Stone." 10:30 GROUCHO 11:00 MOVIE 0 "Devil and Miss Jones," Jean Arthur.

NEWS ffl ffl 0 11:10 SPORTS TONIGHT 0 ffl 0 EDITORIAL 11:20 STEVE ALLEN 11:25 MOVIE 11:30 MOVIE 0 "You'll Never Get Rich," Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth. 12:50 MOVIE "A Holiday Affair." Robert Mitchum, Janet Leiqh, Wendell Corey, 1949. 1:00 NEWS 2:00 NEWS TV Notes Folksingers Peter, Paul and Mary guest with Jack Benny Jan. 14, and adapt his weli-ie known foibles to song The voice of Bennys wife and comedy partner, Mary Livingston, who retired seven -years ago, is heard in a tele-n phone conversation on his New Years Eve show. Jack (Dragnet) Webb, short-time boss of Warner -Bros, television, is out; he revamped 77 Sunset Strip -for ABC-TV and put on Temple Houston for NBC- TV and both shows have had sethe impact of a feather.

Hootenanny originates at -West Point Jan. 14. The Defenders has picked up rating points since return-sb ing to its old time slot. Broadside, a half-hour comedy about a platoon of Waves in World War II, is a -possible series followup to the successful Mcliales Navy. Nevada ACROSS I mines it Tonopah I Ruth Copper Nevada 8 Site of University of Nevada 12 Central American tree IS Labor group lab.) MAakew IS Greek temple IS Nevada city 17 Min Hayworth 18 Impervious to V.lley National Monument St Beam .22 Vegas 23 Nevada Indian SS Maxims 30 Hostelry 31 Female horse 33 Every one 33 Greek letter 34 Lake Nevada 35 Boxing term fab.) SBImmersers 38 Lake oa Nevada line 40Choler 41 Indian weight 42 Little 45 Nevada capital, City 4RRuuian city 50 Self-esteem B2 Diminutive suffix IB Concerning 54 Legal profession 55 Perches S8 Impoverished 57 Secondary SBUsns's gait DOWN 1 Abrupt flexure (anat.) 2 Japanese coin 3 Turn into wind (var.) 4 Arid region 5 Devoulness 6 Sick 7 Plaything 8 Most unusual 8 Lamb's penname 10 Norse night 11 Colored fish 19 New Guinea port 50 Tropical fruit 22 Nobleman 23 Mixed, as type 24 Preposition 25 Two-toed sloth 26 Dutch river Thest program Californian as from the TV stations.

Look and Learn 1. How do the number of pipe smokers in the U.S. compare with that of cigarette smokers? 2. What three countries are crossed by the Arctic Circle? 3. Whose was the first U.S.

Presidential inaugural address delivered in the open in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.? 4. What tree is the principle source of turpentine? 5. Which is the only insect, so far as is generally known, that can turn its head around as we can? Answers 1. According to latest estimate, there are about 8.3 million pipe smokers, as compared with about 64 million cigarette smokers. 2.

Russia, Sweden, and Norway. 3. James Monroes first inaugural, in 1817. 4. Pine tree.

5. The praying mantis. President Lyndon Johnson served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was decorated for gallantry under fire. Your Horoscope By Stella TUESDAY, DEC.

24 CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jun. 20) Take advantage of a natural letdown In mood and activities during alter noon. Join children's fun. AQUARIUS (Jan.

21-Feb. 19) Avoid any postponement in carrying out last-minute holiday plans. Morning hours are the best. PISCES (Feb. 20 Mar.

20) Dont allow minor disappointment in afternoon to mar your enjoyment of the evening. There may be a surprise in store. ARIES (Mar. 21 -Apr. 20) Matters of public importance in connection with your work may come up for consideration tod iv.

Take care of them In short order! TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Social aspects of this day are of paramount importance to tomorrows pleasure. Don't shirk vour responsibility. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Take care of matters of personal Interest during morning. Guard against holiday upst in afternoon.

Evening entirely favorable! CANCER (June 23) A special day with extriordinary rewards for one who discerns quickly and makes the right decision. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) Dont expect the excitement to mount until evening. Take advantage of the relatively quiet day to rest and get in the mood. VIRGO (Aug.

24-Sept. 23) Morning hours best for work. Avoid family argument stemming from ordinary holiday tension. Begin festivities early. LIBRA (Sept.

24-Oct. 23) Restrictive delays may turn up during afternoon, so complete your important work first thing in the morning. Alls well bv pvt. SCORPIO (Oct. 24 Nov.

22) Combine dignity, executive know-how. and diplomacy and alt should run smoothly for a most favorable Christmas Eve. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) Avoid afternoon confusion by having all in order by noon.

Family and friends depend on your planning ability. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS uv TURQ0O15C cmaiAu origin WAS NAMED FROM A FREWCrf WORD MEANING A TURKISH Stmf Television In Review By Rick Du Brow HOLLYWOOD htd A special telecast this coming Sunday seems certain to stimulate anew the question of whether President Johnson, assuming he runs again, will debate his Republican foe on television. The program, ABC-TVs 90-minute The Making of the President, 1960, adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning book, follows the election campaign, and includes footage of the first of the televised debates of Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. It has been suggested by this viewer and elsewhere that there are indications that President Johnsons over-all relationship with video will probably be less emphatic than was President Kennedys. And there are reports reminding us that neither Nexion nor Kennedy was President when the 1960 debates occurred; that a President in office might be put on the spot by revealing or trying to keep secret classified information; and that Mr.

Johnson may feel that a Chief Executive should not debate with anyone on television. There is no telling, of course, how future developments will affect the final decision. But few have forgotten the crucial fact of how the comparatively unknown Kennedy gained important exposure by merely being televised with the better-known Nixon a memory of which you can be sure Johnson is acutely aware. And along these lines, an informative ABC-TV press release concerning The Making of the President, 1960, contains a reminiscence of interest from the moderator of the first Nixon-Kennedy debate, newsman Howard K. Smith.

According to Smith, Kennedy entered with the approach of a man who had nothing to lose. Of added interest, according to the ABC release, is that strictly on an informal debating point score, Smith had given Nixon a slight edge, 188' a to 18. Last Saturday, this viewer tuned in the North-South college football game from Miami on ABC-TV, and apparently an arrangement has been made so that occasional plays could be heard being recited by the quarterback directly in the private team huddles. This really is going too far, is too much. The current tendency especially in some areas of television of reducing everything to a part of show business is one of the most repugnant aspects of modern life.

ABC is not alone. For instance, it is understood that CBS-TV's golf show, Match Play Classic, will have the competitors wired for sound. As with a recent ABC TV documentary, in which cameras were allowed to shoot inside the White House and the Alabama governors mansion during a racial crisis, I personally resented this intrusion of events. If a quarterback wants to blow off steam during a huddle, he shouldn't have to worry about being wired to provide fodder for the unending pursuit of thrills. Just cover the game, fellas.

Stay out of the action. tt hr m- ti 9- fc-r t. fc i. i is a tm a A Timely Quotes There is no element of blessing in automation. It is rapidly becoming a real curse to this country that could bring us to a national catastrophe.

George Meany, AFL-CIO president. At the time Congress moved to Washington, D.C., membership of the House was 106 and that of the Senate was 32. Manners Make Friends A smile can smooth many a sticky situation. MERRY CHRISTMAS to our many customers and friends HUGHES SHOE REPAIR Robert and Beth Hughes 918 East Market Street KARA OA1BUTSU A BUDDHIST TEMPLE 111 JAPAN, 107 FEET 165 FEET AND i6o feet high, is built entirely OF M..