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E-4 SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM Ajrd 17. Viewpoint Law Ends Time Confusion dil 1 By LEONARD MET7. Su-Ttigram Staff niw Congress has brought th rest of the nation in line with California. The House has passed a joint bill previously approved by the Senate which will end confusing differences in Daylight Saving Time. The proposal gives each tate the option of adopting Daylight Saving Time or ignoring it.

But if adopted. Daylight Saving must begin the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in October. California is not affected by the law. It is already on the April-October schedule. Thus, Califomians will set their clocks an hour ahead a week from today.

The new law ends almost a half century of time CANDIDATE Olan (O. Thompson, candidate for the 72nd Assembly District Democratic nomination, has been campaigning in the west end of San Bernardino Valley. He spoke recently before the Upland-Foothill Democratic Huh. cent years by outdoor movte operators, bowling alley proprietors and tavern keepers, who prefer less daylight hours during the waking day. The transporation industry, which has been seriously inconvenienced by hodgepodge local laws, gives major support to a uniform Daylight Saving law.

Time schedules (or railroads and other conveyances crossing state lines can become confusing, and the changes required by changing times frequently can be costly. Western Union once estimated that it had to adjust 40,000 clocks in the thousands of cities across the nation every time there was a change. The new law bans local optionbut not until next year. States will still be able to reject Daylight Saving by a vote of their legislatures, but they will no longer be able to permit part of the to be on Standard Time while other parts are on Daylight Saving. Local option will still be permitted this year.

To initiate Daylight Saving, California will set its clocks ahead one hour at 1 a.m. Sunday, April 24. Daylight Saving will end 1 a.m. Sunday, October 30. At that time all clocks in California are to be set back an hour, thus restoring the hour "lost" on April 24.

two state? the western portions of North Dakota and Texas observed what might have been called "moonlight time." They srt their clocks back an hour instead of ahead. Confusion about time was even worse a century ago. before the advent of Standard Time. In Wisconsin you could get 38 different "times" at the same instant; all governed by the sun. First attempt at controlling the clock was made by railroadmen in the United States and Canada.

In 1833 they set up the standard zones we know today: Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. The first Daylight Saving Time was inaugurated in Europe during World War I. Its purpose was to conserve fuel by utilizing more of the sunlit hours for working hours. Congress passed the first United States Daylight Saving law in 1917, to take effect in 1918. It was repealed the following year, and the repeal carried over a veto by President Woodrow Wilson.

A nationwide Daylight Saving law was again passed by Congress in 1942. Known as War Time, it lasted until the end of September, 1945. Early opposition to Daylight Saving came from farmers, who insist that cows want to be milked on "God's Time." They have been joined in re 1 VI I 1930. The big Fokker planes, in many ways far ahead of the times, never gained widespread popularity, due to general inefficiency. It wasn't until some 10 years later that four-engine aircraft returned to the scene.

CHEESECAKE AND GLAMOUR, GOOD IN 1930 AS TODAY Count 'em, 18, count 'em, ladies and gentlemen, 18 glamorous Fanchon and Marco Girls! Helping Western Air Lines inaugurate four-engine airliner service from Alhambra Airport in Of 3fi states that permitted either statewide or local Daylight Saving Time, only 15 previously followed the April-October schedule. And half the states observing Daylight Saving did so on a "local option" basis. Idaho, for example, observed four different times. Western Michigan observed "double daylight." two hours ahead, while other portions of the state set their clocks one hour ahead, and still other portions, none. A dozen states were still on standard time this year, and 'Chicken Curt a in' Held Fowl By FRANK CAHEY ATLANTIC CITY.

N.J. (AP) First there was the Iron Curtain, then the Bamboo Curtain, but, not so well known, is the Chicken Curtain. A Chicago scientist yesterday derilored the "chicken barrier" Western Air Lines 40 Years Old Western Air Lines, sole survi vor of the helmet and goggles pioneers that carried U.S. Mail way back in 1926, today cele set up by certain European and brates its 40th birthday. Pathologist's Findings As the nation's oldest airline, Bottle Feeding Causes WAL is still aggressive but now a days admittedly more comfortable than it was when pilots flew in open cockpits and followed railroad tracks from Salt Lake City to I-os Angeles.

other countries against the importation of poultry from countries where use of certain arsenic-containing chemicals is permitted in poultry feed to "improve the growth and well-being" of the birds. The United is one of those countries. Ir. Douglas V. Frost of Ahhott Laboratories said that while the element arsenic is indeed a Jckyll-and-Hyde substancedepending upon how, and in what quantities and configurations, it is used "science should begin to look more to the Heai vS I II Young With a ruggedncss matching the early settlers of the land that today rolls swiftly beneath its 600 mile an hour jets, Western has survived many with heart disease even if you are overweight, smoke heavily and lead a stressful and sedentary existence.

LONDON (AP) People who die young from heart disease probably were bottle-fed babies, says a leading British patholog babies seldom have these troubles, Dr. Osborne added. He claimed that disturbances from the gastric attacks can cause the blood to flow abnor hardships and dark days since good face of the element, less to mally, setting up turbulence at its dark side. Indeed, he said, while arseni heart artery junctions. "I believe it Is this turbulence that starts the process of hard cals have been under suspicion The British Heart Foundation is so Impressed with Dr.

Osborne's studies that it has given him a grant for further research. Dr. Osborne stated his probe after he had examined four teen-age boys killed in an auto accident. "What I saw was unbelieva ening which may not show up for 30 or 40 years," Dr. Osborne its hectic beginning.

That April day in 1926 found a curious crowd gathered at Vail Field now an industrial complex in southeast Los Angeles. A movie studio in a hay field was converted into a hangar for Western Express, as the infant company was known then. A spanking new Douglas M2 biplane was warmed up, wait-. for more than a century by various scientists as an alleged cause of cancer, all attempts to OVER THREE DECADES OF PROGRESS A more modern version of the four-engine aircraft, Western Air Lines' Douglas DC-6B, with an 84 passenger capacity, cruises along at 314 m.p.h. It costs $1,200,000.

prove this in the laboratory have so far failed. Moreover, he added, there's even suggestive evidence to in ble. Two had the kind of corona ist. Dr. G.

K. Osborne reached the conclusion from looking at the coronary arteries of 1,000 persons brought to him for postmortems. Their ages ranged from newborn to 45. Four hundred were victims of road accidents and suicide. The rest died of natural causes, including heart disease.

Dr. Osborne told the Royal College of Physicians in a lecture that what he saw in his microscope prompted him to believe that a dangerous hardening of the arteries can begin in infancy and early adolescence, and that by 15 years the pattern for life is set. If you can reach 15 with healthy heart arteries, said Dr. Osborne, you are unlikely to die dicate that research to deter ry hardening one associates added. Sentencing of Book-Inspired Killer Delayed LOS ANGELES (AP) For mal sentencing has been post mine the value of arsenicals to with a fatal heart attack, yet coming in from Salt Lake City, could get her autograph.

During World War II, West terrain, there were absolutely no injuries and founders of the line realized a net profit of for that short year. Anecdotes marked the initial However, with the war over, Western had come up with a perfect safety record for more than 67 million miles and had carried more than 22 million pounds of high priority cargo. they were slim and athletic," he said. prevent or delay cancer may now be in order." He made the statements in a ing at the end of the 4,000 foot oiled strip for pilot Maury Graham to accept his first load of eastbound mail from Uncle Sam. In Salt Lake City, Jimmy James was going through the same routine, preparing for a similar flight to Los Angeles.

ern helped write aviation history. A majority of personnel report submitted at the close of This decided him lo examine microsopically the coronary arteries of all young people sent the convention of the Federation In addition, the firm had con of American Societies for Ex ponod for Wayne Lee Welch, 18 convicted of the book inspired ducted a military pilot training program in Salt Lake City. perimental Biology. Declaring arsenic Is ubiqul In April 1951, Western was the first airline in the nation to cel ebrate its silver anniversary. tons in nature with trace amounts found in soil, air, water, plants and animals Frost said use of arsenicals by man has ranged from the pi After appropriate crrpmnnirs Graham took off and the company was in business.

Navigation was by landmarks and railroad tracks and Las Vegas was the sole stop, an import oneering nesticides Paris preen to pertain uses in tnedi-l ant refueling point between Los and planes were impressed by the Armed Forces but the airline continued to serve the West. In fact, several new routes were added. A few hours after the attack at Pearl Harbor, Western turned over to the government seven of its DC3s and five Boeing 247Ds. Within hours came an order to fly bomb fuses. Then within a few weeks, the line was reduced to only a trio of DC3s and a recently purchased Lockheed Lodestar.

In addition to carrying out its schedules, Western was called upon in 1942 to perform one of the most difficult air missions of the war. It was ordered to fly the Alas to him for post-mortems. He then tried to determine what those with badly diseased coronaries ones that might have killed them while they were still young had in common. Dr. Osborne said the pattern that eventually emerged was that heart disease in teen-agers, bad enough to cause fatal coronary attacks in their 30s or 40s, was far more prevalent among those who had never been breast-fed.

He said he believed the premature hardening of arteries was caused by gastric attacks due to bottle feeding. Breast-fed and well-being of poultry and swine at levels up to 100 parts per million or more of arsenic in the diet, the researcher said: "Some European countries disbar the safe uses of arsenic acids in poultry feeds." "They also disbar importation of poultry from countries where murders of two men. Welch, of Downey, told police after his arrest he shot the men last Aug. 12 after being in-j spired by the Albert Camus novel about a slayer, "The Stranger." Welch pleaded guilty to one count each of first and second degree murder in the slayings of John M. Kimball, 51, and Alejandro Lopez Montez, 57, at a truck loading dock.

Judge Eugene E. Sax ordered postponement of sentencing to April 22 because a probation report was not ready. cine, including the "magic bullets" of arsphenamine which provided the world with Us first drug treatment for syphilis. "The beneficial response to arsenicals depends, just as does the toxicity, upon the particular arsenical in question," he said. Asserting that certain organic arsenicals improve the growth But by this time, the line had been mobilized for military use for the second time in a decade.

It contributed personnel and equipment to this new threat, joining other major airlines In the Korean airlift. During that decade, the line began using a fleet of luxurious DC6B airliners, with five put into service on the West Coast. By 1954 Western was serving 44 cities in a dozen states and Canada. Today with the addition of the 720B fanjet to the fleet, Western will no doubt continue in its role as a pioneer of commercial aviation. year of dubious operation.

A 16-year-old boy clung to the wing upon takeoff at Las Vegas. He went unnoticed for the entire 234 miles trip to Los Angeles hut the wind tore away his shirt and he landed safely in collar and cuffs. But then his condition was not far afield from the casual attite the pilots themselves wore. In winter most dressed in old World War I flying suits left over from their military days. But summer was a horse of different color when Old Sol caused temperatures to climb.

Some of the pioneer flyboys were prone to strip to their drawers and fly in near nakedness. In those early days schedules were unheard of. Whenever a plane was thought to be overdue there was no immediate concern, for the pilots had a reputation of being social conscious. The desert stretches were lonely, and if one pilot passed a counterpart headed in the opposite direction he would signal, and the two would find a flat stretch of desert to land on and chat for awhile. And, if there wasn't another these uses are permitted.

Ssuch regulations now exist in 18 countries of Europe and North Africa, also in Viet Nam and Red China." Angeles and Salt Lake City. When time pulled down the hangar door on the first year of business, the line had carried a total of 209 passengers. Honor being the very first went to Ben Redman, a Salt Lake City businessman who sat on a mail sack with the wind in his face. There were 38 forced landings that year, a fact which might have proved discouraging to the willful Mister Redman had he been able to look into the future. However, despite the nigged PSA Hires First Negro Stewardess kan Canadian route via Great Falls, and Nome, Alaska, despite the fact that there followed the worst winter in more than 40 years.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Pa cific Southwest Airlines, largest mum mit intrastate air carrier In California, has hired Its first Negro stewardess, William M. Bennett, 0 rt air of tkiit 4 imn state pubhc utilities commission-)e mjght just drop on a l'r' saia- sheepherder or a cattle camp PJR0JFIKCT Cindy McLullough, 19, of San for a bite lo eat. Jose will enter a two-week train ing program May 1. Bennett said he had spoken with PSA On one such flight, Fred Kelly was flying the popular movie star of the bygone era, Bebe Daniel, to a personal appearance. He landed in the desert so that the westbound pilot, officials and the state Fair Em ployment Practices Commission several months ago.

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