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,11 ill. A-12 THE DAILY SUN Mar. 4, 1965 Device Could Bring Cure for Stuttering stutterer's own voice, instead of white noise, through the ear By STAN BENJAMIN jsat near the kitchen table. His PHILADELPHIA (AP) "If'neighbor, a music teacher, a person knows he is the tabletop and noticed well. I euess most people would; it was resonating, like the phones, but with a difference using a little electronic gim- sounding-board of a musical in sav, 'Whv doesn't he just slow micking," he can change voice characteristics before they reach the ear, and observe their strument, to Agnello's voice.

down and stop doing Dr. Joseph G. Agnello, 32 di- effect on speech. This odd observation, plus more technical considerations, rector of Temple University's speech and hearing sciences laboratory, who posed the ques started Agnello wondering: Some preliminary testing has already been done with a delayed voice return, or "delayed Could stuttering be linked with the way a person hears his own sidetone. voice? Drowning out the voice with One question to be answered is the length of the unit involved in a "loop" response: It could I it's nel mol UC A be anything from the highest meaningless "white noise," through earphones, had been found to allow many stutterers to speak, temporarily, more audible sound wave to a whole i n.

word or phrase. tion, knows it isn that simple, although he wishes it were. Agnello is one of the estimated two million Americans afflicted with the not-so-funny handicap. Combining both personal experience and his rigorous professional training, Agnello has designed a novel experiment which he hopes will shed light on the causes of stuttering and perhaps contribute to its treatment. In a wav, the experiment "Most of the literature says easily.

"They've said it's a distrac it's the syllable," Agnello ex plains. We feel the trouble tion," says Agnello. "But I think it's more than that. I think may be in the transition from you've broken the loop." By "the loop" he means the syllable to syllable. "A delay of about two tenths of a second causes the most travelers iersey by l0l theory that the stutterer's hear ing of his own verbal stumble trouble.

That's about the dura dates back to a conversation in somehow sparks another stum- nai rfViKrtti If itthan A ffTinlln i i a iicignuui a luivimi. Dle a seii-repeaiing cycie. was disturbed to find that his stuttering got worse when hel Agnello plans to return the tion of a syllable, so they start overlapping," he adds. "They claim you just can't beat the system. It's bound to affect your speech in some way.

It can even induce artificial stuttering in a normal person." During the next year, aided by the university and a $3,600 Feel Reds Will Foil Nationalist China Also Wooing Africa grant from the National Insti tute of Mental Health, Agnello and his assistant By JOHN RODERICK such as that of the Coti- TAIPEI, Formosa go. Publicly acknowledged Com a year or so," said Yang Hsi kung, "what the Chinese Com director Dr. Henry Goehl and research assistant Miss Hazel Coblenz, will run delayed "side-tone" and other tests on half a dozen stuttering subjects. He says: "We're not so naive as to think we just stick a person in a machine and cure him. I'm saying it is highly possible to build a system to break that loop to serve as a reconditioner and aid in therapy." munist aid to a selected list of African countries totals more than $130 million, much of it arranged by Peking's suave traveling salesman, Premier munists are doing in Africa will boomerang.

They underestimate the intelligence of the Afri cans." Chou En-lai, in his long African tour a year ago. Yang, a handsome graying I oround man, picked up an African wood ine nationalist Chinese ap crarving, peerd at it then con proach to Africa aims at over throwing none of its govern' ments, Yang says, does not ped dle a political philosophy of any kind and instead of aiming for the top reaches down to the grass roots. Its core is technical help to the farmers, fishermen and small industrialists, tinued: "They believe cynically that the Africans can either be corrupted or intimidated. They do not believe that human beings are capable of grandeur." Yang, Nationalist China's vice minister of foreign affairs, is Chiang Kai-shek's top expert on Africa. In his own way he is fighting the Chinese Communists there.

Though on the surface the two Chinas seem poorly matched, the small Nationalist program has achieved Its yearly cost: Around $2 million. The Nationalist entry into Af rica in 1960 appeared then to be an exercise futility. A mission made up of 14 graduates of the Hal Boyle Memories of Yesteryear Recalled By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Memory is man's best friend and boon companion. Memory makes us wise or at least careful. You probably have minted many a sad or merry memory yourself if you can look back and remember when An enterprising lad could make his spending money in summer going from door to door selling flypaper.

higher agricultural college on (jrs around your jy iv iSXr these dresses keep their y7y poise, lead the lazy lite, love suitcases, I I wash easily, require little or no I rvA ironing permanently pleated skirts shrug off attempts at crushing I i In Arnel triacetate I I jersey in sky blue or I cloud white. 12 to 20; I 12T2 to 2272. 1 5.98eacy M-r--T Also in Harris' )jy I Formosa went to Liberia to show how to grow paddy rice Communist China has expend-1 ed enormous effort to make the Vfa3 fhat o'nlygh emerging Africans see things hard work can people in the de- veloping countries get prosperi ty; there is no shortcut to dustrialization." This example of hard work was given by the 83 Formosan their tough revolutionary way. It pours aid into friendly countries and ships guns and techniques to rebels leading subversion against governments they All Around Seating In Houston Stadium missions and technical teams which followed In Liberia, the original I It was testified that Clara Har.risi production almost 600 per cent' Bow, the glamorous "It Girl" of HOUSTON (UPI) -County's new $22.5 million the movies, lost some of her $5, an acre. domed stadium, located on a 26-acre tract seven miles south The Chinese grew jute where it had never been grown before, of downtown Houston, will seat 47,004 for baseball, 53,615 forjsaving uahomey half a million football, 66.000 for boxing dollars a year in imports, events and 46,700 for conven- 0n Formosa, 168 young Afri-tions.

cans frm 24 countries have 000 weekly income playing kitchen poker with her household help. Meat shops always had sawdust on the floor and the butchers wore straw cuffs. Many of the old-timers chewed tobacco as they worked. Hatcheck girls usually got only a dime from a customer The seating can be seminars lasting live to nine months. ranged to accommodate sport 'We have offered very little," ing events or meetings rang Yang.

"But we have ing from rodeo; to trade shows helped the African to stand on and weren't too ujbset if he left to national poucal conven tions. his own feet, to show him that1 only a nickel he does not have to live on a dole from anyone. We have giv- Most doSs and diedwith-en him, in a word, a sense of'cut even wearing a tag, being human dignity, somethinz the treatea DV 8 veterinarian, nav Communists have overlooked." ing a license, or being taken to a canine beauty parlor. You could tell how cold it was Cancer Research ATHENS, Greece (AP) -Columbia University has decided to establish and finance a medical unit for cancer research at jing Paul Hospital in Athens, health minister Andrew Kovevis announced. The university also will grant scholarships to Greek doctors willing to specialize in cancer Waffle Iron Now Turning Out Pillows I by how the icicles congealed on I the full veils worn by dignified old ladies.

Your stature in a small community was partly determined by the number of times you had SHELTON, Conn. (AP) -road the Bible all the way The old familiar waffle iron! through, has left the kitchen and has I It also was a mark of distinc-been put to use for the bed-jticn if you had a worn buffalo room. irobe to keep you warm when It is now making latex pill-vou went riding in a horse-ows considered to be "the new-j drawn sleigh. PIP est idea in pillows in 20 years." The waffle iron that has been put to use here at the B. F.

Goodrich Sponge Products plant is the same as the kitchen model, only larger and with pointed spikes, instead of blunt A lot of people were secretly ashamed of old furniture in their homes which is now being eagerly sought as antiques. The first thing a newly married couple bought was a big blight brass bedstead. Mother wore a needle in her dress and kept thread in her pocket because she had to be ready to do emergency sewing for the kids all day long. Everyone thought it hilarious that heavyweight boxer Gene Tunney read William Shakespeare during training for a bout. (Most of the fans who jeered him couldn't read two ones.

Batter, in this case latex, is placed in the mold with a hose, not a spoon, the lid is closed, and it is then frozen at 25 degrees below zero, and cooked at 250 degrees. The result "tastes terrible," but, according to foreman Henry Faulkner, using the waffle iron technique allows molding a one-piece pillow containing thous-, ands of holes through which lines from a poem by Edgar A. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a volcanic region in Alaska which came into being at the time of the eruption of Mt. Katmai on the Alaskan peninsula in 1912. It is 17 miles long and four miles wide.

When discovered, not 10,000, but millions of jets of team were issuing from the floor of the valley from vents ranging in size from a tiny crack to pits or craters 150 feet in diameter. f) tacydopoedi trrtmixca air can circulate and which Guest without moving their eliminates surface tension, soilips The nation was awed by a re i i (uw, ri port that film star Lilyan Tash- man had an ermine cover for a the pillow "won't fight back." Faulkner has the advantage over his wife: His waffle irons can turn out more pillows than his wife's can waffles 3,400 certain fixture in her bathroom. Those were the dear old days. i Remember? a day more, in fact. HARRIS 6N BERNARDINO TVRNBd 0444 SHOP MONDAY AND WWDAV WD TO tiOSI OTHER WEWDAYti 30 TO MO' SHOP ALIO KAXKOf VtfWD AMD NARfftV MCOUNDS i it' Ii.