European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Kenneth a Jeri gym Cata logs part of hit braille Boon to nations sightless by Dan a staff writer a believed to be the urgent private Library to world u awaiting shipment from far use by Iowa Kenny to 32yearold Tennessee born director of the Iowa commission for the is owner of the which be began accumulating in Buck at Peabody College la he the writ Blind Penon to Evey head the Iowa the Library will be tet up in the men Lenti gaas the from to science an estimated to he most of the collection is i where Jern Igsa formerly served on the faculty the Ort Tauoa Center for the adult the Library was Eilt by a lot Money and some tit the saw Salty such As science fiction of which he is an avid had to be specially transcribed by Are discarded books from braille libraries throughout the nation and the Library of Cong still others have come from where braille is printed at much cheaper rates than in the in the collection Are All of Shakespeare play and sonnets 38 braille Tolstoy i i musics and very few Jernignan make a Hobby of collecting braille i Haven heard of a larger collection any certainly not in the United Jernigan said the Library will be Avail Able to Iowa estimated 4000 mind per sons through a mail Goren on Bridge Nat Feer North Man a 106 4qj109 Kouth aq3 at ajw4 ak85 East kj942 South 4875 10954 8 the bidding North East South 2 it 4 4 Pom 4 d pass 6 v pass pass pass opening Lead club lest an examination of the bid Ding diagram Lead you to con etude that our typographical department has gone let me to Point eat that North and South were employing the Gerber convention in the hand featured South was All for bidding a slam when his partner opened with two no he Taw no re unable Way to conduct a scientific inquiry but he decided to Choc k for aces at least on the Way the four club response to an opening bid in no Trump is a request for aces in the Lilak Wood the four Diamond bid shows none or All South Hud no difficulty distinguishing and directly to six i West made the Normal of the club Queen which forced Dummy on the surface it appeared that the Success of the hand would depend upon win Ning the Spade inasmuch As one Spade loser seemed in Declarer saw no need to commit himself to that play hastily and decided to Dally for a trick or two before deciding on a plan of he cashed the King of Trumps and then led a club to the Ace and ruffed a club with one of his High he then led a to Dummy exhausting the Adverse Dummy fourth club was Clearing ail hands of that now since the enemy has neither hearts nor clubs the con tract is assured regardless of the location of the rest of the Declarer simply plays a Dia if an Lionor comes up Dummy wins and plays the Jack of intending to Dis card a the other would then go on the established 10 of if West plays Low on the Diamond Declarer puts in the 10 and claims the for East must return a Dia mond or a either of which gives Declarer the rest of the thu Chunho in a furlough facts by John staff writer in some the dead sea up Only awesome stagnant body of water surrounded by lifeless the ancient of the cities of the Plain has suffered an unappetizing reputation since the time of the old travellers to the land during the Middle Ages heaped up the and their imaginations ran riot in describing the Cea and its their wild tales had it that no Plant could live in the evil the seas poisonous Waters never and that no Bird could Gover us dismal surface and no landscape has been More unjustly the Danube Assy not be really but the dead sea assuredly and the rounding landscape has a dramatic with scared broken bar deep shadowy and the Salt rifling in raw Beauty against the besides us the sea is Ine of the worlds great curiosities it is the lowest body of water on lying feet below level and while the salinity of Ocean water is Only 46 per the dead sea boasts 25 per a swimmer wading into the sea finds that when the water reaches his armpits he is swept off his and in deep water his shoulder remain above the no one has Ever been known to drown hem if gomorrah is on the Shore of the sea still is the Little jewel of an Oasis town dating from biblical times called Engedi Solomons songs mention the vineyards of yens ago it was a flourishing then through the centuries it became Barren through neglect and a thousand Yean later the roman historian Pliny lamented that its Groves of Palm Trees aft now a Heap of i Israel y t the stars and sol types the dead sea lies on the Border Between Jordan and Israel 45 Miles vast of it is 49 Miles 10 mites acres at its broadest Point and reaches a depth of about l300 feet near its Northern though it is quite shallow in the it fat by the River Jordan and a few other streams Bat has to the on the Jordan Are a number of chem task plants and a couple of resort known in the Bible the East and sea of the dead sea recently awakened from its Long dormant biblical on the site of Engedi a group of Young pioneers has established a manent agricultural settlement and has planted grapes and israels excellent Winter climate ant the pure Spring water in the area bring Forth an abundant Harvest at a time when no other parts of the two countries Are Flower fast a few in Yiett North of the Engedi also la Are caves of where the celebrated scrolls of dead Bat were the most Topor Tant  oaf of the the seven most Complete scrolls Are now of div play in near the Northern tip of the dead sea lies a Mecca tar tourists and the Valley is Rich with Fertile abundant fruits and vegetables and at the moment is crawling with expeditions unearthing the famed Walls of Casar tumbling Down in biblical in contrast to Jeri Dave Winter climate is since it lies so far below sea level Neir the dead sea and a stones throw from the Jordan and the sat a Fere Christ was baptised by John the Baptist october