European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of i Friday july 3, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 magic among the molecules Peggy Youngren a Secretary for the Westinghouse corp., holds a minute Silicon Crystal used As a Light detecting device that reduces the size of previous types of detectors by some 1,000 times. It will be used in the satellite telemetry systems needed for the space age. Up Mutual network sold liabilities at $3 million new York a Sale of the Mutual broadcasting system has been announced. It is the fourth change of management in two years for the radio network. A spokesman said a group of investors headed by Tampa attorney Chester h. Ferguson will assume control of the system. The Sale Price was not disclosed. Robert f. Hurleigh Mutual vice chairman acquired All Stock owned by Board chairman Malcolm , jr., As a prelude to the management change the spokesman added. Mutual almost immediately Fileda petition in bankruptcy listing liabilities of $3,195,207 and assets of $579,607. The petition was filed in  court by Hurleigh of inc authority voted on Alaska Railroad Washington up the Senate Commerce committee approved a Bill to provide for eco nomic regulation of the Alaska Railroad under the interstate com Merce act. The measure would make the Railroad s rate and other schedules subject to regulation by the inter state Commerce commission inc. Bethesda md., who was name president of the network at a Board meeting a few minute earlier. Hurleigh said the filing is de signed to pay off Mutual s old debts and at the same time per Mit it to operate and seek new business. Chief creditor is american Tele phone and Telegraph to which Mutual is listed As owing $503,000.smith will resign formally at a meeting of Mutual s Board of directors the announcement said. A group of new York businessmen including Smith took Over the network March 21 from Scran ton corp. Trading suspended Scranton corp., an affiliate of the f. L. Jacobs co., became sol owner of Mutual after the Securi ties Exchange commission Sec suspended trading in Stock of the Jacobs co., which formerly con trolled the network. The Jacobs co. Until this Spring was controlled by Alexander Guterma who has been charged with fraudulent practices by both the Sec and the  has 453 affiliated radio stations throughout the country which it provides with news sports and special features. The network does not own the stations. Atomic plane to Cost $10 billion defense research chief reports Washington up the de sense department s research chief Das told Congress the eventual cos of developing an atomic powered plane would soar to at least $10billionand possibly much More. This huge estimate came to lighting testimony on air Force construction appropriations just made pub Lic by a House appropriations sub  the government bookkeeping year which began wednesday the administration plans to spend about $150 million on nuclear pow ered aircraft. This would bring total spending on the project to about $1 billion Over a period of several years. Herbert f. York director of de sense research and engineering implied to the subcommittee How Ever that the outlay so far has been just a drop in the bucket com pared to what the total would be. If anything is to be done in the Way of application of nuclear Energy to flight it will not be done for less than $10 billion or some multiple thereof York said. That is going to be very expensive if done he said. His estimate reflected a major reason for the administration s refusal thus far to put the program on a crash basis As demanded by some congressional critics who predict Russia will put a nuclear powered plane into the air before this country does. New Standard shortens britons elevates yanks Washington a Ever american is now a Little heavier and a Little taller. Every English Man is a Little lighter and a Little Shorter. This All comes about because effective this week six English speaking nations have adopted new Standard definitions for the Pound and the Inch. The changes from the old definitions Are slight so slight they can t be measured on an bathroom scale or yardstick. They Are important though in certain technical Fields of manufacturing and research which use More accurate measuring devices than Scales and yardsticks. Precision machine tools and missile parts Are examples. 2 tug men killed As Cable Breaks Washington up two me were killed May 30 aboard the uss Kalinin a Fleet tug when a Moor ing Cable broke during operations in the British West indies the Navy has announced. The tug is stationed at key West  dead were two Patrick Joseph Shannon whose wife live sin Coronado Calif., and Seaman Michael Alfred Bonacci survived by his wife living in new York City. The Cable knocked both me against the Side of the ship and into the water. The body of Shan non was recovered but Bonacci s body has not been found. Suicide nope just dying to Greet mate san Francisco up police moved up cautiously behind a Young woman who had been reenacting suspiciously on the Golden Gate Bridge mrs Nancy Bell 28, laughingly old them she had no intention of jumping off. She was signalling hello Darling in Morse code with a Mirror to her husband crewman on a vessel entering the Harbor after a six month absence. For the american who formerly weighed exactly 150 pounds the change in the Pound adds one three Hundredth of an ounce to his weight. An american who used to be exactly 6 feet tall is now approximately one eight thousandth of a Inch taller. Canadians also Are taller an heavier because until the change they used a longer Inch and heavier Pound than the new stand Ard measures. However residents of the four other countries Are Shorter and lighter. The four Britain South Africa Australia and new zealand had Bee using a Shorter Inch and a lighter Pound. Negotiations leading to the Standard definitions began several years ago. They were conducted by the standards laboratories of the six countries. More californians Sacramento Calif. A California s booming population its climb slowed Only slightly by Las year s recession has reached an estimated 15,280,000, an increase of528,000 during the past year. Faubus plans court Appeal Little Rock Ark. A gov. Orval e. Faubus plans to Appeal to the supreme court a ruling which nullified the Law he used to close Little Rock Public High schools last fall against integration. Faubus previously had not committed himself on a possible Appeal from the june 18 decision of a three judge Federal court holding that the Law was unconstitutional. He said the Appeal was being prepared by his attorneys and would be filed in due  second lathe Appeal also will cover a companion Law which the three judges held unconstitutional. Under this second Law Money which normally would have prone to Little Rock schools was diverted to other schools to which displaced Little Rock pupils transferred. Both Laws were passed at Fau bus request at a special legislative session in August 1958. The next month Faubus invoked the school closing Law to keep the Public High schools shut rather than permit integration which had been enforced by Federal troops at Central High school in 1957-58. 43,000 pounds goes up up up needed despite special roof Academy drapes Embarrass of Washington a the air Force already roundly criticized by Congress for the Cost of its new Academy at Colorado Springs is suffering fresh embarrassment inthe Case of the $4,500 drapes. It seems the air Force spent around $90,000 to build a 21-foot overhanging roof around its Glass walled Academy dining Hall to keep out the  justifying the expenditure air Force Secretary James h. Douglas last year told the House appropriations committee the overhang would eliminate any need for drapes. T so what happened in this year s appropriation committee hearings just made pub Lic rep. Harry m. Sheppard a Calif disclosed that drapes Cost ing $2,000 have been installed inthe dining Hall with another $2,500 needed to finish the Job. That Sheppard noted was for Only one of the three Glass walled sides of the room. Taking the testimony that behave had it makes me wonder just where we can hang our hats wit the regard to the Validity of some of these comments Sheppard told of under Secretary m. A. Mac Intyre. Mclntyre had no explanation but he said he was sure Douglas would be quite upset in learning about the  apparently strange thing happen. ,. Which Are disconcert ing he  is not a heartbreaking item As far As the Money is concerned Sheppard observed but it places the committee and the air Force in an embarrassing  the subject was dropped. Apparently the drapes stay up. So does the $90,000 roof overhang. V rising into the realm of the. Skyscrapers a 48,000-Pound air conditioning unit is hoisted to the 51st floor of the Union Carbide building in Manhattan. It was the heaviest Load Ever lifted in on hoist to the top of a skyscraper. It took an hour to lift the unit from the Park ave. Sidewalk to the top. A Dpi photo