European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday july 12, 1959 influence trial of Mack ends in Hung jury Washington up the government s conspiracy Case against Richard a. Mack and thur Man a. Whiteside has ended in a Hung jury. This Means the complicated Caswill have to be tried Over. " presiding judge Burnita s. Mat thews dismissed the jurors after Robert e. Burner jury Foreman sent her a note saying that 11 members had agreed on verdict but that they could not change the stand of the 12th.Mack, a former Federal communications commissioner and White Mack Lei a wealthy Miami attorney were charged with plotting to Rig the award of to Channel 10 in Miami. Whiteside was accused of changeling Money to swing his vote in Favoron Public service television inc., a subsidiary of National airlines. There was no official report in the courtroom As to How the jurors were divided As to conviction or acquittal. But three members re fusing to permit use of their names told newsmen that the 11 were for conviction one said the 11-1 deadlock had existed since tuesday a re ported the question of whether Mack and Whiteside will be brought to trial again cannot b e decided until after judge Matthews rules on Thestill pending motions for a judg ment of acquittal for each defend ant. A spokesman for the Justice department said if the motions Are denied Well try it a re trial presumably could not take place before fall since the court now is operating on a reduced summer schedule. Judge Matthews said she would take a fews Days of rest before considering the motions further and proposed to Rule without hearing any further arguments a reported judge Matthews said Burner note from the jury room said eleven members of the jury have agreed on a verdict. These "11 believe that the stand of the remaining member is not consistent with reason and have not been a Leto change the stand of that per son by arguments or instructions Are requested of the in View of this message judge Matthews told the assembled attorneys and defendants the court feels that the jury must be noted Engineer Dies new York up Hugo w. Wahlquist 63, noted Engineer died Here. He devised methods for fight ing corrosion of pipe lines under ground cables electric Power plants storage tanks ships and water facilities. Ohio acre May be world s deadliest Wooster Ohio up work ers Here have started building a Concrete foot High Border around an acre of Farmland which is Des tined to grow perhaps the world s deadliest crop. Next Spring agronomists will seed the land with Corn Hay soy Beans and possibly wheat then Spray it with a potent solution of water and strontium 85, a radioactive material. Then the Field will receive the Normal amounts of fertilizers and attention any Farmer in the North Ern Ohio Region would give his crops. The purpose is to determine the effect of radioactive fallout on crops. The Experiment could continue for half a Century. Ohio state University which operates an agricultural station Here is conducting the research under an $85,000 atomic Energy commis Sion Grant. Strontium 85, a material some what less dangerous but similar in behaviour to strontium 90, the deadly byproduct of a nuclear explosion will be used the first year to Cut the risk of contamination As farmhands with . Degrees tend the crops. Strontium 85 Dies out in about two years according to James l. Mortensen associate professor of agronomy at Osu and one of the scientists conducting the Experiment. ,. Plans Call for strontium 90 itself to be sprayed in solution on the 20 plots each l/20th of an acre and each sealed by a Concrete Wall the following year. The strontium 90, which will be shipped from the dec installation at Oak Ridge tenn., still will retain half its radioactivity 25 years after it enters the soil. Geiger counters and other de vices will be used to measure the amount of radioactivity absorbed by the grains As they grow in Fields Mortensen said. The Concrete Walls surrounding the plots will collect the rain water which runs off the land. It Loo will be Analysed. The Experiment is the Only one in the country to be conducted on farmlands under natural conditions Mortensen said. Experiment ers have conducted similar re search in greenhouses he said. The professor said there will be no danger for his coworkers Dur ing the Experiment or for the near by Farmers tilling the soil. Plunging into undercurrent discussion Swiss stratosphere Pioneer and Baths Cape de signer Augusto Piccard 75, Center discusses his Baths Cape Trieste with operation director an Dren i Shnitser and his son Jacques Piccard right in san Diego Calif. The younger Piccard has been training naval electronics Laboratory scientists to Pilot the vessel for carrying on Occa ii graphic research. Up photo ready to help in Home teeters say new York up Don t your teen agers help with the dishes or mow the Lawn mom next time ask them. That s the solution As 2,500 Junior High and High school students in 20 cities see it. The youngsters 1,357 girls and 1,143 boys were questioned by a manufacturer of household products to determine product use. More than 68 per cent of the students surveyed said they would be willing to help around the House if asked. My Mother does t give me a Chance to show what i can do around the House was a typical comment from a 15-year-old girl. Even if i Volunteer to do the dishes Shell just Brush it off an do them herself. I just stopped a 16-year-old boy said i know tax Ridden owner of City Hall to try evicting officeholders Amityville . A one landlord in this Long Island Eom if i Unity thinks his taxes Are too High and intends to do something about it. He owns City Hall that is he owns the building that the City offices Are in. Even Tatjie Village Board meets , but says c. Bruce Pearsall they want to come into the world of adult responsibilities with adult privileges he said. They Are just waiting for our patient survives 100 heart failures Chicago a a Man who was treated for 60 Days after suf Fering 100 successive heart failure was scheduled to return to his Home. Frank French 61, was stricken May 11 with a disease which causes the heart to slow its Pace an eventually Stop. French received Hospital treat ment by a mechanism which controls he heart beat by an electric impulse. Doctors said the equip ment saved his life. Crops output seen rivalling 1958 record Washington a the agriculture department has re ported prospects that this year s crop production will be second Only to last year s phenomenal output. Acreage planted was reported Well above the last two years but below other recent years. Yields per acre this year May not be As highs last year. This year s production May be featured by a Corn crop of 4,224, 450jooo bushels considerably higher than last year s record of 3,799,-844,000 bushels. Corn is being grown this year under a new pro Gram which leaves growers free to produce All they desire. The wheat crop was put at 1,155,-000,000 bushels. This would be Well below last year s record of 1,462, 000,000 bushels but big surpluses assure More than enough of the Grain. Airborne cops ticket Driver san Francisco a the California Highway patrol has sent out its first citation for a traffic violation witnessed from helicopter. J. R. King supervising inspector said he and lieutenant Earl Pugh looked Down and observed a big truck and trailer Rig making a u turn on a six Lane freeway outside Hayward. King and Pugh on a flight test ing the effectiveness of helicopter observation of traffic pursued the truck and noted its identifying markings. The Driver Eric Tell of Santa Maria Calif., explained he had for gotten a cargo ticket in san lean Dro and turned Back to get it. The citation charges Tell with making an illegal a turn. Council has last word on traffic violation Tampa Fla. Up Olin Huffman told his col leagues he d been fined $3 for driving through a yellow caution Light. They promptly voted to instruct the Legal department to draw Upa new Law to make such action Legal. Descendants of visited by gift new York a a round the world cruise ship made an unscheduled Call at Pitcairn Island in the Pacific to drop off gifts of clothing cookies and toys for the Island s 27 children. The Stop was reported when the dutch liner Willem Ruys docked Here with 1,002 passengers. The ship s master Commodore Bounty Mutiny -. Liner Frederik j. Jonge told about the gift donated by mrs Aris Dutilh of Rotterdam whose Suji had visited the Island during world War ii. The British Island s entire adult population of 109.rowed out to the liner in four boats they were led by Fletcher Christian in chief magistrate and a direct descendant of the mutineer from the Bounty
