European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A 6 the stars and stripes to Tay Ai Igus 18, 1959 House ways Means unit slates study in november toward easing tax Load Washington up the House ways and Means committee will begin a comprehensive study in november of ways to overhaul the in come tax system to provide some tax Relief chairman Wilbur d. Mills dark  said the committee As the first step in its study would hear a series of panel discussions by tax experts nov. 2-dec. 4. He emphasize the discussions would be explore Tive in  said the come Pittee would seek ways of reducing taxes Broad ening the tax base and eliminating preferential exemptions enjoyed Money Market tightens up Home Loans Washington up the fed eral National mortgage Assn. In a announced it will  lower prices to lenders for government backed Cha and a Home Mort  move reflects a tighter Money Market and May make i More difficult for Home buyers to get an Cha or a  tight Money situation May be partly responsible for curtail ing the housing Boom. The com Merce department announced that the Home building rate declined last  revised Inma prices represent a one half percentage Point decrease for. Mortgages bought Over the counter from Banks Sav Ings and loan institutions and other  also will reduce by one percentage Point us Price for standby commitments to buy Mort gages from builders who cannot get mortgage Loans from . The change Means that Bank swill get less Money for mortgages they sell to Inma. The new prices Range from 98.5 to 96.5 for 514 per cent mortgages. On 5 per cent mortgages the Price will Range from 96.5 to 94.5. They will vary from 94.5 to 92.5 on 4% per cent mortgage prices. Price vary by areas in the amount of equity the owner has in the  Means that Inma will now  a maximum $9,850 for a $10,000mortgage bearing a 5 i interest rate. By some  also said he expected con Gress next year to change som of the present methods of taxing cooperatives and to make alterations in the tax depletion allowance on  appeared with rep. Harold c. Ostertag . On a to pro  said the solution for keep ing the Federal superhighway pro Gram on a  As you build basis appeared to be a temporary one cent increase in the 3-cent-per gallon Federal gasoline  solution the committee last week after first rejecting a Bond proposal coupled with a stretch out in the interstate construction pro Gram finally approved a Ohe cent a gallon gasoline tax increase effective from sept. 1 this year through june 30, 1961."a one cent gasoline tax increase Between now and july 1, 1.961, plus the Transfer from the general fund of some. Excise taxes would probably take care of our problem of replenishing the Highway Trust fund Mills  fund helps  for the 40,000 mile interstate superhighway pro Gram which is financed on the basis of 9 Federal dollars for every state Dollar. Girl meets buoy Parker hoists one of the 12-Pound buoys made of a new lightweight plastic that will be used to support locks  600-berth boat Harbor in Alameda Calif. Each of the floats will support 740 pounds in the water. United press International photo rules out ineffective antibiotics test kit helps ads select right drug food Poison clue found Elkhart ind. Up a truck with food for 3,000, left standing in August Sun from Dawn to noon was suggested to have been the cause of acute food poisoning which broke up Miles laboratories company picnic and sent at least800 persons to hospitals. Or. Andrew Offutt Indian health commissioner said he Felt sure Lack of refrigeration triggered staphylococci bacteria a common cause of food poisoning but unofficial analysis was still being made. None of the stricken however appeared in critical condition. James de Boni who provide most of the catered food said it was picked up from his Elkhart Headquarters by members of the Miles picnic committee who Toolkit in no refrigerated company trucks to the private preserve Miles had rented at Angola ind. Ambulances buses trucks an commandeered station wagons Fer ried the ill to Angola s two hospitals a National guard armory and a Public school. Knoxville Tenn. A sup pose a mysterious infection has you Down and the doctor in t sure what s wrong. Maybe one of the wonder drugs will help. The doctor will take a newly developed testing kit in his own office to find out quickly just the wonder drug or Antibiotic to get you Back on your  example an Epi Demic spreads through your child s school and your doctor has never before come across any thing like  neither Case will the kit show the doctor what is wrong but both times it should show him what to do. Each test May take As Little As 30 minutes and the doctor will need no medical Laboratory or trained technicians. The testing kit called a sensitivity test was developed by a Young Knoxville bacteriologist. It is expected to be available to Al doctors in the country by Christ  tests go hand in hand with antibiotics. This is because bacteria build up immunities to penicillin a neomycin and other antibiotics just As your own. Sys tem builds up immunities to the germs  r. Brown bacteriologist at East Tennessee children s hos Pital developed the new testing method when he became impatient with the time and expense of present More complicated meth ods. Helping him were or. Johnm. Woodward and or. Raymond Beck both of  test will work with any infection which can be treated wit known antibiotics and from which specimens can be obtained. Browns new weapon gets re sults in 30 minutes to six hours compared with 24 to 36 hours no needed with Laboratory Type tests which require special skills to use. By end of Yea Rbrown 30-year-old father of two said a Miami firm Hopes to have his test kit on the wholesale medi Cal Supply Market by the end of the year. Basically it works like his in a transparent plastic Case the size of a Box of Candy coated chewing gum Are placed paper discs available in bottles like aspirin which have been soaked in solutions of various antibiotics. Specimens of the infection to be treated Are placed on the discs each of which represents a differ ent  solution with the antibiotics Byrnes leaves for Europe new York up James f. Byrnes former Secretary of state and once governor of South Cefro Lina has sailed for an extensive tour of Europe. Recluse wills $1 million for cancer research san Francisco up an elderly woman who lived in seclusion Here far 55 years until her death a week ago has willed $1 million for cancer . Blanehe Simon was a Mem Ber of a Pioneer family which accumulated its wealth from land ownership in the san Joaquin Valley. She left the ?1 million to the universities of Stanford and Cali fornia and specified that the Money be used to combat cancer. She also left $125,000 to other charities and $200,000 to friends and rela Tives mrs. Simon was in her 80s. On the discs Are a glucose protein compound and a chemical known As . The glucose compound provides food for the infection ausing germs. If the Antibiotic kills the germs the disc remains White. But if the Antibiotic is ineffective the germs digest the glucose and As they do the Etc turns the disc red. The doctor needs to know Only which disc represents which Antibiotic and he s ready to Start treatment. Brooklyn youth slays brother 21, in gun Accident Brooklyn . Up a Dis Cussion about army tactics be tween two Brothers in Brooklyn ended in the death of one of the when he was shot during a simulated attack. Police said 18-year-old Leonard Cohen shot and killed his brother Robert 21, at the family apart ment. The boy s parents Milton and Rosaline Cohen witnessed the shooting. According to police the younger Cohen recently got out of the army after serving six months inthe Reserve. He was discussing defensive tactics when the older Cohen asked him what he would do if a Man sneaked behind him with a wrench in his hand. The older boy went through the motions of the imaginary attack. Police said the teen age brother grabbed a .30-Cal Rifle from a Wall rack and fired at Robert police said Leonard apparently had not realized the gun was loaded. Head on crash kills 5 persons in California Madera Calif. Up five persons were killed and two were injured in a two car head on collision at the Crest of a Hill Here. Both cars were demolished. Killed were Sheila Davis 16, Ofalt Wance the Driver and two  sengers in the car Aliesa Smith,17, of Ojai and William her 26, of Ahwahnee William Albini 44, of Madera Driver of the second car and his brother Leon 42, also of Madera. Hospitalized were Richard Sam peso 27, of Madera and Carl Bong 24, of Oakhurst owner of the car miss Davis was driving. Sambueso was Riding in the Albini car. Pennsylvania collision kills 4, injures 5 Cresson a. A two Auto collided head on on route 22 near this Cambria county town killing four persons and injuring five. Killed were Thomas n. Corbin,41, of Lakewood Calif. His wife Dorothy Mae 36 her brother Rob Ert w. Briggs 41, of Huntingdon pa., and Edwin l. Johnson 28, of Nanty Glo a. The injured included two Chil Dren of the corbins Richard 12, and Susie 6. Both were listed unfair condition at mercy Hospital in Altoona a. Others injured were Eugene George 24, of Nanty Glo in Satis factory condition Jerome , 27, of Ebensburg pa., and Marshall Showalter 6, of Hunting Don both in fair condition. Truck hits car pileup in Oklahoma dead Crowder Okia. Up three texans and an oklahoman were killed and two others critically injured near this Southeastern Oklahoma Community when two cars smashed head on and then were struck by a semitrailer truck one Sar was trying to  autos were welded and Tele scoped by the Impact and occupants had to be removed with Cut Ting torches. The victims were Billy f. Wal ters 38, of Lamesa tex., Doyle Houston Dixon 44, of Indianola,okla., Walter g. Harris 28, of Amarillo tex., and his son Dar Rell 2, of Amarillo. Critically injured were Harris wife Ruth 23, and another son Danny 3. Driver Helper unaware one of 4 dead is wife Manning . A Charli Poole of Sumter ., happened along when police were starting to remove the dead and injure from a two car collision near Here. Poole had a crowbar in his Auto Mobile and helped officers pry the twisted Metal so the bodies could be extricated. Then he went on his Way. It was not until later that hol earned one of four women killed on the Way Home from their Gar ment factory jobs was his 56-year old wife Linda. Father killed on Way to see injured child Lake pleasant . A the Telephone rang at the Home of Daymond Cook 40, in Speculator,. The caller was his wife who asked him to come to the office of or. Otto  of their four children had been injured in a fall she  said he d hurry right Over. A half hour later the doctor received Telephone Call. There d been an Accident near the Lake pleasant Golf club. The doctor drove to the scene and found a shattered automobile. It had struck. A Utility pole and tree. Inside was Cook dead