European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Peg y machine cart think Man not Teal particular Man but Well you know tunic came Victory Over an electronic brain in new machine s Developer who May have met this Homo total Victory. A an electronic brain that run recall the thinking minds of the past went on display Here and immediately argument Over Man is. The machine. I argument was finished Man had won a temporary Victory. Mients of the machine were predicting final and total vie off pleasantly enough with a demonstration of a uni vac will be shown at the Seattle world s fair next month by an Rand , one of the company spokesmen put it mrs. Smith of to will be Able to walk up to an attendant at the machine Lor the opinions of Sigmund Freud St. Thomas Aquinas Ferson and Leo Tolstoy on the subject of happiness. Or she from five other subjects and 74 authors. I a few seconds for the attendant to put the request on a card it to another technician who will program it into the Lich is actually a Small roomful of computer equipment. It bout one minute for the questioner to receive his printed Bat Freud. St. Thomas Jefferson and Tolstoy had to say on of happiness. I arranged that the new machine be explained by the two men Scible for it 42-year-old daddy of uni vac j. Presper Mortimer Adler who supervised the sent Poicon Index to Lume great books of the Western world. Eckert who has been building computers since he was a very than and Adler who has been Reading and talking about books a a very Young Man promptly turned the explanation into Mil. Explained that if you could feed the computer All the knowl \ the past at an inconceivable Cost in manpower it still would i a e to think. Smart but it does t think the human brain he said the machine can remember it can and it can organize. Have never been convinced he said that the brain does any said he attributed abstract thinking to the mind not the and made it very Clear that he Hopes no Engineer will Ever a machine to replace the Ert thought Adler was being discriminatory to the Corn running them at the moment he said but i think that s go \ change n t know How we think but when we do i think we can make that can do Kennedy plans office of science technology in reorganization Washington a president Kennedy is preparing a reorganization order setting up an office of science and technology to coordinate government activities in this Field says sen. Hubert h. Humph Reyd Minn. Humphrey said in an interview the objective will be to bring under a single director the responsibility for Long Range scientific addition the director would be charged with coordinating and evaluating eight Agency programs so that he could advise the presi Dent and the budget Bureau on necessary priorities. Humphrey said the National Sci ence foundation will be included in the new Agency. But he said it is his understanding that the president will retain in his own office his special assistant for Sci ence and technology a Post now filled by Jerome b. Plesner. Humphrey said one of the objectives in setting up the new Agency will be to make its director available for questioning by Mem Bers of the Senate and House. The Senate government operations committee which studied the matter complained in its report that As a personal adviser the president s special scientific assistant had not appeared before committees. The report said con Gress thus was deprived of authoritative commentary on the government s scientific activities from an Over All rather than a departmental Point of the committee said that the duties of the new director should include the Job of making sure that the president is never Iso lated from the full flavor of debate and controversy on important is sues in lab product acts like living matter Washington up a scientist has reported that he has Cre ated test tube substances which imitate living matter. Or. Sidney w. Fox of Florida state University said the synthetic materials were prepared under conditions similar to those which May have prevailed on Earth Mil Lions of years ago. He said the substances behave somewhat like enzymes the Bio chemical catalysts without which life processes Coald not occur. Discovery of this enzyme like action. Fox told the american chemical society gives new in sight into the development of life on the primitive Earth. Test tube products Fox called his test tube products protein ids because they resemble proteins. He found that they acted in some respects like the special proteins called enzymes. Enzymes catalyse that is. In Duce control and Speed chemical processes in living plants and animals. Fox s artificial enzymes were Able to break Clown a com plex chemical. A protein molecule in a living organism consists of a Long Chain of simpler substance called amino acids arranged in a certain Spe Cial the protein ids prepared by Fox also Are made up of Long amino acid chains. But unlike the living mutter they imitate the protein Olds parts Are linked together in a hit or miss scientists believe protein ids May have been formed naturally from Umino acids when the Earth was Young. Children Given sulfa after meningitis death Shelby Mich. Up most of the 700 students at the Shelby elementary school have been Given sulfa pills for Protection against an outbreak of bacterial meningitis which already has claimed one life. School superintendent Charles Van Zenten said the pills were distributed following the death of Ruth Ann Hoffman 7. Reuther oks Aims on Trade Washington up United Auto workers president Walter p. Reuther told a House committee that his organization supported the Aims of the Kennedy administration s International Trade goals but wanted Protection of the american workers. Reuther in a report prepared for the. House ways and Means committee said his organization supported the goals for a Mutual lowering of barriers to International Trade a broadening of Trad ing relationships and the strength ening of economic ties Between All countries of the free world. His qualification said the Trade expansion Bill should include sufficient provision of assistance to those who might otherwise suffer hardship in the course of readjust ment to new provisions in the Bill for extending assistance to workers Dis placed from their jobs due to in creased foreign Trade need to be considerably strengthened he said. 30 premature babies evacuated in Hospital fire new York a thirty pre mature babies were evacuated from a Ward on the top floor of Kings county Hospital in Brook Lyn when a two alarm fire broke out in a machine shop on the infants in special cribs were taken to a corridor until arrangements were made to Relo Cate them in other wards. Doctors feared contamination from smoke if the infants were returned to their own specially equipped Ward. Firemen said no one was injured. De Lux approach los Angeles up demo crat John c. O Keefe who is run Ning for Congress has mailed sin-11 bars of soap to voters urging his election for clean govern coff urges Cabinet level education department ton a Abraham of. Secretary of health and welfare wants All i education activities con Oli in a new Cabinet level de it my opinion education is said Ribicoff i think in the soviet Union has this a lot better than testifying recently be use appropriations sub said a minimum of or leu in the upper at High school graduating classes Don t get to College because they can t afford it. And he said another 60,000 students with High grades drop out of col lege every year because they Don t have the Money to continue. I Don t think we can afford he told the committee. I for one think we can do a better said Rilcoff in the testimony just made Public i think it is a great loss i think we Are making a great mistake in not having scholarships for the qualified Able Young men of this country who otherwise would not be Able to obtain higher he told the subcommittee he would press for creation of a department of education science and technology headed by a Secretary. Ribicoff s department now super vises the office of education which was criticized several years ago by vice adm Hyman Rickover who made a comparison of United states and russian educational is much that is wrong with education in this country Rob coff said. I think where Admiral Rickover goes wrong is his emphasis entirely on just what is considered intellectually in a democracy Ribicoff said we have an obligation to develop the capacity of each individual to the upper limits of what god has Given All phases of education must be developed Ribicoff testified Anc these include mentally retarded children the Blind and the per son who can use his hands and can t use his brains however Ribicoff agreed with Rickover that we have to have stronger stricter program with More time spent in school. Town doomed says jailed Prophet Erie Kan. A this City has remained intact despite a prophecy that it would be destroyed along with its 1,300 residents give or Ake a few. The Man who told of the prophecy Kenneth l. Beeney sr., would like to take nine of the population and leave what he says is a doomed City. But he can t Beeney a Handyman is in the county jail charged with contributing to the truancy of two of his daughters Verla 13. And let a Faye 6 whom he took out of school. Camped in cars Beeney s wife six children and their grandmother Are camped near the jail in two automobiles All packed and ready to flee when and if Beeney is released. God has told us the family will not be separated and we Aren t worried mrs. Beeney said. Beeney in jail echoed his wife s optimism for the family but he has nothing but a prophecy of doom for the City. The dire message came from god to two daughters Judy. 19, and Patricia 16, says Beeney member of a non denominational Faith. He says the girls have the gift of prophecy. The family packed and left Home a week ago. A Friend takes care of the family cow and brings them their mail. Study Legal Steps authorities Are trying to figure out what further Legal action they should take. State Law requires that children remain in school until they Are 16 or graduate from the eighth Grade. Robert h. Krieger. Superintend ent of schools said the children Are above average and we have no disciplinary the Beeney family has mailed 164 letters to the townspeople telling of the messages they say they got from god. On feb. 17, Beeney said this prophecy came they Are a stubborn and rebel Lious people. I will destroy and on March 3. He said take a few belongings and have them ready for you must flee Robert Taylor Kin leaves . Hospital los Angeles up the teen age daughter of German actress Ursula thess and stepdaughter of actor Robert Taylor was re leased from general Hospital after treatment for slashed wrists and an overdose of barbiturates. Manuela thiess 18, was arrested feb. 24 in Santa Monica for Viola Tion of a municipal intoxication Law when she was found sitting in a parked car a Fth Robert Green 34. Green also was arrested
