European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday july 20, 1963 now if they could just make wives understand $9.98 by Dick West would reach from Hominy Falls could have grasped it. But i doubt Washington up it seems w. Va., to grit Tex., or if placed like Only yesterday or maybe Las tuesday that kindly statisticians were trying to help us understand a million  was commonly supposed that a million dollars was too Large a sum for us to comprehend All yourselves so these statisticians would undertake to explain it in terms we could grasp. I Don t recall the exact Dimen Sions of a million dollars but the analogies they use thing like this went some a million dollars Laid end to end one on top of the other would form a stack 5 Miles higher than a Gir Affe on tiptoes. I m sure they meant Well but frankly these comparisons were never of much help to me in comprehending a million Bucks. Whenever i tried to get a men Tal picture of Dollar Bills stretched out from Hominy Falls to grit my mind would take a wrong turn on the outskirts of Chili wis. Perhaps if they had used $5 Bills or had placed the Dollar Bills Side by Side rather than end to end i it. At any rate i have gone through life without having a very firm concept of a million dollars. And now i learn that i am hopelessly behind the times. In a press release issued this week rep. Thomas m. Pelly a Washington Republican and statistician endeavours to help us under stand a billion dollars. Apparently someone raised the Ante while i was trying to find my Way Back from Hominy Falls. Pelly wrote that no one is Cap Able of conveying in Ordinary simple and understandable and graphic words just How immense How almost unmeasurable vast is a billion  nevertheless this did not deter him from giving it a go. As one illustration Pelly noted that with one billion dollars you could buy 500,000 new automobiles each costing $2,000." maybe so but you would need an awfully big garage. Placed bumper to bumper these cars would extend 1,562 Miles about the distance from Cleveland Ohio to Salt Lake City Utah Pelly continued. On that Point at least he Speaks my language. I can readily visual ize a traffic Jam stretching from Ohio to Utah even if i can t envision a million dollars end to end. One billion dollars in Dollar Bills would cover a building lot that is 51 feet wide and 219 feet Long a Little More than a Quarter acre to a depth of 3 feet 7 inches Pelly added. That might not be a bad idea. We could use it As a parking lot for some of those 500,000 cars. Oil firm wins Case of the slanted Wells Tyler Tex. A a jury found in favor of pan american Petroleum corp. In its suit for 5600,000 damages against oilmen and others involving Oil Wells drilled at a slant. Amount of dam Ages will be set later. Pan american claimed h. L. Long main operator of an Oil lease near one owned a pan american drilled Wells at a slant so that the produced from beneath pan Amer ican s lease. Pan american was joined in the Case by Socony Mobil Oil co. Wardlow Lane a Socony Mobil lawyer in closing arguments called Long s operation a supercool Salkind of theft. He said the fact that Wells were deviated had been deliberately  lawyer Fred Erisman said the Only issues were whether certain Wells on the lease were bottomed off the lease whether Long knew they were and fraudulently concealed that fact whether pan american was put on inquiry and whether by a reasonable care the Oil company could have found  besides Long include Charles Stubblefield of Tyler w. W. Long of Houston or. And  p. Erickson of Smyrna ga., southwestern life insurance co. Of Dallas and Valley Royalty co. Of , a Tyler resident was the actual operator of the lease i question. 5 new tax Laws erased by North Dakota voters a wok opening wide in anticipation of a meal is a 6-Pound Young Pelican at the Riverside Reservoir near Greeley Colo. Authorities say that the pelicans recently changed migration patterns and Are now stopping in Colorado. Associated press photo woman doctor replaced As Kennedy s physician socialite found drowned in Miami Miami up socialite mrs. Catherine Barrett Leward 51, was found dead on the Bottom of her swimming Pool Clad in a swim Ming suit. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause of death. Mrs. Leward was the daughter of the late George f. Barrett a Chi Cago corporation lawyer an political figure. Aid for by. Counties Washington up presi Dent Kennedy made an additional allocation of $1.25 million in fed eral disaster Relief funds to an area of 24 Kentucky counties dam aged by storms and floods Las March. Washington apr. Janet Travell has been replaced As top physician to president Kennedy but remains on the White House  . Government organizational manual for 1963-64 lists rear adm George g. Burkley As physician to the  manual was published  preceding manual listed or. Travell As or. Kennedy s physician but her name does not appear at any Point in the new Book. Burkley has been assistant Whitehouse physician since feb. 1, 1961. Role limited asked about the disappearance of or. Travell s name from the manual White House press Secre tary Pierre Salinger said the fact is that the president has two doctors. Or. Burkley is listed As the White House physician for the  it has been apparent for sometime that the White House role of or. Travell the first woman an the first civilian Ever named White House physician has been limited in recent months. During the past year and a half sheepherder 110, signs up for health insurance policy Platteville Colo. Up a 110-year-old sheepherder who claims he is the oldest working Man alive has taken out a health insurance policy. Henry Gooch of Platteville was the first person to buy the policy in a Campaign by Mutual of Omaha to sign up policy Holder who Are older than 65. Gooch said he consented to buy the policy because i fell off my horse a couple of months ago and realized i m not As Young As i used to  Mutual of Omaha vice president c. M. Chamberlain came Here to present Gooch his policy in person. Gooch paid a $50 annual Premium Guarard Teing him $50 a week for 50 weeks for Hospital care. Burkley has accompanied or Kennedy on All trips outside Washington. Or. Travell has been seen around the White House in recent wee Sand Sal Ter said she remains on the payroll. Last month she am mrs. Kennedy s gynaecologist Madea visit to Cape cod to inspect maternity facilities there in Case they Are needed in the forthcoming birth of the Kennedy s third , who was a Navy Captain when he joined the White House staff is a former commander o the naval dispensary in washing ton. A naval officer since 1941, heis 60 years old. Twins continue 100-year record Petersburg a. A mrs Harold Moore beat some formidable Odds in giving birth to twin girls. It s the fourth straight Genera Tion of twins in her family. Mrs. Moore of nearby Chester is a member of a boy and girl self twins As was her Mother am grandmother. The four generations cover More than 100 years. Mrs. Moore s physician dug up some medical reports which say that the Odds against four straight generations of twins Are 57,309,761to 1. The Moores have an older daughter Diane 4. So far the twins Are named and b. Bismarck . A North Dakota v of e r s have erased five new tax Laws from the books. Incomplete and unofficial re turns in a special election showed decisive defeat of the five Meas ures passed by the 1963 legislature and placed on the ballot for Public approval or reaction. Shoved Down the Drain were three income tax measures a Spe Cial Urban renewal property tax for Fargo the state s largest City and a higher ceiling for school District property taxes. Business executive Harold Scha Fer of Bismarck chairman of the vote no committee which opposed the measures said the elec Tion results were too Good to be  credited state auditor Curtis Olson with aiding the vote no cause by announcing the state general fund would stand at least$7 million to the Good by mid-1965 without the new Revenue. Others had contended it would be $1 Mil lion in the Hole. State sen. Evan lips Bismarck who headed a group promoting a yes vote said i Don t believe the people will vote for increased taxes when they Are in doubt on the need for the  it appeared the total vote would not exceed 150,000. In the 1962 general election 232,000 ballots were cast. Returns from 1,328 of the 2,308 precincts gave these results revised income tax table13,-732 yes and 75,557 no. Income surtax13,758 yes and75,053 no. Income tax withholding18,386yes and 69,954 no. Fargo Urban renewal tax17, 350 yes and 67,773 no. School District tax18,242 yes and 66,868 no. Voters apparently were Little impressed by charges of mass fraud on referral petitions. Two men face perjury charges in connection with allegedly forged signatures which included the names of dead people and prominent citizens ranging up to it. Gov. Frank Wenstrom. Lightning Bolt kills girl Myrtle Beach . Up Abolt of lightning struck a Beach umbrella Here killing Barbar Briggs 16, and injuring her Mother and Young brother. New Rocker presented to president Washington a it looks about the same but there s a new rocking chair in president Ken Nedy s office. For years on the advice of his doctor the president has used a special High backed Rocker with Arm rests. It s Good for his Weckback. The new one is pretty much a duplicate of the old but it is a gift from the officers and men of the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk. A plaque on the Back of the chair says so. The president went to sea last month to View Fleet operations off Southern California and spent the night aboard the Kitty Hawk. The chair commemorate the visit. Florists Cash in on $40,000 Plant Chicago a two men who rented space adjoining a currency Exchange on the pretext of Start ing a Florist shop turned out to be More interested in Green stuff than greenery. The two masked and armed broke through the Wall and robbed the Exchange of an estimated$40,000. Supreme court Post hinted for rep. Mills Little Rock Ark. A the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat quoted Washington sources As say ing rep. Wilbur Mills d-Ark., is being considered for the next open ing on the . Supreme court. The newspaper said the Ken Nedy administration was consider ing naming Mills to the Post to re move him As chairman of the tax writing House ways and Means committee. Associate Justice William o. Douglas is expected to retire fro the court when he becomes 65 on oct. 16, said the Story from the Democrat s Washington Bureau. For it if you can breathe life into the Rumor i m for it the Democrat quoted Mills As saying. I be often wondered what i d say if it was offered to  the newspaper quoted Mills As saying he had heard the Rumor. But he said to Day nobody has talked to me about  Mills had a relatively Good administration voting record but he has opposed the administration on several Revenue proposals including the medicare program to pro vide medical payments to the aged through social Security. Another southerner sen. Johns Tennis d-miss., also was rumoured to be under consideration for the supreme court Job the newspaper something s amiss on Capitol Hill Washington up Roll Gall a newspaper published weekly on Capitol Hill said Secretary got a notice from the Library of Congress about � Book she had borrowed. The notice said Madam please return the Book you borrowed immediately. This Book is urgently needed by a member of  the Book sex and the