European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              , october 4, 1967 Thi stars and stripes Page 7 pay to attacked to deprive poor Washington a opponents said monday that a pro posed nationwide system of pay television would require Ameri cans to pay for programs the now see free. Marcus Cohn a lawyer told the Federal communications commission acc the net re sult of pay television will be to create two classes of society those who can afford it and those who can  he said pay television would further Divide an already fragmented society in Urban areas depriving the poor in City slums of a source of entertain ment. Better programs those favouring subscription television told the acc on the first Day of two Days of arguments that such a system would make available programs which viewers of commercial television do not see new motion Pic Tures operas plays. However great the work of the advertiser supported sys tem and it has been great i cannot alone Supply the benefits the Public is entitled to expect said w. Theodore Pierson a lawyer for the Zenith radiocorp., which manufactures equipment for pay to. Louis Nizer representing the motion picture association of America objected primarily to apart of the acc s proposal for pay to which prohibits subscription television stations from showing motion pictures older than two years. Bar Art pictures he said this proposal would effectively bar so called Art Pic Tures and cultural productions which May not meet the mass Appeal of conventional television. He said sales of motion Pic Tures would be stymied because of the limitation and added that the proposed Rule might Well be contrary to constitutional guarantees of free press and speech. He said further that part of the pay to proposal prohibit ing series Type programs Wouldhave a negative effect on the filmmakers. Reid Miller representing International Telemeter corp., an other maker of pay to equip ment said subscription television should have a Chance to compete for viewers with com Mercial to because it can offers beneficial supplement by permitting such things As pro Grams free of advertising. He recalled that a recent cd network showing of the movie the great escape require the film to be shown in two instalments on separate evenings. He said the showings included six promotional advertisements and 37 commercials for 28 products. Pay television he said would eliminate these interruptions. Huge investment Douglas a. Anello speaking for the National association of broadcasters said pay to would require a $20-billion investment by the Public in television equip ment and convert that free Highway into a toll  said also the bold prom ise of pay to backers is More Amyth than  of 599 pro Grams broadcast during an experimental pay to project in Hartford Conn he said most were  he said the Hartford Experiment was essentially a mov ies in the Home Type of opera  the pay to fare included86.5 per cent movies 4.5 per cent sports 3.5 per cent educational material and 5.5 per cent of everything else including plays and operas he said. Anello noted that the acc proposal contains a device designed to prevent siphoning of pro Grams from free to pay to. Among these is a provision which prohibits pay television stations from showing sporting events which had been Broad cast in the local area on free television within the previous  he suggested that if pay to is started it would be relatively simple for professional football teams to immediately substitute the broadcast of Home games on pay to for away games on free  kept off to thus away games now show free would be kept off television for two years after which both they and local Home games might be shown on pay television. He said lbs pays $16 million for a full season of professional football. But he said it is Esti mated that pro Ball could be the source of $5.5 million a week i Revenue from pay television and that a one year loss of net work Revenue could be made up by a team in three weeks on pay television. Aiding Justice Thurgood Marshall the first negro to serve on the . Supreme court gets a helping hand from wife Cecilia before the court began its new term on  Mahon gop cuts could to raise Washington up chair Man George Mahon d-tex., of the House appropriations com Mittee said monday Congress would have to kill a proposed$1.2 billion pay raise for government workers if it wants to meet Republican demands for Federal spending  rep. William m. Colmer d-miss., chairman of the House rules committee suggested that Congress go further than this in its current Economy drive. He said it should consider an across the Board 5 per Cen pay Cut for everybody including the $30,000 salaries of members of Congress. Mahon listed abandonment of the pay increase As a first essential step he said would be necessary for the kind of reductions of at least $5 billion that republicans Are demanding As their Price for support of president Johnson s 10 per Cen tax increase. He told the House Rule committee he personally did not recommend any of the Cutson his list and said he doubted Congress would buy them either. Among other reductions a Hon suggested were $250 million in school Aid the end of the supersonic transport set pro Gram elimination of new Federal construction and a $250million cutback in postal service including elimination of Satur Day deliveries. The rules committee hear testimony in Advance of a second House test tuesday on the gop move to limit spending this year to $131.5 billion and to require Johnson to return to the Treasury at least $5 billion of the funds Congress already has appropriated. Researchers claim remedy for hiccups. Chicago a a team of medical researchers believes it has found a remedy for hiccups. It consists of inserting a flex Ible tube into a nostril and stimulating nerves in the Pharynx the area in the Back of the Mouth where nasal passages join the Throat. But cautioned an article in the current journal of the american medical association monday the procedure can be dangerous and should be performed Only by physicians. Four doctors the team of four physicians three from the University of Chicago school of Medicine and one presently on the faculty of Medicine at Cairo University United Arab Republic said the process worked in 85 per cent of cases. The reason some Home Rem Edies such As swallowing ice or cold water Are sometimes successful is that they too stimulate the pharyngeal nerves the doctors said. By 3 Ohio doctors brain transplant made on dogs Las vegas a thre Cleveland Ohio researchers de scribed monday the first Success Ful transplant of a brain from one animal to another. The scientists removed the brain of a dog and placed it in a skin Pouch in the neck of medical association monday the nested to the arteries in the neck of the second dog. The physicians said the trans planted brain performed Well with continuous electrical an chemical activity. Annual meeting the three neurosurgeon r.  and Anaesthesiologist a m. S. Albin and h. E. Kretchmer of Western Reserve University and Cleveland metropolitan Genera Hospital reported at the annual meeting of the american society of Anaesthesiologist a. They said the experiments May for the first time enable us to define with exactitude the precise biochemical and Nerup physiologic events inherent  they added that continued re search May give an insight into what happens during conscious Ness intellectual activity Anes thesia and various forms of brain failure. In some of their experiments the doctors completely isolated brains of monkeys and dogs from other Organ systems with Sepa rate circulation and in Environ ments controlled completely by the scientists. The isolated brain showed re action to stimulation of sight and hearing nerves and could conduct nerve impulses. So far the doctors report Suc Cess in keeping a transplanted brain alive for up to three  they said there has been no evidence which would indicate that the Organ was being rejected by the receiving animal As is therase in some transplants of skin and other organs. Takes the sting out of it Philadelphia a Edge Leer will receive a new american Flag oct. 8 fro american legion Post 78, which decided on the gift after Hearin Belzer s old Flag had been devoured by hornets. Hoyden opens space age in printing Washington a  Hayden d-ariz., inaugurated the space age in printing monday by pressing the Button to activate the world s fastest Type setting machine. The first output of the Lino tron installed at the govern ment printing office was birthday greeting to the senator on his 90th birthday. The Lin tron is an electronic system which composes words on film at speeds of More than1,000 characters a second and sets a Page of Type at one  l. Harrison the United states Public Printer and head of the government printing office said the machine save negatives plates bulk weight and paper. He predicted that with the installation of a second Lin tron system later this year the government will recover its $2 million investment in the two machines in less than two years. The Lin tron which operate from magnetic tape produced from computer tape incorporates a cathode Ray tube de scribed As the equivalent of 256television cameras