European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday october 15, 1967foaming at the Mouth he really spouts off by Dick West Washington u p i among the Many pleasures that diminish with the passing of the years is the enjoyment of holidays. For example the upcoming halloween  would Only be kidding myself if i pretended i get Smuch fun out of trick or treating As i once  it not for the fact that the loot gets More Bountiful each year i probably would give it up  our affluent society a person can t afford to pass up halloween. The Era when the treats consisted of an Apple a piece of Bubble gum or a Hal dozen Jelly Beans has Long since  when a Small Goblin Bangs on your door an you Don t give him at least a College scholarship he takes apiece of soap and writes cheapskate on your picture window. Detailed inventories reveal that counting the Cost of the costumes which is no Small item itself the Booty my children collect just about balances the swag we Are relieved of so in order to show a profit for the evening i have to slip on my Mickey mouse costume and go trick or treating myself. But most of the thrill is  same is True of the fourth of july. Popping fire crackers just does t turn me on any More. Nor do i get Mysicka at easter egg Hunts As in Days of  for Christmas it has been a drag Ever since my wife broke the news to me about Santa Claus. 2 astronauts test Pilot get air trophies Washington a presi Dent Johnson presented Harmon International aviation trophies Friday to two . Astronauts and a Veteran test Pilot. Johnson honoured test Pilot Al Vin s. White who last year made a series of xb70 aircraft flights at More than three times the Speed of  receiving the award were Navy capt. Jamesa. Lovell and air Force it. Col. Edwin e. Aldrin for their four Day gemini 12 spacecraft mis Sion last november in which Aldrin set a record of 5 hours 37 minutes outside an orbiting spaceship. Aviatrix absent Sheila Scott of London Winner of the 1967 Harmon aviatrix trophy was not present to receive her Honor for a record set Ting round the world Solo flight in a single engine Light plane. Miss Scott was Over the at lactic flying from Ireland to  Scott made the Atlantic flight in 17 hours 14 minute Sand claimed a record for a trans Atlantic flight in a Light  said there was a time when she was afraid i would make  that was during a six hour period when High wind forced her Down at times to Only 500 feet above the Atlantic. She arrived with Only two hours of fuel left in the plane s tanks. In sum holidays Are becom ing increasingly youth oriented. Even new year s eve require Youthful stamina. Have you noticed that Guy Lombard keeps speeding up the Tempo what is badly needed obviously is some sort of Holiday specifically designed for those of us who have sunk up to our Clavicle in the quagmire of Middle age. All of which explains the elation i Felt when i noticed in the Calendar of events for the current month that oct. 21 Marks the beginning of inter mechanical professor National whale watching  there is a Holiday i can throw myself into with  entire week spent in watching whales is just my Speed. Particularly in an Inland  present plan is to celebrate whale watching Weekin Nebraska. For the maximum enjoyment of whale watching one needs a Good Vantage Point. Like maybe bar Stool. Then for seven whole Days life is just one whale after another. Wheeze teacher can t groan at sour notes new solicitor Erwin  is Wold Dean of the Harvard Law school has Bee approved by the Senate judiciary committee to succeed Thurgood Marshall As . Solicitor general. Gris Wold s last report at Harvard bemoaned the Drain on faculty members called to government service. Up photo doughboy garners tardy Silver Star san Bernardino Calif a the army caught up with William f. Martens 49years late and gave him the Silver , now 80, was a dough boy in world War i. He fought in the Battle of the Argonne and that s where the army says Hewon his medal for gallantry. Martens said monday removed around a lot after 1918 and the army probably could t find  last june Martens Learned during a reunion of his old outfit that the army was looking for him. Now he has his Reward at last. Cocktail ice Spray kills seven in . Wilmington Del. Up at least seven deaths in the United states have been caused by the improper use of an Aero sol Spray used for chilling cock Tail glasses the Dupont co. Said thursday. Dupont said deaths were re ported in Pasadena Calif., Cor pus Christi Tex. Concord Calif. Medford Ore. Green wich Conn and Lewisburg a. Dupont issued a warning against deliberately inhaling or sniffing the Vapours or liquids of the Spray. Dupont said the warning was made on behalf of itself and several other manufacturers. The firm said there was growing fad among Many Young people to seek intoxicating or psychedelic effects by inhaling fumes from the products. Stanford Calif. A meet Herr prof. Computer the voice  Fendall music student at san Jose state College recently sat Down at his keyboard and typed her name and  computer printed Back instructions yes miss Fendall  two agreed she would sing in a High  you wish a detailed Analy Sis of your deviation from the True pitch the mechanical pro Fessor told her strike ready otherwise enter the criterion you wish to be used in terms of theper cent deviation As y a percent 1 per cent 2 per cent 4 per  two per cent she replied. Computer s instruction the computer explained How to listen to test notes and sin samples into a microphone1. Ready sing the machine printed out. Miss Fendall Sang of a Flat of a and of winning an approving of each time from the computer. In her third exercise she Sanga for c and c for a and she missed the last  machine can t groan and has no forehead to slap. But i snapped Back with the Correct notes under the wrong ones said to few notes and or dered repeat  Fendall stamped her foot but repeated the exercise correction. Congratulations said the computer. Miss Fendall . Wolgang Kuhn of Stan Ford University s music depart ment described the experimental voice teacher in the fall is sue of the journal of research in music education. The com Puter equipped with a pitch extraction device was developed by two International business machines engineers Jerome  and Bruce Moncreiff at ism s los gatos advanced sys tems development division. Kuhn programmed sight sing ing exercises tests and options into the computer s memory. Reworked with 10 under graduate students from san Jose state Inan experimental series. Kuhn said the mechanical pro Fessor made Only one mistake in 10,000 pitch tests. This is better by several or Ders of magnitude in both accuracy and reliability than would be expected from human judg ment Kuhn said. He predicts a Day when Complete curricula in melodic rhythmic and harmonic sight singing and dictation could be computerized and adapted foray level of musical develop ment along with instructional systems for learning to play instruments. Thieves had Sweet tooth South Ozone Park . A thieves probably Small sized took the cake at Public school 124. Some 50 members of the school Parent teachers association met in the auditorium the adjourned to a nearby room where Coffee and cake had Bee set up. The pastries and five quarts of milk were gone except for one Small piece of pie Servings a paperweight for a note signed the phantom eater. Did Viking Oklahoma Poteau okla. Up the Vikings Are at it again. The latest evidence that the fur Clad explorers with Droop mustaches and spiked helmets May have trumped around South Eastern Oklahoma nearly 1, ago was unearthed recently in Poteau. The find is another in a serie of run stones whose origin is alternately attributed to the Early Vikings and to pranksters. The Stone with a near Perfec inscription of seven runes let ters or symbols was found by two 12-year-old boys Henry me Bride and Mike Griffith on Poteau s Terry Hill following heavy  boys chilled the Mes Sage from the top of a hug Boulder and took it to their eighth Grade science class wherein has been the object of study by  Stone with its single line of Rune characters measuring about 15 inches Long and three inches High was found in a direct line with two similar Small stones and the famed Heavener,okla., Rune Stone. The first second fourth an fifth characters on the new Poteau Stone Are identical to symbols on the much larger youth shall serve Palm Springs Calif. A police say a 17-year-old High school student has  54 houses including the Homes of actors Kirk Doug Las and William Powell. Maryland men have differences with Gal Annapolis my. A leading advocate of putting sex into Maryland s new Constitution came under heavy crossfire Friday from male members of convention committee. I like women to be women remarked Delegate George e Burgess of Prince  sex into the Constitution won t change women int Omen or men into women snapped miss Helen Elizabeth Brown Maryland s leading Fem Inist. That seems to require a surgical  miss Brown who once successfully challenged an unwritten ruling among some Baltimore cocktail lounges that women could not enter without male escorts appeared before the committee on personal right Sand the preamble. She argued for insertion of the word sex in the due process clause cover ing Bias on grounds of religion Ace color or National  Godfrey child of Worces Ter county said it would be hopeless quandary trying to treat men and women  re not alike and i Hope they remain different. Vive la difference said the retired Cir Cuit  re talking about discrimination not physical differences miss Brown  Are Able to take care of themselves. Any woman ought to be1 Able to do anything she is Able to do without obstruction in the Law. All i m asking is that you put women in the  but Bruce k. Price a clergy Man from Baltimore county opined that to put sex into the Constitution would be opening a Pandora s Box explore sooner Heavener  experts have interpreted the Heavener Stone to read Sun dial Valley and a recently published Book has translated the runes to mean november la. 1012." mrs. Gloria Farley of heaven or a student of run stones has taken photos and impressions of the Poteau Stone and has sen them to experts for appraisal. Mrs. Farley indicated the Stone May add another link in the Chain of authentication procedures to prove the run stones were carved by the Vikings Lon before Columbus discovered America. Queen marijuana on same ballot Sacramento Calif. A Sacramento state College Stu dents will be asked this week i marijuana should be made Legal and who they want to be thei Campus Queen. They la also be polled about their View of . Forces in Viet Nam. The results of the poll except for naming the Campus Queen will be sent to califor Nia s congressmen in washing ton. 3 scientists to share atoms for peace award Cambridge mass. A the $90,000 atoms for peace award for 1967 was Given Here o an International Trio of atomic scientists who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the Power of he atom and to bringing that Power within the control  named were Isidor i. Rabi of Columbia University Bertrand -. Goldschmidt a director of the Trench atomic Energy commis Sion and w. Bennett Lewis ans Glish physicist working on atomic developments in  will share the Money equally