European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Saturday october 21, 1967 the stars and stripes Page. 7 military spending dips in september Washington a Mili tary spending declined during september but remained Well above $6 billion for the third straight month the Treasury department reported thursday. The $6.331 billion spent Las month raised total military spending for the first three months of the fiscal year to $19.04 billion which would project to an annual rate of $76.16  would be in line with president Johnson s revise military budget of up to $76.3 billion if the Pace of spending remained stable for the remain ing nine months of the fiscal year. The september level com pared with the $6.558 billion in military spending during a gust. Military spending reached its Post world War ii Peak Las March at $6.611 billion. The Treasury s monthly spending report also showed an administrative budget deficit of$10.623 billion during the first three months of the fiscal year compared with a $7.813 billion deficit for the same three months a year earlier. This larger figure is based on receipts of $26.076 billion and spending of $36.699 billion exclusive of the Trust funds such As social Security and  Trust funds showed a sur plus of $873 million Over the three month period. Military spending remains the largest item in the Treasury s balance Sheet followed by inter est on the debt at $3.415 billion for the first three months of the fiscal year. Very hopeful thing virus studied As cancer cause Washington a mos cancer in humans May be caused by viruses which can be controlled a Federal research official said . Robert j. Huebner head of viral research at the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases said at a new briefing that scientists now know viruses cause tutors Uncertain animals. The next step just beginning he said is to determine whether the same is True in humans. He said there Are Strong indications it is. Happy possibility and if so he said it will Bea very hopeful thing. Because this is something we can do something about. These Are the ways we be controlled most Dis eases to  Many diseases caused by viruses now Are prevented by vac  told of the new chemical discovery in response to a question whether the virus study would result in prevention rather than treatment of exist ing cancer cases. This is debatable he said. The next step in viral research he said is to determine whether cancer patients have the same antibodies that have been found in Ani Mals in which cancer has Bee induced. He said this might take a  Huebner cautioned that if viruses Are found to cause human cancers research leading to & cure or treatment will belong and difficult. He was unwilling to estimate How Man years it might take. One problem is that scientists cannot inject humans with viruses because the patients might get cancer perhaps years later. Instead pieces of human tissue Are used. Considerable research has been done on cancer viruses in chickens and mice. The next phase will be work on cats and dogs Huebner said and the findings should be ready for application to  viruses involved Are not very unusual he said. The can be controlled i m  sentence Cut Douglas Shaver is dug out from behind a Beard and Long hair at the re quest of a judge in Boulder Colo. Shaver 20,of Seattle was sentenced to a $50 Fine and 30 Days after his fourth traffic violation this year but was allowed to keep his construction Job and go on prisoners work release program if he would get a shave and haircut. My girl won t know me was his first reaction to the trimming. Associated press photo Comsat May soon get tentative of Agency � for Small Domestic satellite net Washington a govern ment sources indicated thursday that the communications satellite corp. Comsat May soon get tentative approval to launch Pilot scale Domestic satellite sys  demonstration plan would bring satellite distributed Colo television to the Pacific and Rocky Mountain time zones by1970. It also would provide Tele phone radio and message Cir Cuits to test the feasibility of a satellite system serving the entire United states. Officials of the Federal communications commission which has been studying the proposal for seven months said that at least a Preb Minary decision is near. Other sources predicted it would be  so. Comsat could take the starting Steps toward a$58-million test program to be fully operative in 1970, wit Hopes but no guarantees of later expanding it to a full scale system costing about $120 Mil  hoped for result would be improved television a color to circuit in each time zone provided free for educational television and at some future nurse widow gets oilman s millions Dallas a Pearl Choat Birch the sex convict nurse who married 95-year-old Californi multimillionaire a. Otis Birch in 1966, won a court Battle thurs Day to get title to his estate which is valued at up to $200million. The court upheld the Validity of Birch s Handwritten will which was made on May 14, 1966.bircl\, who made his Money in Oil and farm land died 10months later on March 15, 1967. Pearl Choate a 6-foot, 205-Poundpractical nurse had been hired by Birch to take care of his wife and himself. Both were physic ally infirm. The first mrs. Birch die while she was in mrs. Choate s care and the elopement followed less than a month later. Birch was deaf and crippled at t h time. The ruling thursday prohibited Pearl from becoming adminis Trator of the estate  was disqualified because she had served time in a Texas Pris on for murdering a former Hus  mrs. Birch s right to the estate were religious or Ders that had received million from Birch while he lived. They challenged the will contending Birch was mentally incompetent when he wrote it one of two wills he had written within a year of each  psychiatrist testified that Birch was fully mentally competent in every sense of t h e . Birch 59, is free under $10,000 Bond posted on an assault to murder complaint charging her with firing a Rifle at a tenant of an apartment House she owns in California. Date better and cheaper Tele phone and Telegraph service. A decision for the Comsat plan would mean rejection for the present of proposals by theford foundation and the Ameri can broadcasting co. For Domestic educational television. An acc official said there Isa Good possibility of action soon within a month or two positive or  the forecast of Early action came As some Surprise. There was widespread speculation when president Johnson appointed the presidential taskforce on communications policy in August that he was in effect postponing the decision on a Domestic satellite system until next summer. But it is now indicated that the task Force already has advised acc that it would not object to an interim order on the Comsat plan. A definite go ahead would help Comsat solve one of its Basic problems what to do wit hits excess capital. Because its dividend earning potential is based to a Large extent on the amount of its invested capital under the acc s present rate setting formula Comsat has been scouting for ways to spend its Money productively. Hippie Hunts is proposed Washington a a new Federal Agency to help parents and local police Hunt for the thousands of hippies dropouts and other missing persons was proposed thursday by sen. Abra Ham a.  computerized records sys tem at the Justice department would be an important Aid for local policemen As they search for these youngsters the Connecticut Democrat  introduced a Bill he said would set up a highly skilled resourceful investigative group with an excellent an coordinated data Exchange and communications  a Quarter of a million persons disappear each  said the proposed Agency should act if a person dismissing 72 hours or longer or circumstances indicate he maybe a victim of a criminal of  would at least know that the very Best and most efficient communications network is at work on their behalf i finding their children he said. Court oks Pennsy merger new York a the merger of the Pennsylvania and new York Central railroads was approved thursday by a special three judge Federal court which gave opponents 15 Days to Appeal to the . Supreme court