European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              April 10, 196j the stars and stripes Page 7 erts discount on . Economy general briefing or Willam West Moreland stops Olf of Pauur Springs caltf., on his Way to Vietnam to Brief former president Wight p. Eisenhower. A Johnson gains in poll after talk on decision not to run Washington a Pat lie approval of the Way presi Dent Johnson is handling his Job jumped from 38 per cent in March to 57 per cent after his dramatic Vietnam no Candida by broadcast on april 1, the Harris Survey reported Mon , the poll found 40 per cent disbelieving that the .effort will get peace negotiations started with 31 per cent confident and 29 per Keiit not  s handling of the War in Vietnam Rose from 30 percent approval in March to 43 per cent last week before Hanoi responded to the president s peace bid. When asked if they though More or less of Johnson As a re sult of his decision not to see reelection 54 per cent said they thought More of him com pared with Only 6 per cent who thought less. There was a Sharp Rise the poll found in the categories that he really wants to work for peace and he has had such a Long hard go with the  a substantial 22 per cent volunteered they had a new found regard for Johnson As the result of what they termed his selfless decision to take himself  Washington a except for such segments As insurance companies and retail stores in the looted areas the nation s Economy stands to suf Fer Little in the Long run from the current racial violence in the View of some government economists. It la raise hell for insurance companies one source stated. But the internal Revenue service said that Money paid out by insurance companies to cover damage from racial Vio Lence can be deducted for tax purposes As a business expense. Consumer spending obviously dropped off Over the weekend As stores in Washington and other major cities closed their doors on a pre easter saturday which would probably have been the heaviest sales Day so far this year. But one economist said the statistics published in the future will reveal no Trace of any Trou ble this past weekend As far As despite tragedy mourning Soprano sings Houston up Soprano Felicia Weathers Sang the Lead role of Madame Butterfly Toa capacity audience in Jones Hall Here sunday the Day after attending the double funeral of her parents in St. Louis. Miss Weathers was forced to cancel her Friday night appear Ance in the opera because of he Mother s death earlier in the week. The opera was schedule tuesday Friday and sunday. Miss Weathers left after the tuesday night performance. When she arrived Home wednes Day she Learned her father Frank a. Weathers had died Ofa heart ailment a few hours earlier. After attending the double funeral she and her husband Bela Bakonyi returned to  audience of More than 3,000 shouted Bravo through out her performance and gave her a prolonged standing ovation at the end. She showed no Strain of the family tragedy in giving magnificent vocal and dramatic  Walter Herbert had Maria Digerlando who san the Lead Friday night standing by sunday in Case miss weath ers s control faltered. Miss Weathers and her husband were to return to St. Louis Mon Day. She has cancelled All her appearances until the end of april when she will sing at the University of Indiana. Then she and her husband will return to their Home in Munich Germany. Fear in a Handy six pack by Delos Smith up science editor new York up the newest in brain science is a statistical demonstration that a unnatural fear acquired by one individual can be bottled put into a syringe and injected into other individuals. If this sounds alarming witha dire implication for the future be reassured. The research not Only is in its infancy it has scientific critics who think its Basic premise is All wrong. In fact or. G. Ungar of Baylo University Houston tex., devised his experiments in bottled fear to confound critics of his Previ Ous experiments in which knowl Edge Learned by painful experience was apparently transferred by Needle from the educated to the uneducated. The subjects for such experiments Are ruts and mice of course since they can t be peo pie but mammalian brains whether of people or rodents operate chemically and physio logically in much the same  and his associates l. Alyan and h. H. Clark began a instilling an unnatural fear i the dark in rats rodents which normally choose darkness a of scientists used two connecting boxes one illuminated we Oiler dark. The floor of the Atter was an electric Grid an whenever the rats entered it they got a painful Shock. In due course the rats stayed in the illuminated Box. Their brains were then re moved and reduced to an extract. Bits of this bottled extract were injected into 180 mice which had been protected to make sure they had the natural mouse preference for dark places. In the connecting dark and Light boxes they displayed the same acquired fear of the dark donor rats had shown. There were degrees in the Dis play. Hence the need for a statistical reckoning which turned out to to highly "significant1 by that precise mathematical measurement. And extracts made from the brains of rat which had t been trained to be afraid of the dark had no effector the mice into which they were  reporting these results to the journal nature Ungar noted other scientists had been unable to duplicate his previous experimental Transfer of knowl Edge by Needle among rodents. In those experiments brain extracts from rats trained to run a Maze in a particular Way seemed to cause untrained mice to prefer to run the same Maze in the same Way. The Experiment with bottled fear is More impressive because there Are fewer variables that might account for the result and it should be More readily Veri fied by other scientists if its find Ings Are Correct however Ungar s premise is based on the theory that knowl Edge or fear is stored in the brain in local Sites involving isolated molecules. If so a brain extract containing those mole Cules would bottle the knowl Edge or fear which then could be transferred. This opposes the generally held theory that memory is stored in networks of nerve cells activated by electrical impulses. The Economy in general is concerned. One of the biggest economic impacts to be expected he added is from the catalytic effector cities spending for Antipov erty Urban renewal civil right Sand transportation programs now badly hobbled. Government sources Don t expect any specific request from the administration for a tax in crease in excess of the 10 per cent surcharge submitted to Congress last August but they Don t close the door completely to the possibility. The chances Are pretty closet Zero but i Don t Rule it out one said. Secretary of the Treasury Henry h. Fowler said recently that a surcharge of at least 10per cent is now needed. One government source saw Congress in a More receptive mood for a Basic change in Theta rates themselves rather than the add on of a surcharge. Damages a millions no exact estimate of damages in Washington and other cities has yet been assessed but it will certainly run far into the Mil Lions. Preliminary insurance company estimates for the Capi Tal Are in the neighbourhood of $10 million. Irs said it s too Early to Tell How much Money the Federal government might lose in lower tax payments by insurance companies because of the Vio Lence since no real Over All Esti mate of the insurance covered loss is available. Economists said some of the lost retail sales stemming from the violence never will be recouped such As beverage and food and other goods bought for immediate consumption. But they expect sales of other products such As clothing and. Hard goods to be made up later enlarge part. Lost jobs offset one economist noted that Many jobs were lost in negro areas because of the violence but the lost income in the Broad est sense will be balanced some what by the overtime pay received by police firemen an others forced to work Over the weekend. Another economic Impact headed might be More sensible use of land in the affected areas. Owners of property where stores were destroyed could now Combine their efforts to rebuild he added. In the past cooperative Effort was difficult because of leases which expired at Dif Ferent times. Weight ruling appealed to cameras ordered off Apollo spaceships Houston up the world May lose its Chance to watch America s first two Apollo Crews in orbit via live television Broad casts from their spacecraft it was Learned monday. Paul Huney chief spokesman for the manned spacecraft Cen Ter said officials have ordered the television cameras remove from the first two manned Apollo spaceships to save weight. The Apollo program office in Washington specifically asked for a review of that decision Huney said but there has been no  sources said that unless space Agency Headquarters i Washington orders otherwise the missions Likely will Fly with outlive television aboard. This would delay the first live Apoll telecast from space until the third manned Mission next , after astronauts land on the Moon plans Call for the to Send Back to Earth live Tele vision pictures of their activities there. These plans remain unchanged by the october  s cosmonauts have sent televised pictures of their flights Back to Earth from orbit. The . Has tried this Only once during the final Mercury pro Gram flight by astronaut Gordon Cooper with limited Success