European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Friday april 26 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 off Atlanta a. A through Snow and rain. Heat and gloom of night and even temptation the mail goes through. Charlie Womack stapled a $20 Bill in Plain View Toa crude postcard made of cardboard and mailed it Toa local Friend Jim Sand ers. The Money was delivered safely the same Day it was mailed. Other death causes Down. Report shows . Cancer toll still on the increase Washington up sur Geon general William h. Stewart reports that american deaths from heart disease Dia betes and tuberculosis have dropped but cancer fatalities re main on the increase. Compared to the previous year Stewart said in his annual report on the nation s health deaths from cardiovascular disease declined 3.3 per cent from diabetes about six per cent and from tuberculosis 16 per cent. But he added cancer death increased about three per cent Over the previous  testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee Stewart said the record is one of a healthy nation yet it is record that leaves no room for  National averages reflecting the population As a whole tend to mask the very serious problems among certain groups of people he added. Unhappily american health care at its Best is still extremely difficult for millions of our people to  Stewart also reported the lowest infant mortality rate record a significant decline in Don t nag if owners of sleek Auto keep their cars washed Why should t Leona Orlando bring in her one horse Power arabian Mare Sun Sara she s us ing a vacuum cleaner at a drive in car and Boss Wash in Pottstown a. A new icbms urged by joint chiefs Washington up the joint chiefs of staff Are urging stepped up research and development of new intercontinental ballistic missiles icbms Bot hand and sea based according to informed  new missiles would succeed minuteman Iii land based icbms and submarine launched Poseidon both of which Are to be deployed in the Early 1970s. The defense department Early this year asked Congress for to million to study advanced item technology beyond minuteman and Poseidon. The pcs was Learned believes this pro Gram should go Forward faster than the Pentagon plans Vuurman John c. Stennis of in Senate military prepared Ness subcommittee told news men tuesday that Gen. Earle a Wheeler chairman of the joint rns of staff had outlined for be panel a need for a follow on omber. A follow on sub the added need Foi ses Wheeler testified in closed Sion during the subcommittee s Kiniry into . Strategic no Utar weapons systems wants Laws eased single Gal is ried these sounded Washington up single persons arise abolish tax discrimination against the Dunmar were the Battle cries Here by an attractive Over-35 blonde from Californi who visited Washington to urge Congress to give tax Relief to single persons. Dorothy Shinder of san fran Cisco is president of single per sons tax Reform which she de scribed As a loosely knit organization with about 20,000 Mem Bers across the nation mostly single women Over 35 years Osage. Miss Shinder told a news con Ference that present tax Laws discriminate against single per sons because the Laws were made for married people by married people in a male dominated society. Single persons Are taxed without being represented she  said she will be in town for the next two weeks lobbying for the Bills which would provide tax Relief for single person without dependents who live alone either in apartments or Homes. Congressional sources said chances for action this Yea appeared dim. One Bill would allow unmarried persons to qualify As Heads of household and Benefit fro the accompanying lower tax rates. Another would allow sin Gle persons maintaining their own households to qualify for personal exemptions of $1,200, instead of the $600 now granted each taxpayer and each de  Shinder said there Are about 13 million single women and 5 million single men over35 in the nation who could pos Sibly Benefit from the legis lation in addition to younger single persons. She contended that the head of household tax benefits should go also to single person who must Bear the entire eco nomic Burden of their  the death rate among those under 15 and Over 55 a 10 per cent Rise largest proportionally Between 1966 and 1967in deaths due to homicide and a2.5 million increase in the number of people afflicted by some chronic disease. Stewart said that although the number of persons injured in accidents climbed from 45million to 52 million the number injured in Auto accidents declined 400,000. The surgeon general said the two significant research achievements of the past Yearin the infectious disease Field were the licensing of a vaccine against mumps and great Progress with the experimental vaccine against rubella or German measles. We now have evidence that the attenuated virus vaccine May Confer lasting immunity Stewart said. Additionally the simple pre Cise and Quick blood test for rubella infection developed barely a year ago is expected to Advance the target Date of final rubella vaccine by about one year. Apollo chief wants men on next flight Cape Kennedy up the Apollo program director confident that past problems can be corrected said wednesday he has recommended the next Saturn 5 Moon rocket be launched with men  maj. Gen. Samuel Phillips said space Agency administrator James Webb has not yet decided whether to accept the proposal or schedule another unmanned test flight of the massive Moon ship launcher. I expect a decision shortly Phillips said at a news Confer ence that was held in washing ton and tied in for questioning with the space centers Here Andin Houston. As it now stands the Lack of firm decision on the immediate course of the Apollo program leaves in doubt the Fate of the third Saturn 5 rocket and the schedule for the first manned negro named president of class at Princeton Princeton . Apel Liot d. Moorman an 18-year-old freshman from Newark is the first negro to become a class president in Princeton University s 221-year history. His election to head next sea son s Sophomore class was announced wednesday.  first of the towering Saturn 5 s performed perfectly last november. But Phillips said three substantial technical problems and one procedural problem were encountered on the rocket s last unmanned test flight april 4.he said he has developed a plan to Correct the problems an to insure that astronauts can be launched safely on Saturn 5  he has recommended that the next Saturn 5 be flow manned Phillips said the plan if something up. In that could be revoked unexpected turns Case he said the third Saturn 5would be launched without astronauts As Early As August. New computer is no Blockhead Cambridge mass. A a system with sufficient artificial intelligence to recognize blocks and assemble them with out step by step instruction from an operator has been developed at Massachusetts Institute of technology. A computer television Cam Era and mechanical Arm Are combined to make the system to through the ability to see that can visually perceive blocks determine their size an location and stack them into a  also can sort blocks by size into separate  system was developed As part of a research program to give machines greater flex Bili their work and create machine with More various visual Abili ties and manual  tiie work Are prof. Marvin Minsky of the depart ment of electrical engineering and prof. Seymour Papert of the department of mathematics. We do not like to predict How far artificial intelligence can be carried using just the current Stock of ideas and programming techniques said Minsky. Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea or just a rearrangement of old ideas4tlvat completely eliminates