'ARBTARY RETIREMENT AGE (see page 2) 41w ujau ~AIaii4 0* 0 0~ i' Latest Deadline in the State FAIR, WARMER VOL. LXVII, No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1956 FOUR PAGES Can Reverse Tissue leterioration, Doctor Says * * * * * * Research May Double Life Span Conference Hears Gerontologist Predict Modification of Changes Science may be able to reverse biological deterioration of cells and tissue so that biological appearance approaches that of younger periods of life, a doctor told the Conference of Aging. "We have shown that there may be a reversal in the picture of 4 tissue, both biologically and functionally long after the tissue has ceased its normal activity," Dr. William B. Kountz, professor from Washington University in St. Louis, declared. The doctor, president of the American Gerontological Associa- Eisenhower Cites ' To Run Again; Much Better' Health I - "- o - < tion answered affirmatively the occus with age be modified? May Extend And a Madison, Wisconsin, Retirement PlaniCalled Feasibe By Lee Marks Daily Managing editor Substitution of a disability re tirement plan for a fixed age re tirement plan is medically feasibl and sound efficiency-wise, a Ca nadian doctor said yesterday. Further the doctor told a geron tology workshop that methods o assessing older employees can b made economic, thus solving th problem of administration. L, F. Koyl, of the Departmen of Veteran Affairs, Toronto, pre sented his data at the Universi ty's ninth annual Conference o Aging. Personality Deterioration Deterioration in personality at titudes and mentality are mor important than organic deteriora tion the doctor declared. But fac ets of personality deteriorato were termed "susceptible to pre Data presented came from re search at Sunnybrook Hospita Toronto.. Purpose of the study was to es tablish criteria for judging ho long employees can work beyon fixed retirement ages and to de velop practical examination meth ods. No Correlation Found The study claimed there is n evidence of correlation betwee age and general physique in th age group of 50 - 64. Pathologida processes deteriorate at an eve rate from the forties to the lat sixties. As 70 approaches the .de terioration is more rapid. Personality deterioration, ac cording to Dr. Koyle, will probabl; set in between 65 and 7a1 but be fore that there is no significan deterioration. Other development at the Con ference, attended by some 60i medical and gerontological expert throughout the country, sawe committee established to organiz a Michigan State Gerontologica Society. The society would work wit local and state agencies in con ducting research, coordinating re search activities and educatin the public in old age problems. It would include representative, of all interested medical and so cial welfare groups in the state. Dr. Gordon Aldridge, professo of social work at Michigan Stat University, will chair the com mittee. Mrs. Wilma Donahue, dir ector of the Division of Geront. ology at the University, is also o the committee. Significance of the Society wa pointed up by a claim yesterda that old age bills that died in th State Legislature during the las session did so because of laok o: support from large organizations and groups. The claim was made by Rep Frank.D. Williams at the Con- ference. Designer To Speak In Amphitheater Mordecal Gorelik, professiona scene designer from New Yorl City, will speak at 3 p.m. today or question: can biological changes as Life Expectancy doctor told the gerontologists that man's life expectancy may be ex- tended by science to 110 or 120 years. He added that basic research into aging could make this rise "look like peanuts." The field of biochemistry holds the answer to why the human body ages so fast, Dr. Johan Bjorksten, of the Bjorksten Re- search Foundation, declared. Asks Check of Diseases - Checking major specific de-1 - generative diseases, such as heart e or circulatory ailments, he claim- ed, might raise life expectancy as high as 120 years. - Dr. Kountz went on to point A out that since reversal in tissue e 1e See related materials on the Conference on Aging on the t editorial and back pages. - deterioration has been demon- n strated in certain tissues it is "highly possible" that other tissues may be similarly modified. Further the St. Louis doctor e told gerontologists that mental re. sponses could be improved, that "such things as memory, ability of an old person to coordinate his thought, judgement, etc., may be - benefited with the therapy." J, wparents Get d Crank Calls. WESTBURY, N. Y. (,')-A new o rash of crank telephone calls yes- n terday deepened the agony of kid- e naped Peter Weinberger's parents. I Seventeen telephone calls were n received at the Weinberger home e in a matter of hours. All were - from cranks. All were anonymous. They came from as far away as y Chicago and Pontiac, Mich. - As far as police were concerned, t the search apparently was at a dead end. The best they could do - was plead. with the kidnaper to 0 give up the 5-weeks-old baby, s The FBI is expected to throw its a full force of crack manhunters in- e to the case today, one week after al the baby boy was snatched from a carriage on the patio of his h home. - The kidnaper left a note on the - Weinberger patio demanding $2,- g 000. Last Friday, a telephone caller upped the ransom demand to $5,- s 000. At the time, the child's father, - Morris, a wholesale drug sales- man, accepted the caller as the 'r kidnaper. Air Chief Sees Threat From Reds Warns Technology Gives New Weapons WASHINGTON A'P)-Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, warned yesterday that Russia may give the West a "technological surprise in new weapons.'" While he got only a glimpse of Soviet air power on his recent visit to Russia, Twining told the Senate Armed Services Committee it was enough to put him on his guard. "I feel that our visit substan- tially strengthened our previous assessments that the U.S.S.R., while certainly not abreast of us today, can and is progressively narrowing the technological lead of the West gnerally ond of the United States in particular," he said. He reported the Russians are putting emphasis on thorough training of carefully selected per- sonnel, squeezing the maximum potential from a pet engine of Western origin and developing powerful new engines of their own. He added: "We must in prudence reckon on the possibility of their achiev- ing scientific break-through and conquest technological surprises in new weapons." Twining talked with the Sena- jors privately. A copy of his pre- pared statement was given to re- porters. Twining reitereated that the United States still has the best air force in the world. "We must protect this qualita- tive lead by continuing heavy in- vestment in research and devejop- ment," he counseled the commit- tee. "Though the welcome mat was laid out with a flourish, a careful hand was kept on the door," he told the Senators, "They gave us much less information than is openly available to them about our own air force and defense preparations." Miller Cited For Contempt WASHINGTON (M)-The House Committee on Un-American Activ- ities yesterday voted contempt pro- ceedings against playwright Ar- thur Miller, bridegroom of actress Marilyn Monroe. Miller refused on June 21 to answer committee questions about persons with whom he attended Communist party writers' meet- ings in 1939 and 1940. Ballis Discusses Russian Foreign Policy Republicans Happy, Predict Big Vicory Knowland Announces Decision After Conference with President GETITSBURG, Pa. (A1)-President Dwight D. Eisenhower will run again. He passed the word yesterday through GOP congressional leaders, who quoted him as saying he is in "much better" health than before his major abdominal surgery. Republicans expressed jubilation, and predicted a big victory for their party in November. Democrats, preparing battle plans for an attempt to unseat President Eisenhower, said they were glad he feels well enough to be a candidate again. The stock market moved slightly higher for a time, then turned mixed and finally rose again. Brokers, like most other people, had generally believed the President would stay in the race, and many traders had taken into account the expected development some time ago. News No Surprise While the news was not a surprise, it came in an unexpected manner out of the chief executive's temporary office on the campus of Gettysburg College. It came through Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, who said after resi e a meeting between the President and Republican congressional lead-PI p "The President reiterated the fact that he will be a candidate for re-election in 1956." T Senator Knowland made this statement before newsreel cameras after saying substantially the same WASHINGTON ()- President thing to a news conference in the Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday austerely furnished office which handed Congress a big assignment President Eisenhower has taken -action on more than a dozen over for a week or so from the "priority" bills before adjourn- incoming president of the college, ment. Gen. Willard S. Paul. Topping the list are foreign aid White House press secretary funds, school construction and 1James C. Hagerty stood in the civil rights. room, nodding, as Senator Know- President Eisenhower pressed his land passed along the word to legislative program in personal newsmen after President Eisen- appeals to both Republican and hower's 67-minute meeting with Democratic leaders. But with the House and Senate GOP lead- Congress aiming for adjournment ers, later this month, it was obvious -Daily-Diane Humenansky ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION-In the first round table discussion concerning "Soviet Union's For- eign Policy," Prof. William Ballis, a visiting political science professor from the University of Wash- ington, spoke before a small group on "Soviet Union and its Satellites." A discussion period followed with topics ranging from the Poznan riots in Poland to Russian imperialism. PLAN JOINT TALKS: Steel Union -Confers With U.S. Mediators a WASHINGTON (')-Federal mediators set up a conference here yesterday with striking steelworkers as a step toward resumption of joint union-management negotiations in the 10-day-old walkout. Joseph L. Finnegan, director of the Federal Mediation and Counciliation Service, said the "preliminary" meeting with union leaders would be followed by a similar session today with manage- ment representatives. Finnegan said the separate talks are aimed at getting a "better " understanding" of the issues in Eden Plans Russian visit Neyt Year I T ruman's Library Sold CHICAGO (MP-Former Presi- dent Harry S. Truman, obviously enjoying the role of Democratic' elder statesman, received $72,000 for his library yesterday and just' about all the political attention he could absorb. He said he was pleased with selection of Gov. Frank Clement, 36-year-old Tennessean, as key- noter of the Aug. 13 Democratic convention. "You couldn't have a better keynoter than Clement," he told a news conference, dismissing a suggestion that the -Clement choice represented a victory for supporters of Adlai Stevenson. the nationwide strike. To Start Tomorrow He set tomorrow as the "prob- able" day for the start of joint sessions, which he said would be held in Pittsburgh, the nation's steel capital. Called to yesterday's confer- ence were David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelwork- ers Union, and Arthur G. Gold- berg, Union counsel. Union-management talks col- lapsed just six hours before the strike began July 1, idling 650,000 steelworkers and cutting steel out- put by 90 per cent. Reject Industry Offer In advance of the strike, in- dustry offered a 52-month con- tract at terms it said would amount to 17% cents an hour in- crease per employe for the first year. The union said the offer was worth about 14 cents. Steelworke'rs had earned $2.46 an hour. Economic effects of the strike continued to spread yesterday as some 20,000 soft coal miners wound up annual 10-day vacations: and joined the list of idle workers. They work in mines owned by the steel industry. All but one of these mines shut down at mid- night last night. The one excep- tion--the Robena Mine at Union- town, Pa.-will operate on a four- day week. Thousands are unemployed in other allied industries. INegro Series To Continue "Democratic Education" is topic of a speech at 4:15 p.m. today by LONDON (P)-Prime Minister Anthony Eden announced yester- day that he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd will visit the Soviet Union next May. Announcement of the visit on an invitation extended by Soviet leaders when they were here last April brought cheers from both sides of the House of Commons. Prime Minister Eden said his part would leave London May 5. Prime Minister Eden accepted an invitation to visit Russia ex- tended during the visit to England by Premier Nikolai Bulganih and Soviet Community party chief, Nikita Khrushchev. But Eden said then he would not immediately fix a date because of previous com- mitments. In his announcement, the Prime Minister emphasized his intention to visit "other areas of the Soviet Union." He seemed to anticipate getting beyond the confines of the Krem- lin to meet the people of Russia firsthand. It would be the first time a leader of one of the Big Four powers has made such a tour. i T a 1 x Discusses Foreign Aid Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, one of the conferees, said President Eisenhower dis- cussed various legislative items with the leaders, and when he came to foreign aid, he remarked: "I feel very deeply about this and I intend to campaign very vigorously and hard on this issue before the country this fall." Senator Bridges told. newsmen the President said: "Why shouldn't I run? Last Feb. 29 I surveyed all of the rea- sons pro and con when I an- nounced my decision. I'm in much better condition today than I was then., "I have had a condition that has bothered me from time to time for years, and my doctors say that I am better now than I have been before." EUCLIDEAN PLOT: 'The Circle' To Begin Run Tonight "The Circle," W. Sommerset Maugham's comedy about two generations in England's 1920 so- ciety who cannot live with the people they married, opens a four- day run in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 8 p.m. today. Presented as the second play on the Department of Speech summer playbill, "The Circle" is under di- rection of visiting professor James Brock. Costumes and scenery are by Marjorie Smith and Edward Andreasen. Sometimes called a "lesson for playwrights if not reckless wives," the nv's nint is Euclidean. dem- World News Roundup By The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece-Greece proudly declined aid offers from the United States and Britain yesterday as her quake-stricken Aegean Islands dug out from the ruins of Monday's disaster. Premier Konstantine Karamanlis said last night the death toll was "50, and maybe higher." But he added in a statement to reporters that he told United States Ambasador Cavendish Cannon earlier there was no need for American assistance "because at this time we are in a position to deal with the situation." Observers said refusal of Britain aid undoubtedly was tied to. Greece's bitter feud with Britain over Cyprus. PALMA DE MALLORCA, Balearic Islands--Vice-President Rich- ard M. Nixon and Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo' talked over Spanish-American problems yesterday. Vice-President Nixon arrived by plane from Ankara where he discussed Turkey's economic problems and the Cyprus issue with Turkish leaders. After a four-hour stopover, Nixon and wife flew off for Washington. he could not expect favorable action on all his requests, many of them highly controversial. Nevertheless, the President looks for "a substantially good batting average," Senate GOP Leader William Knowland of California reported. Senator Knowland and other Republican congressional leaders met with Eisenhower at Gettys- burg, Pa., to go 'over the Presi- dent's plans for the final weeks of the session. After this meeting, President Eisenhower telephoned Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon John- son of Texas and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) to make his wishes known. Senator Knowland said in Get- tysburg that President Eisenhower had tagged 15 proposals for "pri- ority" action. Topping the list was the foreign aid money bill waich the House will vote on today. Senator Know- land said President Eisenhower is hopeful the funds vqted will be in "substantial" accord with the four - billion - dollar authorization which Congress passed Monday. Senator Knowland also said "we certainly haven't abandoned the possibility" of reviving the federal school aid program which the House sidetracked last week. But Senator Styles Bridges (R. NH) said on returning from Get- tysburg that he saw little hope for such a move. Reds Charge U*S Violation WASHINGTON P)-Russia charged yesterday that American military planes flew deep into western Russia three times with- in the past week in a "gross vio- v :get t '