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Seminoles’CareOf Aged Is GoodPattern For Fla.

By CHRIS MACGILLGAINESVILLE \fil Florida

could learn a good lesson fromits Seminole Indians in caring forthe needs of its aged, says Presi-dent William Sanger of the Medi-cal College of Virginia.

Addressing * the third annualSouthern Conference on Gerontol-ogy which closed at the Universityof Florida Tuesday, Sanger pointedout most primitive people give,their elders positions of impor-tance in tribal affairs.

That gives the old folks a senseof status which they need badlyand of which modern civilizationhas virtually robbed them, he de-clared.

The need of the elderly to feelthey still are necessary to thecommunity gives experts in thefield of caring for the aged oneof their greatest problems.

The conference, planned to guidethe University of Florida in de-ciding how much attention shouldbe given to geriatrics (medicalcare of the aged) in the curricu-lum of its proposed medical school,came up with one major piece ofadvice:

Don’t regard treatment of theaged as a separate medical spe-cialty.

That would not only have theeffect of making old folks regardthemselves as a segregated groupbut would lower the quality of themedical care they get, the con-ference concluded.

With several speakers empha-sizing that the aging process ac-tually starts as soon as a baby isborn, the conference recommendedletting the battle against infirmi-ties of old age take in the wholelife span of a patient. %

As the conference closed, theUniversity of Florida announced ithas entered an agreement with theUniversity of Chicago to conducta lengthy research project on ag-ing and retirement.

Studies of workers who have re-tired to Florida will be conductedby the University of Florida. Workalready is underway at an experi-mental trader park near Mel-bourne and at a big trailer parkat Bradenton.

The University of Chicago willstudy those who are to retire with-in a few years and offer themguidance in planning their newlives of leisure. The effectivenessof this guidance will be studiedby Florida experts as the workerscome here, to spend, their lastyears.

Smathers PresentsBUI For ThirdJudicial District

WASHINGTON Ufi- A third fed-eral judicial district will be cre-ated in Florida if a bill introducedby Sen. Smathers (D.-Fla.) Tues-day becomes law.

Smathers told the Senate in astatement accompanying his billthat one district should be theSouthern Florida District, one thethe Northern District.

The Central District would in-clude Jacksonville, Orlando andthe Tampa-St. Petersburg area;&e Southern District Miami; andthe old Northern District would re-Central Florida District and onemain as it is.

Smathers pointed out the so-called Southern District extendsfrom Duval County, second north-ernmost in the state, in a south-east direction and includes theTampa and St Petersburg area.

It also includes Orlando and theSouth Florida coastal area "wherewe find the greatest concentrationof our state," he said.

Federal courts in the SouthernDistrict are from one and a halfto two years behind in their work,Smathers added. .

Operates On Four;Then Gives Birth

MEXICO CITY t* Mexico’sonly woman plastic surgeon per-formed four operations Tuesdaythen drove to another hospital andgave birth to an eight-pounddaughter.

She is Dr. Irene Talamas deKitain, 32. wife of violinist RobertKitam He interrupted a Canadianconcert tour to fly here for thebirth of their second child.

Both mother and daughter werereported doing well.

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and put his hand under herchin, turning the lovely face fromside to side, examining it fromevery angle as though it were asculptured mask, or some objetd’art he was considering purchas-ing.

Bianca watched breathlessly andthen unable to bear the suspense,she ventured timidly, “She ispretty, yes?”

“She is beautiful,’* he said som-berly. And then for the first timehe spoke directly to Gina. “Listen,devil child. For some inscrutablereason of His own, which it is notfor use to question, the good Godhas rewarded the evilness of youryouth with great beauty.” Anthea,catching Joe’s eye and the littlecurl of his mouth, repressed asmile. But the pontifical mannerappeared to impress Bianca, andhave quite a salutary effect uponGina, for she uncurled herself,sat up straight, folded her handson her lap and listened like thebest girl in the Sunday school.Joe answered Anthea’s glancewith a wink, but they all listened.

“It is important,” Mario said,“that you make the greatest useof this beauty.” He hooked histhumbs into his waistcoat arm-holes and added impressively. “Iintend to make you a film star!”

Anthea and Joe, unable to con-trol themselves, broke into mildlyironical applause. Gina openedher eyes, and smiled like an an-fel, and said, “A movie actress?”

lario came off his high horse andshook his head irritably.

“Isaid a star,” he shouted; “notan actress. It isn’t given to anyhuman being to achieve the im-possible.”

Gina lay back in the chair, andexamined her painted nails withlazy concentration, idly con-:Id '.-

ing the opportunity that hah theyoung actresses in London orHollywood would have gientheir eyes to possess. “Well,” shesaid casually, “if the money’sgood, and there’s not too muchwork, I guess I might as well trythat as anything.”

It was Joe who began to laugh.

If Anthea’s working hours ahdbeen odd before, the followingweek they became absolutely cha-otic. Her parents hardly saw herfrom morning until night UntilGina had actually been taken tothe World-Wide Studio for somerush tests, it was impossible forMario to give her a contract An-thea had to take her shoppingfor new clothes, which she en-joyed very much. Mario footedthe bill, and gave Anthea a lib-eral amount to spend. He alsofirmly instructed her: “Don’t lether choose anything; her taste isexecrable. Never leave her alonein a hairdresser’s or shop or she’ildo something dreadful. In thefilm she has to be a child of na-ture, an elegant demi-mondaine,and an over-dressed actress, bi tfor the tests she must only looklike a lovely girl. That’s all thefront office men need. Curves andteeth, and pienty of flowing hair.”

ONE day, W’hen Mario was out,Anthea put in a long after-

| noon’s work with Joe. Gina had! decided to take Bianca out to| the movies.

Later, when Gina sidled tri-' umphantly in, they stared, andshe smiled. Her lovely shining

I blonde hair was waved into ahigh pompadour over her fore-

| head, and tortured into innumer-| able ringlets and curls down herI back and over her shoulders. Bi--1 anca put her head round the door,| beaming and smiling with ma--1 ternal pride.

“Is it not lovely?” she said.; “Will not the padrone be toopleased? W’e plan surprise. We

! make date with hairdresser, andpretend to go to the movies. What

i do you think?”“Angels and Ministers of Grace

defend us,” said Joe, the Hamlet-quotation mood apparently stillwith him, “I can’t bear to thinkof it. And the contracts aren’tsigned yet.” An idea seemed tostrike him, and he said to Anthea.

I "They might let her shave her; head and wear a wig.”

Gma gave a shriek of protest,j and Bianca burst into an explo-

j sion of Italian. Anthea. inwardlyshuddering when she thought of

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AEC Predicts New IndustrialUses For Atomic Power Soon

By FRANK CAREYScience Reporter.

WASHINGTON UW-The AtomicEnergy Commission (AEC) hasreported sharp new advances to-

ward perfecting atomic power forindustrial use and to drive aircraftand submarines. It said there hadbeen progress in virtually everydepartment of its vast enterprise.

But construction work has fallenbehind schedule at its SavannahRiver, S. C., plant where materialsof the projected hydrogen bombare to be made, the commissionsaid. It blamed the falling behindon “delays in the delivery of sup-plies and equipment.”

The commission, in its 13th semi-annual report to Congress, an-nounced that detailed studies have

demonstrated the American publichas nothing to fear~either now orin the foreseeable future-from theblast and radioactivity effects ofweapons tests conducted at thecommission’s proving ground inNevada.

The AEC said it was promptedto give this assurance because of"public concern in some commu-nities" regarding possible radio-active hazards to man, beast andplant from periodic blasts aimedat developing “new and improvedatomic weapons."

The commission granted thatradioactive particles from the blastin the desert area northwest ofLas Vegas could be spread by aircurrents across the entire nationand could fall, like dust, "virtuallyanywhere within the UnitedStates.”

In fact, they’ve already been de-tected in most parts of the country,the commission revealed.

But the AEC said the radioactiv-ity situation is well in hand, anda nation-wide monitoring systemwill be maintained to see that itremains so.

In the latest account of its stew-ardship of the entire atomic pro-gram—in which Congress so farhas invested or appropriated ap-proximately billion dollars—-the AEC said:

Production of fissionable ma-terials for A-bombs and for theoperation of various atomic re-search furnaces "continued to in

crease in I*s2''; and production ofatomic weapons "continued at the

rate authorized by the Presidentfor calendar year 1952."

Four different industrial groupshave told the commission they seeattractive possibilities for tappingindustrial power from the atom onan economic basis "in a fewyears.”

And the AEC itself feels that thedevelopment of atomic reactors forthe output of power for industrialuse and for the propulsion of air-craft, submarines and large navalvessels “made longer forwardstrides (in the last six months)than in any other half-year of thedecade."

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“Into the bathroom with her,*said Joe imperiously, “befor*Papa comes back."

By bullying and cajoling, ex-plaining and protesting, they gother into the bathroom, and puther head under the spray, and bythe time Mario returned, the of-fending curls had vanished, andGina's hair once more hung in itsaccustomed shimmering, silkencurtain. It was quite obvious that,whereas he saw her as a youngBergman, she saw herself aa *

rising Betty Grable.Anthea drew a breath of relief

when she finally got her to thestudio for the test, looking theembodiment of shining youth, ina demure white organdie blouseand black taffeta skirt, with ablack velvet Alice band holdingback her lovely hair. The testswere a brilliant success. She couldnot really act, but before thecamera Gina was as unself-con-scious as a cat, and quite asgraceful. Everyone was delightedwith her. The contracts weresigned, Mario bought Gina a paleyellow fox cape, and Joe broughther some orchids.

As the day of departure drewnear. Anthea found herself work-ing like an automaton, trying tobring some sort of order into theproceedings. Mario followed hisimpulses, alternately raging atBianca because she kept askinghim for instructions, at Gina be-cause she would put unscriptedAmericanisms into her part, orAnthea because, or so he said, shewas so tidy that he coulcL neverfind anything. To see to every de-tail, to keep him in a reasonabletemper, too, was tiring andworrying, and the increasingtension at home did not help her.She was relieved when the dayof their departure came.

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Assembly is virtually completeon a land-based version of tbeworld’s first known power plantfor a submarine. The AEC didn’tsay so, but presumably this meansthat a "dry-run'’ test is not faraway.

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