POISONOUS RECIPE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28870, 15 April 1959, Page 13

POISONOUS RECIPE

“Grave Mistake” Ry Newspaper

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. The 8.8. C. yesterday broadcast warnings to the public on radio and television telling women not to use laurel leaves in a recipe for cooking kebal (small pieces of meat on a skewer) as advised in the Women’s page of the “Daily Express." newspapers said today. One of the warnings said the “Daily Express” had asked the 8.8. C. to state that in no circumstances should common laurel leaves be used as they might prove poisonous. The “Daily Mirror” devoted almost its whole front page to the warning today, referring to what it called “this grave mistake.”

It said that as more than 30 per cent, of “Daily Express” readers also read the “Daily Mirror” it willingly repeated the warning.

The 1951 b capsule within Discoverer H’s pay load carries cameras to record the density of c °smic radiation deep in space. A special ejection device, activated by radio, is designed to set the capsule free and allow it to be lowered to earth by parachute.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which conducted both satellite attempts yesterday, hopes to retrieve the capsule over Hawaii with special drag equipment trailed behind United States Air Force planes. N.A.S.A. officials will decide today w’hether Discoverer II has gone into an orbit which will: allow them to release the capsule at the right time and the right place. They give only a slight chance of success for the recovery attempt.

The aircraft—Cl 19 transports—will have only a few minutes to home on the capsule’s radio beacon and snag the parachute before it hits the Pacific Ocean. Two destroyers cruising in the area will act as back-stops foi the aircraft. Hours after Discoverer II was launched, the Air Force announced in Washington that studies of tracking data indicated that the satellite was travelling in an prbit that carried it out as far as 243 miles and in as close as 156 miles of the earth. The latest Air Force statement said the satellite was whirling around the earth in a nearly north-south orbit every 90.84 minutes at 17,433.8 miles an hour. It could remain in orbit for up to a month.