Cable Briefs

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 17

Cable Briefs

RADAR WARNING

A firm here has put on the market a device which will warn motorists of police radar speed traps. The company says it is legal; and the police admit there is little they can do about it. The instrument, which sells for £l6, was first developed to help yachtsmen pick up radar waves from other vessels in fog.—Birmingham, February 28. WORST DRUG The New York State council on drug addiction has branded L.S.D. “the most dangerous single drug now being used illicitly.” It called yesterday for new State and Federal laws to stem the increasing use of L.S.D. by college and high school students. —New York, February 28. POLICE CALL Mr and Mr; Alfred Malino worried for hours on Saturday night before making their decision. Then they called the police—to hand over their two sons, both college students, for possession of narcotics. The couple told the police that they “hoped” they had done the right thing when

they informed on their sons, Harvey, aged 21, and Michael, aged 17.—New York, February 28. FIRST JAZZ The first jazz gramophone records, “Livery Stable Blues” and “Dixieland Jazz Band One-step” were issued 50 years ago yesterday. They were recorded by the original Dixielands Jazz Band for Victor Records at a studio in Camden, New Jersey.—New Orleans, February 28. SPACE ‘THINGS’ The director of the Cape Kennedy space centre predicts that man will meet “other living things” in outer space. “This prospect cannot be dismissed as metaphysical speculation,” said Dr. Kurt Debus. “It is much more a mathematical certainty than were the early theories expounded by scientists and philosophers whose observations and discoveries made possible many of our activities today,” he said.—Winter Park (Florida), February 28.

SHORTAGE The cultural revolution is causing a shortage of red cloth in China, according to a Peking wall poster quoted by Japanese correspondents. The poster, called on Red Guards and revolutionary rebels to use their present arm bands until they wear out and then replace them with smaller tags to be worn on the chest or arms.—Tokyo, February 28. NEGRO KILLED A Negro civil rights leader, Wharlest Jackson, was killed last night when an explosion shattered the cabin of his pick-up truck. Mr Jackson, aged 36, was the local treasurer of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.—Natchez (Mississippi), February 28.