Show I I U. U S. S In Brief Lac Lack of Funds I Hampers I West ELKO Nev Nov March 1 27 m Mud Iud Mud and diminishing funds Thursday plagued the he ground-air ground battle to I save sa isolated starving cattle in northeast Nevada Melting 1 snow turned large areas into mud and slush making I it difficult for Army ground equipment to get gel hay to suffering suffering suffer suffer- i ing herds I Federal and state officials sent senta I Ia a request to President Truman I Ifor for more federal aid They I I I I I I I I i said the he had allotted the sector as a disaster area would b be exhausted by Saturday TO PILOT JET LOS ANGELES March 1 27 INS INS Americas Americas America's oldest licensed airplane pilot James W. W Dad Montee 89 was given the green light Thursday to realize his greatest ambition fly ambition fly in a jet het fighter plane The flying octogenarian who obtained a pilots pilot's license in 1927 at the age of oT 65 will zoom skyward skyward skyward sky sky- ward on April 1 in a two place Shooting Star jet training plane Final clearance for the dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic flight by the former farm boy who was the first person to convert a biplane to a monoplane was granted by the Navy and the Marine l Corps N NEW CANCER TEST NEW V YORK March 1 27 in A A Anew new test discovered cancer of the prostate gland in 30 per cent of men all 45 or older and all alII with no obvious signs of cancer The tests and results were described described described de de- scribed Thursday by doctors at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Until more men are examined it cant can't be assumed that 30 per percent percent percent cent of all men over 45 are likely to have unsuspected prostate cancer the doctors said In all 30 men the cancers were caught early enough to be cured by surgery The test uses a minor new operation and a quick method method meth meth- od of checking tissue by microscope microscope microscope micro micro- scope to see if there is cancer JOIN TRUCKER STRIKE KANSAS CITY Mo l March 27 I UP UP-A UP week old A week old truckers' truckers strike threatened Thursday to spread to eight other states slates after drivers in other her cities in Missouri Nebraska Iowa and Kansas joined the walkout BRIEFER THAN EVER OKLAHOMA IA CITY March l 27 Nannette R-Nannette a strip teaser tenser at a local night club here complained Thursday she had been left out in inthe inthe inthe the cold by a thief thief thief-he he stole her rhinestone dress and G She told sheriffs sheriff's deputies that she took them off while dancing and placed them on the bandstand bandstand band band- st stand md rail At the conclusion of the dance Nannette went to retrieve retrieve retrieve re re- trieve them and found they were m missing issing DAUGHTER WHAT HAT YOU DID CHICAGO March l 27 INS INS INS- Teachers at nt Chicago's Garfield elementary school found some of their pupils ripping to shreds 20 and 10 bills Thursday Police summoned to investigate investigate investigate gate discovered the green stuff f was provided by year old EulaMae Eula EulaMae EulalIne Mae l McGlothan I who said sh she e et found them at home and thought though t they were play money |