Britain Conducts Nuclear
Tests In The Pacific Ocean
LONDON, (#) — Britain today
declared a wide area of the Pac
ific Ocean a danger area begin
ning Wednesday for a series of
nuclear weapons tests.
A Foreign Office spokesman
said the British government noti
fied all foreign diplomtic mis
sions in London.
The spokesman said the area
around Christmas Island, the
headquarters of Britain’s nuclear
weapons testing operations, is
the same as that closed to ship
ping in previous nuclear tests.
Ike Wants To Vacation
In Salubrious Climate
WASHINGTON, UPC- President
Eisenhower said today he hopes
to take a vacation late this month
or early in September, but doesn’t
know for sure whether he can.
He said he doesn’t know whe
ther he can leave the Washington
area or not. He said it was al
ways possible he might vacation
at his farm home in Gettysburg,
Pa., but keeps hoping to go to
some more salubrious climate.
Greuel Advocates
Jobs For Alaskans
Richard J. Greuel, Democratic
candidate for secretary of state,
said that the biggest issue in
Alaska right now is the problem
of employing Alaskans on Alas
kan jobs. Greuel conferred with
native leaders in Nome, Kotzebue
and Unalakleet recently.
Greuel declared, “It is a tragic
fact that thousands of men are
still hired outside for jobs in
Alaska, when there are resident
Alaskans who could do the work.
There is a lot of talk right now
about ‘creating new jobs’ in
Alaska. I am all for it, and one
of the easiest and quickest ways
we can create jobs for Alaskans
is by applying tbis principle of
‘local hire’. I intend to work
with the officials of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood, the Alaska
Native Service, the U.S. Employ
ment Service, and the representa
tives of our contractors and
unions to see if we can’t all get
together and work toward the
strict application of the rule—•
Alaskans for Alaskan jobs.
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7 Per Cent Increase
In Social Security
Benefits Passes
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House completed congressional
action and sent to President Ei
senhower Tuesday a bill increas
ing Social Security benefits 7
per cent.
As the measure goes to the
"White House for the President’s
signature, beneficiaries under the
Federal Old Age and Survivors
program would get a 7 per cent
increase in benefits in checks
going out next Feb. 3, with a $8
minimum monthly increase.
, At the same time, the payroll
tax on covered workers and em
ployers will go up from 214 to
214 per cent starting Jan. 1, and
the taxable wage base will be in
creased from $4,200 to $4,800 a
year.
The increase will mean higher
pay check • deductions to covered
workers, the amount rising from
$94.50 to $120 a year.
For retired workers now on
benefit rolls, new higher monthly
payments will range from $33 to
$116 as compared with $30 and
$108.50 at present.
The maximum family benefit
will go up from $200 to $254 a
month.
British Fishing Fleet
Challenges Iceland’s
12-Mile Marine Law
LONDON, (51 — A British fish
ing fleet of 100 boats set sail this
week' to challenge' Iceland’s ban
on foreign fishing within 12 miles |
of its shores. The Royal Navy is
sending gunboats to protect them.
Iceland’s fishing ban goes into
effect Sept. 1 and its government
has said any incursion of the
banned area would be regarded
as an attack on Iceland, a NATO
ally.
Britain and other European
countries charge that- Iceland’s
order is an infringement of free
dom of the high seas.
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