Ike Proposes
Meeting of Top
World Scientists
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower proposed to
Premier Khrushchev Saturday
that the United States and Russia
name scientific experts to meet at
Geneva within three weeks to
discuss ways of policing a nu
clear test suspension.
Eisenhower said that for the
Western side experts might be
contributed by Britain and
France and possibly other coun
tries, as well as the United States.
He said they should be scientists
qualified by knowledge “of how
to detect nuclear tests.”
This left the way open for
Russia to bring in experts from
such countries as Poland and
Czechoslovakia if it chose to do
so. The only condition Eisen
hower suggested was* that the men
should be chosen for scientific
and not political reasons.
The State Department announced
the names bf three , prominent
U. S. scientists it said will “meet
with experts chosen by the So
viet Union” if Russia agrees.
The three are:
Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, direc
tor of the University of California
Radiation Laboratory and a No
bel Prize winner;
Dr. James Brown Fisk, execu
tive vice president of Bell Tele
phone Laboratories and a mem
ber of the President’s science
advisory committee;
Dr. Robert F. Ba'cher, who was
a member of the Atomic Energy
Commission in 1946-49 and now
is a member of the President’s
science advisory committee and
physics professor at California
Institute of Technology.
It was learned also that the
U. S. government is considering
asking participation of a Japanese
scientist on the Western side be
cause of the experience of the
Japanese in nuclear test detection1
work.
“I also suggest," Eisenhower
wrote Khrushchev, “that the ex
perts should be asked to make an
initial progress report within 30
days after convening and to aim
Killer of Eleven
Sentenced to Death
In Electric Chair
LINCOLN, Neb., UP) — Attor
neys for Charles Starkweather,
sentenced to die in the electric
chair, will seek a new trial for
the stony-faced killer.
Charles was unemotional and
seemed to be paying little at
tention when a jury of eight
women and four men Friday
found him guilty in one of 11
killings attributed to him and
fixed the penalty at death.
Starkweather had been ex
pecting the verdict of death and
had offered to bet one of his de
fense witnesses he would be so
sentenced.
His father, Guy, quoted him as
saying recently “if^ I want to
make my atonement with God
and be electrocuted, that’s my
business.”
His attorney commented “I!
presume Charlie got what he
wanted.”
His girl friend and companion
on the killing foray, Carol Ann
Fugate, 14, has been charged
identically. She has not been
tried.
Starkweather’s attorneys plead
ed insanity, against their client’s
wishes. Jurors were reported to
have rejected the plea on the
first ballot.
at a final report within 60 days
or as soon thereafter as possible.”
This means that the talks—if
Khrushchev agrees—would begin
in early June .with a first re
port in early July and a final re
port in the first part of August.
Thus progress would be made,
assuming agreement on test de
tection systems, for working out
an international accord on the
suspension of nuclear weapons
tests. * !
Eisenhower’s letter was in re
ply to a note from the Soviet
Premier in which Khrushchev
said Russia is agreeable to the
naming of experts to study ways
of detecting possible violation of
a nuclear test ban.
Memorial Wreaths At Cavota's
I Welfare Department
Reduces Payments For
• Child Aid By 15 Per Cent
The Alaska Department of Pub
j lie Welfare has ordered an across
the-board 15 per cent reduction
in payments under the aid to de
pendent children program.
The cut will affect 1,257 famil
ies, including 4,354 dependent
children and adults. The reduc
j tion is effective July 1.
Henry Harmon, territorial wel
| fare director, said the reduced
j payments were necessary to avoid
I a deficit of $80,617.48 in the pro
| gram’s funds at the end of the
i present biennium in 1959.
Such a deficit would occur,
Harmon said, if payments were
continued at the full authorized
amount—$60 ‘ monthly for a
mother and one child, and $30
monthly for each additional child.
A similar 15 per cent reduction
in the authorized payments was
applied at the start of the last
fiscal year, July 1, 1957. Full
payments were restored last
Nov. 1, and have been in effect
throughout the winter and
spring.
The largest portion of the aid
goes to families in the Lower
Kuskokwim and Yukon River
areas, in the second and fourth
divisions. Harmqn said the aver
age payments amount to $28.82
a month for each person receiving
aid.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., UP) —
Arrested for drunkeness, the 175
pound woman refused to budge!
from the police wagon when it
arrived at city jail.
City polideman George Tuck,
himself a hefty customer, could
not argue her out, and there were
not enough other officers around
at the time to dislodge her.
The solution, someone tossed
into the wagon a dead black
snake which had been run over
by a patrol car. Considerable
squealing and thrashing around,
and a prisoner ready for the do
mesticity of a jail cell.
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Bird Has Problem
Making Her Nest
CINCINNATI, UP) — Life is full
of mystery for Goofy, a small
bird with a big problem.
The dauntless martin three
times each day starts busily to
make a new home.
And every time, her nest flies
away.
The home sites are the tail
sections of three airline Constel
lations that pull into greater
Cincinnati airport daily at 9
a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Bill Birkley says the bird is
at least loyal—never tries to use
other planes or even other load
ing gates.
He said the martin streaks for
the plane when its engine stops
and begins “placing sticks and
grass on the tail sections before
the first passenger can get his
feet on the ground.”
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