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Soviets Promise
Highest World
Living Standard
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, Uf) — Tht Soviet gov
x ernment today promised its people
the highest living standards in the
world by 1970.
The promise was made in a re
port on Premier Khrushchev’s
seven-year economic plan which
was approved Wednesday by the
Communist Party Central Com
mittee.
The plan for the years 1959-1965
calls for an 80 per cent increase in
Russian industrial production.
This will enable the Communist
bloc to produce more than half
the world’s industrial goods in
1965, compared with about one
third now, the report claimed.
This “will provide a real foun
dation for overtaking and out
stripping per capita production in
the United States” by 1970, accor
ding to the report.
By 1970 or possibly earlier, the
report adds, “The U.S.S.R. will
take first place in the world tooth
for absolute volume of produc
tion and Ifor per capita produc
tion, which will insure the highest
living standards in the world.”
Such economic success would
prove the absolute superiority of
Communism over capitalism, the
report declared.
Bulganin Branded
As Enemy of State
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, UP) — Nikolai Bul
ganin today was publicly branded
an enemy of the Communist Party
after serving in its high command
almost since the 1917 revolution.
The former Soviet Premier, al
ready reduced to a minor provin
cial job, was expected to be
stripped soon of membership in
the party’s Central Committee —
his last claim to importance.
The denunciation of Bulganin
was contained almost casually in
a report on the Soviet seven-year
economic plan of Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, once Bulganin’s com
rade in government.
Moscow Radio said the report
mentioned “the exposure and
routing of the antiparty group of
Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov,
Bulganin and Shepilov who joined
them, who slid down the road to
faction-splitting activity.”
This was the first time that the
name of the ailing, 63-year-old
Bulganin had been included as a
member of “the antiparty group.”
The other four were ousted from
party leadership in late June,
1957, on charges of collusion and
intrigue.
HIGH SCHOOL HOLDS
DEER HUNTING EXAMS
HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich., W
— Forty-five Harbor Springs high
school students eagerly are await
ing the results of an examination
in a special 8-day course.
The students took the exam in
the school’s fourth annual deer
hunting class.
A passing grade entitles them
to two days off from classes for
a deer hunting trip. Michigan’s
deer season opens Saturday.
Independent Voters
Decided Election In
Washington State
OLYMPIA, Wash., m — The
’ selective independent voter in
Washington was the major decid
ing factor in the state’s Nov. 4
general election, a late tally of
returns indicated.
Some 180,000 independents voted
Democratic- in the race for U. S.
Senator and switched to the Re
publican ticket in deciding on six
of the seven Congressional seat
races.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, the
Democratic incumbent, polled
184,455 more votes than the com
bined total of the Democratic can
didates for the seven seats in the
U. S. House of Representatives.
The combined vote for Repub
lican candidates for the House,
meanwhile, was 180,932 more than
the total cast for William B.
Bantz, the defeated GOP Sena
torial candidate.
Pacific Bases
Will Begin
Missile Firing
WASHINGTON, UPi — Test fir
ings at the new Pacific Missile
Weapon range may start within
the next two months.
But secrecy, far tighter than
any attempted by the military at
the Cape Canaveral, Fla., launch
ing site, apparently will cloak op
erations at the West Coast range.
The two sites from Which mis
siles will be fired are Point Ar
guello and Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California. They are desig
nated as “maximum security
areas.”
A memorandum issued by Depu
ty Secretary of Defense Donald
Quarles last summer instructed
the Air Force, Navy and Army “to
take the necessary steps within
your department and, in coopera
tion with one another, to estab
lish the necessary military secur
ity measures.”
This suggests that public spec
tator and press coverage possibili
ties at the Pacific range will be
something short of the setup at
the Florida launching site. At
Cape Canaveral, preparations for
the launchings, as well as the
launchings themselves, often can
be seen from nearby beaches.
WHY NOT THE NEW ONE?
BALTIMORE, OR — J. Carleton
Jones admits his curiosity has
been aroused.
His 1950 two-door sedan was
stolen from near his front door
last night for the' fifth time in 18
months.
But, adds Jones, “I have a new
hardtop convertible which nobo
dy’s ever touched.”
One patrolman who took the
stolen oar report said he could al
most remember the missing car’s
serial number from having writ
ten it so often.
NEW ACTOR FOR TV
HOLLYWOOD, (JR —- There’s a
new actor in the George Mont
gomery-Dinah Shore family.
Their son John David, 4, re
ceived a work permit from the
Board of Education. It will enable
him to appear in a television se
ries starring his father.
(Secretary Seaton
Visits Nome For
Rally Tomorrow
Secretary pf Interior Fred Sea
ton and the top Republican can
didates will arrive in Nome to
morrow afternoon by chartered
aircraft for an overnight visit.
Alaskans traveling with the Sec
retary include Mike Stepovich,
Republican candidate for the U.S.
Senate; John Butrovich, candid
ate for governor; and Brad Phil
lips, candidate for Secretary of
State.
A public reception honoring
Secretary Seaton and the Repub
lican candidates will be held Sat
urday evening at 8 o’clock in the
Multipurpose room of the Nome
School. All voters are invited to
attend the reception at which the
Secretary will give the keynote
speech.
Homemade cake and coffee will
ibe served toy a group of Repub
lican women at the end of the
evening. Just prior to the recep
tion, Secretary Seaton will appear
on KNOM-TV at 7:30 p.m.
The group is scheduled to ar
rive here aboard a chartered PNA
plane at 3 p.m. Saturday. Nome
Republicans and members of the
Chamber of Commerce will bring
the visitors into town in a motor
cade.
The visiting group will leave
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock for
Bethel with a brief stop at Unala
kleet. Secretary Seaton’s party is
to be honored at a luncheon in
Kotzebue Saturday before en
planing for Nome.
Seaton, who was appointed Sec
retary of the Interior by Presi
dent Eisenhower in 1956, is mak
ing his fourth visit to Alaska and
his second stay in Nome. Shortly
after he took office he came to
Alaska to meet people for the
first time and he came to Nome
on this trip, in March 1957. His
most recent trip was in August
when he came north to speak in
behalf of the Statehood referen
dum in major Alaskan cities.
Others arriving with Secretary
Seaton will be his secretary, Miss
Leola Tice, Robert Groseclose of
Fairbanks who is Republican Na
tional Committeeman for Alaska;
Robert Smith, Time magazine
correspondent; and a reporter
-from the Fairbanks Daily News
Miner.
The Nome Republican club is
sponsoring the reception for Sec
retary Seaton. Mrs. Wallace Mc
Iver, Mrs. Russell Hermann, and
Mrs. Sammy Mogg Sr., are co
chairmen for the reception.
BUS DRIVER GETS THE
WORST OF IT!
DALLAS, Tex., UP) — City bus
driver Virgil McDonald, 40,
stopped his bus Thursday night
and entered a drug store in a
suburban section to have a cup
of coffee.
When he returned to his bus,
a man and a woman passenger
were alighting in a huff.
“I wanted to have some corn
fee,” McDonald explained.
And said the irate passenger as
he hit McDonald -in the nose with
a set of brack knucks: “I ought
to kill you.” The couple walked
away.
Teamsters Waged
Costly Battle Against
‘Right-To-Work’ Laws .
NEW YORK, UP) — Harold J.
Gibbons,- Teamsters vice presi
dent, says his union “pumped
more thjjfl. $800,000 into labor’s
battle against enactment of “right
to-work” laws in 'six states.
Gibbons said that Teamsters lo
cals contributed at leasts$400,000.
and the international union an
other $400,000 to the campaign.
The laws would bar union mem
bership as a condition of employ
ment. Last election day the meas
ures lost in Ohio, California, Colo
rado, Washington and Idaho, and
passed in Kansas.
Editors Want
Better World
News Picture
FRENCH LICK, Ind., 1*1 — Two
newspaper editors accused their
profession today of falling down
on the job of giving their readers
significant news from abroad.
E. T. Stone, managing editor
of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
told the Associated Press Manag
ing Editors Assn., “World news
is becoming local news. Unless
we wake up to the fact we’re liv
ing in a dream world of the past.”
Norman Isaacs, managing editor
of the Louisville Times, said, “I
would suggest that all of us look
at our newspapers when we get
home and reflect as to whether
we are giving our readers an intel
ligent and imaginative picture of
today’s world.”
Speaking on a panel discussion
of the foreign news provided by
A-P, Isaacs said, “The A-P’s world
news coverage performance strikes
me as better than most American
newspapers deserve.”
He contended only a small mi
nority of papers are doing out
standing jobs of informing readers
about world news or even making
full use of A-P’s foreign news.
Stone contended both the news
papers and wire services turn out
“dull and sterile” foreign news
“because we aren’t reporting
about people in the lands beyond
our shores.”
The so-called “hard news” from
foreign capitals, Stone said, is
“news that is hard to digest, hard
to understand.”
“We need to put some human
flesh on it,” said Stone, who did
some reporting himself last year
on a tour of byroads and villages
in Europe.
Isaacs complained that too much
of the foreign news is devoted to
the adventures of celebrities like
Brigette Bardot and Frank Sina
tra. He classes such news as
“tripe.”
AFRICAN MINE RESCUE
BANCROFT, Northern Rhode
sia, l*l — Rescue workers dug
through a mud wall 900 feet un
derground today and released
eight African miners who had
been trapped for 36 V& hours. Two
miners were killed.
WEATHER FORECAST
Snow today mixed with freez
ing rain tonight and tomorrow.
East-northeast winds 25 to 40
mph., to South and decreasing to
15 to 25 miles per hour tonight.
Low tonight 30, high tomorrow 34.
California Youth
Shot and Killed
‘Inferior’ Brother
By EUGENE HANDSAKER
LOS ANGELES,UB— “My broth
ther was an inferior person. He
just had to die. He was a no-good
person to be around. I couldn’t
stand the thought of Ted getting
married and bringing kids into
the world.”
This was Bruce Ginn, 18, slight
brown-eyed psydhiatric patioat
talking to detectives and news
men Thursday at the County jail.
Downstairs, in the county mor
gue, lay the body of his brother
Ted, 14, riddled with seven bul
lets from a mail-order revolver.
Their parents, Harry and Ruth
Ginn, are a deacon and deaconess
at the Community Church in sub
urban Altadena, where the family
lives.
“Everything he did was bad,”
Bruce went on. “Instead of sit
ting straight he’d slouch. When
he sat in a chair he’d cross his
legs.” _
He quit talking to his brother
21 months ago “because he tore
up some book covers. That was
the end.”
“Are you sorry you killed your
brother?” someone asked.
“Not at all. I’d do the same
thing again.”
“Last August I saw a magazine
ad that said guns could be bought
by mail order,” he said. “I saved
my money, and when I got $10
for my birthday I had enough. I
sent the people $16.50 for the gun.
They sent me an affidavit to fill
out saying I was 21 and had never
been in jail.
“The gun came about the middle
of October. I hid it in my desk
drawer.
“Last Wednesday ... I thought
this might foe the day.”
Ted came home from school
and “like always, he changed his
clothes and went into the bath
room.” As Ted opened the bath
room door, Bruce shot him. Then
he called police.
Polio Victim, 18,
Rebounds To Win
High Scout Honor
MERCER, Pa., U1) — Jimmy
Wihitlatch, 18, hobbled up on his
crutches last night to receive the
highest Boy Scout honor — the
Eagle Badge. He beamed with
pride when his mother pinned it
on him.
Jimmy reeeived the award at a
dinner attended by some 130 per
sons.
Stricken with polio seven years
ago, Jimmy overcame many ob
stacles. At one point, doctors told
his parents he couldn’t survive.
He spent six months in a hospi
tal, most of the time in an iron
lung. His weight dropped from
115 pounds to 65.
Scoutmaster J. Harold Peters
gave Jimmy permission to join
his troop soon after he left the
hospital.
The boy swam, camped: out and
hiked, dragging 10 pounds of
braces with him. One 20-mile hike
took him *10% hours, all on
crutches.
\a/ E* ¥ [ |V/| E* Hon. Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior
V T ® ^ AT A ■ ^ and Top GOP Candidates at Public Reception
Saturday Night 8 p.m., Multipurpose Room of Nome School. All Voters Invited. Refreshments. Sponsored by the Republican Club