High Flying Baton
Causes Fireworks
VENTURA, Calif. UR — Steve
Hardina, 14, says he is giving up
baton twirling.
A mighty toss sent Steve’s baton
so high in the air that it struck
two 4,000-volt power lines, with
these consequences:
A 10-block area of the city was
blacked out for an hour.
A grass fire was started.
A radio station was knocked
off the air.
“I was only trying to toss the
baton as high as the power pole,
like the man in the circus,” Steve
explained after Sunday night’s
fireworks.
EXPLORER SCOUTS MEET
PORTLAND UR-Explorer
Scouts from the Pacific North
west and Alaska are holding a
conference here.
“Exploring the Frontiers of To
morrow” is the theme of the ses- j
sion, which ended at noon today. I
States represented at the meet- I
ing are Washington, Idaho, Mon- j
tana and Oregon.
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|U.S. Resume
i Nuclear Tests and
Face Criticism
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The Kennedy Administration
may decide to resume nuclear
testing and face a spate of world
wide criticism.
It may decide to continue the
ban and face a rising popular
fear for the national security.
It may — and this would seem
more likely — announce that the
United States no longer is bound
by the unpoliced ban and then
hold off on testing until world
reaction can be analyzed.
As it is, the negotiations, if you
consider them real negotiations
at all, have reached a point where
the Soviets have the unpoliced
ban for which they have been con
tending, without the atmosphere
of a pending agreement to justify
it.
In submitting to this the Unit
ed States has delayed the develop
ment of weapons which fit in
with her concept of being ready
to meet limited as well as all-out
aggression. It has hampered ef
forts to reduce the danger of
fallout from the whole range of
nuclear weapons. It has prevent
ed the application of nuclear ex
plosive power to peaceful con
struction.
At the same time there is a
wide suspicion, however, weak
the evidence may be, that the
Soviet Union is not keeping the
faith with the unilateral ban
which she originally promulgated,
and is using the moratorium to
catch up in these very fields where
the United States has always been
ahead.
This popular fear will be en
hanced if the moratorium con
tinues during disarmament nego
tiations which people think will
be conducted only for propaganda
RIGHT ON THE JOB . . .
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
A Mexican-born reporter for the
Fort Lauderdale News wanted to
know how easy it would be for
a Fidel Castro agent to land on
the South Florida shore.
Wearing Cuban-type army fa
tigues and a two-day beard, Hec
tor Morales went out in a rented
boat, then swam ashore.
Two Fort Liauderdale police
men pounced on Morales as he
hit the beach. He was released
| when his identity was established.
purposes, and which will be drawn
out almost to infinity without any
prospect of agreement.
In its reaction to the virtual
ultimatum issued by the Soviets,
who insist on the veto power
against any and all international
action which they may dislike, the
United States has its allies as well
as the neutrals to consider.
The British government, es
pecially, faces both a political
movement for unilateral disarm
ament and a popular fear of the
possible dangers of Polaris and
other American military bases on
the island.
Before making a decision, the
United States, could send up some
trial balloons to test the world's
political weather.
One of them would be an ef
fort to pin failure of the nuclear
negotiations on the Soviet Union.
Another would be an attempt to
establish, before the fact, the
necessity for resumption of test
ing, by the chief defender of in
dependence in general, in a world
where one side refuses to co
operate.
Tihis would be a parallel to the
argument of necessity of defense
against surprise attack made by
Eisenhower in his explanation of
the U-2 flights.
The manner in which such
arguments are received could
then be used in weighing the ulti
mate decision.
Nuclear Test Ban Talks
Cast Into Deeper Doubt
GENEVA lift — The future of
the stalled nuclear test ban talks
was cast in deeper doubt yesterday
by the Soviet’s insistence that the
West either accept an inspection
veto or transfer negotiations to
the impending general arms par
ley.
The United States and Britain
rejected both proposals but said
the proposal to transfer the talks
would be studied carefully in
Washington and London. They
made clear previously they would
never agree to a veto over the
control machinery.
Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Soviet
negotiator at the three-power
talks qualified his demands Mon
day by saying they were not to
be considered an ultimatum or
threat of a walkout.
“We are quite willing to con
tinue meeting here as long as
necessary,” Tsarapkin told U. S.
delegate Arthur H. Dean and Sir
Michael Wright ol Britain.
But Tsarapkin said unless the
United States and Britain are will
ing to accept the Soviet proposal
for a three-man board in charge
of the test ban control machinery,
the only way to get the talks
gong again is to merge them with
the East-West negotiations on gen
eral disarmament.
TAKE WARNING . . .
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio WP1 — Sgt.
Carl Ennis of the Trenton police
says he’ll pay more attention to
his son’s warnings from now on.
Ennis said the boy, Chris, 6, took
a bite of his father’s ice cream
bar. The sergeant took it back
and swallowed a sizeable portion
although the boy cried, “wait,
daddy.”
Asked what was wrong, Chris
i said, “never mind now, daddy,
■ you’ve already swallowed my
i loose tooth.”
Sen. Goldwater Says
JFK's Spending Program
Will Bleed U.S. White
NEW YORK GP — Sen. Barry
Goldwater, fR-Ariz.), charged yes
terday that the Kennedy Adminis
tration spending programs are
“playing right into the hands of
! Kremlin leaders.”
Goldwater said the strategy of
Soviet Premier Khrushchev and
others in the Kremlin is to force
! situations that will bleed America
white.
“Higher taxes and more infla
tion are precisely what Mr.
Khrushchev and his advisers want
for the United States. And the
present administration is rushing
to provide them,” Goldwater said
in a speech prepared for the Sales
Executive Club of New York.
Goldwater contended Kennedy’s
New Frontiers program contains
the seeds of economic destruction
in the United States but is being
pushed through Congress “in the
j phony name of ‘crisis’ and ‘emer
gency.’ ”
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