President Plans February
Trip to South America
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, l*>
—'Fresh, from his marathon swing
* through Europe, Asia and Africa,
President Eisenhower is expected
to visit Buenos Aires late next
month as part of a four-nation
Latin American tour.
Foreign Minister Diogenes Ta
boda announced Sunday night
that Eisenhower will arrive in the
Argentine capital Feb. 24 or 25
for a two-day visit. He made the
disclosure after conferring with
Argentine President Arturo Fron
dizi.
There was no confirmation of
the visit from Washington, but
reports have been circulating in
the U.S. capitol that Eisenhower
plans to visit Uruguay, Argentina
and Chile after visiting Brazil’s
new capitol, Brasilia, in late Feb
ruary.
In Augusta, Ga., where the
President is vacationing, press
secretary Hagerty said that “as.
far as the President is concerned
there is nothing definitive” about
a good will tour to Latin Am
erica.
The probability is that any an
nouncement will come from the
White House only after all de
tails have been nailed down.
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U. S. VOTERS CONFRONTED WITH LENGTHY
LIST OF STUMPING 1960 PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
from Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON — The poten
tial Presidents are putting the last
wistful dabs on their self-por
traits, catering for the moment
largely to the political connois
seurs.
Vignettes Emerge
Almost anyone with a vote,
however, can have an advance
preview. And this is what the
candidates themselves would like
the electorate to see:
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon — An experienced Wash
ington professional, the heir to
the Eisenhower Administration
policies, but not one to shrink
from abrupt changes of course in
these fluid times.
Adlai E. Stevenson, ex-Gover
nor of Illinois — A man for whom
many of his party -have deep sym
pathetic longings, restrained by
his two defeats by President
Eisenhower, but not quite certain
that the votes would not have been
two victories in any other league.
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson iD)
of Texas — A dedicated and de
termined party leadeV in Congress
who combines an understanding
of practical politics with enough
liberalism so he is not reactionary
and southern conservatism so that
he is not left-wing.
Senator John F. Kennedy (D)
of Massachusetts — A young lib
eral who has a sobriety and ser
iousness on matters of national
policy which have caused many
to cross party lines in his own
state, and brought him the leader
ship in current polls on Demo
cratic nominees.
List Lengthens
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
(D) of Minnesota — An energetic
champion of liberal causes who is
hourly immersed in the interna
tional and domestic causes on
which any President should toe on
his toes, hopeful of enlarging what
is now a relatively small group of
supports.
Senator Stuart Symngton (D)
of Missouri — A man who has far
wider interests than the defense
issue with which he has been as
sociated and has managed to avoid
offending his conservative Demo
cratic brethren, though he has
stood for the most part on the
liberal side of issues.
This is what almost anybody
can see by looking over the shoul
ders of the candidates as they put
a little more color and substance
here and there on their self
portraits.
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'Dimes' Opens First Birth Defects Leaver
A birth defects study
center, the first of its kind
designed to combine clini
cal treatment with research
and teaching, has just been
officially opened at Colum
bus, Ohio. It is supported
by funds from the New
March of Dimes, which is
now engaged in its January
campaign for contributions
to fight three major crip
pling diseases including,
besides birth defects, ar
thritis and polio.
Medical experts say that
birth defects are the biggest
i vm; 1 childhood medical prob
!■ 1 in the United States today.
There are more than 600 differ
t ‘ hinds of birth defects, or
“cm;ten!ial malformations,” as
ti.oy : ro called by doctors. They
rrnge r'll the way from harelip
and clubfoot to mental retarda
te ).
tic no 050,000 American
In.bi-JS arc born each year with
c m cr more significant birth
t':. . • and about half of this
mu .re are doomed to a life
t: no o' scricu- illness or crip
I' .'r About " ',000 infants each
; ; . are ci id born because of
■ f '-': liens, ©~ ciic within
the i... th of life. Medical
£.' a os yet has few clues
fo c.u: > of those disorders
t- :.t occur before birth; and
there are fc,v known methods
cf prev ention.
r:> . :.ii-. i in Gapzrsiitfcn
1 c study center in Coluin
1 filmed Children’s Hospital
thur represents the beginning
cf the New March of Dimes
a.Uuiipt to solve a medical
problem that has heretofore
bean largely neglected by re
search. It is a problem that has
for centuries been shrouded
in fear, superstition and shame.
By tackling this issue with a
three-pronged program of re
search, patient aid and training
of skilled medical professionals,
the March of Dimes organiza
tion seeks to bring hope to the
hundreds of thousands of par
ents whose lives have been
blighted by bewildering grief
and heartbreak following the
birth of a malformed child.
This hope is bolstered by the
past record of the March of
Dimes organization in fighting
bafiling diseases. It was March
of Dimes funds that encour
aged Dr. Jonas E. Salk to be
come a virologist and that
produced his world-celebrated
vaccine against crippling polio.
Some Can Be Helped
Certain major birth defects,
such as “water on the brain”
(hydrocephalus) and “open
spine” (spina bifida), can now
sometimes be corrected by new
techniques of surgery, medical
experts at the March of Dimes
organization report.
Through the combination of
treatment, teaching and study
at the Columbus Birth Defects
Study Center and others the
March of Dimes hopes to es
tablish and support, it is be
lieved that new knowledge will
be obtained and spread so that
the devastating effects of these
disorders may eventually, for
the most part, be prevented or
controlled.
Parents are taught to give home care to children with birth defects
at the Columbus Children's Hospital Birth Defects Study Center,
supported by New March of Dimes funds. Here doctors examine
Jackio Vess, 3, born with hydrocephalus, commonly known as
"water on the brain," while parents get instruction.
Pom with an open spine, two-month-old Madonna Galich is ex*
amined by a physician at the Birth Defects Study Center, just offi
cially opened in the Columbus, Ohio, Children's Hospital. New
March of Dimes funds will be used to help this baby toward a
normal and useful life.
Ike Digs In To
Prepare Budget
AUGUSTA, Ga., Ufi — Presi
dent Eisenhower was to try over
the weekend to button up his bud
get for the 1961 fiscal year.
Work on the budget, expected
to hit a peacetime record of 81
billion dollars, was the first offi
cial business of the new year for
Eisenhower.
The President took a holiday
on New Year’s Day — even
from golf. It was a cold, rainy
day. So he stayed indoors at the
vacation White House at Augusta
National Golf Club and watched
the football bowl games on tele
vision.
Budget Director Maurice H.
Stans flew down from Washington
Friday night for the budget con
ference, together with his deputy
Elmer Staats, Eisenhower’s depu
ty assistant, Gerald Morgan, and
Robert Merriam, the President’s
special assistant for inter-depart
mental affairs.
Top News Stories . . .
By the Associated Press
Here is how news editors have
rated Alaska’s top stories in the
four years the Associated Press
poll has been taken:
195B — Approval of the pro
posed State Constitution and the
Alaska-Tennessee Plan.
1957 — Discovery of oil.
1958 — Congressional approval
of Statehood.
1959 — The near-fatal illness of
Governor William Egan.
EIGHT KILLED IN ONE CRASH
SOUTH BAY, Fla., W — Eight
persons and possibly nine were
killed Saturday when two auto
mobiles collided on U. S. 27 about
17 miles south of this Lake Okee
chobee town.
First reports said two cars, one
from Miami and another from
Pennsylvania, collided head-on.
FIRE WHISTLE SIGNALS
1 Whistle — East of Division
Street.
2 Whistles — West of Division
Street.
(Division Street runs between
Morgan’s and Wien Airlines.)
Assassins af Kansas
Farm Family Discovered
LAS VEGAS, Nev., W) — A
slender ex-convict says four mem
bers of a prominent Kansas farm
family met death last November
because he and a fellow robber
“didn’t want any witnesses.”
Authorities said Richard Eu
gene Hickock’s signed statement
Sunday night supplies all the an
swers to the Clutter family min
ders, a case that had puzzled Kan
sas Bureau of Investigation agents
for weeks.
Hickock, 28, tape-recorded his
admission and then signed it.
Agents said it implicated Perry
Edward Smith, 31, of Las Vegas.
Smith, questioned separately,
declined to confirm or deny that
he participated in the quadruple
slayings.
The bodies of Herbert Clutter,
58; his wife, Bonnie, 45; and their
children, Nancy .Mae, 16, and Ken
yon 15 were found in their home
west of Garden City Kan., the
morning of November 15. Clutter’s
throat had been cut and all four
had been bound gagged and shot.
Hickock fainted in a hallway
after telling in the statement how
Clutter’s throat was cut and then
how he and the others were shot,
one by one.
Both he and Smith waived ex
tradition.
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