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100 to Accompany
Khrushchev On
Visit to U. S.
WASHINGTON, Uft—A Russian
entourage of around 100, includ
i ing Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko and his wife, will
accompany Nikita Khrushchev to
the United States.
White House Press Officer Lin
coln White said 50-odd Russians
will be in the official party and
another 39 are newsmen assigned
to cover the visit.
The Soviet Premier’s wife,
Nina; two daughters, Julia and
Rada; and son, Sergei, are com
ing with him.
In a 20-man list of senior of
ficials in the Khrushchev party,
besides Gromyko, are the Soviet
Atomic Energy, Education and
Health Ministry chiefs.
The Soviet party is due here
Sept. 15.
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Nehru May Shake Up
His Cabinet Is Report
By WATSON SIMS
NEW DELHI, UP) — Indian j
sources said Prime Minister Neh- j
ru may shake up his cabinet to
solve a reported clash between
Defense Minister V. K. Khrishna
Menon and his three military ser- \
vice chiefs over promotions.
The nation, beset by Red Chi
nese aggressive moves, was
thrown into crisis by reports that
Menon, controversial one - time
Indian delegate to the United Na
tions, has offered to quit and that
the army, navy and air force staff
chiefs are resigning.
Official confirmation was lack
ing.
Menon, himself when queried
about reports of his proferred re
signation said “Is that so? Who
said it?”
Lower Tax on Night Club Tabs
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
has voted to reduce the federal
tax on night club tabs from 20
to 10 per cent. The bill now goes
to the Senate.
MONDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Boston 4, Washington 3
National League
Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 2
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 2, Phoenix 1
Serious Decline
In Harvest of
Pribilof Seals
SEATTLE, UP) — A serious de
cline in -the fur seal harvest of
the Pribilof Islands is puzzling
the United States Fish and Wild
life Service.
On his return to Seattle from
the Pribilofs, Clarence Olson,
head of Alaska fur seal manage
ment, reported that this year’s
harvest will amount te only
58,250 skins.
This compares with 90,000 skins
last year and 123,000 skins in the
record harvest of 1956.
Even this year’s reduced har
vest has a gross value of about)
5 million dollars, Olson estimated.
Half of the skins are from cows,
half are from the more valuable
prime bulls.
After many decades of progress
in rebuilding the valuable seal
herds of the Pribilofs, 1959 is the
second year in a row to produce
disappointing results. The fur
seal management had hoped for
a kill of twice as many bulls this
year as it actually took.
Bad weather three years ago
resulted in a high mortality rate
among pups that should have sup
plied this year’s skins.
The 1956 season doesn’t fully
explain this year’s decline,
though. Olson says:
“Historically, there haven’t
been many up and downs in our
seal herds. We’re not sure what’s
happening now. It’s sort of like
finding out what’s happening to
some of our salmon runs.”
Scientists are investigating whe
ther changes in the temperature
of the North Pacific and Bering
Sea may have affected the seals.
The Navy attack cargo ship
Seminole now is loading seal
skins in the Pribilofs and should
reach Seattle in a few days. The
skins will go from here to the
Fouke Fur Co. in St. Louis for
for' processing and sale at semi
annual auctions in the next two
years.
The light of the Cuban firefly
is so bright that a few of these
insects produce enough illumina
tion to serve as a lantern.
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