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China to Withdraw
From North Korea
By End of Year
SEOUL, Korea, WV-Red China
said today it will withdraw all
its troops from North Korea by
the end of this year. The move is
another attempt to pressure U.S.
forces out of South Korea.
The Communist “Volunteers”
who poured across the Yalu river
from Manchuria during the Kor
ean War will begin recrossing by
April 30 whether U. N. forces
leave or not, said a communique
issued by Chinese Premier Chou
En-Lai and North Korean Pre
mier Kim II Sung in Pyongyang.
The two Communist premiers
challenged the U. N. forces to
quit South Korea.
The announcement was greeted
with skepticism in Seoul and in
Washington. U.S. officials have
rejected earlier Red demands for
the withdrawal of U.S. forces and
showed no sign of acceding to this ,
one.
The U.N. commander, U.S. Gen.
George Decker, pointed out that
only the Yalu separates China
and North Korea, and Chinese
troops could return to North
Korean position “within a matter
of a few days.”
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Committee Says
Cigarette Makers
Deceive Public
WASHINGTON, UP) — A House
committee reported today that
“the cigarette manufacturers have
deceived the American public
through their advertising of filter
tip cigarettes.”
Although the giant industry has
denied health hazards from smok
ing, the Government Operations
Committee said, it has made
these charges appear true by im
plying filter tips remove alleged
causes of cancer and heart dis
ease. **II
“Actually, most filter cigarettes
produce as much or more nico
tine and tar as cigarettes without j
filters,” the committee added.
The committee rapped the Fed
eral Trade Commission for what
it said was a failure to police
against deceptive advertising
while the public became “brain
washed that filters would fur
nish health protection.”
The committee quoted public
statements from medical experts
but advanced no conclusions it
self on any relationship between
smoking and cancer.
The report did say the tobacco
industry conspired to boycott sub
committee hearings though in-*
vited to testify. “It is reprehen
sible that the tobacco industry
should to shirk its responsibilities
to the consumer,” the committee
said.
Alaska Has As Much
Public Domain As The
Rest of United States
WASHINGTON. UP) — The U. S.
government reported that as of
last June 30 there were 921 mil
lion acres in the public domain,
almost equally divided between
Alaska and continental United
States.
France Ready To
Make Concessions
In Tunisian Crisis
WASHINGTON, WP> — France
was reported ready today to give
up five small Tunisian air bases
and convert its Bizerte naval base
into an Atlantic Pact installation
to ease tensions in the area.
These French concessions were
understood to be in the offing as
American and British diplomats
pushed backstage arrangements
to help France and Tunisia settle
their dispute.
The U.N. Security Council met
to consider the dispute but turned
it over to the conciliators who
said they had affirmative pro
posals in mind.
France has insisted that if Bi
zerte is converted into a North
Atlantic Pact base, French forces
must be allowed to man the in
stallation.
Tunisian President Habib Bour
guiba has demanded that France
withdraw all her troops and ab
andon the Bizerte base.
Rev. Kenmore Haight
To Preach Here For One
Week Starting Sunday
The Rev. Kenmore Haight of
the Baker Memorial Church in
East Aurora, N.Y., a (subilrb of
itev. Kenmore Haight
Buffalo) will be preaching at the
Community Methodist Church for
a week starting Sunday, Feb. 23.
He has also served at the Mon
roe Ave., Methodist Church in
Rochester, N. Y., and the First
Methodist Church in Hambury,
N.Y.
Sermon titles are: The Hun
gry Heart; Why I Believe in Jesus
Christ; Use Your Faith; Let the
Light Shine in Your Life; When
God Sends the Storms; Pray Un
til Your Prayers Are Answered;
Be Ready to Forgive; The Four
Different People Who Go to
Church; and The Judgment Day.
Today, Ash Wednesday
Ushers In Lenten Season
NEW YORK, UPV—Ash Wednes
day today ushered in the Chris
tian penitential season of Lent.
Ashes, as a symbol of peni
tence, were distributed to Roman
Catholics and to members of
some other denominations.
Lent continues for 40 days —
plus six Sundays — to Holy Sat
urday, April 5, and will be fol
lowed by the Easter holiday of
joy on April 6.
President Declares Future of Nation
Depends on $3 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
Director Named
To Civil Rights
Commission
WASHINGTON, UP)—One more
stumbling block to the function
ing of the new Civil Rights Com
mission was cleared away today
with President Eisenhower’s nom
ination of a staff director.
The President anounced he is
naming Gordon M. Tiffany, a for
mer New Hampshire attorney
general, for the $22,500 a year
post.
Tiffany said he was accepting
the job with “an open mind” and
had no preconcieved notions
about bitterly contested civil
rights issues.
The six - member commission,
provided in the Civil Rights Act
passed by Congress last year, has
been marking time while await
ing for a staff director to be
named. Not even a clerk has yet
been hired.
Already six months of the com
mission’s allotted two - year life
span have slipped by, and other
problems of money and Senate
confirmation lie ahead.
209 Deaths Toll
Of Cold Wave In
Eastern States
{By The Associated Press)
The season’s coldest and storm
iest weather in the eastern half
of the nation appeared easing in
some sections of the mid-contin
ent today but the over-all picture
was not bright.
There was no let - up in the
monumental task of snow remov
al in the storm-battered North
east and other areas hit by rec
ord falls over the weekend.
Business and industry, dealt
staggering blows by the violent
weather, worked to restore oper
ations to normal.
The economic loss was expect
ed to run into the millions of
dollars.
Although temperatures moder
ated a little in some central parts
of the country, winter’s longest
stretch of cold weather persisted
in most of the eastern half of the
nation.
The latest count of deaths at
tributed to the stormy-cold wea
ther reached 209 in 26 states.
Negro Girl Expelled From
Little Rock High School
Will Go To Private School
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. UP>—The
mother of Minnie Jean Brown,
16-year-old Negro girl expelled
from Little Rock High School,
said today her daughter will
leave Saturday for New York to
attend New Lincoln school there.
She confirmed a report that
Minnie Jean will accept a $1,050
scholarship to the school.
Minnie Jean’s tuition would be
free. The school is a private inter
racial institution with an enroll
ment of 432.
> THOMASVILLE, Ga., CSV-Presi
dent Eisenhower today asked
Congress for $3,942,100,000 in for
eign aid. He said any sharp cut
would lead to a massive defense
spending hike, higher taxes and
heavily increased draft calls.
In a special message cautioning
against the Russian and Red
China threats, the President also
said deep reductions would leave
American eventually beleaguered
in a world dominated by inter
national Communism.
Eisenhower called the adminis
tration aid plan a deterrent to
general nuclear war, and added:
“For the safety of our families,
for the future of our children and
our continued existence as a na
tion, we cannot afford to slacken
our support of the mutual secur
ity program.”
The President’s strong appeal
went to the lawmakers against
the background of an already in
tense drive by some House mem
bers and Senators to make sharp
cuts in the program, particularly
the economic aid phase.
In pressing once more for ec
onomic assistance for newly inde
pendent countries, the President
noted that Russia and the Com
munist bloc nations are trying to
lure the new countries with offers
of such help. Referring to those
countries, Eisenhower added:
“They know recent history
which shows plainly that when
ever the opportunity has arisen,
the Soviet Union has swallowed
up its neighbors and is willing to
use tanks to crush attempts to
gain freedom from Soviet domin
ation.”
Nixon Will Stand
In His Record In
1960 Campaign
LOS ANGELES, — V i c e
President Nixon tackled a news
conference presumption that he
will be a presidential candidate
in 1960 by staking whatever as
pirations he may have on his
record.
His questioners at the confer
ence, a feature of a dinner last
night in his honor, asked when
he. would start speaking for him
self as a possible candidate for
the Republican nomination, ra
ther than speaking for President
Eisenhower’s administration.
“The one assumption you are
making is to presume I will run
in 1960,” Nixon replied, and then
he said:
“I feel the most effective way
to run for office is to do a good
job at what you’re doing and let
the future take care of itself. I
am going to do the best job I can
of defending and articulating ad
ministration policy.
“I can only say that if by being
a good vice president in present
ing the views of the administra
tion I don’t become an effective
candidate for other office, then
that is just another of the bur
dens of the office I hold.”
Soviets Offer Ban
Nuclear Weapons
In Central Europe
MOSCOW, W—The Soviet gov
ernment offered today to bar
nuclear and rocket weapons from
Central Europe if the United
States, Britain and France agree
to do the same.
The foreign ministry spokes
man, Leonid Ilyichev read a gov
ernment declaration at a news
conference which said a Soviet
British - U. S. - French agreement
could be a preliminary step pend
ing full international agreement
on the outlawing of nuclear wea
pons.
The offer contained no men
tion of inspection or control. It
contained no other inducement
to make the plan of Polish For
| eign Minister Adam Rapacki for a
nuclear - free zone more accept
able to the West. The Rapacki
plan would include East and West
Germany, Poland and Czechslo
vakia.
But it provided further Russian
support for the plan. *
The West has objected that the
plan would tend to make per
manent the division of Germany
and is unrealistic because mod
ern weapons could fire over the
zone.
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I MacMillan Says Adoption
Of Soviet Proposal Will
Put West at Their Mercy
LONDON, n’t—Prime Minister
MacMillan said today Western
abandonment of nuclear weapons
would “double, treble, even quad
ruple” the military value of the
Soviet Union’s vast store of con
ventional weapons.
The taking of such a position
by the West on its own “would
I put us completely at the mercy of
| the Soviets,” he said.
MacMillan give this definition
! of the West’s defensive position
; based on ^nuclear deterrents at the
opening of a two-day debate on
foreign affairs in the House of
! Commons.
He said “We must be careful”
■ even of proposals that both East
and West abandon nuclear wea
j pons.
' Jerry Manning to be
i Speaker At PTA
Meeting Next Tuesday
The entartainment committee
of the PTA, headed by Dorothy
Young, has announced that Jerry
Manning, manager of the Miners
and Merchants Bank, will be the
main speaker for the meeting to
be held next Tuesday evening.
Mr. Manning will talk on the
importance of the school savings
accounts, which will be inaugu
rated into the school in the very
near future. The simplicity of
; the system and the importance to
I the individual to learn to save
' will be explained by the speaker.
It is also planned to have music
by the Nome School Band or
' some group from the band ^at, this
meeting. ^nt"
The hospitality comjlenblirg
February is compose£'etary
j Young, Lilly W|^.Luncheo„
1 Goedde and Mrs. I