Nehru Willing to Meet
With Chou If Advance
Talks Promise Settlement
NEW DELHI, India, W* — In
dian officials indicated yesterday |
Prime Minister Nehru is willing ;
to meet with Red Chinese Premier i
Chou En-Lai to discuss their bor
der dispute but not at the price
of leaving a large area of India
claimed territory in Chinese con
trol.
The officials also emphasized
that unless the ground is carefully
prepared for a Nehru-Chou con
ference and there is some indica
tion of an acceptable settlement,
it would be better not to open l
talks.
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Case of the Contaminated West Coast
Cranberry Stirs Violent Controversy
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Growers
heatedly denied Tuesday that
cranberries with a cancer-pro
ducing content are on the market.
But A & P Stores headquarters
in New York announced with
drawal of the berries and their
products from sale in all of its
4,000-unit nationwide food chain.
One big group of farmers de
manded the ouster of Secretary
of Welfare Arthur S. Flemming
for putting out word, just ahead
of the traditional cranberries
with-turkey feast of Thanksgiv
ing, that part of the West Coast
crop has been found contaminated
by a weed killer.
ThejNational Agricultural Chem
icals ' Association came in with
the comment that the amount
found in berries is so low a hu
man would have to subsist almost
entirely on the fruit for years
to approximate the conditions
that produced cancer of the thy
roid in test rats.
'On The Safe Side'
But an A & P spokesman said
the fruit, whether fresh or
canned, was being pulled off the
shelves to be on the safe side.
He said the firm feels the berries
are safe but in the public interest
it believes it best to pull out un
til the situation clears up. He
added that most of the chain’s
berries come from unaffected
areas in Wisconsin, Massachusetts
and New Jersey.
The uproar was set off by a
statement from Flemming that the
contamination, resulting from im
proper application of the weed
killer aminotriozole, had been
fouhd in part of the 1959 crop
from Washington and Oregon, and
the 1958 crop is being checked.
The Secretary said the Food
and Drug Administration urges
that no further sales of cranber
ries or cranberry products' from
the area be made until the in
dustry has submitted a workable
plan to separate contaminated
berries from those not contam
inated.
As for the housewife, Flemming
said under questioning, “To be on
the safe side, she doesn’t buy” if
she cannot learn the source and
year of the berries.
Eastern Berries Not Suspect
Flemming said no reason has
been found to suspect berries
from the other big growing areas
in Wisconsin, New Jersey and
Massachusetts. He did not indi
cate how much of the Washington
Oregon outut may be affected,
nor where it may have been sold.
Some contaminated berries have
been stopped, Flemming said, but
he mentioned one lot already dis
tributed before it was identified.
The call for Flemming’s official
scalp came from the Massachu
setts Farm Bureau Federation.
Carle ton I. Pickett executive
secretary, wired the demand to
President Eisenhower. He said if
Flemming has any evidence of a
harmful residue “he has known
it a long time.” He said Flem
ming’s release just before Thanks
giving is “callous and harmful”
and added: “He has a duty not to
yell fire until he knows there
is one.”
Ocean Spray First to Protest
The National Cranberry Asso
ciation, which markets the crops
of many growers under the Ocean
Spray label, was first to protest.
“First,” said association vice
president Ambrose E. Stevens,
“we can state that to the best of
our knowledge, all cranberries
in groceries and supermarkets to
day are pure and wholesome and
untainted by any dangerous sub
stance.
“Second, we are shocked that
the U. S. government has made
public what we consider an in
flammatory statement concerning
possible contamination of cran
berries by a weed-killer approved
by the Department of Agri
culture.”
Stevens said Ocean Spray grow
ers were instructed on September
18 to stop using the weed-killer,
aminotriazole. “Any crop sus
pected of contamination has al
ready been isolated from the mar
ket,” he added.
At South Bend, Wash., Coun
ty Extension agent Nolan Servoss
said there was no evidence that
the stuff would produce cancer
in humans. Furthermore he said,
the concentration of the chemical
in Washington cranberries was so
minute that “I would not hesi
tate to eat all the Washington
cranberries I could hold.”
Panama Wants Own Flag
To Fly Over Canal Zone
PANAMA, UR — The National
Assembly vowed Monday night to
continue working to get the flag
of Panama flying “over our ter
ritory” in the Panama Canal
Zone.
A resolution, voted unanimous
ly, strongly condemned American
authorities in the Canal Zone for
apposing by force what it called
the “pacific hoisting of the Pana
manian flag in Panamanian ter
ritory.”
More than 80 persons were in
jured last Tuesday when U. S.
police in the zone, U. S. Army
troops and members of the Pana
ma National Guard prevented na
tionalist demonstrators from rais
ing the Panamanian flag in the
zone to underline the demands for
Panamanian sovereignty.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget
Ike Names Miami Lawyer
To C.A.B. Board
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today named Alan S.
Boyd, of Miami, Fla., to be a
member of the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
Boyd’s recess appointment is
subject to Senate action when
Congress reconvenes.
Boyd now is chairman of the
Florida Railroad and Public Utili
ties Commission.
Boyd, 37, a lawyer and a Dem
ocrat, will succeed another Florida
Democrat, Louis Hector, who re
signed last September.
FRED SCHEID SUCCUMBS
IN KALAMAZOO, MICH.
Father Lawrence Nevue has re
ceived word from Kalamazoo,
Mich., of the death of Fred Scheid
last August 18. Scheid was a
former Nomeite, and owned and
operated the Scheid Shop, a ma
chine shop on First Avenue, in the
early days. Scheid is survived by
two soils, Louis and George, who
were born here.
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Wash. Congressman Plans
Renewed Fight for
Japanese Fish Embargo
SEATTLE, Uf) — Representative
Thomas N. Pelly (R-Wash) says
he will propose again at the Jan
uary session of Congress an em
bargo on imports of Japnese fish
ery products if agreement is not
reached soon with Japan to con
serve Alaska salmon runs.
His bill failed at the last ses
sion, but can be called up again.
He was “disappointed, but not
surprised,” he said Monday, that
the International North Pacific
Fisheries Commission adjourned
here Saturday deadlocked on the
U. S. proposal to shift the salmon
treaty line 500 miles farther west
in the North Pacific.
The commission referred the
problem to their respective gov
ernments.
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