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UJ5n Russia Agree
On Exchanges in
Science and Arts
NEW YORK UO—The New York
Times said today the U.S. and
Russia have agreed “in principle”
on exchange of information in
many areas of science, industry,
and the arts.
The Times said in a Washington
dispatch that the general agree
ment, with details not yet spelled
out, has been reached as a result
of Washington conferences held
f since October between William S.
B. Lacey, U.S. State Department
official in charge of' East-West
cultural exchange, and Soviet
Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin.
Agreements so far cover scien
tific exchanges in a broad field
and exchange of industrial spe
cialists in such fields as metallur
gy, mining, and electric power.
The conferees also have ap-!
proved visits between the two
countries by experts on construc
tion and agriculture and leaders
of various fields in the arts, edu
cation and athletics.
Still being discussed are com
mercial air traffic between the
two nations and exchange of in
formation on peaceful uses of
atomic enegry.
No agreement has been found |
in some questions, however.
These include the jamming of
U.S. broadcasts to the Soviet peo- |
pie, exchange of radio and TV
broadcasts and movies, and a U.S.
plan to send a supermarket ex
hibit to the Moscow fair next year.
First Oil Output From
New Sahara Field Starts
Trip to Mediterranean
ALGIERS, WV-The first oil out
put from France’s new Sahara
Desert field at Hassi Messaoud
was reported enroute to the Medi
terranean today.
The crude oil was being piped
150 miles to Touggourt. From
there it will be carried another
300 miles by rail to Philippeville.
on the coast.
FAMILY HONEYMOON
TRENTO, Italy, L0—Comelio
Benedetti’s three sons and two
daughters all will marry in a
joint ceremony here Jan. 4. Then
all f\ye and their new husbands
and wives will go off on a honey
moon together.
Bright Green
Light Sighted
What appeared to be a green
meteor was seen today by Mar
ley Lincoln. He happened to be
looking east on Third Avenue at
about 11:45 this forenoon when
he saw “a bright green light,
come straight down from the sky,
very fast.” He said it appeared
to strike the ground just a little
north of Cape Nome.
A check with the Weather Bu
reau disclosed no other report of
the sighting, but perhaps some
of the readers may have seen
the light or object this morning
and the Nugget would appreciate
a call from any such.
Scientist Back jrom Ice Floe Camp
Finds ‘Warmth’ Inside Arctic Circle
SEATTLE, [ffl—It was relatively
warm inside the Arctic Circle last
fall, says Dr. Frederick L. Bad
gley. “The temperature almost
went up to the freezing point,” he
recalled here today.
Dr. Badgley, who returned re
cently from a research station 850
miles north of Point Barrow, said
29 degrees above zero would
sound good to anyone who had
seen the mercury drop to,50 be
low two weeks earlier.
Dr. Badgley, 43, assistant pro
fessor of meteorology at the Uni
versity of Washington, left Seat
tle Sept. 19 to take charge of a
team of U.S. scientists at a re
search station located on an ice
•pack floating in the Arctic Ocean.
As part of the International
Geophysical Year, “Project Ice
Skate” is financed by a National
Science Foundation Grant.
. The ice floe the group camps on
is about 12 feet thick, 1 Vfe miles
wide and 2Vfe miles long.
“We found the ocean was more
shallow in that area than had
been recorded previously,” he
said. We estimated the floor to be
less than 5,000 feet below the sur
face of the ocean.”
Wind velocity was measured at
about 40 mph. at its peak.
.Temperatures at 40,000 feet
were found with ballons to be
lower than expected.
U.S. Will Insist Russia Prove Its Good Faith Before
Any Summit Conference Between East and West
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, (J»—The Unit
ed States was reported preparing
today to insist Russia prove its
good faith by new disarmament
concessions before this country
will consider a second East-West
summit conference.
This basic strategy unfolded as
top official? drafted President Ei
senhower’s reply to Russian Pre
mier Bulganin’s newest bid for a
meeting of Communist and free
world leaders.
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles were understood to
be increasingly reconciled to the
inevitability of a new round of
talks with the Soviets, but far
from enthusiastic about the pros
pects.
Stassen Would "Liberalise"
Harold Stassen, Eisenhower’s
disarmament chief, meanwhile
"MAN OF THE YEAR"
NEW YORK, l£>—The person
who dominated world news “and
left an indelible mark—for good
or evil—on history” last year was
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Time mag
azine said last night.
The newsmagazine named the
Soviet Communist Party boss its
“1957 Man of the Year” in the
January 6 issue.
GIRO'S GETS ZEROS
HOLLYWOOD, —Ciro’s, one
of the favorite after-dark hang
outs of the Hollywood set, has hit
Hie financial skids and closed, a
spokesman of the bankruptcy ad
ministrator reports.
“It just couldn’t operate any
longer because of a lack of capi
tal,” he said yesterday. “Business
has been bad.”
First Major Snowstorm
Moves Into the Midwest
(By The Associated Preu)
Winter’s first major snowstorm
swirled eastward across most of
the Midwest today, leaving high
ways hazardous for New Year’s
Eve travel.
Four traffic deaths in Kansas
and two in Missouri were blamed
oh snow and ice-slicked highways.
Snow in Chicago was expected
to reach nearly six inches.
International Falls, Minn., had
an overnight low of -24.
Arctic air pushed in behind the
storm. Some of the colder air was
expected to dip into Texas, Okla
homa and the mid and lower Mis
sissippi valleys.
It was generally clear thruout
the Pacific Northwest. I
reported urging the administra
tion to “liberalize” its own dis
armament attitude in advance of
new talks with the Soviets.
Stassen was understood to have
strongly advanced .his recommen
dations for changes d 'spite bitter
opposition from Dulles, AEC chief
Lewis L. Strauss and the Defense
Department.
The conflicting views will be
laid before Eisenhower at a deci
dve meeting of the National Se
curity Coundl set for Monday.
Pressure for New Discussions
The Eisenhower-Dulles attitude,
in the face of allied pressure for
new discussions, appeared to be
developing into this pattern:
1. Discussions should be held
either on a foreign ministers’ lev
el or lower, to test Russia’s pro
fessed willingness to ease tension.
2. The door to a multi-nation
summit conference, bringing to
gether Eisenhower and Bulganin,
will remain open as a follow-up
to any promising negotiations.
If Russia rejects new disarma
ment talks or refuses to offer con
cessions, Eisenhower and Dulles
will vigorously oppose any new
summit conference.
Their view is that it would
harm the West by sending hopes
skyrocketing, only to see them
tumble in disillusionment.
WILSON SAYS THE PRESIDENT
TRIMMED MILITARY BUDGET
ANTICIPATING CONGRESS
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Ben Gurion Quits
Over Plan for
German Mission*
JERUSALEM, UP)—Israeli Pres
ident Izhak Ben-Zvi today accept
ed the resignation of Premier
David Ben-Gurion and his five
party coalition cabinet.
The President has scheduled
talks with leaders of the 10 par
ties represented in Parliament,
beginning with Ben-Gurion’s so
cialist Mapai Party. Ben-Gurion
was expected to be asked to form
another government—possibly ex
cluding two small left-wing par
ties which have been opposing
him in his cabinet.
Ben- Gurion accused one of the
parties, Achduth Avodah (labor
unity) of endangering Israeli se
curity by leaking a secret cabinet
decision. The decision reached
over the opposition of the two
Achduth Avodah cabinet mem
bers was to send a two-man mis
sion to West Germany on military
and security matters.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Will Start Season With
No Permanent Stadium
LOS ANGELES, UP)—The Los
Angeles Dodgers—.baseball’s site
less wonders—probably will be
well into their first season here
before they find out whether the
people want them shagging fly
balls in Chavez Ravine.
A City Council committee rec
commended yesterday that the
disputed ordinance granting the
National League club a stadium
site in .the ravine be submitted to
the voters next June 3.
Just where the Dodgers will be
playing then has become one of
the city’s more popular guessing
games. It may be the Pasadena
Rose Bowl, Wrigley Field, or (just
possibly) the Coliseum.
• NEW YORK, UR—Former De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son says President Eisenhower
trimmed military spending re
quests a year ago in- anticipation
of a budget-cutting mood in Con
gress, according to today’s New
York Herald Tribune.
Wilson was quoted as saying her
personally was dissatisfied with
the size of the defense budget—
$38 billion—which the Presi
dent proposed to Congress last
January for this fiscal year.
The White House “didn’t pay
enough attention” to recommen
dations of the highest Pentagon
officials, Wilson was quoted as
saying.
The copyrighted story added:
Wilson said the decision to sep
arate Project Vanguard from the:
military missile program was
made by the President personally
on recommendations of Budget
Director Percival Brundage. and
after discussion in the National
Security Council.
Far from fearing that inter
service rivalry would retard mis
sile development, Wilson purpose^
ly “put the Army in business with
the Air Force” in developing at
1,500-mile missile because of the
stimulating effect of competition.
However, Wilson added,'“some
of the people in the services get at
little childish” in the things they
say about one another.
The former secretary observed
some critics are trying to make
him the scapegoat for the short
comings of the missile program
but “I don’t think it will stick.”
Wilson said he believed last
December the -Defense Depart*
ment needed more than $38*fc
billion. He indicated the amount
he proposed was in the neighbor
hood of $40 billion.
Wilsonv said the $38 Vi billion
budget proposed by the President
ultimately was cut to $36 billion
-by Congress last summer, with
the administration assenting to a
portion of this reduction.
Teen-Age Honor Student, Sr ling
At 100 mph., Kills Man in Collision
NEW YORK, (if)—Fleeing from (
police at 100 mph. in a stolen |
car, a 16-year-old high school
girl smashed into the rear of a
sports car yesterday, killing its
driver. She suffered only a cut lip.
The girl, Christine Nystrom, an
honor student and church youth
leader, was arraigned in court on
a vehicular homicide charge.
Richard H. Sperling, 47, of
Newton, Conn., was killed instant
ly in the wreck. His car was
“spread all over the road,” said
Richard Crawford, a Westchester
Parkway patrolman.
Crawford spotted the girl, who
had been picked up by police I
three times in two years, at a toll
booth in the Bronx.
Crawford said he. tried to stop
her tout she sped away in a new
convertible. He chased her for ft
quarter of a mile at over 100 mph.
• “I saw she couldn’t( hold the
road,” Crawford said. ***She war
going from side to side. I knew
there was no sense causing her tft
drive faster, so I slowed down,
hoping she would.”
She didn’t and the convertible
turned over three times after hit
ting Sperling’s car. Christine theft
crawled from the overturned car
and started running but an un
identified woman caught her.
Her father, a machine parts
company executive, said she was
an excellent student. “Nothing
she’s ever done can explain this,”
he said.
Sperling is survived by a wid-r
ow and a son, 13.