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Ike Asks Steel
Negotiators Work
To Avoid Strike
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, iff) — President
Eisenhower tpday called on man
agement and workers in the steel
wage talks to act for the good
of the country and try hard to
avoid a strike.
He told a news conference that
both sides should keep on nego
tiating just as long as it is neces
sary for agreement on a new
contract.
The Steelworkers Union has
agreed to hold off on any strike
unt’l next Tuesday midnight, but
the union president, David J. Mc
Donald, said Tuesday there would
be no further extension of the
strike deadline.
Eisenhower said he plans no
government intervention.
The President said it is a pity
that all of us can’t proceed on
the basic concept of what is good
for the country — and not have
a strike at all.
He repeated that the union and
management should continue ne
gotiations until agreement is
reached.
The President also dealt with
these other matters in his news
conference:
Segregation — Eisenhower said
he believes racial segregation is
morally wrong when it interferes
with equal opportunity in political
and economic fields.
Khrushchev — Eisenhower does
not regard a visit to this country
by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev as beyond the realm of pos
sibility.
Harriman — The President hit
indirectly at Khrushchev in ex
pressing amazement — if not dis
belief — regarding remarks at
tributed to the Soviet Premier by
former Governor W. Averell Har
riman of,,New York.
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Steelworkers Stiek
To Strike Deadline
NEW YORK, UP) ■— The Steel
workers Union today rejected
President Eisenhower’s renewed
request for an indefinite exten
sion of steel contracts beyond
their scheduled expiration at mid
night, July 14.
David J. McDonald, union pres
ident, said in a statement “We
are- confident that the President
does not intend that we negotiate
forever.”
“If there is good faith on the
company’s part we can conclude
an agreement by 12:01 a.m., July
15.
“Every period of negotiations
must have a terminal point. This
is the one that has been agreed
upon by the parties.”
Eisenhower renewed at his news
conference in Washington today a
plea that both sides continue ne
gotiating without a strike for as
. long a time as is necessary to
reach a peaceful settlement.
NAVY ANNOUNCES IMPROVED
TERRIER MISSILE
WASHINGTON, UP) — An im
proved Terrier missile which the
Navy said can “intercept any pres
ent day supersonic bomber many
miles from its intended target”
was announced today.
The Navy said production of the
new Terrier , is under way.
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U. S. Jet Atom-Carriers In
France will be Moved
To Satisfy De Gaulle
PARIS, — Three' fighter
bomber wings of the U. S. Air
Force will soon be moved from
French bases to fields in Britain
and West Germany, the United
States announced today, "v.
U. S. Ambassador to NATO
W. Randolph Burgess made the
decision known at a meeting of
the North Atlantic Council.
Th move had been general
ly expected because President
Charles de Gaulle will not agree
to storing U. S. atomic arms on
French soil.
The transfer will involve 200
jet fighter-bombers which have
been assigned atomic missions in
case of war. The move is to be
started immediately and will be
completed before the end of the
summer. The jets are based along
th French-German frontier.
Koslov Raps Mich.
Governor for
Incorrect Account
CHICAGO, UP) — The Soviet
Union’s first deputy premier, Frol
Kozlov, irked over an experience
with Michigan’s Governor, came
to Chicago today for a close-up
look at U. S. steelmaking.
Kozlov and his touring party
arrived by plane from Detroit
where he told newsmen Governor
G. Mennen Williams gave them
an incorrect account of a private
meeting of the two officials.
Williams had told reporters he
had a “knock down and drag out”
fight with Kozlov during an hour’s
talk Tuesday night. Kozlov told
newsmen “the Governor is not too
well acquainted with interna
tional politics and he is not too
correct in giving his account to
the press.”
Williams had appraised Kozlov
as shrewd and tough and said it
will take a Yankee trader to beat
him.
In his talk with reporters be
fore leaving Detroit, Kozlov said:
“The peoples of Eastern European
countries have governments of
their own free choice. They have
chosen the system they want to
live under.”
“The Governor basis his em
pressions and reactions on those
who have fled these countries and
who do not represent the peoples
of those countries,” Kozlov said
of Williams.
New Cargo Boxes Will
Reduce Freight Handling
On Alaska Railroad
WASHINGTON, UP) — The gov
ernment-owned Alaska Railroad
has received the first of 160 cargo
boxes, the Interior Department
announced today.
Measuring 24 feet by 8 feet by
8V£ feet and designed for ship
ment by boat and truck as well as
railroad, the boxes were ordered
from the Transport Trailer &
Equipment Co., Seattle. The firm
had submitted a low bid of
$593,164.
The boxes are designed to eli
minate expensive rehandling of
Cargo. The railroad has awarded
a $63,230 contract to American
Hoist Pacific Co., Seattle, the low
bidder, for a traveling bridge
:rane to be used at Anchorage,
rhe crane will speed the transfer
)f the box containers from rail
:ars to truck chassis.
Telephone Rate
Petition to he Aired
At Tliurs. Hearing
Tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock
at the City Hall there will be a
rate hearing on the Nome Tele
phone Company, which has peti
tioned for a rate change as well
as other regulations they wish to
institute. >
Some of the outstanding terms
of the proposed ordinance are as
follows:
A deposit of $10 for residence
listings; a deposit of $25 for busi
ness listings.
A deposit of $15 for residence
and $50 for business phones for
the privilege of long distance
service.
One party business line, *$14.40;
2-party business line, $9.80.
One party residence service,
$9.05; 2-party, $7.75; 4-party
$6.05.
Installation charge, $8.75.
.Penalties ' — “Charges against
the users of telephone service be
come due when billed. Failure of
any person to pay the total com
bined charges within 15 days from
the billing date shall cause such
charges to become delinquent.
Failure to receive mail will not
be recognized as a valid excuse for
failure to pay bills when due.”
A penalty of 10 per cent of
charges will be added if not paid
on date it becomes delinquent.
All subscribers shall pay for
services and facilities monthly in
advance.
The ordinance protects the com
pany in case of failure to provide
service, with the following clause:
“. . . nor shall such failure or
interruptions for any reasonable
period of time be held to consti
tute a breach of contract on the
part of the company, or in any
way relieve the user of said serv
ices from performing the obliga
tions of his contract.”
President Hints at
Speeial Session for
Foreign Aid Funds
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower hinted broadly today
he might call a special session of
Congress if he is denied the au
thority he wants for foreign aid
spending.
Eisenhower was asked at his
news conference for cotnment on
the Senate’s action in voting to
cut his mutual assistance request
by 393V£ million dollars.
The President said he is going
to use all of his persuasive powers
in attempting to convince mem
bers of Congress they will be ig
noring the security of the nation
and the vital interests of the free
world if they reduce foreign aid
too sharply.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don Johnson earlier had spoken
out in an effort to head off further
Senate cuts in the aid bill.
Eisenhower said if the authori
zation is reduced to the point
where he can’t go back to Con
gress next year for what^ he con
siders sufficient funds to carry
out the program, he will have
only one other recourse. He said
that would be to call a special
session.
Eisenhower said vigorously he
is never going to give up the fight
for the foreign aid program.
Harriman Describes
Khrushchev Interview as
‘Terrifying — Shocking’
NEW YORK, t/P) — W. Averell
Harriman described his recent
talks with Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev as “terrifying, shock
ing, worse than Stalin.”
His account is carried in the
current issue of Life Magazine.
The quotation, according to Life,
was contained in Harriman’s re
port to Washington.
Harriman is a former New York
Governor and a former Ambas
sador to Moscow.
In his signed article in the mag
azine, Harriman says Khrushchev
told him in “'blunt and brutal
language” that:
“Your generals talk of main
taining your position in Berlin
with force. That is bluff. If you
send in tanks, they will burn, and
make no mistake about it. If you
want war, you can have it, but
remember it will be your war. Our
rockets will fly automatically.”
Buffalo Hunting
Revived in Canada
FORT WORTH, N.W.T., UP> —
Canada will open her Northwest
Territories September 15 for the
first official buffalo season since
1893.
Thirty licenses, good for one
buffalo each, will be issued at
prices ranging from $25 for area
residents to $200 for non-Cana
dians.
So far, Joe Bryant, game super
intendent in the territory’s Mac
Kenzie district, has received 40
license applications, mostly from
U. S. sportsmen.
Rifles of .270 caliber or more
must be used.
Aside from guides, hunting par
ties will- equip themselves with
horses and supplies at isolated
Fort Smith — reached only by
air or by boat on the Slave River.
The nearest large city is Edmon
ton, 450 miles south.
Although a hunter may ship his
buffalo home, game wardens think
that once he learns the expenses
involved, depending on where he
lives, he’ll only want the hide and
head for trophies.
When buffalo hunting was out
lawed in 1893, only 500 wood bi
son roamed the plains of northern
Alberta. Since then, the herd —
bolstered by thousands of plains
buffalo — has grown to about
17,000 head, mostly hybrids. All
but 3,000 are in Wood Buffalo
National Park, where hunting will
not be allowed.
The hunting area-also teems
with bear, moose, elk, mule deer,
timber wolves, lynx and upland
birds. Small, clear lakes abound
in trout.
Ex-Cuban Air Force
Commander Registered
U. S. Resident Alien
MIAMI, Fla., (J1) — Immigra
tion Director Edward .P. Ahrens
today announced Major Pedro
Luis Diaz Lanz, resigned com
mander of the Cuban Air Force,
has been admitted to the United
States as a resident alien.
Ahrens would make no further
comment. He declined to give any
hint as to Diaz’ whereabouts.
The former Cuban military
leader has been accused by his
successor, Major Juan Almeida, of
desertion, treason, robbery and
dealing with members of ex-dic
tator Fulgencio Batista’s regime.
Astronauts Watch
Wliite-Hot Tests
Of Space Capsule
By ELTON C. FAY
LANGLEY RESEARCH CEN
TER, Va., OP) — The nation’s seven
Mercury Asronauts, sampling what
lies ahead for them, watched a
miniature space capsule glow
white hot in thousands of degrees
of roaring heat today.
It was part of a demonstration
for visiting newsmen of the man
in-space program which the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration is pressing “with ut
most urgency” at its laboratories
here.
The capsule was a model of
those in which the astronauts are
to ride into space orbit in 1961.
The heating effect of air friction
is only one of the problems being
studied here in an effort to assure
their safe return. That problem
apparently has been solved.
The astronauts have watched
this and similar space flight exper
iments for weeks as they prepare
themselves for their first space ex- .
cursions. They now know inti
mately all the problems — the
11,000 degrees of heat on the out
side skin of their vehicles as they
come flashing back into the earth’s
atmosphere, the devices intended
to save them if something goes
wrong, the mighty compressive
“G” force of gravity from accel
eration and deceleration.
As the test program now stands,
NASA scientists will begin ex
perimenting late this summer with
the “Little Joe” rocket launcher
— a squat cluster of solid fuel
rockets designed for measuring the
reliability of equipment, with test
firings from Wallops Island, Va.
Following this will come capsule
re-entry experiments using the
Army Redstone rocket, then mov
ing into tests in which chimpan
zees ride in the capsules. When
the chimpanzees have “test
flown” the capsule, the astro
nauts will be ready for manned
flight — some time in 1961.
Presidency Open To Men
of All Religious Faiths,
Indicates Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, UPl — President
Eisenhower said today there is no
reason why a Catholic should not
be elected President.
Eisenhower was asked at his
news conference a double-bar
reled question as to whether he
believes a Catholic could or will
be elected President.
He replied that of course there
is no reason why a Catholic can
not be elected President. He said
that was an extraneous question,
much like asking whether a man
is a Methodist or a Presbyterian.
Eisenhower added he doesn’t be
lieve religious prejudice should
have any part in politics.
NUCLEAR SUB MAKES LAST
MINUTE MISSILE CHECK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP> —
The nuclear powered submarine
Swordfish arrives today to check
facilities for undersea firing of
the Navy’s Polaris missile.
THURSDAY BASEBALL SCORES
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 5, Salt Lake 4.
Vancouver*l-7, Spokane 0-3.
Sacramento 8, San Diego 4.
Seattle 2, Portland 1.
Major League All Stars
National 5, American 4.