Test Ban Negotiations
Reach a Hopeless
Stalemate on First Day
GENEVA m — The United
States yesterday described the
new Soviet plan for an uninspect
ed nuclear test ban as a “trans
parent propaganda gesture put
forward In a vain hope to mislead
and deceive world public opinion.”
U.S. delegate Arthur Dean told
the first session of the resumed
three-nation talks that the So
viet plan does not provide a basis
for agreement.
Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarap
kin formally submitted the plan at
a two-hour and 20-minute session.
He also demanded that France,
the world's fourth nuclear power,
>be invited to join the negotiations.
Dean asked Tsarapkin if he was
prepared to negotiate on the basis
of an old Western plan for con
trolled ban on testing.
Tsarapkin replied with a flat
no.
The resumed negotiations thus
appeared to have reached a virtu
ally hopeless stalemate on their
first day.
The conference collapsed Sept.
9 after the Soviet Union’s re
sumption of atomic weapons tests
broke a three-power moratorium.
Army to Make Mess
Halls More Like Home
• WASHINGTON — The Army
wants its mess halls to seem more
like home. So it has decided to
feed its soldiers from glass din
nerware instead on institution
type trays.
The idea is aimed in part at
providing “a more homelike at
mosphere in enlisted men’s mess
halls,” an Army statement said. !
Another objective: To increase
“appetite appeal” and thus get j
soldiers to waste less food.
The nerw dinnerware will be i
available in white, with either a '
green or burgundy band to dress
it up.
It will include plates, bowls,
cups and saucers, and two sizes
Sof glass tumblers. Soldiers will be
given plastic serving trays to carry
the chow to their tables.
There is no target date for
Army-wide conversion to the new
tableware, the Army said. It will
be up to individual commands to
change over when they have the
funds to do so.
Kennedy Awards
Harmon Trophy to Three
X-15 Rocket Plane Pilots
WASHINGTON (A — President
Kennedy awarded the Harmon In
ternational Trophy for Aviators
Tuesday to the three test pilots
who have been flying the rocket
\ powered X-15 at fantastic speeds.
Awarded jointly for the first
time in its history, the trophy was
presented to Joseph Walker, A.
Scott Crossfield and Air Force
Maj. Robert White "for outstand
ing and extraordinary feats of
individual piloting."
In a White House ceremony at
tended hy former winners and top
government and industry offi
cials Kennedy called the flights
of the X-15 at over 4,000 miles an
hour and an altitude of 215,000 or
220,000 feet as an "extraordinary
achievement."
Kennedy Orders
A Halt to the Sale
Of U.S. Silver
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy Tuesday ordered a stop
to the government sale of silver
from its stockpiles.
He also restricted use of Treas
ury reserves for ooinage.
Kennedy, In issuing these in
structions to Secretary of the
Treasury Douglas Dillon, said the
steps would “contribute to the
maintenance of an orderly market
in silver.”
Dillon had recommended the
moves In the face of a declining
supply of silver in the govern
ment stockpile and the lack of
offers from mines and holders of
silver to sell the metal to indus
trial users at the government
price of 90.5 cents an ounce.
The government moves are ex
pected to touch off a rise in the
market price of tho metal. Ex
pectations in some mining industry
quarters are that the price will go
to about $1 an ounce.
Par mining interests, chiefly in
the west, this is good news. But it
will on the other hand mean high
er prices for users.
As of last Wednesday, the
Treasury owned 32 million ounces
of free silver. This compared
with 47.9 milion ounces a month
earlier and 123.5 million ounces
on Jan. 1.
Cutter Storis Frees
Navy Tug from Heavy Ice
In Cook Inlet
JUNEAU UFt—The Coast Guard
cutter Storis freed the Navy tug
Tawakoni from heavy ice in the
harbor at Anchorage yesterday
morning, 17th Coast Guard Dis
trict Headquarters reported.
The Tawakoni was unable to I
proceed to open water through
ice which ranged up to four inches
thick until the Storis opened a
path for the tug, which was tow
ing two barges.
While enroute to Anchorage,
the Storis helped the tugboats
Shinn and Alaska Monarch get
into Anchorage. The two tugs had
radioed that they were hampered
by ice in their sea strainers and
were hard put to hold an
Alaska Freight Lines barge off
the shoals at Moose Point.
The Storis broke her way
through three and four-inch thick
ice for 30 miles to get to the
Tawakoni.
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1,200 AIR GUARDSMEN
SENT TO EUROPE
WASHINGTON UPl — Another
1,200 men in three Air National
Guard fighter squadrons have
been ser.t to Europe to bolster
American tactical air power there
in light of the Berlin situation.
The Guardsmen who were call
ed to active duty Nov. 1 are part
of the 181st Fighter Group from
Arizona, the 169th Fighter Group
from South Carolina and the 134th
Fighter Group from Tennessee.
Sixty Star Fighter jets were sent
overseas with them.
The units joined eight other
Guard filter squadrons recently
sent to Europe.
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Electrician Claims
Anchorage Airport
Is “Heavily Overloaded”
ANCHORAGE UP) — Lawrence
Sanas, a journeyman electrician
employed by the state at Anchor
age International Airport, told
Gov. Wm. Egan (Monday night
that the electric system at the
airport is heavily overloaded and
“about to bum up.”
Sanas was one of some 250
state employes invited to air their
grievances about the State’s Civil
Service System before the Gov
ernor.
He said he was about to lose
his joib because of a reduction in
force at the airport and thought
the Governor ought to know of
the hazardous electrical situation
there.
“Fire underwriters would blow
their top if they could see some
of tiie conditions,” he said. The
airport electrical system is “a
mess” because of “too many elec
tricians that come and go,” Sanas
said. ;■]
He offered to conduct any per
son the Governor might designate
around the airport and point out
the dangers. “I'd show you that
place is about to bum up,” he de
clared.
Sanas said his pleas for an im
provement of the electrical system
have been disregarded. “If the
light out front bums bright, that
seems to be all they care about.”
He estimated it would take $10,
000 to make the system safe.
Airport manager Tony Sch
wamm, also at the meeting, cor
rected Sanas, saying it would take
$25,000 to remedy the situation.
Egan promised that immediate
action would be taken on the mat
ter.
Chester Bowles Accepts
Job as Roving Ambassador
WASHINGTON <*> — Chester
Bowles, replaced as the No. 2 man
In the State Department; has ac
cepted a diplomatic post especial
ly tailored for him.
He becomes President Ken
nedy's special representative and
adviser on African, Aria and
Latin American affairs, with
special emphasis on the problems
of new and developing nations.
The announcement late Mon
day from the White House that
Bowles had accepted the new
duties came after Kennedy called
him in for a talk. It stilled re
ports Bowles would quit, being re
placed as Undersemaary of State
in a weekend shakeup of foreign
policy command.
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said Bowles will
report directly to Kennedy and
to Secretary of State Dean Husk
on long-range planning and policy
and “on the improvement of our
operation and representation in
the countries involved.”
Bowles had indicated he pre
ferred dealing with policy and
planning rather than handling the
routine day-to-day chores of run
ning the State Department which
more or less was his assignment
as Undersecretary.
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