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Census Army Is On The March In U. S. j
WASHINGTON. W) — The 1960 .
census army was on the march
today, asking questions about the !
Dwight D. Eisenhowers and the
John Smiths.
The door-to-door canvass, a
vast undertaking that is attempted
only once in 10 years, will con
tinue until census workers per
sonally visit each of the 55 million
households in the United States.
Washington’s most fashionable
residence, the White House, was
one of the first stops on the sched
ule. Census Director Robert Bur
gess and District Census Super
visor Louis Alexis were given an
early appointment to collect from
President Eisenhower the census
information about the first family.
Alexis and Burgess spent five
minutes with the President. Ac
cording to Census Bureau esti
mates, this is about as long as
the census taker’s visit should last
at any home.
Like most Americans, the Eisen
howers prepared their census re
port in advance, jotting down the
information on a questionaire de
livered last week by the Post
Office Department.
This is a time-saving innova
tion of this year’s census. It means
the census taker merely has to
copy down the data onto forms of
his own. He doesn’t have to ask
questions.
Only three persons are consid
ered residents of the White House:
Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower and Rose
Wood, the First Lady’s maid.
The 1960 census is the biggest
and costliest ever. To count about
180 million Americans and make a
detailed study of the way they
live and work, the Census Bureau
is spending an estimated 118 mil
lion dollars.
In the 1950 census, 151 million
people were counted at a cost of
90 million dollars.
The Census Bureau maintains
a running estimate of the total
population on a counting device
in the Commerce Department
lobby. The estimate as of 8 a.m.
today was 179,921,434.
How close this is to the final
census figure won’t be known
until some time this fall. While
preliminary population totals for
communities will be given out
locally starting late this month,
state totals won’t be published un
til after the summer.
Constitution Requires Census
The Constitution requires a cen
sus every 10 years. The basic pur
pose is to decide how many seats
each state shall have in the House
of Representatives, based on pop
ulation. The prospective realign
ment of seats under the 1960 cen
sus will be announced before Sept.
1 but won’t take effect until Jan
uary. 1963, when the Congress
elected in 1962 takes office.
180,000 Enumerators
Altogether, about 180,000 Amer
icans have temporary jobs help
ing to take the census. The aver
age enumerator, the official name
for census taker, will earn about
$12 a day on a piece-work basis.
Each can be identified by his red
white-and-blue badge and the spe
cial portfolio he carries.
U. S. ‘Weather Eye’
Photographs Earth
Cloud Blanket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Itfl —
The United States put up a wea
ther eye satellite today to photo
graph the earth’s cloud cover and
quickly started getting back re
sults described as “something
good.”
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration reported
the flight itself was successful.
Radio orders had been sent out
for the new satellite to take pic
tures of the earth’s cloud cover
as it swung overhead, and to
transmit them back.
■Dr. T. Keith Glennan, NASA
director, told a reporter informa
tion had been received,. but the
agency was not yet certain whe
ther it consisted of photographs of
the cloud cover.
"We are hopeful that they are
pictures,” he said-, “but whether
they are we do not know at this
point.”
Dr. Hugh Dryden, assistant
director of NASA, told a reporter
it was hoped that pictures of the
cloud cover might be available
later in the day, at which time
they would be released by the
White House.
THE LAST STRAWI
BALTIMORE, Md., tft—George
Woods, 36, said his wife talked a
lot on the telephone and was
“always whispering.”
His wife testified yesterday that
he took drastic steps to stop her.
She said he grabbed the phone
from her and ripped it from the
wall, interrupting a call to her
sister. •
Mrs. Woods called police on a
neighbor’s telephone, and a magis
trate ordered Woods to pay the
telephone company for repairs.
AEC Starts Plowshare
Program Next Month In
Desert Underground Tests
■LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP) — A
series of non-nuclear explosions
next month will launch the
Atomic Energy Commission’s
I960 test program at the vast
atomic test site near here.
The tests will provide informa
tion for the Plowshare Program,
a study of peaceful uses of nu
clear explosives. They will last
several months. The AEC said
Thursday “The tests are expected
to provide information on the ef
fects of depth of 'burial, weight
of charge and type of rock on
crater size and shape.”
PERILS OF THE CENSUS
PHILADELPHIA, W) — The
Sheraton Hotel 'blew a fuse try
ing to help census takers.
The hotel placed a U. S. census
form into each guest’s mail box
last night. Then it switched on
lights in individual rooms, indi
cating each guest had a message.
The load was too much, and a
fuse blew.
Brazil’s Presidential
Aspirant Denies Anti-U. S.
Remarks in Havana
HAVANA, Uft — Brazilian Pres
idential candidate Janio Quadros
has cut two days off his visit to
Prime Minister Fidel Castro after
indignantly denying anti-Amer
ican remarks attributed to him by
a pro-Castro newspaper.
Quadros originally was to have
remained in Cuba until Monday.
Pro-government afternoon pa
pers omitted any mention of Qua
dros after he vigorously denied
telling university students a loan
from the Export-Import Bank to
Brazil constituted U. S. blackmail.
This version appeared in a pro
Castro paper Wednesday.
‘Biggest Real Estate
Bargain’ Commemorated
By Alaska Congressmen
WASHINGTON, lifl — It was 93
years ago Wednesday that the
United States closed the deal to
acquire Alaska from Russia, Sen.
Bob Bartlett reminded the Senate.
The treaty to buy Alaska for
$7,200,000, he said, was the biggest
real estate bargain in history —
about two cents an acre.
Alaskans observed the day to
commemorate the signing of the
treaty in 1867 by William Seward,
Secretary of State.
“I am proud,” said Bartlett in a
statement, “to pay tribute to this
American statesman whose deeds
and memory will live and be re
membered so long as the United
States continues to exist.
“It was Seward who first, to
my knowledge, predicted ultimate
Statehood for Alaska. He was pro
phetic.”
Rep. Ralph Rivers called at
tention to Alaska’s strategic posi
tion in the nation’s defenses be
cause it is so close to Russia.
“Without the foresight and driv
ing energy of Seward in obtain
ing the treaty of cession from
Russia, we would not have the
flag with the shining 49th star
and the security it represents to
our nation,” Rivers' said.
Mob Violence
Breaks Out Anew
In So. Africa
DURBAN, South Africa, —
White police fired today on an
African crowd marching on this
big port city’s jail. First reports
said three Negroes were killed
and three wounded.
As the mob marched, shouting
freedom slogans and singing, they
forced other Africans in the
streets to join them.
Witnesses said they saw march
ers lift some bystanding Negroes
bodily and force them into the
line.
It was the most riotous scene
Durban 'has experienced in the
current racial crisis.
Today’s marches started after
a riotous day and night in Af
rican settlements stretching from
Cape Town through the Atlantic
and Indian Ocean port cities of
Port Elizabeth and Durban.
There were casualties in skir
mishes in settlements during the
night and in some places houses,
administration buildings and
churches were burned. Buses
were stoned as agitators tried to
force other Africans to observe a
work boycott.
X-15 Rocket Ship Makes
Smooth Powered Flight
EDWARDS AFB, Calif., W) —
The X15 rocket ship, roaring
through the desert sky at 1,300
mph., made another powered
flight Thursday — its second in
48 hours.
Pilot Scott Crossfield steered
the black dart through a violent
roll pullout to test the X-15’s
maneuverability under conditions
similar to those encountered on
re-entering the earth’s atmosphere
from outer space.
The craft was carried aloft by
a B-52 mother ship and released
at 45,000 feet. It then climbed to
50,000 feet for nearly four min
utes of powered flight. Crossfield
made a perfect landing.
French Explode
Nuclear Bomb
“Right Under
Mr. K’s Nose”
By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY
PARI$, Wl — France today held
its second nuclear test explosion
under the nose of Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
The blast in the western Sa
hara constituted another pointed
French rebuff for the Soviet Pre
mier, meeting today and Saturday
with President De Gaulle outside
Paris for final talks. Khrushchev
leaves for Moscow Sunday.
In the past two days Khrush
chev had twice spoken out against
further nuclear explosions by any
nation, including France. De
Gaulle in effect rejected the So
viet Premier’s call, just as he
earlier contradicted Khrushchev’s
contention that West Germany is
bent on new aggression to avenge
the World War II defeat.
Informed sources said Khrush
chev was told in advance the bomb
would be exploded and that the
test was not timed to coincide
with his visit. It was explained to
him that the test date would have
been after he left France, but his
attack of influenza delayed his
trip more than a week.
The sources said Khrushchev
repeated his opposition to all nu
clear explosions but accepted the
French explanation.
The exlosion also underlined De
Gaulle’s insistence that the Soviet
Union as well as the Western Al
lies recognize France as their
equal in world councils.
There was no immediate public
reaction from Khrushchev, who
was secluded with De Gaulle at
the Presidential chateau outside
Paris.
A communique said the device
exploded was a plutonium bomb
of much smaller size than the
first French plutonium lpomb set
of February 15 and of “limited
power.” The first bomb had a
force of about 70,000 tons of TNT,
about three times more power
ful than the first U. S. atomic
bomb dropped on Hiroshima in
1945.
Adenauer Says Japanese,
Germans Are United In
Desire for World Peace
TOKYO, UR — West German
Chancellor Adenauer left for
home today after a seven-day
visit to Japan, carrying the open
support of Prime Minister Nobu
suke Kishi for his policies on
Berlin and German reunification.
In return, the 84-year-old Ger
man leader assured Japan of his
support in its efforts to boost ex
ports to Europe. Japan has been
worried about the effect the new
ly formed Euroean common mar
ket might have on its trade.
Before taking off in a Lufthan
sa Constellation for Bonn via An
chorage, Adenauer said in a fare
well statement that the Japanese
and German people “are united
in their desire to contribute to a
real and lasting relaxation of
tension” in the world.
Adenauer and Kishi issued a
joint communique declaring:
“The unification of Germany
and the maintenance of freedom
of the citizens of Berlin based
upon the right of self-determina
tion provided in the charter of the
United Nations, is still the most
important question in Europe.”
Religious Issue
Comes to Fore In
Wisconsin Primary
MILWAUKEE, Wis., UP>—Rivals
in the Wisconsin Democratic Pres
idential primary, re-established
today at least a temporary truce
on tiie touchy religious issue.
The man who injected it full
scale into the campaign battle
between Senators Hubert Hum
phrey of Minnesota and John
Kennedy of Massachusetts said:
“il intended to help Humphrey,
but maybe I made a mistake and
hurt him.”
That was Charles P. Greene, a
former Democratic state chairman
speaking up. A small ad he had
inserted in weekly newspapers
across the state set off the big
gest uproar of the campaign yes
terday.
It sought to muster Protestant
support behind Humphrey against
his Roman Catholic opponent.
Greene said persons in Wisconsin
s|nd Florida whom he did not wish
to name had put up $1,400 to fi
nance the ad, and nobody in the
Humphrey organization was con
sulted about the matter.
Both Humphrey and Kennedy
denounced the ad. Each exoner
ated the other of bringing the is
sue into the forefront of the
campaign.
Gov. Gaylord Nelson ordered
his attorney general to determine
whether the ad violated corrupt
practices or false advertising laws.
In the first real political show
down of 1960, Kennedy and Hum
phrey are struggling in next
Tuesday’s primary for 30 of the
votes Wisconsin delegates will cast
in the Democratic National Con
vention in July.
Except under questioning, both
Humphrey and Kennedy have
avoided discussing the religious
factor — that Kennedy is a Cath
olic. Wisconsin is more heavily
Catholic than the country as a
whole, and voters can jump party
lines in the primary to vote reli
gious rather than political convic
tions if they choose.
The deaction was quick and vig
orous when the ad appeared in
many of the 250-odd weekly
newspapers in Wisconsin.
In effect, it appealed for Port
estant support for Humphrey on
grounds that Republican Catholics
might hop into the Democratic
primary in sufficient force to “de
termine who the Democratic nom
inee for President shall be.”
12-Year-Old Becomes
Youngest Parachutist
In View of Parents
ANAHEIM, Calif., UP> — Nick
Neely, 12, says of the jump that
made him perhaps the world’s
youngest parachutist, “Sure, I’ll
do it again.”
Nick, who stands 4V4 feet and
weighs 70 pounds, jumped from a
plane at an altitude of 3,500 feet
and landed 23 yards from a target
at Skylark Field in nearby Elsi
nore Wednesday. He had been
preparing for that jump a year.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ro
land Neely, watched him land
unhurt in soft sand.
“If this is what he wants, I
won’t try to stop him,” said his
mother.
“I won’t either, now that the
worst is over,” his father added.
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