Eisenhower Urges Early Action by
Congress in Passage of Soil Bank Bill
Starfighter Jet
Shows Off Speed
Of Over 1,000 Mph.
By VERN HAUGLAND
PALMDALE, Calif., OR—'The
Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, a
missile with a man in it, has flown
more than 1,000 miles an hour.
Several hundred persons, in
cluding the largest gathering of
news writers of its kind on rec
ord, witnessed the achievement
Monday. It was the fastest an air
craft ever has flown before a
sizeable audience.
It was also the first public show
ing of this dazzling new craft
which Gen. Nathan F. Twining,
Air Force chief of staff, has called
“the fastest and highest flying
fighter anywhere in the sky.’’
The exact speed of the plane
remained a secret. Actually, two
models were flown—the original
XF-104, which was powered by a
Curtiss-Wright J-65 engine, and
the production model F-104A,
which has a lighter and more
powerful engine, the G.E. J-79
A U.S. research plane, the Bell
X-lA, has flown 1,650 mph.— I
twice the speed of sound—but the
speed is not an official record, as
it was not made over a regulation
course.
The official world speed record
of 1,132 mph. was set recently in
England by Britain’s Fairey Delta
experimental plane. The old rec
ord was 822 mph., held by a North
American F-100 jet fighter.
The F-104A was given a Holly
wood type unveiling, with a gold
curtain concealing part of a han
gar rolling back to disclose the
gleaming, spotlighted plane.
Gen. Otto P. Weyland, com
mander of the Tactical Air Com
mand, announced that his com
mand would be the first to receive
the new air superiority fighter.
PAN AMERICAN
Arriving Tuesday from Fair
banks were: Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Gillette, Mrs. Engstrom, Sgt.
Heath, and Messrs. Dalby, Sjal
setka, Schneider, Johnson, Luton,
Thorp.
Departing were: Rev. and Mrs.
Lewis Hudgins, and Messrs Rudd,
Beam, Castoneda, Renstrom, Pelli
grini, Rail, Wheeler, Thibodeauf,
Thorp, Huston and Devine.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ernest Iyapana, Geo.
Kakaruk, Bernadette Trantham.
Discharged: Rosalyn Woods.
Chorus Girls Threaten
To Strike Over Demand
They Pose in Nude
YORK, England, —Chorus
girls in the touring revue “'Fancy
Pants” threatened a strike over a
shortage of what’s in the title of
the show, and they don’t mean
“fancy.”
Posing in the nude, they said,
was no part of the bargain when
they signed on with the troupe.
Show manager Eric Williams
conceded this, but told reporters:
“Oyrt here in the provinces the
audiences won’t come to the thea
ter unless you give them nudes. I
have exp’ained to the girls that
they must either satisfy the mod
em demand or we will have to
close down.”
For the time being, Williams
and the girls compromised on a
w*sp here and a wisp there.
> WASHINGTON (IV—Republican
congressional leaders called on the
Democrats Tuesday to rally be
hind President Eisenhower’s new
soil bank proposal if they really
want to help American farmers.
The GOP leadership issued this
call at a White House news con
ference after their weekly meet
ing with the President. Key Dem
ocrats in Congreses, however,
were reacting coldly to the Eisen
hower proposal.
GOP Senate Leader Knowland
and House Republican Leader
Martin forecast the President’s
veto of the Democratic sponsored
farm bill will be upheld by sub
stantial margins.
Knowland said he thinks many
Democrats will back the Presi
dent’s proposal once the “tem
porary flurry” over the veto has
passed.
The soil bank program was in
the compromise bill passed by
Congress but vetoed by the Presi
dent. Eisenhower backed the soil
program from the first but vetoed
the bill on other grounds, partic
ularly ijs provision for high rigid
price supports.
Eisenhower explained his action
in a nationwide radio-TV broad
cast Monday night.
He insisted no politics was in
volved and said he took his stand
only because the measure was a
“bad bill.” He called for quick
action on a soil bank bill without
the other features, and proposed
a 50 percent down payment from
the government when farmers
sign up for the acreage retirement
program, as a means of furnishing
them quick cash.
Eisenhower said last night he
took his veto action in the belief
the bill as passed would “hurt
more farmers than it would help.”
“I will always resist any at
tempt to make the farmer and his
problems a political football,” he
said.
“In the long run it would hurt
all farmers,” he said. “It was a
bad bill for the country.”
New Premier of Bulgaria
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, CSV—
The Bulgarian Parliament Tues
day named Anton Yugov the new
Communist Premier to succeed
Vulko (Wolf) Chervenkov, who
was accused by his associates of
practicing Stalin - like one - man j
rule.
Yugov is a 62-year-old former
tobacco worker and oldest mem
ber of the Bulgarian Communist
Politburo.
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Gifts for Royal
Pair Could Stock
Several Stores
MONTE CARLO, UP> — The
diamonds, lions, limousines and
other wedding gifts sent Grace
Kelly and Prince Rainier could
easily reach the million dollar
figure. ^
When all the gifts are in and
counted, the newlyweds will be in
a position to open an adequately
stocked jewelry store, a used—
| and only slightly used—car lot, an
antique shop, liquor store, art gal
lery, zoo or specialty shop for
oddments.
The number of gifts already
runs to several hundred. Palace
officials, far behind in their cata
loging, have little idea of the ac
tual total value.
The jewels and such items al
ready announced run to at least
$300,000. These include $150,000
worth of matching baubles from
the citizens of Monaco and a $40,
000 diamond and ruby item—us
able as a necklace or a tiara —
from the gambling casino con
trolled by shipowner Aristotle
Onassis.
Gifts have poured in from roy
alty all over Europe, from official
representatives of 25 govern
ments, from scores of Miss Kelly’s
wealthy friends, from every size
able foreign colony, from Monac
an officials, and from just plain
well wishers.
The palace concierge has been I
accepting a steady stream of
French cheeses, wines, embroid
ery, handicrafts and such for
many days.
The Prince’s zoo has benefited
to the extent of two Canadian
beavers, two long-legged cranes
and two lion cubs, the letter from
the Sultan of Morocco.
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