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Khrushchev Slams Eisenhower as
‘Dangerous’ Man to Lead U. S.
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, UP) — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, renewing his efforts
to discredit President Eisenhower,
said today it is dangerous to have
such a man heading a great na
tion.
And he indicated the Soviet
Union could have little confidence
in Richard Nixon as a working
partner of the Soviet Union.
The Premier pictured Eisen
hower whom he met and praised
last fall in the United States — as
virtually a stooge for John Foster
Dulles at the 1955 summit meet
ing. Then the Premier indirectly
continued his recent criticism of
Vice President Nixon by saying:
“Wc were not so bad off in
Dulles' time because he did so
many foolish things it made it
easier for us. . . . From that point
of view I suppose that Nixon is
the best choice for us for U. S.
President. Of course it would be
better for us if we had a wise
partner, but if not, that is the
American peoples’ business and
they will be the ones to suffer.”
Khrushchev made these re
marks at a news conference, at
tended by 400 reporters in the
Kremlin. It was called primarily
to give the Soviet leader a chance
to outline his new disarmament
program. But he ranged widely in
his comments and answers to
questions.
He got a laugh with this remark:
“When the President is no
longer President, the best job we
could offer him here would be as
head of a great nation is dan
are sure he would not harm
children.”
“But to have such a man as the
head fo a great nation is dan
gerous,” he added when the
laughter died down.
“President Eisenhower is com
pletely lacking in will power,” he
said, “but that does not excuse
him” for not exercising authority
over such men as Nixon and Sec
retary of State Christian Herter.
The Premier declared these two
are leading the United States along
a path which could bring a new
war.
In the absence of world disarm
ament, he said, the Soviet Union
is ready to retaliate with nuclear
weapons against anyone who sends
spy planes over the Soviet Union
like last month’s American U-2
reconnaissance plane.
Canada’s Chief Stands
With Ike Against Soviet
Premier’s Outbursts
WASHINGTON, GW — Canada’s
Prime Minister today ' backed
President Eisenhower against So
iet Premier Khrushchev’s charges
against the American President.
Arriving in Washington for a
one-day state visit, Diefenbaker
also called for a postsummit effort
to work all the harder “to estab
lish a climate of international
trust and confidence.”
Diefenbaker did not directly re
fer to Khrushchev’s new outburst
against Eisenhower. But he de
parted from his prepared text at
airport ceremonies to ask whether
the United States sows the seeds
of distrust and suspicion, and
reply:
“We answer that in the nega
tive on the basis of more than
150 years living side by side in
peace and dedication."
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Khrushchev’s Statements
Untrue, Says White House
WASHINGTON, MV-The White
House today branded as complete
ly untrue Premier Khrushchev’s
statement that President Eisen
hower fears and opposes the uni
fication of Germany.
Mrs. Anne Wheaton, Associate
Press Secretary, told reporters the
President was informed of Khrush
chev’s statement on Germany and
of the Soviet leader’s slurs on the
President himself.
There will be no comment, she
said, on Khrushchev’s statements
that Eisenhower is “completely
lacking in will power” and that
it is “dangerous” for him to head
a great nation.
But, Mrs. Wheaton went on:
“Khrushchev’s reference to Ger
man unification is absolutely
untrue.”
Khrushchev said Eisenhower
told him personally that he (Eis
enhower) was unwilling to see
Germany reunified because the
United States fears a reunified
Germany.
Partisan Politics
Dominates Senate
U-2 Investigation
By ERNEST VACCARO
WASHINGTON, OB — Senators
who looked into the Administra
tion’s handling of the U-2 spy
plane incident expressed little
hope today that they can draft a
unanimous report on their inves
tigation.
With few exceptions, bipartisan
ship dominated the four days of
closed-door hearings which ended
Thursday.
But such solidarity will meet a
more severe test next week when
the Foreign Relations Committee
meets to consider drafting a report
in this Presidential election year.
Chairman J. William Fulbright
told newsmen Thursday, “It
would be unusual, if not unprece
dented, if we got a unanimous re
port on an incident of this kind.”
“Any criticism of past mistakes
should not be interpreted as dis
playing disunity or lack of patrio
tism,” he added. “Sometimes it is
more unpatriotic to close our eyes
to mistakes.”
Before the hearing opened,
many Republicans had expressed
the view that an investigation of
any kind would indicate a lack
of national unity in the wake of
verbal fireworks touched off by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
The final testimony Thursday
came from Secretary of Defense
Thomas Gates Jr. He disclosed
that the U-2 flights over the So
viet Union had produced a wide
range of vital information on So
viet missiles, submarine and atom
ic production and “a very defi
nite look-see” at Soviet military
posture.
HEAT DEALS HEAVY BLOW TO
CALIF. CHICKEN RANCHERS
PETALUMA, Calif., UPi — More
than 100,000 chickens, worth
$150,000, were killed by 110-de
gree heat yesterday in Sonoma
County, says Virgil Stratton, coun
ty farm adviser.
Ranchers sprayed water on their
hen houses in futile efforts to
save their flocks.
School Budget for
Fiscal Year
Reaches $336,670
The 1960-61 school budget was
presented to the City Council in
an informal meeting last evening
with the School Board. The new
budget is for $336,670 as against
$262,854.50 for the current year.
The city’s portion of this is
$107,697.50. As $45,100 is available
from other sources, the city must
finance $62,597.50 to meet the
budget as presented.
With 160 more children antici
pated for next year—130 of these
first graders—a full time school
nurse and a remedial reading
teacher and added staff, the sal
aries are up from $180,235 to
$221,025. This is the largest item
in the budget.
School business is big business
with $13,000 budgeted for fuel
oil and $8,500 for electric power.
Four men are required on the
maintenance and janitorial staff.
The budget will be put before
the City Council at its next regu
lar meeting for approval after a
thorough study by them.
Oregon Indian
School will Take
100 Alaska Students
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Fairbanks News-Miner
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON — About 100
Alaskan Native students will be
educated Outside starting this
August, according to plans being
made by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
They will be flown to an In
dian school at Salem, Ore., ac
cording to Victor Hill, superin
tendent of the Chemawa school.
Hill said the addition of the
Alaskan Eskimo, Indian and Aleut
youths was planned to aid Alaska
because the state does not have
enough schools to educate students
nearing the high school level. This
will make maximum use of the
Oregon Indian school, he added.
The Alaska students, ranging
from 14 to 18 years of age, are
expected to come from all parts
of Alaska, including the Aleutians
and Point Barrow.
For the past three years, the
Chemawa school has educated
only Navajo Indians. Previously
it was used to educate numerous
Northwest Indians and Alaskans.
Hill estimated that some 2,000
Alaskan native students have at
tended Chemawa school since it
was founded in 1880. But he said
this will be the first time that a
school has combined Navajo and
Alaskan natives in the same
classes. Enrollment of the school
will be about 740, Hill said.
Welfare Department
Authorizes Anchorage
Jr. High School Grant
WASHINGTON, UPl — The De
partment of Welfare has author
ized a grant of $473,400 to the
Anchorage Independent School
District for construction of a ju
nior high school.
Rep. Ralph Rivers said the
money is being made available
under a program providing school
construction aid to districts in
which enrollments are affected by
children of employes at nearby
federal installations.
Five Local Lovelies
Entered in Queen Contest
Five Queen contestants are now
entered for the competition to
select a Midnight Sun Festival
Queen.
They include: Patricia Maloney,
who is sponsored by the M and M
Bank; Lola Sheldon, daughter of
Mrs. Helen Gogolin; Mary Ann
Mogg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Mogg, and who is sponsored
by the Nomerama Theater; Val
erie Jane Adams, daughter of
Mary Adams, sponsored by the
North Star Hotel, and Betty Diede,
daughter of Mary Diede.
Mrs. America Candidates
Line Up In Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., UP)
— The 51 candidates for Mrs.
America met for the first time
today and posed for cameramen
at a picture taking session.
Mrs. Alaska — Marlynn Porter
of Ketchikan—wore a parka and
Mrs. Hawaii — Claire Johnson of
Kanoehe — was dressed in a col
orful Hawaiian print.
Later, the women and their hus
bands were escorted through a
$30,000 swimming pool home, the
main prize that goes to the con
test winner when she is crowned
next Friday night.
The candidates were inter
viewed today as part of a separate
contest to select a Mrs. U. S. Sav
ings Bond. The winner will be
announced tonight.
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Starving 9-Yr.-01d
Found at Scene of
Bush Plane Crash
FLIN FLON, Manitoba, UPI — A
helicopter Thursday plucked a
starving, nearly incoherent little
boy from beside the burned wreck
age of a plane where he had spent
15 lonely, fear-ridden days in the
rugged bush of northwest Mani
toba.
Later the helicopter and its res- j
cue crew returned to collect the
bodies of the child’s father and a
friend who died in the crash 300
miles northwest of Winnipeg.
“Gee, I thought you’d never
come,” said 9-year-old Walter
Sedor to his mother at the Flin
Flon hospital.
Although suffering from ex
haustion and undernourishment,
the child was said to be in good
condition.
The father, Steve Sedor, 39, a
friend, Ken Harrison, 32, and the
child, were on a 12-mile flight for
a fishing trip when the plane
crashed May 18.
The boy, sitting in the back
seat, apparently was thrown
through the roof into heavy brush
which broke his fall.
The boy told his rescuers he
chewed a few roots ahd leaves and
drank rain water. A package of
supplies containing enough food
for one person for at least 25
days had been thrown clear but
the boy didn’t touch it — appar
ently unaware of what it con
tained.
'Hot as A Pistol' . . .
OSLO, Norway, UP) — Benche
Foss, rehearsing for the title role
in Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler,” fired
a blank from a pistol at the Na
tional Theater Thursday night,
and fire engines roared through
Oslo’s streets. Smoke from the
blank cartridge set off the thea
ter’s fire alarm system and out
came the fire department.
Beltz? Condition
‘Satisfactory’ After
2nd Operation
ANCHORAGE, UP) — State Sen
ate President William Beltz of
Unalakleet was reported in satis
factory condition today, following
a second stage operation for the
removal of a brain tumor.
Beltz, who underwent surgery
yesterday for more than three
hours, was said to have spent a
quiet night at the U. S. Public
Health Service Hospital here.
His physician said “He seems
to be much improved.”
However, the veteran legislator’s
name is still on the hospital’s
seriously ill list, but the doctor
said this was more or less a for
mality for several days following
an operation of this type.
Mrs. Beltz has been at her hus
band’s bedside since he entered the
hospital early last month. On May
7 he underwent five hours of sur
gery and Wednesday suffered
what the doctor termed “a re
currence of his original ailment.”
President Vetoes Two
Bills to Ease Tax Payments
WASHINGTON, Wt — President
Eisenhower today vetoed two tax
bills, saying he did so because the
benefits would be applied retro
actively and would discriminate
unfairly against some taxpayers.
In each case, Eisenhower said
he would be willing to sign new
legislation provided it had only
future application.
One of the measures would have
eased restrictions on income tax
deductions for heavy charitable
contributions.
This bill was written to apply
retroactively to the taxable years
starting January 1, 1956, and end
ing after the 1968 tax year.
The other measure was designed
to ease the burden of the 3 per
cent federal unemployment tax
paid by employers on the first
$3,000 of eaoh employe’s wages.
In cases where a business has
changed hands, the new employer
would not be obliged to pay the
full tax if the previous employer
had already begun payment cov
ering the same employe.
The bill made this retroactive
to the beginning of 1951.
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SAS Opens New Polar
Flight to L. A. with
Royal Scandinavian Guests
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, W)—
Three Scandinavian rincesses de
parted tonight for Los Angeles as
Scandinavian Airlines opened jet
service over the North Pole.
On board the new SAS DC8-C
jet giant were Princess Margrethe,
heiress to the Danish throne;
Princess Astrid, daughter of Nor
way’s King Olav, and Princess
Margaretha, granddaughter o f
King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden.
Prince Axel, cousin of Den
mark’s King Frederik, heads the
list of 47 special guests. In addi
tion, there are 68 paying guests.
The plane is due in Los Angeles,
after a stopover in Montreal at
1:10 a.m. Saturday.
Flying time is less than 14
hours, a reduction of more than a
third in SAS flying time since
the airline started the Polar Route
in 1955.