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Castro Raves Over
Herter Advice to
Cut Su«jar Quota
By ROBEST BERRELLEZ
HAVANA, Iff* — Fidel Castro
says he is willing to make a mil
lion-ton wager on Cuban sugar
production with Secretary of
State Herter.
The bearded Prime Minister
made the statement in a TV talk
to the Cuban people Friday night
— his eighth major speech in 20
days.
It followed a statement by Her
ter in Washington to the House
Agriculture Committee that ex
perts predict Cuba’s sugar pro
duction will drop at least one
million tons soon. Herter added
that this is a good time to di
versify U. S. sugar supply sources.
The committee has been consid
ering giving President Eisenhower
authority to cut Cuba’s quota of
the U. S. market.
Castro said he would be willing
to surrender Cuba’s share of the
sugar market in the United States
if his country’s production in 1961
drops a million tons — provided
the Cuban quota is increased by a
million tons if production in
creases that much. Castro said the
American public is “being footed”
on the sugar situation .
“We can sell sugar to the
United States at a cheaper price
if they want if,” the Prime Min
ister said. “We can contribute to
the lowering of the American cost
of living.”
The United States is still buy
ing about 3V4 million tons of
sugar from Cuba, more than half
the Cuban crop, and to protect
U. S. producers is paying a pre
mium of about 2 cents above the
world market price. Since Castro’s
increasing restrictions on Amer
ican investors in Cuba, there has
been growing sentiment in the
U. S. Congress for a cut in the
sugar quota allotted Cuba and an
increase in purchases from other
producers whose governments are
more friendly to the United
States.
Castro reiterated a threat that
American investments would be
seized in proportion to the amount
of Cuban sugar quota resrictions.
“We’ll exchange Cuban quota
cuts for American property seiz
ures,” he said. “They cut off all
our quota, we’ll take all their
property.”
Laughter from his TV studio
audience greeted this statement
and also his offer to wager Herter
the million tons of sugar.
New Books
Several new books have been
received at the K-K Public Li
brary: Darkness and the Dawn,
by Costain; For 2-Centa Plain, by
Golden; Trustee from the Tool
room, and Pied Piper, by Nevil
Shute, and Devil's Advocate, by
West.
Several new mysteries have
also been contributed. The Li
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Telephone Companies
Giving Up Use of
Letter Prefixes
NEW YORK, Uf\ — The nation's j
telephone system has started 1
doing away with the alphabet.
Peculiar as it may seem, the
reason is that the telephone
people are running out of — all
things — phone numbers.
Nearly 24 million phones have
been added in this country just
since 1950. Each one needed a
number with a word prefix that
people could understand, like j
Plaza or Evergreen.
The problem of finding such
prefixes was getting tougher all
the time.
The experts concluded after a
lot of study and tests that there
was only one thing they could do
and still give folks the service
they want: Change the system.
So eventually, phone numbers
won't be partly letters and partly
numbers, like Fleldstone 7-2643,
but all digits: 347-2643.
Will all-digit phone numbers be
harder to remember?
“All numbers can be remem- ■
bered for a short time just as [
easily as letter-numeral combina
tions,” said a Bell System spokes
man.
“That’s how most numbers are
used: You look it up in the book
and remember it just long enough
lo dial. It takes a while longer to
remember the all-number ones
permanently, but most people re
member only a few, anyway.”
There are only about 540 com
binations of the alphabet letters
which will form words easily un
derstood and distinguished, and
which also will work in telephone
switching equipment.
The experts nearly went goofy
trying to find more words, and
finally gave up.
Austria Makes
Reparations to Catholics
For Hitler’s Vandalism
Vienna, Austria, W* — The Aus
trian government returned nu
merous monasteries, churches and
other valuable real estate to the
Roman Catholic Church last week
and agreed to pay the church four
million dollars a year.
The payment is in reparations
for the large-scale confiscation of
church proprety by the Nazi
regime.
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Government Surplus Real Property
Lost River Tin Mine
Seward Peninsula, Alaska
SEALED BID SALE — August 8, 19(50
The properly consists of patented lode mining claims, patented
placer mining claims, purchase option on additional claims, mill
and mine camp buildings, installed machinery and equipment
and related presonal property. The Lost River Mine is located
on Cassilerito Creek near Lost River approximately 85 miles
northwest of Nome. Alaska, and about B'/i miles north and
inland from the Bering Sea.
All bids must be submitted on "Invitation, Bid and Accep
tance" form lQiPtRD-320. which describes the properly, stales
the terms and conditions of sale and provides instruction on
how to bid.
Sealed bids will be received at the address below until 11:00
A.M., PST, August 8, 1960. at which time and place they will
be publicly opened and read. For bid forms and further
information contact:
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Federal Office Building. Room 126
909 First Avenue
Seattle 4, Washington
Phone: MU 2-3300, Ext. 224 Refer to: Sale No. 10PRD-320