Braves Play E.C.C. Frosh Tonight 8:00
* The Daily Chowanian *
Volume 1 — Number 18
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, December 3. 19S3
Associated Press
Budget-Missile to Take
Lead in '60 Elections
WASHINGTON It will be
budget-balancing vs. the missile
gap in the canter ring when the
presidential election year Con
gress meets next month.
President Eisenhower signal
ed his awareness the forthcom
ing conflict between Republi
cans and Democrats with news
conference comments Wednes
day outlining the administra
tion’s position on both issues.
St. Lawrence Close
Seaway For Winter
MONTREAL (i^P) — The St.
Lawrence Seaway, opened last
June by Queen Elizabeth II in
her yacht Britannia, closes for
the winter today after two tugs
haul through a disabled
straggler.
The Norwegian freighter Salt-
vik w i 11 be tugged into Mon
treal harbor at the eastern end
of the seaway, the last of more
than 6,500 vessels passing
through the locks in the 475-mil-
lion-dollar waterway’s first sea
son of operations.
The Seaway officially opened
last June 26 amid the blare of
trumpets, 21-gun salutes, band
fireworks.
President Eisenhower joined
the Queen on her sleek royal
yacht for a 31-mile cruise at the
start of the 185-mile waterway
opening the Great Lakes to
oceangoing shipping.
The 1,680-ton Saltvik lost her
electrical power on Lake Erie.
The tugs James Battle and Sin-
mac took her in tow and began
a race to beat the seaway’s
closing deadline, originally set
for midnight Monday but pushed
back when good weather held.
WORLD BRIEFS
Troubles
LONDON, AP — The first Cou
ple of the British theater, Sir Lau
rence Olivier and Vivian Leigh,
admit they are having marital
troubles but say “they can best be
worked out without help from any
one outside.”
Atomic Pile
PARIS AP — A French atomic
engineer, clad in heavy protective
clothing, crept through searing
heat to the heart of an atomic pile
to learn why it had stopped func
tioning. He apparently suffered
no ill effects.
In reporting this Wednesday,
the French Atomic Energy Com
mission said that such an opera
tion had previously been thought
too dangerous to understake.
The Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Decreas
ing cloudiness and somewhat
colder today; light snow in the
mountains generally ending
early this morning; high rang
ing from the low 40s in the
mountains to the 50s elsewhere.
Fair and colder tonight, low in
the upper 20s in the mountains
to the 30s elsewhere. Friday,
mostly sunny and a little
warmer.
Eisenhower told the reporters
that everybody who is a taxpay
er ought to be thinking about
what would happ>en if the gov
ernment doesn’t curb inflation
by b^ancing its budget.
The President also cautioned
against giving way to any “tre
mendous hysterical urge” to
abandon manned bombers and
immediately p u t all the coun
try’s defence eggs in the missOe
basket.
Tins advocacy of balance for
ces in a period of defense weap
on transition seemed certain
to be seized upon by Republi
cans in Congress to combat
Democratic efforts to blame the
administration for space fail
ures and the lag behind the So
viet Union in military missiles.
Republicans will be on the de
fensive m the space and miS
sile argument. But they are hap
pily looking forward to the
chance to boom the drums for
the balanced budget they con
tend is necessary to prevent
inflation.
New Navy Destroyer
Commissioned
BOSTON iJP) — The Navy’s
new* guided-missile destroyer
leader Dewey, to be commis
sioned Mondav. has the most
advanced intellig^ence data and
control center of any ship in the
fleet, her builder says.
The 512-feet Dewey, 140 feet
longer than World W a r II d^=^
stroyers, was turned over to the
N'avy Wednesday after a run
from Bath, Maine, where she
’vas built. Capt. Stanley M.
Alexander, Navy shipbuilding
superintendent at Bath Iron
works, predicted her perform
ance will be a “revelation*’ tc
her crew.
She can fire both Terrier and
Asroc missiles. Terrier is a sur
face-launched antiaircraft weap
on. Asroc is a rocket-launched
homing torpedo for use against
submarines.
Crusade No Haumi
MIAMI. FI. AP — Evangelist
Billy Graham, who said he had
seen “a few things which indicate
a crusade would do no harm here,”
has announced that he will ho!d
a two-or three-week revival in
Miami in 1961.
Basketball
Tonight
Chowan Braves will play
host to The E. C. C. Freshman
tonight at 8:00 in their first
home debate. This will be
Chowan’s second scheduled
game for the season.
Their first game was play
ed against Newport News
Apprentice School, in which
the Braves lost 72-49. the
game being played hard by
both teams. The Braves were
unable to connect with the
basket daring the second half
as were the Apinrentice Sdiool.
The score when time ran oat
in the first half was 25 all.
Tonight we ask for all stu
dents to come oat and sup
port the Braves in their ef
forts to win over the E. C. C.
Freshman.
New Binlding
RALEIGH AP — North Caro
lina’s new 454 million dollar legis
lative buHding wiH be designed
by the architect who created the
U. S. pavilion at the Bnisse's
World’s Fair and the U. S. Era-
bas5!v in India.
The Legislative Building Com
mission annoanced Wednesday it
had selected Edward D. Stone of
New York and the Raleigh firm
of Holloway & Reeves to design
tho new building.
The next step awaiting the com
mission is selection of a site for
the building, okayed last spring
by the General Assembly.
Stnne has said his "impnlse”
would be to construct the building
astride Halifax Street, which runs
into Capitol Square from the north.
Watch To Be Kept
Over Sessions
RALEIGH AP — Standing com
mittees to keep watch over state
’’ovemment between sessions of
the General Assembly have been
'u^gested as a means of bringing
the Legislatnre “closer to the
people.”
Rowan County Rep. George Uz-
?‘;1I, a Salisbury lawyer, offered
the proposal Wednesday at a meet
ing of the Commission on Re-orga
nization of State Government.
Highway TaJIy
RALEIGH AP — The Motor
Vehicles Department’s tally of
highway deaths and injuries for
the 24 hours ending at 10 a m to
day:
Killed 0
fnfured rural 20
K^i'Ied this year 1,060
Killed to date last year 974
Injured to Oct. I, 1959 17.679
Injured to Oct. I. 1958 15,000
Ike-Nehru Talks May
Cover World Affairs
NEW DRT.m, India (/P) —
Prime Minister Nehru today
said his talks with President
Eisenhower probably will range
over the entire world situation,
including India’s border dispute
with Communist China and any
thing else.
Terming his meeting next
week with the U. S. President
“most important,** Nehru told
his monthly news conference:
“I want to chat with him a-
bout the lead he has given to
ward finding a way out of the
entanglements in which the
world finds itself.**
In a move to pin down the
Chinese population in India,
Nehru announced all foreign
nationals—except those from
British Commonwealth countries
—are being required to register
with the government. Previous
ly^ foreigners wtio had lived in
India prior to August 1943 were
not req^uired to have residence
permits.
Nehru made clear the new
rule was pron^ted by recent
demonstrations in Calcutta sid
ing with Red China in the t»r-
der dis^ite.
Verdict Uncertain
For Two Americans
HAVANA PP> — A military
spokesman at Pinar del Rio said
today there is no indication
when military court verdicts in
the case involving Ftank Austin
Young of M i a m i, Fla., and
Peter John Lambton of Nassau,
win be announced.
Thirty-six Cubans were tried
with them on charges of at
tempting to overthrow the Fidel
Castro regime.
Brazilian Air Force
Seizes Three Planes
RIO DE JANEIRO, BrazU W
—Brazilian air force officers
seized at least three planes in
Rio today and flew off in a
northerly direction, apparently
in a revolt against President
Jusceline Kubitschek.
The Ministry of War went on
a state of alert and War Minis
ter Henrique Teixeira Lott con
ferred with top government
figures. Kubitschek placed Lott
in charge of the nation’s defense.
Government sources compar*
ed the flight to the “picket revo
lution” in 1956, shortly after Ku
bitschek took office, when an
air force major, captain and
sergeant seized an emergency
air strip in the Amazon Basin
and took control of the town of
Santarem. They l^ld out for 18
days before capitulating, and
were granted amnesty.
*niere as one report that four
planes were involved. Both ver
sions said the planes were C47s.
One weE-informed source said
aH the planes were loaded with
air force officers.
Military Bases
MANILA AP — Foreign Secre
tary Felixberfo Serrano said to
day the main responsibility for
protecting U.S. Military bases in
the Philippines rests with the A-
mericans themselves^
His comment to newsmen came
after the IT.S. Embassy appealed
to the Philippine government for
better protection of American ser
vicemen.
There haTO been five major
cases of armed robbery in two
weeks at the U.S. Air Force Clark
Base north of Manila.
Ovniers Asked To
Remove Animals
From Outer Banks
BEAUFORT. N. C. AP —Coun
ty sbcriff Ho^ Salter lias set
next Sanday as the deadine for
removing rattie and ponies off
Carteret Coonty's Outer Banks.
AH ammals not removed by that
date win be sofd at tiie courthouse
here at noon lifinday. the sheriff
said.
Sheriff Salter will make a final
inspection flight over the banks
Straday. A recent figbt revealed
approximateJy 18 cows and two or
tfiree pair^s still on the banks.
Salter said the antmalg belonged
to rmftiKTwn parties.
The I9S9 General Assembly pas
sed a Taw prcAibiting the gra^g
of cattle aod ponies on O^re Rankg
and Portemouth Island in and ef
fort to taft &nosioa. Most animals
were removed last samnier, and
observers say tfie grass and foliage
are refuming in abundance to help
anchor the sfrifltng sands.
140 Die In France As Dam Breaks
FREJUS, France AP — A tow
ering wall of water from a burst
dam left a four-mile-wide path of
destruction down the Reyran Riv
er valley on the French Riviera
today. The known dead numbered
140, with another 160 missing.
Unofficial estimates, which could
not be confirmed, put the death
toll as high as 300.
Millions of tons of water, banked
up behind the 185-foot dam by fi\-e
days of heavy rain, churned into
(he peacefully sleeping farm valley
Wednesday night, tearing away
houses, splintering telegraph and
telephone poles and cutting all
communications with the outside.
Not until dawn—hours after the
Malpesset Dam burst—was the full
tragedy apparent.
The narrow valley 16 miles
southwest of Cannes was a jum
bled heap of twisted wreckage.
The Flinch government mobil
ized disaster forces and rushed
the Aircraft Carrier Lafayette—
formerly the USS Langley—to the
scene to serve as a floating hospi
tal and helicopter base off the
coast.
Terrified families were swept
downstream, struggling to stay to
gether. Many had just gone to bed
when the flood struck. One 85-year-
old woman floated seven hours on
her bedroom dresser. An old man
walking his dog was swept away
in a second.
Rescue workers in rubber boats
tried to reach isolated houses and
bring the injured and sick to shel
ter.
No help was immediately avail
able for the villages upstream. It
took many hours to get the first
rescue teams there, and the wea^
rescuers found many people mis
sing and survivors oBen wander
ing in dazed silence.
Frejus, about four miles below
the dam, suffered less than the
isolated villages up the valley. It
was feared no houses were left
standing along the upper reaches
of the river. The wall of water was
6 feet high wiien it reached the
town. Upstream it may have tow
ered 40 feet in narrow stretches
of the valley.
The dam was holding back near
ly 10 billion gallons of water and
was sorely strained after the heavy
rains.
Kennedy Says Arms
Race Heavy Burden
DURHAM AP — Both the
United States and the Soviet Un
ion would “like to be free of the
crushing burden of the arms race,”
Sen. John F. Kennedy D-Mass says.
Hie fold a Duke University au
dience here Wednesday night, “It
is far better that we meet at the
summit than at the brink.” Still,
Kennedy continiied, “hard facts of
the matter are that the real roots
of the Soviet-American conflict
cannot be settled by negotiations.'’
Pointing to clashes in basic na
tional interests of the two systms,
the potential presidential candi
date said we can find certain areas
of agreement with the USSR and,
he added. “We should concentrate
our efforts on these potential areas
of agreement."