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Ike Urges Congress To Give Full Soviet Ambassador
Responsibility To Space Exploration Jq Jake Up Dufy As
Foreign Minister
Almond Proposes Largest Budget In
History Of The State Of Virginia
WASHINGTON AP — Presi
dent Eisenhower today urge4
Congress to give tlie civilian
space agency full responsibility
for development of a national
program of nonmilitary space
exploration.
In one special message to Con
gress, Eisenhower called for
amendment of the 1958 National
Aeronautics and Space Act to
eliminate what he has termed de
ficiency provisions.
In a second mes'^a'je he put be
fore Congress his pla i-first a i-
ncunced list fall-for transfer of
the Army rocket development
team to the Civilian Njiional
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration. That plan will go into ef
fect automatically in 60 days un
less vetoed by the House or
Senate.
In his message calling for a-
mendment of the space act, Ei
senhower said the present law
contains several provisions
which tend to obscure the re
sponsibility of NASA for plan
ning and directing a 'national
program of space exploration
and peaceful space activity.
Eisenhower said he has be
come convinced during the 15
months since NASA was estab
lished that the law needs to be
revised “so as to place respon
sibility directly and unequivo-
cably in one agency, NASA, for
planning and managing a na
tional program of nonmilitary
space activities.”
The propi sed shift would
place the Army rocket team
headed by German—born Dr.
Wernher von Braun under the
direction of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra-
tiom.
Shell Collectors
Find Life Jacket
BOLIVIA, N.C. AP — Two
women collecting sea shells came
near Fort Caswejl, about eight
miles from the field where a Na
tional Airlines DC7B crashed Jan.
6, killing all 34 people aboard.
One body, that of Carlos Ram
os Valdes, banker of Havana, Cu
ba, sti l is missing. The life jacket
was marked, “Property of National
Airlines.” But authorities, still
searching for the body, pointed
out that the plane apparently broke
apart in the air, and that bits of
metal and equipment fell as far as
25 miles away from the main crash
scene.
Thirty-two of the bodies were
found in a 20-acre area of piney
woods and marsh land near here.
One body was found on the bank
of the Cape Fear River near Fort
Fisher, close to the place where
the river empties into the Atlan
tic Ocean. That is about 15 miles
from the main crash scene.
The women who fo'und the life
jacket are Mrs. E. V. Leonard,
wife of the Brunswick County
sheriff: and Mrs. J. T. Bigford,
whose husband' is police chirf of
Long Beach.
LONDON AP — The Soviet
Embassy said today Ambassador
Jacob Malik will return to Mos
cow Wednesday to take up duties
as a Soviet deputy foreign
minister.
Milik has held the rank of dep
uty foreign minister for years but
since 1953 has functioned as am
bassador to London. Moscow an
nounced Wednesday that Milik
was being replaced as ambassador
by Alexander Soldatov, a Foreign
Ministry official.
Nuclear Tests
Seems Hopeless
LOS ANGELES AP—John A.
McCone, the chairman of the A-
tomic Energy Commission s » » s
' i 111 “ prosp3ct of a worldwide
a'T?em''nt on suspension of nu
clear tests.
He said the Soviets apparently
want an agreement that “halts our CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla AP
tests while permitting theirs to go _The Air Force has announced
Charlotte Man Is
Named President
CHARLOTTE AP —A Charlotte
insurance man has been named
president of the trustees of the
Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a
two and one-half million dollars
fund benefiting Presbyterian
educational institutions.
Philip F. Howerton, former mod
erator of the Southern Presbyter
ian Church, was chosen Wednesday
to succeed Dr. F. L. Jackson of
Davidson as president.
The election came at the trus
tees’ day-long meeting here.
Other officers are John S. Can-
sler, vice president; the Rev. J.
Cecil Lawrence, secretary; and A.
Walton Litz, treasurer. All are
'•om Charlotte.
By THOMAS JOHNSON
RICHMOND, VA. AP — Gov-
J. Lindsay Almond Jr. today
proposed for fiscal 1960-62 a
budget of $1,320,000,000, largest
in the state’s history and gear
ed for the first time to a sales
tax.
Publice schools drew the
major portion—just over 44 per
cenC-of proposed general fund
appropriations totaling better
than 555 million dollars.
Institutions of higher learn
ing, mental hospitals, penal ad-
mmistion, public health and
welfare on a percentage basis
followed schools in proposed
general fund appropriations.
General fund revenues are de
rived largely from taxes levied
upon individuals and corpora
tions and from profits of the
state liquor monopoly.
Almondl’s first budget since
he entered office two years ago
called for the appropriation of
more than 764 million dollars
in special funds, coming from
such sources as gasoline taxes,
federal grants, state liquor
sales and college tuition
charges.
iiit; governor conceded in his
budget message to the Legisla
ture that the outstanding fea
ture of the budgat was the pro
posed 3 per cent general sales
and use tax, with downward
revision of certain other levies.
It is estimated the sales tsix
will produce a net 142% miUion
dollars in fiscal 1960-62, with the
localities to share in 45 million
dollars on a population basis.
Ballistic Missile Test Completed
forward.” And, he added, Soviet
negotiators dismiss scientific facis
vith pn'itical propaganda.
Movie TV Writer Freberg Is Trying
To Death Knell Rock “N” Roll
By BOB THOMAS,
HOLLYWOOD AP — Stan
Freberg is trying to sound the
death knell for rock ’n’ roll, but
he’s running into problems.
The satirist’s latest jibe at
American manners and morals
is a record called “The Old
Payola Roll Blues.” It's a
pointed fable about a fast-buck
artist who nulls a teen-ager of'
the street and makes a rock ’n'
roller out of him.
The con man then tries to
briba a disc jockey to plug the
atrocity, is rebuffed and slips
out under the door.
The disc came out last week
and took off immediately—in
some places. A top Las Angeles
radio station played it six times
a day. The store sales indicated
the record was moving as fast
as Freberg’s million-and-a-half
seller “St. George and the
Dragonet.”
Elsewhere, the story is differ
ent. Capitol Records says that
between 60 and 70 per cent of
its field men report opposition
in their areas to getting “Payola
Roll Blues” played on local
radio stations.
The author, usually known as
Steady Stan, is incensed.
“The fact that a Los Angeles
station would play the record
six times a day, even thought
it is overlength, shows that it
must have seme value for the
public,” said Freberg. “The re
cord is not anti-disc jockeys are
honest.”
“The record is against certain
independent record companies
that have bought their way to
success and have inflicted this
atrocity called rock ’n’ roll on
the unsuspecting public. Music
should be selected on its merits
alone, not because somebody
gets paid to play it on the radio.
Communist China
TOKYO AP — Communist Chi
na today charged the United States
and Japan with planning to con
clude a military pact “for the
oreparation of new aggression and
war and for menacing Asian and
world peace.”
Red China’s foreign ministry, in
a statement broadcast by Peiping
Radio, said a military alliance
was being prepared “under the
pretext of revising the Japan-U.S.
securit’ treaty.” The statement
said that “this is an extremely
serious step taken by the Japanese
reactionaries and the U. S.
imperialists.”
that the military test prog-am of
the Thor intermediate range bal
listic missile has been comolet^d
and the missile soon will be used
in a scries of three shots to test
a new space engine.
If successful, the new engine
wUl boost small scientific satel
lites into orbit and deep into space.
It probably will be employed on
Thor-Able and Thor-Delta rockets,
three-stage vehicles utilizing the
Thor as a first stage.
The engine reportedly will gen
erate about 165,000 pounds of
thrust on liftoff, 15,000 pounds
more than that poured out by the
regular Thor.
This is not designed to match
the power of the U.S. Atlas or
the Soviet Lunik rockets, which
are driven by thrusts of about 360,-
000 pounds and 800,000 pounds,
respectively.
Thor-Ables using the regular
Thor engine have been fired pre
viously on space assignments, and
another is expected to try within
a few weeks to send a 90-pound
’’ayload to the vicinity of the
>ianet Venus.
However, the Delta vehic!e-simi-
ar to but more' soo'iisticated than
t ’’e Able-has yet to b’ tested. The
first Delta launching is sched iled
for March. This will be an attempt
to place a 100-foot inflatable bal-
oon satt3llite into a 1,000-mile
high orbit about t'le earth.. It will
be an expericent in bouncing radio
and television signals between
continents.
American Markets Overseas Are Urged
To Do Something More Than Gripe
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK AP — Americans
who have lost markets overseas
ar? being urg»d today to do some
thin" T^ore about-it than just
gripe. The same to a degree goes
for thos’ who hive lost markets
here at home to foreign imports.
Some are starting industrywide
sales drives. The Department of
■^rmmerce is doing some fatherly
childing about lax American sales
habits abroad. Some companies
are reviewing operations to see if
efficiency can bring down prices.
Others are studying advice about
the training of their overseas
salesmen.
For two years American ex
ports have been slipping while im
ports have been rising. This is a
new experience for many business-
m'’n used to having markets a-
broad they considered safe.
But competition has been rising
fast Steelmen admit that it wasn t
just the steel strike alone that ac
counted for steel imports topping
steel exports last year by two to
one. Only four years ago American
steel exports were three times as
bief as our steel imports.
The reason usually given for the
loss of American markets to for
eign competition are that the
United States spent billions of dol
lars after the war to help rebuild
the industries of Western Europe
and Japan.
With these brand-new efficient
plants, and with labor scales usu
ally well below ours, European
and Japanese companies have
been underselling us at home and
abroad—and often giving better
credit terms.
But voices now are being raised
to suggest that Americans should
try some harder selling, along
the lines that Yankees were once
noted for, pointing out the superi
ority of American products and
making sure of adequate servicing.
Passing Friends Is
No Lost Stranger
PASADENA, Calif. AP — They
were strangers but they struck
up a friendship in passing.
Every other day he roared past
at the throttle of a passenger
train diesel engine. Joanne Wil-
lens sat on her front porch—30
feet from the track.
They started waving, as folks
do.
Mrs. Willens, expecting a baby
and pretty much confined to home,
began looking forward to 12.35
p.m. as a welcome break in the
routine day.
Then she went to the hospital
A week later she brought little
Steven Mark Willens home.
Her first day back she proudly
held her new baby up to the
window when the train rolled by
The engineer gave a handclasp
like that of a victorious fighter.
Their minds must have been
working alike. Two days later the'
engineer held up a sign; “A boy?”
Even as the question was asked,
Mrs. Willens answered it; she
held up her own sign: “A boy!”
A few days later the train ap
proached much more slowly than
usual. She was on the front porch.
The engineer gestured for her to
go close to the tracks.
As the train slowed, the assist
ant engineer jumped off and hand
ed her a box. Inside was a little
knit suit and a card:
“To a sweet little boy. Best
wishes to all, Dan C. Kurtz, engi-
( neer, Santa Fe No. 20.”
Explosion Will Make
Delay In Production
MARSHALL, Tex. AP — There
may be up to 90 days’ delay in
production of solid propellant
rocket motors as a result of a
terrific explosion at the Army’s
Longhorn Ordinance Works last
week.
Quoting an unnamed spokes
man for Thiokol Chemical Corp.,
which operates the facility near
here for the Army, the Dallas
News said today it will be early
April before the plant is back in
full operation.
The newspaper also said the
violent blast caused damage es
timated by Lt. Col. John E. Har
rison, who commands the ord
nance works, at one million dol
lars.
Harrison told a reporter he had
made no such estimate. Until
Army Engineers finish a survey,
he said he was unable to predict
how long production might be
crippled.
“I don’t know whether it will
be a month or six weeks,” Har
rison said.
Other sources at the installa
tion, 15 miles northeast of Mar
shall in northeast Texas, have
said production will be at least
slowed for about three months.
Thiokol is the Army's biggest
builder of solid propellant rocket
motors.
Ripping through a remote-con
trolled plant unit, the explosion
ast Friday rocked a broad area
of northeast Texas and northwest
Louisiana. Harrison reported at
the time there were no injuries
but damage was considerable.
Thiokol builds engines for the
Nike-Hercules, Falcon, La-
Crosse, Honest John and other
missiles. It does similar work on
a smaller scale at plants in Brig
ham City, UtEih; Huntsville, Ala.,
and Elkton, Md.
Tobacco Dealers
Want 10 per cent
WASHINGTON AP — The Bur
ley Leaf Tobacco Dealers Assn.
today urged an increase of 10 per
cent in his year’s federal market
ing quotas for that type tobacco.
The Kentucky Farm Bureau
Federation said it favored an in
crease only if Congress changed
farm law to make it a permanent
policy that larger reserves of all
types of tobacco should be
maintained.
A 10 per cent increase would
allot 331.090 acres compared with
301.000 last year. This allotment
would produce a crop of around
550 million pounds compared with
500 million pounds last year.
These views were presented at
an Agriculture Department hear
ing on the level of 1960 quotas
pnl allolments.
Tho department soon must set
these figures under a crop con
trol program designed to prevent
over production and to help sta
bilize prices.
Carolina Man Is
Arrested In Texas
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. AP—FBI
agents arrested Thomas Clarence
Dorey, 23, an escapee from a
North Carolina prison camp, here
Wednesday.
Leonard Blavlock, special FBI
agent in charge at San Antonio,
said Dorev escaped from the Pitt
Toi'ntv Pri*5on Camp at Greenville,
N.C., last 0’t. 28 while serving a
three to eight year term for armed
robbery.
He was picked up at a carnival.