The Daily Chowanian
Volume 1
Number 44
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Wednesday February 17, 1960
Associaled Prr^s
Khrushchev Discusses Possible TJiilpc
With Neutralist Burma’s President
By FORREST EDWARDS
RANGOON, Burma AP — A
not-so-bouncy Nikita Khrushchov
discussed possible new Soviet eco
nomic Rid to neutralist Burma in
talks today with Burmese Presi
dent U Win Maung and resurgent
political leader U Nu.
A Government source said the
Soviet Premier and the Burmese
leaders also touched informally on
relations between Burma and
Communist China and the China-
India border dispute. Khrushchev
reportedly applauded the agree
ment Jan. 28 settling some dis
puted points on the Burma-China
border and agreeing to negotiate
the others.
Some Burmese observers felt co suggest that he may have mis-
that Khrushchev would not Be ir>: ed t’.ie nation regarding its de-
a handout mood on this v i s i 1.1 Jense position.
They noted . that the Cornmunist Eisenhower said that if anybody
National^ Umte^ariiXent^’^seL in!^e!ioves that he has misled the
Ike Will Discuss
South American Trip
WASHINGTON AP — Presi-
dpnt Eisenhower will go on nation-
wire television and radio Sund^iy
I'vening to discuss national de
fense and his forthcoming South
.American tour.
The President announced this at
1 news conference today.
And-in cold angcr-Eisenhower
called it despicable for anyone
ration on defense matters, he
Committee Agrees
Clear Civil Rights Bill
to
Decline Noted in
Influenza Cases
PAI.EIGH AP —About 100,000
cases of influenza-like ailments
VLre rcpored last week in North
Carolina, a sharp dcline from the
15.'),000 of two weeks ago.
Health officials said the epidem-
c appeared to be on the wane in
most areas of th state.
.Mecklenburg County was the
ra-de'it hit last week, reporting
8,000 cases. County health offici
als said there were 20,000 cases
*,\vo weeks ago.
The State Health Apartment
.'uccivid last week’s rports form
’ 1 'ocal health units. A decline
was noted in 38 counties and an
increase in 15. The rest reported
flu incidence as about the same
as two weks ago. Some counties
I I :eii iir.it reiwi'ts this week.
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the Feb. 6 elections. But others .
believed he would make a token would bke to deny it to that per-
offer of at least one aid project j soiis’s face,
in an effort to show that Soviet, i j t
friendship is not based on Burma’s, , hisenhowcr asserted that Amei-
internal politics. ® defensn is not on.y strong.
Khrushchev today toured two' oi'-t also awesome and respected
Soviet gift projects that resulted elsewhere,
from his 19l-d visit, a technological
institute for 1,100 students being
built just outside Rangoon and a
plush, 200-room hotel nearing com
pletion in a Rangoon suburb.
Khrushchev appeared weary
when he arrived Tuesday from WASHINGTON AP — Presi- sessment of the nation’s defense
Calcutta lor the second visit oi, Eisen‘.*ower said today tint, posture, Eisenhower said that,
his four-nation Asian tour. He, ,— ■'4, ,
looked somewhat fresher today, I
but the exuberance and energy he;
has displayed on past trips was
still missing.
Eisenhower Says No Political
Variances Between Him and Nixon
■Attempts Made to
Re-float
never in seven years has there
^ - a.iy major variance be-
'.ve'.n and Vice President
i’hr.vd M. Nixon on national
/C lic.f. 3.
WILMlNC'fON, li. C. AP —
Winches wer.-; to bo used today
in another aiienipt to refloat the
grounded freighfer Mancheste-
City, stuck at Big Island six
miles d.Avn the C?p-' Fear River
from here.
Large anchors were hauled by
tugs iuesday to banks opposite
the stranded snip. Tiia winches
will be worked from the anchors
to try to dislodge thL> freighter.
R. G. Thompson, supervisor of
t'.e d.-edge Cherokee out of Char
leston, S. C., said efforts tj pump
a mudbank from under the
grounded British freighter had
been ui.successful. “I believe,
she’s on a whole cluster of cy
press stumps,” he said.
The Manchester City was en
route to Baltimore from Wil
mington when she stranded. The
vessel draws 25 feet of water
overall and presently her bow
io in 17 feet and the stern 14
feet.
Eisenhower was asked at his
nev.’s confcrence to discuss re
ports that Nixon, the prospective
Republican presidential nomi-
d-tiers with him on some
.natters. A reporter specifically
,:;ted Nixon’s call recently for a
;no.ith-to-month examination of
."lational defense.
The President replied that all
of us are iiuman, and he doesn’t
believe any tv/o individuals find
the same methods or use tiie
same procedures.
i-t,;- said Ni\on has been close
to him for seven years and never
has been excluded for any im
portant group making policy de-
c.sion or drafting plans for ac
tion.
Never onde has Nixon been at
major variance wathhim, Eisen
hower emphasized.
The President w'ent on to say
Lhat Nixon uses methods differ
ent from his own and doesn’t
work with people in the same
way.
In an incidental comment Eir
seiiliower said he has his ov^n
mttnods and thinks they are
pretty good.
Turning to the question about
Nixon’s call for monthly reas-
iar from waiting each month to
weigh the defense situation, the
National Security Council keeps
jc..slanSly in touch with it.
With obvious reference to Nix
on, Eisenhower said nobody is
bjrred from bringing up in the
council any anxieties he may feel
or any convictions he may have
on security matters. Nixon is, by
law, a member of the Security
Council.
Critics Talk of Billion-Dollar
Cut in Foreign Aid Program
_ Adenauer Sick With Flu .
BONN,Germany AP — Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer was con
fined to his home today with a
mild attack of influenza, his of
fice announced. Adenauer, 84, is
subject to occasional colds and
influenza in the winter.
Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly
cloudy, somewhat warmer today
and tonight. High, 50s except
lower 60s southeast portion; low,
80s. Thursday, increasing cloudi
ness and cooler with chance of
rain west portion in afternoon
spreading eastward at night.
WASHINGTON AP — Con
gressional critics talked today of
d billion-dollar cut in Presi
dent Eisenhewer’s $4,175,000,000
I'oreipn aid program, even as
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter headed for Capitol Hill
to defend it.
Herter had an appointment
with the House Foreign Affairs
Committee. He was expected to
emphasize U. S. efforts to have
European allies, once again
prosperous, take on more of
the burden. It was understood
Herter would report progress in
working out arrangements with
these countries to help under
developed nations.
The opposite point of view was
summed up by Rep. Otto E.
Passman D-La. Passman, chair
man of the House Appropriations
sub-committee which handles
foreign aid, said Eisenhower’s
recommendation is at least a
billion dollars too high.
United States and
Great Britiem to
Set Up Radar
I CIVIL RIGHTS [
I ■ WASHINGTON AP — The [
informally today to clear a stale- i
House Rules Coniinittf e agreed I
muted civil rights bill for House
consideration.
Formal sending the mea
sure to the House floor probably
will be taken Thursday. The de
cision to act was madle at a hur-
••iediy called session this morniilg.
The House probably will consid-
ET the bill next month.
Meanwhile, a Democratic plan
for sec;iring Negro voting rights
was placed before the Senate
Rules Committee but considera
tion was deferred.
Chairman Thomas C. Hennings
Jr. D-Mo, author of the measure
sent word he was unable to be pre
sent because omf illness. He re-
q'-isted that action be put off.
The Hennings bill, made public
for the first time, is modeled in
large part on the Eisenhower ad
ministration’s proposal for court-
-EJ iu3A3Jd O') KM.iejaj p-i)uioclar
cipl discrimination in voting
However, instead of court—ap
pointed referees, it provides for
federal enrollment officers ao-
pointed by the President to over
see registrahon, voting an! vote-
count'n;; in federal, state and lo
cal elections.
J / i Vi lr■r^ s ei iqualifications
■i^ere challenged after being put
on t'le rolls by federal officials
would be permitted to vote and
,iave their votes counted.
But ballots cast by challented
voters would be impounded and
could bo tlirown out later if the
ciiallenges were upheld in a fed
eral court.
An expl.'ination given o.it by one
of Her.iiings’ aides said this pro
cedure was dssigned to overcome
judicial delays that might arise
under the administration’s ref
eree plan.
Heart Disease Still
Main Killer in U.S»
RALEIGH AP —Heart disease-
retained the role of chie*’ cr\u.se
of death in North Carolina last,
year.
A report from the St.^te Board
of Health’s Statistics Section;
showed Tuesday that 12,685 per-
lons died of Heart diseases in
1959.
Th’s was ab^ut one-third the-
’■etal deaths of 36,138. The total
--as ??1 higher than the 1958 fig-
re of 35,987.
I Liv.e births during the year to-
’ ’n'ed 111,344, up 64 frcm the
1953 level.
Cancer ard accidents were-
'■'•r lea'^ing c^use‘^ of death.
Cancer claimed 4,335 victims,
while accidents took a toll of
2,460. This was broken down int>
1,239 motor vehicle accidents,
718 on the hnme and farm, and
503 other accidents.
11-Year-Old Boy
Admits Starting
Two House Fires
WASHINGTON AP — A super
power radar station able to spot;
Soviet missiles thousands of miles'
away will be set up in England
for U.S.-British defense, the State
Department announced today. j
The huge metal screen—bigger,
than a football field set on its ^ t ai-> a
side—is to be built at a 120-rail-j
lion-dollar cost at Fylingdales i r boy told police he
Moor, Yorkshire. This is midway! ^ u u‘^1’
up the east coast of Britian, be- 7/'*^ nomemade bombs, because
tween London and Edinburgh. I j
installation, plus two others now neighborhood. The
Defense experts said this giant
under construction in North Amer
ica, will be able to provide speedy
detection over a large area of the
northern hemisphere of any mis
sile headed that way.
The reported range of the high-
powered radar is about 3,500
miles.. The electric eye can thus |
peer across the arctic to spot mis
siles launched from Russia. I
The two other stations in the
chain are now being built at
Thule, Greenland, and Clear,
Alaska, for completion expected
late this year or in 1961. No esti-j
mate was given for the construc-j
tion time of the station in Britain, j
The U.S.-British agreement to 1
boy told police Tuesday he
“wanted some excitement” so
he tossed his homemade bombs
on porches in his neighborhood.
Fire Chief Ray Bstzler said the
youth, a fourth-grade pupil, had
conc'jrntrated on setting brush
fires but also set two houses and
a garage aflame during the past
eight months.
Fly Boys Have it
Made on Okinawa
NEV/ \ OI?I AP — The Air
men’s Club at Kad'-na Air Base
on QVinaV/a is more than a homfi
av/ay from home, says Time mag-
izine. Home wa^ never like this.
A Time article describes thesii
club attractions for a Sl-a-montlr
l~‘!: nisht'y dances with a 7r>-cent
admission featuring nretty, medi-
ca)!y approved Oginawan hostes
ses; bingo games with ?1,0Q0 pri
ze:: plus exnense-paid trips to Ha
waii; cocktails and highballs for
5 cents each; steaks for 25 cents;
free drinks and pizza pies once' at
month.
Time says its all paid for f>-oni
slot machines that account for pro
fits estimated at 2Vz million dol
lars annually at the 50 service
clubs on Okinawa.
M. Sgt. .Iosfr;)h Peter Kl.iuzar,
manager of the Kadena Airmen’s
.■;iub, has the job of thinking up
gimmick': to keen the troops hao-
py. Tin^c qi’Otes Milwai^kec-bort*
Kiavzar, a former movie—house
manager, as saying: “When I was
in showhi? the secret was constant
gimmicks.”
The magazine says Klauzar’s
gimmicks for the club have in
cluded free champagne and steak
dinners.^ for any GI on his birth
day and also when he leaves
Kadena.
Twelve Electrial Fanufacturing
Companies Indicted for Price-Fixing
PHILADELPHIA AP — Twelve cutouts combination units, insula-
electrica' eauipment manufactur- tors, and open fuse cutouts,
ers including the country’s two These products, amounting t»
build it was only reached last, largest. General Electric Co., and over 55 million dollars in onnual
Monday.. | Westinghouse Electric Corp., were sales in the country, are used in
U.S. officials figure the con- indicted by a federal grand jury the generation, transmission and
struction cost at 98 million dollars: today on antitrust charges of distribution of electricity through-
for the United States and 22 mil- j price-fixing. ; out the United States.
lion dollars for Britain. The Brit-i j * 1 Indicted today were; General
ish will command and operate the Tuesday the pand jury mdict- T^ip^tric of New York; Westing-
station f . five companies General Elec- jjguse of Pittsburgh; Lapp Insu-
tric and Westinghouse among latpj. co. Inc., .Roy, N. Y., Ohio
them—for conspiring to fix prices g^ass Co., Mansfield, Ohio; Ms-
and rig bids in the sale of heavy g^ison Co., Elgin, 111,; H. K.
electrical equipment. 1 pQ^ter Co. Inc., Pittsburgh; Hob-
Four indictments were returned bard Co., Chicago; Joslyn Manu-
today by the 20-member grand facturing & Supply Co., Chicago;
jury. They involved the sale and the Porcelain Insulator Corp.,
distribution of brushings, distribu- Lima, N. Y.; I-T-E Circuit Brak-
tion of lightning arrestors, inter- er Co., Centralia, Mo.; and South-
mediate lightning arrestors, sta- ern Staf's Equipment Corp., Hamp-
tior. lightning arrestors, assestor- ton, Ga.
MacArthur Better
NEW YORK AP — Lenox Hill
Ho.spital says Gen. Douglas Mac-
Authur, 80, is still showing mod
erate improvement. Mac Ar
thur entered the hospital Jan.
29 with a prostate gland disorder.