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Evening star., 1960-07-13
should come after about 3h

should come after about Sh
hours.
Friends of Senator johnson
are sticking doggedly to their
contention that a Kennedy VIC
tory is far from in the bag,
and that after two ballots their
man will begin to move up.
But the general feeling here
was that if Senator Kennedy
should be stopped. the tide
would be more likely to turn
toward Mr.. Stevenson.
Senator Johnson turned the
spotlight on himself yesterday
|. by challenging Senator Ken
nedy to debate the issues be-
fore the convention at a joint
meeting of the Texas and
Massachusetts, delegations.
Kennedy Speaks First
Senator Kennedy accepted,
and was accompanied by a
small band of his Massachu-
sets delegates as the two lead
ing contenders staged their
dramatic meeting in the ball
room of the Biltmore Hotel.
Senator Kennedy, who spoke
first, said he did not expect
"any great groundswell" for
his cause in Texas, but felt
that each aspirant for the
nomination should present
himself to every State dele
CATION because, he said, the
Democratic Party is a national,
not a regional one.
s The New Englander said he
hopes the nominee leaves Los
Angeles with a united party
behind him, whether it is
Senator Johnson, himself or
some other candidate.
Senator johnson began his
speech by recalling that he
once predicted no man from
Texas could be nominated in
a Democratic convention. Then
he added:
Whatever may happen in
this convention, I am happy to
learn I was wrong. I am not
saying I am going to win on
the first ballot, or even before
the balloting begins" (an ap-
parent reference to the opti-
mistic claims the Kennedy
forces have been making). But
I have learned here what !
knew all along, that the Dem
ocratic Party is a national
party"
Cites Religious Issue
Senator Johnson said the con-
vention is not going to vote
for or vote against" a man be-
cause of his religion, or be-
cause of the region from which
he comes.
Later, he said: ''I think we
Protestants proved in West Vir-
ginia that we would vote for
a Catholic. (Senator Kennedy
won the West Virginia pri-
NARY. Now all we want is
some equal treatment. We
want some Catholic States to
prove they'll vote for a Prot
eStant."
Defending his record on civil
rights, Senator johnson re-
called that under his Senate
leadership, Congress passed two
civil rights laws in the last
three years, after talking about
it for 80 years.
Without mentioning any
names, the Texan pointed out
that he stayed on his job in
the Senate and answered As
roll calls during the civil rights
fight last spring, while some
men who would be President
on a civil rights platform an
swered none" He said some
Senators missed "a of the As
roll calls.
Senators Kennedy and Hum
phrey, who battled each other
for convention votes in several
State primaries, were absent
from the Senate while cam
paigning in primary States.
Turns Aside References
When Senator johnson in
vited Senator Kennedy to take
the floor a second time the
Massachusetts, Senator noted
that the Texan had made some
references to "the shortcomings
of some of his rivals for the
nomination"
But, since he was not
specific, I will assume he was
talking about some other can
Evening star., 1960-07-13
southern Victory

but took no part in the oratori-
cal protest.
Evening star., 1960-07-13

take Ine oaGn OF oInce next
January :"
Senator Kennedy replied
dryly he had learned a lot from
watching Lyndon procee d
around the Senate"
When the gamesmanship was
over, a Bay Slater said Of
Senator Kennedy's Texas tor
mentor, Hes a terrific need
ler."
A Texas matron, pinned to
johnson, sighed Of Senator
Kennedy, IT think he's a dar-
ling" Shifted her companion,
"He seemed to me like q nice
little boy"
AS for that reception for
Adlai Stevenson, nobody knew
quite what to make of it.
Storm Of Applause
His unexpected arrival, his
slow, impeded progress across
the floor brought forth a storm
Of applause. AS he made his
way to a seat in the Illinois
delegation, it seemed to die
away a bit. Then he stood up
and waved, and a roar of well
come surged up again. In the
galleries, they began to chant,
I'VE Want Stevenson" in ever
growing volume, and Gov. Le-
Roy Collins, who had taken
over as permanent chairman
only a short time before, vainly
pounded for order. The tumult
continued for 20 minutes.
The members of the Illinois
delegation sat in iron silence,
mouths clamped down on their
cigars. Their one-time Cover
nor has exactly two Of his
home States votes. One dele
gate in the back of the Illinois
encampment ripped off his
delegate badge and his Kenne-
dy pin, and waved them in the
air at Stevenson, shouting 1--WE
Want Kennedy"
All over the floor delegates
were balancing on their chairs
and screaming. There were
moist eyes. There were rebel
yells. 1t was the conventions
first big moment.
Brief and Light
Finally, the thing Paul Butler
had tried to avoid became the
one thing that could restore
order to the convention. Ada.
Stevenson was brought to the
platform. He was brief and
light. He said, having struggled
through the lobby of the Bilt-
more and the convention floor
he knew the man the conven-
tion would nominate: "The last
survivor.
II didn't see no delegates, y
said a New Yorker sourly. "It
was only the galleries"
"a lot of showboating," said
a Kennedy man from Alabama
He hasn't got a hundred votes
here"
But down in the Massa-
chuSetts delegation, Kennedy
lieutenants were exchanging
speculative looks.
With all their calculations
they cannot quite gauge the
Stevenson factor. They hope
his welcome was only for old
times sake.
Senator Kennedy's brother
Robert said that Mr.. Stevenson
had no business being there
and that's the way they feel
about his emotion-generating
presence in Los Angeles, too.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Living Costs Decline
 In December Survey.

WASHINGTON, R = Living costs as measured by the govern ment declined one-tenth of one per cent in December. It was the first drop in four months.
 Lower prices for food, clothing and durable commodities were largely responsible for the de- cline. Costs of services continued to climb.
 The Labor Department an- nounced today that its consumer price index declined to 1855 per cent of the 1947-49 base period,
 This is 11s per cent above the level of December, 1858. The De- cember drop wiped out slight November increase and returned the index to the October level.
 Approximately 575,O00 workers will nevertheless get pay boosts of l or cents an hour based on the new index.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
us. Envoy to Cuba Called Home

WASHINGTON, R - The United States summoned Ambas- sador Philip Bonsal home from Havana today, less than two weeks after he returned to his post.
 There were strong indications of official exasperation at indig- mites authorities feel America has suffered at the hands of Fidel Castro.
 The big question remained: What can Washington try next to change the course of the bearded Cuban Premier without hurting it's relations with the other psychologically sensitive Latin American states?
 Automatically, Uncle Sam was in the unhappy shoes of the vis- itor being kicked in the shins by small boy of the family while not daring to lift his fist in re- prisal
 Secretary of State Christian Herter said Thursday the career diplomat was being returned for consultations" He had returned to Havana on January 10 after a month of similar consultations.
 The new move falls short of a break in relations with the Castro regime. But U. S. officials made plain they are in no hurry to send Bonsal back The Havana Embassy meanwhile will be tended by the No. 2 man there, Daniel Braddock.
 The new low in U. S.-Cuban relations was struck Thursday after Castro went on a radio-TV broadcast. The Spanish Ambas- sador became so outraged at Cas- tros' allegations of criminal ties by his embassy that he stormed the broadcasting studio, and Castro kicked him out of Cuba.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
By WILLIAM J. srOBIN

ANNETTE ISLAND, RISome- times travel in Alaska can be like, well, crazy, man.
 Like the State Legislature is going to get going on schedule in Juneau Monday, but it is only be- cause Uncle Sam and his Coast Guard lent a hand.
 There was a question as to whether the Legislature was going to open on time. Fog, thick, swirling, impenetrable fog, wrap ped itself around Juneau, Mon day, then stubbornly refused to steal away on little cats feet, as the poem goes.
 Travel in and out of Juneau, except for a couple of wave skipping seaplanes, has been stopped cold.
 There have been no large com mercial airliner takeoffs or land- ings at Juneau S since Monday. 1llCAC ID ilO PoooCii6CA OOot oSA . vice to Juneau. Juneau cannot be reached by road without ferrying. Democatic legislators who at- tended last weekend's state party convention in nearby Ketchikan were caught particularly by the quirk of nature. that has kept Juneau socked in. Annette Island is Ketchikan's airport.
 5000 Miles Since Monday Some of the legislators have flown as much as 5000 miles since Monday aboard planes which have probed the Juneau fog bank, trying unsuccessfully to find a clear path of the capitol city's airfield.
 They've been to Anchorage, to Fairbanks, to Seattle and to Whitehore, VT, and back-back to Annette Island and the one story, dorrnitory like building that has become a second home.
 Twenty seven legislators have been stuck here, along with 93 other airline passengers, includ- ing legislative employees. At first
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Coast Guard Aids In Transporting
 Stranded Legislators to Capitol City

they found the experience anus ing. Their slightest whims were quickly satisfied by Pacific North thern Airlines and Pan Amer can World Airways, which have picked up the entire lodging and board tab.
 Then, pinochle, poker, chess, checkers, reading, story-spinning, and snoozing began to wear thin.
 The lawmakers appealed to Governor Egan for help. Egan looked at the forecast last night at least four more days of fog for the capitol . and asked the Coast Guard for aid.
 Most of the legislators left here for Juneau last night aboard the Coast Guard cutter Balsem. The rest of the lawmakers will try to get to Juneau via seaplane. The others stranded here will just have to wait out the fog.
 The whole experience has been deeply satisfying to State Rep. Earl Hillstrand of Anchorage. Accents Capitol Controversy
 Hillstrand is chairman of the Anchorage Capitol Site Steering Committee, a group seeking to move the capitol from Juneau to the Anchorage area, with one of the main arguments being that Juneau is too inaccessible to most of the state.
 q don't think I have to en- phasize the issue," Hillstrand said.z Everyone appears to be doing good job of talking it up right now"
 Rep. Warren Taylor of Fair banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives, quipped:
 "There is strong movement afoot for a special session to move the capitol to Annette Island, which seems to be the most &C., cessible location in the state"
 And Sen. Lester Bronson of Nome got in plug for his area:
 "This episode is plain evidence the capitol should be at Nome."
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Local Junior Miss Will Be Selected Next Friday At VIVA Chamber Banquet

The Annual Chamber of Com merce Banquet to be held on Fri day, January 29, will feature an- nouncement of new members to the board of directors and the of- ficers for same. There will be a special feature on the program, of interest to High School co-eds.
 At that time, the Chamber will choose or announce the local can didate for the Junior Miss Amer ica Pageant, and possibly intro duce a candidate from Fairbanks.
 It will be remembered that Diane Lee competed from here in the all-States contest, and came out in fourth place last year, with many honors conferred upon her. The possible candidates, which are High School seniors, from here, are to be interviewed this week, stated chairman Don Hoover. Contestants receive an expense-paid trip, and winners awards include several scholar ships.
 The Chamber dinner will be at the Seaview Dining Room, and is open to the public. Reservations can be made at the North Star.
 The Pageant has set it's stan- dards high, with special empha- sis on character, good citizenship, religious interests, and those quail ities that will be of greatest value to the young ladies not only at the Pageant, but throughout their lifetime.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
House Education, Labor Committee May Be Split

WASHINGTON, R = Rep Graham Barden ONO, chair man of the House Labor and Edu- cation Committee, announced to- day he is retiring from Congress this year after 26 years ot service.
 The House seniority system puts Rep. Adah Clayton Powell D-NY) in line to succeed him as committee chairman.
 Powell, Negro and ardent civil rights champion, is due to go on trial in New York City March 2 on three-count in- dictment charging income tax evasion and aiding in prepara- ton of a fraudulent tax return.
 Barden's announcement, end ing 13 terms in Congress, was unexpected, and raised poten- tially critical questions over the course of labor and education leglSldClOn at all eleCLlOn-year session of Congress.
 It also revived the possibility, long discussed behind the scenes, of splitting Barden's committee = one new committee to govern education and one with sole juris- diction over labor.
 Barden, hard-fisted southern conservative, said he was quit ting Congress because q want to go home"
 At 63, Barden said he wanted time for his boats, fishing, his grandchildren, his friends and his wife.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Rescuers Fight to Save 400 Trapped South African Coal Miners

COALBROOK, South Africa, R - Rescue teams worked against dwindling hopes tonight to save about 400 men trapped deep in a coal mine.
 The miners were trapped yes terday by two rock slides at the Clydesdale collier, 35 miles south of Johannesburg.
 Loss of 400 men would make this the second worst mining dis aster in history. There was loss of 1,549 men at Henkeiko col fiery in Manchuria in 1942.
 A report by mine official that rescuers had made contact with some of the trapped men stirred hope momentarily today, but the contact was denied later by the Department of Mines.
 Canaries were carried into the Clydensdale shafts by rescue teams as a precaution. Canaries are often used in mine disasters to test the air, because they are more susceptible to gas than are human beings.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Canadian Cold Spreads South into Eastern U. S.
(By The Associated Press

(bv The Associated PreSs)
 One of the winter seasons cold est spells held an icy grip across the eastern two-thirds of the country today. A fresh surge of Arctic air from central Canada dispelled any hopes of, immediate general relief.
 Most of the southland shivered with other cold spots. The mer- cury dropped to below freezing along the Gulf coast and into northwest Florida.
 Miami was chilled with one of the coldest mornings of the sea- son with reading of 40 above. It was 27 at Tallahassee and g in Jacksonville. New Orleans and Atlanta each reported frosty 27 and it was 29 in Mobile, Ala.
 The coldest weather was in the northern plains as the new supply of cold Canadian air moved into the north central region.
 Below zero readings were re- ported in the Dakotas and Min nesota.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Latest Soviet Rocket Was Biggest Launched
(By The Associated Press,

A leading Soviet scientist said today the super rocket fired into the Pacific Wednesday was the biggest the Soviets have launched and the forerunner of heavy space satellite with equipment that can bring it back to earth.
 Prof. V. Dobronravov said the test rockets last two stages reached a speed of more than 16,172 miles an hour.
 The Soviet rocket that carried the satellite which photographed the moon last fall weighed about 3,323 pounds (without fueD in the last stage. The satellite itself weighed only 614 pounds.
 Sputnik III, launched on May IS, 1958, weighed 2,925 pounds.
 The United States put a 1,70O- pound satellite, Discoverer VIII, into orbit in November. Its max imum altitude is about 1000 miles from the earth.
 Dobronravov wrote in Pravda that this weeks test firing shows 'the final stage of the future lar ger space rockets will be able to develop not only the first astro- nautical speed of about 2 miles per second but even a greater speed, sufficient for flights not only to the moon but to the plan cts of the solar system, too"
 "The development of heavy earth satellite may be useful for solving basic problems of space travel" he wrote.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Bulldozers Barricade Farmland In Path of Lava From Island Eruption

HONOLULU, R = Fifteen giant bulldozers today were hastily erecting new dike in an attempt to save another threatened area from erupting Kilauea's lava on Hawaii Island.
 The barricade was being put up near Kumukahi Point as an ever widening river of molten lava continued to pour out of Kilauea's fiery Assure north of Kapoho Vil- lage. Kapoho's 300 residents have been evacuated.
 The eruption, in it's eighth day, has spread tentacles of boiling lava over fertile sugar cane, pa- paya groves and coffee planta- tionS.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Dr. Spears Wife
 Says He's Innocent In Airline Bombing

DALLAS, Tex, tR = Dr. Rob- ert Spears young wife admitted Thursday night she met the ex- convict and naturopath in Dallas two weeks ago - and that it was William Allen Taylor who died in a November 16 airliner crash.
 But she doesn't believe Spears placed a bomb aboard the plane which carried 42 persons to their deaths in the Gulf of Mexico, the 36-year-old woman said in dra- matic radio-television interview.
 The interview with KLRD news director Eddie Barker came about 24 hours after the FBI found her portly, 657year-old husband in Phoenix, Ariz.
 Here was her answer when she was asked if she believed Spears = a man with a 33-year criminal record - bombed the airliner: Regardless of his past re- gardless. of what he has done or said, or what has been said about him, know he is a very kind person to me, and to others. !. I do not believe he was capable of putting a bomb on a plane" /"
 She said Spears gave his res ervation on the flight to Taylor, a 60-year-old longtime friend from Tampa, Fla. He told her that he read the next day that the plane had crashed, and seized the op- portunity to disappear.
 Spears told her of the decep- tion during a secret visit to Dal- las two weeks ago, she related. He hoped his young wife and two infant children would benefit from more than $100,000 in life insurance he carried.
 Her account was made public here about the same time an Ari- zona friend of Spears, pr. William A. Turska, told in Phoenix of finding case of dynamite cached near a desert cabin where he hid Spears after the crash.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
FRENCH CANCEL BAN ON FLIGHTS OVER SAHARA

PARIS, R = The French gov ernment' Thursday night cancelled a ban on air flights scheduled to have gone into effect today over a large section of the Sahara where French atomic blasts are planned. No reason was given, A previous government annodnce- ment said there would be several test alerts.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Passenger Plane Lands Safe With Faulty Gear

KANSAS CITY, R = A Trans World Airlines Constellation with 20 passengers landed safely yes- terday after circling this area for more than two hours because of a malfunctioning nose gear.
 The plane came down at the Olathe Naval Air Station, south west of Kansas City.
The Nome nugget., 1960-01-22
Church Chief in Surgery

PORTLAND, R = The Metho- dist Church here announced We'd nesday that Bishop A. Raymond Grant of Portland will undergo major surgery here today.
 He is bishop for four states - Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
 He will undergo abdominal surgery.
Evening star., 1960-02-06
Banker Sees
81 Recession
BY the Associated Press

A vice president of the Chase
Manhattan Bank says; "One
would look for another reces.
sion starting sometime in 1861"
The bank official, William F.
Butler, said he based this view
on the business cycle pattern
since World War II. He and
three other economists dis
cussed President Eisenhower's
1860 Economic Report yester-
day with the Senate-House
- e Committee.
Prof. Paul A. Samuelson of
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology said many econo-
mistS expect "a slowing down Of
the rate of expansion in the
last half of 1860, with a down
turn to follow sometime in
1861"
The economists generally
agreed with the Presidents
view that 1860 will be a good
year. but Prof. R. A. Gordon
of the University of California
was critical of the report.
Prof. B. U. Ratchford of Duke
University recommended aboli-
ton of both the AZ per cent
interest ceiling on long-term
Government bonds and any
ceiling on the national debt.
Evening star., 1960-02-06
Nixon Defends
Role in Senate
Education Vote

r LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (AP)
Vice President Nixon has de-
Tended a tie-breaking vote he
cast against an education bill
by saying:
In the field of education
we have two problems:
Attracting better teachers
and raising their salaries.
And maintaining our ira
ditional school system that
operates without Federal con-
troll"
The Vice President indicated
at a news conference yesterday
that it was his fear of Federal
control that prompted him to
vote against the measure in
the Senate Wednesday.
The Senate, however. later
passed a cut-down version of
the bill. one that would provide
S1.834 billion over the next
two years for teacher salaries
and building construction.
Mr.. Nixon is here to speak
at the convention of the Cali
fornia Newspaper Publishers
Association.
Evening star., 1960-02-06
Dyer-Bennet Sees
Folk Music Dying
As Art Form

Folk music is disappearing
art form.
This is the view of one of
Americas most popular singers
and guitarists, Richard Dyer
Bennett, voiced yesterday in a
press conference.
The wiry, Sandy-haired, Eng
lish-born balladier, in town for
a concert at $50 o'clock to-
night in Lisner Auditorium, ex-
planned that after this genera
ton good folk music, and folk
singers. will be hard to find.
Folk music must be learned
in the fine aural tradition of
the minstrels of the past" Mr..
Dyer-Bennet said. -Four or five
hundred years from now, there
just won't be any folk music, 5"
he added.
Folk music. by its name. i'm
plies music of the peasants.
Where, in this country, can one
find any peaSants?"
He went on to say there are
very few folk singers around
today anyway.
I'm not really a folk singer.
I'm billed as a singer and gui-
tarist." he said. Some of the
songs I've composed myself,
others I've studied from scores"
Fans of folk music should
not go into mourning just yet,
though, the singer said. because
more people are enjoying folk
music today than ever before.
Evening star., 1960-02-06
Retailers Oppose
More Rucinq

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Feb. 6
(SpeciaD. - The Hagerstown
Retailers Bureau has Joined
with the Washington County
Ministerial Association in op-
posing additional racing Gates
for the Hagerstown Fair AS
sociation this year.
Odell H. Rosen. president of
the bureau. wrote in letters to
r. Bruce Livie. chairman of the
Maryland Racing Commission
and State Senator George E.
Snyder, that the retailers op-
pose increasing the racing
from IL to "a days at the
Hagerstown track as requested
by the fair officials.
Referring to efforts to get
new industry in the county,
Mr.. RoSen said: I'VE are not
yet SO stupid that we would
beg industry to come here be-
cause Of our economic need,
only to have industry learn
that we fritter out time and in
come in additional gambling
dates"
The ministerial association
earlier this week announced
that petitions would be filed
in opposition to additional rae
ing dates.