The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-22
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
D LORD HOME
} KENNEDY SPEAKS
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minister of Britain Saturday.
The 60-year-old Scottish noble
man and former foreign miris-
ter succeeds ailng Harold Mac
milan who repeatedly hand
picked him for the job. Queen
Elizabeth II asked Home to
form an administration follow
ing Macmillan's resignation ear
Her last week. He sealed his APP
pointment by the traditional act
Of kissing the sovereigr's hand.
The new prime minister was
appointed de spite opposition
from the British press, which
called him political amateur,
and from within his own Con-
sentative party. His leading RI
walls for the post were Deputy
Prime Minister Richard A. But
Ter. who was expected to be-
come the new foreign minister,
Reginald Maudling, chancellor
OF the exchequer, and Lord
Hailsham. science minister.
Home will give up his title of
earl to seek a seat in Commons
through a special election. He
will then be known as Sir Alex
ander Douglas-Home. He retains
the title Sir" because he is
knight of the Scottish Order of
the Thistle.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY de-
Tended his foreign policy at
special cOnvocation of the Uni
versity of Maine in Orono Sat
urday. He said I'VE still live in
a shadow of war even though
there are new rays of hope on
the horizon" The President pre-
dlcted basic y. S-Soviet differ
ences will give rise to further
crises, large and small. in the
months and years ahead" but
Americans should be satisfied
they are doing everything posi-
BILE to avoid the terror of nu-
clear war. He repeatedly de
Tended U. S.-Soviet pacts, such
as a recent one banning nuclear
weapons from outer space.
which have been attacked by
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz)
PRESIDENT TITO OF Yugo-
slavla. II, rested at the 18th
century Allen-Byrd House in Will
hamSburg Friday and Saturday
while battling an attack of the
flu. The Communist leader met
with President Kennedy Thurs
day and was scheduled to fly to
San Francisco Friday. However,
illness forced him to call off his
West Coast visit. Tito was ex-
pected to fly to New York Sun
day for another day of rest be-
fore addressing the UN General
Assembly on Tuesday.
SECRETARY OF TREASURY
Douglas Dillon told the nations
businessmen Saturday that the
chronic postwar pattern of re-
cession and abortive recovery"
cannot be broken without tax
cut Speaking before 100 cor
poratlon executives meeting at
Hot Springs. Va. Dillon gave as
Surances that the 11-billion-dol-
lar tax cut now before the Sen
ate F n a n c e Committee will
loosen the 'repressive grip of
high tax rates upon investment
incentives.
THE BORDER DISPUTE be-
tween Algeria and Morocco ap-
peared to be Worsening. Al
gerian officials halted air. train
and highway traffic between the
two countries Saturday, but tele-
phone and telegraph commum-
cations were still functioning.
Until Friday. the fighting was
confined to a remote strip of the
Sahara centered 900 miles south
west of Algiers where the from
tier has long been in dispute,
but over the week end it seemed
to be spreading northeastward
where the line is clearly defined.
On Sunday Algerias foreign
minister proposed mediation by
the Organization for African
Unity.
THE Won STEUBEN, the ma
tons newest nuclear powered
submarine. was christened in
Norfolk Friday by Mrs. Fred
Korth. wife of the former Secre-
tary of the Navy 1t was the 10th
such vessel to be built in the
Virginia city and is scheduled to
join the fleet next year. A
building official answered
charges there had been delays
in the construction of the ship
by pointing out there had been
numerous changes in design
since the Won Steuben was be-
gun.
LEBANON charge that
Syrian troops slipped across her
border Saturday. ambushed
Lebanese patrol and killed three
Lebanese soldiers in a pre-dawr
battle. The spokesman said that
four Syrian patrols fired on
Lebanese gendarmeS and sol
diers on different occasions Fri