The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-11-12
News Summary
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trading privileges to Pollard and |
Yugoslavia, two Communist ma
tons, was restored by a vote Of !
55-l4 on Friday. The most ia
yored nation privilege is extend t
ed to our non-Communist trading
! partners guaranteeing them low |
er tariffs. The administration ar
CUES that such treatment is
necessary for Poland and Yugo-
slavia to keep them from falling
completely under Soviet dolnina-
/ ton.
MANY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
refuse to leave Cuba voluntarily !
and are shipped back home as
prisoners. according to one Gu
ban exile living in Miami and
claiming a vast underground in
formation network on Castor's |
island fortre is. Luis Conte |
Aguero. president of the anti
Castro "Sentinels of Freedom. " |
said Saturday two Russian ships i
left Cuba recently with | 100 So |
Wet troops as unwilling passen-
gers. He said underground re- |
ports indicate there are only |
1000 to 5000 Russian troops on |
the island now. Also on Saturday, |
U. S. spokesman announced |
reports Of Red Chirese bmldup
in Cuba have not been substanti-
ated, although few Chinese |
may be there as advisers.
A ROBBERY of about a mil
lion dollars worth OF gold and |
Jewels occurred Friday. but
slightly more than half of the |
loot was found less than seven |
hours later in an abandoned car.
Five thieves. two of whom were !
dressed as policemen, hijacked a
car belonging to AAA jewelers.
Service in mathematician. The
driver and five messengers. all I
unarned, were loo k G d in
panel truck parked nearby. The
driver said twice before in the
last five weeks he had seen two
men dressed as police officers
emerge from a black. unmarked /
car in the same vicinity and ap-
proach his car. but both times
they returned to their vehicle
when a marked police car an.
peared On all three occasions.
he thought he was about to get
traffic ticket.
AN ESTIMATED 3el persons |
were killed in two separate acct
dents in Japan over the week
end. Two passenger trains and a
freight train deraiIed Saturday
night on the Tokyo to Yokohama |
run. Japar's busiest rail route
At least $50 persons died. incl1d- \
in an American. William Scott |
28, of Colorado Springs, Colo. \
who was attending Tokyo uni
varsity On the same dav a coal /
dust explosion took the lives
of at least III miners near
F'ukuoka. Japan
TEXAS VOTERS rejected
constitutional amendment which
would have repealed the state s
SIS poll tax in a referendum
Saturday The state faces a dual
system Of requirements for vot
NC if the oath amendment elmi-
Mating the fax as a requirement
for voting in federal elections
becomes effective
RICHARD NIXON. form o Y
Vice President. has been urgino !
his Republican friends through
out the country not TO commit
themselves to any COP Presi
Dental candidate vet. His arou
nent is that some middle of the I
road candidate may yet appear
who would be more acceptable
TO the party and have better
chance Of being elected than
GoldWater or Rockefeller But
Nixon hasn't mentioned any
rames and still insists he is not
4 candidate Meanwhile last /
week Gov Nelson Rockefeller of
New York became the first man
g officially toss his hat into the
1864 Presidential ring. Also Sen.
Narearet Chase Smith R-MeD
said she is thinking of entering
the New Hampshire Presidential \
Primary to give voters there a
third choice.
THE STOCK MARKET declin-
ed last week. but staged a come
back on Thursday and Friday
On Tuesday, when the exchanges
We're closed because Of general
elections. the Federal Reserve
Board liked margin require \
ments from 50 to 20 per cent to
halt oVerSpeculatlon on so-called 4
glamor stocks electronics .
ana the like. The AP 60-Stock I
average closed FRIDAY at $3.50. 40. /
down 80 cents from the previous
week