WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1955 Ptly Workers For ' Workers .. Asked 4 - y Ike WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (M—President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Congress today to give 1.5 million _government workers an average pay increase of about five per cent. The cost was estimated at more than $339 million a year. In two special messages sent to Capitol. Hill, he also recommend ed a hike in postal rates - to foot part of the .bill and that the gov ernment contribute $55 million a year to a new health insurance program for federal employes. The Senate's majority leader, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex), announced immediately he fav ored a raise for government work ers but that he questioned the advisability of increasing postal rates. This appeared to be the view of many members of Con gress $25. Billion Aid Asked For Roads WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (W)--- President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Highway ComthisSion proposed to day that the federal government contribute 25 billion, dollars to ward a strategic network of high ways. This would be . part, of an overall 10-year 101-billion dollar build-up of the nation's roads. Part of the strategic network— the states would be asked for 2 billion of its cost—would use ex isting routes; part would be new construction. The 101 billions for the whole plan would come in varying amounts from federal, state and local governments. The ambitious program, which calls for setting up a federal high way corporation, was put forth in a report handed the President by the commission head, Gen. Lucius D. Clay. Clay told reporters the program wouldn't add' a cent to the national debt and wouldn't require any additional taxes. He said income from the 2-cents-a-gallon federal gasoline tax would more than pay for the government's share of the build-up. The Federal Highway Corporation would arrange for fi nancing by issuing bonds which would not be carried on the books as part of the national debt. The federal share in the over all highway program would go up from the present 9 per cent to 30 per cent. Eisenhower is due to submit his highway program to. Congress on Jan. 27.. He is expected to fol low pretty closely the line of reasoning of the commission. 8 U.S. Airmen May Be Alive BERLIN. Jan. 11 VP)—A, De troit man back from slavery in the Soviet Union expressed the belief today that eight American fliers shot down off Europe in 1950 may be alive in Soviet prison camps. The Detroiter, John H. Noble, 31, spent 9 1 / 2 years in Soviet cap tivity. As .a prisoner at the Vor kuta slave labor camp he wit nessed the 1953 revolt there. He said the slave laborers need "only a spark" to flare into open rebel lion. He declared the forced labor brigades are restless, • have re belled in the past and are likely to do so again. Noble added he had been told at Vorkuta that the American airmen were held in a Soviet prikon. He called it common knowledge at Vorkuta that some Ainericans who came down in the Baltic Sea were in captivity. Nobel was released by the Rus sians here last Saturday along with Pvt, William C. Marchuk of Norristown, Pa. They had met a third American, Pvt. William Ver dine of Starks, La., at Vorkuta. The Soviet Union informed the United States today that Verdine will be released. $6O Million kir India . KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 11 (IP) —The United States and Pakistan signed an agreement here today giving Pakistan $6O million worth of economic aid. Finance Minister Ohaudhri Mo hammed Ali signed the pact for the Karachi government and U.S. Ambassador Horace A. Hildreth represented the United States. Major, Aim A major aim of the administra tion's plan, the President said, is to bring average government pay and benefits more into line with standards prevailing in. private industry. Eisenhower vetoed a similar pay raise last August because the bill passed by Congress failed to pro vide revenue, ' including higher postal rates, to meet the increases and because he said it did not correct existing "inequities" in pay rates. Some of the first reaction to the President's proposals came today from the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, which said the recommendations for postal em ployes was "a serious disappoint ment," and "zo small aF to be of little real help." - _ _ Recommendations The President recommended: 1. An increase of about five per cent in the payroll for classified civil service workers, distributing an additional $202 million a year among about one million workers. Raises in this category would range from $125 a year in the lowest grade to $BOO in the next to top rating. There would be no increase for the top grade of $14,- 300 a year. 2. Pay raises totaling $129 mil lion annually for nearly half a million mailmen and other postal workers. Postal Rates Postal pay legislation, however, would be tied in with increases in the postal rates for first, second and third class mail. 3. Creation of a health insur ance program which would cover about half a million federal em ployes. The employes themselves would pay about two-thirds of the cost, with the government con tributing about $55 million a year. toSecurit fs By the Associate•l Press Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said today heads of Atomic Energy Commission laboratories will be gin an "open mind" meeting here Monday to determine whether changes are needed in the per sonnel security program. Strauss indicated in an address to the National Press Club that the review was prompted largely by the controversy over barring atomic scientist J. Robert Oppen heimer from nuclear secrets. The commission; he said, has a se curity system "we thought was fair . . . But in spite of this some people feel an injustice is occa sionally being done." Next week's meeting', lasting two or three days, will canvass various possibilities, with no as surance any changes will be made, Strauss told a reporter later. "My personal feeling is that it is okay as it is now," he said. Strauss said in his formal speech that, "No radical new ideas for security changes thus far- have come to my attention." The chairman listed the security program and the Oppenheimer case as among "debits" in a bal ance sheet of the commission's working during 1954. Oppenheim er was barred from receiving sec ret data aft e r a special board found his loyalty beyond ques tion but reported he had defects in his character which made it in advisable to trust him with se -.7,rity information. The fi7st debit, Strauss said, was the discovery that Soviet Premier THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA SEC OK's Dixon-Yates Financing WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 ( Supporters of the Dixon-Yates power contract get a lift today when staff lawyers of the Securi ties and Exchange Commission recommended approval of its key financing pro - visions. • Arguments oN er stock purchas ing plans are not completed yet, and staff appraisals are not bind ing, but the commission has gen erally taken its attorneys' advice. Solomon Freedman; SEC coun sel, turned in a brief which, held that the contract for additional private power in the Tennessee Valley Authorit; regiOn would serve the public interest. It found anticipated profits wouldn't be unreasonable. And although the .commission said a prior opinion of Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell eliminated le gality of the contract as an issue before it, the staff biief declared the Atomic Energy Commission had moved well within its author ity in making the power arrange ment. SEC's final judgment, ,expected in a few weeks, will concern fi nancing proposals for a 107-mil lion-dollar plant at West Mem phis, Ark., to generate electricity for TVA lines. The juice would compensate for power TVA sup plies AEC installations in 'Ten nessee and Keno-icky. Two private companies—Mid dle South Utilities, headed by Ed gar H. Dixo - -. and the Southern Co.' under Eugene A. Yat es— would form, a n operating com pany called Mississippi Valley Generating Co. to operate th e plant. SEC has been asked to rule on the Dixon-Yates plan to acquire all $5 l / 2 million of common stock in the subsidiary. The sponsors in tend to raise the remainder of the money by selling bonds to insur ance companies and banks. MfiXarthy Removal Fails in Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (A))— Republican senators divided up their minority seats on Senate committees today in a closed meeting which saw defeat of an effort to deprive Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of his place on the Government Operations Commit tee. Clifford Case, the new GOP sen ator from New Jersey who has been a critic of McCarthy, said he moved to strike the Wisconsin senator's name. Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Malenkov "was no t talking through his hat" when he said the Soviets had a thermonuclear hydrogen explosion. "The Soviets produced it with out any doubt, and it is foolish to descry their scientific achieve ments." Strauss added: "I honestly believe we are well ahead of any competitor ,at this time" in a growing stockpiles of atomic weapons and the rapid de velopment of "diversified" nu clear weapons. But the "S o vi e t program of weapons development is or ought to be of prime concern to all free peoples Lecause it reduces the time which the world has to work out some kind of modus vivendi method of living." He listed the development of A-weapons as the first of six "credits." The others: progress toward developing peacetime power from nuclear energy; a new 'E I -1 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ;TllliiiiiiillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliillllllllllllllllllllllllliilillllliiiiliiiliiN FOR A QUICK SNACK AFTER THE GAME, J L BAR-B-• UE North on Route 322 Airborne Forces Invade Villages in Costa Rica SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 11 (?P)—Costa Rica said today air borne armed forces have seized several north Costa Rican towns and advanced on a direct invasion route to this capital city. The government later charged "active aggression" on the part of Nicaragua, and said it expects "to receive military aid" from the nations of this hemisphere to "repel forces of invasion." Costa Rica's available armed manpower was quickly mobilized. Officials said a break in relations between Costa Rica and neighbor ing Nicaragua appeared imminent. Nicaragua countered with a statement saying the charges were foolish. Town Seized Costa Rican President Jose Fi gueres said Villa Quesada, a town Of 3,500 about 40 miles this side of the Nicaraguan frontier ; was seized this morning by a force that landed there in light planes. This Was the first reported inci dent. Mal. Roberto Fernandez, of the headquarters staff of the Civil Guard, said a detachment sent from San Jose made contact with the rebel group. He said an observation plane sent over the area returned bear ing bullet holes and reported scat tered rifle and small arms . fire. There was no estimate of the size of the force at Villa Quesada. Request for Aid Foreign Minister Mario Esquivel cabled the Organization of Ameri can States in Washington in re gard to expectations of aid and said Costa Rica "hopes for mili tary assistance." The OAS ordered an investiga tion in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At Managua, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry issued a state ment asserting, "It is foolish to say that Nicaraguan revolution aries or forces proceeding from Nicarargua have taken Villa Que zada." The statement said the area separating Villa Quesada from the Nicaraguan, border is "almoSt an impenetrable jungle . . . To move revolutionary forces from Nicara gua. to Villa Quesada is absurd." The statement added: "The bold accusations -by the Costa Rican government correspond to the well-known tactics used by un popular chiefs of state, who try to stir up public opinion in their favor by calling an invasion a rebel uprising in the heart of their own country; in which their na tionals exclusively participate." presiding, ruled Case was out of order on grounds that McCarthy had seniority for the post. Case told reporters: "There wasn't really any debate at all . .. for me to pursue the matter at this time would not be fruitful." atomic law permitting, among other things, closer atomic cooper ation with allies; the "sometimes spectacular" development of rad iation in diagnosing and treal diseases and other fields; "great ly expanded areas of free infor mation" through the declassifica tion of atom documents, and, "the most hopeful asset," President Eisenhower's atoms- for - peace nlan. 3.4 Parachute to Safety SEWART AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn., Jan. 11 (Q)—Thirty-four paratroopers and three Air Force crewmen, headed fo r Alaskan maneuvers, parachuted to safety here today when their Cll9 Fly ing Boxcar crashed and burned after takeoff. Two airmen were still missing four hours later. The troops aboard were mem bers of the 503rd Airborne Infan try Rgt. from Ft. Campbell, Ky. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111R 1 .-f ed China 4lockade Advocated WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 WI The nation's top military man and a prominent Republican senator today called for a blockade of Red China if all else fails to win release of imprisoned Americans. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, employing a Bibli cal phrase, said the United States would be "slow to anger" in fac ing issues which could explode the peace. Supporting an Allied blockade as a last-ditch maneuver were Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Sen. Alexander Smith (R-NJ). "If all other measures fail, the United States should support a blockade," Radford said in re sponse to questions on returning from a global trip which took him to the Far 'East. "It would have a great effect on the Red Chinese and would be the best way to tackle such a problem." , Smith said he was aware the step "would be dangerous" but asserted: "If our men are not released, we should ask our allies to join us in a blockade of the China coast. I believe to squeeze them economi cally would be the best sanction to apply." Smith is a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, and while Republicans controlled Congress the last two years head ed its Far Eastern subcommittee. In the main he has backed poli cies of Secretary Dulles. Both President Eisenhower and Dulles have been unsympathetic to talk of a blockade at this time. They have termed it in the nature of a warlike act. Leander Appoints Brother HARRISBURJ, Jan. 11 (1P)— : Gov-elect George M. Leader to day announced he will name his brother, Henry B. Leader, a York attorney, as his legislative secre tary, a new post he intends to create after his inauguration a week from today. Henry Leader's duties will be to serve as a liaison between the governor and the general assem bly. He will maintain contact with legislators, legislative committees, and individuals needed for sup port of the governor's legislative program. MI R 9 0 . ..r' ',. - ' 4 .. - '. b - el le . ' i' t.#4.''. j - I m • , rI• ~• t, ; /. , r; • \*::: i , Now ~.. -.L._ p a.-7''' '..1"" ' K ~-, —,, 4•,11: "THE BLACK DAKOTAS" Gary Wanda Merrill Hendrix Technicolor 'lt® T 0 -"oe Barry Sullivan "LOOPHOLE" —Featuretime -2:18 - 4:06 - 5:54 - 7:42 - 9:30 Doors i JOHN BARRYMORE 'COUNSELOR AT LAW' —Featuretime -6:15 - 8:01 - 9:47 PAGE THREE 6 p.m.
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