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Voluntary Plan Sought
For Polio Vaccine Shots
WASHINGTON, May 16 (/P) —The administration recom
mended today reliance on a voluntary plan for distributing
polio vaccine and called for a $2B million appropriation tc
help pay for shots for poorer children.
A report approved by President Eisenhower also called
for precautions against black marketing of vaccine and for
the hiring of more federal in
spectors and technicians for test
ing the' product "for safety and
potency.” This would require an
other two million dollars from
Congress.
Inoculation Plan
The administration plan, sub
mitted to Eisenhower by Secre
tary of Welfare Hobby contem
plates innoculations for all chil
dren through age 19 by this end of
next year. First priority would be
given through 5 to 9—the most
susceptible age group.
Under the plan, the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis would continue its present pro
gram of free vaccinations for all
first and second grade school chil
dren.
Dulles Returns
From European
Conferences
WASHINGTON, May 16 (£>)—
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, returning from historic
conferences in Europe, declared
today he sees “some promise of
constructive accomplishment” in
the Big Four meeting he helped
arrange for President Eisenhower
to attend.
Setting up this meeting of top
government leaders was listed by
Dulles as one of several “great
events” during an eventful week
in Europe.
“Much good worK has been
done,” he told an airport audi
ence.
Dulles went immediately to the
White House and conferred for
some time with President Eisen
hower, who has taken a cautious
attitude toward the Big Four ses
sion expected to be held some time
in July.
Arrangements have been made
for Dulles to make a half-hour re
port to the nation by radio and
television tomorrow night from
6-6:30 p.m. The broadcast will go
r - “live” f ’'om the President’s
office over the American. Colum
-0..:. _<umont and NBC television
networks.-Radio rebroadcasts will
follow this schedule: American 7
p.m., Mutual 8:30 p.m., National
and Columbia 9:30 p.m.
He had gone to Paris in the first
place to attend a NATO meeting.
Oyer the weekend he went to
Vienna to sign the Austrian inde
pendence treaty and wrap up the
Big Four meeting with Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov,
Britisn Foreign Minister Harold
Macmillan and French Foreign
Minister Antoine Pinay.
In his airport talk, Dulles listed
what may turn out to be an out
line of his report to the nation
tomorrow night.
US. Urged. To
Atom Powered
WASHINGTON, May 16 UP)—
The chairman of the House Mer
chant Marine Committee urged
today that the United States build
a “practical” atomic-powered mer
chant ship as well as the “Mis
sissippi River showboat” proposed
by President Eisenhower.
Rep. Herbert C. Bonner (D-N.C.)
and other members of the com
mittee did not come out against
Eisenhower’s plan to build an A
ship and send it around the world
as a demonstration of how atomic
energy can be put to peaceful
uses.
But Bonner said the group Is
more interested in an experimen
tal vessel which would be eco
nomically feasible and “actually
carry some freight.”
What the President apparently
has in mind, Bonner said, would
be some kind of an “international
sideshow, carnival or Mississippi
River showboat."
He announced he would intro
duce a bill for the construction of
a second ship. He was backed at
once by two Republicans: Rep.
Thor C. Tollefson of Washington,
senior GOP member of the com
mittee, and Rep. Elford A. Ceder
berg of Michigan. Eisenhower
hasn’t yet asked Congress for the
funds to carry out his idea, out
lined in a speech three weeks ago.
The committee received a re
port today from Dr. W. Kenneth
Davis, director of the Atomic
Energy Commission’s reactor di
vision, on the prospects of de
veloping atomic power plants for
merchant -vessels.
Davis gaid the plan proposed
for the Eisenhower ship would be
almost the same as the one in-
Supply Spilt
After that, Mrs. Hobby would
split the supply among the states
on the basis of the number of
children aged 5 and 9 and each
st,ate would supervise distribution
within its own boundaries. Addi
tional priority groups would be
announced from time to time on
the basis of recommendations of
the National Advisory Committee
on polio vaccine.
Mrs. Hobby said all the licensed
vaccine manufacturers, doctors,
and most governors have prom
ised to go along with the volun
tary method. Furthermore, she
said, it would -take time to Set up
a federal organization to control
distribution completely and this
would “result in prolonged delay
in getting the vaccine to the chil
dren.”
Program Resumes
The nationwide, mass vaccina
tion program for'school children
gradually is starting up again. It
was suspended temporarily a
week ago. for rechecking prbduc
tion processes and standards: after
some vaccinated children contract
ed polio. The Public Health Ser
vice has stressed all along that
there has been no finding that
these polio cases were caused by
the vaccine.
The ■ health service said today
that 73 confirmed cases have been
reported ?o far among children
injected with Salk vaccine ahd 65
were of . the paralytic type.
Build
Ship
stalled in the atomic submarine
Nautilus. He estimated the sur
face ship would take 24 to 30
months to complete.
The cost of the -propulsion ma
chinery alone, he said, would be
about 21 million dollars. He com
pared this with a cost of about
three million for conventional
power and prdpulslon gear.
Conner's plan oalls for ,a com
pletely different type of reactor,
or atomic furnace, from -the one
proposed for the President’s ship.
Germany Protests—
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and Schaerf about t the German
claims. Raab said filially that no
decision had been made to have
bilateral talks between Austria
and West Germany to settle dif
ferences, but he thought such
talks might be held in the future.
German Presentation
The German show, “J age n,
Streiten, Sigen,” will be given at
8 p.m.. today, in the Little Thea
tre, Old Main. Students in Ger
man will produce the show in
conjunction with the German
classes of the State College High
School. The production is free and
open to the public.
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Georgetown Coed
Achieves First
Varsity Letter
WASHINGTON. May 16 f/P) —
It took Georgetown University
nearly 200 vears to get around to
it, but the nation’s oldest Catholic
College is at last handing out a
big “G” to a girl. ,
The girl is Kathleen White, a
pretty little blonde who is about
as thrilled as any sophomore
could bffTft winning a varsity let
ter. (
Kathleen is a member of the
Georgetown sailing team and as
such she will be one of 38 students
'o be awarded major varsity let
ters at ceremonies on Wednesday.
“The boys were always kidding
me about winning a letter.” Kath
leen said today. “But I never be
lieved until the univer
sity. announced it officially.”
“T guess,” she added with a
smile, “I’m kind of a pioneer.”
'Oooner' Ray
Plans to Marry
BIRMINGHAM, England, May
.16 f/P) —Crooner Johnny Ray said
today he plans to marry a 21-year
old blue-eyed, blonde he met in
England six weeks ago. She is
Sylvia Drew, an English singer
with the band accompanying Ray
on his current tour of Britain.
Ray told newsman they are "un
officially engaged” but no wed
ding date has been set.
“We have been inseparable for
the past three weeks and are very
much in love,” Ray said. “But she
has a career ahead of her as a
singer, and I’m going to give her
a Chance to become a star herself
before we marry.”
Construction to Start
On Atomic Power Plant
PITTSBURGH, May 16
tual construction work on the na
tion’s first full-scale atomic pow
er plant is close at hand.
Duquesne Light Co., which will
build the generator portion of the
plant, announced today that bids
will he received May 24 for con
struction of a concrete foundation
to support vapor containers sur
rounding the reactor portion of
the plant.
Red Jets Storm Matsus
TAIPEI, Formosa, May 16 (JP) —
Red China today sent two of its
fast MIG jets down to the-Matsu
area for the second straight. day,
tou/. ng off a dog fight, the air
force reported.
For 11 minutes, the two MIGs
ahd, two Ntaionalist propeller
planes exchanged fire high over
the sea 20 miles north of the Mat
sus, said a communique. There
was no mention of damage on
either side.
It was the closest approach the
MIGs have yet made to Matus. It
also was the third pass made by
MJGs thig month in the area of
the Matsus, at the north end of
Formosa Strait 120 miles north
west of Formosa.
Surtdai four MIGs tangled with
four Nationalist Thunderjets 70
miles north of the Matsus. It was
the first time Nationalist jets
had fought MIGs. MIGs appeared
near the Matsus for the first time
May 4 when four of them clashed.
A communique said in today’s
engagement, two MIGs flying at
12,000 feet were met by two Na-
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Bao Dai's Guards
Abolished by Diem
DALAT, South Viet Nam, May 16 (/P)--Chiof of Slate Bao Dai
lost his imperial guard today and his crown lands were transferred
formally to control of the free Viet Nam government,
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem traveled to Dalat from Saigon for the
ceremonies merging the guardsmen with the national army and
giving his administration title to
the mountain territories formerly
ruled solely by Bao Dai, the ox-
Emparor of Annam.
It was ..he first lime since the
beginning of the political-military
crisis in mid-March that Diem
had left ttie capital
Crowds Gather
A crowd of thousands gathered
before the absentee Bao Dai’s
summer pa’ace shouted “Down
with Bao Dai! Down with the
Viet-minht Long live Ngo Dinh
Diem!” as the Premier adminis
tered the oath of loyaltv to sev
eral thousand officers and men
of the imperial guard.
The guardsmen had voted last
'Friday to ask that their status be
changed. Yesterday Diem signed
an order incorporating them into
the army. This act eliminated the
last important independent mili
tary force in South Viet Nam.
Private armies of the Hoa Hao
and Cao Dai religious sects and
the Binh Xuyen society have been
reduced and scattered since the
Binh Xuyen launched its rebellion
last month. Many units of the
sect armies now are in the na
tional army.
Lands Relinquished
The crown lands actually were
relinquished by Bao Dai to a
French administrator some time
ago. They were signed over to
the Vietnamese government a
little more than a month ago. but
today brought ceremonial observ
ance of the transfer and ended
the last bit of French administra
tion.
The_ last of the French garrison,
at Haiphong, port of Hanoi, sailed
for Saigon last night, leaving the
Communist Vietminh complete
control of the northern half of
Viet Nam.
At the same time, the last of
the Vietminh troops remaining
in the South when the Geneva
armistice agreement was signed,
about 30,000 men, departed for
the north by sea.
This completes the regrouping
of the former belligerents speci
fied in the armistice agreement.
tionalist planes 20 miles north of
Matsu.
The MIGs made .three passes in
which the Nationalists returned
the fire, the communique said. Pi
lots reported one exchange was at
point-blank range of only 500 feet.
Despite this, the slow Nationalist
planes returned unscatched, the
communique asserted.
The MIGs in all cases probably
came from Lukiao, new and big
Red air base 220 miles' north of
Formosa. The Interior Ministry’s
Tatao news agency said the Com
munists now had stored there
enough jet fuel for 5000 individual
Chou En-!ai
Renews Offer
To Negotiate
TOKYO, Tuesday, May 17 W 5)
Premier Chou En-lai of Red Ch'na
has renewed his offer to negotiate
over the touchy Formosa issue but
charged that the United States is
taking an “evasive and equivocal
stand,” Peiping radio said today.
The Communist leader said na
tions and peoples who are con
cerned about world peace are urg
ing the negotiations.
President Eisenhower said at’ a
news conference on April 27 that
the United States would be glfid
to meet and talk, with the Chinese
communists about a Formosa
cease-fire.
Chou repeated the proposal
first made at the height of the
Asian-African conference last
month at Bandung—in a report on
the meeting to Red China’s Na
tion Congress.
He made the report Friday.
The broadcast, heard in Tokyo,
said: “To ease tension in the
Taiwan Formosa area, the Chi
nese government is willing to sit
down and enter into negotiations
with the United States govern
ment."
Chou said, however, that “•' 4 no
time” would Red China ag to
sit down with the Nationalist gov
ernment of Chiang Kai-Shek.
The Red China Premier also re
peated that anv talks with the
United States on the Formosa
issue would not affect Red China’s
claim to the area.
“The Chinese people are willing
to strive for the liberation of Tai
watt by peaceful means as far as
possible,” Chou said.
flights or sorties.
Nationalist quarters speculated
that the appearance of the MIGs
was designed to create fresh con
cern abroad about the situation in
Formosa Strait. This would also
strengthen Russia’s hand at the
projected top-level Big Four con
ference.
Nautilus Takos Cruise
SAN JUAN, P.R., May 16 (£>)—
The atomic powered submarine
Nautilus arrived today at San
Juan, the first stop on a six-week
shakedown cruise from her base
at Groton, Conn.
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