TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1955 President Views School Situation GM Study Raises New Complaints WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 —(W) Senate study of General Motors Corporation turned.. up complaints today that GM's fi nance-insurance affiliates are hurting independent car repair shops. The testimony came from Re ginald J. Holzer. general counsel of the' Automotive Repair Execu tives' Association of Chicago, and Paul - Ries and Ralph A. Pierro, owners of two Chicago repair shops. They said, in substance, that in dependent car repairmen seldom get a chance to bid on repair l work covered by "GM's insurance affiliate. Instead, they said, the business is shunted to repair shops run by GM car dealers. Holzer, Ries and Pierro ap peared before the Senate Anti trust and Monopoly subcommit tee under Sen. O'Mahoney (D- Wyo) in its study of the opera tions of GM, which makes Chev rolet, Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmo bile and Pontiac cars, among oth er things. On a broader scale, today's hearings produced: 1. Testimony by Holmes Bald ridge, a Roosevelt-Truman era of ficial of the Justice Department, whb said GM and its finance sub sidiary, General Motors Accep tance Corp., ou,ght to 'be split apart. 2. A statement by Sen. O'Ma honey that the big auto makers can now borrow money at in terest rates little higher than the federal government itself has to pay. Farm Expert Sees Drop in Income, Prices Next Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (4 1 P)— An Agriculture Department eco nomist said today the current eco nomic squeeze on the nation's farmers is likely to get, a little tighter next year. In a report to the department's annual farm outlook conference, Frederick V. Waugh, department director of economics, made this forecast: "Looking ahead to 1956, we again expect business conditions to be very good. We again expect agricultural prices and income to lag behind. In other words, we expect the f arm 'cost-price squeeze' to continue in 1956." This "squeeze" likely will be marked, Waugh said, by some further drop in farm income but little if any drop in farm pro duction costs. Waugh's forecast was given at the opening session of the outlook conference, attended by more than 400 Extension Service econ omists from the various states and by department officials. -The conference is designed to acquaint the state economists with' economics trends affecting farmers. President Issues 'Conduct' Order GETTYSBURG, Pa., (R—Nov. 28 —President Dwight D. Eircshow er issued a conflict-of-interdst or der today requiring "high stan-' dards of ethical conduct" for gov ernment "WOCs"—business an d industry experts serving the gov ernment without compensation. ' The order follows up legislation passed by Congress just before ad-, journment last August requiring such defense production special ists to file information on their fi nancial connections, and to keep the file up to date. There are about 1000 WOCs in the government, working on de-; tense contracts and the like. Sev-, eral cases alleging that some of. them had conflicts of interest be-' tween the government and their private employer have come be fore congressional committees. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (/F) —President Dwight D. Eisen hower said tonight the federal government will have to step in if necessary to prevent "a lack of schools in certain im portant areas." He cautioned. however. that "if we depend too much . . . on the federal government. we will lose independence and initia tive." The President's remarks were sound-filmed at his Gettysburg, Pa. office for presentation at the White House conference on edu cation, which opened last night with the issue of federal school aid pushing to the fore Vice president Richard M. Nixon and Neil McElroy. con ference chairman, also were on the speakers' list. Reviewing the lead-up to the conference, Eisenhower said: "In the last 10 'years our popu lation has increased by 26 million souls. During that increase a sim ilar increase in the number of schoolrooms and qualified teach ers available for teaching our young has not come about . . . "There are many conflicting opinions as to how to provide these things. "But there are two points, I think, on which we all agree. "The first thing is that the education of our young should be free. It should be under the control of the family and lo cality. It should not be con trolled by any central author ity. . . "At the same time, we know that everybody must have a good education if they are to properly discharge their functions as a citi zen of America." . This, Eisenhower said, was "the heart .of this whole problem." Cabinet Meeting Cancelled by Seely All-University Cabinet will not meet this week, Earl Seely, All- University president, announced last night. Seely said he will be out of town Thursday to attend • a stu dent union meeting at the Uni versity of Maryland with George E. Donovan, director of Associat ed Student Activities, and Philip Beard, All-University secretary treasurer. Cabinet will dine with Presi dent Milton S. Eisenhower at his home next Thursday. sty' Also $lOO to 2475 egnt;;Zs.. Wedding Ring $12.50 teed Houseately YOU CAN PAY MORE, BUT YOU CAN'T BUY A FINER DIAMOND RING THAN A KEEPSAKE B. P. MOYER, Jeweler 218 E. COLLEGE AVE. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Lewis Urges Welfare Fund Crack Down WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 IRS—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, called on Congress today to crack down on the "hu man jackals and scoundrels" who he said misuse union w elf ar e funds. The 75-year-old chief of the ' United Mine Workers Union sug gested a congressional resolution urging the attorney general to step up prosecutions in all such cases. Union leaders themselves did not escape his wrath. "If some of the leaders of or ganized labor would abandon their holier-than-thou attitude and for-. get what they are going to do with the rest of the world and put their own house in order, welfare funds might have a better chance to live," Lewis told a Senate Labor subcommittee. The subcommittee is making a study of the need for new legisla tion to protect union w elf ar e funds, now growing at the rate of about five billion dollars a year. Angelo Inciso, a Chicago labor union leader, did not answer when called as a witness, although he had been subpoenaed. Chairman Douglas (D-Ill) said he would later that Inciso be cited for con tempt of Congress. The senators seek an explana tion of how the health and acci dent • insurance program works in Inciso's Chicago Local No. 286 of the AFL United Auto Workers. This is different from the CIO Auto Workers Union. Tax Proposal Hits Opposition HARRISBURG, Nov. 28 (11')—A new Republican-sponsored sales tax proposal went into the bill writing stage today as Gov. George M. Leader's manufactur er's manufacturers' excise tax ran into further opposition. Rep. Waterhouse (R-Erie) said he would introduce a 3 per cent sales tax in the Democratic-con trolled House on Wednesday but there was no hint from the ad ministration of dropping its ses sion-long opposition to that levy. Waterhouse said that Republi cans are convinced the excise tax would "be damaging" to business in the state because it would "pyramid costs" to the ultimate consumer. STATE COLLEGE Congressmen Held Behind Iron Curtain BERLIN, Nov. 28 (4))—Two U.S. congressmen and the wife of one were held at gunpoint in East Berlin Sunday in an incidant threatening all western rights in the Soviet sector of the still-occupied city. The implications of the treatment of the American party, escorted by U.S. Army men, were' so serious that Maj. Gen. Charles L. Dasher Jr., U.S. commandant in Berlin, and five advisers worked at-afternoon on the draft of a protest to the Russians. Protest Not Delivered It tras not delivered, however, because Dasher still was dissatis fk i with its tone and content. Work will be resumed tomorrow and Dasher personally will de liver the prote i st. The general's advisers said two issues are at stake: The right of Americans to visit East Berlin wi Jout being molested and whether an official U.S. Army vehicle equipped with two-way radio can be subjected to East German ' Communist police pa trols === U.S. officials fear all Allied rights in the four-power city's Soviet zone are in jeopardy. The incident occurred Sunday shortly before noon when Reps. Harold C. Ostertag (R.-N.Y.) and his wife, and Edward P. Boland (D.-Mass.) visited the Soviet Me morial Cemetery in an Army car wit han Army officer escort Communist police detained the party, declaring the laws of the East German republic against two-way radios in foreign cars ha been violated. The Russian dep. , ..y commandant, Col. I. A. Kotsibua, supported the German Communist view but released the group after four hours. Sectors Distinguished U. S. officials reasoned that custom as well as agreements long in use distinguished the So viet sector of Berlin from the regulations of the East German Republic as far as Allied person nel are concerned. If this has been changed, they said, the en tire character of the four-power city could undergo far-reaching change too. Zaharias Begins Tests GALVESTON, Tex., Nov. 28 (PP) —Babe Zaharias was isolated from all except intimate friends today as a week-long series of tests was started to determine how the famous golfer is doing in her fight with cancer. She was permitted no telephone calls and doctors at John Sealy Hospital said there was nothing yet to report on her progress. Demos Offer Foreign Policy Political Truce WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (NI Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler tonight offered a political truce on foreign policy debate if President Eisenhower will bar the word "peace" from 1956 Republican campaign slo gans. Butler said in a statement he welcomes Eisenhower's concur rence last week in the stand by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) that American foreign policy ought not to be subjected to parti san attack at home. But he added that "bipartisan ship in foreign policies applies not just to the opposition party." "If the Republicans are ready to forego the exploitation of for eign policy for partisan advan tage," Butler said, "they will find Democrats meeting them more than half way." Declaring that GOP National Chairman Leonard W. Hall had I said that 'peace' will be the Re publican's chief political pass word in 1956," Butler said: "Ever since the meeting at the summit, Republican leaders have been stepping up their claims on foreign policy. They have done their best to make the voters be lieve that they have established general conditions of peace and that they deserve exclusive credit for it. Penn State's fifth president, James Calder, was an ordained minister and had served as a mis sionary in China. thought of SPUDNUTSI 30 DIFFERENT VARIETIES Breakfast• Coffee Break• Dessert• Snack• Any Party• AD 8-6184 Phone 1 day ahead j :' s 4. a. Or, - 4 r 1 1 :cep, PAGE THREE
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