FRIDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1956 Sound Dollar Issue—lke; GOP 'Appeasement' Hit WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (/P) President Dwight D. Eisenhower said today it takes a sound dollar to keep America strong, and he laid down as “a real issue” of the campaign: “How do we manage America’s internal affairs?” • He strongly that the peop! from the Repu mplied, at his news conference, e can get better management blicans than they can from the Democrats. ’ For one thin leaders that ar for the Democr; ticularly conce sound dollar b about raising, lures, cutting means, as I see ing.” he said, “the » now speaking”, its “are not par rned with the ;cause they talk raising expendi laxes, and that it, deficit spend- Would Hu rt Dollar “And you ca spend on a def: hurting your d In stressing domestic affair: issue, Eisenhowi inot continue to cit basis without jllar,” he added, management of as a campaign ;r said: "‘ln the foreign affairs, no one has debated, so Jfar as I know, on general broad policy.” Little on Foreign Affairs There was little on foreign af fairs at the news conference. Ei senhower did express the hope that any misunderstanding with Great Britain and France on the Suez Canal situation soon would be cleared up. He laughed when he was asked to become a political strategist, and say how the campaign was going. “I must say,” he remarked, “that the receptions I have had are those that warm my heart.” Roads Bureau Hears Plea For Northern Pa. Thruway WASHINGTON, Oct. II (IP)— Retention of a route across north ern Pennsylvania as part of an expanded interstate highway con struction program was urged to day before the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads. A nine-member group of north ern Pennsylvania representatives of motor clubs and business in terests presented the bureau with a copy of a petition bearing the signatures of 10,000 opponents of a proposal to run the route along a more southerly line from Stroudsburg to Sharon. The delectation also presented a legal brief stating reasons why if believes the proposed east west superhighway should fol low generally Route 6. It can be found exclusively at .. . {Mother Claims No 111 Treatment Of 'Chicken Boy / BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Oct. 11 (IP) —Mrs. Margaret Hal penny pleaded innocent in Ma gistrate’s Court today to charges of ill-treating her 7-year-old “chicken boy” son. Kevin. The 45-year-old widow said in a prepared statement to the court that she loved the son authorities had found penned in her henhouse and wanted him ■ back home with her. Her trial was set for Csci. 30 and she was released in bail. Kevin was found Sept. 13 in the Halpenny chicken house, 15 miles from Belfast. Children play ing hide-and-seek first saw the boy perched on a roost with the chickens. A police sergeant called to the scene said the boy. who weighed 28 pounds grunted like an animal and could nei ther walk nor eat human food. His matted hair appeared never to have been cut. He bad claw like fingernails. He got about by hopping like an ape. welfare officials said. Harry G. Garvin, Bradford, who headed the group, said the Wash ington trip was made because he has not been able to obtain an audience with Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania or state Highway Department officials. Leader and the state Highway Department have announced they will seek U.S. Bureau of Roads approval for inclusion of the Stroudsburg-Sharon route the so-called Keystone Short- ' way in the federal government's 41,000-mile highway construc tion program. In 1947 federal and state offi cials agreed that the long-range road building, program should in clude a highway across northern Pennsylvania from the Scranton area to the Erie area. KALIN’S THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 11 (/P) Adlai E. Stevenson said tonight that the country has “paid a heavy price” by what he called Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “appeasement” of the GOP Old Guard and that faction’s “ir responsibility in foreign affairs.” He said Eisenhower has enjoyed an unpre cedented “immunity from criticism” while the country has lost ground abroad and “we are assured that all is well, the Communists are on the run and our brinkmanship (sic) is bril liant.” “I don’t think the American people like this deception,” Ste venson said. “I don’t think they 'like to be told by Mr. John Foster Dulles and President Eisenhower that American prestige ‘has never been higher", which it is mani festly untrue.” Stevenson, in an address pre pared for delivery at a rally here tonight, said that the Republi cans “have lost confidence and respect for us around the world, boasted and bluffed, zigged and zagged” and “contradicted each other.” The Republicans, he declared, have offered the people “fairy tales instead of the grim reali ties, and made grandstand plays that frightened our friends more than our enemies.” “Now we are being offered for campaign consumption a brand of Pollyanna politics labeled peace, prosperity and progress.” Stevenson speak earlier at a midday rally in Richmond and later in the afternoon made a 15- minute nationwide television ad dress from San Francisco. JUNIOR PROM FRI., OCT. 26 under the direction of Tickets on Sale at Decries 'Deception* Charges 'Fairy Tales' Featuring World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Ray McKinley Playing in the Glenn Miller tradition with authentic Miller arrangements HUB DESK FRI., OCT. 26 The World at a Glance Hunt Continues for Lost Plane LAKENHEATH, England, Oct. 11 (.T) —An armada of aircraft, including giant jet bombers, crisscrossed Atlantic waters tonight in a great search for a U.S. military transport plane missing with 59 men aboard. The hours yielded only fading hope that the Air Force personnel and Navy crew of the huge Cl 18 Liftmaster were alive. The missing plane is the military version of the civilian DC6. The homeward bound Liftmaster vanished sometime, some where between Lands End and the Azores. Its last message came from a point about 180 miles southwest of the westernmost tip of England. It had fuel enough to last until 5-30 a.m. today. -The Lift master was due at Lajes in the Azores eariy today. 30 More Dead in Hong Kong Riot HONG KONG, Friday, Oct. 12 iff*) —Hand-to-hand battling be tween Communist and anti-Communist Chinese killed 30 workers in the Hong Kong mainland factory village of Tsun Wan, the govern ment announced today. Acting Gov. E. B. David announced a total .of 44 persons had been killed in two days of frenzied fighting between Chinese mobs and between Chinese and police. Before British artillerymen dis covered bodies of the Tsun Wan victims, police reported 14 dead. The fighting and looting abated today under a tight curfew imposed on the riot-torn Kowloon peninsula. The riots sent about 145 persons to hospitals and countless hundreds were Ireated for minor wounds. Jordan Reprisal Feared After Border Fight JERUSALEM, Oct. 11 (IP) —A reprisal attack against Israel by Jordan was feared tonight, in the wake of a seven-hour border bat tle that left a Jordan police station in ruins. By official count of both sides 59 were killed and 25 wounded in the artillery and hand-to-hand clash before a UN cease-fire de mand ended the firing at 5 a.m. A UN truce organization announcement put the number of Jordanian dead at 48. Other reports said as many as 160 were killed. housekeeping? Plenty of electricity can make your home of the future a house of marvels! From a central control panel, you may be able to wash your dishes, raise and lower windows, con trol the lighting in every room —even make your beds! To really five electrically, you'll need much more power—and it will be there waiting. America’s more than 400 independent electric light and power companies are planning and building novr for the years ahead. 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