THURSDAY, FEBRUAR Summ For Po WASHLNGTOI\I E. •Summerfield plu! bower program for But his argum timely lift drew De • .t -t• f i.t •,. .. .11 . ' ;effort to help much.• ! Summerfield went -before the Economist- Hit Senate Post Office Committee to' !plead for the program which• . ! P resident Eisenhower's press see- Ike Predict on Irotary, James ;leased Tuesday_ Hagerty said! then it would be fair to describe On Eniplo went it as part of the administration' onoves to counteract the current' NEW YORK, Feb. 12 ((P)—Somealunip. . economists disagreed oday with! . Summerfield.- while contend- President Eisenhower" prediaticinl ing it would help combat the ' .. „ recession. also testified that the that nett month will se a possizi. program was . not designed to ble _turning point in business andi be a public works program as employment. „ . such. He said its main purpose modernize the epart- , "I question that very seriously," was t L and increase-its effi d ciency , said Dr. Marcus 'Nadler, econo mist of . the Hanover Bank and' pment and build- Newwith new ui eq York - University. He. added:! in gs. "So far the government has been; Chairman Johnston (D.-S.C.) of. talking but not doing anything."ithe Post Office Committee said . more. than this was needed to, The economists were asked foil comment after the President said;catch up with post office needs,! and to help people out of jobs.l ina statement that March shouldi see the start of a rise in employ-I Sen. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) told! ment and "the beginning .of the. Summerfield his program is so' end' of the downturn. little it couldn't provide the need-' Dr. Jules Bogen of New Yorked stimulus. Neuberger said Eis- University said: "We can't elimi ienhower had presented it as a " nate the cyclical forces by justlg/an to get the people off the taking them away. We need morel"°°r-" Oh, he didn't say that," Sum " remedial steps. Our economy has been weakened by a very pro imerfield replied. But he main longed boom." 1 tained it would give the economy The vice - president of a leadingl a boost. Under the administration New York bank said: "We should plan, private investors would get some signs of bottoming out, put about 1 1 , 1 2 billion dollars in as we go along. But I don't see' to new or 'renovated buildings ' how we can pinpoint March or- which the Post Office Depart- April or any other month." -- meat would rent. About 175 Retail economist A. W. Zelo- million dollars a year in federal mek said it may be some time government funds would go for before employment shows _ any' modernization of mail hand substantial gains. i ling methods. The program "There was a lot of hoarding would last three to five years. of labor during the boom," said "We are prepared to begin to Zelomek. "This always happensiintroduce entirely new mechani in good times, when business of-Ical and electronic devices to han ficiency lags. - Now industry isldle mail," Summerfield said. heading in the opposite direc tion." Police Free Stuck Pup BERNARDSVILLE, NJ., Feb. 12 Wl—Curiosity may have killed a cat but dogs are made of stern er stuff. An 8-month-old puppy belong ing to Mrs. Shirley Lounsberry, of nearby Liberty Corner tried to crawl through a galvanized cul-; vert at. her driveway entrance yesterday. He only got his head out the other end. His tail froze in water in the near-zero temperatures. Bernards Townsh_.,) police Sgt. Robert Moofe and Ray Cutshaw, township road superintendent, used a blowtorch to 2ut a hole in the pipe just behind the dog's tail. Then they melted the ice with the torch so the puppy could get loose. Mrs. Lounsberry, meanwhile, had wrapped the dog's head in a blanket and fed him warm milk. The pup was doing fine today. ICC Authorizes Rail Freight Raise WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (If 3 )-1 The Interstate Commerce Com mission today authori ed a rail road freight rate ince: e averag ing about two per ce t on most freight items effecti • at mid night Friday; The ICC action app ies only to interstate freight mov:ments. But the authority took, no e that the railroad industry is se-king com parable upward revisis $ in intra state rates from the state com missions, B&O Announcei Lay Off PITTSBURGH, Feb. l 12 (AI C. T. Williams, general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road's central region, said tonight the railroad will lay off over 250 employes in the region .Monday. Williams said about 200 car maintenance employel..would be laid off because a : building program there has been com pleted • *. ` 13, 1958 Tunisia Asks For French • , Feb. 12 (11))--Postmaster General. Arthur' Evacuation ged hard today for adoption of the Eisen-: TUNIS. Feb. 12 (..P?—Tunisia modernizing the postal service. :demanded today the evacuation of all French forces as the price nt that this would give the economy a .of restoring French-Tunisia !afield Plugs tal Reforms 1 Explorer Transmitter Goes Dead WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (T) -- I The Defense Department said to day signals from one of two radio transmitters in the American Explorer s a t el lite apparently have stopped. The transmitter, originally ex pected to function for from two to three weeks, was the more pow erful of two encased in the 30- poubd satellite. The satellite was launched by th-. Army on the night of Jan. 31., If the batteries have gone deadd they lasted less than 12 days. The Naval Research Labora tory, which has charge of track ing the 'satellite, said, "Today's Explorer passes over the mini track system have produced no, signals_ on the., 108.03 band." It said signals continue to come in strong 'from the. second transmit ter in the ,satellite. Predictions were that one would operate from two' to three months. The transmitter not heard from today operated with a power of 60 miliwatts, or 6 / 1 00 of one watt. 500 Expected to Attend Governor Leader Confab i ERIE. Pa., Feb. 12 (R}—Some 500 persons from eight northwest ern Pennsylvanih counties are ex pected to attend a regional con-, ference heretomorow and hear. Gov. Leader explain how he hopes to reduce unemployment in Pennsylvania. Leader will be accompanied by several members of his cabinet and other state officials. Sen. Clark CD-Pa.) also, hopes to at tend. Sinking Creek, in Breckenridgei County, Ky., disappears, then fol-j laws a subterranean course for an; undetermined number of miles be fore emerging suddenly again as al scenic — fountain, 1 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA friendship. The government un derscored its demand with a dis play of increased hostility, ' in cluding firing on a French patrol boat at Bizerte. In retaliation for France's air attack on the border village of • Sakiet Sidi Youssef Saturday, ' Tunisian President Habib Bour guiba told France to pull out her 15,000 troops and give up her strategic naval base at Bizerte. But the French showed no signs of bowing to Tunisian demands. In Paris, the French were relia bly reported ready to seek to have all French bases in Tunisia brought directly under corrimand. of the NOrth Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. Then Bourguiba would :have to deal with the 15-nation military force of the NATO Ali ance. • Although Tunisia is not a member of the alliance, she is friendly to the West. She has received both financial and military aid from NATO's big gest member the United States. Bourguiba's demand for the re moval of French garris6ns came after he talked with a string of foreign diplomats, including U.S. 'Ambassador G. Lewis Jones. As they conferred, an angry crowd ,of Tunisians outside the presi dential palace clamored for action. Union Facing Half-Million Bill MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 12 (.P) The Teamsters Union to night was reported facing a half million-dollar legal bill resulting from the compromise court suit which tried to block James R. Hoffa from becoming the union's president. ,Godfrey P. Schmidt, attorney for the 13 rank-and-file New York Teamsters Union members Who were plaintiffs in the case, has served notice he will seek 5300,000 as fee and expenses. `•l'd say that's about right." Schmidt said when contacted in New York about the reported fi gure. Schmidt's fee to be paid by the union, will need prior approval from U.S. Dist. Judge F. Dickin son Letts in Washington. It was indicated the plaintiffs' costs, plus the union's own de fense costs, will run the bill to the union to close to half a mil lion dollars. Under the court.set tlement, the union must pay all legal fees on both sides. Schmidt was chosen by the plaintiffs as one of three monitors to look over all Teamsters affairs under Hoffa's rule of the 1,400,- 000-member union. Ex-Captive Says Soviets Not Bluffing' CAMP FRIEDLAND. Germany,' Feb. 12 (P)—A German rocket ; scientist held by the Soviet Union: for 13 years declared tonight thei Russians are not bluffing when' they say they have intercontinen tal ballistic missiles. Peter Lertes, 66. who worked : with Prof. Wernher von Braun! on the German Vl and V 2 rockets, of World War 11, made the state-: ment when asked about Russian' progress with guided missiles-; Lertes -was a specialist on elec.' tronic remote control as applied to rockets. - The Graduate Student Association Valentine Day Dance Music by the - 5 Jacks Feb. 14 9.12 HUB Free Refreshments Morse Says Government WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 {.-Th—House invest.!gators re trieved three heaps of secret files today from Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D.-Ore.), who said the documents show the Eisen hower administration is 'hone}combed with political immor ality. At the same time, the investi,gating group subpoenaed Dr. Bernard Schwartz, its ousted, ,chief counsel, to testify tomor-, row about his charge that a mem-, fiber of the Federal Cornmunica- tions Commission received a money payment in connection onfer On with the award of a TV license. Schwartz turned what hll e caked his "personal .„ a y Vot i ing working fi I es" :- ' ~ on a six-month ' . N. : ! HARRISETjIIG. Feb. 12 I:Pi investigation ov 'Six too Penn , ylvania Democrats er to Morse after . ....i 4151 K .conferred with Gov. Leader today .Schwartz was 1,-:. -' i s'' -v. on slating a statewide organiza .n ight by the .-. 'fired Monday -.1 'l' zr .. ' tion ticket for the May 20 pri '- 7`64 . , , :•-..4k N. many e.ection campaign. House su b tom- - . , 4 1 . The session, at the Executive mittee on legis- %, - •if Mansion, was described by Sen. lative oversight, \ ''-::%!:0 1 . - .' *-- . .-:."--. Joseph M. Barr, Democratic state which is looking . - ; -:,t.. - ! •" . into the FCC and ..... ~...N. ; ena 1 rman. as "a preliminary dis .: t ...N i.. 4: ,cussion of the approaching politi five other regu- 'cal campaign?' - latory agencies. way ne Mori* . There was no immediate indi- In returning the files to the as to whether an agree subcommittee, Morse called for .cat ion ment was reached on specific can e separate Senate investigation !didates. Participants i n c l u de d of alleged pressure on the agen- Leader, Mayor David cies by White House and other ..Leader, of Pittsburgh, Miss Gene high Republican figures. Morse's hence Blatt, secretary of internal proposal got no immediate sup- ! !affairs, Congressman William J. port, however, and the inquiry Green, Philadelphia city Demo remained in the House group's .cratic chairman: Barr, James P. hands. Clark, Philadelphia trucking ex- Speaker Samuel Rayburn (D. - .ecutive and a Democratic leader. Tex.) said he wants the subcom-and Michael F. Lawler, Lacka mittee to make a "real thorough, w anna County commission chair ;investigation" and not just do "a ma n. lot of pin-pricking." I The question is whether a pri- Plainly smarting over charges :many fight for the gubernatorial by Schwartz and others that ,nomination can be avoided. powerful interests turned the 1 inquiry into a whitewash, Ray burn said any suggestion he i HARRISBURG. Feb. 12 (Ml— tried to whittle down the in- !Highways Secretary Lewis M. vestigation "is utterly and vi- :Stevens today endorsed federal ciously false." ilegislation to allow states to con- Rep. Oren Harris (D.-Ark.), newltrol billboard advertising along chairman of the subcommittee, interstate highways. pledged lat e r after a meeting The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jo with Rayburn that he would con- seph Clark (D.-Pa.) would give duct "the most thorough investi- states an extra three-fourths of gation, insofar as possible, that 1 per cent in federal aid if they Capitol Hill has seen." imposed such controls. Jordan, Iraq Kings to Retain Thrones When Kingdoms Unite AMMAN, Jordon, Feb. 12 (.P)— thority in Jordan, and Faisal, who Kings Hussein of Jordan and Fai-;has much less in Iraq, will con sal II of Iraq will . retain their,tinue to he kings. There had been thrones when their countries reports that Hussein might step unite under a single flag and for-,down to become crown prince of eign policy the next 24'the union. hours, authoritative sources said; Faisal arrived in Amman yes tonight. tterday for the negotiations, which An official communique said after a day of discussions be tween the kings and their min isters: "To our satisfaction the discussions look place in a spir it of brotherly understanding and complete agreement-on na tional objectives which the two parties seek to reach." Hussein and Faisal, 22-year-old Turkey and Iran. But the union Hashemite cousins, plan to sign of the Iwo pro-Western king the proclamation tomorrow, : dams is expected to counter The two Arab kingdoms report- some of the appeal which the edly will share single foreign, de- new U.A.R. has for Arab na fense and economic ministries, as, sionalists. well as one army. ; Official sources said King Saud There will be ore parliament :of Saudi Arabia has refused to for the two countries, but each i join Iraq and Jordan in a federa also will have its own legisla- ition unless Iraq withdraws from live body. ithe pact. which has been criti- Hussein. who wields large au-•cized as a barrier to Arab unity. Banquet - Dates Still Available f► But They Are Being Fitted Make the banquet a success by holding it in the Cadillac Room or the Pine Room at 7 4.11 ; te P t t On S. Atherton St. (Route 322) Just Outside State College Call AD 8-45333 for reservations PAGE THREE Files Show Immorality Democrats came a little more than a week after Syria and Egypt proclaimed their merger and formation of the United Arab Republic. One result of the Jordan- Iraq merger may be to take Iraq out of the anti-Commun ist Baghdad Pact, which also includes Britain . Pakistan,
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