WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1958 Eisenhower Hits Critics Of F<l reign Aid Policy | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (JP) —President Eisenhower to night assailed loes of foreign aid as “ostrich-like’’ men whose views are baked on slogans, prejudices and penny-wisej economy. the administration’s proposed $3,942,000,000 He term' Cost of Living Hits New High WASHINGTON. Feb. 25 (/P)- The gox’emment announced today that food prices reached a record high last month, sending over-all living costs to a new peak. The increase was the biggest in 18 months. Officials said moreover they foresaw no relief for housewives from soaring costs over-the next 18 months. They held out hope that heavy price cuts being felt in raw ma terial markets—for rubber, met als, hides, wool, petroleum and lumber and so on—may trickle to the consumer level in the form of lower prices by summer and fall, and also that food may de cline somewhat The new living cost peak was measured at 122.3 ner cent of the 1947-49 average of the consumer price index. This was an increase of six-tenths of one per cent from December to January. It was the largest monthly rise since July 1958. -The new living cost jump was attributed mainlv to the record freezes of Florida’s winter fruit and vegetables crops, and to a low suddlv of meat with conse quently high costs. Bvrd Reveals Plans To Seek sth Term RICHMOND. Va., Feb. 25 (JP)— Sen. Harry Flood Byrd (D.-Va.) reversed today an announced de cision to retire. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a long time advocate of fiscal conserva tism, said he would seek a fifth term. He anounced his decision in a message to the General As sembly of Virginia. It quoted a statement of con sent from Mrs. Byrd whose illness •was given as the reason in his retirement statement Feb. 12. She has been going to Washington in an ambulance. AF Stresses Importance Of First Base on Moon WASHINGTON, leb. 25 (JP)— The Air Force told Congress to day the United States should make certain it is the first nation to establish a military base on the moon. In testimony prepared for the House Armed Service Commit tee, Lt. Gen. D. L. Putt, Air Force development head, said serious studies have been made of the military advantages of a manned missile-firing station on the moon. WELLS COMBO from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. Enjoy your favorite sandwich, beverage, hot pizza, or steamed clams. Thurs. nite Don Smaltz Quintet... Dixie Fri. nite Bob Leßoy . . . Jazz WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (TV- A House committee chairman said today Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack and others involved in a Florida TV license case appear to have violated the law and laid them . , .selves orien to criminal penalties overseas assistance program one; Reo Karris £ ade this ri charge during testimony by Mi neace"’ d b lding of a true .ami lawyer Thurman A. White- P , , .side, who said among other things; Eisenhower spoke out in a na- he couldn't account for $75,000 de- i tionwide television-radio address noshed in one of his bank ac climaxing a day-long conference counts two years ago. of 1500 representatives of nation-. This was Whiteside’s second j.al organizations who met to boost day before the snecial House sub jforeign aid. committee which was set up to Harry Truman, speaking eight studv the operations of federal hours earlier from Hie same plat-;regulatory agencies. It has been form, shared top billing. Besides tooking of late into influences ex plugging foreign aid, Truman also erted on members of the Federal lambasted the Eisenhower admin-iCommunications Commission. istration, saying it had failed to Whiteside, a lifelong friend of come up with new ideas for ad- Mack’s, has testified previously ministering the program. [that he gave the commissioner a Eisenhower appealed to all one-sixth share in a Miami insur- Americans to give fullest sup- <ance firm which does business port to the program because of >' ith successful applicant for ihe "urgency of ihe limes and hotly contested TV station li ihe opportunity before us." cense. ' , He called for “a greatness of' hv reporters whether he , thought Mack violated the law. Side ” a £ad' e? ‘HZ'******!*? lh ' he denounced as the shortsighted u^ ce firm 15 a violation of narrowness of foes who want to! ' hack away at his foreign aid re-|R ec |s Begin Withdrawal qU< The President spoke at a din- iOf TrooDS from Hungary ner meeting attended by nation- j BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 25 al leaders from all walks of life ; (/P)—Soviet troops have begun . representing Democratic, Ra- .moving toward the Russian bor publican and independent |der, the official Communist news thinking. 'paper Nepszabadsag said today. Eisenhower said opposition to This was the first mention of the aid program “is based on slo-;any actual movement of the 17.- gans, prejudices, penny-wise econ-: 000 soldiers the Russians have omy and above all, an outright l promised to take out of Hungary refusal to look at the world of in connection with a cut in Soviet 1958 as it really is.” armed forces. Cuban Flareup Seen HAVANA. Cuba, Feb. 25 (^P)—.taxors. ! Red-faced Cuban police threw a| Four Cubans were killed in heavy guard around world light-) sianlly and two others died weight champion Joe Brown of; later in hospitals. Thirty-two New Orleans today, vowing Fidel j persons were injured. Castro’s rebels won’t succeed in; Race officials aid their tech . any attempt to break upJjj ls eliminated all suspicion ro XJu night jof sabotage and claimed the oil The nontitle fight is one of the. on course had seeped from major sporting events of the Cu-ith e 27 racing cars. But some of ban tourist season and is to be drivers said the track was televised to the United States at s ii c k ec j down with oil, apparently 10 pjn. EST. It also marks the by Castro’s rebels opening of a new, two-milhon dollar sports arena. Extra precaution 1 are being taken by police because of the rebel coup Sunday night in kid naping the world champion auto racing driver Juan Manuel Fan gio of Argentina. The rebel’s aim was to disrupt; yesterday’s $lO,OOO Gran Premio race, and embarrass the regime: of President Fulgencio Batista be-; fore the sports world. 1 Fangio was released unharmed; after the race came to a tragic; end. It was called off when one of the cars skidded on oil and; plunged into a crowd of spec-1 233 East Beaver e jazz of the AUSTIN THE DAILY COLLEGIAN .STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Chairman Cifes Law Violations Of FCC's Mack PLAYERS present BOY on the BEACH A New Adult Comedy CENTER STAGE MAR. 8-APR. 12 TICKETS AT HUB MARCH 3 Di I worth Gains Support As Democratic Candidate HARRISBURG, Feb. 25 (JP) —A move to draft Mayor Richardson Dilworth of Philadelphia as the Democratic or ganization candidate for governor gained behind-the-scenes support today. Gov. George M. Leader was reportedly receptive to the |Dlan proposed to him by four top~ I Pennsylvania labor leaders on lajf AF Missile Fails jthe eve of a closed-door Demo-!. . . . cratic slatemaking conference to-j* n lOUnching Attempt morrow. j CAPE Fla. UP) Leader, whose current choice j—The last of the Air Force Na for governor is Atty. Gen. Thomas v aho missiles lost engine power D. Mcßride, was said to have 20 seconds after launching today gone along with the “draft-Dil- and had to be destroyed, worth” movement as a holding It plunged into the ocean a few action. The governor had backed miles off the missile test center Dihvorth until he withdrew from w h i le. hundreds watched from consideration on Feb. 15. nearby beaches. A prominent Democrat, who i asked nol to be identified, said Leader was agreeable to sound ing out Dilworth on accepting I a draft despite the mayor's an nouncement that he would not run "under any circumstances." The same source said labor leaders told him that James V Knox. Allegheny County control ler, was unacceptable to them as a gubernatorial candidate. Li. Gov. Boy E. Furman, an announced aspirant for govern or. also has been rejected by ihe labor group. Leader says Furman lacks the qualifications for governor. 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