PAGE TWO Eight Nike Missiles Explode; 7 Persons Killed, 3 Injured MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (/P)—A powerful Nike guided missile blew up on the ground here yesterday and exploded seven others in a tremendous blast. All were fully armed for warfare. Seven to 10 persons died in a split second of disintegrating force and flame. From the scattered human fragments, it was impossible to set the death toll. Maj. Gen. Charles B. Living Cost Index Hits New Peak WASHINGTON {/P)—Living costs reached a new peak again in April but government officials expressed belief the two-year in flationary splurge has shot its bolt. , The Labor Department's livings cost index, still moving counter; to the business recession, rose' two-tenths of one per cent be-' lA% een March and April. This put; the index at another record high, of 123.5 per cent of the • 1947-49; base. f Still-increasing grocery prices! Nvere held wholly responsible for the April increase. The index now is 3.5 per cent above last year. It has risen in 18 of the last 20 months, and declined only once in the last 28 months. Encouraging word came from the government's living cost ex pert, Ewan Clague, who said liv ing costs appear to be "peaking out" and stabilizing for the sum mer months, Ile declined to rule out the possibility of further small living cost increases in the months ahead. He put it this way: "In a broad general way I'd say the index has shot its bolt. There's no question about it, the big rises are now over." Clague said some food items are showing small declines at re tail in May. The food index itself is at a record high, nearly seven per cent above a year ago. Ike Orders Provisions for Air Safety WASHINGTON (A))—Presi dent Eisenhower, heeding de mands for quick action to reduce the number of aircraft collisions in midair, issued orders yesterday for an emer gency safety program. The new air regulations, some of which will go into effect within a few days, are designed to put tighter restrictions on the bullet like flights of military aircraft and keep them off civilian air lanes when they are engaged in dangerous maneuvers. At first, the President intended to leave corrective measures to his Air Coordination Committee, headed by Lt. Gen. Elwood R. (Pete) Quesada, a retired Air Force officer. He had directed Quesada to start a study of the problem Friday. But later, after conferring with members of a House subcommit tee working on aviation safety, Eisenhower decided on prompter steps. He authorized Quesada to in struct the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration and other federal PENN STATE DINER Fine Foods OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY "Tradition Demands Quality" Duff of the Army Air Defense Command, said it would be at least seven and could be 10. Three others were injured. Vic tims included both civilians and servicemen. Each of the missiles carried three warheads. The explosion strewed these explosive devices across a wide range of country side. Most of them were accounted for but others still lay unexplod ed like booby traps. However, the missiles did not bear atomic warheads, but con ventional ones of shrapnel and high explosives. "We do feel the area now is reasonably safe," Duff said. The explosion spewed forth a great orange ball of fire over' the missile base here. It cast an eerie pall over a scene of car nage that one eyewitness called "horrible beyond imagination." Out of the smoke and flames, one of the sleek, liquid-fueled rockets launched itself at the ip stant of the explosion. It spent itself harmlessly in open terrain after a sinister, unguided flight for two miles over populated areas. Eyewitnesses spoke of flam ing pieces of other missiles arch ing across the rolling country side here. At least one fell in a yard where children had been at play a short time earlier. The terrific heat of the blast melted the metal work around the missil e-launching pit. It burned trucks and other Army vehicles to steel skeletons. Lebanon Asks Support For Charges on, Arabs BEIRUT, Lebanon (JP) The pro-Western Lebanese govern ment sought yesterday to win United Nations and Arab League support for charges that the Unit ed Arab Republic is guilty of massive interference in Lebanon's recent upheavals. While government forces still battled insurgents, the Cabinet met and a Parliament committee subsequently voted 7-3 to com plain to the Security Council. agencies concerned to act at once; 2. Military jet trainers when to prevent future midair smash-traveling from higher to lower ups. altitudes will be required to do A five-point program was an-lso off civilian airways. nounced at the White House by' 113. Itinerant cross - country, for Rep. Prince H. Preston (D-Ga.)„lexample jet planes will be re chairman of the House subcom-iquired to file flight plans with mittee. It provides for these the CAA. changes in flying regulations: 04. Jet trainer pilots making 01. Jet trainer aircraft flown; proficiency flights will be re by student pilots on civilian air- tquired to do so off the civilian ways will be required to operate airways. under instrument flight rules-- •5. Operation flights, as dis- IFR. At present, Preston said,;tinguished from training flights, such craft operate under visual !must be made on the civilian air flight rules except at night and iways under IFR restrictions and in bad weather. CAA control. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Troops Fight Studentßiots In Panama PANAMA (IP) —Panama troops battled destructive rioters and snipers yesterday and bottled up student demonstrators here and in Colon. Government spokesmen said or der was being restored after hours of fighting in the capital of this republic astride the U.S.-run canal zone. Nine persons were killed and at least 61 injured in hours of fighting- here between National Guardsmen and rioters who went on a rampage of destruction. The government claimed snipers killed the victims, including men, women and youths. Several Na tional Guardsmen were among the wounded. There were no reports of cas ualties at Colon, second largest city in the country, at the Carib bean entrance to the canal. Other sections of the country were reported quiet. The riots came in the midst of the thieat of .a general strike at midnight Thursday (2 a.m.) EST Friday. The government met that threat and the accompanying riots with declaration of a state of siege -modified martial law, Amid indications the govern ment was ready to impose press and radio censorship, there were reports the afternoon opposition newspaper Nacion was forced to close and its editor, Manual Maria Valdes, was jailed. Firing was heaviest here in the Calidonia tenement section and around the National Institute, headquarters of the student movement. Postal Rates Raise Passed by House WASHINGTON (IP)—A 379-0 House up to President Eisenhower whether to 550 million dollars a year. The unanimous vote comp] bill that, in addition to, raisin, postal employe? pay•-by. 380 mil- i lion dollars a‘ year. - - If Eisenhower signs the bill be fore the month is out, the cost of mailing a first class letter will in crease on Aug. 1 from the present 3 cents to 4 cents. It will cost 7 cents, instead of 6, for an airmail' letter and 3 cents, instead of 2,1 for a postcard Rates on secnod class - mail-1 newspapers and magazine s—i would be raised 60 per 'cent on the advertising content and 301 per cent on the editorial portion of a publication. This would take effect in three annual 20 and 10 per cent jumps' with the first one coming next, January. , Third class—largely adver tising circulars—rates would be increased 66% per cent in two steps. The bulk piece r ate would go up from 1 1 / 2 to 2 cents next Jan. 1 and to 21' 2 cents July 1, 1960. The administration has been trying for years to get rates raised, so as to reduce the annual deficit shown in Post Office De partment operations. However, this bill is 150 million dollars short of what Eisenhower asked in revenue and 220 million more than he sought in pay raises. While there has been some talk of a veto, one senator said that Postmaster General Sum merfield urgently asked Eisen hower last Monday to sign the measure. Most postal workers will get a 10 per cent pay raise, retroactive to last Jan. 1 if the bill becomes law. California Refinery Hit by Explosions LONG BEACH, Calif. (iP)—Tre mendous explosions and fire hit a Hancock Oil Co. refinery on Sig nal Hill yesterday, killing one man and injuring an undeter mined number. Nearby barracks of the Long Beach Air Force Base were im periled, firemen reported. Th e barracks was evacuated. Scene of the fire was the re finery site near Municipal Air port, about three miles northeast of downtown Long Beach. Cardinal Said Past Danger ROME UP) Samuel Cardinal Stritch's doctor said Thursday the 70-year-old Archbishop of Chi cago appears to be past the in itial danger from his stroke four nights ago. ••0•••••••••••••••••• O s • • • • e e • • • • e a so • ii • • e I • • s t— • Phonograph Repair at Bengus Music Service 111 East Beaver Avenue Opposite the Post Mee, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1956 vote Thursday put it raise postal rates by leted congressional action on a g postal rates, would increase Reds Say Japan Safe ' If Stockpiling Is Halted LONDON (EP) Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev said yes terday the Soviet Union would promise not to attack Japan with atomic or hydrogen weapons if the Japanese ban stockpiling of nuclear arms in their country. Khrushchev made his promise in a letter to Yukitaka Haraguti, general counsel of Japanese trade unions, Moscow radio said. 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