PAGE TWO Atomic Missile WASHINGTON (If')—U. S. hopes for building a defense against the intercontinental ballistic missile were brightened yesterday by the announced success of a series of high alti tude atomic test explosions. The hitherto secret launc] State Freeway Project Begins BROOK VILLE, Pa. (IP) A symbolic, three-handled s h o v e l and a roaring bull-dozer turned the first earth yesterday for the start of the Keystone Shortway,l a 291-mile freeway that eyentu-' ally will span Pennsylvania from Ohio to New Jersey. The ceremony took place in gently sloping farm field south of Route 322 and six miles west of this Jefferson County community. An audience of 500, many of them from distant areas of the state, watched the event The strange shovel,. coated in bronze, was symbolic of state, federal and local participation in the project that will eventually cost hundreds of millions of dol lars It was wielded by State Sen. Z. H. Confair (R-Lycoming) of Wil liamsport, long lime leader in the battle for the Shortway; State Senator Jo Days (D.-Centre), who represented Gov. Lawrence and delivered the governor's pre pared sneech; and Carl W. Wild, of the Planning Division of the State fitgl.vays Department. Sales Tax Increase Defeated; Cigarette Levy Boost Passed HARRISBURG (M—Gov. Law rence's plan to boost the 3 per cent sales tax to 3Sz per cent, was defeated in the State Legis lature yesterday, 88-119. How ever, unanimous approval was given to a cent-a-pack rise in the cigarette tax After the dramatic post-mid night session, House Democratic leadership picked up• the pieces of the fallen sales tax bill and made a new overture for Repub lican help to pass it after the Easter recess. The cigarette tax boost from five to six cents a pack went to' the Senate for action. It is de signed to raise 25 million dollars every two years to finance a 150- million-dollar Korean War bonus. The House also sent to the Sen ate legislation completing the groundwork to borrow the 150 million dollars in an effort to start Sammy's Billiards North on 322 Open Mon. to Sat. until 12 p.m. All Rates Reduced Underneath the Victory Diner Explosions Raise Defense Hopes ling of three rockets bearing nuclear warheads into space late last summer was described by the Defense Department as hav ing "advanced the basis of know ledge required to develop anti missile missiles." Dep. Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles told a Pentagon news confere.ece that "the na tional security had been helped by these experiments." He said the test blasts—the first known man-made nuclear explo sions in space—had provided in formation to back up the Nike- Zeus antimissile missile now un der development in this country. These systems must be highly effective in their ability to find and track an onrushing enemy [ weapon in time to knock it out.' The first of the three atomic bombs was launched from a Nary missile experimental ship last Aug. 27. The second burst was three days later and the last of the series was on Sept. 6. The officials emphasized that this was about a month before the Oct. 1 start of a one-year sus pension on nuclear explosions pending negotiations with the So viet Union for halting of all such tests. payments flowing to some 330,000 Korean War veterans by the end of the year. Reservations are due for Sigma Delta Chi's Grid Iron Banquet 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4 tickets $3.25 at Hotel State College ll lll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllt - = F. = Dinners Served Nightly .. : . = :.-..- E i Tanglewood Acres t = ...... =:..-- Steaks Spaghetti Lobster = =-. = Shrimp Pizza Sandwiches = Selected Beverages ~== = = = For Reservations Call i . F Hain 5-4584 = . = DANCING !JO MINORS '-' Jacksonville Rd. 4 1 / 2 Miles from Bellefonte 5111111111111111111101111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111:1:: THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Macmillan Calls For Firmness, Reason in Talks WASHINGTON (.LP) Arriving here for talks with President Ei senhower, Britain's Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan called on the Western Allies to develop "the right mixture" of firmness and reasonableness to guide them in foreign ministers' and summit conferences with the USSR's leaders. Macmillan expressed confidence that- the Soviet leaders want to negotiate rather than go to war over Berlin. "I am persuaded that the So viet leaders realize that they and we have a common interest in avoiding war," he said. Not long afterward the State Department challenged Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back up the apparent softer tone of remarks he made at a news conference in Moscow yesterday. Khrushchev said he was ready Ito accept a Western offer to con- 1 vene a foreign ministers confer ence May 11. JACK WIMMER SAYS; 4ai At F t' 44 %. 1$ Get the winter's grit and dirt out of your car's shac kles and running gear with a complete Sunoco A-Z lub rication. WIMMER'S SUNOCO 502 E College- AD 8 - 6143 Soviet Boss Agrees To Ministers' Talk MOSCOW (A—Soviet Premier ing possibly later. Nikita Khrushchev said yester-' 1 Repeatedly in the two-hour day he is willing to open a for- conference with 300 correspond eign ministers conference on Ger- ents in the Kremlin, Khrush many May 11 but insisted only at chev insisted the Soviet Union summit meeting can brush awayl was ready to meet the West the threatening clouds of war. more than half way to solve "I am convinced there will . be' the questions of Germany and meetings of both the foreign mm- European security. There was inters and heads of states," he, nothing threatening in his words told a news conference. He saidi or manner. he is waiting for the West to make( In Washington, a State Depart concrete proposals.ment spokesman said Khrush- Khrushchev expressed belief Ichev's remarks appear to be en- President Eisenhower's Mon- couraging day night speech to the Ameri can people recognized a need for negotiations and a willing ness to take part in them. Noting that Eisenhower also had called for a firm Western stand on Berlin, Khrushchev said the Pres ident's speech contained contra dictions and reservations He said, however, that when the reservations "are Nkreeded out" there remains a majority of "healthy seeds"—namely, a will ingness to hold a foreign minis ters meeting with a summit meet- 00011110111••••• 00000000 'OM WMAJ Morning Devotion' 11:15 5:4? 11:0 11:05 11:15 12:05 12 ili ----- Mask at Diafiir 11 County Nom li :3 12 :36 What's Galan' On 1:00 Mews and Sports t:ls 6:00 0:05 Lra and Show Thou 6:30 -- _ Nowa 5:35 .... - LP's an d Show Tinos 11:1110 6:15 4:30 ' - LP'. and Show Tunes 1 :00 ....,.. 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