PAGE TWO Approval Urged For Space Plan UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (/P> The United States and the Soviet Union joined yesterday to urge unanimous ap proval of a new plan to give the United Nations a role in assunng peaceful exploration of outer space. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov made their plea before the UN Political Committee after working out an agreement on a resolution to set up a 24-nation committee on outer space. The resolution called also for an international conference of space expei ts to be held under UN auspices in 1960 or 1961. Unanimous approval is ex pected in the political commit tee and in the Assembly. Lodge and Kuznetsov worked out final details of the resolution at a private meeting that broke the long standing U.S.-Soviet deadlock on outer space. They had been conferring for the past three weeks. Agreement was reached only after some sharp concessions by the United States and other West ern powers. The United Stales insisted that only three Communist and two neutral nations be on the special committee on outer space set up last year. The new committee has 12 Western. 7 Communist and 5 neutral na tions. Both Kuznetsov and- Lo d g joined in appealing for unanimous approval of the resolution on the ground that it would speed co operation both in outer space and other fields including disarma ment. The resolution provides for the new committee to serve two years. Caponettes Are Treated With Hormone WASHINGTON (/P) The Ag-| riculluie Department said yester day that only premium-priced! chickens known as caponettes —were treated with a hormone which can cause cancel. And officials added that not even all caponettes have been fat tened with stilbestrol. Stilbestrol is a synthetic hor mone that has been found to cause cancer in experimental animals and the government has arranged with the poultry and drug indus tries to halt its use in poultry. When the voluntary ban was announced Thursday, it was as serted that the hormone has been used in only one per cent of the poultry raised in the United States—mostly in birds sold in the New York City and Los An geles markets. Acting Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse advised consum ers that regular broilers, fryers, roasting chickens and capons are not involved and can be pur chased “with the knowledge that they have been treated with stilbestrol.” Morse said he made his expla nation to clarify questions raised after the announcement by Sec retary Arthur S. Fleming of the Health, Education and Welfare Depaitment that a voluntary plan had been worked to end the treat ment of poultry with stilbestrol. Blue Law Stay Rejected WASHINGTON (JP) —• The U.S. Supreme Couit and a special fed eral court in Philadelphia both refused to grant stays of enforce ment of Pennsylvania’s Blue Laws. The nation’s highest court ruled In a case involving Two Guys from Harrison—Allentown, dis count store near Allentown, Pa. The special federal court in Philadelphia ruled in the case of five orthodox Jewish merchants in South Philadelphia. Haiold E Kolm, attorney for Two Guys, had asked for a delay in enforcement of the taw, which prohibits sale of certain items on Sunday, until he and his col leagues have submitted an appeal of a lower court ruling and until a determination is made on that ruling. The special federal court in Philadelphia refused on Dec. 1 to rule on the constitutionality of the blue laws. Kohn then sought a delay in enforcement in a petition offered Thursday to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William F. Brennan. Justice Brennan submitted the FOLK SINGING sutton place SUNDAY AFTERNOON (2-4 p.m.) (where the western auto store meets the sidewalk) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Life Spores in spoce MOSCOW f.‘P) —A group of So viet biologists suggest tiny spores of life may be floating in outer space, fn an article in the maga zine Medical Worker they proposed an to obtain! space material from outside the earth’s atmosphere for analysis. petition to the full court at its regular closed conference yester day. Within 30 minutes the court announced: 'The application for stay, or in the alternative for writ of in junction, presented to Justice Brennan and by him presented to the court, is denied.” William T. Coleman. Kohn’s as sociate in the case, said a notice of appeal of the special court rul ing would be filed, with the U.S. [Supreme Court as quickly as pos sible Coleman said the appeal itself —all the briefs and arguments— will be filed with the court in three weeks. The Allentown store noted it would suffer serious harm if if were noi granted the stay to re main open in the busy pre- Christmas shopping season. Actually the store can stay open —as long as it makes no sales of banned items. Defendant in the ease is Le high County Dist. Atty. Paul A. McGinley. With no stay, he can enforce the blue laws this Sun day. Government Drops Vega Moon rocket WASHINGTON (JP) The gov ernment yesterday scrapped its $65 million Vega moonrocket and pined its hopes of interplanetary successes on another rocket now in the planning stage. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it will rely on the Centaur rocket for deep space probes. It conceded that abandonment of the Vega program might delay some of these flights by three to six months. On the other hand, the agency said less ambitious projects origi nally assigned to Vega may ac tually be speeded up. It said these chores will be turned over to a new Atlas-Agena space vehicle which it believes will be more re liable than Vega. Centaur is expected to be ready for launching some time m 1961. NASA said Atlas-Agena will make its first flights last next year. The agency's announcement said the action was taken “to re duce the number of rocket ve hicles used in the U.S. space pro grams.” A spokesman said the major reason for scrapping Vega was to “buy reliability” rather than to save money. He said much of the Vega funds now will be spent on Agena. At the same time he acknowl edged that if Atlas-Agena is in deed a more reliable rocket, this wil be “money in the bank.” Maker Claims Drug Firms Overcharge WASHINGTON (JP) A drug maker said yesterday the big pharmaceutical houses are goug ing the American people by at least $750 million a year. Seymour N. Blackman pictured the prescription user as the cap tive of a big company monopoly— the victim of overpricing with no freedom of choice in selecting the brand of medication he needs. Blackman, 39, an executive of two New Jeisey firms, made thisj attack on his big competitors in testimony before the Senate Anti trust subcommittee. The Senate group is trying to determine whether drug prices are too high at the wholesale level, and if] Congress should do something i about it. “I personally feel that the American public is overpaying at least three-quarters of a billion dollars annually for the medica tion which they purchase on pre scription,” Blackman said. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Laboratories Inc. of South Hackensack, and president of Omega Precision Medical In struments Inc. of Passaic, charged the big drug firms have won con trol of medicine pricing by con trolling patents on new wonder remedies and other compounds. Vice Sweeps Stale College TIM and LEONIDES Risk Leavenworth in Presenting Las Vegas Kite Probability of Raid Undintinished by Hie Fact that the Odds Are Against the House TONIGHT $1 jft . * ®Bs Troops Halt Strife In Six Week Strike ALBERT LEA, Minn. (#) Bayonet-wielding. National Guardsmen brought an enforced peace yesterday to this strike-divided town. The soldiers moved in when Gov. Orville Freeman de clared martial law to halt two days of violence at the Wilson & Co. packing plant, scene of a bitter 6-week old labor dispute. The Guard dispersed massed pickets who had overturned and stoned cars of non-union workers during the past two days. It shut production at the Wilson plant, Albert Lea’s biggest employer. It foibade assembly of more than three persons near the plant or more than 50 persons anywhere in this prosperous. Christmas decorated, little southern Minne sota city. The military took over com mand of all peace officers in Freeborn County, of which Al bert Lea is the eounly seat, and suspended all court orders and actions pertaining to the dis pute. The striking union, United Packinghouse Workers Local No., 6, officially regretted the deela-[ ration of martial law, but made; no move to challenge the troops’ authority. Wilson President James C. Cooney of Chicago declined toj make a statement after a long: closed-door session with Gov.] Freeman in St. Paul. He said he; did not want to handicap the gov-! ernor in any way in getting the dispute settled. Freeman said, "We have re viewed the situation with a view oi resuming collective bargain ing. I am hopeful we can ac complish this if we get both sides around the bargaining table." Wilson has pushed a program of operating the meat processing plant with non-union labor after, the union formally went on strike Nov. 3. Voters OK Sessions By Slimmest Margin HARRISBURG (TP) —Pennsyl vania voters approved annual ses-1 sions of the State Legislature by] less than a 64,000 majority—the slimmest margin of any statewide issue—in the Nov. 3 election. IBSEN'S John Gabriel Borkman An examination of the perennial human illusion of power and possession. This Weekend Center Stage SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1959 Railroad Strike Given Even Chance WASHINGTON (JP) The top railroad labor chief indicated yes terday a belief there is a 50-50 chance for a railroad strike next year. But if it happens, said George E. Leighty, chairman of the Rail way Labor Executives Associa tion, the strike probably won’t be before May 1. In making his prediction on the outcome of current negotiations with almost a score of rail labor organizations, Leighty phrased it as a 50-50 chance a strike could be avoided. ★ CATHAOM TODAY: 1:46, 3:44, 5:35, 7:33, 9:31 SUNDAY: 2:05, 3:56, 5:47, 7:38 9:30 "Ml of 1 * extraordinary thrills." —CN Y. "Time* , Ingmar Bergman's JSm immq "UNFORGETTABLE” —N.Y. POST ★ NITTANY TODAY ALL DAY JAMES CAGNEY “FIGHTING 6STH” BEGINS 2 P.M. SUNDAY “The Silver Ghaliee" Paul Newman - Pier Angeli Can YOU Guess the Mystery Prof? Listen For Clues On "Groovology 51" at 10:05 WMAJ -1458
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