TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1961 Lawrence Fails to Set Final Date on Ed Report HARRISBURG M—Discussion of when the Lawrence administration will have its long-awaited education report ready took some confusing turns yesterday. Rep. Stephen McCann, House Democratic floor leader, said he expected the report of the governor's committee to be Congressmen Sign Statement On Red China WASHINGTON (/P) A ma jority of the House and Senate have signed a statement opposing U.S. recognition of Red China or seating Red China in the United Nations. This was annolince.d yesterday by "the Committee of One Mil lion against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" which circulated the statement among members of Congress. Listed as endorsers were 54 sen ators and 285 representatives split almost evenly by party, 165 Democrats and 174 Republicans. The Committee on One Million is h•nded by Warren R. Austin, former Vermont senator and am bassador to the U.N., and Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan. Among the endorsers of the statement were a majority of the members of the Senate Commit tee on Foreign Relations. A majority of the House Com mittee on Foreign Affairs also en dorsed the statement, including Robert N. C. Nix (1).-Fa.) and J. Irving Whalley (R.-PA.) Nationalist Plane Shot TOKYO (/P) Peiping radio reported yesterday that pro-Com munist forces in Laos shot down a Chinese Nationalist plane over Laos Sunday morning. It said all six aboard were killed. Bank Notes to Be Treated PARIS (,P) All new French bank notes will be printed on pa-1 per treated by secret process with a disinfectant, the Bank of France announced. Strike Hinders Air Services New York (4)—Much of the nation's vast air travel net work, hit by a wildcat strike of a relatively small union, faltered yesterday toward a standstill, Operations of leading airlines were cut to a fraction. The effects, building up from a four-day-old walkout of flight engineers, forced one of the most widespread shutdowns in com mercial aviation history. Almost completely knocked out were long-distance, big plane flights, on which engi neers were required. Generally service was cut to 15 per cent of normal, or less. Thousands of stranded passengers sought alternate means of trans portation, or turned to other do mestic airlines, not involved in the strike. These were mainly lines provid ing service on a short-hop basis, with twin-engine planes. The engineers are protesting a Feb. 6 decision by the National Mediation Board ordering them and another union, the Air Lines factory authorized VOLKSWAGEN Sales Parts Service $1624.00 WYNO SALES CO. 1960 E. 3rd SL Williamsport sent to the legislature March 15 He said he was assured of that target date by Dr. Robert A. Christie, the committee's execu tive director. But Christie, interviewed later, said he didn't know specifically what day the report would be ready. He thought it would be completed in March, as Gov. Lawrence has said, but added it 'was impossible to give a specific date. Rep. Willard F. Agnew, House Republican floor leader, said House Republicans are consider- HARRISBURG (/P) President Eric A. Walker of Pennsylvania State University yesterday took his plea for an expanded budget to a joint legislative committee here. He said that without the $23 million requested, Penn State will not be able to hire enough teachers to handle its students. Walker told the Senate-House Appropriations Committee hear ing that Penn State needs $4 million more than the $l7 mil lion the governor requested just to continue its present program without any of the needed im provements. Without the other $2 million, he said, some 1200-1400 stu dents, by which Penn State hopes to be able to increase its freshman enrollment next fall, will have to be turned away. The presidents of Temple Uni versity and the University of Pennsylvania also met with the committee to request additional appropriations in the state budget. ing the possibility of submitting their own legislative program for education before Lawrence does so. He reiterated the administration seems to be stalling on the matter and that the GOP leadership was getting a bit impatient. The governor told the legisla ture in his State of the Common wealth message that the report would be ready sometime in March. At a news conference lat er, he said the date would be "on or about March 1, perhaps soon er." Pilots' Association, to hold an election for a single bargaining agent. The engineers, outnumbered by pilots, claim the decision could wipe out their union and pos sibly their jobs. Last Saturday, the union itself ordered members back to work, but they spurned the order. Mort Kutner, a spokesman for the wildcat movement, said: "We realize that to go back means we are going to be pushed out of a job." Meanwhile, the strike produced growing paralysis for the airlines. In New York alone, more than 600 flights, involving about 50,000 passengers, were canceled today. Hundreds of other flights. and Young Republican Meeting Tonight 7:30 P.M. 218 HUB Speaker: Dean McKinley Topic: "The 1960 Business Contraction" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tax Outline Approved By Senate HARRISBURG (/P) The Senate last night approved a $97.7 million revenue program ~ s ought by Gov. Lawrence. With Republican support rang ing from one to six votes, a solid 25-vote block of Democrats skim med through six measures. By passed temporarily was an $8 mil lion measure eliminating commis sions for sales tax collections. One other measure to raise some $1 to $2 million was de feated, 22-27, but was put in posi tion for reconsideration today. The tax bill had been dead locked in the Senate since Jan. 26 after winning quick approval in the Democratic-controlled House. A 25-25 split between Demo crats and Republicans in the Sen ate resulted in '.he revenue pro posals being held In position for final passage for weeks. No revenue program since World War II won approval of both houses so quickly. The pas sage of the program was in mark ed contrast to the sessions of 1951, 1955 and 1959, which lasted a year 'or more each. Sen. Charles R. Weiner, Demo cratic floor leader, declared is our duty" to support the rev enue program. Ceylonese Crowd Hurts 5 Parliament Members JAFFNA, Ceylon (11 3 ) Five Parliament members were in jured in a police charge on a stone-throwing crowd of 3,000 here yesterday. The crowd had been showing its sympathy for pickets obstructing entry to government offices in protest against the adoption of Sinhala as this former British colony's official language. The five injured are members of the Federal party, a political grouping of Ceylon's Tamil speaking minority. Charles Returns to School LONDON, (/P)—Prince Charles, 12, heir to the British throne, went back to school yesterday after a week of convalescing from measles. His grandmother Queen Mother Elizabeth drove with him from Windsor Castle to the school. thousands of other passengers elsewhere, were affected. Pan- American ordered a complete worldwide shutdown at noon. American said it was beginning to lay off most of its 24,000 em ployes. It said 85 per cent of its operations were halted, with only some small twin-engined short haul craft in service. TWA, with 90 per cent of its flights grounded, indicated it would begin laying off its 20,000 employes if there was no sign of a settlement last night. National already has laid off 3500 of its 4000 employes. Eastern also started furloughing some of, its 17,000 employes. JFK Submits Plan For Education Aid WASHINGTON (R')—President Kennedy declared yes terday the federal government is under obligation to help educate the country's youth, and he proposed spending $5.7 billion as a starter over the next few years. To Congress, which never has passed a law providing general aid to education, Kenne dy described his program as "an essential though modest• contri bution " Kennedy recommended offering federal funds not only for con struction but also for teachers' salaries. In brief, Kennedy set forth these goals: "A new standard of excellence in education and the availability of such excellence to all who are willing and able to pursue it." He proposed this program: a Outright grants to the states for classrooms and/Or salaries. Each state would receive at least $l5 a pupil in average daily pub lic school attendance. The aver age would be based on a formula using a state's total personal in come divided by the number of its pupils compared with the cor responding national totals. e College scholarships. Rang ing up to $lOOO, according to need, these would average $7OO a year. Colleges and universities would receive $350 for each scholarship to help meet actual expenses. •New long-term, low interest loans for the building of college classrooms and other educational facilities. °Additional loans for collage dormitories, continuing this form of aid for five years at .5250 mil lion annually and increasing the amount for the current year. SPECIAL SALE-JAZZ RECORDS LIST $4.98 - NOW $2.98 THE HARMONY SHOP FRAZIER AT BEAVER NM. I 41.1". mem •••• Imo 0. ow., as, , 14. • low.,••• "era • 0f . .. , 4 .• .ILT , • We all make mistakes... 11111 1 11 V ERASE WITHOUT A TRACE ON EATON'S CORR - A - SABLE BOND Don't meet your Waterloo at the typewriter—perfectly typed papers begin with Corrisable! 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The dissolution climaxed months of turmoil for Eyskens" middle-of the-road regime. The upheaval in the Congo was followed by a grave economic crisis, which in turn held Belgium crippled for nearly a month in the grip of a massive general strike as the government tried to meet it with higher taxes and steep cuts in state welfare serv ices. Eyskens, austerity program rode out the storm, only to flound er Friday when Liberal ministers in the government quit after a dispute on how and when the bi should become effective. 1:1=I=1! ALL THIS WEEK! SAVE $2.00 PAGE THREE PHONE AD 7-2130
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