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    PAGE TWO
Stage Set for Elections
HARRISBURG (11,---Gloomy
skies across the commonwealth
were predicted to greet Penn
sylvania voters today, hut rain
is expected to hold off for mOSt
Assembly Accepts Bans
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.(/P)
—The U.N. General Assembly
and its Political Committee
approved resolutions yester
day aimed at ending tests of
nuclear
_weapons. Big power
differences appeared to doom both
in advance.
The assembly adopted a propo
sal by India and five nonaligned
nations urging a voluntary mora
torium on testing. It was rejected
by the United States. Britain,
France and the Soviet Union.
Earlier the assembly's Political
Committee approved a U.S.-Brit
ish resolution calling for new
East-West negotiations on a test
ban treaty providing effective in
ternational controls. The Soviet
Union said flatly there never
would be such negotiations.
The vote in the assembly'was
71, to 20 with 11 abstentions. The
United States and the Soviet
bloc joined in the negative
votes. Abstainers were Afghani
stan. Belgium. Cuba. Haiti.
Nether/ands. Ne w Zealand,
Spain and Tunisia.
Both U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean
and British Delegate J. B. God
ber rejected the moratorium on
the grounds that it failed to pro
vide for controls. Semyon K.
Tsarapkin, the Soviet delegate,
said a moratorium would only
result in Soviet inferiority in nu
clear arms might.
Nehru--
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itor took place at Andrews Air
Force Base after Nehru flew with
Kennedy from Newport. RI.,
where they had conferred for
about hours.
Presidential press secretary
Pierre Bolinger said the primary
subject of the first Kennedy-
Nehru talk at Newport was
Southeast Asia.
There was a consideration of
the situation in both Laos and
South Viet Nam, where Commu
nist guerrillas are waging a sus
tained attack on the government
of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Salinger did not elaborate,.
But he said that Nehru also dis
cussed a conversation he had
held in New Delhi last month
with special roving Ambassador
Averilli Harriman. who heads
the U.S. delegation at the 14-
' nation Geneva conference on
Laos.
India has been playing' a key
role at the Geneva conference.
and is chairman of the new Inter
national Control Commission
which will supervise the neutrali
ty of Laos , once a new govern
ment is formed.
The Soviet Union wants a weak
control commission and the Unit
ed States has urged a strong com
mission with authority, to halt
fighting wherever it may erupt.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
of the day.
That was the forecast of the U.
S. Weather Bureau at Harrisburg
on the eve of the 1961 municipal
election. The polls open at 7 a.m.
E.S.T., and close at 8 p.m.
Only a heavy downpour
could affect the voters turnout
—which is expected to range
between 60 and 70' per cent of
the registered voters. -
A total of 5,602,838 voters are
registered, . including 2,841,144
Democrats: 2,685,505 Republicans
and 76,180 independents or other
party registrants.
Voters will ballot in 9,123 pre
cincts.
In the only statewide _ con
test. Justice Anne X. Alpert'. I
Democrat. is opposed by Al
legheny County Judge Henry
X. O'Brien. Republican.
The big if of the campaign is
Philadelphia, a Democratic
stronghold. The city has been the
key to statewide Democratic suc
cesses since 1954 and the results
there will heavily influence the
statewide picture.
But there is no mayoralty
election in the city this year,
That fact would tend, on the bas
is of prior election turnouts, to
indicate. a total vote far short of
The assembly's committee ap- chinery to guard against any,
proved by a vote of 67 to it cheating.
with 16 abstentions a U.S.-Brit- The Soviet Union opposed the
ish resolution urging a renewal moratorium as infeasible, say
of the test-ban talks that col- ing the only approach was gen
lapsed in Geneva last Septem- eral and complete disarmament.
her. Tsarapkin told the Political
The opposing votes were cast, Committee the U.S.-British reso
by the Soviet bloc. Mongolia and lution was a stillborn document
Cuba. France, Finland and Yugo-land there was no sense in voting
slavia abstained, as did some mem-;for a reopening of the Geneva
hers of the Asian-African bloc.) talks.
India voted yes. Nine nations were! "There will never be such ne
absent. gotiations. One cannot attempt to
1 The U.S.-British prop os a I impose the will of the United
stressed the need for a treaty States on the United Nations," he
providing, fool-proof control ma-isaid.
Nkrumah Will Attempt
To Prove Queen's ziaatty
ACCRA, Ghana VP) President Kwame Nkrumah will
expose himself to his political foes today'on a trip along the'
route Queen Elizabeth II will take on her state visit Thursday.'
If Nkrumah's enemies make no attempt on his life and
there are no other serious disturbances, the royal tour willi
go on as scheduled, reliable sources said.
The dictatorial president.
whose foes set off two bombs sions in West Africa a cancella-1
in this capital Saturday. him- 101 l might have, including the]
self propoted the trial run in possibility of Ghana leaving the!
an obvious effort to assure ICommonwealth and veerin g
nervous Britain that the queen !further toward the Communist]
, will be safe. informants said. !bloc.
The bombings sent new waves
of uneasiness through London and
brought the Commonwealth rela- ,
Lions secretary, Duncan Sandys,
flying here for a last-minute,
check. Sandys will accompany'
Nkrumah on the ride.
The queen u extremely pop•
ular in Ghana and there is al
most no risk that she will be
the target of any attack during
her 11-day tour. But the British
government feared. some 'at
.tempt might be made against
Nkrurnah while he was with
the queen.
If any attempt on NkrumaleS
life is being - planned by opposition!
elements, the ride will provide!
'ample opportunity. There will be'
none of the massive security ar
rangements which will be in force
during the royal tour.
Prime DI - mister Harold Mac
millan said yaaterday it is stilt
to be decided whether - the
queen still is scheduled to leave
for Ghana Thursday.
Htigh Gaitskell, leader of the I
Labor party oppcnition_to Mecmil-1
lan's Conservative party, said I
"The House is genuinely con- i
cerned about the possibility of
danger to the . queen in view of
these bomb explosions reports.",
British officials say they believe]
the bombings were an attempt by
opposition elements to have the
tour cancelled, thus embarrassing!
Nkrumah.
Macmillan's government obvi
ously has in mind the repereus-
the 1060 presidential election
vote.
Also clouding the statewide
picture is the fact 24 cities, in
cluding Pittsburgh and Scran
ton, will have mayoralty elec
tions on local issues.
The. Pittsburgh election has,
Mayor Joseph M. Barr, a Demo
crat, heavily favored to retain his
office against challenger William
J. Crehan, a Republican.
In Scranton, Mayor James T.
Hanlon: a Democrat, will seek his
fourth term, against Republican
William Schmidt.
Sixty-five county judges will be
elected, but only 31 of the elec
tions are contested.
Voters also will decide the
fate of five constitutional
amendments. including one to
permit the governor to succeed
himself.
In 21 counties voters in 93
school districts will cast ballots
on proposed union or merger
questions, It all are approved,
there would be 25 new, larger
districts.
• The other constitutional amend
ment questions would:
•Allow the state to repay over
payments of taxes or fees without
special legislation, as now requir
ed by The constitution.
•Relieve from real estate taxes
STATE ID YTI
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needy war veterans who are dou
ble or quadruple amputees, para
plegic or blind.
to Allow the secretary of internal
affairs to take office in January,
along with other elected state of
ficers. Present law requires in
auguration to the Post in May
county. treasurers to
succeed themselves.
Candidate for State Justice
California Brush Fire
Hits Over 200 Homes
LOS ANGELES (AP) The'
most damaging brush fire in
Southern California history roared
through its richest residential dis
trict yesterday, burning hundreds
of homes.
By official count 186 homes—,
many mansions in the 6100,000+
and up class—were destroyed by
mid-afternoon. At least another
-100 were damaged as wind-lashed,
flames, becoming dread "fire'
storms" at times, swept the Holly-I
wood Hills.
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TUESDAY. 'NOVEMBER 7. 1961
Denounto Red Diplomat
Retains Official Poihien
BERLIN (Al') 'Mikhail G.
Pervukhin; denounced is a mem
ber of the Stalinist antiparty
group at the recent Soviet. Com
munist party congress, affluent
ly still is ambassador to Bast
Germany. Invitations to a recep
tion celebrating the. Bolshevik
Revolution bore Pervukhin's
name as ambassador.
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