FARM B I L L The Eisenho w er Administration won a signal victory today in the battle over the Farm B111. The Senate knocking out a provision tor rigid price supports on a series or basic agricult u ral pruducts. )the ninety ) per cent parity - which the Administration has opposed - n : : t ~ ~ ~ \ f ' P " ' " v - r , a - all along. Favoring - lexible price supports. J, The vote in the Senate was titty-tour to torty-one. Thirteen Democrats going over to the side or the Administration Republicans. Six o.o.P. Senators backing the policy or rigid supports tor rarm prices. The question goes now - to the House or Representative,. HI G HWAY ~ Con g ressi on al Sub-COIDll11ttee voted approval today tor the bi g e s t public works project 1n the history or the country. Fitty billion dollars - tor a highway program. A torty thousand mile network ot super-highways - linking most state capitals. Roads - vital tor National defense. Necessary also ror/t he vast increase or highway traffic expected 1n the caning ten years. In the titty billion dollar program, the goverrunent would put up more than t h1rty-six-e.nd-a-halt billions. The states - the remainder. T h e Ways and Means Comm1 ttee or the House has already approved or a bill - tor raising the money, the - p roposal 1s to hike taxes tor the coming sixteen yea.rs - A on g asoline, diesel !uel, tires, truckJ, buses. r H1 g hway users - to p ay tor the highways. E IS ENHOWER The White House, today, gave answer to the ott1c1al D emotrat1c statement made 1aat night by Sena.tor Spe.rlanan ot Alabama. T he Senator - repl.y1ng on the radio, to President E1senhowers acceptance addres There 1s a White House denial or the Sparlaan 1nt1ma tion that President Eisenhower plans to turn over certain "Constitutional duties" to assistants. A Presidential spokesman says ••• "I think the President very clearly stated - the distinction between his Constitutional duties and his hospitality !unctions. The latter - being the department 1n which he bas reduced his activities". so it 1s the "hospitality runct1ons" that will be curtailed. I S O' {2) That, by the way, is a terse expression tor the business or receiving bi g name visitors and those delegations or visiting tiremen, attending banquets, making addresses on ceremonial occasions, not to mention the volume or complimentary letters correspondence - answering tA(( ~ f. r ran Challbers or Commerce, ~ . N t . A 1 Hosp1ta11ty tunct1ons, or, would you say hospitality nuisance! Senator parlona.n also declared that President Eisenhower now, works only th1rty-t1ve to rorty hours a week. Compared to the sixty hours a week he put 1n betore he surrered the heart attack. so the spokesman at the White House argues back 1n these words: "I don't think the Senator wruld measure EISENHOWER (3) his own services by the nwnber or hours he puts 1n on the floor of the Senate, or in his ott1ce. Or - by the nwnber or constituents be receives as visitors.• All or which suggests the question - how many hours a week should statesmen put in! Maybe they ought to have a Union. WESTI H U E The lectrical workers Union has rejected an ofter tor settling the est1ngbouse alkout. The strike - ~ which has been going on tor one-hundred-am-forty-tour days. A Federal Mediation Board ottered a •package• proposal, which the company accepted, wt the Union, toda_y, said - no. This ends the hope or a quick end ot the longest •lor strike in twenty years. PA LE.S TINE Lond o n reports that B ritai n and the United States have agreed - they will make a "show or force• 1n the FAstern Med1terranean1 enipbas1z1ng their determination Jt. to prevent an all-out wal between Israel and the Arabs. Sources 1n London say - the British-American agreement was tipped ott, yesterday, when 1t was announced, 1n wa hington - that a force or u.s. Marines was being sent across to the u~s. Sixth Fleet 1n the Med1t rrean. In aah1ngton, however, the NB.VY' still declares that the assigmnent or the Marines has no connection v with th e m1 d-F.astern crisis. Just - routine. However, London insists on the "show or force• idea. - PLAF.STINE ( 2 ) Another plan reported is ! or the estern Big Three to ask tor action by the United Nations. The Security Council to warn both Israel and the Arabs - that they must keep the peace, under a threat or sanctions. A crack-down, diplomatic or economic or - even military should either Israel or the Arabs begin a war. DULLES The Karach1 "'onterence., roday, expanded the area in outheast Asia - to be defended against ecnnun1st aggression. Secretary Dulles a g reeing - that protection should include the border ot Pakistan and Atghan1atan. Which two countries are engaged 1n a - ~ -£'.r,-fL, ~~ frontier dispute - -... Atghants't~ · ~ b y soviet ,A.. /\. .. - ---7) Russia . The dispatch tran Karachi says - Secretary Dulles agreed to this expansion, reluctantly. At the same time, the ~onterence made a declaration on Kashmir • ., which legended land 1s 1n dispute between Pakistan and India . he statement., as the "'onference ems, 1nc d e s a clause that recommends action by the United Nations. Ur - "direct negotiations" between DULLES (2) Pakistan and India. This tter suggestion w111 please India - which favors "direct negotiations." This concession to India 1a all the more to the point - because Secretary Dulles will be in ~ew Delhi tomorrow - on a visit ot state. Otticials at Hew Delhi say the American Secretary ot st~te will be greeted with, wm.t the dispatch calla, "all the pcnp and protocol befitting the representative ot a great power". Seems as it the ntw India likes those huge performances - welcoming bi~-time tore1gl'J visitors. Maybe Indians just like a spectacular showr-~Y always d1d. - - , a., ~ .,,I • _, C c:.... ! ~ ... : _, , I = C-111' .. - -- • • ,,,. r .-Pi ;. : :m::. .. :..z m ~~ =-~ ~ ' - - - a • - ~ . ~~ .. , ~ ~. ~ ~ =-- .L ~ ~ I :_, ,;.~-~= f ... .::,_r • :.__,t-- . . .:J _f L ,- • - CONFERENCE (2) and Switzerland 1s a particularly pleasant place - when the snows melt on the Matterhorn and Mt. Blanc am the ritelwe1ss blooms and the ibex leap trClll crag to crag. O VI ETS Bulganin and Khrushchev, g o1ng to London next month, will take along - a leading Russian Atan1c Scientist. Also, a top airplane d esigner. a w e e 1 ~ ti ti tile Sulga~ia ¥bNeael!W & to accmpany the Soviet Premier amt hA leader ot the Rua 1an Camnun1st Party..-, wae11 1'MY -v1a14s tee BP1,il.8h"" ~ ~ ~ . . .1...1.n.._,.,.,~~ • A. Kurachatov. J(hown 1n A J scientitic circles tor his work in atomic pbys1cs. Also - Andrei Tupolev, a Stalin Prize winner, who is believed to be working on Soviet inter-continental bomb development. ~t?.\-~ suggest the notion - SOVIEI'S (2) that Bulganin am Khrushc h ev 1n London, w111 give a good deal or attention to guest1ons or atan1c d1sarmame ITALIAN P Rra IDENI' San Francisco, today, g ave Italian President Gronchi - the biggest reception he has received 1n this country thus tar. Gala scenes - with an otticial elcome by or G eorge Christopher, who, addressing the P resident from Rane, said: "OUr city 1s named attar that lovable and gentle Italian - st. Francis o! Assissi. Our banking, agriculture, industry," the or went on, "has been molded by giants o! Italian parentage.• ' The Mayors ntion ot banking suggests the late A.P. G iannini - who certainly was a giant or banking. Interest i n g Juxtapos1t1on - St. F rancia ot Asaiss1 aoo t he mighty banker G1ann1n1. ITALY At Milan, 1taly, today, a doctor held hie hand 1n front ot the right eye or an eighteen year old g1rl, two teet away, and she was able to count the fingers. Yesterday, the same experiment was performed w1th a t elve year old boy, the result - similar success. The lad - able to count the fingers on the doctors ham. Allot which 1s an opt1m1st1c tollow-ip to the story or the dying Priest - who asked that h1s two eyes be used to restore the sight ot two blind children. The corneas ot the two eyes - to be transplanted. So the doctors picked out the twelve year old boy and the eighteen year old girl, and pertormed the operations. The results could not be known tor several days - until the bandages were taken ott. A!ld now - both boy lTALY (2) and g irl can see. The doctors explain, however, that t h ough successtul, the tests are not tinal. The transpla ted c o rneas might become cloudy and opaque. But even so, there will be a chance tor a second operation - to achieve success. Hol l yw o 1s a o over he headl1 e case, 1nvolv1ag a !1 ure ell kno n to the stars, the starlets, the rod u cers, the directors. Al e1te baum, the rurr1er, wit a swa establ1sbment 1n ev rl.y Hills. A rur salon here r11m celebr1t1ee ~ ermines, their eeeveP am buy t he1r minks and chinchilla. The case concerns a rob ery or the rur salon, with a rand Jury handing down 1nd1ctments. Among the witnesses - ell known Hollywood nam~s - like the singer r1o Lanza, a tr1end or the rurr1er - who test111ed as tollo s: O n D ecenber Twenty-ueve th, r1o Lanz.a arr1Yed at he . e1tlebaum ! u r salon, an d t o d he couldn't get 1n thro g h the tront d oor. so, kno 1ng the place well, LS ANGELF13 (2) he went to the back door. There Teitelbaum let him in and told him a robbery had occured . A couple or bandits having made ott with two-hundred-and-el hty- thousand dollars worth or turs. When the evidence was all in, the Grand Jury indicted Al Teitelbaum. Charged with having arranged A - - - - the robbery. Two ex-convicts also were indicted, having confessed they staged the hold-up - hired by ' l ' ei telbaum. The Pol1~e declare the furrier was heavily in debt, owing some seven-hundred -and-titty-thousand-dollars, and ~ raked the robbery to get !8ke insurance money. ;\ Today, Teitelbaum declared he was indic,ed on the -- ''talse te timony" ot the two ex-convicts, who, say his ~ - ~ L OS ANGELES (2) lawyers - - contradicted each other betore the Grand Jury. The trial promises to provide a topic ot conversation here in Hollywood tor sometime. i.; ILS Flor1da 1s exportin g "cannibals" to Haa11. A cons1gnment 1s on 1 ts way. "cannibal" snails I_-~ ~-tl.:t- --· devour other sna . . ls. I' Hawaii has a plague or giant snails which also 1n!eat other Paci!1c Islands. They ruin the vegetable gardens, e ting up everything green. n F rida, F.c.w. Kramer, eighty-one years old, 1a a snail fancier. He raises the mollusks as a hobby. Among them "cannibal" snails. So people 1n Hawaii had an idea - sna11-eat-sna11. a The "cannibals"~ extenninate the "giants" which are 1, such a pest. So they placed an order ror two hundred. A colony - which is expected to multiply arxl flourish - devouring the giant snails. NAILS (2) The Colony ot cannibals sent by Air Mail. And the Florid a !anc1er says "these "cannibal" snails are so mean - they will not only eat other snails, but they'll each other as well. He had to pack them in egg cartons, and give each "cannibal" a stateroom or his own, tor the a1r voyage over the Pac1t1c. So now Hawaii 1s to be the setting tor a war - - The war or The Snails. So long as(t hey don't import snails that spread b11RS,r1as1s it will be alright. 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