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I', of 0. library -Us-cna , Orcc -en Ptresodeon'S Asks Mommy Wh Kennedy Plan Draws Moans From Abroad LONDON (AP) President Ken nedv's Dlan to limit duty-free purchases by .Americans travel ing abroad to $100 drew groans from .foreign shopkeepers but American tourists generally ac cepted the move philosophically. There was a feeling that the new administration's initial steps to protect U.S. gold reserves might have been mucn more drastic, une effect might be price cuts by stores that specialize in catering to Americans. Exnortt Gratified Rritish economic experts were gratified that the President had ruled out such short-term reme dies as higher tariffs, devaluation of the dollar and cutbacks in overseas aid. Japanese Foreign Office sources showed concern and said if the program is carried out in full, Japan will have to step up its campaign to increase exports to nations other than the United Stales. Mexican border communities especially Tijuana. Mexican ana F.nsenada. where many stores de pend entirely on American tourist trade are bound to feel a blow. Financial circles predicted that Kennedy's efforts to strengthen the U. S. economy and to get in ternational coordination of inter est rates could lead to an outflow of invested money from Britain. To Cut Earnings Also his specific measures to boost foreign spending in the United States and to discourage American exoenditure abroad were certain to cut Britain's trade earnings. Trade sources expressed fears Britain would feel the impact in the sale of many luxury goods automobiles, for example and predicted the immediate loss in dutv-free purchases would cost Britain an estimated $21 million a year. Sptnt $140 Millions Last year 414.000 Americans visited England and spent about S140 million on hotels, services and goods. Against this only 73, 000 Britons visited the United States, spending less than $28 mil lion. Shopkeepers in Hong Kong, which attracted about 60,000 American tourists last year, were bitterly disappointed and unani mously predicted the Kennedy program would not work. Almost simultaneous with the Kennedy cut-back pixigi'am, West Germany announced its long-rumored offer to give the United States more than $900 million in immediate financial help. Carried Condition The West German aid would be in the form of prepayment of S325 million for military equip ment and $587 million in postwar debt over the next 27 years. It carried the condition that the Unit ed States wipe out the remaining S200 million in West Germany's postwar debt in settlement of Ger man assets in America seized during World War II. Lower Speed Limit Eyed For Winston Lowering of the speed limit in a section of Winston from 40 to 35 miles per hour is in prospect, ac cording to Phebe McGuire, News Review correspondent. The state speed control board in Salem has recommended such a reduction, subject to Winston City Council approval. The council held off final disposition until the next session. The area involved is from 50 feet west of Rose St. to the west city limits, and the recom mended action stemmed from wide spread local opinion that the 40-mile-per-hour speed was posing a safety hazard. The city council has also de cided to "pick up" or redeem 12 outstanding sewer bonds, which aren't due until May 1, 1973. thus saving interest. The bonds aggre gate $12,000. Marvin While, city engineer, was authorized to attend the sewage works operating school which will he held in Corvallis on Feb. 20, 21 and 22. Investigation into obtaining rights of way in connection with Edwards St, road work will con tinue. Senate Okays Food Surplus For Needy BULLETIN SALEM (AP) Th. Or.gon Smt voted unanimously today to ordtr tht state Public Wslfare Commission to launch immedi ately a program to distribute federal surplus foods to welfare cim and othors with low in. comtt. Th resolution goes to tho Houso. The Weather ' AIRPORT RECORDS Cloudy with occasional rain to night. Fow showers with partial clearing Wtdnosday. A little warm r tonight. Hightit temp, list 24 hours SI Lowest temp, lilt 24 hours ... 3 Highest ttmp. any Fob. CS8I 70 Lowtit temp, any Fob. ('St) . 11 Prtcip. list 24 hours T Prtcip. from Fob. 1 .71 Prtcip, from Stpf. 1 - 15.80 Deficiency from Stot. 1 3.28 Sumet tonight, 5:33 p.m. . Sunrise tomorrow, 7:20 a.m. Top Glide HONORED WITH A PLAQUE for winning honors os 'Out standing Citizen of the Community in Glide' was Mrs. Robert (Janie) Hansen. Making the presentation is For rest Kennaday, outgoing president of the Glide Community Club. (News-Review Photo) Mrs. Hansen Wins Glide Community 'Citizen Award Mrs. Robert (Janie) Hasen o Glide has been selected "Outstand ing Citizen of the Community" for I960 by the Glide Community Club, according to Mrs. Arthur Selby, News-Review correspondent. Mrs. Hansen won this award for initiating roller skating classes for youngsters at the Community Hall and her outstanding work with the young people. She devoted her time to two groups weekly. Learn Young One group, ages 12 years and older, meets Wednesday evenings for two hours and the other group meets Sunday afternoons for three hours. In the latter group, the youngest is three years old. The adult residents meet Friday evenings to skate and have an eve ning of fun. They square dance on skates and play hockey. Mrs. Han sen also assists at this meeting. Philippines See SEAT0 Collapse KUALA LUMPUR.Malaya (AP) The Philippine government thinks SEATO has collapsed and is ready to write it off as an ef fective anti-Communist force in Asia, Filipino leaders think the South cast Asia Treaty Organization might not survive its March meet ing. This was learned as Foreign Secretary Felixbcrlo Serrano and other Philippine officials arrived to prepare for a state visit Wednesday by President Carlos P. Garcia to this neighbor South east Asia nation. It was learned Serrano bluntly told the U. S., British and French ambassadors in Manila that his government feels SEATO has failed to meet the Laotian crisis because it has not driven back the Communists there. Serrano's government thinks Britain and France have par alyzed the organization and fear that the United States may be bowing to its NATO allies in Asia. Philippine officials also fear some sort of "sellout" to the Com munists in Asia on the issues of Laos, the Nationalist Chinese off shore islands of Quemoy and Mat- su and the possible admission of Red China to the United Nations may he brewing in exchange for a settlement with the Kcds Europe. Divers Probe River For Martin Family THE . DALLES. Ore. (AP) Divers probed the bottom of the Columbia River near the Harvey Aluminum Co. plant Monday in renewal of the que3t for the Ken Martin family. They had searched last week and continued their efforts into Monday, then called it off tempo rarily. Resumption is expected later. The area searched was checked in the spring of 19."9 because the highway comes near the river and automobile tracks were reported leading to the water. Earlier searches turned tip nothing. Committee BOISE, Idaho fAP) Gover nors of Idaho, Washington and Orecon Monday formed the Gov- jrrnors Columbia River Fisheries '.Management Committee with themselves as members and set out to remedy the "serious deple tion" of fisheries resources. ! Gov. Robert E. Smylie of Idaho, host for the tri-state conference, said there was "some difference of opinion'' among them "ss to the impact of the problem'' at- I fecting the fisheries resources. i But he said they vera unani- Citizen Kennedy Aides Seek Early Date On Idle Pay WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy's legislative lieutenants are driving to put his plan for extension of unemployment com pensation into effect by mid March. They were spurred today by ad ministration estimates that in the next five weeks the number of un employed who have exhausted the benefits provided by present law will climb far above the pres ent 500.000. Kennedy's proposal would revive weekly benefits for such persons, up to a maximum of 13 weeks. The first part of the job is up to the House Ways and Means Com mittee, whose Democratic leaders hope to send the unemployment legislation to the House for ac tion' within a wck after hearings begin Feb. 15. ., Only the financing arrange ments are expected to arouse much controversy at the hearings. Kennedy proposed that the federal- government advance funds for the extra payments to all states which choose to participate. Then the base of the tax on em ployers' payrolls would be in creased from $3,000 to $4,800 max imum per employe. The increase, according to administration fig ures, would enable the states to repay within five years at the estimated $950 million tost of the program, , Some employers spokesmen, however are expected to protest the step-up of a tax which, unlike the Social Security levy, is not shared by employer and em ploye. Kennedy is sending Congress later recommendations for a per manent change in the unemploy ment insurance program, de signed to make emergency legis lation unnecessary in times of re cession. Puerto Rican Gets Latin-America Job WASHINGTON (AP) Dr. Ar turo Morales-Carrion, a Puerto Rican, will have the job of trying to improve U.S. relations with La tin America, primarily in the cultural and educational field. Morales, 47, will operate from the position of deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. His appointment, an nounced Monday hy President Kennedy, requires Senate confir mation. Morales has had much the same job as undersecretary of state for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He is no stranger to the State Department, having served from 1940 to 1943 in a newly es tablished cultural relations divi- sion. Morales was born in Cuba of I Puerto Hican parents. He has j been undersecretary of stale for the commonwealth since 1953, i serving on various international commissions and attending many I international conferences. Morales was graduated from ! the University of Puerto Rico and received degrees from the Uni versity of Miami, the University lot Puerto Kiro and at Columbia. Of Governors Seeks Remedy To Depletion Of Fisheries imous in agreeing there is "ser ious depletion'' and steps should be taken to remedy the situation. Meeting with Smylie were Govs. Albert D. Rosellini of Washington and Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon. They did not place responsibil ity for the "serious depletion" and told newsmen they did not dis cuss fish problems associated with dams already constructed in the area. First Item on the newlv created governor's committee, they said, was to develop "a coordinate pro gram of management and regula- m in i ti ' -,-'-----,M,al"""'l''Jh ..ll.fc.jl Established 1873 12 Pages Asian, A frican Nations Seek Release Of Jailed Lumumba By MILTON BESSER , UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (APj Asian and African nations, hopeful of support from the Unit-1 ed Slates, pressed their campaign : in the U.N. Security Council to- i day for release from prison of deposed Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba. Ceylon, the' United Arab Repub-I lie and Liberia were preparing a resolution demanding release of Lumumba, disarming of the Con go army led by Maj. Gen. Joseph' Mobutu and reconvening of the Congo Parliament. With U.S. Ambassador Adlal E. Stevenson telling newsmen he would not speak in the council's Congo debate before Wednesday, Lumumba's supporters were ex pected to dominate the discus sion today. There was no definite word from Stevenson whether the Ken nedy administration's Congo pol icy would specifically support lib eration of the deposed Congo leader now in prison in Katanga Province. Stevenson has been engaged in a round of private conferences with council members and other delegates. Monday he talked with Secretary-General Dag nammar skiold and the chief Soviet U.N. representative, Deputy Foreign Minister, Valerian A. Zorin. Stevenson told newsmen he gave Hammarskjold a fill-in on private U.S. talks aimed at find ing a "consensus of views" on the future of the Congo and the U.S. responsibility toward that new African nation. Ho said he was hopeful that progress was being made, and that there seemed to be general Guardsmen Aid Blood Program The Red Cross Bloodmobile col lected 116 pints of blood Monday toward its Roseburg quota of 300 pints for the two-day visit. The quola goal was given a big boost by Co. D.,186lh Inf., 2nd Battalion Group, Monday night when members marched as a unit to the Elks Temple to donate blood. Twenty-seven members of the unit volunteered to donate,. I.t. Oliver Durand, the com pany's executive officer, and Lee D. Emery, the company's first sergeant, are two-gallon donors. Sgt. Dirk Kruysman is well over the gallon mark and Capt. John Parsons, unit commander, joined the ranks of the gallon club. The Bloodmobile will be at the Elks Lodge again today from 3-7 p.m. Anyone wishing to replace blood used by relatives or friends is urged to do so at this time. Rose burg will not have a unit visit again until May, a Red Cross spokesman noted. The Bloodmobile will be in Oak land Thursday at the Veterans' Building from 2 to 6 p.m. Beta Pi Sorority is sponsoring Ihe unit in Oakland, with Mrs. Robert Stearns, chairman. She stated the unit will not be in Suth erlin during this visit. The Oakland-Sutherlin commu nity is below its quola, she added, and all who can are urged to do nate blood at this time. Goldberg To Inspect Unemployment Centers WASHINGTON fAP) Secre tary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg is reported planping an on-the-spot inspection this weekend of some of the nation's worst em ployment centers in the East and Midwest. Plans for the trip are expected to he announced soon by the White House. The tour would have the two fold aim of pinpointing the extent of unemployment in the big cities and also gathering data to present to Congress. Golriheri? wilt he (hp first, wit ness when the House Ways and Means Committee opens hearings Feb. 15 on the administration's program to extend nearly $1 bil lion extra idle aid tn the nation's 3 4 million unemployed. ' tion which would be in the inter-1 est of conserving and restoring. I the fisheries resources." i I They said they will instruct the I fisheries management agencies of I their respective states to this ef-1 feet and place a program before the committee "in the shortest ttime possible." I Ihe executives said the confer jenre took no position on the two j competing applications for con struction of power dams on the Snake river. Hut Smylie and Hatfield said they were opposed to t be Nez ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1961 support for Hammarskjold's ef forts in the Congo. Asked about release of political prisoners, including Lumumba, Stevenson said he could make no precise reply. Informed sources had said pre viously the United States was ex ploring the possibility of release of all political prisoners, the dis arming of Congolese troops advo cated by Hammarskjold, the re convening of Parliament, the es tablishment of a more broadly Legislators Head Off Reapportionment Plan SALEM (AP) The chairman of the House Elections and Re apportionment Committee Mon day headed off a proposal for re apportionment that would propose constilutional revision. Rep. George Annala, D-Hood River, told Rep. Kessler Cannon, R-Bend, that the constitution re quired revision by the method now prescribed. Cannon was one of three legis lators who came up with plans for changes on the basis of the 1960 census. His would add six more senators to the present 30, which would be one for . each countv. Plans by Rep. C. R. Hoyt, R Corvallis. and Rep. Philip D. Lang, D-Porlland, ran into trouble because they did not meet require ments in certain counties of the state. The chief trouble spots camo because of the major-fraction rule under which a county can not be divided for districting. It must be either separate or combined with iilhpp uhi,ln nnnntiffv Under the rule,' "Josephine County has .507 of the population needed for a state senator. This would not entitle Josephine County to a senator unless it were combined with Curry County to snare a senator. Annala said that interests be tween the two areas are radically different and there are no direct lines of communication between them. "The Senate representation in Eastern Oregon if possible should he left alone. Annala said. "Ad justmcnts should be made west of the Cascades. But population isn't the only- factor, Annala said. He said it would be "criminal to add to the very complex problems ' of rep resenting certain Eastern Oregon districts. Annala said recognition of the major fractions does mean that major population areas will have to take a little less than they are entitled to. A 12-memher committee ap Creation Of State Power Group Urged SALEM (AP) Slate Sen. Rob ert Straub, D-Eugene, Monday urged Gov. Mark O. Hatfield to include possible creation of stale power authority on the agenda for an economic confer ence Feb. 14. "Vast benefits are being real ized to the people of New York through the activity of the New York State Power Authority at no taxpayer expense," Straub said in a letter to Hatfield. He said Oregon could derive the same benefits from a state power agency. He said such action gains added importance from the proposal for an interlie to send Northwest power to California. "With the formidable political strenglh that now rests in Cali fornia, unless we can firmly pro tect Oregon's share of low cost Honneville power by creation of an adequate power agency, Ore gon can find itself in a few years being deprived of this power...," Straub said. The governor has called i con ference to discuss economic ills of Oregon that will meet Feb. 14 in Salem. Perce sile because it would shut off the anadromous fish run from the Salmon nvrr. Rosellini said his stale has taken no position for or against the Nez Perce dam. In addition to announcing the Iri-staie commute, the governors said they: Will instruct the fisheries agen cies of their states to explore the problems of uniform hag limits, licensing and similar regulations. Urge Congress to pass legisla tion In safeguard the fish runs of the Salmon river. representative Congolese govern ment, and the barring of non-U. N. aid to the Congo. The council adjourned last Thursday to permit consultations with home governments, and to give the new U.S. administration additional tune to snape up us new Congo policy. Hammarskjold has asked the council for authority to reorgan ize the Congolese army and take it out of politics. Mobutu has said this will result in bloodshed. pointed by Ihe Rcpblican caucus to study reapportionment met for the lirst time Monday in Salem, and elected Clay Myers, Portland, chairman. The committee included three representatives from each con gressional district of the state. It was established to make an inde pendent study of reapportionment for Republicans. Its members are not legislators. 38 Santa Maria Voyagers Home By CRAIG L. BASSE AND GENE PLOWDEN MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Thirty-eight I passengers from the liner Santa I Maria, which wrote modern-day history on the high seas, arrived home by plane today, calm but grateful. "There were tears you'll never-know," said Mrs; Chester A. Churchill, Lima, Ohio and Ashe ville, N. C. as she walked from the airliner which flew them here from Brazil. A pleasure voyage aboard Por tugal's second largest vessel was interrupted one day short of a scheduled arrival at Port Ever glades, Fla. Capt. Henrique Galvao and a small band of armed rebels, took control of the ship in a brief hut bloody middle-of-the-night battle. For 12 days and nights they steered the Sanla Maria on an aimless voyage through Atlantic waters. Galvao's floating revolution suc ceeded to Ihe extent of focusing worldwide attention on the Portu guese regime of Premier Antonio de Olivcira Sitlazar. The Santa Maria was finally sailed into Re cife, Brazil, where the passen gers debarked and the rebels sought polilieal asvluin. On their arrival here today, the passengers were treated to break fast at the Miami International Airport hotel's restaurant afler they were processed through cus toms. One of the first passengers to clear customs was Lucille Gray, Chicago, who told newsmen "You don't know how glad I am to be home." Early U.S.-Mexico Meeting Predicted GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) A Mexican government source predicted today the friendly at mosphere prevailing at the first interparliamentary congress of U. S. and Mexican congressmen may encourage an early meeting of Presidents Kennedy and Adolfo Lopez Mateos. "Negotiations for a meeting al ready are under way," the offi cial said. He predicted such members of the American delegation as Dem ocratic Senate leader MikeMans- field of Montana and Sens, Bnurke Hickenlooper, R Iowa, Albert Gore, DTenn., Ernest Rooney, D Alaska, and Dennis Chavez, I) N. M., would certainly endorse sum a meeting. Eleven U. S. senators and 11 U.S. representatives began a four- day meeting Monday with about 30 Mexican senalors and deputies exchanging views on poinls rang ! ing from trade to border prob ! lems. Urge Alaska, Idaho, Washington and Oregon to pass legislation giv ing Ihcm representation on the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commis sion and the U.S. section of the International North Pacific Fish eries Commission. Put responsibility of providing additional research funds for in creasing anadromous fish runs in Ihe Columbia river system on the federal government. Will explore a statutorily author ized Iri-slate compact as a perm anent feature of their program. 1 The governors directed their PRICE Sc Price Fixing Fines Nearly $2 Million PHILADELPHIA (AP) Fines against electrical manufacturing companies reached almost $2 mil lion today as a federal judge com plied two days of sentencing for antitrust violations. Chief Judge J. Cullen Ganev in U.S. District Court completed sen tencing on 14 indictments in a little over two hours today, com pared with Monday's day-long session on six indictments. The difference was that Monday defense attorneys made lengthy talks. Today most of them said they stood on what they had said Monday. Sentencing moved so fast today that at one point Ganey pro nounced a $20,000 fine on Cornell Duhilicr Electric Co., Plainficld, N.J., before asking Ihe company attorney if he had anything to say. The lawyer jumped to his feet. Guney apologized, saying: "Oh, excuse me. I have these worked out so well that 1 did not notice. The lawyer said he felt his com pany was innocent. After he com pleted his talk, Ganey repeated the $20,000 fine. The 29 companies and 45 indi viduals involved were charged with price fixing and bid rigging in the sale of equipment that gen erates, transmits and distributes electric power. Fines totaled Sl, 924.000. Twenty-two corporate defend ants were fined $964,500 today on executives were fined $28,500. and ' ... - . . . I five of the 14 also received sus pended 30-day jail terms. Monday Judge Ganey sentenced seven executives to jail for 30 days, and gave 19 others 30-day suspended sentences. All those re ceiving suspended sentences also were placed on five-year proba tion "where a waicntui eye can be kept on their activities." Monday Ganev fined 21 firms $822,000 and 36 executives $109,000. In many cases companies and in dividuals were lined several limes, accounting for the overlapping to tals. Two suspended 30-day jail terms were imposed on today's first count: on M, A. de Ferranti, Pittsficld, Mass., former general manager of GE's distribution de partment, and Gordon C. Hulbcrt, Sharon, Pa manager of Westing house's distribution transformer department. De Ferranti also was fined $3,500; Hulbert $2,000. W. R. Swoish. Pittsburgh, sales manager of McGraw-Edison's transformer division, was fined $3,500 (He had received a $5,000 fine and 30-day suspended jail term Monday); A. R. Waohner, Milwaukee, direc tor of McGraw-Edison's trans former sales, was fined $1,500 and Joel Watkins, Troy, Mich., a Kuhl- man vice president, $1,500. For all those receiving suspend ed jail terms, Ganey imposed five years' probation "where a watch ful eye can be kept on their ac tivities. " Nationwide Strike Denied By Hoffa MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP) Though the Teamsters Union ex pects to have a nationwiue con tract in three yeais, James R. Hoffa, says there would never he a nationwide strike of truck driv ers. The boss of the gigantic union told a press conference Monday such a strike "just wouldn't be good business for the union." Negotiations for the nationwide contract will he started 60 days before the present contracts ex pire Feb. 1. IBM, Hoffa said. He pointed out the union now has contracts in the central, Southern, New York, New Jersey and West Virginia areas. Because many of the 7.000 employers in Ihese areas also operate else where. Hoffa said "the majority are already committed to a na tional contract. Emergency Bill Passed SALEM (AP) The Senate passed and sent to the governor loday a hill to extend slate Civil Defense Emergency powers until July J, JWill. The legislature passes this bill every two years. fisheries agencies to present pro grams as soon as possible. They did not place responsibility for fish depletion and said they did nut discuss the effect of dams already huilt on the river system. They said thev took no position on competing plans to build two power dams on the Snake River Applications to build those dams are before the Federal Power Commission. One is for a dam at the Nez Perce site, hclow tho mouth of the Salmon River. The other would be at the Mountain .Sheep site, above the Salmon. 31-61 Bill Includes Another Four Million Jobs WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy today sent to Congress with a plea for "prompt consider ation" a bill to boost the $1 min imum wage to $1.25 and give 4.3 million more workers the protec tion of a wage floor. The higher minimum, Kennedy said in a message to House Speak er Sain Rayburn, D-Tex., would be achieved by a series of annual rises "to which employers can readily adjust." "Our nation can ill-afford to tol erate the growth of an underpriv ileged and underpaid class," the letter said. "Substandard wages lead nec essarily to substandard living con ditions, hardship and distress. "Since the last increase in the minimum wage boili living costs and productivity have increased to such an extent that the pro posed bill merely reflects an ad justment to keep pace with these factors." Proposal In Draft The draft bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act spells out the minimum wage proposals Ken nedy recommended in his anti-recession and economic policy mes sage to Congress on Feb. 2. Employes now under the wage minimum would be stepped up to $1.15 in the first year, $1.20 in the second year, and $1.25 thereafter. About 24 million workers are now i covered by the law's provisions. For the millions of new workers that would be embraced by the bill mostly in the retail trades and services an initial minimum wage of $1 an hour would be fixed. This would be increased to $1.05 in the second year, S1.15 in the third, and $1.25 thereafter. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D N.Y., chairman of the House La bor Committee, said hearings on the administration proposals, will begin Feb. 17. Fight Resulted As a senator from Massachu setts and the Democratic prcsi- dcnlial nominee, Kennedy steered ..nk t Kill tlimiinh lha ViknglA loci such a bill through the Senate last August after a bitter fight. He refused to accept a milder House version, remarking at the time, "We'd rather come back and try to do it in January." A number of business organiza tions already are gearing for a fight against minimum wage ex pansion, particularly as to remov ing present coverage exemptions. The Amcricun .. Retail Federa tion, for example, in current memoranda to its members says "it does not necessarily follow, just because the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives each passed bills to extend the wage hour law in 1960, that the process becomes automatic in 1961." The administration bills will be' accompanied by letters from the President and Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg recommending -them as a way to hike the na tion's wage floor and boost the economy. Senator Delays Weaver Hearing WASHINGTON (AP) Chair man A. Willis Robertson, U-Va., today held up the start of the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on Robert C. Weaver'i nomination to he housing admin istrator. He said he wanted tn be sntisfied as to the New York Negro'i loyalty. Robertson said he has repeated ly tried to get a letter from Presi dent Kennedy evaluating ap, FBI report on Weaver, but no such communication has been received. The Virginian said the White House did send him the FBI files on Weaver last Saturday but that did not satisfy him. He continued, to insist on a letter from Kennedy. The chairman startled a packed hearing room with his announce ment. Immediately after he had made it, he ordered the room cleared and call his 15-member group into executive session. Robertson said he is unwilling (o proceed with the examination of Weaver until a Kennedy letter is received. A committee aide told newsmen a letter from the White House was on its way. Weaver, named by Kennedy for the highest post ever held by a Negro in the executive branch of the government, was in the wit ness chair hut did not get a chance to say anything before Robertson called the closed meet ing. Itnbcrlson said he bad received "a number of complaints touch ing on the question of his (Wea ver's loyalty." Weaver. 53, now is vice chair man of the New York City Hous ing and Redevelopment Board. Boxing font and other liga ments of the intelligentsia probably failed to notice, be cause of itt inconspicuous location in their daily newt paper, a sports item of inter national importance last week. So ve repeat it: TOKYO Tetiuma Yomaguchi, llTli, Japan, outpointed Koji Ishi boihl, 117, Japan in 10 rounds. Watch future editions for posible rematth. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizenstein
