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EtGENE REGiSTER-GUAREJ. Wed., March 13, 1963 Pas SA- For NATO U.S., Britain OK A-Policy LONDON 0P-The United Stales and Britain adopted a com mon policy Wednesday for providing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with a strategic nuclear force. They agreed to press ahead simultaneously with two ideas: The American plan for a Polaris-armed surface fleet manned by mixed crews from the various NATO countries. T,hf British plan to assign some existing national nuclear forces, like Britain's bombers, to the NATO command, which would arrange such things as Recession 'Errors' Cited By Kennedy WASHINGTON fflPB Presi dent Kennedy said Wednesday that an "unrealistic debt ceiling or budget cut" now would ulti mately cause a recession. Kennedy, in a speech to the Advertising Council, said "We have an obligation to learn the lessons of history if we do not wish to relive it." The govern ment he said, must not repeat tne errors which led to reces sions in 1957-1960. Three Questions The President headed a team of high administration officials appearing before the council to support Kennedy's fiscal pro posals. Other speakers included Defense Secretary Hobert Mc- Namara, Labor Secretary Wil lard Wirtz, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. Kennedy said Congress must decide this year on the limit of the national debt, the size of the federal budget and the question of tax cuts. "Economic history . . , clearly warns us now that the wrong answer to each of these three questions would spell downturn and disaster for the American economy as a whole," he said. "I do not speak as a parti san," the President said. "The errors of a Republican adminis tration and a Democratic Con gress during those crucial years (1957-60) have been previously acknowledged by members of both parties. 'Harsh Results' In 1957, he said, the govern ment decided "to keep the debt limit unrealistically low, to cut back and stretch out budget ex penditures, to tighten monetary policy and to reject all efforts at tax reduction. The harsh re sults of those decisions are still with us," Kennedy declared. The present ceiling on the national debt is $308 billion. It would drop to $305 billion April 1, and down to its permanent level of $285 July 1 without con gressional action. The President wants it kept at $308 billion through June, after which he has said he would ask a temporary increase to $320 billion. "An unrealistic debt ceiling or budget cut today," Kennedy said, would also cause a slow down in contracts, a stretch-out in payments, a cash drain on business, and ultimately anoth er recession. 'Prudent Budget "Instead of balancing the budget, it would produce a budget deficit far greater than the temporary addition to the deficit that will come from tax reduction. "We are not asking for un controlled budget increases, but for a prudent budget which, con trary to the trend at all levels of government, actually reduces civilian expenditures below their level of the previous year, a feat which has occurred only four times in the last 15 years." As for his proposed lax cut, the President said, "certainly it is clear that, if we slide into another recession, the deficit without a tax cut will be far larger than the projected deficit we face with a tax cut." target selection. This compromise decision came after two days of consul tations b e t sv e e n Livingston Merchant, President Kennedy's special envoy, and leading Brit ish figures including Prime Minister Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Lord Home. A communique issued after the talks expressed Britain's continuing support for the American idea and the U.S. government's backing for the British concept. Both have the same ultimate goal: To satisfy the NATO al lies' request for more sav in nuclear matters while discour aging the spread of independ ent nuclear deterrents. In particular, Washington and London hope this arrange ment will persuade the West Germans not to seek their own nuclear weapons. The communique said that while no decisions were taken, the British assured Merchant of support for the idea of a seaborne force armed with Pol aris missiles. It added that dis cussions will continue. "Similarly Mr. Merchant ex pressed the support of the U.S. government for the early crea tion of a NATO nuclear force out of existing forces," the communique added. Diplomatic sources said !hat of the two plans, the West Ger mans seemed to prefer the American concept. In a three-week swing around the NATO capitals, Merchant has suggested a Polaris-armed surface fleet of 25 ships dis guised as tramp steamers. This rriyed-manned force would call for an outlay of $5 billion over the next ten years. The United States and West Germany would each contribute about one-third of this cost and the remaining NATO allies would provide the remainder. Britain would have to spend $84 million a year for ten years as its contribution. In addition, the British would continue to opeiate their sepa rate deterrent of bombers to be replaced gradually by subma rines armed with U.S. Polaris missiles. Oregon Poet Wins Award NEW YORK W Poet Wil liam E. Stafford, who teaches literature and composition at Lewis and Clark College at Port land, Ore., won a $1,000 Na tional Book Award Tuesday. He was one of three men named for producing the most distinguished American books of 1962. Stafford wrote a book of poetry entitled, "Traveling Through the Dark." Poetry judges Rolfe Humph ries, Henry liago and Reed Whittcmore said the poems were "clean, direct and whole." His book beat out such works as the last volume of the late Robert Frost, "In The Clearing." Similar $1,000 awards went to Novelist J. F. Powers of St. Cloud, Minn., for his fiction work, "Morte d'Urgan," and to biographer Leon Edcl, New York City, for the second and third voumcs of his four-volume work, "Henry James." f '. TN, fen t". 'U'l j r ill 1A W V--- w (AP Wlrephoto Roy Smith, 35, a handyman, is shown as he is booked in Cambridge, Mass., t -j Tuesday, charged with suspicion of Under murder m the strangling of a Belmont, Mass., housewife, the ninth woman strangled in Boston since last June. .ArreSt Smith's arrest came less than 12 hours after the slaying of Mrs. Bessie Gold berg, 62, in the Jiving room of her home Monday. One of Two New Strains Flu Virus Identified As Epidemic Cause WASHINGTON UP! Discov ery of two new strains of influ enza virus with all indications that one of them was largely responsible for this winter's widespread fiu epidemic was disclosed Wednesday. Th" new strains were identi fied too late for lhis season's vaccine to include extra guards against them, it was learned. One is a new and potent form of the Asian flu virus which first appeared in 1957. This new strain is the one held mainly responsible for this year's out break of flu with the available vaccine having only limited power against it, Public Health Service doctors told a reporter. Efficiency Drops Studies have indicated that in animals, the present vaccine affords no protection at all against the new virus, they said. Preliminary evidence from hu man studies is that this winter the vaccine showed "appreci ably less" than its usuai 75 per cent efficiency presumably be cause of the new virus. Influenza cases have been un usually severe this winter, often lasting up to two weeks instead of the usual three or four days. School absenteeism has ranged up to 73 per cent of pupils in some schools. Death rates from pneumonia, complicated by flu, have been unusually high among the orderly in some communities. The other newcomer to the elusive brigade of viruses is a new strain of type B influenza virus. Type B and type A are the two major types of flu virus. Each has several sub-strains. Next Winter So far, the new B-type strain appears to have been confined to a single schoolhouse in For mosa where it was first detected last November. Scientists of the National In stitutes of Health say it has the potential for spreading through the world next winter. An example of this swift spreading is the new strain of Asian Ilu virus which NJH re searchers said first appeared in Tokyo in January 3982. It wasn't unlil last June, when samples of the virus were ob tained from abroad by NIH's Division of Biologic Standards, that first strong evidence was obtained that this was a new strain. of Asian flu. It wasn't confirmed until November, Couldn't Be Sure It was too lale to include the new virus in the vaccine to be used in preparation for the win ter of 1962-1963. Millions of doses tif vaccine had already been manufactured and distributed. It would have taken up to six months to tool up for inclusion of Ihe new strain. j Also, scientists still couldn't I be sure the new strain would hit j the United States, although! there was evidence it had ; cropped up in Formosa and j New Zealand as well as Japan. ! Meanwhile, an experimental ; vaccine employing the new vi rus was developed at NIH. In I tests on human volunteers, in- eluding more than 100 federal j prisoners, the vaccine gave ln- dications of protective, value, i How did the new strains of i virus develop? j No one really knows. One concept is that such mu-j tations may result partly from J a natural adaptation of the vi-j rus to some threat to its exist-! ence, such as vaccine. j Nature's own radiations in- j eluding cosmic rays may be another factor, scientists say. ; Radiation from nuclear tests is still another possibility, "al though, at present, there is no way to prove this or disprove : it." Strangling Case Suspect Denies Guilt Handyman Unshaken s By Police Queries BELMONT, Mass. . A handyman arrested in Ihe ny)on stocking strangling of a Bel mont housewife, steadfastly maintained his innocence Wed nesday under questioning by police. Tolice said Roy Smith, 35 in sisted he left the slain woman's fashionable home at Ji Scott Read "sometime before 4 o'clock." The slender suspect was the first person arrested and booked in connection with nine strangulation murders of wo men in Greater Boston since June. Arrested Tuesday in Cam bridge, he was charged with suspicion of murder in the death of Bessie Goldberg, 62, whose body was found in the living room floor of her 10 room home, A nylon stocking had been stripped trom her left leg and knotted around her neck. Police Chief Donald S. Robinson said an attempt bad been made lo rape her. Police said Smith, arrested when two Cambridge patrolmen and a detective recognized htm as he looked out the window ol a third-floor apartment, was in jail for minor ollcnses when six of the stranglings occurred. His terms covered the period frcm April to October, 1962. Mrs. Goldberg's husband, Is rael, ;t realtor, discovered her body when be relumed homo about 4 p.m. Goldberg told police his wife bad sent for a man through ihe Massachusetts Department of Employment Security to help prepare their home for a party that night. Fighter Planes To Protect JFK WASHINGTON Ml American fighter planes will patrol Presi dent Kennedy's air routn to Losia Iiica next week. Presi dential secretary Pierre Salin ger said Tuesday night that similar protection had been given the President before on. his trips to Venezuela and Co lombia. Salinger said he wouldn't call (he fighters an escort for they will be out of sight of ihe Presi dent's piano and various squad rons will take over (he patrol duties along the way. PRICED LIKE A SANDWICH FILLS LIKE A DINNER! Is one. description of the HUNTER STEAK SANDWICH! Choice atoak conked rare or me dium on toasted homemade bread, served with tossed salad and beverage. WeU worm J2.00 Treat yourself toniofit in the Pleasant Atmosphere of the . , , J mum Eg mm-mum Mf;JH 'itTTiti't Wlt ON PEARL ST. 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