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."
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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.
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WASHINGTON (OTP The
space agency said Wednesday
it has turned off its record-setting
Relay communications sat
ellite so it can rest and re
charge its batteries. The 172
pound spacecraft was silenced
by radio command Monday
night until further notice.
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