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o Castro asks U.S. to lift Cuban embargo HAVANA (UPI) - Premier Fidel Castro, facing a stagger ing rebuilding job because of Hurricane Flora's devastation, asked the United States Monday night to lift its economic em bargo against Cuba immedi ately. The bearded Cuban leader made the request in the midst of a three-hour Havana radio and television speech. After dis closing that "starvation killed as many persons as floods" fol lowing the hurricane. Castro said he did not want American help. ' What we ask for is an end of the economic blockade of our country, especially at this mo ment," he said. "We don't want Yankee im perialist aid nor do we need it. What we want is that they halt their hypocritical policy and their attacks. That's why the Cuban people did the right' thing in rejecting their hypocritical aid." Castro's appeal came as the United States was reportedly stepping up pressure on free world nations to restrict ship ping to Cuba. Reviewing Flora's devastation among some three million per sonshalf of Cuba's population in the eastern half of the island, Castro suggested the United States was partly to blame for "refusing" to allow hurricane hunter planes to fly over Cuba. He also charged that a U.S. "plot" to blow up a Cuba bound ship, the Antilla, was dis covered in Genoa, Italy, "a short time ago." The United States planned to j create a "new, La Coubre inci dent," he said. The La Coubre was a French ship, crammed with Belgian munitions, which blew up in Havana harbor in March, 1960. Castro blamed American "sabo teurs" for the explosion. Cuba's known death toll from Flora is 1,157 and all but 31 deaths were in Oriente Province, Castro said. "But of course the actual toll is even greater be cause many persons are miss ing," he added. MEETS WITH RUSK WASHINGTON (UPI) Mo hamed Yazid, a personal repre sentative of Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella, will meet Wednesday with Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the Algerian-Moroccan border conflict. The Bulletin, Tuesday, October 22, 1963 CULVER CLAMOR There may be only two, but high school pep rallies up Culver way get plenty cheer out of Trisha Smith, left, and Linda Rhoads. The rally girls, posing at halftime during Homecoming festivities last Friday, had plenty to cheer about as the Bulldogs won going away 40-14. Schools forced to curtail classes, shortages of water reported in drought-hit communities By United Press International A crop-crippling, fire-sparking drought across the East forced schools to curtail classes today and threatened many communi ties with water shortages. Turbulent weather raged around the stricken area. Hurricane Ginny fumed off the Carolina coast and a Pacific storm spewed 74 mile an hour winds and more than an inch of rain at the Northwest. A tornado struck in Minne sota Monday and scattered light showers drifted across the Mid west. Here is how the drought situ ation shaped up: Nearly 2,000 students started half-day classes today in Tussey Mountain schools near Saxton, Pa., in an effort by city author ities to conserve water. All schools cafeterias were ordered shut down. A bottling firm and a laundro mat agreed to close down two days a week in Saxton because of dwindling water supplies. Youngsters at Bakerton, Pa., returned to class today for the first time in a week, but were asked to carry boiled water un til new wells are tested for purity. The West Virginia state health director ordered the town of Harper's Ferry to post signs that its water supply is poten tially unsafe. The city's well supply is low and water is be ing pumped from a nearby FELL ON BAYONET WINDSOR, England (UPI) -Coldstream Guardsman Trevor Butterfield. 20, was reported in good condition today after he fainted and fell on his bayonet while standing guard at Wind sor Castle. Said his commander: "These things do happen." creek. The drought has sent West Virginia's crop losses for the year soaring to more than $76 million. In Illinois, state sanitary engi neers worked today with city authorities at Macomb, Beecher City and Albion in an effort to meet problems arising from drought-caused water deficien cies. Fires continued to flare across the kindling dry forests and fields, of the Midwest and East. Forty new fires broke out in West Virginia Monday and 41 of the state's 152 current blazes were still spreading. Fifteen per sons were arrested for misde meanor in refusing to fight for est and brush fires. A timber and brush fire fanned by 25 miles an hour winds blackened 50 acres of land near Joplin, Mo., Monday before it was brought under control. Council fathers asked to admit women to meet VATICAN CITY (ITPn 1 Cardinal Suenens, one of the four executive moderators ap pointed by Pope Paul VI to di rect Ecumenical Council discus sions, today asked council fa thers to admit women to their secret sessions in St. Peter's Basilica. The Belgian cardinal also asked that lady auditors, admit ted for the first time to the sec ond session, be increased in number and made more repre sentative in their selection. He also suggested that repre sentatives of religious orders who teach the Gospel through out the world, both men and women, be invited to the coun cil sessions. Cities Women's Role The cardinal argued that women make up half the pop ulation of the world and that on this basis they should have some voice in the debates on the nature and role of the Catholic Church in the modern world. The cardinal clearly appeared to mean that both nuns and lay women should be admitted to council sessions. Cardinal Suenens said that not only members of the hier archy have special gifts from the Holy Ghost, but all mem bers of the church. These gifts, if not directed by church authority, can be "dan gerous and disorderly," but the hierarchy must not make of the church a purely "administrative apparatus" and thereby limit the freedom of the people ol God, he said. It was in this light that the cardinal suggested a wider rep resentation of religious and lay persons, both male and female, at the council. U.S. bishops also were report ed preparing a statement on the need lor a modern view of church-state relations. HUNTERS FOUND ASTORIA (UPI) - A Port land man and a Svensen boy, lost overnight on a deer hunt ing trip near Svensen east of here, were found in good condition by a search party Monday. Les Evans. 32, and Randy Vice, 9, became separated from their hunting party Sunday. They were found about 8:20 a.m. Monday. They said they had followed instructions broadcast by loud-speaker to remain in one place overnight. Secretary Dillon, reibcp o$ his family, have $3 million riding on U.S. tax case WASHINGTON (UPI)-Treas-ury Secretary Douglas Dillon and members of his family have about $3 million riding on a tax case under continued study by the Internal Revenue Service, an arm of the Treasury Department. A spokesman for Dillon said today the secretary has taken every precaution to make cer tain that no conflict of interest arises in this or any other tax case. An IRS spokesman de clined to comment on the case. As one of his first acts in of fice, Dillon directed that no tax case be brought to his attention unless it had been established in advance that he had no in terest in the affected firm. The tax matter involving the Dillons concerns a closed-end investment company known as United States & Foreign Securi ties Corp., whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm is holding close to $10 million as a reserve in event of an adverse ruling. Tells of Holdings At his confirmation hearings before the Senate Finance Com mittee on Jan. 11, 1961, Dillon said he personally owned per cent of the company's stock and that his family holdings to taled about 35 per cent. He said he planned to continue this in terest through a trust irrevoca ble during his tenure as Treas ury secretary. A Dillon aide told United Press International it could be assumed there has been no change in this situation. He said the secretary, in line with his policy of total isolation from tax matters involving himself, would have no comment on the matter. In its June statement to stock holders, the most recent on file here with the Securities & Ex change Commission (SEC), U.S. & Foreign Securities listed net assets of $111 million, most of them in blue chip common stocks. It said it had set aside $9,650,000 in event of an adverse ruling in the tax case, which it held to be unfounded. It noted that such a ruling could cut the company's net asset value from $36.44 to $33.53, or $2.91 per share. The company has 3,310,815 shares outstanding. The company s most recent annual report to the bhC, filed last April 29, ap- peared to reflect Dillon family ownership, mostly through trusts, of 1,010,529 of these shares, which would be about 30 per cent of the total. The case dates back to the 1955 retirement of second preferred stocks of the corporation and of a former subsidiary. This was accomplished by distribution of portfolio holdings. A company spokesman said today the IRS tirst approved this but later re opened the question and even tually took the position the dis tribution amounted to a sale and therefore was subject to added tax on realized capital gains. The company spokesman said debate on this had gone on for several years but first was for malized by IRS on Jan. 19, 1961. This was a few days after Dil lon's confirmation hearings and two days before he took office as a member of President Ken nedy's cabinet. This "proposed income tax deficiency" initially was set at $6,900,000. Accumulated interest since has increased the poten tial liability to $9,750,000. U.S. & foreign Securities was set up in 1924 by Dillon, Read & Co., investment bankers. Be fore his appointment by Presi dent Eisenhower as ambas sador to France in 1953, Dillon was president of U.S. & Foreign Securities and chairman of the board of Dillon, Read. After his stint in Paris he moved into the State Department and was un dersecretary of state during the last two years of the Eisenhow er administration. Asked about possible con flicts of interest at his confir mation hearings for the Treas- Gullstan & Monarch RUGS-CARPETS TRf-COUNTY WINDOW PRODUCTS 362-2824 or 447-7095 ury post, Dillon said he was di vesting himself of a number of holdings which he thought might be improper in his new post. He said he had relinquished all active participation in busi ness with his first appointment by Eisenhower, and that much of his holdings already had been turned over to manage ment Dy irrevocable trusts. 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