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Americans Too Prone To Suspect, Criticise, Castro Says in Interview Non-Communists Said To Resent Being Suspected New York - (UPD - Ameri cans are too prone to suspect and criticize anyone not publicly and avowedly anti Communist, Fidel Castro told United Press International in an exclusive interview here prior to his departure for Canada. "This attitude is not under stood in Latin America," said the tall Cuban prime minister. "Many people woh are not Communists resent ' being suspected by Americans, and this loses friends for America. "It probably even makes friends for the cause of communism." Luis Baralt, Cuban consul general in New York, under scored Castro's point. Interview in Hotel Suite "Why, for instance," he asked in flawless English with only an occasional whisper of Spanish accent, "Do the Amer ican newspapers prefer to print a picture of our prime minister shaking hands with the Russian ambassador, when you also have a picture of him shaking hands with Mr. Neil H. McElroy, American Secretary of Defense?" The interview took place in the hotel suite of Rufo Lopez Fresquet, Cuba's secretary of the treasury. Prime Minister Castro entered an hour late from another conference room, tossed his cap on a chair, greeted his visitors and wearily seated himself. "Cuba wants and needs the friendship of the American people," he said earnestly. "T h e s misunderstandings should come to an end. We need more American visitors -more tourism." Elementary English His English was under standable but elementary. Re ferring to the prime minister's occasional difficulties with verbs and momentary loss for the right word, Dr. Raul Guitierrez commented with a smile: "The commandante has al ways said he stood for free speech." Castro criticised some news dispatches from Cuba as in accurate, but insisted that Cuba had i completely free press. Reminded that some foreign reporters had been threatened with violence in person and by telephone fol lowing some of the prime minister's public condemna tions in Cuba, Castro said: "But that was never done by the government. Foreign reporters are safe and the government of Cuba will see that they continue to be safe. Not Responsible "We are no more respon sible for the threats of in dividual hot-heads than you are for the fact that my life has been repeatedly threaten ed on this tour, or so I am told by your security people." A listener without pre judice or preconceived opinion would be apt to conclude that Castro is no Communist nor fellow-traveler; that he is" a dedicated revolutionary with experience and heart for fighting and field maneuver ing and none for administra tion; that the cause of his revolution is so completely absorbing that he will accept aid wherever offered, and to that extent is opportunistic or at least open-minded; and that there is no motive in his heart except for what he con ceives to be the good of Cuba. THOUSAND-DOLLAR TWINS After his second set of twins was born, David R. Murray (center), a high-school teacher in Traverse City, Mich., took out $1000 insurance from Lloyd's of London against having further twins. N:ow Mrs. Murray has come up with a third set of twins (in her arms) and Murray is $1000 to the good. Carl and David (left) are 4Va, and John and Peter (right) are W2. The new twins are named Evan and Chris. 'Meet Me in St. Louis' Helped by Amiable Tunes; Kelly Show Unstimulating Nehru Holds Lama To Be Responsible New Delhi - (UPD - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament today that the Dalai Lama entered India of his own free will and was entirely responsible for his statement charging Commu nist China with treachery to ward Tibet. Nehru, reporting on his visit with the Dalai Lama at the god-king's Indian retreat at Mussorie, said India has ex pressed deep regret over speeches attacking the ' In dian government at the Communist People's Congress now underway in Peiping. He said the charges against In dian leaders leveled by the Chinese were "to unbecoming and entirely void of sub stance." In Tokyo, the Communist New China News Agency con tinued to hammer away at its claim that the Dalai Lama was abducted from Tibet and vas being held in - India against his will. The running time of tor pedoes has been increased from five to 18 minutes by the - se of a new silver-zinc re chargeable battery. By WILLIAM EWALD UPI Correspondent New York - (UPD - Like the contemporary gift shop, "Meet Me In St. Louis" - presented as a two-hour special Sun day night on CBS-TV - is a tasseled con-) tainer for the cute, the cud dly, the cun ning. It stocks on its shelves: A William EwaU grandpa who wears a beret, a little sister who catacombs her life with dead dolls, a father who trips on roller skates, a motner with the patience of Albert Schweitzer, two souffle ro mances, lollipop picnics and parties and a young beau who looks like Tab Hunter and be hold! turns out, in fact, to be Tab Hunter. Urban Pastorale "Meet Me In St. Louis" is, of course, an urban pastorale - an idyllic treatment of city rustics - and director George Schaefer wisely decided to play it that way. Over two hours, it was a terribly tough vehcile to keep charged because it packed no real conflicts, no tensions -it was merely a flow of in cidents held together by va nilla icing - but I would say Schaefer succeeded fairly well in pushing its simpering charm along. He was helped a good deal by some amiable Hugh Martin-Ralph Blaine tunes - "The Trolley Song." "Skip To My Lou" and' "The Boy Next Door" - and by some Duane McKinney sets that had a nice sense of wedding cake done with tongue in cheek. He was aided in varying degree by his cast, none of whom had much more to do than look as if they had been wrapped wholesomely in cel lophane. They included Ed Wynn, Walter Pidgeon,"Hun ter, Jane Powell, Reta Shaw, Patty Duke. Myrna Loy and Jeanne Crain, in about that order of effectiveness. Standard Exercise Gene Kelley's one-hour special for CBS-TV Friday night was a disappointingly standard exercise: uninven tive in its blueprinting, unam bitious in its execution, taint ed with self-conscious affa bility. It was not a bad show. It was just not a very stimulat ing one, echoing as it did scores of other musical shows. There was one of those musi cal beatnik-knacks, a splicing of soft-shoe, and one of those jazz ballet things in which everyone hulks around like syncopated dybbuks. Kelly, who works well with young sters, capered briefly .with five-year-old Cherylene Lee and 13-year-old Liza Minelli, who is Judy Garland's daugh ter. Both segments were mod erately agreeable, if not pre cisely adventurous. One se quence in which Kelly pos tured while Carl Sandburg crooned was ludicrous. Kelly had -three foreign dancers on board - Claude Bessy, Judith Dornys and Gerd Andersson - and a fine, leggy set of females they were. However, like Kelly, their talents weren't put to much of a test. Labor Bill May Undergo Revamp Washington (UPD A key Republican said today the Senate-passed labor reform bill probably will be revamp ed by the House to provide tougher curbs on labor racke teers and a stronger "bill of rights" for rank and file union members. This appraisal came from Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (Pa.), senior Republican on the House Labor Committee, which will have the task of whipping the legislation into shape for House floor action. The legislation is not likely to reach the House floor be fore mid-June. Kearns assailed as ineffec tive the labor reform bill which the Senate passed, 90-1. Saturday. He said the Senate was handicaped in efforts to write a good bill because too many senators are "president ial candidates trying to cater to national labor leaders." "We won't have that trouble in the House," Kearns told a reporter. Labor lobbyists privately conceded the House poses a greater challenge than did the Senate to their efforts to keep the bill in a shape acceptable to organized, labor. A Senate passed labor reform bill died in the House last year. AFL-CIO President George Meany has publicly warned that his big labor federation will attempt to scuttle the bill if it is revamped into a form hostile to the interests of unions. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 10 MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1959 Family Council Mrs. M. W.-We are hurt they have refused our gift. Madeline S.-They treat us like helpless babies. Mrs. M. W-My husband and I have just been hurt to the quick by our youngest daugh ter and her husband. Madeline and David were married a year ago when she was 18 and he 25. He was just starting out in business and having a rough time of it. The two kids are working themselves to the bone to make a success of this thing. A couple of times they have borrowed our car for business purposes and David mention ed that he was thinking of buying a second hand station wagon because it would help expand his customer services. Well, then and there, my hus band and I got the same idea. We would make the down pay ment on a - brand new station wagon for their anniversary! We drove it up to their door that morning-only to be greet ed by anger. They refused to take it. Madeline S. Probably we shouldn't have gotten angry. We realize that that was wrong. But we were so con fused at the moment we hard ly knew how to react. I have told Mom and Dad in the past to quit trying to treat us like helpless babies They started married life on nothing and we can do the same. But every time I happen to casually mention that I am planning to buy something, it is delivered to our house the next day-a gift. Mom and Dad are very sen sitive about their feelings. But they don't recognize our feelings. My two older sisters are well off and don't need a thing. My parents think we are beggars by comparison. We are doing okay, consider ing we're just getting started. Besides, we know that my par ents can't afford gifts like this. They must think of their old age. The Council: Generosity may be shown in many ways, and in this case it seems clear that the greater generosity would be the recognition of Madeline and David's pride The young couple is obviously having so much fun of creat ing something of their own from scratch, and their im pulse is so healthy that it is surely wrong to interfere. Interference is what the gift of the station wagon really amounts to. Not all in-law in terference is ill-intentioned. The well-intentioned kind is just as undersirabie because it is equally effective in rock ing the boat. There is no reason to make a rule against parental help to married children, but par ents should make sure that their help is desired and is likely to yield desirable re sults. It can certainly do harm if tact, taste and judgment aren't used. The forcing , of gifts upon children in such ways as mak ing it a surprise or getting insulted if the gift is rejected smacks of selfishness on the parents' part. They are ex pressing their own need to cling to the child by continu ing to sustain him past the time when that is the natural relationship between them. (Copyright 1959. General Features Corp.) ' : M I St J5i & 1 NBC Radio, TV Service Curbed New York - (UPD - National Broadcasting Company tele vision and network radio ser vice was curtailed today by a dispute with a technicians' union which is fighting the taping of TV shows abroad by low pay foreign personnel. NBC officials met with rep resentatives of the Nat:onal Association of Broadcast Em ployees and Technicians late this morning to discuss the union's objection to a taped video interview with Brigitte Bardot which was to have been used on the Dave Gar roway "Today" show. Technicians for the Garro way show refused to handle the tape made by non-union French technicians in Paris and walked off their jobs. The union promptly announc ed that 1,500 members who work at NBC-TV and radio installations in Washington, Chicago, Hollywood, San Francisco, and Philadelphia would join in the strike. The immediate effect was a blackout on the NBC-TV network until taped programs could be gotten on the air by executive personnel. The first program present- The effect of the walkout on radio was spotty, since NBC affiliate stations could fill in the empty network , ....... - , J nil 1i1b?-v . FROLICKING IN STALL at Hanley, Minn., farm of Ed Welckle are six lambs born to one ewe. Sextuplet lambs are estimated to occur once in million births. In some oil fields of the older type, average produc tion may be less than one standard barrel per day. North Carolina claims more inland waterway miles than any other state. 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