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o o National Debt Boost Expected To Win Approval . Washington-iUPD-An increase in the ceiling on the growing national debt was expected to win easy approval today from the House Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) said he would ask the panel to divorce the debt limit plan from the Eisen hower administration's con troversial proposal to permit higher interest on government bonds. Barrage of Criticism There was little doubt that '. higher debt ceiling would coast through the committee, and Congress, in time for a June 30 deadline, although perhaps not precisely ' in the same form President Isen hower requested. The President's proposal to wipe out the 4V4 per cent limit on interest on govern ment bonds of over five years' maturity has run into a bar rage of criticism from con gressional Democrats, how ever. Senate Bows to Threats Meanwhile," the Democratic- controlled Congress was on the retreat from legislation that would increase federal aid to airports far above amounts recommended by President Eisenhower. The Senate Monday bowed to veto threats and approved 7 tell a pared-down bill to continue the airport aid for two years at the present $63 million-a- year level. Earlier in the ses sion the Senate approved a massive four-year $465 mil lion program. The House was expected to go along with the Senate's new version. Kenai Peninsula Forests Ablaze Anchorage, Alaska-(CPfl-For- est Service and Army person nel battled two forest fires Monday on the Kenai Peninsula. More than 600 men fought a 5,000-acre fire near Kenai lake, about 125 miles south of here. The fire, which started last Wednesday, was reported un der control by the Forest Service, but high tempera- tures and continuing winds were hampering final mop-up . efforts. : J Meanwhile, another blaze' erupted at Chickaloon bay on the peninsula, about 25 miles south of here. Firemen were attempting to halt the fire line, advancing up the side of a mountain above the bay. There was no loss of life in the big fire, although for a time it appeared authorities would be forced to order the evacuation of the little com munity of Coopers Landing as the fire roared to within two miles of it. Sixteen fires have been recorded by the Forest Serv ice here since last Wednesday. Stepfather Forgives Girl for Stabbing San Bernardina, Calif.-flJPD Charles D.' Wilkinson, 46, who carried a bayonet in his back for eight hours, said to day he had forgiven his step daughter for stabbing him. Wilkinson told sheriffs of ficers his 16-year-old step daughter stuck the nine-inch bayonet deep into his back after he had disciplined her. She was questioned Monday after surgeons removed the blade in a seven-hour opera tion. . Wilkinson was brought from his home at Twentynine Palms, Calif., for the delicate surgery at St. Bernardine's hospital. The stabbing oc curred during the week end. ATTENDS HEARING Louisiana's ailing Gov. Earl Long manages a faint smile as he arrives at courthouse in Galveston, Tex, on a writ of habeas corpus intended to return him to Louisiana. Appearing as a witness in his own behalf, Long charges he was being held illegally in a Texas mental hospital. Farmers Urged To Take Labor's Stand Vancouver, Wash. - (UPD - A. Lars Nelson, state Grange master, today called on farm ers to take a leaf from labor's book and develop collective bargaining procedures, to im prove prices of their products. In an address to the 70th annual session of the State Grange at Clark College here, Nelson said these procedures could be used on a state, re gional or national basis. "Our tools will be an en lightened public opinion, ex panded cooperatives, market ing agreements and marketing orders, either state or fed eral," he said. "We need to or ganize more effectively than we have ever done before. Our objective can be no less than controlled production involv ing supply, quality and price." Spokane Restaurant . Workers Vote Strike Spokane -UPD- Spokane ho tel and . restaurant workers Monday voted to approve a strike if their demands for a five-day work week are not met. Governor Faces Another Week in - Mental Hospital Galveston, Tex.-fUPD-Louisi- ana uov. tan lxmg toaay faced at least another week in the Galveston mental hos pital where he contends he is being held prisoner. A hos pital spokesman indicated the covernor is becoming a bit more reconciled to his en forced stay. Announcement by District Judge L. D. Godard Monday that he would need a week to decide whether "Ole Earl" should be released from John Sealy hospital capped a day long habeas corpus hearing marked by shouted interrup tions from the fiery brother of the late Huey Long. Called 'Horse Doctor' Long referred to his physi cian cousin as a "horse doc tor" and at another point re ferred to hospital , attendants as '"bone crushers." Although it was not notice able, Long was under tran quilizer drugs during the hearing, the hospital spokes man said. Long shouted to reporters "still in jail, boys" when he was led away at the end of the hearing Monday. A hospital authority who declined to be quoted by name said that "naturally, Gover nor Long was disappointed" about not winning his imme diate release. "He thought that he would be on his way home in Louisi ana last night. But he had accepted the court's action very well." Spirits Improved , The spokesman said that the governor's spirits seemed to have been improved by see ing a number of his friends in court. He also said that Long is much better physical ly than he had been in a week. The hospital noted that the mild sedation the governor was under Monday in-no way hampered his thinking or re stricted his activities. He asked for the hearing by filing a writ of habeas corpus in which he charged that he was drugged, tied hand and foot and spirited away from Louisiana against his will May 30. Wall Street Chatter New York-OJPD-Standard & Poor's in its current "outlook" suggests a more cautious pol icy on the stock market, but still finds ample basis for opti mism for the longer-term. It aticipates nothing more seri- out than an interim period of market irregularity likely to be followed in time by a re newed advance to new record highs. Trendex holds that minor cycles call for another softish period to start quite late this month or early in July. It looks for slightly more strength than weakness dur ing the coming weeks. Edmund W. Tabell, analyst for Walston & Co. says a con tinuation of a consolidating phase for some weeks would be a constructive development from a technical viewpoint and would correct some of the speculative excesses that have occurred over the past few months. When the ad vance is resumed, he says, probably new groups will be among the leaders. The outlook for business ac tivity is too favorable to jus tify fears of a long, downward spiral in stock prices, accord ing to investors advisory in Mystery Stabbing Of Girl Probed Santa Maria, Calif. - (UPD Detectives today checked all possible leads in the mystery death of Charlene Wray, 15, who was stabbed to death in her home, probably .with a screwdriver. The pretty teenager was found dead Monday by her mother, Stella Wray, who had just returned from a trip to nearby Paso Robles. The girl was lying on the living room floor, a bag of popcorn still clutched in one hand. An autopsy was ordered to determine whether the girl had been attacked. No explanation was offered for the stabbing. RUSSIANS LIKE MOVIES Moscow (UPD Russians are the biggest movie-goers in the world, according to the offi cial Soviet News Agency Tass. City dwellers in Russia visit the pictures an average of 23 times a year while their coun try cousins go 11 times annual ly, Tass reported. Hargitay Ordered To Increase Payments Los Angeles -(LTD- Muscular Mickey Hargitay, husband of actress Jayne Mansfield, has been ordered to increase child support payments to his for mer wife from S20 a week to S300 a month. . Superior Judge Burnett Wolfson issued the order Mon day with Hargitay's consent. It involves Tina, 10, his daughter by Mary Hargitay, 29, who divorced Hargitay in Indianapolis almost three years ago. . Submarine Report Off Vanco uver Investigated Victoria, B. C. (UPD The Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Navy began an in vestigation Monday on a re port that an unidentified sub: marine was sighted in the vi cinity of Vancouver Island. A Navy spokesman at the Esquimalt Base near here said the number of planes and ships involved and the loca tion of the search could not be released . because of security regulations. Dividend Declared ! By Savings Group A ZVz per cent dividend was declared by the board of directors of the Jackson Coun ty Federal Savings and Loan association at a board meet ing June 11, according to J. H. Pletsch, secretary. An extra dividend of one- half per cent was declared for the six month period ending June 30. Pletsch said that as of May 30, the association had made $2,143,999 in loans for the period since January 1, result ing in an increase in mort gage loans of over $1,160,000. .Pletsch said 'that "the econ omy of the Rogue river val ley should be excellent for the remainder of 1959." Separate States for Race Tranquility Told Los Angeles (DPS The am bassador to the United States from the Union of South Afri ca says his country's program for racial tranquility hinges on separate states by race. W. C. du, Plessis told a Los Angeles World Affairs coun cil lunch Monday that eight government established Ban tu states are being developed in an extension of the tradi tional apartheid policy of ra cial separateness. It provides that colored citi zens or Bantus, could neither vote nor own property in NEW TRANSPORT ARRIVES Smyrna, Tenri. (UPD The first C-13.0B prop-jet combat transport plane was delivered to the air Force here Monday by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. The four-engine craft was the first of about 75 on order by the Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. 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