Herald and news., October 10, 1961, Image 1

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Day's km
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's big story:
Moscow claims the Soviet Un
ion has the world's fastest FLEET
of nuclear submarines. Faster
than the swiftest Atlantic liners.
The fastest submarines IN THE
WORLD. AU armed with long
range nuclear rockets. And ail
ready to go. Their crews already
training for underwater battle
with nuclear submarines of "oth
er" countries.
The big question:
IS IT TRUE?
Well, the story has a curious
background. It is sprung by Iz
vestia, the Soviet government
newspaper. As a communist gov
ernment newspaper, Izvestia says
what it is told to say, wben it is
told to say it. What it says isn't
necessarily true, for it is the
GOVERNMENT newspaper and to
question the government newspa
per would be an approximation of
treason.
What Izvestia says in its story
has some curious overtones. For
i'i example:
The story hints that Marshal
Zhukov was fired as defense min
ister and from the presidium of
the communist party in November
of 1957 for opposing construction
of these atomic subs. It says Pre
mier Nikila Khrushchev made the
decision to go ahead with build
lng them. It quotes an un
named admiral as saying: "Those
were hard times for us submarin
ers, but Khrushchev interfered
and WISELY determined the place
of the submarine in the navy."
The story adds that Premier
- Khrushchev made the decision to
go ahead with the building job
and is known to the Soviet sailors
as "the father of the nuclear fleet
which today guards our Soviet
state."
Two suspicions occur:
1. It's a wonderful build-up for
Mr. Kroosh. who can use such a
build-up at this particular moment.
He is soon to face the big com
munist congress, which he needs
to impress if he is to keep his
job.
2. The Russian objective is to
frighten the world into submis
sion. This nuclear submarine fleet,
all complete and ready to go,
has some frightening connotations
to the ' uncommitted neutrals,
and even to some of our allies.
Our instinctive thought, of
course, is that it must be true or
. Mr. Kroosh wouldn't dare to
spring it.
But we must remember that to
a communist a lie is a tool to be
used. Communists don't hesitate
to use lies if they can do so with
out getting caught at it. It would
be rather hard to catch them in
this lie, assuming that it is a lie.
Submarines are highly secret.
They can be kept hidden.
If it is the communist consen
sus that a lie will help, the lie
is told and spread. There have
been plenty of instances of that.
One of our top anti-submarine
warfare experts says this morn
ing he doesn't believe it. He
thinks the Russians have a small
fleet of nuclear submarines about
equal to our first experimental
ones. Another U.S. authority esti
mates the Soviets are "in a rudi
mentary state in the art of nu
clear submarines about eight
years behind the U.S."
Shall we believe the slory?
Or shall we scoff at it?
Let's put it this way: The wisest
course is to assume that it
MIGHT be true, and to take all
.J possible steps to meet such a
fleet of submarines as the Rus
sians describe.
When the Confederates were
building the ironclad Merrimac.
which revolutionized naval war
fare in its day, there were rumors
of w hat was going on. So the Un
ion built the Monitor to MEET
THE MERRIMAC.
If that hadn't been done, there
might have been a different end
ing to the War Between the
States.
Clown Tells
Of Killing
RIVER VALE. N.J. AP -Murder
charges have been filed
against an internationally known
circus clown who, police say, has
admitted hacking to death his
sweetheart because she said he
was too old.
"I don't care what you do to
me now. My life is over," said
Edward GuUlaume. 69. when he
was arraigned on the charge
Monday night.
Slain Monday was Miss Eleni
Gabrielle Nelson. 49. also a cir
cus performer jho had a dog
act.
Guillaume. known as "Polidor
the Clown," had entered the cir
rus arenas of his nit&e France
it the age of 11 and performed
with various circuses on five con
tinents. But in recent years be
was jobless.
Weather
KlamaUpFalls and vicinity
Partial clearing tonight. Partly
cloudy and showers Wednesday.
Low 30-15. High K-57. Snow level
near 3,500 feet tonight.
High yesterday 7
Low last night M
Precip. last 24 hours .00
Since Oct. 1 .00
Same period last year ..16
ONE OF FLEET? The Soviet Union claims the world's
fastest fleet of nuclear submarines similar to the one
shown above, but the U.S. Navy today reiterated its
disbelief in the statement. The United States feels that
the Russians do not have a sub similar to our Nautilus.
Navy Skeptical
Of Soviet Subs
WASHINGTON (AP) - "We
don't believe it" was the reaction
today of a top Navy antisubma
rine warfare authority to a Soviet
claim that the Soviet Union has
the world's fastest fleet of nuclear
submarines.
The authority, who did not want
to be quoted by name, said the
Navy thinks the Soviets have a
small fleet of nuclear submarines.
But he added: "If they have a
submarine up to the state of the
Nautilus we'd be surprised."
The Nautilus was the first nu
clear submarine. It was commis
sioned about seven years ago and
the Navy since has evolved more
advanced models.
The U.S. fleet now has 14 nu
clear attack submarines. A 15th
will be commissioned shortly.
Thirteen others are in various
stages of construction. Alsb with
FUND FAILING Klam
ath County United Fund
only picked up two per
cent of its drive total at
Monday's report luncheon.
The drive now stands at
62.2 per cent of the total
of $ 1 35.309; one week re
mains in the drive
time is running out for the
27 agencies supported by
the fund. Give more, where
it helps most, to the Klam
ath County United Fund.
Wife Leaves Defector
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands i
i API A Soviet chemist, whose
defection to Ihe West brought on
an airport brawl between the So
viet ambassador and Dutch police,
said today he had been engaged
in research on how to. overcome
the effects of nuclear fallout on
human beings.
Police quoted him as. saying he
defected because he lacked free
dom to carry on this research.
The defection of Alcxei Golub,
35, resulted in a clash Monday
when Soviet Ambassador Pante-I
leimon K. Ponomarenko and his
aides went to the airport to put
the scientist's wile on a Moscow
bound plane. SIR finally decided
to leave her husband, perhaps for
evcreand went on back to Mos
cow. They had come here as
tourists.
Ponomarenko lost a button off
his raincoat in the brawl, and at
least one Soviet diplomat and a
policeman nursed injuries.
The incident brought newspaper
demands that Ponomarenko here
after be givQi only a one-way ad
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the fleet is a nuclear submarine
armed with 500-mile-range Regu
lus guided missiles.
An increasingly important ele
ment of U.S. striking power is the
Polaris submarine, capable of fir
ing aiomic-uppea rocKets over
200 miles. Six of these are at
sea or close to combat readiness
Thirteen more either have been
launched or are being built.
The Navy has conceded the So
viets Ihe capability to build nu
clear submarines, but has not re
ported sighting any.
One authority estimated the So
viets are between seven and eight
years behind the United States
in what he called a rudimentary
state of the art.
Navy sources scoffed at the So
viet claim published by the Soviet
newspaper Izvestia, that ""Soviet
nuclear submarines ere the fast
est in the world."
As one -officer put it: "we'll
break any record they want to
set,"
About 10 days ago, Adm.
George W. Anderson, chief of
naval operations, told newsmen
he believed the Soviets do not
own a ballistic missile that can
be launched from a submerged
submarine, as is done by Polaris
subs.
8 Recover
From Ordeal
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Eight
persons, including three airline
stewardesses, today were recover
ing from a harrowing 24 hours
spent clinging to a capsized sail
boat in the shark-infested waters
of the Fiji Islands.
The slory of their struggle was
reported today by survivors here
and in Honolulu.
Pan American stewardesses Gu
dion Meisncr, 32. San Mateo,
Calif.; Estella Navarro, 29, San
Francisco, and Mrs. Margaret
Kirchcr 32, Riverside, Calif.,
were recuperating at Honolulu's
Queens Hospital today.
Capt. J. W. Adiance and First
Officer W. K. Langhorne of Pan
am were flown here. langhorne.
who lives in Atherlon, Calif., is a
nephew of England's Lady Astor.
mission to the airport en route
home.
Golub, a doctor in biochemistry,
was quoted by a police spokesman
as saying he was seeking asylum
because he lacked pfofcssional
freedom.
He was quoted as saying he was
engaged in important research on
"how to remove strontium out of
the human body without affecting
the vital element, calcium." but
his superiors made him give up
the research for other work. j
Strontium is one of the elements!
from nuclear fallout. It concen
trates in the marrow of bones
and is the chief worry of scien-i
lists concerned with the effects of
nuclear explosions in the atmos
phere on the health of human
beings.
Climax of the day-long quarrel
was the final airport meeting be
tween Golub and hit w I f e.
Dutch public prosecutor J. G. de
Zaaijcr called it a human tragedy.
In the presence of the Soviet
ambassador and the public prose
cutor, Mrs. Golub told her hus
band she had to think of her par
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Casfro
Invasion'
ases
MIAMI. Fla. (AP)-Cuban ex-
Ucs and Florida authorities gen
erally expressed skepticism today
that large-scale training for a
Cuban invasion is under way in
the state, as charged by Fidel
Castro's government.
But the feeling persisted among
exiles that something is brewing
against Castro. No one would say
just what.
Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly of Dade
County said no ati-Castro train
ing is in progress in nis aica.
Broward County authorities de
nied there were such activities in
the Fort Lauderdale area, and
said they knew also there were I
none at nearby West Palm Beach.
Some 40 or 50 young anti-Castro
Americans training at Forman'
Field west of Fort Lauderdale
were ordered away by Broward
County authorities three months
ago. Their. head, Jerry Patrick, an
ex-Marine, born in Los Angeles,
said the group would continue
training in the Florida Ever
glades. Everglades areas were not men-
Four Killed
By Worker
GARY, Ind. (AP)-A steel work
er ran amok with a pistol while
being reprimanded today for loaf
ing on the job and killed four men
before he was shot down by a
plant guard.
-Arbie Dayisv 29, Gary, ;also
wounded four' other men in the
wild rampage through several
buildings of the U.S. Steel Co.
sheet and tin mill.
Killed before the laborer died
with a guard's bullet in his head
were Joe Guydon, 37; Donald
Moran, 46; Royal Rutt and Neal
Wolfrath. 48.
Louis Massa, plant general la
bor foreman thought at first to
have been killed, was reported
later still alive in Mercy Hospital.
Also wounded were Ben Proft.
Gerald Myers, , 48, and David
Shaefer, 29.
Authorities said Guydon, a track
Bang boss, caught Davis and an
other worker talking when they
were supposed to be working. He
ordered them back to work and
turned in a report reprimanding
Davis for loafing.
Davis was told to report this
morning to Massa's office, where
he was awaited by Massa, Guydon
and Moran, track gang foreman.
It was not known whether the
workman said anything in the of
fice before opening (ire with a
revolver, dropping all three fore-
,men.
Davis then ran to the mainten
ance and utilities building, where
he shot Proft and Myers. Both
men also are foremen.
He went next door to the fac
tory's industrial relations office,
asked for a man who wasn't there,
entered another building and shot
Wolfrath and Rutt. Wolfrath was
a metallurgist. Rutt was a trainee.
After Airport Brawl
ents at home in the Soviet Union
and was leaving without him. The
couple has no children.
De Zaaijer said he was con
vinced the woman had not been
coerced. . .
The Golubs arrived last week
I with a party of Soviet tourists.
The husband, a balding, broad-
shouldered man, was taken into!
custody alter he walked out of
their hotel Saturday night and an
nounced he wanted asylum in the
West.
Mrs. Golub had accompanied
her husband when he left his hotel!
but disappeared before the police
arrived. I
Monday's arguments resulted:
from Dutch efforts to muke cer
tain the woman was returning!
home of her own free will.
She appeared at Amsterdam
Airport Monday morning with
Ambassador Ponomarenko and a
group of Russians ready to leave
for Moscow.
Mrs. Golub had no passport, her
husband having turned it over to
the Dutch police. Soviet officials
stormed into the airport police
CATS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Claim
Denied
tioned in Castro's pinpointing of
training sites.
Some observers felt the Castro
regime was merely recounting
places where troops trained for
the unsuccessful April invasion.
But one exile commented: "It's
probably true. Castro usually
finds out about such things before
we do."
In Monroe County, which in
cludes the Florida Keys, Sheriff
John M. Spottswood ' said flatly
that "no such thing exists in the
Florida Keys."
Lt. R. W. Willcox, commander
of the U.S. Coast Guard station
in Key West, also denied the Cu
ban charges. One of the sites
mentioned by the Castro govern
ment was the Dry Tortugas, an
island group west of Key West.
The Castro government charge:
that Ft. Bragg, N.C., is involved!
in the invasion training was de
nied by a spokesman for that
Army post.
At Norfolk, Va., Navy and Ma
line spokesmen said they had
heard nothing of any invasion
naming activity there.
Recruiting of anti-Castro men
has been going on in the Norfolk
area for some tune.
Jim Ore, 38, an ex-Marine of
Norfolk, has been engaged in
anti-Castro activity for more than
a year. He said today, however,
he was unable to comment "at
this time."
Ore, the husband of a Cuban
girl, trained for a year in the
Florida swamps with Cuban ref
ugees and others interested in the
overthrow of Castro.
Fort Worth, Tex., police officials'
ait,.i , denied any knowledge of
training of troops there for a Cu
ban invasion.
A
Union Faces
2-Vay Task
DETROIT (AP) - The United
Auto Workers Union today faced
the dual task of completing a na
tional contract with Ford Motor
Co. by Thursday and smoothing
out problems which arose sudden
ly in its historic profit-sharing
agreement with American Motors
Corp.
UAW President Walter P. Reu-
ther expressed optimism on both
jobs.
He said only two major issues
remain at Ford production
standards and a union demand for
additional company paid union
representatives to process griev
ances in Ford plants.
The UAW struck and closed
Ford a week ago today. Negotia
lors. reacnea agreement on an
economic package prior to the
strike but failed to settle non
economic portions of the contract
Agreement was reached formal
ly Monday night on two major
non-economic problems. One con
cerns the outside contracting of
tool and die work, the other out
side contracting of maintenance
work.
headquarters and demanded Ihe
passport. Police officer Frits Velt
man refused until he could talk
with Mrs. Golub alone.
Fighting broke out between six
policemen and six Russians. Pon
omarenko was heard shouting,
Do you know I am the ambassa
dor? We are Soviet officials.'
Vcltman emerged with a bloodv
hand. One Soviet attache had a
bruised face.
Ponomarenko, onetime member
of the Soviet Communist party's
secretariat and an alternate mem
ber of the Presidium, was sum
moned to the Hague to confer
,with Premier de Quay. A Foreign
Ministry spokesman said the pre
mier and the ambassador agreed
during a 30-minute meeting that
Mrs. Golub would be asked to
slate her desires in the presence
of Dutch and Soviet officials.
Mrs. Golub and the other tour
ists finally departed aboard a So
viet jet that had waited 'i hours
for them. Her husband was led
away by police who said it was
virtually certain he will he given,
asylum.
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1961
WAVERING Burma's U Thant Is expected to become
the acting secretary-general of the United Nations, but
today expressed reluctance to accept the post unless
the Soviet Union and the Western powers can agree on
his authority.
AFL-CIO Downs
Teamster Plan
NEW YORK (AP) The AFL-i
CIO Executive Council today vdp
ed 25 to 2 against permitting
the International Brotherhood ot
Teamsters to rejoin the merged
labor movement as long as It has
its present leadership.
AFL-CIO President George
Mcany said the position taken by
the Executive Council was in line
with the organization's constitu
tional provisos against member
ships by groups under corrupt
domination.
'There is every indication that
the (Teamsters) union Is more
than ever now under the influence
of criminal and corrupt ele
ments," said Meany.
James R. Hoffa heads the
Teamsters Union. He has been the
target of frequent attacks In re
cent years, both from members of
Congress and others including
Kennedy administration officials.
Doctor Says
Seeks Personal Revenge
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP)
Dr. Robert ' L. Bochme, 41,
charged with trying to poison his
wile, accused the prosecuting at
torney Monday of seeking person
al vengeance. m
In a statement issued through
his attorney, the physician said
Prosecutor Gordon L. Walgren
was "trying to exact retribution
because he thought I prevented
his marriage to Mary Boehme."
Mary Boehme, 28, a nurse, is
a former sister-in-law of Dr.
Boehme. She is free on $5,000
bond as a material witness.
Advised of Dr. Bochme's state
ment, Walgren said. "I have no
comment other than that the evi
dence presented has convinced
me there has been a crime.
Waloron 28. has acknowledged
that he and Mary Bochme ob
tained a marriage license ai ia
ni .l.mp 22. He said he dated
the nurse as part of his Investi
gation and learned that sne ana
Dr. Boehme had made trips as
husband and wife.
Dr. Boehme's wife, Dorothy, 34,
ininpd in issuine the statement.
Iwhich called Walgren's charges
fantastic.
Kh also sinned a surety bond
Lr v revi nn the family home for
her husband Monday after his ar
raignment on a charge ol assault
with intent to kill was postponed
until Oct. 23.
In an interview, Dr. Bochme de
that he nreventcd a marriase
between ' Walgren and Mary
Boehme, who was divorced irom
the docr'i brother three years
ago.
Warv Rnchme and I are simply
onnd fripnds " said the hnndsome
doctor, a 6-footer who wears a
mustache and a toupcW "And she
i vrv friendly with my wile. She
has even done nursing duty wiih
my wife during this illness. She is
Telephone
The Teamsters Union was oust
ed from the AFL-CIO four years
ago.
Mcany said nothing had hap-
pened since then to indicate It
had been cleansed of corrupt influences.-Then
he added his opin
ion that it was now more than
ever under influence of criminal
and corrupt elements.
Earlier, Meany said President
Kennedy hasn't done enough to
combat unemployment and pre
dicted joblessness would be as
bad this winter as it was a year
ago.' .
That would mean over five mil
lion idle again.
Meany was asked at a news
conference, as week-long AFL-
CIO meetings got under way here
Monday, whether he was satisfied
with Kennedy administration pro
grams to solve the idle worker
situation.
Prosecutor
like one of the family."
Mrs. Dorothy Boehme, a diabet
ic, has been under treatment for
hepatitis, an inflammation of the
liver. She left the hospital Monday
and went home to the doctor and
their two young sons.
Dr. Boehme complained that he
and his wife had been "subjected
to a program of police surveil
lance, harassment and intimida
lion" for months.
The physician was arrested Sat
urday on a complaint charging
that he administered poison to his
wife Sept. 20 while pretending to
lake a blood sample.
Mothers Protest Lack Ot Guard
Fifteen militant mothers con
verged on school district one's
Board of Directors' meeting Mon
day night, incensed over the re
moval of a crossing guard at
Mills School.
The guard was eliminated by
Ihe board in a meeting in mid-
August. Rollin Cantrall, board
member, said the guard reached
the age of compulsory retirement!
and it was Uie board s feeling
"this was a good way to pass
the buck to the city. Cantrall
said he feels responsibility for chil
dren crossing streets and getting
home safely rests with the city's
traffic safety committee.
Mpj. Wayne Kennett, speaking
for the mothers' group which
came from Mills School PTA,
charged the board. "If a child is
hurt at that crossing, who Is go
ing to take the responsibility?
Mrs. Kennett asked for clarifi
cation on whether or not the funds
for a crossing guard was includ
ed in the budget and Harold Ail
Icy, clerk, answered they were.
"If the funds were alloted In the
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.. Pushes
Negotiations
For M Pos'i
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (API
The United States intensified
negotiations with the Soviet Union
today on an interim secretary-
general for the United Nations
alter Ambassador Adlai E. Stev
enson reported "some progress"
toward breaking the deadlock.
Stevenson conferred for an hour
and 40 minutes Monday with So
viet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko and told reporters he
was very hopelul some decision
can bo reached."
"We made some progress with
respect to the problem of the secretary-general,"
Stevenson said
as he left the Soviet mission head
quarters on upper Park Avenue.
Gromyko left later for Moscow.
Stevenson was scheduled to see
Soviet delegate Valerian A. Zorin
this afternoon in what American
sources described as a continu
ing series of talks on the prob
lem of a successor for the late
Dag Hammarskjold.
The United States and the So-
viet Union are reported agreed
on Ambassador U Thant of Bur
ma as an interim successor, but
they differ on how he should func
tion in that office.
The Soviet Union has insisted
on an evenly matched group of
Wcstcrn-Commnnist and neutral
ist deputies with whom the sec
retary-general would have to con
sult before making any decisions.
The United States contends thero
should be no check on the secretary-general's
authority.
U Thant is reluctant to accept
the post unless the Soviet Union
and the Western powers agree on
his powers. .
In the assembly, Cuban Foreign
Minister Raul Roa in a policy
speech this afternoon was expect
ed to make a slashing new attack.
on the United States, charging the
Washington government is training
a new invasion force to attack Fi
del Castro's regime and is trying
to torpedo Cuba s relations with
other nations as an Invasion pre
liminary.
W. Pearson
Speaks Here
Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Mult
nomah County, former stale treas
urer and former president of the
Senate will speak tonight at a spe
cial turkey dinner meeting to be
held at the Shasta Community
Hall, Shasta Way and Madison
Street.
Pearson's appearance here Is
being - sponsored by the Demo
cratic Club, Wayne Blair, presi
dent. '
Pearson Is expected to comment
on some of the current problems
facing the state, including the re
apportionment squabble.
He has been prominently men
tioned as the Democratic candi
date for governor in 19S2.
Preceding Pearson's talk, a tur
key dinner will be served by ladies
of Ihe Shasta Grange for a nomi
nal price. Blair indicated that ev
eryone is invited to attend.
A question and answer period
will follow Pearson's talk, Blair
indicated.
budget, then why aren't we hav-
ing the man there? she asked.
And we'd like to know what s
being done with the money."
Cantrall came back with "It
is the city of Klamath Falls' re-
ponsibility and they should begin
to realize it."
Board Chairman Wyatt Padgett
pointed out that funds derived
from meter violations were to Be
used for traffic control.
These children have grown up.
most of them, with this guard
there to watch over them," the
women said. "We pay taxes to
take care of situations like this
and we want to know what will
be done."
The mothers reported that teach
crs are presently having to es
cort their classes of youngsters
across East Main. The women
said 217 children cross at the cor
ner en route home.
Padgett said a committee com
posed of representatives of trie
board and the PTA would try to
meet with the city's traffic safety
Untht?r0
Ml. f$asta-Siskiyou Kain and
snow through Wednesday with
now level dropping to 4,500 feet
tonight; colder.
Nsrliwrn California Occasional
rain with snow in Iflgh mountains
through Wednesday except fair in
Central California today becom
ing cloudy Wednesday; cooler -Wednesday.
Elsewlieie in the United Na
tions:
Soviet delegate Alexei A. Rosh-
chin assailed the location of U.N.
headquarters in New York and
suggested it be transferred to Vi
enna, Berlin or Geneva.
In the assembly policy debate.
Israeli Foreign Minister Golda
Men challenged the Arab nations
to join in a regional disarmament
plan she said could serve as a
pilot project for solution of the
East-West arms deadlock.
JFK Visit
Good Tonic
For 'Sam'
DALLAS. Tex. (AP) - Ailing
Sam Rayburn has probably re
ceived the best medicine there is
for a lifelong politician: a visit
from the president of the United
States.
President Kennedy went 3,000
miles out of his way Monday to
spend 14 minutes with the 79-year,
old speaker of the House who has
cancer. The president originally
had planned to go directly to
Washington from Newport, R.I.,
where he had spent the weekend.
John Holton, Rayburn s admin
istrative assistant, said: "The en
tire family was gratified and
pleased by the graciousness ot the
visit. They were pleased indeed."
Holton sard Rayburn told him "
that be and the President dis
cussed everything from politics to
world events.
The man who has been speaker
twice as long as anyone else was
lying with his head propped up.
The President stood for a time,
then sat in a chair. Only a nurse
was in the room with them.
Rayburn had been told about
the visit only a half hour before
the President landed.
Kennedy, who said he found
Rayburn "somewhat thinner, but
extremely lively," kept the visit
short in order not to tire the
speaker. He left the room to talk
with Rayburn's physicians, then
went back in to say goodbye.
Syria Given J
U.S. Okay
WASHINGTON (AP)-The Unit
ed States today recognized the
new state of Syria.
The Slate Department, in an
nouncing this, said that the gov
ernment of Premier Mahmoun al
Kuzbari was informed today about
the U.S. diplomatic move.
The U.S. consulate general in '
Damascus will be raised to the
status of an embassy. Prior to the
appointment of an ambassador.
Ridgway B. hnight, the present
consul general, will act as charge
d'affaires.
committee and "work something
out."
He said he would contact Mrs.
Kennett when a meeting had been
arranged.
In other business, the board
heard a full report from Special
Education Supervisor Forest Haw
ley on a new vision screening pro
gram which will be used this
year. Called the Massachusetts Vi
sion Tests, the program Is an ex
tension of the Snellen Tests which
have been used for years in
schools across the nation.
Hawley said the new program
tests for farsightedness and cer
tain muscular fusion difficulties.
"There is a strong feeling that
the Snellen doesn't go far enough."
Hawley said. He told the board
there would be no major expendi
tures involved in the program.
The board considered a request
from Betty Ramsey, operator of
Renj'e Dance Studio, to teach
dancing t seventh and eighth
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