President Invokes
Doctrine of
Executive Privilege
On “Muzzling”
WASHINGTON m — President
Kennedy invoked the doctrine of
executive privilege Thursday to
forbid Pentagon personnel to tell
a Senate subcommittee the names
of censors who altered texts of
specific anti-Communist speeches.
TTie chairman promptly upheld
the plea.
“I am convinced this execu
tive plea applies and the chair
sustains it,” said chairman John
Stennis, (D-Miss.).
Up to the time of the Presi
dential intervention Stennis had
been one of those attempting to
elicit answers on the point.
The only subcommittee mem
ber objecting to the chair’s ruling
was Sen. Strom Thurmond, (D
S.C.), whose charges that the mili
tary had been muzzled against
' anti-Communist statements set off
the subcommittee’s study.
Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara read to the subcom
mittee a letter from the President
invoking the executive privilege
and directing Defense Department
personnel from top to bottom not
to disclose the information about
any individual changes in texts.
The President held it would not
be “in the public interest” to per
mit the subcommittee to question
the censors.
Over objections from Thurmond
that the talking should be done
by Willis Lawrence, chief Penta
gon censor who was on the stand,
McNamara interrupted the ques
tioning to read the Presidential
letter.
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Investigation to Be Made
Of Multi-Billion Dollar
Critical Material Stockpile
WASHINGTON M — The Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
yesterday authorized a complete
investigation into the nation’s
multi-billion dollar stockpile of
strategic and critical materials.
It approved a $30,000 fund to
start the special investigation
urged by President Kennedy in
an effort to reduce huge govern
ment investments.
Sen. Stuart Symington, (D-Mo.),
who will head the investigation
by a three-man subcommittee,
said staff work will start as soon
as the Senate gives expected for
mal approval.
Psychological Warfare . . .
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. U?) — The
visiting Watsonville, Calif., high
! school basketball team made an
unscheduled appearance before
the 700 fans Wednesday night.
While the team changed from
street clothes to uniforms before
the game, using the Civic Audi
torium stage as a dressing room,
someone opened the curtain.
If it was psychological warfare,
it worked. Santa Cruz high won
45-44.
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To Avoid a Wreck
. . . Steer Right for It
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. <*> —
When you are driving 150 miles
an hour and see a wreck develop
ing in front of you, what is the
best thing to do?
Buck Baker, 42-year-old stock
car racing veteran from Char
lotte, N.C., says his answer is to
aim straight at the developing
wreck.
“That’s honestly what I do,”
Baker said, “and I’m convinced
that’s the safest possible thing to
do.
“You see a wreck developing
out in front of you, and you aim
straight for it, and it will be gone
by the time you get there,” Baker
explained. “If you aim anywhere
else, it may be there by the time j
you get there.”
On the Daytona International j
Speedway, where stock cars i
average better than 150 mph for a i
2.5-mile circuit, Baker said there
isn’t time to make many adjust
ments.
HORSE IN THE MIDDLE . . .
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ffU-Vel
mer Hendrix, 47, Folsomville,
saw two white horses galloping
down a highway near here early
yesterday and decided his truck
could pass between them.
Too late he saw the white
horses weren’t alone—his truck
hit and killed a brown horse in
the middle.
Hendrix, unhurt, reported about
$1,000 damage to his truck.
Soviet Commandant
Stopped at Berlin Border
BERLIN IflPl — The Soviet Com
mandant in Berlin attempted to
enter the American sector today
in defiance of a United States
ban. He turned back when U.S.
military police asked him to
identify himself.
The Commandant, Col. Andrei
Solovyev, was on his way to the
British sector to keep an appoint
ment and could have entered
the British sector directly — and
was urged to do so by the British
—but chose to test the American
ban.
Solovyev has been banned from
the American sector since Dec. 23.
British spokesmen said Salov
yev was coming to British head
quarters for an appointment he
requested, presumably to deliver
the Soviet reply to an Allied pro
posal to end the impasse between
him and the U.S. Commandant,
Maj. Gen. Albert Watson.
MIGHT BE OVERDONE . . .
ANGUSTA, Ga. (Rh — A medical
specialist says he wonders if med
ical specialization sometimes isn’t
overdone.
Dr. Robert Greenblatt, chief
of the Endocrinology Department
at the Medical College of Georgia,
told a civic group: “We have doc
tors for the right hand and the
left hand. And if a man cuts a
little too deeply, he’s in another
man’s field.”
Ingo Makes Comeback
GOTEBORG, Sweden Ufi — In
gemar Johansson, former world
heavyweight champion, knocked
out Joe Bygraves in the 7th round
tonight and took the first step
in his comeback campaign.
It was the first time that Jo
hansson had fought since being
knocked out by Floyd Patterson,
current heavyweight king, last
March 13. Bygraves, a Jamacian,
is the former British Fmpire
heavyweight champion and was
making a comeback of his own
following the fracture of a leg
last year.
Johansson had said prior to this
fight that if he lost he’d hang up
his gloves for good.
Alaska's Centennial Celebration
JUNEAU Iff) — A bill creating
a committee to plan for Alaska’s
centennial celebration in 1967
was introduced in the House to
day by the Rules Committee at
the request of Gov. Wm. Egan.
The 16-member committee
woud be appointed by the. gov
ernor for a term of one year to
make a study of similar celebra
tions and make recommendations
to the 1963 legislature.
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