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WHICH ONE OF YOU GUYS SPIKED HIS PUNCH?
tors Dispute Testimony
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can miners a chance to live.”
Sen. Ernest Gruening a sponsor
of the gold bill, termed Roosa’s
testimony ‘'ridiculous . . . utterly
impossible to believe.”
Gold mining is the only industry
which has been unable to raise;
its rates since 1934, he said, whale
expenses have climbed steadily.
Gruening said cost of living in
creases in the past 28 years, while
gold has been frozen at $35 an
ounce, range up to 817 per cent
fear one item.
Sen. Thomas Kuchel, (R-Calif.),
said he regretted the Treasury
Department’s stand.
“It’s up to Congress to take
some steps to help the American
gold miner,” he added.
Hod Acute Situation
Sen. Henry Dworshak, (R-Idaho),
said federal spending and the de
pletion of United States gold re
serves place this country in a
“most acute situation.” The ire
serves are disappearing at the rate
of $1 billion annually, he added.
He asked whether the Treasury
would recommend a Presidential
veto if Congress passed the gold
bOl. Roosa said It would.
Industry spokesmen testified at
an earlier hearing the subsidy
would help stimulate domestic gold
production and increase rserves.
The federal departments said in
formal reports opposing the sub
sidy:
1. It would take more than 40
years for the subsidy payments to
replace from domestic Sources fee
monetary gold reserve loss since
1957.
2. A two-price system for gold
would cause a further drain on
reserves, because the government
would pay $70 for domestic gold
and sell ft for $35 to foreign mone
tary authorities and industrial users
of gold in this country.
3. There would be speculation
and uncertainty over the stability
of the dollar in the world markets.
One unusual philanthropist has
a habit of dropping a coin in the
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SANITATION IS BASED
ON A CLEAN COMMUNITY
By George Markham
District Sanitarian
Sanitation is the foundation upon
which efforts to promote and pro
tect the health of the public are
based and is expressed by the clean
home, the clean business, the clean
neighborhood, and the clean com
munity.
The sanitary condition of a com
munity begins with the individual,
the family, the home, and the in
dustries of the community. From
these beginnings sanitation con
tinues on into the neighborhood
and the community. All commu
nities are composed of individuals
and the sanitation of the com
munity reflects how much time,
effort, and money the individuals
are able and willing to invest in
the promotion and protection of the
health of themselves and their
families.
Sanitary practices and facilities
cannot remain static if they are
to satisfy the increasing needs at
i growing community. The sani-1
tary practices and facilities that
may be adequate for a village are
probably not adequate for town;
and the sanitary practices and fa
cilities that may be adequate for
a town are probably not adequate
for a city. As the population of
a community increases, sanitary
practices and facilities need to be
come more refined.
The most challenging and worth
while goal of man is not to get to
the moon but to provide a sanitary
environment for himself and his
family. He can achieve this goal
only with the combined efforts of
himself, his neighbor, andthe
community as a whole.
AMERICAN SWIMS
TREACHEROUS STRAIT
OF MESSINA UNDER WATER
MESSINA, Sicily LSI — Ameri
can Fred Baldasare, daring treach
erous currents and sharks, Satur
day swam the hazardous Strait of
Messina under water.
The Cocoa, Fla., long-distance
swimmer made the unprecedented
underwater dressing of the three
mile strait to 3 hours 42 minutes.
Baldasare actually swam more
than three miles as the strong
currents kept pushing him north
ward. He crossed from Capo Del
Foro On the northeast tip of Sicily
to the village of Scylla, on toe
Italian mainland north of Reggio
Calabria.
His arrival at Scylla was about
half a mile farther north than his
original target of Unte Pezzo.
The record for a surface swim
across the strait is 52 minutes and
27 seconds, set by Pippo Dominici,
an Italian, in 1930. Dominici was
iajymotor launch following Balda
sare Saturday.
The 38-year-old American is toe
first to ever try Swimming the
hazardous strait under water. Few
have even attempted it on toe"
surface. Baldasare used oxygen.!
Five Italian skin divers on his pilot
boat kept jumping into toe water
to change oxygen tanks under
water, watching the white-painted
hull of his pilot boat as a guide.
The
nition
Mrs. Harold Pilcher,
I RUSSIA EMBARRASSED
WASHINGTON (M — Officials
say Russia has been embarrassed
by the string of refugee incidents
in Berlin and has tried to shift
the blame with its note accusing
the West of provoking trouble
along the wall.
Although the note was the
strongest the Soviet Union has is
sued recently on Berlin, U.S. au
thorities said they saw no indi
cation the statement foreshadows
a Kremlin effort to start the Ber
lin crisis boiling again.
The dispute over the divided
city has cooled off during the past
several months while the United
States and Russia have explored
various ways of reaching a peace
ful solution.
So far the talks have produced
no agreement. Another meeting be
tween Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Ana
toly Dobrynin is scheduled June 18.
The Russians threatened Friday
to step into the Berlin situation,
charging the United States, Britain
and France with fostering “inten
sified intrigues of the revengists
and militarists” who the note said
are “trying to provoke a serious
sharpening of the situation in West
Berlin.”
The Washington officals, noting
Friday’s spectacular East German
escape by excursion boat, said
they think the Communists feel the
repeated escapes and attempted
escapes are giving them a blackcye.
Thus, said the officials, the Rus
sians are trying to pin the blame
on what they call the revenge
seekers and militarists.
No Sign of Fallout
TOKYO if) — A Japanese sur
vey ship operating in the Pacific
says it has detected no sign of
increased radioactive fallout caused
by the U.S. nuclear tests.
The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun
said the report from the 6,000-ton
Koyo Maru was limited to a survey
of contamination of air and did
not include water and marine life.
WAVE OF ARRESTS
REPORTED IN SPAIN
MADRID, Spain lift — A wave
of arrests was reported in Spain
Saturday in the wake of a revival
of underground activities against
the Franco government. Official
sources said numerous arrests had
been made. Some estimates put
the number in the hundreds.
The crackdown came as the cabi
net, in a step aimed at curbing
anti-government elements, sus
pended for two years the right of
Spaniards to live and move as
they wish in Spanish territory.
The decision, following two in
cidents of bomb explosions in
Madrid and a meeting of Spanish
opposition leaders in Munich, Ger
many, revived speculation that a
shakenp was near in Gen. Fran
cisco Franco’s cabinet.
Official sources reported some
dissatisfaction of Franco’s part with
the lack of ministerial coordination
in handling a recent strike wave,
which continued for more than
seven weeks and reached a crest
of nearly 100,000 men on strike
before it receded.
Some of the cabinet changes will
be for reasons of health, these
sources predicted. At least two
ministers are ailing and have asked
to be relieved.
Honeymoon In Seattle
Marjorie Leonard and Bobby
Goeth were married at the Luth
eran Church Friday evening and
they left Saturday for a honey
moon in Seattle.
Bobby is with the ACS here
and Mrs. Goeth is the nurse for
Dr. Sheldon Ivers at the Public
Health Service dental clinic.
They expect to return in about
ten days.
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HOW TO POSE FOR PICTURES
AT PAGEANT-TIME
Local beauties who plan to participate in our town’s graduation,
parade and pageantry activities this season will want to take note of
these posing pointers offered by a recent national pageant
America's Junior Miss.
Pretty 17-year-old Jean Leflie Allen (tight), of Rhode Island, sug
gests, as she poses for a snapshot for second runner-up Margaret Vir
finU Norton, of Virginia, that it's best not to face the camera head-on
for a fuJl-iength shot. A three-quarters angle is more ff altering because
Wa,St md hips. Also,hands that are holding something
the camera; for a look of candor, hxy©u* eye* on the lens; and for a
look. «>" <o g« . good nigh.’.