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c K L A H I S t i" I C L
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THE PONCA CITY NEWS
OKIAFTOM— Mostlv fafr west part-
ly cloudy east witn few widely scat-
tered thunder storms northeast Sunday
and extreme eat Sundav mht jYIon-
odv partly cloudj - ith chance of lew
widely scattered thunder storm east
Not much change in temperature Hign
Sundav JK-55
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Vol 67— No 249
(P) Leased Wire and Features
PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA SUNDAY JULY 17 1960
23 PAGES— 3 SECTIONS
Published D-tilv Except Saturday at 200 North Third
and Second Class Postage Paid at Ponca City Ok la
Price 10c
Nearly
evs
Dr AND MRS O R ATTEBLRY
and their daughters Adtde and
Linda spent the past weekend at
Lake Texhoma aboard the only
cabin cruiser of its kind in Okla-
homa The cruiser designed and
built by Mis Attebery's father
J O Green of Seminole is 54 feet
long 16 feet wide and is mounted
on two 33 by 5t-inch pontoons
Equipped with paddle wheels and
fiont end steering the cruiser
boasts a modem kitchen and bath
water system and pmifier electric
power plant a 3 000 watt fishing
light and is capable of making 10
trules per hour An old-fashioned
river boat whistle is one of its fin-
ishing touches The cruiser is
docked at the Six Shooter Camp at
the lake and is open to visitois
Mrs Attebery lepoits
Light-year-old Mickey Bennett
is taking a keen interest in poli-
ties these days Listening Intently
to the Democratic convention and
the nominating speeches he turned
to his mother Mrs James L Hen-
nett 616 South I lormahle and
asked in a serious and eoncerned
voice: ‘'Have they elected Simanek
jet?"
1 PONCA CITY giil gut mine
than she bargained for Friday
when she picked up a winter coat
that had been laid away at a diets
shop When she unwrapped the coat
to model it for admiring friends
that evening a set of wedding rings
fell out of the box Hating very
lttie use for a set of rings the un-
married young lady telephoned the
t'eik who had boxed the coat and
found her vety near to tears in
the air-conditioned stoic the rings
had slipped from her cool finger
into the lining of the coat as she
arranged it in the box
Falling into the boat pond at
Kiddieland was worthwhile for
Boyce Alan Brown thrpe-vear-old
son of Mr and Mrs Robert L
Brown 416 West Jresno The
first child ever to fall into the
water there he was given a free
ride after his brief dip
BECAUSE the room cleik at the
new DeVille Motor Hotel in
Oklahoma City believes in "keep-
ing the home folks together” three
Ponca City couples staying there
last weekend were surprised to
find themselves next door to each
other In consecutively numbered
rooms were Mr and Mrs Duvall
Harrold 1111 South Sixth Mr and
Mrs S O Meek 1004 North
Fourth and Mr and Mrs C A
Burns 1606 East CVntial
It's 20 bands now! Yes 20
bands will he marching in the
Cherokee Strip parade on Sat-
urday September 17 and only
three of them will be I’onea City
bands The last acceptance re-
ceived is from Sand Springs It
will be a long colorful and inter-
esting parade
Famed Opera
Baritone Dies
After Illness
NEW' YORK fT) — Lawrence
Tibbett the renowned baritone of
opera radio and movies is dead
at 63
He died Friday after lingering
in a coma for three weeks follow-
ing an operation
It was at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York that Tibbett first won
fame — scoring a sensational suc-
cess and attaining stardom over-
night Tibbett a 28-year-old secondary
singer at the Met in 11)25 was
called in at the last minute to re-
place an ailing baritone for a per-
formance of Verdi's "Falstaff”
At the end of the opera's second
act Tibbett received one of the
greatest ovations ever accorded a
singer at the Met
And for 25 years he sang lead-
ing operatic roles and helped pop-
ularize opera classics with appear-
ances in moves on the stage and
radio He was the first American
opera star to make a Hollywood
sound movie "The Rogue Song”
Tibbett had always been stage
struck from his early childhood
days in California He sang in
churches in Los Angeles and tn
the New York area before being
hired by the Met
His final Met performance was
in 1943
Kesselring Dies
BAD NAUHEIM Germany T) —
Former German Field Marshal Al-
bert Kesselrmg 74 died Friday
night in a hospital here where he
had been under treatment for a
h e rt ailment
THE WEATHER
At Tonca City Airport
(Data from FAA Flight Service
Station)
1 a m 66 7 a m 69
1 pm 85 7 pm 84
Saturday's high to 7 pm 89
Friday's maximum 85
Minimum past 24 hours 63
Relative Humidity 48 percent at
7 pm
Maximum wind velocity 12 mph
Time 7 pm
Barometric press 7 pm 20 89
Steady
Barometric press reduced to sea
level 29 95
At Eire Station No 1
Saturday's high 91
Friday's maximum 89
Minimum past 24 hours 61
Officials D iscuss
Memorial Favor
Vote on Location
Proposed Building Would Contain
Approximately 25000 Square Feet
By BILL CASIO
Preliminary plans for the piopused landscaping pat king aieas and
the building site of the planned James E Hutchins Memorial as it
wmuld appear in approximately the north 6 25 acies of the 24-acre War
Memorial Park were discussed Saturday by the board uf City Commis-
sioners during a lecessed meeting held in the mayors oftiee
The proposed plans in the form of a map accompanied by a state-
ment by the momonal arivismy committee appear in an advertisement on
pages 4B and 513 of today's News
No action was taken during the meeting the tlurd lecessed -es-ion
last week
Commissioners said during Saturday's session that today was the
fust chance for the map to be published after pudiminary lsiulst aping
plans were received fiom the arclm
tect Lambert A Associates of Dal-
las Tex
Size of the proposid building —
as it appeals on the mip — is sub-
ject to change when the esact type
and size of the building is known
Commissioner Robert E Claik stat-
ed The proposid budung would con-
tain appioxmiatidy 2i0u( squaie
feet on two levels probably cov-
ering approximately 22OU(J square
LOS ANGELES iT— Smiling Sen ground However Clark
Hemy M Jackson of Washington staled the size may havt to be
was chosen Democratic national I rcuuctd I
chairman Saturday accenting the 1
il Clark Comments I
youth of the pai ty s new leader-
ship I Cuniim tiling on the se of the 1
J proposed building Clark said that
an area uf appioxunau !y 18000
i square It-et is taken up by double ! j'inl v Leader Lyndon
of Texas as the vice-presidential
nominee
The 43-year-old Jackson was
picked by Sen John F Kennedy
the 4J-jear-old presidential norm-
nec-an old friend and harness
mate in the Senate
As is customary liie newly con
itituted Democratic committee
ratified the presidential candidate's
choice
No Pay
The new' chairman announced he
would serve in the party post with-
out pay As a senator he di avvs
$22 500 a year plus expenses
Jackson a Lutheran is the first
Protestant in more than a quarter
of a century to head the Demo-
cratic National Committee Paul
Butler the rctn mg chairman is
a Roman Catholic With Kennedy
a Catholic too it was indicated
in advance the post would go to
someone of a different faith
Jackson's appointment gives rec-
ognition to the West Coast with its
growing population and rising eco-
nomic wealth His predecessors in
recent times have all come from
the East or Midwest
Kennedy Friend
Jackson has been personally
close to Kennedy — among other
tilings they ploy softball and touch
football to unwind from the ten-
sions of lawmaking
Even before Jackson’s elevation
the Kennedy organization knew
how it wanted to revamp the
party's machinery
The roster of the reorganized
committee shows 41 new names —
and many of those wtio departed
were outside the Kennedy camp
or allied with other contenders be-
fore the Massachusetts senator's
first-ballot blitz here
Eight Top Denmark
Soccer Players Die
In Airplane Crash
COPENHAGEN Denmark UP) —
A chartered plane crashed just aft-
er takeoff fiom Copenhagen air-
port Saturday killing eight of Den-
mark’s leading soccer players
The players all candidates fur the
Olympic soccer team were on a
flight to Jutland for an Olympic
selection match
The pilot C Vindeloev the
plane's only other occupant sur
vived but was injured so badly he
was not expected to live
Airport officials said one of the
plane's two engines quit moments
after the plane took off The craft
crashed in shallow water off the
island where the airport is sit
uated The eight dead and the pilot
were found inside the wreckage
Electric Iron Blamed
In Inscne Asylum Fire
GUATEMALA (A’l — An electric
iron was blamed Saturday for a
fire that swept through an insane
asylum here Thursday firemen
said a 60-year-old inmate report-
ed she had forgotten to disconnect
the iron
Officials said 133 bodies have
been recovered from the rums of
the asylum and about 100 otiiers
still are unaccounted for
State Comments Differ
Editors View Nomination
By Tut Associated Press ‘chances’ better but the potential i a landslide that presages a new
Oklahoma eciitoi? viewed the leadership for our countiy is countenance and perhaps a new
nomination 1 Sen J!:' Kennedy i(gi eater” ‘sulif in the ranks of the Demo-
Tulsa Tnbtine: "What the Dem- ciatic paity”
as the Democratic presidential tan
didate and the national convention
itself with various emotions
They ranged from amused neu-
trality to praise and condemnation
Here is a cross section sampling
of the editorials:
Shawnee News Star: “The
Image of how the Oklahoma dele-
gation loudly booed as Oklahoma's
governor was on the rostrum hon-
ored with the privilege of making
a seconding speech for the winner
— and for all the uoild to sec and
hear — stll stands Lord God of
Hos's be With us yet lest we for-
get lest w e fm get’'
McAlester News-Capital: " By
adding Senator Johnson a gap has
been tdljd Not only are the
1 lL’nis couits Three double courts
are Presently located in the park
' next to Seventh Street Two double
courts Clark said would take mine
ground space than the proposed
memorial building
Pridin' 'r-y proposed pi ins for
the builcung would icve it con-
taining one Luge cential room with
a stage at one end There would
be no fixed seats on the floor level
although some gallery seats might
be placed around part of three siues
Main purpose of the ana accord-
ing to the advisory committee state-
ment would be to provide a place
of amusement and relaxation tor
adults as well as younger folks with
ping-pong tables badminton sets
etc
Two Teenagers’ Booms
Two large rooms would be de-
signed particularly for the teen-
agers to dance and have their get-to-gethers
The rooms also could
be used fur oilier purposes Rest
rooms would be located on the same
level as well as a sound-proof
room for music groups and other
ample size rooms which would be
available fur meetings of various
groups
At tlie lower level there would
be an entrance from the rear to
two large rooms for elderly people
one for men and one for the ladies
to meet play cards watch tele-
vision or engage in other activities
The entrance probably would be at
a level so there would be no steps
it was pointed out A terrace would
be located outside the rooms
Location Said Okay
Commissioners in the Saturday
meeting said they felt the War
Memorial Park location was most
suitable since it is centrally located
and in their opinion best conforms
to the part of the will of Mrs
Hutchins which states the memorial
"shall he located within the City of
Ponca City Okla or so near there-
to as to be readily accessible for
the public use and enjoyment of
all citizens of Ponca City"
Clark said school officials have
(Continued on Page 4-A
Demo Urges Kennedy
To Select Stevenson
LOS ANGELES CP) — A top
Democratic policymaker Saturday
urged that AdUu E Stevenson be
named secretary of state if Sen
John F Kennedy is elected presi-
dent in November
Gov David L Lawrence of Penn-
sylvania a national committeeman
said "I certainly hope he would"
when asked whether Kennedy
should name Stevenson tw ice a
candidate for president to the key
government post
"I don't know what is in Ken-
nedy's mind except what he said
several weeks ago that any nom-
inee should use him — Stevenson
— as secretary of state" Lawrence
said
Castro Improving
HAVANA (I’l — Saturday’s medi-
cal bulletin on Fidel Castro said
the Frime Minister’s temperature
is normal and he is continuing to
improve from a seige of pneumonia
ocrats now have is a ticket designed
to appeal to the ultra-violet of reac-
tion and the infra-red of radicalism
It covers the whole spectrum ”
Duncan Banner: "Rigged or un-
rigged the Dome ’ratio convention
show is in line for I960 s Emmy
Award as a spectacular"
Enid Eagle: “The Kennedy vic-
tory came as a result of the efforts
of a well-oiled oigunizatnm of un-
precedented thoroughness This task
force was a mixture of pros and
amateurs with an accent on youth"
Tulsa World: "Not all the out-
ward confidence of the ‘OLD PROS’
neither their vigor nor craft at
political maneuvering could turn
the tide It was John Kennedy in
New Nominee
Gets Firm Hold
On Demo Parly
Hints He'll Be
Aggressive Man
LOS ANCELFS (P) — John F
Kennedy laid firm hands on the
DemocraNc party machinery Satur-
day and all but said he “'so in-
tends to become a take-charge man
m next month's abbieviated con-
gressional session
The Massachusetts senator was
conducting ntupping-up operations
on the scene of his winning battle
for the party presidential nomina-
tion Sunday he shifts his command
post to his Hy'mnisport Mass home
for a fortnight He will confer there
with party li inters on fuch lsues
as economic growth national de-
fense and farm policy
Foreign Held Key’
Kennedy said that "the field of
foicicn policy is going to be the
key to this campaign" now looming
ahiad And he accepted a measure
of opposition help in that area —
an o'fer by Piesidcnt Ei-enhower to
kei p him posted on foreign policy
dev t Inprru-rts as has been the cus-
tom now every election year
The new presidential nominee in-
stalled Sen Henry M Jackson 43
of Washington as tlu new chair-
man of the Democratic National
Committee
Tins c-tiblished a Senate triumvi-
rate at the top of Ihe party —
Kennedy Jackson and Senate Ma-
ll Johnson
Kennedy Scurries
Kennedy scurried fiom a break-
fast of party loaders to a news con-
ference and on to a meeting of the
national committee
The news conference was the
first full-scale one he had held
since he captured the party nom-
ination Wednisday night It was
far-ranging but it left a good many
questions unanswered or answered
only m generalities
Kennedy said he wanted more
time to consider matters of national
policy before going into details on
them
But he did say he will confer
with a quartet of Democratic lead-
ers in Congress before the Senate
meets again August 8 and try to
work out a program for a tliiee-
week session “h
The consultants will he Johnson
Sen Mike Mansfield of Montana
assistant Senate leader: House
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: and
the House majority leader Rep
John McCormack of Massachusetts
Kennedy thus cast himself in a
new role in the legislative halls and
underscored the dergee to which
ho is taking over as head of the
Democratic party
Top GOP Says
Demo Ticket
Incompatible'
CHICAGO Mh — The Republican
chairman said Saturday the party's
national convention will not be
dosed to a bic’ for the presidential
nomination by Gov Nelson A
Rockefeller of New York — but he
added it would be difficult to pre-
vent Vice President Richard M
Nixon from getting it on the first
ballot
The chairman Sen Thruston B
Morton of Kentucky sized it up
that way at a news conference
Morton also termed the Demo-
eiatic ticket of Sen John F Ken-
nedy for president and Sen Lyndon
B Johnson of Texas for vice presi-
dent "the most incompatible in the
history of either party”
The chairman met newsmen
shortly after his arrival in Chicago
to handle final plans for the Re-
publican National Convention that
wall open a week from Monday
Questions indicated the spotlight
will be focused on Nixon expected
to receive the GOP nomination
July 27 and on Gov Rockefeller
of New Yoik who will come to
Chicago next Monday for an early
visit to the scene
Morton was asked if Rockefeller's
statement of Fst December taking
himstlf out of the bidding for the
top spot on the party ticket meant
the convention would be closed
Morton replied 'No indeed" and
he added that the partj’ wants a
free open convention
The chairman said however he
docs not know whe'her Rockefel-
ler's name will be placed in nomi-
nation Enid Morning News: "About the
only surprise connected with Sen
Kennedy s victoiy at Los Angeles
was the size of it It was over-
w helming ”
Daily Oklahoman: "In the process
of nominating Sen Kennedy the
eaptve Democratic delegates heard
some eloquent criticism of their
youthful candidate and the prin-
ciples he will espouse than they are
likely to hear Irom any Republi-
can campaign spellbinder The
criticism they heard was more
persuasive for having come from
highly esteemed and even vener-
ated Democratic national figures
including the party matriarch
Iieaaor R-ei scvelu"
America Receives Backing
From Western Hemisphere
For Anti-Communist Stand
OAS Rejects
Red Prying
Search Underway
For New Higher
Education Head
OKLAHOMA CITY T — A top-
level search is underway for a new
state chancellor for higher educa-
tion with two major questions to be
settled
The final decision will determine
what route Oklahoma's college pro-
giam will take in the future
I)r M A Nash veteran chan-
cellor of the state Board of Regents
for Higher Education has given a
tentative retirement date of June
30 11)61 Nash has held the post
fur 17 years
lour on Staff
One group interested in the se-
lection of a succssor to Nash wants
to expand the office from its pres-
ent two-man operation to include
seveial research divisions At pres-
sent Nash's staff consists only of
himself Tom Sexton administrative
assistant to the board and two sec-
retaries There also is talk of going out-
side Oklahoma to get a top educator
not connected with any state col-
leges But Wharton Mathies of Clayton
chan man of the regents says there
are many Oklahoma educators who
could qualify and expressed the be-
lief one of them should be elected
Recently he said: "You bring in
some egghead — even though he ’’
a prince of a fellow' and all that —
and he might not fit in the picture
at all”
Little Talks
W D Little of Ada long-time
member of the board has declared
the regents should have at least
four or five research teams at work
constantly He also has disagreed
with the present formula of di-
viding state funds among the 18
state-supported colleges and Uni-
versities Speaking of a new chancellor re-
cently Little said he should have a
bonafide doctor's degree experience
as a teacher and administrator ex-
ecutive ability and executive cour-
age" Fllis Gable of Tulsa another
board member also has outlined his
views on qualifications for a chan-
cellor In a memorandum submitted to
board members and other interested
persons he wrote:
"He must have vision as well as
educational ‘know how’ as to what
has been done in the past He must
be an educator with an earned doc-
torate in order to speak on even
terms with college presidents He
must be politically wise in order to
work best with the Legislature"
Winner of Pulitzer
Prize Top Novelist
Dies in His Sleep
NEWBURY Mass (-Pi — John
P Marquand Pulitzer Prize-winning
novelist died in his sleep
Saturday at his ancestral home on
Kent’s Island He was 66
Marquand who made his home
here fur the past 22 years had
been working on a new novel He
had been in apparent good health
His first adventures in writing
concerned mystery thrillers and
the Japanese detective Mr Moto
His literary standing was estab-
lished with the novel "The Late
George Apley” in 1937 This
gained him the Pulitzer award
It later was a successful play and
movie
"I took up writing because I
was not good at anything else" he
once told an interviewer "I began
W'nting fiction in 1922 largely out
of self-defense because I did not
like writing advertisements about
soap and rubber heels” He once
woiked for a New York advertis-
ing agency
Marquand’s employment with the
agency furnished him a $400 stake
and he came back to Kent's Island
and wrote his first novel "The
Unspeakable Gentlemen” It was
published by the Ladies Home
Journal
During the next 18 years the
Saturday Evening Post took al-
most everything Marquand wrote
paying him an estimated half-
million dollars
Three Oklahomans Die
In Car-Truck Collision
By The Associated Press
A crash in which the Highway
Patrol said a car slammed so hard
into a cattle truck it had to be cut
away took the lives of three men
early Saturday near Tulsa
The trio of deaths raised Okla-
homa's 1960 traffic toll to 313 com-
pared with 332 a year ago at the
same time
The victims:
Webb Junior Smith 33 Okmul-
gee Leo Holbert 31 Boggs
Herman llammon about 35 Okmulgee
mk
44w
ids
CONGOLESE POLICEMAN tries to amuse this youngster In the
riot torn Congo as American citizens awaited to he evacuated at
Brazzaville airport The (118 C S Air force plane airlifting the group
from the tumultuous African republic stands with ramp open in the
background
Violence Threatens
Capital of Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo (A') — A vast airlift of U N forces was
in full swing Saturday nigh' to the chaotic Congo locked in a war sf
words between its new- rulers and its former Belgian masters
Violence between Negro crowds a id Belgian soldiers threatened the
capital as the U N vanguard of Negro soldieis from Ghana and Tunisia
took up positions around (he capital Mine soldiers were on the way from
Morocco and Ethiopia to swell the
Ike Treasury
Head To Talk
About Budget
NEWPORT R I UP) — President
Eisenhower will hold a budget
strategy conference today Top con-
cern quite likely will focus cn a
proposal by Sen John F Kennedy
of Massachusetts the Democratic
presidential nominee for a speedy
big increase in defense spending
With administration determination
to hold down federal spending cer-
tain to be a campaign issue the
President called Secretary of the
Treasury Robert B Anderson to
the summer White House for a
Sunday afternoon session
In announcing plans for the meet-
ing presidential press secretary
James C Hagerty said only that
Eisenhower and Anderson "will
discuss the budgetary situation and
the upcoming reconvening of Con-
gress in August”
There appeared to be little doubt
that high on the agenda will be the
Kennedy proposal — made a few
days before his nomination to head
the Democratic ticket— that 2‘s
to 3 billion dollars of increased
defense funds be voted by Congress
next month Recessed for the po-
litical convent ons the Senate will
go back to work August 8 the
House August 15
It is taken for granted that Ken-
nedy will be on hand personally
to lead a fight for the defense
penning hike he says is vital for
national security
Also on hand as the Senate’s
presiding officer will be Vice
President Richard M Nixon who
by that t-me will be — barring a
politual miracle — the Republican
candidate for president
Band Banners Boos
Greet State Delegates
OKLAHOMA CITY VP) — Most
of Oklahoma's Democratic conven-
tion delegates returned Saturday
— to the tune of "When The Saints
Go Marching In"
They were greeted by a band
banners and some scattered boos at
the airport
The boos came from a group of
teen-agers Sponsoring the welcome
home was the Oklahoma County
Democratic central committee
Meanwhile a second group made
its plans for a separate greeting
for Gov J Howard Edmondson
when he letums Sunday afternoon
The Oklahoma County Women
for Representative Government plan
to meet the governor who was un-
able to get plane space out of Los
Angeles Saturday
Friday a spokesman for the group
Mrs A J Seek said the greeting
for the governor would be an at-
tempt to counter alleged boning by
other state delegates last Wednes-
day when Ecanozidsun seconded the
h
rM
iwUft
rv
U N force that ultimately may
reach (1000 men
Congolese police assigned by the
U N to share police duties with
Belgian soldiers m the capital dis-
persed a crowd of several thousand
Negroes in downtown Leopoldville
The crowd has been shouting in-
sults at Belgian troops on patrol
duty
Crowd Angry
The crowd was angry because
Belgium ignored an ultimatum of
Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba
to pull its troops out of the Congo
by 8 am
Instead the Belgians announced
they were sending in three more
companies of troops to protect na-
tionals who want to leave — as
25(100 of the Congo’s 100000 white
population have done since the Con-
go army went on a rampage 10
days ago
Belgium also announced it w-as
ignoring the bleak in diplomatic
relations proclaimed by Lumumba
and would carry a complaint of
Congolese atrocities against Bel-
gians in the Congo to the U N
F S in charge
In tins tense atmosphere Bel-
gian radio said Maj Gen Carl
Cailsson von Horn flew in from
Jerusalem to take over command of
the U N forces He has been chief
of the U N Supervision Commis-
sion keeping the peace between
Israel and its Arab neighbors since
1958
The United States was in charge
of the big airlift flying in troops
and supplies from Tunisia and Mor-
occo and was unloading plane-
loads of flour and other food tor
the hungry nation
Humphrey As
Agriculture
Secretary?
IOS ANGELES (F— Sen Hu-
The supply situation was so bad : hert H Humphrey of Minnesota
that the jour-man American ground was discussed Saturday by farm
crew supervising unloading oper- ! state Democratic delegates for the
ations was told planes would have
to fly to Hi azaville for fuel for
retuin trips
nomination of Sen John Kennedy
lor President
A vast majority of the delegation
favored Sen Lyndon Johnson who
later was nominated for vice pres-
ident A crowd of about 150 was on
hand today with members of the
committee wearing red white and
blue and white hats and carrying
tiny parasols and streamers They
also had banners saying "For K
and J All the Way"
Several youths and also others
of voting age stood near tne fence
booing as the deli gates came out
of the plane
Calls of "Old Guard Go Back"
mingled with cheers from the Dem-
ocratic organization
Prior to the arrival of the 72
delegates officials and wives Mrs
Mary Sue Churchwell Oklahoma
County registrar charged a "hate
club” would be on hand to boo
the delegates She pointed to the an-
nounced welcome by the women fa-
vor mg Eumoudsun
WASHINGTON (Ah— The United
States won hemisphere backing
Saturday for its Communists-keep-out
stand and then accused Cuba
of "economic and political aggres-
sion” against this country
At a morning session the Or-
ganization of American States
lined up in reiection of Soviet in-
teifeiencc in Western Hemisphere
atfau s
FS Protests
A few hours later the State De-
partment in a note to the Cuban
Foreign Olfire protested Cuba's
new' nationalization law and lodged
its aggression charge At the same
time it denounced Cuban treat-
ment of US news correspondents
in the island republic citing ex-
amples of newsmen being held
without charges or expelled without
explanation
The government of Premier Fi-
del Castro now has pending be-
fore the United Nations a charge
that the United States has Commit-
ted economic aggression against
Cuba
The US note claimed that the
law providing for nationalization
of American-owned property ift
Cuba amounts to seizure without
any suitable compensation for the
owners It dismissed as impossible
of fulfillment the act’s provision
for payment in the form of 30-year
bonds and called the law "both
arbitary and confiscatory”
Cutback Retaliation
The protest said the law admit-
tedly was enacted in retaliation
for cutbacks in the US purchase
of Cuban sugar But the note said
t ho sugar action was necessary be-
cause of Cuba's announced inten-
tion to increase sugar sales tn
oilier nations — notably those in the
Soviet bloc — and the "hostile atti-
tude" of the Castro regime
The note said any use of the
July 6 nationalization law "will be
viewed by the government of the
United States as further evidence
and confirmation of a pattern of
economic and political aggression
against the United States under
the guise and pretext of acceler-
ating the social and economic prog-
ress of the Cuban people”
Officials explained to newsmen
that up to now there had been no
seizures under the new law al-
though much American property
had been taken over prior to
July 6
Much Property Grabbed
Of about a billion dollars of
American-owned property in Cuba
around 700 million dollars worth
already has been seized or taken
over for operation by the Cubans
Although a formal vote is not
scheduled until Monday 17 of the
21 OAS member nations approved
a Peruvian call for a meeting of
Western Hemisphere foreign min-
isters to consider the situation
raised by Moscow’s support of
Cuba in its dispute with the United
States
Only two nations — Mexico and
Venezuela— did not formally com-
mit themselves during a calm
meeting of the OAS Council And
they are generally expected to
give their approval on Monday
Even Cuba did not explicity re-
ject the call for the ministerial
meeting
post of secretary of agriculture in
a possible Kennedy cabinet
Humphrey's name was mention-
ed by influential members of the
party as well as a number of con-
gressmen from the Midwest
The Minnesotan has been per-
haps the most advocate of the farm
program set forth in the Demo-
cratic platform It promises far-
reaching government aid for far-
mers Humphrey proved himself to be
a farm area favorite at a rally of
Midwestern delegates early in the
party's convention He received
more applause for a farm plank
speech than was given either Sen
John F Kennedy who got the
presidential nomination or Son
Stuart Symington of Missouri
both of whom also appeared be-
foie the gathering
Others mentioned for the agri-
culture post include Gov Orville
Freeman of Minnesota who put
Kennedy's name in nomination
and Gov Herschel C Loveless of
Iowa Loveless was influential in
drafting the farm plank
Humphrey however appeared to
have much more support for the
post than any of the others
There was speculation also that
Kennedy might change his mind
about seeking new farm legisla-
tion at the August session of Con-
gress The nominee told a Satur-
day news conference that farm
legislation would be on his agenda
lor the three-week session
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