The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1953, Page 2

M'CARTHY SAYS BRITAINA LETTER FROM BILL LANTAFF SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR ‘CHEAP’ ATLEE ATTACK By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON w—Sen. McCar- thy (R-Wis) said today Britain should apologize for what he termed a ‘‘cheap” attack by for- mer Prime Minister Attlee on President Eisenhower and the American people. Conservative party members of the British Parliament, McCarthy @aid, sat silently last Tuesday While Attlee made “one of the most insulting speeches ever made fm the legislative body of a recipi- ent nation against an ally which has been pouring out her economic fife blood for practically every ether nation on earth.” In a speech prepared for Senate delivery, McCarthy declared: “The American people are en- titled to an apology for this cheap, uncalled for, fantastic attack upoh} the President and people of the United States. “We are entitled to an explana- tion as to whether the majority party in Britain agrees with Mr. Attlee, who was rejected by the British people.” One by one’ McCarthy took up Attlee’s reported declarations that “there are elements in the United States that do not want a truce in Korea”; that the presence, of Ei- senhower or any American might “hinder” direct peace talks with the Russians; that “the American Constitution was framed for an isolationist, state,” and that “the Americans eo me Earepe.” have anything to do wi jurope.’ McCarthy’s prépared text con- tained no mention of Attipe’s state- ment that “one wonders” whether Eisenhower or McCarthy wields the greater power in U. S. foreign | ain policy. “What shocked me,” McCarthy said, “‘was that no member of the majority arose to contest what he had said.” Spain in 1937 with Communist Gen. Miaja and Commissar Anton, a leader of the Communist party in "Spain, all three giving the Commu- itpot leet someone think Attee's “But someone Communist salute merely an act of courtesy on his part, I have here a letter mg own a writing. . . . He first praises glowing terms the Communist bri- its — to rthy’s speech ti Attlee as “Comrade Attlee.” McCarthy said Attlee welcomed Churchill's proposal for a big power meeting, but “hinted the presence of any American would only hinder talks.” MeCarthy said that was a ‘“‘libel” against Eisenhower and ‘‘slanders the American people.” Page2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, May 14, 1953 Radiation From Blasts Gives Uranium Prospectors Trouble Tidelands Oil Bill Is Ready For Signature Twice-Vetoed Law To Give States Title To Oil-Rich Land Passes House WASHINGTON W®—Twice-vetoed legislation to give states title to oil-rich, submerged offshore lands was ready today for the promised signature of President Eisenhower. It cleared its final congressional hurdle yesterday when the House, by roll-call vote of 278 to 116, ac- cepted Senate amendments to an original House measure. That sent it to the White House, where pop- ularly called “‘tidelands bills” have gone re. Q In 1948 President Truman ve- toed a similar measure, as he did fas es suar tives anced ive-year issue prom- inently in the 1952 presidential campaign, during which Eisen- hower promised to support the coastal states’ claim to the off- shore land and its rich mineral resources. Final House action found 184 Re- publicans and 94 Democrats sup- porting the bill: Opposing it were 98 Democrats, 17 Repul 1 nt. have served notice m "s validity will be chal- ed -in court. The Supreme has held in three suits that cans and government has ‘‘para- " over the submerged coasts of Texas, Cali- states’ seaward boundaries. By accepting the Senate amend- ments, the House was able to send the bill directly to the White House and thus avoid possible further de- lay in the Senate. Just before dispesing of the states’ ownership bill yesterday, the House voted 309-91 to pass a separate measure which would as- sert fedéral control over the outer continental shelf and authorize de- velopment of the territory. This was the intent of the section which the Senate struck’from the states’ ownership bill. The measure scnt to the White House would and Louisiana, although it e deleted shelf was asserted out beyond the fix state coastal By JULIUS GOLDEN ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. ® — Prospectors sav Western New Mexico is being bombarded with so much radiation from atomic tests that at times it’s impossible to test for uranium ore. Fruit growers in Northwestern New Mexico are biaming frosts on atomic tests in Nevada. Residents in one area think a wave of lightheadedness and nau- sea may have neen caused by Ya- dioactivity. Atomic Energy Commissien of- ficials discount all the complaints. Prospectors in the Gallup, N.M., area, where uranium hunting has reached the proportions of an in- dustry, have been unable to hunt the precious ore at times following tests. The radioactivity count jumped so high that prospector’s Geiger counters couldn’t distinguish radio- activity in the air from radioac- tivity in uranium cre, the prospec- tors say. A spokesman for fruit growers in San Juan County in Northwest- ern New Mexico made up a list for newsmen showing that three atomic tests were made between 48 and 60 hours before heavy frost damaged fruit. The first explosion listed, April 6, occurred two days before temp- eratures fell to 24 degrees and ruined apricots and peaches. After an explosion May 1, half the apple crop in the area was frozen. The rest of the peach crop went two days after the May 8 explosion. U. S. Weather Bureau officials in Albuquerque, queried on the fruit growers’ theory, said: “Purely a coincidence. We've been having unusual weather throughout the spring.” A wave of nausea and lighthead- edness among residents of Gay had doctors puzzled. They '- agreed on the question of whether it might have resulted from the radioactivity which at times has ranged up to five times normal. ‘The AEC flatly stated there have ;' been dangerous concentrations of radibactive fallout in any ‘part of the country outside the’ con- trolled area at the Nevada test site. But it added that higher than normal levels of radioactivity have stances’ and for short periods of time. You'll make cakes and cookies in jigtime if you keep mixing and measuring utensils needed for these baked products near your mixing counter. These untensils are: mixing bowls, mixing spoons, egg beater, measures for dry and liquid foods and measuring spoons. boundaries at three miles gener- ally and,10% miles for the Texas and Florida Gulf coasts. Dear Neighbor: Much concern has been express: ed over the Postmaster General’s [Fem announcement which indi cates that polictical award rather than merit is to be the criteron for the appointment of postmasters. Oyr President, in a pre-election ,| What is the reason advanced for | ie single standard (for Federal speech, stated: “The single choice. the jobs) shall be merit and not poli- tical award.” With that statement Civil Service system. was shocked at the findings. II containing less than three eligi bles. had already spent $265,777 in com. Pleting the 1,461 I heartily concur. But the Post- master General’s first major act- registers for 1700 postmaster posj- tions and calling for new examina- | tions, plus his subsequent notifica- | tion of Republican state ‘adivsors’ that even ‘acting postmasters’ can be replaced, is entirely contrary to pre-election pledges and could well lead to a breakdown of our Upon learning of the Postmaster action, your Congressman launch- ed an immediate investigation and was learned that of the 1700 ex- aminations to be discarded, 1666 examinations had been completed. Of this number, 205 are registers The Civil Service Commission examinations these same figures, the cost of | calling new examinations for the 205 registers containing less than -| three eligibles will approximate $61,500. The total cost to the tax- payers, of this patronage inspired move will be another half-million dollars to the taxpayers’ burden. this wasteful and extravagant act- ion? It is stated that the new ad- ministration seeks to raise the standards for ‘e postmaster ex- aminations. Your Congressman has always been under the impres- sion that Civil Service require- ments were very high. According to the Civil Service Manual, all | applicants for a first-class post- mastership must show they have had business training and exper- ience comparable with the duties of a postmaster. Since your Con- gressman came to Congress, there has been only one vacancy in the t| Classification in his district. Nine businessmen in that town took the examination, eight failed to meet the stringent requirements estab- lished by the Civil Service Com- mission and the Post Office De- partment. Constituents complained that the established requirements for this particular examinations were too high; but your Congress- , this important position. Naturally, | the Civil Service Commission re- commended the one man who Passed the examination and my without regard to his political af- filiations. It seems: rather obvious to me that the only reason for throwing out current Civil Service registers is to sabotage the merit system and resort to the spoils system rather than follow President Eisen- hower’s mandate that the only standard for such positions be merit, rather than political award. Sincerely yours, BILL LANTAFF, DR. J. A. VALDES OPTOMETRIST Oupi | OFFICE HOURS 9:12 — 25 619 DUVAL STREET (Upstairs) TELEPHONE 2-7821 ATTENTION PLEASE! Keep Our City Clean BY CALLING Key West Junk Dealers ¢|many fold when both sides are which the Postmaster General has| 2 felt they should be high for now requested be cancelled. In addition, it is estimated that it will cost $450,000 more to conduct these examinations over again. Based on Experiments May Lead To Safer Flying By RENNIE TAYLOR AP Science REPORTER LOS ANGELES (#—A daring ex- periment on the “hearts of five young Air Force doctors has opened the way for development of a new, more comfortable kind of gravity suit to prevent pilot pilot blackouts. The tests, conducted by Capt. Owen L, Slaughter, now of Evans- ville, Ind., were reported to the closing meeting of the Aero Medi- cal Association here. Two long, flexible tubes called catheters were inserted through blood vessels in the neck and into the heart of each physician under test. This was done to measure the exact blood pressure in the heart while the lower halves of their bodies were being com- pressed as in a gravity or black- out suit. Catheters are used frequently on one side or the other of the heart but never, before have they, been used simultaneously on both sides, Dr. Slaughter said. The one-sided Free Dance Sat. Night FLEET RESERVE ASSN. HOME Caroline Street Music by... 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PERSONAL APPEARANCE By Kwangtung Farmers Win R makes it easier iy e PE SEEE § & Pledge For Private Ownership By FREO HAMPSON HONG KONG w# — Farmers in Kwangtung—China’s Dixie — ap- pear to have won their own pri- pees little fight with the Commu- ts. x The Reds claim they finally have accomplished their land re- form program there, but the an- nouncement reads like a page from capitalism. A 12 ~ point directive, which sounds strangely soft for the Reds, pledges to Kwangtung farmers: private management. private own- ership, private employment, pri- vate money lending. It promises that no farmer shall be forced into & co-operative or collective move- ment, Kwangtung, in teeming, lush South China, is a restless and/ land and noted as a/ the “ins.” Sun! there. Chiang Kai-shek licked the | war lords from there. i } be stopped. The Communists began their land reform in 1949 and finished in most of China by 1952. But in Kwangtung it dragged along, meeting bloody resistance. In some of the tougher zones there may not have been any land redistribu- tion at all. Now the “examination of the re- form is going on,” the Commu- nist news agency reports. The Reds say almost four million acres were confiscated and divided among peasants in an area that contains 32 million people. The new Red proclamation re- “ ership of land, houses, and all kinds of properties is guarantéed,” says the proclamation. Even the “re-examiners must not take it away.” The new farmer also shall ‘“‘en- pump blood to As a result, Dr. he would suggest tha’ specifically idea of compressing arteries in lower part of the body, as a fi aid worker might do in holdin the “pressure poinis” to stop hem- orrhage. It should not be necessary to make suits that will compress the Dr. Slaughter recently complet- ed his tour of Air Force duty and returned to-private practice. TERRY aage es Bills Licensed Now the Communists have this | joy the rights of tree shal sen | PAWN SHOP tiger by the tail and have “re-| formed” its land. All winter the; Reds have been easing away from | their tougher farm doctrines. Why? A recent report by land reform who investigate after | land reform has heen carried out—/ management, purchase, sale and exchange of his property without interference.” The directive said farm co-oper- ative movements should be encour. aged but “compulsory organization of farm co-operatives or mutual aid teams is strictly forbidden.” Above all the Red prociamation | | _ 716 DUVAL st. SERVICE e Froncis ot Truman ROBER’ MOORE WAGNER BOONE Thurs., Fri. and Sat. THE MOST DANGEROUS THING A MAN AND WOMAN EVER DID TOGETHER RICHARD om Misssissirri Gambler !