Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan Sunday february 15, 1959 the stars and stripes fag. 7 ski divers save stranded dog s skin ski divers Lee Prettyman left and Ralph Mer Cler who carries a shivering and wet Collie walk tile last few Yards to Connecticut River Bank in Hartford after they rescued the dog stranded Onice 100 Yards from Shore. The men crawled out on the ice to reach the animal. A photo bigger foreign car sales by sister of girl oc5 � he used As shield Tampa Fla. A a 26-year-old woman calmly told How she fired four shots at a teen age while he held her sister at gun Point As a shield. The boy died after fleeing the woman s Home. James Carrol Newsom 16, fell before the fusillade of shots in the living room of the Walter Hau Messer Home. Mrs. Haumesser and her sister Pat Johnson 21, were watching television when Newsom entered wearing a silk stocking Over his head and demanded Money. If Money had been in the room i would have Given it to him said. But he sent me into the bedroom for the gun was in the bedroom. I did t know what else he would do besides Rob i returned to the living room he was holding Pat As a shield. Sister terrified fat suddenly wrestled herself part Way Clear and he was Clear of her from about his breastbone to his shoulder. I shot and the first Bullet hit him. He slumped to the floor and 1 kept on shooting. When he tried to get up i hit him with the thought he was still trying to get at us. Pat was . Haumesser said Newsom somehow got up and ran out thedoor. Police found his body in an adjacent lot. The pistol he had used in the Holdup attempt waa not loaded. Seen if Gas taxes hiked new York a the journal of Commerce reports that foreign car importers think new and Pend ing gasoline tax increases will push up sales of Small foreign automobiles by 20 per cent this year. New York state is proposing a increase of 2 cents per gallon in the state tax and the Federal government is also discussing a increase in the National tax. If both go through the combined taxes would be.j.0% cents per Gal Lon in new York state More income others. The importers say this will make it so much easier to sell their tire explodes kills Sailor Mayport Fla. Up Wil Liam b. Chavers 23, a Sailor from Atmore ala., was killed when Large tire he was inflating exploded at the auxiliary naval air station Here. Small engined cars which generally run More than 30 Miles to the gallon As against 12 to 18 mile for the big american cars. They Hope consequently for sales of 450,000 to 500,000 cars this year compared to 375,000 in 1958 and 207,000 in 1957. Increased Competition however the imported cars Are also facing increased Competition from the new smaller . Cars such As the american motor rambler and the Studebaker Lark. These Are bigger than most of the foreign cars and have nearly As much Chrome As the Standard .,ones. Another new Factor in sales Isth growing tendency for . Families to have two cars instead of one. As More families go to the suburbs they find need for an extra car either for commuting or for transportation to a rail Road. Dee s plea on budget fails to stir Public pressure on Congress Washington up if congressional mail is any sign president Eisenhower has failed so far to whip up Strong Public pressure on the lawmakers to keep his budget balanced. Former Treasury Secretary George m. Humphrey enjoyed quicker Success two years ago with his warning of a hair Curling depression. Key congressmen with a few exceptions said they were getting Only a Hight to moderate volume of mail urging them to follow or. Eisen Hower s advice and keep govern ment spending within his budget estimate. However they said balance the budget letters from Back Home have picked up noticeably in re cent weeks in the Wake of the president s repeated Public plea for Economy. Even so the congressmen agreed that the current volume does no come close to Matching the flood of anti spending mail generated by Humphrey in january 1957. In a thinly veiled attack on the president s own budget Humphrey said that unless Federal spending was Cut there would be a de pression that will curl your soon thereafter the folks Backhoe took pen in hand to demand Economy. Halleck Mai although a Survey showed that Congress in t getting any such deluge of letters this year Republican House Leader Charles , of Indiana has assured the president that his campaigns catching fire. Halleck wrote the president that he had received thousands of let ters from All Over the nation pledging support for the president s balanced budget. He sent a few Sam ple letters to the president to help you to keep up the Good fight for Thrift in House democratic Leader John w. Mccormack a mass said he had received Only five letters this year urging a balance budget. Not too excited rep. Wayne l. Hays a Ohio reported Only four compared with several Hundred two years ago. He said he thought voters believe there is a lot of politics in this and Are not too excited about chairman Clarence Cannon Doof the House appropriations committee said he did t recall receiving Many letters about the budget. The office of rep. John Taber of new York the committee s to Republican said his budget mail was exceptionally Seaton wants tax hike if budget is exceeded new York up Interior Secretary Fred a. Seaton says he favors a tax increase if the demo cratic controlled Congress exceed president Eisenhower s $77 Bil lion budget. At the same time he said he saw no reason Why a tax reduction could not be made eventually if the government lived within its Means. Seaton said he believed that the american people if informed on what is at stake would exert enough pressure on Congress to keep spending within the budget limit. Horseman s 3,400-mile trip halted at White House one Man safety drive slowed of a a Kwh _. Vwashington up a one Man Highway safety crusade being conducted by a Fresno calif., Cowboy has come to an abrupt halt at the front Gates of the White House. Jim Gregory 26, who has come 3,400 Miles across country on horseback for the declared purpose of getting people to drive a Little slower so they can live a Little longer wanted to see president Eisen Hower. But when White House guards saw his Mare his ten gallon hat and a sign Reading slow Down an see America they suggested that he d better slow Down and go through the usual channels for getting to see the president. Gregory said his failure to reach the president was the biggest letdown of my but he declared that his nine months horse ride from California would not be entirely in vain if he could persuade safety authorities to adopt his plan for giving an aptitude test to potential Drivers. Scientists say world slowly warming up Washington up weather scientists report new evidence that the world is warming up. It maybe partly Man s doing. Comparative temperatures re corded in Antarctica support the theory that the entire planet is slowly getting information from the North pole Region however is much More s the Long Range warming uptrend apparently began about 1900 and appears to be proceeding atthe rate of two or three degrees per Century. Or. Ii. E. Landsberg director of the weather Bureau s office of climatology said there Are Many signs of the heating trend. Go Neirs Retreat in Alaska he said glaciers Are retreating. The ice in the Arctic Ocean is Only about half As thick As it was in the late 19th Century. The Harbor of Spitsbergen is open twice As Long each year As it was in 1912. In finnish Lapland Trees have advanced northward two or three Miles in 30 years. There Are other signs in migration of Birds and Landsberg said the Pacific coast from California to British Colum Bia had experienced a spectacular warming trend in the past two or three years. What s causing the apparent change in the world s climate one the Ory Landsberg said is that the change is Man made thata Blanket of Carbon dioxide Given off by the burning of Coal and Oil retards the radiation of heat by the Earth. Another possible explanation is an increase in the Sun s Carbon dioxide theory another scientific report issued by the . Committee for the International geophysical year Ign also advanced the Carbon dioxide theory. It said air temperatures in the lower atmosphere May be controlled to a Large extent by the amount and distribution of Carbon dioxide in the at Carbon dioxide the Ign report said absorbs much of the Energy radiated outward from the Earth and radiates it Back to the Landsberg pointed out that the Earth has been warm for nine Tei Ziths of its life of Between 3 Bil lion and 5 billion Long warm eras have been interrupted by occasional ice Ages. The world is now recovering from the Lastice age with occasional Small setbacks including an abnormal Little ice age which ended inthe Middle of the 19th Century. In the Lith Century before thelast setback Southern Greenland was actually Green instead of icy and norsemen named North Ern new England Vineland be cause grapes grew there former University head Dies Olean . A the very Rev Thomas Plassman 80, Ger Man born former president of University died in St. Francis Hospital of cancer
