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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, February 18, 1959

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   Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Wednesday february 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 digest editor assails hosts of Mikoyan Detroit up american businessmen who wined and dined russian Deputy Premier Anastas i. Mikoyan on his recent visit to the . Have been rapped sharply on the Knuckles by Eugene Lyons senior editor of the Reader s digest and an expert on Russia. Addressing a group of business men at the Detroit economic club Lyons said the businessmen went on a Binge of hospitality to one of the toughest cruellest and most cynical chieftains of the  certain of the eager Beaver hosts now claim that they talked Tough to Stalin s now Khrushchev a Man Friday said Lyons. Unhappily none of the toughness showed at the  critici7.es Eaton Lyons who once served As a United press correspondent in Russia for six years especially criticized Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton who he said wants the . To quit meddling in the affair of other nations which is to say that we quit meddling with Moscow s meddling in our own and every other nation. Just Why he wants to give Moscow a monopoly on meddling with the free world assuming the posture of a sitting Duck is not quite Clear said Lyons. Lyons charged that Russia never has deviated from Lenin s original goal of communist Conquest of the world and that the soviet leaders play on the gullibility of the West in pursuing the goal. Russ ship said casing a area Washington a a House space committee member says a soviet scientific ship is lingering in the Vicinity of secret . Pacific installations under pretence of taking weather  the committee on motion of rep. James g. Fulton a called on . Scientists to obtain information on the schedule work and published findings of the so Viet oceanographic ship Wityaz. Fulton said the vessel has spent much time near our missile area and also near nuclear test  Robert b. Erode associate director of the National science foun Dation said the ship s schedule had been arranged openly in connection with the International geophysical year and that he believed it had observed the scheduled not on schedule but Fulton said i happen to know it is not on schedule. It is hanging around the hawaiian is lands supposedly waiting to take group of scientists on a junket which has never  Honolulu Pacific Fleet head quarters said that so far As i knows the Wityaz is doing a perfectly legitimate  a spokesman said that the Vit Yaz May be hanging around probably just doing routine  spokesman pointed out that the Ocean is a free area. The Vit Yaz arrived in Honolulu feb. 3 from san Francisco got a War Welcome and sailed feb. 9. Lawyer priest counsels for the glory of god Melrose mass. Up there. George b. Gray 44-year-old lawyer priest has been admitted to practice before the . Supreme  Gray a curate at St. Mary s roman Catholic Church Here says he uses his Legal knowl Edge for the glory of  reserves As counsel for the needy and never charges a fee. Was Granny rustled to big ranch in sky Houston Tex. Up mrs. I. L. Alexander of Houston is now convinced that television has an influence on children especially on her daughter yield 3. Mrs. Alexander reports that when she mentioned Vicki s grandmother to Tho youngster one Day the girl asked where is my grandmother when mrs. Alexander explained that grand Mother had died Many years ago Vicki pondered a moment and asked who shot her Hal Roach  Heads firm in Guterma Case new York a Hal Roach jr., will take Over direction of the f. L. Jacobs co. In the Wake of the arrest of its president inter National financier Alexander gut Erma for securities violations twas announced. Roach is president of Hal Roach studios and Board chairman of the Mutual broadcasting system two segments of Guterma s financial Empire. Guterma 44, surrendered to fed eral authorities saturday and is free in $5,000 bail on charges of failure to report sales of Stock in violation of regulations of the securities and Exchange commis Sion. Authorities said they Are investigating charges of fraud against Guterma involving millions of Dol Lars. Gets 3 Jons the Jacobs firm a onetime Auto parts company which became a holding company for Guterma s interests said Roach had been named by the Board of directors As director chairman of the Board and chief executive officer. Guterma has resigned As presi Dent and Board chairman of Jacobs. The announcement said the president s Job is being held open until a top level executive can be found. Roach a major stockholder in Jacobs and Guterma s Scranton corp., which owns Mutual and the Hal Roach studios said he found it necessary to assume control to protect his own interests and those of other stockholders Andem Loyes. Guterma has also resigned All jobs in Scranton Mutual and the Hal Roach studios. Roach has bought Guterma s Stock in Jacobs the. Announcement said. To Issue report Roach said the first order of business will be the issuance of a Complete report to the Stockhold ers along with the annual Finan Cial statement. Since the suspension of trading in the common shares of the f. L. Jacobs co. On the new York Stock Exchange Roach said i have been insisting that the manage ment file the necessary papers to permit the lifting of this suspension but my efforts were to no Avail. Therefore i have stepped into the control position because based on an Independent personal investigation of the affairs of the company i believe that the com Pany has solid asset values and earning  Dirksen says 85th Congress raised spending $3.7 billion 39-year deserter gives up George i. Drenton standing57, gives a statement to Lancaster pa., detective David Rineer after turning himself in As a deserter from the Navy since feb. 7, 1920. Out of work Denton said he be came disgusted and gave himself up to Clear my  statute of limitations May prevent prosecution. Associated press photo Ama report quoted cancer called certain for All heavy smokers new York up a new american medical Assn. Cancer re port quotes a leading medical authority As saying that every heavy smoker will develop lung cancer unless some other disease kills him first Reader s digest Magazine said. The Magazine s March Issue car ried a condensed version of an article on the growing horror of lung cancer in the March Issue of today s health published by the Ama. The article quoted or. Alton Ochsner internationally known Chest surgeon As saying that at the present time Only five out of every 100 lung cancer victims have any Hope of living More than five years after the disease is detected. It frightens me to think of what is going to happen in another dec Ade when our present smoking habits catch up with us Ochsner was quoted. Army unit assembles fires Redstone in tactical situation Washington a the army has launched a Redstone missile under Field conditions just As it would be fired in wartime at the White Sands n.m., missile  200-mile-Range ballistic mis Sile now tactically deployed inthe hands of North Atlantic treaty organization forces in Europe was fired at less than its full Range. Instead of the usual prepared launching setup used in testing the missile was assembled and fired under simulated tactical conditions. The army said the successful launching completed the firing phase of the training of Btry a 2d missile in 333d arty 46th arty up at it. Sill okla. Already lung cancer has achieved pandemic proportions. Holland had a 20-fold increase in deaths Between 1924 and 1951. Death rates in England and Wales have climbed 10-fold. In the United states the record is about the same the toll rising from 2,500 in 1930 to an estimated 35,000 last year. It is significant that the Sharp increase in lung cancer is almost exactly proportionate to the in crease in cig Aret sales. It is my firm conviction that every heavy smoker will develop lung cancer unless heart disease or some other sickness claims  Ochsner was quoted As saying that most lung cancers apparently grow fast. Early detection there fore is important he said. Only a Ray and sputum tests can Dis cover lung cancer at its earliest stages he said. Frequent a rays the article said Ochsner believes that after the age of 40, every pack a Day smoker should have a Chest a Ray at least every six months but preferably every three months. A set of Chest a rays front and Side views usually costs from $15 to $25expensive, but no More so than c i a a r e t s themselves the Magazine said. It quoted Ochsner As saying that if enough people took such pre cautions lung cancer might be come 50 per , instead of 95 per cent fatal. Reply to Johnson denies decreases in appropriations Washington a Senate Republican Leader Everett cd. Dirksen of Illinois says the Previ Ous democratic controlled Congress increased the Drain on the Federal Treasury by $3,788,000,000. This was his reply to the claim week ago of Senate democratic  Lyndon b. Johnson of Texas that the 85th Congress had nit appropriations below president Eisenhower s budget requests. Dirksen s Senate speech marked Mother round in the growing Jol Lical Battle Over who Are the spenders and who Are the savers. Hounded picture Dirksen conceded the accuracy of Johnson s figures As far As appropriations cuts go but he said they fell far Short of telling he whole Story about Economy n government. Standing alone he said they would Only leave the impression with the average citizen that the president is a spender and that the Congress is an  Dirksen said a rounded picture required the inclusion of increased pen Ding obligations not handled by appropriations the Cost of retroactive  raises spending programs vetoed by the president and Congress delay in increasing postal rates As or Eisenhower Nad asked. Dirksen said those and other actions of the 85th Congress apart from the strictly appropriations Bills Are what m i g h t be called the backdoor approach tothe  interesting technique it is an interesting technique said Dirksen and How it fools the  but he said that the republicans Are determined that the whole Story shall be told and that every Effort to bypass the appropriations committee or to mislead the people about the budget will be vigorously  Dirksen also said it is evident that the nation overwhelmingly favors Economy in government and a balanced  he contended that All of the pertinent actions of the 85th con Gress had the effect of adding 59,448,000,000 to the program out lined by president Eisenhower in his budget messages for fiscal 1958and 1959. From this he said could be deducted appropriation decreases of $5,660,000.000 with the net result that the 85th Congress did not reduce the budget but on the contrary actually approved in creases amounting to $3,788,000,-000." Dirksen based his statement on figures submitted to him by Maurice h. Stans director of the budget Bureau. Reporter honoured for school expose Washington up a re Porter who switched to teaching to expose blackboard Jungle conditions in new York Public schools has been named Winner of the 1958 Heywood Broun memorial award. George n. Allen of the new York world Telegram and Sun won the $500 award for his stories of Young hoodlums cowing teach ers at a Junior High school to the detriment of discipline and teach ing  enrolled in teaching courses and passed the new corkboard of education s teachers exam to become a teacher in Tough Section of the City  
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