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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Cloudy, Warm HIsrUett Today 78 to 82. Monday: Cloudy, Warmer. YEAR — NO. 37 — 88 PAGES Member Audit BiireMii of ClrcnUttoni WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 11, 1954 ITMTKn PRESS Wire Newa Senir* PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Offer Plan to Guide U. 5. If Red China Enters UH kii%k Rtufl.o Can This Be Made a Siie for New Industry? A .fpei'ial foinmitl^e of th Grcatir Pitts¬ ton Ciiam'bcr of Conimcrct ha« been namt^d to mak*- a fact-finding mudy of how to re¬ claim a hu K f stri'P-mint'd area brtwe<'n Pittston anci Dupont for uih- as industrial gltPS, Thc work may cost $1(10.000, Known a« the Butler Industrial Site, the »rea. part of vvhii h is shown in the above photo, extends a full mile in I'n^h and is »pproximalely one-fourth of a mile wide Thc tection pictured above was formerly the site oC Buller Colliery in Pittston township. The Butler site is adjacent to five railroad connections. Lehigh Valley, Delaware and Hud.son, Erie, Central and Scranton-Lacka- wanna. The committee, headed by Stanley Ijeonard, Pitt.ston mortician, met last week with offi¬ cials of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. On Tuesday another meeting will bc held with officials of thc Heidelberg Coa) Co., which owns almost half of the site. Other members of the committee are former Burgess Joseph X. Uo'kula, Dupont, and Joseph J. Pupa, Pittston township. The Greater Pittston Chamber of Com¬ merce is currently sponsoring a $700.0(X) fund raising campaign, PAID—Pittiston Area In- dusrt.ri»l Development. The money, which comes from outright contributions, will be used to construct new buildings. All wage earners in the Greater Pittston area are a.siked to contribute one percent of their annual earnings for the next two yearg. SIAIE WILL m FOREIGN 1 COST Pennsylvanians Have Paid 4J Billions In Last 9 Years HAJUUSBXmG (PNS> — Some >d«a of what tlie federal govern- ments foreign aid program for fiscal 1956 %neans to Pennsylva nians oan be gleaned from the fact that it will cost taxpayer.'! of Workers End FARM Prai Strikes at « ™G Atom Plants Calls on President, Congress fo Confer WASHINGTON dP)-The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Saturday unanimou.^ly approved a proposal designed to end the congressional uproar over future U. S. foreign policy should Red China be admitted to the United Nations. It calls on President Eisenhower to conifer with Congress if Ri^, China is admitted and, perhaps, make recommendations on what-' ever changes he thinks necfssary in U. S. foreign policy. The proposal was drawn up by Senate Republican Deader William F. Knowland Cal., who previous-; I ly had declared the United States, Knowland's proposal waa ap-. should should withdraw from the Red China be seated. UN proved by an amendment to the authorizaUon bill for the admini Although his proposal gives the|»trations $3,100,000,000 foreign aid President the initiative, Knowland! P'ogram. It states: (BI ULKTIN) WASHINGTON HP)—Striking workers at the two plantit pro¬ ducing uraiiium-i3« for the na¬ tion's atomic and hydrogen I bombs voluntarily n>turned to \ their jolm last night. CAL ISSUE Gov, Thornton Backs Eisenhower's Plan Of Flexible Supports BOLTON TENDING, N. Y. tlP) --Gov. Dan Thornton. R-Colo. predicted Saturday that farm price supports will be the top domestic issue of the 1954 poli¬ tical campaign. The Colorado governor added told reporters his own peroonf.i view "has not been .nodificci n the slightest degree." Agrees With President The Californian also said he does not believe his views conflict wilh tite President'.s. Mr. Eisen¬ hower has said he is unalt" -ably opposed to admission jf Red China but lie also said serious consideration must be given to what course the United St:itcs should take in event the Peiping regime is admitted. The adopted proposal had been tentatively approved by .lix men- htr.<f Thursday. A quorum was present Saturday for the formal vote. Knowland said he was "cn couraged" by Secretary of State John Fester Dulles' statement that any move to seat Red China in the UN this year will be de feated. Knowland s^id in that event no further action would be necessary by Congress. Fine Backs Trade with Red China Feels Japan Must Build up Trade or Risk Falling Under Yoke of Communists .,.„... ^ r, ., ,1 WAiiHlNGTON (IP) -^ Govern- the United NaUons. the President]ment officials yesterday backed IS requested to inform the Con-1 recommendation bv three state gress, insofar as is compatible! g^^prnors to permit "Japan limit- with the requirements of nationaLp^ and controlled trade with Red security, of the implications of (jj,j„^_ this action upon the foreign policy] The" otticials aKreed with - the of the United States, and our go^p^nors that Japan mu.st build. „„ foreign relationships, including L^p ^, economv through trade ori window panes trembled from ar- that created by membership in^jsk faUing under the Communist:tillery fire. yoke. ' . - They said the United Stales i'^'^"'''' *^'"^» i^.. «. ., « . .. does not like to see any ally trad-| The newest French losses wcrelCity H-niptiM (Quietly ing with Red China but addedjat Vlnh Yen, 25 miles northwest that this country recognizes thatlof Hanoi on the main highway some free nation-.s must harterj from the capital to the northwest "In the event of the seating of representatives of the Chinese Communist regime in the Security Council or General Assembly of Americans Told To Quit Hanoi; Reds Close In HANOI, Indochina <LPi The U. .S. consulate Saturday advised Am¬ erican citizen* to get out of Hanoi aa Red rcteel legions tightened their death grip on the northerrf Indochina capital. United Press Staff Correspondent Frank Barthokimew reported that the American government warning applied to all "non-essen¬ tial" Americans and Filipinos. There are 32 Americans in the city, in<?luding 11 with the U. S. diplomatic mission. The warning coincided with a French high command announce¬ ment that the Communists had „ over-run four more outposts in' ^'^'"»"» "^^an fleeing Hanoi their creeping advance toward the;',"'- "''¦ '^^^^^ 'f Haiphong-th. ,. , [delta port and Saigon in south- '^"P"*^- ern Viet Nam. They left the city Thousands of civilians be«an anhj, everything that had a motor- exodus of fear from the city.! —taxicabs, private busses, trucks Gunfire echoed in the streets and the United Nations, together with any recommendations which he may have in respect to the mat¬ ter." The amendment was drafted in consulation with top Democrats. It ser\'ed to soften thc wrangling which developed after Knowland told thc Senate he would resign his GOP leadership if Red China were seated and would devote his work to getting the United States out of the organization. and a few private cars. Prices on such vehicles to Haiphong, where the refugees could board ships to Saigo, skyrocketed. with the Communists in order to survive. However, the officials said trade outlets in China have been great¬ ly exaggerated and questioned the Peiping regime's ability to pay for import."!. Governors On Tour All planes flying out of Hano! Were loaded and the airlines wers booked up for more than two weeks. The city was emptying quietly. There was^ no panic. French troops went about their duties as the civilians withdrew. The first barbed wire entanglements ap¬ peared within the city limits. The leader of the city's Ohiness iSpecial Police This was brought out by Pennsyilvania Chamber of Com-i^^^^ij^ merce, which .•'aid that of this jypa^, total $68,4«<1,000 woiiW be for! Kionomtc aid and $187,356,000 fori millury aid. the Kevstone State a,pproximate-i^,^'ASHLNGWN. -IP. -President: Iv 1^2^841000 iEisenhowor Saturday postponed; »'-•¦¦ ! demands for a Taft-Hartley in-j that "if tho t.-irmers nre tolri the ™<^i junction against 1,000 striking; facts" they will accept a drop energy workers at Pa-Ifrom rigid high government: su«ir- Ky., apparently in hope antees as recommended by. Pre- Ithey will return to work volun- sident Eisenhower. Itarily. I Thornton di.s<?iused the politi- \ Scone 3,000 other strikers at the! cal outlook with reporters on the The Chamber's figures were .atomic energy plant at Oak Ridge,'eve of the 46th annual Govrrn- hMed on calculations showing: Tenn., were going back to work, ors' Conference of which he ie thai Pennsylvania taxpayer, bearjsnd the White House indicated!chairmen. He is winding up his KI.42 per cent of all federal taxes.!|t ho^cd the Paducah striken set^ond term as governor and has iJl"*'^ *"'"* '*'""'•' "^ ^*"' ^^'^ would follow suit. I announced he will not run again. Wffion requested for foreign aid' a fact-finding board rcport|nor seek the Colorado Senate seat program* for 10S5 figures out|clearing the way for a national! up this year. 'emergency injunction to force thei President Elsenhower is sched- strlkers back to their jobs wasi uled to address the governors' I received by the White House Sat-| state dinner Monday night in an VFW Convention to Get A 'Good Conduct Medaf ern delta. The outposts fell Friday al- ihoug'h 60 tons of napalm and! high explosives Were dumped oni the advancing Reds hy French! pilots in American-built B-26's. Eaoh outpost is a step closer] to the capital for the six Redj The proposal for limited Japa-,divisions of Communist Gen. Vo, community advised all anti-Com- nose-Red China trade was made Nguyen Giap. The Red,, sprawl in munist Chinese they had better Friday to President EiscnhDwer|a giant pincers around the cityileave the capital within the next by Gov.'.-. Dan Tliornton of Colo-|to t^c northwest and south. |eight days, rado. John Fine of Pennsylvania and Allan Shivers of Texas. The: governor.^ have just retunred, jfrom an inspection trip to Japan iand Korea. i~ They denied that their proposal; ttirrefore to roughly J255'v million Ruite Total The Chamber also pointed out! that ali foreign aid programs dur¬ ing the nine post-war years co.st taxpayers af the Keysitone State' an estimated W-v billion. off-the-cuff si>eech which has been labeled "important". Mr. Eisenhower will fly here Monday in time for a round of urday ;Only Irnniuni Sourr«> The Padutaii and Oak Ridge I plants, operated for the govern- Tvu » » « ... _• indent by the Carbide, Carbon &l<rolf and perhaps some private a^un-s ?f over l«Tf ^^0!.^'""''^*'^ '^'°- "''"^^' "'^ "^'i^"^" ^'t*^ ^^¦"^ »' t^^" governors X t^l \l'.rZrk.> valued «1 "°" " ""''''' ^''"^''^'"'' ^"^ P^?<»"*=-ibefore the dinner. He will fly b*ck uLir !a property fn theiT^ uranium for atomic and hy- to Washington that night, taxaoie real property in the j^^^pn bombs. | De<laring that the Ei.senhower flexible supporte 90 per cent of parit.v ... J , , . ,. is "a step in the right dir-ction" ; Wednesday, seeking a 15-cent ani.j,^g^,j„„ ^^i^ ^here was no ex- |hour wage increase. I p^^p {q^ guaranteeing farmers a ! The Oak Ridge strikers voted; profit. ;'Friday night to return to work He advocated, instead, a .s.wtem under an agreement devised by^^hich merely guarantees "the jSecretary of Labor James P|average cost of production." Mitchell, CIO President VValter] progrwn Has Trouble Reuther, and other union offlcialsj The Eisenhower program haa in closed-door sessions here. jbeen having a rough time in Con- i Kress. The houee voted for an |82'z to 90 per cent raiiige for thc next year. "The Senate Agriculturr i implied any recognition of the PHILADELPHIA uPt Blab-, In addilion, Scheslinger said.jCommunist Chinese government, orate precautions are being plan- three local magistrates,' them-',Japan will be forced to turn to ned to keep the 1».M national con-jselvea VFW members, will be on;Communism, they cautioned, if li! GENEVA <IP)—French is not allowed to build up Fearful of Asian Peace As U. S. Boycotts Parley vention of the Veterans of For- call 24 hours a day to he.tr any eign Wars the "'best-behaved as- cases arising from the conven- sembly" in the organization's his-ieion. tory. The VFW's 5,')th annual encamp¬ ment wiil be held here Aug. 1-6 and approximately 100,000 persons are expected to jam hotels in and around the city. Special "Police" Joel Sehesl'ingcr. viee cliairman of the VFW' Encampnieni Corpor¬ ation, said about "JOO delegates, many of them wartime military policemen, will make up a spe Premier Mendes-France flew back to the its Pil rre Mendes-France arrived in'11-week-old conference to push (Continued on Page 8. Sec. 1) No "Hot Foots The VJrW official said t^e "lawiQI'S RUSH FLOOD AID and order force" will patrol ho-j />r-|iiTDftl ClinADC tels regularly to prevent throwingj IN CEIMTRAL hi'iiUI C of paper bags full of water. The, MUNICH, Germany (tP^-Reeord with veterans' organization also outlawed "hot foots" given electrically-charged canes'. A detail of city police wil! the "law and order force" in con¬ ve n tlon headquarters at the ^.f^summer f Iood waters^ receded ,Sat-i jmnif diate talks with Soviet For Geneva Saturday gravely con-j his search for an Indochina "peace corned that the apparent U.S.'with honor." He has only 10 days boycott of the fina! phase of thej left before the July 20 deadline Asiatic Peace Conference might'he sei when he took office prom- rs'ise the Red priee for an Indo- ising to bring peace to Indochina China peace agreement. lOr resign. The French leader soheduledifh^Tchilj Asked Dulles i The 47-year-old premier told a urday along the Danube Riverleign Minister V. M. Molotov ^-^dj ^';7^-^°"j;„^,f '^^^'I^CvirP-iri! I system, leaving at least 12 dead was expected to meet withjof h.s cabinet before leaving Fans ^°'" .ind an estimated $45,000,000 dam-'chinese Premier Chou age. I soon after the Chinese Seven German.s and five Aus-jparly this vveek. En-Lai it'"'' he has done "everything po»- arrives -'''''''^" '" persuade the U.S. to play 'More Top Reds sources ,rtate. Moreover, it is nearly equal to the cumulative increase inju^d Chemical Pennsylvania market values since'talked out at both 1948. whieJi the State Tax Equal-' Uation Board has only recently ••t at »5 billios. ' . t^e Chamber strongly recom¬ mended that Congress "take a new look at foreign aid expendi- Memhers of the CIO Gas, Coke! pfQp^,,^,] for Workers Unionif^o,^ 7,, to plants on; seeking a 15-cent increase. Valley Scene Sigji along Rotiu 29, nt C'ttxr.iouii Dnid ,¦ "Pogitiirhi So Ice Fithing In Rmervoir." Younq hang fMnynan gif- tillII net fur bif/ duii by i>ur- thnxing six worms from lire hnit ilfnler, I P""« 7 nnd 9 holding vf *•«<); /ra//tc on hroad Wiio- *|i«!/ nvtmu, Kiiigntnn. while fiee-i„.nr-old bon daghed mailln '1 '¦vclet on hroad thonmuh- /<» U-iiiyig to catch kiiuiU Wim, that slipped from his Orms, Three prominent in.iunince ittenlii duicusainu the merits of • "nood gliisH of beer" over milks the other txnited »'n.c. ¦nwrn- But the not favor (Continued Paducah strikers did the agreement even Page 8, Sec. 11 SEEK WAYS TO SLASH FOREIGN AID SPENDING Committee Friday voted 13 to 2 for anoUwr .v.-ar of rigid PO p<>r cent guarantee. Thornton protested thet rigid high supports are an undue bur¬ den on taxpa.vers. lead to over- j Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. A spe¬ cial "law and order force" to keep cial hookup to the City Hall po-, ,,, , , , „ „ misbehavior and property damage lice switchboard will be installed! Floodwaters ravaged many *a at a minimum. jfor their Joint use, .mous Alpine reason towns, but no| Communist Vet M.nh ' ¦" lAmerican or other foreign tourlstsjhere hinted their leader, !were known to be in danger. (Minh, nwght come to making facilities of the new! U. S. Armed Forces in Europe:shortly to build up even plant was rolled on the 80-inchj.'^wung into action immediately,;the top-drawer Communist DIES AT STATE COLLEGE! hot strip mm, coHed and sent tojsonding thousands of engineer; tingenc at the lalks where ,. . the sheet and tin finishing divi-'troops and a swarm of helicopters U. S. so far is represented by its to return to the Geneva Confer sion. jto aid fUiod sufrcrer.i. j diplomatic second team. ience. MRS. E. EISENHOWER a full role at the Geneva talks or risk the loss of millions of Asiatics to the Communists. At the same time a British For- Ho Chi I eign Office ."spokesman in London Geneva'announced that Prime Minister furthcrlChurchill and Foreign Secretary con-j Anthony Eden have asked Secre- thejtary of State John Foster DuUea .STATE COLLEGE, Pa. <IP)- ! Mrs. Eakin Eisenhower, wife of. the president of Penn.sylvania' State University and si-ster-in-lawj of President Eisenhower, died atj her home here Saturday after a^ long illness. She was 4». I A native of Manhatt.<in. Kans.,| she met her future husband, Mil¬ ton S. Eisenhower, when she waa 19 and a sophomore at Kansas Slate College. HUGE FAIRLESS WORKS IN OPERATION 1 YEAR PHIt^^DELPHIA 'll" - The United States Steel Corp. observ¬ ed the first anniversary of fully- integruted steel production yes¬ terday at its huge Fairless Works near Morri.'^ville. On July 10. I!t63. the first steel ingot prfiduced In the ba.sic steel- WASHINCJTON ilpi- Staff perls analyzed the admlnistra-; production end contribute to the tioij-s foreign aid bill yesterday toj creation of "dust bowls' bv nlow- decide whi<;h items can best be, up land which never ."hould cut lo permit a $238,000,000 slash] ^^ tilled, voted by the Senate Foreign Re-; lations Committee. ————————_____ camT on°T"io-ro-o ^'^"ke'^Frilcocn, Tfcffifcs Moto Is Hofidsofnesti' day, is subject to final review Monday when committee experts | and foreign aid officials will rec¬ ommend which items to reduce. Thf measure n'ow calls for M,- 100,000,000 to provide arms and economic aid to other free nations during the 12 months which began July 1. This compares with Presi¬ dent Eisenhou-er's original re¬ quest for .113,47 r.fiOH 000 and a House approved total $3,.3.3«,O0O,0O0. Both Bride and Groom Are Blind rest Ever Hooked Wfia/e Shark Weighing 20m lbs. Is Caughi and Hauled fo Shore been try- Wianii UP-The *^« Alberta Ll^nl.''"¦ ""^t^hlng what was l^^^hf to be the biggest fish Dm,L "t**^ hy man-« 20.000- Pound whale shark. The 37-foot monster was caught wiL \ grappling hook manlpu- «^ by the Alberta's captain, li^""o ^''' ^^'^ cr<»w»nen and Ip^L J?^*'*" ^*'"' °' Grosse %m^^ *V«- Mich., an experi¬ enced angler who had % to catch marftn. The sports fishing fleet spotted ¦nl.r.T' '"°"*t^'- off Bimini CW -^^ afternoon and gave thT^n ?"* ^^^ S^**'^'* ^""^ in in the gulf off St. Petersburg, tnr», u *^'*'"'' ^'^'^ wasn't big Fla. July 4 after towing a large nough to budge the fish's 10-lcharter bottom fishing vessel ^ ^veight. Another boat al.so; wifh some 50 angiers aboard forlFrank Tripp "^o*"^ UD. but the K>pe broke'SBC hours. Obituary starts fishingl and another cruiser got ita rope today claimed the fouled in the propeller. Cass maneuvered the 45-foot Alberta alongside and hooked the whale shark with a grappling hook secure to a chain. It took two and one-half hours to tow the sluggish fish to Bimini where it died in captivity Friday. For Scientists The carcase was turned over to a marine laboratory on the British West Indies Island and scientists planned to carve It up before hauling the remai'ns b«u:k to sea. Another whale ahtirk escaped CORRY, Pa.. UPi Gladys Cam- field, a "a pretty brunette," yes¬ terday married the "handsomest" man she knows-a man she will never see,- Gladys, 43, and her fiance, How¬ ard Collins, 45, both nre blind. The couple said they were ofi "happy in every sense of thc I word " but admitted they had been _ "a bit jittery." Were Pen Pals The bride, who normally uses a seeing eye dog to gruide her, will walked to the altar of the Evan¬ gelical United Brethren Chur:h on the arm of a member of her family. Collins, who once thou(=:iit ne never would get marri^u, becamr In Lock Haven, Pa. Oi.e month later they announced tiieir en- e.ascmeiit. "I never thought I really would e'er get married." Howard naid, but after I received Gladys* first letter I had a feeling ."the was something special in my life." Gladys said she didn't plan on a church wedding at first but members of her Sunday school class made her change her nund. No Honeymoon Plans "We don't have any honeymoon plans." she said. "We're just going lo go to his mother's ho.-ne at Lock Haven nnd maybe late- we'll see aijout a huneymoo!-.." .- ' The couple plan to live on th. acquainted with Gladys a year j $50 a month each receives in .•,; te ago through a "pen pal" ilu'ojassistance and the extra money sponsored by a religious pabli- Collins earns repairing chairs, cation. The maid of honor wil! br rh.- They corresporuled fo.- months bridegroom's sister, and one ot his b)- Braille and met for the first friends from Corry w'U be best time last January at Coi'ins' home!man. up, INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT Photo by Ai-'« Huttnam LAKE ^UAX<ilOLA (First in a Series of Aerial views) Sectlbn Page! Amusement Three 10-11 George Around the Town Two City Hall „ Five Classified Four i; County Five Crossword Puzzle Five Drew Pearson Two EJditoriai ..Two Two „ _,One Section Page| M. Adams Two 61 7 Home Builders Four 161 2 Politics Two 6J 19 Radio One 17 3 Robert C. Ruark Two 7 7 State Capitol Five 6J 6 Sports Two 1-5; 6 State News Five 4j 7 TV One 16J i I Women's Section Three 1-12' Looking east from an airplane, a photographer "shot" this view of Lake Nuangola, one of the prettiest of Luzerne County's many resort areas. t-ake Nuangola is distinctive in that the residents of it'i shores comprise the population of the only lakeside borough in the county. Because of its lake facilities, Nuangola Borough has a cen.vus population of 300, but this figure more than triples in the sum¬ mer months when the several hundred cottag'^s and summer homes that dot the shores are opened b>- vacntioners. In tiie far background Ikft of centerj can be S'cen the big Foster Wheeler Corp. plant, a number of employees and officials of which have taken up residence in the Lake Nuangola area. Lake Nuangola reached its hey-day in popularity when the now defunct Wilkes-Burre and Hazleton Electric Line provided "fast service to the area. Many fine summer home.s dotted the lake shores over the years and they still stand in tbe elegajice of an era passed. Lake Nuangola during the years was noted for the solitude that it offered. Tni.-j Is stil! a matter of record in view that ,t-' * ,->.-¦ r| •-•I.. ' • . „re enforced, including no swimming "afternoon on the Sabbath." '•M I fl ¦s9a.ig»:^,«s6E»:»- r. .>:*?1^' ,'S8SSiJtii:S»iie'!?^ t M
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1954-07-11 |
Month | 07 |
Day | 11 |
Year | 1954 |
Volume | 48 |
Issue | 37 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Year | 1954 |
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Issue | 37 |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Cloudy, Warm
HIsrUett Today 78 to 82. Monday: Cloudy, Warmer.
YEAR — NO. 37 — 88 PAGES
Member Audit BiireMii of ClrcnUttoni
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY JULY 11, 1954
ITMTKn PRESS
Wire Newa Senir*
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
Offer Plan to Guide U. 5. If Red China Enters UH
kii%k Rtufl.o
Can This Be Made a Siie for New Industry?
A .fpei'ial foinmitl^e of th
Grcatir Pitts¬ ton Ciiam'bcr of Conimcrct ha« been namt^d to mak*- a fact-finding mudy of how to re¬ claim a hu K f stri'P-mint'd area brtwe<'n Pittston anci Dupont for uih- as industrial gltPS, Thc work may cost $1(10.000,
Known a« the Butler Industrial Site, the »rea. part of vvhii h is shown in the above photo, extends a full mile in I'n^h and is »pproximalely one-fourth of a mile wide Thc tection pictured above was formerly the site oC Buller Colliery in Pittston township.
The Butler site is adjacent to five railroad connections. Lehigh Valley, Delaware and Hud.son, Erie, Central and Scranton-Lacka- wanna.
The committee, headed by Stanley Ijeonard,
Pitt.ston mortician, met last week with offi¬ cials of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. On Tuesday another meeting will bc held with officials of thc Heidelberg Coa) Co., which owns almost half of the site. Other members of the committee are former Burgess Joseph X. Uo'kula, Dupont, and Joseph J. Pupa, Pittston township.
The Greater Pittston Chamber of Com¬ merce is currently sponsoring a $700.0(X) fund raising campaign, PAID—Pittiston Area In- dusrt.ri»l Development. The money, which comes from outright contributions, will be used to construct new buildings. All wage earners in the Greater Pittston area are a.siked to contribute one percent of their annual earnings for the next two yearg.
SIAIE WILL m FOREIGN 1 COST
Pennsylvanians Have Paid 4J Billions In Last 9 Years
HAJUUSBXmG (PNS> — Some >d«a of what tlie federal govern- ments foreign aid program for fiscal 1956 %neans to Pennsylva nians oan be gleaned from the fact that it will cost taxpayer.'! of
Workers End FARM Prai Strikes at « ™G Atom Plants
Calls on President, Congress fo Confer
WASHINGTON dP)-The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Saturday unanimou.^ly approved a proposal designed to end the congressional uproar over future U. S. foreign policy should Red China be admitted to the United Nations.
It calls on President Eisenhower to conifer with Congress if Ri^, China is admitted and, perhaps, make recommendations on what-' ever changes he thinks necfssary in U. S. foreign policy.
The proposal was drawn up by Senate Republican Deader William F. Knowland Cal., who previous-; I
ly had declared the United States, Knowland's proposal waa ap-.
should should
withdraw from the Red China be seated.
UN
proved by an amendment to the authorizaUon bill for the admini
Although his proposal gives the|»trations $3,100,000,000 foreign aid President the initiative, Knowland! P'ogram. It states:
(BI ULKTIN) WASHINGTON HP)—Striking workers at the two plantit pro¬ ducing uraiiium-i3« for the na¬ tion's atomic and hydrogen I bombs voluntarily n>turned to \ their jolm last night.
CAL ISSUE
Gov, Thornton Backs Eisenhower's Plan Of Flexible Supports
BOLTON TENDING, N. Y. tlP) --Gov. Dan Thornton. R-Colo. predicted Saturday that farm price supports will be the top domestic issue of the 1954 poli¬ tical campaign.
The Colorado governor added
told reporters his own peroonf.i view "has not been .nodificci n the slightest degree." Agrees With President
The Californian also said he does not believe his views conflict wilh tite President'.s. Mr. Eisen¬ hower has said he is unalt" -ably opposed to admission jf Red China but lie also said serious consideration must be given to what course the United St:itcs should take in event the Peiping regime is admitted.
The adopted proposal had been tentatively approved by .lix men- htr. |
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