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Sunday Journal and Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 14

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A LINCOLN 8PNDAY JOURNAL AND STAR Gallup Poll to Ne populated areas of the country a factor obviously necessary to make toe roads financially successful NOT ONE of the nation's 12 largest cities would be more than a two hours drive from one of the highways In.the network, including New York, Chicago, Philadel phia, 1XS Angeies, ubu un, ZnrL i iPvMand. St. Louis. Wash Ington, Boston, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. In addition, the 18 next largest cities also are reasonably close: HERE IS THE question which Institute interviews put to a cross lection of the nation's voters: "It has been proposed that two super highways.

should he built across the country from east to west and two more from north to south. The cost would be paid by drivers who use the highways at the rate of about 1 cent per mile. Would you approve or disapprove of building these four toll highways?" The vote: In eeneral. persons with the ommint nf ntlucation more inclined to favor the idea 4han nrC thOSC With lCSS SCnOOl lng. However, the latter group votes 2 to in favor.

O'NElEirECIALLY interesting asuect of today's findings is that thercis remarkably little difference of opinion by age groups, by sex, or along partisan lines. Many voters viewed the plan as the best solution yet advanced to the highway traffic problem which Is causing increasing inconvenience, discomfort and frustration to 7v. ninrins nublic. to say noth ing of the billions of dollars lost to American traffic delays. Wrong Act, Time, Witness SYDNEY, Australia (CDN)7 Masher Leonardo probably think twio fore making passes lasses in movie theal Parisi made a girl at a movie promptly tapped on der.

Sitting behind strange KC hauled Parisi off to court, and a $10 fine. California Researchers Stmly Formation of Fog LOS ANGELF.S yPJ To gain a bevter understanding of how fog is formed, a University of California at Los Angeles research team is probing the microscopic world inside tiny fog droplets. Droplets are caught on specially prepared screens, no larger than the head of a pencil over which an uitra thin collodian film has been spread. They are photo graphed through scope after being HANOI, Indo China Ml At tacking Communists brought up ACTUAL REPRODUCTION SIZE t'ixIW Please Mint your name and address on STCk yr Mr reprints Tu want. Your picture will be returned with your lM lnts.

reinforcements saturaay night before Luangfrabang, royal capital of Laos, as three govern ts tried vainly to persuade the king to flee the ancient city. While the enemy vanguard was arrayed in an arc only 10 miles the nervousiy awamng city, morale of French defenders soared with the airborne arrival of artillery. France's top air force general, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Le heres, arrived in indo L.mna to reanize the air defense before the Communist beleaguered Lao tian capital. TJ.

Australian and French officials were reported to be urging that bed ridden King Sisav ang Vong quit Luangfrabang to prevent nis possiDie capiuic the Communists. They said that it the king were taken, his name would add pres tige to the Ked inspircci rrce Laos" movement. But the king vowed In stav to the end with the defenders in their isolated redoubt Mn miles southwest ot Hanoi. At the Laotian administrative capital of Vientiane, 140 miles to the soutn oi me rojiu w' civilians were being hastily mo bilized to aid in defense prepani The emergency me: eatcd the government Communist invasion column which has by passed Luang Prab Vientiane is border. the Thailand U.S.

Rushing Military Aid to Laos Defenders WASHINGTON (IT) The United States announced Saturday It is oneoriine delivery of "critically needed military items" forces; defending Laos from Communist' Vietminh attack. Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles revealed the action in a statement denouncing the Communist attack as "aggression' and My 1, lf King's Capture Feared as Reds Mass Men Before Laos Capital saying me unueu vic. with "grave concern." About two weeks ago France requested additional American cargo planes to ierry aimnu.nuu", weapons and some troops to Laos. Reds May Be Renily For Assault on Sinin SINGAPORE (IP) The Commu 1 are massinc on the northern uthern and eastern borders of Siam (Thailand), placing soutn east Asia in the deadliest dange it has faced since World War II was reported Saturday. Siam is considered almost cer tn he the next target of the Red armies now sweeping a T.noK.

Informed sources say Tfpris want to establish a' Bur Siamese Indo uninese pet state as a springboard fi eventual conquest of all of utheast Asia. Never a Dilll Time In Neiv England CONCORD, N. H. (IP) are some of the subjects ered during the recent annual Town Meeting Day in New Hampshire: Swanzcy voters decided to sell the town's horse drawn hearse. In Chesterfield, they closed Lover's Lane once a logging road.

At Langdon, a 15 foot wide and 38 foot long covered bridge, believed I the world: mantling. A new road agent resigned Stoddard three hours after elected. HIGHWAYS OF THE FUTURE? The heavy lines show whr, 1 "AVV cover the most heavily concentrated population nieas of Hie Uniiui ataics Korean Ground Action Flares SEOUL (P) Chinese Reds tered a week long lull in the Ko War early Sunday with a battalion attack that stalled in hand to hand fighting in line trenches between the Hook and Little Gibraltar on xne. Western Front. attack by up to 750 Reds fell between the two outpost posi 10 to 12 miles northeast of It brought the heaviest front line fighting since grouno action quieted with the resumption of the The night ground flareup fol lowed heavy Allied air thrusts.

U.S. Air rorce iwos wiu Kroi.ts Australian Meteors and its. Marine Pantherjets cratered firstrin in battered Wonsan, wrecked two Red supply trains and 48 trucks, and smashed at other key troop rind supply tar gets. 29 Sunerforts left two bi Communist supply dumps in flames after a nignt riua. Greek Air Force Plane Down in.

Sea Near Ath ATHENS (INS) A Greek Air Force plane carrying an undisclosed number of men crashed into the Aegean Sea Saturday about 60 miles south of Athens. A Calro to Ncw York Trans World airliner was temporarily diverted from its course to join Patience Public Votes 2 1 for Huge Toll Highways Urged on Linking Nation's Major Population tenters Ike flan Details Seen PRINCETON, N. J. A gigantic peace time highway proposal which could revolutionize Amer ica's travel and vacation habitsj nd help solve the nation's mount Ing traffic problem has the over The latest Institute survey finds that the voters of the country, by a ratio of substantially more wmilri favor buildine a work of two transcontinental East West and two luii iengm norm South super toll highways. What's more, the public stands willing to pay for their use at a nominal charge of say, 1 cent ONE PROPOSED plan, show In the accompanying map, woui, locate a "northern" East Wes Mtenrtine from Portland San Francisco to Boston.

The "southern" route would run from Los Angeles to Wilmington. N.C. One North South highway would connect Bangor, Me. with Miami The other would extend ternational Falls, Minn Orleans. The four proposed routes been located in such way i best serve the present hca Removing Basis For Criticism WASHINGTON (IB Chairman Leverett Saltonstall of the Senate Armed Services uommmre yic HiM.ri Saturdav that full explana tion of President Eisenhower's nofonw nenartrrreni reorganiza tion plan will dispel congressional criticism.

Two Democratic senators, John Stennis (Miss.) and Russell Long (La.) have criticized the pro posed abolition oi inc ucit.iac Departments oincv installations. Saltonstall (H Mass.) said he is' certain there will be aaequaie provision for keeping a close check on base construction and military public works activities, now tne function of the director of instal LONG AND STENNIS, instrumental in passage of legislation which created the office, said Frank Creedon, the present director, has made big savings by curbing military construction. Imnlicit in Mr. Eisenhower's re organization plan sent to Congress on Thursday, was the transfer of rerinn' duties to one of six new offices of assistant secretaries of defense which he proposed tc create for secretary x. Wilson.

The Nelson A. Rookefellar committee, which drew up the blue rrint for the Pentagon reorganiza tion. specifically recommended that the functions of the lnstalla tions office be given to one of the r.ew aistant secretaries. Mr. senhower did not flatly state that this will be done.

THAT OMISSION, nlus a sus cion Creedon will be dropped as believed to have stirred Sten and Long to suggest the Presi dent "take anotner iook" at in At the Pentagon official sources ere silent, but it was regarded a virtnallv certainty that Wll would not appoint Creedon i one of the six new loos. Ailing Teacher Holds Classes in Her Home NORTH HOOSICK, N. The teacher can't go to the room, so the class comes Fndnrnl Prison have been pi: this week. i the search for survivors port, which could in the search for survivors, une wuuni u.u. report, which could not be con race prejudice after new groups LIMITED TIME ONLY You may have your fine portrait (3x4 to 8x10) reproduced to billfold size for unbelievable low.

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R. L. CROSIER PHOTOGRAPHER ADAMS, NEBRASKA Freed PWs Irritated at Tale They May Be 'Dupes of Reds9 PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. tin An Army spokesman saw saturaay many freed American prisoners ltv they fell for Communist propaganda in Korean prison camps. "Nobody in the Army has said any of these men was sold on Communism while a prisoner of war," emphasized Maj.

James Campbell, public information officer at the Valley Forge 43 Are Feared Dead in British thc teacher. Mrs. John Power, recuperating from a heart ailment, is giving her five eighth graders a full schedule of English, arithmetic and social studies in her living 20 Cons in Special Celli After Alcatraz Violence SAN FRANCISCO (fl) About i convicts at Alcatraz Island special security block: cens result of sporadic violence Jetliner Crash NEW DELHI (INS) A British Overseas Airways Corporation spokesman reported Sunday that the wreckage of a BOAC Comet iet airliner has been sighted from the air and that all 43 persons aboard are believed dead. The BOAC spokesman said he believed there was no hope that anyone survived the wreck. amongethe 43 passengers aboard the jetliner.

The wrec Kage was jiioucu i miles from Calcutta. Tk. pri.nm known ONE OF the Americans was. listed as the Rev. Paul bneak oi k.

N. head oi tne Angio Chmese School at Ipoh in Malaya, who was en route to New Delhi. Boarding tne plane ai siusa Anita Whistler, described as young American girls Six minutes after the plane! took off from Calcutta, the pilot radioed he was climbing and "on track." The message was re CST) and nothing had been heard from tne piane that time. THE AIRLINER was on its way to London from the British Asiatic colony of Singapore. The Calcutta New Delhi route is mostly desert.

The 500 mile an hour Comets normally fly from Calcuto to New Delhi in two hours and 25 Two Ag Agencies Must Cut Mails WASHINGTON (IPI Agriculture Department officials said Sunday tnat only tne jt rouuL uuu ketine Administration and th Rural Electrification Administra on will have to do any majori ring to live within the Kepubii an budget for fiscal Las. T. Roy Reid, personnel director, aid most other of the depart lent's 20 agencies will be able to trim their spending by not filling vacancies "a more painless way. Dismissal notices already have onn tn 700 of the 2.333 PMA era nlovees in wasnington. rwiu awu some other agencies may bi forced to reduce in the near fu ture but REA will be hardest hit.

Argentine Radical Held BUENOS AIRES () Ricardo Balbin. Radical Party for president in 1951, was arrested on charges that he was disrespect ful in a traffic noliceman in th town of Eva Peron, formerly La Plata. Armv HosDltal near here. "How would you feel if you fought for your country and were captured and wounded and then flew 10,000 miles to a hospital to find you were being labeled a possible Communist?" Campbell asked. "Well, that's how these boys feel." ME SAID "limited and inconclusive study" in Tokyo indicated "some of the men may have come under the influence of Communism" but added "the indications may be entirely different when these boys get their feet on the ground." Campbell said all the returnees would be given a chance to make any statement they care to, probably Sunday.

While the men were being examined here, the third "Freedom Airlift" plane bringing released prisoners back to the United States landed at Travis Air Force Base, with 40 men, including 28 stretcher cases. Saturday's arrivals brought to 98 the number of ex POW's returned home; 51 are still in Japan. TWENTY OF the sick and wounded returnees at Valley Forge Hospital were flown secretly from Tokyo to Willow Grove Naval Air Station Friday night and then brought here for treatment. Three others arrived earlier Friday at Philadelphia's International Airport. seriously.

All are suffering from vitamin deficiencies and "will be given thorough examinations," Campbell said. If any needs psychiatric treatment, he will get it, the major You Can Collect $5 for Right Name INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (til You can collect $5 today if your name happens to be "Ar the will of the late Dr. Arvine Mozengo, which was filed for probate Friday. Dr.

Mozengo said he was the "attending physician at the birth of 162 babies named Arvine or Arvina in my honor" and wanted to give them all $5. Anybody else with one of the two names can apply. 1 POLITICAL A DVERTI3KMRNT New Twisters Batter South; 3 Day Toll 28 Compiled From news nun New tornadoes struck Satur day night in storm battered cen tral AiaDama anu uwiiui, 28 persons have died in three days of high winds and twisters. Hundreds have been injured and property damage runs to mil lions 01 aouars. The latest tornadoes spun through the small community of Fort Mitchell, about 12 miles south of Columbus.

They hopped the Chattahoochee River ana ripped into Lawson Air Force Base and adjoining Fort Benning, giant infantry center near Columbus. No deaths were rerjorted. Meanwhile, the Atlanta weather bureau said there is the possibility of a few more tornadoes over the southern half of Georgia and extreme southern section of South Carolina. The New Orleans weather bureau included Southern Alabama and the interior of northwest Florida in the warn ing. Saturday, a tornado hit Meigs County, Tennessee, killing Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Harmon and their ughter, Doris, 14, in the Pleas Hills community near Deca tur, Tenn. Another funnel caught Charles W. DuBois' plane in the air after he took off from Knoxville with ily for a Florida vacation. DuBois, 41, was killed.

His wife and his son. William Arnold, were Truck Saves 9 Lives As Tornado Hits Alabama ASHLAND. Ala. (P) A rural store operator Saturday credited a pickup truck with saving nine persons from possible death or serious Injury. Horace Brooks said nine persons were crowded Into his store nearby Hawkins Crossroad when a tornado struck.

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