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Partly Warm Pace So. THE DAILY TIMES-NEWS tntide Index 4-A Comes VOL 80 No. 296 MICE ITVE CENTS TCLCMWTO sctvtcc AMOOATCO MUSS BURLINGTON, N. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1964 ASSOCIATED AFTCKHOON DAILIES AP AND KMW FCATtnC SCKVKS HKBALD TUBUMC SCKVKK 18 PAGES Improved Relations Seen In Nuclear Plan TO HEAD SIXTH FLEET I Seven Areas Admiral Ellis IChosenFor To Be Promoted Fimd jnpoveriy projects involving 13i Rear Admiral William E. Ellis, a Burlington native, icounties were chosen Monday! will be promoted to vice admiral and assigned the first programs to command the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean by the North Carolina month.

iFund in its battle to break the! The Navy Department, mak-fin June of that year to an air cycle of poverty. ing the announcement, sajd that the admiral will be leaving his post as assistant chief of naval operations for air in assuming his new responsibility. He a been stationed in Washington on bis present assignment since May 13, 1962. Admiral Ellis is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

C. B. Ellis Sr. of Burlington and is brother of C. B.

tglKs Jr. of 504 EiBcrest Ave. and Mrs. Pearl E. Byrd of 423 W.

Davis St The Sixth Fleet is stationed In the Mediterranean for what the Navy says is a mission'" to help maintain the peace by deterring any threat the Communist bloc may try to impose on countries which believe in 1 freedom of man." It was announced yesterday from Washington that the Navy also is sending an its nuclear- surface warships to the Mediterranean to join the Sixth Fleet Being assigned to the fleet are the guided missile cruiser Long Beach and the frigate Bambridge, which will join the 85,000 ton carrier Enterprise, which serves as the fleet's flagship. Promotion to vice a i a and assignment to one of the highest Navy field assignments is another recognition for Admiral Ellis in his career which started when he was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1926 upon graduation from Burlington High ScbooL He was graduated from the academy and commissioned an ensign on June 5, 1930, and through promotions was named a rear admiral on August 1, 1958. Following Ms academy graduation, he joined the USS Mississippi, and in April of 1931 was detached for flight training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. Designated a naval aviator on March 17,1932, be was assigned unit of the USS Colorado. Kej Terry a an-! nounced the locations of the! seven a as Richmond and Scotland counties; Durham County; Mecklen-j later served in a similar capacity aboard the USS Saratoga, and in 1935 he was assigned to two years of patrol duty in county; Forsyth County-! Canal Zone, a Watauga, Avery, Mitchell' He joined the USS Enterprise yancey aunties, in 1938 for two years, after were from which he was attached to the a project Droposals from ggi Naval Air Station Corpus coupes.

Officials of the North Carolina Fund will work withj local officials in drafting final plans for tbe seven projects. Other projects wifl be initiated as they gain approval Tbe governor also announced! that the U.S. Department ofi lealth, Education and has approved a $400,000 grant or experimental work in the state. Under this project, hei said, plans are to employ community services consultants! PRESIDENT to work with the planning com-jluncheon of newspaper executives in New York yesterday, uses outstretched known were mittees in communities which to indicate the level of raw materials for atomic bombs which the" United States rilv for internal R-ADM. W.

E. Ellis New Assignment Texas, where he remained until April of 1942, when he assumed command of Escort Fighting Squadron For meritorious servee in the squadron during the assault en the occupation of French Morocco from November 8, 1942, he received a Letter of Commendation, with authorization to wear the Commendation Ribbon, from the commander in cmef, U. S. Atlantic Fleet He is also entitled to the ribbon for, and a facsimile of, the Presidential Unit Citation awarded the USS Sangamon, on which his squadron was based. In August of 1943 Admiral See Admiral On Page 10A North Carolina Fund.

The projects range from instituting community school cen- srs in Mecklenburg to deal with community problems to institution of community im- See Seven On Page 10A Hope Raised For New Agreements WASHINGTON further improvement in U. S-Soviet relations should result from the newly announced plans of President Johnson and Premier Khrushchev to cut back production of nuclear explosives. Washington officials said today. The hope in government quarters here is that such moves, which have been building up now for several months, will: --Create a more favorable atmosphere for disarmament negotiations. --Brighten the prospects far actual East-West agreement to bring the nuclear arms race under control.

--Initiate measures to courage surprise attack. was "a further substantial reduction in our production of enriched uranium to be carried out over a four-year period." He had announced an initial cutback in his State of the Union message last Jan. 8. He said (iis. that the cuts he has jnow ordered add up to a 20 per Disarmament by international agreement, however, will require international inspection arrangements in the Soviet Union as well as in the Western countries, according to long standing U.S.

policy. So far. no breakthrough is in sight on this critical inspection issue. The production cuts announced by Johnson and Khrushchev Monday, with cooperation from Britain as the other main nuclear power, do not re- OUTLINES PLAN--President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing inspection and so far as to reducing along with the Soviet Union.

He said the cutback could lead to further agreements with Russia. He stated that the redaction in production is not "disarmament." (UPI Telephoto). decided prima- reasons. cent decrease in plutonium output and a 40 per cent decrease in the manufacture of enriched uranium. "By bringing production in line "with need," Johnson declared in his AP speech, reduce tension while maintaining all necessary power." When the President's speech was released at 2 pjn.

EST the Sonet News agency Tass simultaneously released a statement that Khrushchev was halting work on two reactors designed to produce plutonium, that he would "substantially" cut back ROA THREATENS U. S. Fire Hits Subway In New York NEW 01 Fire broke out on a subway shuttle train early today and spread to a wooden platform and several stores in the Grand Central Ter- Cuba To Defend Airway United States, the President made clear that this country no needs to produce plutonium and enriched uranium -nuclear weapons materials--at he level of which it is capable. 3e had decided on the reduction Before advising Khrushchev ofi bis intention to make the announcement which he made By DANIEL BARKER blackmailing and against these flagrant violations Dense smoke terminal en- minal area, poured from trances. Six firemen were injured and at least two other men became ill from smoke poisoning before Economic Gains Not Spectacular By STERLING F.

GREEN WASHINGTON (AP) The economic cheer radiated by President Johnson last week betokens no early boom: the gains he aTmnmred at two sews conferences were good but the blaze was brought under jcontroL In addition to knocking service on the shuttle train for dangerous sit- which operates half a mile between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal, the smoky blaze halted service for 45 minutes on a portion of the Lexington Avenue and Broadway-7th Avenue lines. The blaze broke out on the shuttle train as it neared the terminal. There was no panic and the few passengers aboard fee train got ont quickly with- definitely unspectacular. Looking at the many business: indicators now hand for March, tne first month of tfce out injury. The volume of new orders booked by durable goods manufacturers dipped 2 per cent, the massive federal tax cut, most first decrease since falL government economists were: First, a fait surprised that re- tafl sales slipped slightly even though practically every wage- earner had more take-home pay; and Second, considerably relieved to note that the modest gains provide neither reason nor encouragement for a wMri of higher prices.

Johnson broke the news on Thursday that national output tit a record rate of bOHon in the first quarter, op neariy biSon froia a year ago. Most economists had expected something bigger. The JS-bS- lioa rise for the January-March Most other indexes rose. Bat the record seemed to substantiate the forecasts of the President's GoBEcfl of Economic Advisers that the stimulative impact of tax redaction wBl be spread out over a period of two or three years. The council's chairman, Walter W- Heller, told the Midwest Economics Association in Chicago Saturday that the first- qoarter rise in Gross National Product is "directly on the projected coarse" laid oat In Ms January forecast At that time the council predicted a total ontput of about S623 biffion for 1964, or a gain quarter feU short by nearly SSjof some per cent from the bfflioa of the gain in the preced-ifirst to tbe final quarters.

ing quarter, and was somewhat "This hardly sounds indigesa- i -TT -rs -r-v smaller than even the quarter before that. The sales volume of the nation's retailers--who bad every light to expect a banner Easter bly rapid," Heller said. Buying demand win not outstrip production, he said; there wifl stffi be moult--declined 1 per cent from be aroaad 5 per cent at yearend. Febroary after allowing for sea- despite some improvement since trends, according to the preliminary Commerce Department survey. much excess and plant capacity; is likely to IN THIS CORNER Spellers In Error ALBANY, N.Y CiB Both finalists in a spelling bee at a junior high tchool in nbar- States, Soa replied: U.S.

government would uation by violating national air space and ignoring international --'-The government of Cuba does cot recognize any right claimed by the U.S. government for such violation and rejects entirely its note of March 27, 1364. in which it ratifies cynically its aim to maintain these spy- over tory." frighten -the peopie prevent them from, defending with dignity and courage their sovereignty and their rights." Roa said the Cuban government "has protested repeatedly HAVANA (AP)-- The Castro ithreatening statements will not government Monday nifiht re- jected to the right to send "reconnaissance planes over Cuba and warned that it will defend Cuban air space- Foreign Minister Raul Roa signed a threatening note to the U.S. government after Washington warned that its planes will continue to fly over Cuba and that use of Soviet missiles against them would create "a highly dangerous In his note, delivered to Swiss Ambassador Emfl Sradelnofer for transmission to the United Certainly in the case of the production of uranium 235 and Monday. of Cuba's sovereignty and a most elementary principles ress international law which endan-j ger international peace and Prime Minister Fidel Castro See Cuba On Page IDA What the President announced would allocate more nuclear materials for peaceful uses.

U.S. officials said there was no deal among Johnson, Khrushchev and British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home. There is no provision for inspection among the three powers to see that the announced plans are carried out and critics of this kind of disarmament, by to luncheon an Associated in New York U. S. Produces Deadly Nerve Gas EDITOR'S NOTE: At a plant in western Indiana, the United States makes a deadly nerve gas in a race to stay ahead of any aggressor, just "so he won't be tempted." By JAMES R.

POLK NEWPORT, Ind, (AP)-In cloistered complex of buildings on a hfll in western Indiana, the United States brews and bottles one of war's deadliest weapons- It is nerve gas, a stealthy assassin that is odorless, tasteless and virtually invisible. A drop, breathed or soaked into tbe skin, can kflL At the end of an assembly line laced with 40 miles of pipes, the liquefied gas is poured into rockets, land mines and artillery shells--destination secret The facflity, housed in a former atomic energy installation ed to split on partisan lines. Reactions Split On Party line By JOE HAT.T. WASHINGTON (AP) U.S.J and Soviet announcements of parallel plans to reduce tion of nuclear weapons material brought questions from some members of Congress today as to how Soviet good faith could be checked. Comment at the Capitol tend- Republicans said it appeared informal agreement had now known as the Newport Chemical Plant, is the nation's an informal agreement had By FRANCES LEWINE major simply center for nerve been reached lacking provisions WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs.

gas. It has been in operation 24 for inspection and verification. Lyndon B. Johnson took on a "mutual example" assert this is a weakness of the arrangement This comment was heard frequently on Capitol HJH. Administration officials say, however, that there is no peril to U.S.

security or the asserted American lead in nuclear weapons power because Johnson decided to make the cut on the ground that the United States does not require such a high evel of production any more and he would have gone through See Improved On Page 10A Lady Bird Switches To Auto hours a day for three years. Detafls on the gas are secret, but a plant official describes it as "hundreds of times more toxic" than any commercial chemical- Ac Army publication says only that the gas can "cause death within four minutes." A congressional report says less: Many Democrats approved the decision President Johnsoa announced Monday in an address to The Associated Press in New York. They stressed belief that it was based on conclusions of American military authorities that the United States no longer needed to add to its stockpile of nuclear weapons material. The President's action re- than a minute's exposure can ae HJT quires no formal approval by kfli. "This stuff here was originally developed as an says a vice president of the FMC Corp.

which operates the plant under a government contract The chemicals which form the nerve gas are mixed and boiled in a plumber's nightmare of pipes, furnaces, pumping towers and reaction vats. At one point, the product looks like frozen In a separate bunding, the gas is pumped into rockets and other munitions by automatic eqajprnent in a sealed compartment Congress but undoubtedly win figure in floor debates later on military policy and budgets. In disclosing the cutback, Johnson said, "I am happy to say that Chairman Khrushche? has BOW indicated to me that he intends to make a move in tfajsi same direction." Shortly after Johnson's announcement the White House: disclosed that since last Get 10! when the unclear test-ban treaty became effective, the United nine-hour motorcade ride home from Cleveland in heavy rain and fog Monday night, rather than try another bad weathar airplane ride. She thought she'd "enjoy tha adventure of driving" after an explosive like lightning discharge frightened her and passengers aboard a United Airlines Viscount Monday. The drive back proved to be an adventure, too, and Secret Service veterans said it probably win go down in their records as the longest auto trip ever taken by a First Lady.

En route, the President's wife stopped off for dinner at a Howard Johnson's restaurant, wtere she took a few minutes in the manager's office to telephone the WMte House to talk to her husband. There was a private dining room set aside, under advance States has obtained important radio instructions, -where steaks information from its under-) were ordered for all in the party ground testing program. 18. A report to Johnson by Secre-l Later, her borrowed CadiBac X-rays tents, rinses and dries it, checks for leaks. From Newport, the rockets See U.S.

Oa Page IDA January. Another government economist- replying privately to a newsman's inquiry on the impact of tbe tax cut said it would be premature to judge by the March statistics, but: "If you had to say something, you'd say there has been no visible effect It will show up a bit later on." There is wide agreement that the President in Sfnews con- FIRE HTTS SUBWAY TERMINAL--Smoke billows in front of New York office leieuces last Thanday and Sat- buildings this morning after a six-alarm fire burned through the Grand Central still reflection of tht Terminal of tbe Times Square shuttle. This view looks west along 42nd Street tattoo of a tax cot, ratter In the lower right-hand corner are Vanderbflt and a corner of the termite (be actoaUtj. inal bufldlng. While damage was heavy, no injuries were reported.

(UPI Telephoto). De Gaulle Resumes Some Work Atomic speedy service. The car gy Commission disclosed thatjwas driven right inside a serv- the U.S. test program had ice garage and the first Lady more extensive than the 20 on- dergrcund explosions announced' during the last eight months. "Important information has' been obtained on sew weapons designs and'weapons effects," tbey said.

"The highest-yield nuclear device ever detonated in the continental United States didnt even get oat Three waiting mechanics swooped down on tee engine, quickly found the irocble "tbe fuel filter was blocked" and had a new fSier installed in five infantes fiat Sbe thanked the Lead mechanic and the motorcade movsd on into tbe rainy night When the First Lady made PARIS (AP) dent Charles de Gaulle, recov- erins from a prostate operation, resumed some his duties from his hospital bed today. A medical bulletin today said De GauDe, 73, is expected to remain in tbe hospital for another week or 10 days. was fired underground at fees Nevada test site. Weapons ef-iher impromptu decision to take fects tests have been carried the 348-mfle drive back to Wash- French and others are be- ington, she tested tha ingenuity ing planned and prepared." Members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee were briefed on the cutback in nu- kets for the long journey. dear weapons material production in secret Monday.

Afterward, Hep. Cbet HoUfield, D- See Reaction On 10A of the Secret Service, It proved ready, even down to providing pillows and blan- Four cars already had been borrowed for Mrs. Johnson's day-long visit to Cleveland to Lady On 10A SPAPFRf.