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KHRUSHCHEV REPORT:
Soviets Suffer Food Shortage
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MOSCOW (A)-Premier Nikita
KMrShCOW' -(M-remie b t y !-'meat for saile in shops, as well as
Khrushchev declared bluntly yes- "butter."
terday the Soviet Union needs "The fact is that we simply do
more food for its 200 million peo- not have er iough meat," he told
ple, especially meat. the opening secret session of the
He reported complaints from Communist 'Party Central Com-
some cities that "there is little mittee. "The party and the gov-
Republicans Vie Over Blast
Leveledat John B .chers
By MICHAEL HARRAH
Special To The Daily
NILES-Republican County Committees outst: te are beginning
to show annoyance at the recent blast by the GOP S tate Central Com-
mittee at "extremist organizations" (obviously the Jahn Birch Society
or its companion groups).
Committee members in Berrien County meeting recently repudi-
ated any connection with the State Central positiicin, and key fig-
ures in Van Buren, Cass, and Ottawa Counties sre talking about
following suit.
Berrien County Republican Chairman George A. Evers publically
defended Saturday a suggestion by Mrs. Irma Collier of Watervliet
ernment are concerned about this
state of affairs and are undertak-
ing measures to increase meat pro-
duction in a short period of time."
Protests System
As reported by Moscow radio,
Khrushchev proposed overhauling
the agricultural system, including
abolition of the crop rotation prac-
tice that keeps large areas of So-
viet soil under grass.
To produce more grain, he pro-
poses plowing up the grass lands
in his "take a chance" program
that has brought objections from
some of his own agricultural ex-
perts. They fear plowing up of
grass in semi-arid areas may end
in less grain, not more.
Khrushchev called for doubling
farm machinery production, for
sending city youths, including
girls, to work on farms, and for
boosting chemical fertilizer pro-
duction, now critically short.
New Agency
The Premier proposed a new
government agency "whih would
deeply investigate the needs of the
collective and state farms and
which would direct the individual
development of each f a r m."
Farmers themselves must be en-
couraged to make better use of
soil and machinery.
Khrushchev pointed out that the
pace of development of agricultur-
al production-especially of stock-
farming-had been slowed down.
He blamed this in part on "many
leaders (who) relaxed their atten-
tion to agriculture and the needs,
of collective and state farms."
Khrushchev said "it is necessary
to double or treble the output of
the most important agricultural
products within a short time" be-
cause the demand for food is
growing rapidly. He predicted the
population of the Soviet Union will
reach between 250 and 280 million
in the near future.
Kremlin Aid
To Approach
825 Million
Funds To Bolster
Sagging Economy
LEIPZIG, East Germany (W) -
The Soviet Union signed a trade
and aid agreement with East Ger-
many yesterday estimated to be
worth about $825 million, East
Gelman officials announced.
The agreement, covering Soviet-
East German economic relations
for the current year, calls for the
Kremlin to grant this financially
shaky country a 1.3 billion mark
credit, informants said, plus about
two billion marks worth of trade
between the two nations.
At the official rate for the mark
in this country that totals about
$825 million.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Anastas I. Mikoyan signed for the
USSR and East German Politburo
member Bruno Leuschner for his
country.
The East German Communist
Party leader, Walter Ulbricht, Was
reported present at the signing
ceremony, from which Western
reporters were barred.
The agreement, East German
functionaries said, was the result
of economic talks in Moscow last
week between Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev and Ulbricht.
Leuschner was reported, to have
commented:
"No power in the world can
shake the firm bonds of friend-
ship between our countries."
Officials said that under the
trade part of the contract, the
Soviet Union will deliver to East
Germany desperately needed raw
materials, iron ore, oil and chemi-
cals. In return, the Soviet Union is
to get, among other things,-heavy
machinery and ships.
B-58 Jet Sets,
U.S. Roundtrip
Speed Record
LOS ANGELES (P)-A 1,300 mile
an hour B58 jet-leaving a trans-
continental wake of broken win-
dows, cracked walls and startled
citizens-roared to New York and
back in 4 hours, 42 minutes yes-
terday.
The three - man Delta - wing
bomber, trailing a 40-mile-wide
sonic boom that caused the dam-
age, set three new speed marks:
Round trip, four hours, 42 min-
utes, 12 seconds; West-to-East,
two hours, one minute, 39 sec-
onds; East-to-West, two hours, 15
minutes, 12 seconds.
Streaking at twice the speed
of sound, it created a continuous
sonic boom as it sped across the
country-shock waves created by
compression of air.
that Berrien Couw ty withhold its
support of State iCentral,
"We can't go alo ng with Lansing
on this one," I vers declared.
"There are too inany members
of our county paty who agree
with the Birch grou p. We can't af-
ford to alienate them.'
Mrs. Collier, an a4dmitted Birch
Society member, said she would
continue her work and support
for the GOP on a county level,
where, Evers said, ";;he is a valu-
able worker. I have no intention
of expelling her."
Constitutional Convention dele-
gate Lee Boothby (R-Niles), an
avowed conservative but not a
member of the Birch ,Society, said
that in his travels vutstate, he
found "other sentiment similar to
that of Mrs. Collier.
Boothby holds that the "reluc-
,tant and half-hearted tsupport" by
outstate Republicans have cost
GOP gubernatorial hopefuls the
election in the past, anc that fur-
ther attacks on the 'extremist
groups' could result in the same
situation again.
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By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Atomic
Energy Commission announced
yesterday it had conducted an
underground nuclear detonation of
low yield at its Nevada test site.
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NEW YORK-Police yesterday
arrested 32 more demonstrators
after sidewalk sit-downs outside
Atomic Energy Commission Head-
quarters. Their massed protest
against atomic testing was the
second broken up on the streets
of New York within 48 hours.
TOYKO--Japan protested yes-
terday the United States decision
to resume 'atmospheric nuclear
testing, but the Foreign Ministry
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demanded suspension of nuclear
testing by whatever country it may
be."
UNITED NATIONS - Acting
Secretary-General U Thant an-
nounced yesterday the appoint-
ment of Eugeny D. Kiselev, veteran
Soviet diplomat as undersecretary
for political and security council
affairs.
DOUALA, Cameroon - Search
teams struggled through dense
African jungle last night to re-
cover the 110 victims of the worst
single piane disaster in the his-
tory of civil aviation-the fiery
crash of a chartered flight carry-
ing vacationers to Europe.
CHICAGO - Railroad manage-
ment proposed yesterday that it
meet with labor negotiators March
20 to bargain on the basis of a
presidential commission report
calling for cost-saving moderniza-
tion of working rules.
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NEW YORK-The stock market
suffered another slight decline yes-
terday, with the Dow-Jones aver-
ages showing 30 industrials down
1.01 and 20 rails and 15 utilities
down 0.21.
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