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PARTICIPATING IN LARGE GROUPS, large numbers of Key West girls are becoming mermaids for the Kiwanis Aquacade,
which will be held at the Key West Kennel Club track on Stock Island on December 18.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch.
Nixon Will Report On Situation Examined
In 70 Days Of Travel In Asia, Middle East
By RUSSELL BRINES
WASHINGTON (JB-Vice Presi
dent Nixon has a briefcase full of
problems, all studied at first hand,
to spread before the National Se
curity Council, perhaps today.
They deal with situations he ex
amined in 70 days of travel and
conversation with heads 01 govern
ment and plain citizens in Asia,
the Middle East and the Pacific.
These range from Australian un
happiness ever some U.S. trade
policies to the risks that a truce
in Indochina would bring.
The council, composed of top of
ficials of the executive department
responsible for national policy at
the highest level, has first call on
Nixon’s report on the trip that
ended yesterday. Later this week
and next he meets with congres
sional leaders and State Depart
ment officials.
Nixon said President Eisenhower
would decide whether there is to
be a radio-TV report to the nation.
He had a preliminary talk with the
president yesterday.
By regions, here are some of the
problems on which Nixon is pre
pared to report to the National Se
curity Council:
t. South Pacific—Australia and
New Zealand, both strongly pro-
American, are worried by what
they call "discriminatory” trade
restrictions against their wool and
dairy products. Nixon promised to
report their protests, with the re
minder that domestic American
politics had to be considered.
At the same time, these two
countries voiced strong opposition
to the rearmament of Japan, a ba
sic point in America’s defense pro
fram for the rest of Asia.
2. Far East—Nixon was told that
Japan, bursting with a temporary
economy -boom, is about to reas
sert its leadership over Asia. Eco
nomically, however, the Japanese
face the problem of developing
greater new markets, to offset
. their dependence upon the areas
now under Communist control.
On problem is to stimulate more
rapid Japanese rearmament. An
other is to settle a growing and
serious dispute over fishing rights
and other issues between Korea
and Japan. A third is to settle the
Status of Okinawa, which Japan
wants back, but which American
officials say is vital for the long
range aerial defense of the United
States.
At the same time a basic blue
print is needed for Korea, if the
present truce continues.
3. Southeast Asia The major
problem is a growing French effort
to settle a seven years’ war with
the Communist-led Vietminh forces
through a negotiated truce, a move
ment spurred by the armistice in
Korea. American officials on the
•pot say a truce now would open
all of Indochina to the undisputed
political influence of Moscow
trained Ho Chi Minh. thereby
Jeopardizing all of rich Southeast
Asia. All the pathways to this vital
region are open to direct Chinese
military power.
4. South Asia—The United States
faces a basic decision in determin
ing how to deal with India’s Prime
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Secrecy Tags Are Yanked Off
“Restricted” Gov’t Matter
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON 08-President Ei
senhower’s plan for yanking some
of the secrecy tags from govern
ment documents went into effect
today with no signs of any great
outpouring of information previous
ly kept confidential.
The order is avowedly intended
to give the people “a maximum
amount of information” without
endangering national security.
It replaces a set of rules laid
down by former President Truman
Sept. 24, 1951, which Atty. Gen.
Brownell called repressive and ca
pable of permitting government of
ficials to cover up mistakes and
“dereliction of duty.”
The new order emphasizes re
alistic decisions as to what se
curity and national defense infor
mation should be secret. But offi
cials still can bottle up nonsecurity
information by administrative ac
tion. And the secrecy of a lot more
documents, such as income tax re
turns, is protected by law.
The Eisenhower program does
away with the lowest, “restricted”
category for classifying security
data and leaves only confidential,
secret and top secret gradings.
That means that as of last mid
night, probably tons of documents
labeled restricted no longer will
be secret in any way. It doesn’t
mean the government is going to
publish or mimeograph all of it,
now or later on. But ordinary citi
zens or newsmen who know what
they want will be entitled to have
a look.
Even in this arrangement there
are a couple of catches:
In many agencies it will take
some time to rip off restricted
stickers.
Ana some of the hitherto re
stricted material, instead of being
declassified, is going to be shoved
up tc the higher confidential grade
where it still will be secret— for
example Pentagon documents re
lating to codes and some which
foreign governments marked re
stricted.
The Commerce Department, with
a much smaller stack of restricted
papers, predicts about 90 per cent
will be downgraded. The Treasury
Department says the same of 80
to 85 per cent of its previously
restricted information.
The presidential order takes
aw ay from 28 federal agencies any
power to classify any material for
security. But these are agencies
dealing with such things as housing,
pr.rks, and battle monuments,
for the neutralism prevalent in this
area.
Military aid to neighboring Paki
stan, now being discussed, means
risking Nehru’s oppositon.
5. Middle East—'The major railP
tary weakness in this strategic
stretch of hte world is Iran. Aside
from its pressing economic and po
litical problems, this key country
is difficult to defend, without a far
greater military investment than is
which didn’t handle any security
secrets anyway.
In 17 of the remaining depart
ments and agencies, only the top
man—no underlings—can classify
information.
All along the line, department
and agency heads have issued in
structions for a re-examination of
files with a view to declassifying
some material and upgrading other
information. In some offices, the
job will take months.
Audie Murphy
Gets The Girl
In Monroe Show
When asked how he liked the idea
of getting the girl for the first time;
in a picture and going into a clinch 1
for the film's fadeout, Audie Mur
phy scratched his head and re
plied. “It’s a nice change, I guess.”
Audie stars with Faith Domer
gue and Stephen McNally in Uni
versal-International’s new Techni
color Western, “The Duel At Sil
ver Creek,” opening Dec. 17 at the
Monroe Theatre. The girl that Au
die gets in the final reel is lovely
brunette Susan Cabot, who heads
the film’s large supporting cast in
an exciting story of frontier claim
jumpers.
The screen star-war hero made
seven films prior to "The Duel at
Silver Creek” and in all of them
jhe rode off into a Technicolor sun
set during the last fifty feet of
j film leaving behind him a sad hero
ine. In some films he has ridden
away at the conclusion in uustody
of a frontier posse. One fade-out
saw him-leave alone because he
felt he wasn’t right for the girl.
Although somewhat of a screen
veteran, Audie still becomes em
barrassed when kissing before a
camera. He had done it only once
before and that was with Mar
guerite Chapman in "Kansas Raid
ers.” That kiss lasted only a sec
ond or two and then Murphy made
his famous sunset ride while Miss
Chapman stood weeping by a tree.
A solid pal of laborers and techni
cians around the sound stages, Au
die took a prolonged ribbing from
the boys about that first screen
kiss.
Murphy’s romantic scene with
Susan Cabot was filmed on the
final shooting day of “The Duel at
Silver Creek” and Audie handled
the scene like a trouper.
"What the heck,” he told co-star
Stephen McNally, "I was getting
jin a rut.” “The Duel at Silver
Creek” was directed by Don Sie
gel and produced by Leonard Gold
stein.
Virtually all fruits and most veg
etables depend on bees for pofilia
tion.
The average depth of the ocean
is 12 450 feet savs the National
Thrilling Saga
Of Botany Bay
In Strand Film
No nation on earth can boast of
a more unusual birth than can
the far-off land of Australia. Its
beginning began unhappily, in Lon
don’s notorious Newgate prison
|Where men and women convicts
awaited the scaffold. A royal pro
clamation posted in just such a
prison notified the condemmed
group, to their surprise, that His
Majesty, King George 111, had
been graciously pleased to com
mute their various sentences to a
one-way ticket, via prison ship, to
the new British settlement at Bot
any Bay, New South Wales (Aus
tralia).
This thrilling, historical episode
is explosively told in Paramount's
brand new Technicolor saga of the
sea, "Botany Bay,” which is due
to open tomorrow at the Strand
Theatre. Starring Alan Ladd,
James Mason and Patricia Medina,
“Botany Bay” follows the pulse
pounding story of how the conyiets
were transported, the hardships
they experienced and the brutali
ties practiced upon them.
; Alan Ladd portrays an Ameri
can. legally, but wrongly, a prison
er on the ship headed for Botany
Bay from England. The ship’s
l captain is James Mason, who, ac
cording to advance reports, makes
|the cruel Captain Bligh look like a
fairy godmother. On the distaff
side there is Patricia Medina, an
unjustly convicted actress whom
Mason covets.
; During the course of the eight
month voyage there are attempted
escapes, storms, near mutinies,
and romance. When the ship final
ly lands at its destination the film
comes to a crashing climax that
advance reports claim, makes
{“Botany Bay” one of the most ex
. citing sea adventures ever filmed.
Based on the novel by Charles
iNordhoff and James Norman Hall?
i "Botany Bay” was written for the
screen by Jonathan Latimer. It was
directed by John Farrow and was
produced by Joseph Sistrom.
Navy Will Check
On Possibility
Of Missing Men
t NORFOLK. Va. IB— The Navy
j awaited a personnel muster aboard
the cruiser Pittsburgh today to es
tablish beyond doubt whether any
lives were lost when a 50-foot lib
erty launch was swamped yester
day in Hampton Roads.
It was uncertain what time the
■ muster could be held, since many
of the cruiser’s crew were still
| ashore, prevented from returning
!to their ship by weather that made
the harbor waters choppy and dan
gerous for small craft.
Upwards of 65 officers and men
were aboard the launch W'hen the
boat capsized and dumped all
hands into the bay.
No bodies were recovered In
careful searches by plane and
boat The Navy said officially
“there are no known missing.” At
the same time, a sth Naval District
spokesman said the checkoff list
Armour Estate Sold
CHICAGO uPi—’The 160-acre es
tate of Philip D. Armour, indus-j
trialist and member of the meat
packing family, has been sold to a j
book-publishing firm, United Edu
cators, Inc. for a reported $500,000. j
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Post Office Is I
Hard At Work
On Xmas Mail
Incomiug Mail
Peak Expected
Before Saturday
Postal employees worked at top
speed over the weekend, as Christ
jmas cards and gifts streamed
'through the local Post Office in
record • breaking volume. Now
comes the mopping - up operation,
i “There’s still a big job to do.”
says Acting Postmaster L. H. God-
Idard. “We figure the incoming mail
'will reach its peak before Satur-j
‘day. Then we’ll have the last mm
ate rush of outgoing mail that
never fails to come.
I “I’ve been very pleased with the
amount of early mailing this year.
Now it's up to the late mailers. If
they’ll get it into the Post Office,
we'll get it out—and delivered by
Christmas!”
To meet this critical situation,
service windows will be open from
8 a. m. to 6 p. m., including Satur
day.
Time is running out. Send your
Christmas cards with first-class
postage to local addresses and
thoose for out-of-town by air mail
or special delivery. Air pared
post is recommended for any re
maining gift packages going to
other states.
Last year the biggest load of
Christmas mail came on December
16, when 73.560 peices of mail
chine. The Postmaster won’t be
surprised if this record is topped
clicked through the canceling ma
before the week is over.
Asks Ministers' Help
INDIANAPOLIS. —With an eye
on frequent traffic accident deaths,
Joseph L. Lingo, state traffic safety
director, sent letters to ministers
of all Indiana churches yesterday
asking them to preach highway
safety in their* pulpits.
“The only solution to this prob
lem lies in the minds of men,”
!he said.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Fossil Deposit Found In (.010.
NEW YORK Jb—The American'
Museum of Natural History says
it has found in southern Colorado
the best single deposit ever dis
covered of mammals of the Eocene
Period, the so-called “dawn age"
of mammals some 50 to 60 million
years ago.
Dr. George Gaylord Simpson,
chairman of the museum’s geology
and paleontology department, said
yesterday the deposit, in an area
near Walsenburg. Colo., has yield
ed the fossilized re mams of various
species of mammals.
Chief among them. Simpson said,
were eight practically perfect
skulls of Eohippus. Hie “ances
tor of the present day horse.
Geologists describe Eohippus as
a four-toes animal about half the
size of a Shetland pony.
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Petrillo Protests
WASHINGTON iT - James C.
Petrillo >ays television is costing
many of ’>c nation'* musicians
their job>
“Teles Mon is doing a job against
us,“ Petrllo. president erf the
American Federation of Musician*,
said yesterday after a call on Pres
ident Eisenhower.
j “You get a television set at
home and you just sit there. You
don't want to get out."
Petrillo urged the federal govern
ment to subsidize symphony or
chestras in smaller cities to pre
vent the death of “serious music**
in America.