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ixon Get
Big Li Approval
Expected Telescope Bill
On The House monwealth
Committee on Com-
Government
ed “te recommend of Representatives approve
a
to the House that it swiftly
bill enabling
Committee
Munoz
the
bill
Chairman
Padin
‘will
said
-the
Fe-
Rep.
Re-
yesterday
reach
the:
Hou-
se floor this week, possibly today. The bill, titled the “Radio Astronomy Zoning Act,” was filed yesterday in ‘the House Secretariat.
Cost
Is
The “major ty” will cost
settled
mountain
High
it
the
largest
radio-telescope
on
the
operation
—such tric
ag
a neon
light
typewriter—within
—
about
(See
Huh
story,
Page
4)
The
5:40
RICHARD ---fops
Republican
nomi-
that
those
buried
the
hopes
of
M.
NIXON
Ike’s
total
‘
of A,
the two primaries, the one Pennsylvania had the most
significance. In
Pennsylvania,
unofficial
(See PRIMARIES,
tab-
Page 25)
Stranded Passengers Create
or elecfour-
also would
Growing Problem At Airport
to repair any deapplianwith the Padin
By BOB BONE ‘flights Alicia Barrios, 17, a Puerto Ri- weeks. ean high school sophomore from the Bronx, may be able to go home today. At least, the Tra-
from the Research
velers
Aid
Society
at Internatio-
nal Airport hopes so. She found out her father’ was in grave condition from an auto
accident
in New
York
two
days
ago, but she has been unable get a flight out of San Juan.
to
who with
eame to San Juan recently “open” return reservations.
With the upsurge of agricultural migrant workers leaving, one airairline’s
decrease
in
the
number
of $45 “thrift” flights, more and more economy minded tourists and visitors must choose between being
stranded
or
cutting
their
vacation short to afford first-class flights or $75 for the. cheapest tourist class seat on jet’ flights. And get.
even
these
ate
difficult
to
Stranded Passengers Several of these pasengers have shown
up
at
the
Traveler’s
Aid
counter where workers try to find them a seat. But for thrift-flight passengers, reservations are impossible until May 10,
Mrs. Charlotte L. Hanson, executive director of Travelers Aid, says the number of such dollar-
stranded passengers “is definitely on the increase.” Alicia arrived in San Juan two weeks ago to visit relatives in a
@ small island town. Two days
"(See story right.)
she received the cable about father. She showed up at airport; but they|told her no
were
available
for
two
She had only a little extra
money — not enough for a jet.
JOHN F. KENNEDY -.-iandslide winner
But, Alicia is a patient girl, and willing to stay around the air-
port until she can get in on a “no show.” She almost made it yesterday,
but
the
“no
show”
show-
ed up at the last minute, and Alicia’s luggage, went on to New York without her: Another
Alicia’s pyoblem is similar to several thrift-flight passengers
eras s_ manages
the
totals
Of
Center is in Puerto Rico stand(See TELESCOPE, Page 25)
Mrs,
for
nation, rolled up impressive
in
Attor-
the
all his rivals
who wanted to see outbursts sentiment for -Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York.
ney General to issue permits to anyone using an electrical item
be committed (?}
! a.m. today. ’
rival
of
electrical equipment within a a four-mile radius of the telescope, said Munoz Padin. ‘Bill, Explained Commonwealth
outpolled
Tuesday in the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts primaries. Nixon, who has no announced
in
The bill prescribes zoning restrictions
fective home electrical Seoul martial law command an- ce that would interfere Munoz mounced that Vice President-elect radio-telescope, ' Lee Ki Poong and his wife and added. © two sons committed suicide in a A team of specialists | building on the grounds of the] Air Force’s Cambridge mansion
Kennedy,
for the Democratic nomination, with overwhelming write-in totals
the world, according to the “statement of motives” of the bill.
mile radius. The Comimmonwealth
BULLETIN | presidential
WASHINGTON (AP)—Primary results inflated the presidential hopes. yesterday of Sen. John F. Kennedy of -Massachusetts and Vice preston Richard M. Nixon.
The radio-telescope, which will. be used t@ probe outer layers of the ionosphere, will have a diameter of 1,000 feet, making
quires the
astronomy faciliin excess of $10
-(Thursday)
area.
He explained that the bill re-
million. It will be located ten miles south of Arecibo in a
SEOUL
Puts Both Far Ahead
} Feet Diameter
is expect-
derail - government to install in Puerto; Rico the largest radiotelescope in the world. ne
sparsely
| Penna., Mass. Voting
+
case
isa
widow
who
arrived last weekend with her two children. She could make (See AIRPORT, Page 25)
Fast Action Needed By
A.
great
W.
MALDONADO
volume
of
important
pending legislation will die unless approved during this session of the Commonwealth Legislature. All legislation not approved be-
fore May 26 will automatically die since no work can be carried over
from
one
legislature
to
an-
other, according to the Commonwealth Gonstitution. Deadline Nears Leaders
cing
of the
themselves
House
for
are
bra-
emergency
measures to get the most important bills through before deadline.
Both the speaker and the majority predict
that
the
of the house floor leader
most
By HAROLD J. LIDIN quick go-ahead from
A
On Important Bills. A
Early Start For Nuclear Plant Seen
important
legislation will bé passed. Speaker Ernesto Ramos Antoago, her nini asserted that “if mecessary the the number of sessions will be $45; (See ACTION ‘NEEDED, Page 25)
the
Atomic Energy Commission for the proposed $11 million nuclear
power
plant
in
Rincon
was
fore-~
east, yesterday after a hearing in Federal District courtroom here
on safety
features
Participants
in
at the plant. the
hearing
pre-
dicted that AEC examiner Samuel W. Jensch would issue an order authorizing the start tion before the end
draft. of proposed
submitted
to
of construcof May: A
findings
Jensch
will be
within
{0
days by Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority attorney Joseph
Volpe.
If
accepted,
it
will
form
the basis for the examiners’. port. Witnesses Favorable
Witnessess
at the
were consistently proposed nuclear
AEC
re-
hearing
favorable to the plant in Rincon,
testifying that its operation spells no “undue risk’? to the public health and safety. Among the witnesses . were executives from the Water Resources Authority and the private firms retained
fer design and construction ofthe (See: NUCLEAR,
Page
25)