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Spy Incident Still Rings In Raging Bear's Roars By MAX
PARIS
HARRELSON
(AP)--Soviet Premier Khrushchev yesterday denounc-
ed President Eisenhower’s policy on intelligence flights and sug-
gested it might be well to take the alleged American aggressors “by the scruff of the neck... and give them a
little shaking.”
The Soviet leader, scowling and thundering before the press of the world, accused Fisenhower of deceit and called him a “fishy” friend. He asserted that the incident of the spy
plane
proached with was
had
convinced
the Soviet
“resolve and urgency.”
Union
the
Berlin
problem
must ‘te
a
The massive news conference in the Summit Press Center at the Palais de Chaillot attended by around 2,000 newsmen and was one of the longest ever held by the
head of a major government. | It lasted two hours and ‘20 minutes. He made these main points: 1. He intends to sign a separate when he is ready.
peace
Still To Confuse Public Opinion
Grave Risks Hit
By HAROLD J. LIDIN of the Mufioz plebiscite
aim
opinion
in
Puerto
Rico.
The
type
of
plebiscite
“forever”
the
political
alleged
status,
that
confusion
By A. W. MALDONADO proposal,
Ferre
could in
dispell
the
insisted,
island
is
a
re-
39 Blind Boys Bowl; Several Scores High By
JIM
Thirty-nine
the Loiza Cordero a
DOUGLAS blind
youngsters
Blind
and
seven
to
rangein 17,
for the
age
gathered
from around
bowled for the first time in their eight bowling lanes and received lives here and some of them made scores that would bowlers with sight.
shame
The event took place at the Santa Rosa Bolera in Bayamon Tuesday where the youngsters,
member's of Cub Scout Pack 304 and Scout Troop 80 of Santurce, were guests of Junior Chamber
the of
and the Commonwealth
San Juan Commerce
organization. The boys, all of whom
Bowling attend
instruction. Theyawere handed a ball and taught how to hold it. Then, one by one they were led down the lanes and given a bowling pin to inspect.
Aided
by Commonwealth
ins-
tructors Mary Williams and Mario Carbia and members of the
4CC, they then began to bowl, The newness of the game and (See
BLIND,
Page
21) oa
hood or Independence. The statehood-republican candidate further charged that the object of the statistics supplied by the Governor on the estimated cost of
statehood
to Puerto
Rico
Says
All Consciences
ferendum where the choice is limited to State-
(STAR photo by Julio Tobar.)
21)
Governor
charged last night in a speech prepared for “radio delivery, is to “confuse still further” public
him.
East Germany
(See SPY, Page
statehood gubérnatorial hopeful. Luis A. Ferre
HERE IT GOES—José Sanabria gets ready to roll his first ball down the alley as instructor Julio Alvarez guides
Communist
GOP Sees Aim
The
on
treaty with
is to confuse
the
electorate. Labeling the figures given by the majority Popular Party and its officials “capricious and arbitrary,” Ferre cited widely differing estimates made by administration officials to uphold his complaint. The figure estimate of ‘$188 millions, which the Federal Bureau of Budget gave to Congress supposedly as an estimate of the cost (See GOP, Page, 21)
Gov. Luis Mufioz Marin last night left to the “conscience’”’
of all Puerto
Ricans
the decision
te
“risk” exchanging Commonwealth status for statehood or independence. In an island-wide radio speech, Mufioz said his proposed: plebiscite bill would ‘“‘put before the conscience of each citizen the necessity of considering seriously, honorably, what the consequences would be ‘“‘upon the establishment of the status the citizen wants to submit for voting. The proposed bill would establish the mechanism whereby Puerto Ricans can decide if and when to have a plebiscite and what statuses would be included. Mufioz stressed that the bill takes away from the government and the legislature the power to call for the plebiscite, placing it squarely with the people. Law would exist, he added, as long
as the people do not demand the plebiscite. The Governor said that the reason Puerto Rico has progressed as much as it has is because it
was able to put aside the political status question (See
GOVERNOR,
Page
21)
Census Shows Big Dip In P.R. Growth Rate By FREDERICK HARMON Puerto Rico’s population growth rate was only six per cent in. 1950-60 compared with an 18 per cent increase in the
previous decade,
the Bureau
of rural agricultural economy to an
the Census reported in preliminary figures yesterday. ~
This
growth
was
the
The figures also show, accord-,reached about 2,346,000 thig year, up from 2,210,703 in 195¢
ing to Donald Reider, regional director of the Census Bureau for Puerto Rico, that “Puerto Rico is rapidly changing from a
lowest
recorded in any decade since the | first island-wide census in 1765.
urban
industrial
economy.”
The San Juan population jumped from 368,756 in 1950 to about 450,000 this year.
Puerto
Rico’s
population
a-net gain of 135,297 persons. The rate of growth is “going down so rapidly,” Reider added, “ that the net increase between 1950 is less than half of the in
crease between 1940 and 1950.” Reider said he believed that migration ef Puerto Ricans te (See
CENSUS,
Page
21)