the San Juan
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol.
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No.
278
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Tel. 3-8400
Ss. Bi Split On Paths Of Achievement
Island's Income
Up 9.4 Pct.
CHICAGO MAP) They dandiddtes for
By HAROLD J. LIDIN Planning Board Chairman Ramon Garcia. Santiago announced
yesterday
that
the
net
income
the White House clashed historic television debate. Democ rat
of
$1,311,000,000.
:
to the
the increase. island’s trade
balance
continued
vorable,
with
to
be
imports
drop. Garcia
Santiago,
out-
Kennedy
to
& press conference which kicked
off
Planning
ed
that
Puetto
also
capita
Rico
while ed
Week,
per
has
family
reached
income
in
$571,
has
reach-
$2,724.
The
surge
income
in
was
the
cia Santiago as since the Korean
some
three
net
income
cent
island’s
described
times
net
When
Gar-
cracked
the sharpest War, and is
more
increase
registered
by
in
mainland.
of
the
than
the
3%
per
U.
out
compares
other (See
developing ISLAND
with
that Page
§.
Dag Tells UN Its Future Is At Stake ed General Assembly appearance yesterday, told the world
orgatiization®
that
not
only
his
future but that of the United Nations itself is at stake-in the crisis aroused by the Soviet attacks on him.
on
first
Kennedy
first, followed
He bumped
Nixon
satisfied,
by
to
a knee
hopped
a michrophone.
question
adopted.
spoke,
was
naive
up
to
He
Kennedy
gave
FIRE DESTROYS FACTORY—An estimated half million dollars worth of paint and equipment went up in smoke yesterday as fire destroyed the Superior Paint Factory on the Caguas-Rio Piedras road. The fire began at 2:55
N.Y.-P.R. Shipping
Racket Uncovered By MANUEL
SUAREZ
and
etting out: of his car.
offer
4
handshake
jit a rub
and
and
shoved
dealt
immature.
foreign trips he made
for example, (See
p.m. and, fed by exploding chemicals, raged danger ously
U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in an unexpect-
arrived,
his head
He
for over two hours. A gasoline tank blew up shortly before 5 p.m. Factory owner Adolfo Villanova Mayens, among the spectators, placed the damage at $500,00 0. The cause is under investigation. (STAR Photo by Gunter Hett.)
By RELMAN MORIN UNITED NATIONS (AP)—
spoke
hand.
were
of 6)
isn’t
again,”
‘with Nixon, saying Kennedy replied he has been in government 14 .years and that he thinks his and Nixon’s experience is' comparabile. Questioned about his experience, on which Republicans have Pitched nuch of their appeal in this campaign, Nixon said that after each of his
economies. FARM
a
Kennedy
The
that
But Planning board officials Provided no answers when asked how Puerto Rico’s gress pro-
duct
he
were locked in battle for a senate seat, not the The stakes were great: A chance to captu Presidency, re the favor of millions of viewers and listeners, of to affront them with a mere word or phrase. The twe men must have been nervous. At \ least Nixon 'was having a bit of physical difficulty.
reveal-
income
said
started moving
Nixon. After that came a question-and-answer session. Never in the nation’s political history, not even ia the renowned Lincoln-Douglas debates 102 year ago, had there been anything comparable. For Lincoln and Douglas
income another
speaking
Kennedy
There was no disagreement about overall goals, only for methods of getting to them. ?
unfa-
far
weighing exports, and from sugar showed
F.
Republican Richard M. Nixon countered;that America is on the move; that Kennedy’s program would lead to s tagnation, Furthermore, Nixon said, the cost of the Democratie program would be 13 billion more than the one he advocates for America.
Manufacturing, which zoomed 16 per cent, contributed most
dramatically However,
John
that “it’s time America
Puerto Rico last year leaped 8.4 per cent to a record high of
last night in an
GREAT
recommendations
which
of the expansion ‘of the Inte rnational DEBATE,
Page
29)
Fidel Threatens Move On Guantanamo Base UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Cuban'Prim
e Minister Fidel Castro told the U.N. General
Assembly last night his governmen t “ig seriously considering requesting within the framework of international law
that U. naval and military forces be withdrawn from the Gua nta nam o base.” Castro said the action
would be taken “if this base
becomes
a threat to our * The New York arrest of two men who operat peopl e.” ed a freight forwarding business in Brooklyn has The Cuban delegation and In a marathon uncovered a shippi ng racket in which an untold number of people who members of the Communist before the 96-n 4% hour speech Hammarskjold spoke against ation bloc, including Soviet Pre. the bearded a background of heavy assault shipped household goods here have been victimized, accord Cuban leader also mier Nikita S. Khrushchev, won the applofau upon his office by Soviet Pre- ing to New York City police. +— Khruse : shchey stood and applauded. mier Nikita S. Khrushchev, who when he suggested that Cuba would not have to stand alon has asked the assembly to abo- rez, 29, and his brother, Jose e New
Te men are, Alberto e-(keping the money inated
lish and
the secretary general’s job substitute a three-man
(See HAMMARSKJOLD,
Page
20)
Manuel, 30. They are charg-
York
300 families
victiontoed and the companywerecollect-
ed with accepting moneyjed for shipping the goods and
more than $50,000, of which (See SHIPPING, Page 20)
in the event of a U.S. attack.
The Soviet ‘premier clapped his
hands and then raised a clenched
(See CASTRO Pag ,20)
.