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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1955
Page
4
The World This Week argues tariffs and farm surpluses entwine global trade policy. It critiques buyouts of butter and wheat to prop farmers while seeking world markets, warns against dumping, notes hearings on liberalized trade, and advocates a free global market despite adjustment challenges and geopolitical tensions.
U S Senator William Knowland condemns the U N secretary generals Peiping mission as a failure and accuses the U N of propaganda to silence critics. He argues Red China must be admitted to the U N and trade resumed with strategic materials, opposing Eisenhower’s stance. President Eisenhower defends the talks as ongoing and rejects calls for retaliation despite no immediate release of the airmen.
The Eisenhower administration announced a new five member committee to assure federal hiring without regard to race creed or color. It replaces the old Fair Employment Board and reports directly to the President to oversee compliance and advise Civil Service and department heads on non discrimination policy.
The Communist assault on Formosa era outposts marks a new escalation in the west pacific fight. After artillery and air attacks on Quemoy and Tachens, and a November 14 torpedo attack sinking a Nationalist escort, the Reds launched their first sizable invasion this week in the Tachens region.
President Jose Figueres voiced strong optimism over the war against Costa Rican rebels after US supplied F51 Mustang fighters landed at El Coco Airport. Rebels were reported attacked in Nicaragua, undermining their air advantage and boosting regional U S OAS influence as a turning point.
The article analyzes how China’s invasion of Yikiangshan Island and Soviet moves signal a split between high risk testing of Western resolve and potential Western boldness. It tracks Dulles’s statements denying strategic value of the islets, the UN cease-fire option, and Moscow’s dual tactics of lure and threat. It suggests China may push further unless Washington asserts a decisive response, while Moscow hazards a bluff on atomic sharing and East German control. The piece discusses possible Western readiness to seize the cold war initiative.
AEC medical researchers at Brookhaven NY have used reactor rays to target brain tumors. Patients receive boron injections then are placed atop the reactor to direct rays at the head. About a dozen hopeless cases were treated. all died, yet scientists call the method promising. The budget message signals a possible new medical research center with a dedicated nuclear device for medical studies and treatment.
The date for signing a new U S Panama treaty on the use of the Panama Canal is announced as Saturday, January 29, with the event tied to opening ceremonies for the National Auto Dealers Association convention in Chicago.
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson advocated expanding trade with Communist countries during hearings on the administration's foreign trade bill. He urged allowing trade in carefully screened nonstrategic items to foster basic understandings that could contribute to world peace.
The submarine Nautilus, first powered by atomic energy, began sea trials in Long Island Sound from Groton on Monday at 11 am. Capt. Sade Cutter described the routine launch as unremarkable while Omar Wilkinson led the crew aboard the ship built to cross the Atlantic submerged at high speed. The reactor uses enriched uranium and a heat exchanger to produce steam for a turbine. total cost is about 50 million dollars.
In Short Asked attorney general Brown urged Congress to impose stiffer penalties for advocating violent government overthrow and seditious conspiracy. Thrown Out: U S District Judge Luther Youngdahl dismissed a new indictment against Owen Lattimore for allegedly lying under oath about following Communist lines and promoting Red interests. Baron Louis Rothschild, 72, a key Rothschild in wartime Nazi ransom era, died.
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