BANNING OF A-TESTS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 17

BANNING OF A-TESTS

GENEVA, December 10. Britain, the United States and Russia are expected to discuss a Soviet draft plan for a commission to control a nuclear test ban at their 22nd conference session today. Aftet making “encouraging progress” in the last two sessions, the three-Power delegates postponed yesterday’s scheduled session to give the Western representatives more time to study the Russian proposals. Since Saturday the delegates have agreed on the first two draft articles of a treaty to prohibit tests under effective international supervision. The other East-West conference, of 10 nations, on minimising the risk of surprise attacks, is also meeting again today after failing at its 23rd formal session yesterday to break the agenda deadlock which has persisted since it opened on November 10. Newspaper Strike In New York (Rec. 11.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. Deliverymen for the nine major New York city newspapers last night went on strike for the second time in two days. •*. Picket lines were set up at the paper offices bringing deliveries to a halt. The strike came when members of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union rejected a wage agreement reached on Monday With the Publishers’ Association of New York. Early editions of most of today’s morning papers were printed and distributed before the vote against accepting the contract was completed. Mr Barney Cameron, President of the Publishers’ Association, said the papers planned to continue publication as long as they could, and sell copies over the counter at their offices. The deliverymen struck for eight hours on Monday before the tentative settlement was hammered out. Station Lit Up For Duke LONDON, December 10. British Railways are to receive an angry letter today, asking why Chesterfield railway station, in Derbyshire, was lit by electricity instead of gas for a recent visit by the Duke of Edinburgh. The writer is 26-year-old former fighter pilot, Brian Merrifield, who said last night: “It seems fantastic that lights should be fixed up for a brief visit by Prince Philip and then taken down again." When the Duke visited the town, which has a population of 68,000, his way to his train was lit by newly-fitted electric lights. But the next day these lights were switched off and the station reverted to its normal oldfashioned gas lighting. The “Daily Express,” reporting today that passengers using the station are “furious," quoted a British Railways spokesman as saying: "There was no point .in leaving the lights. They were purely temporary affairs. Wires were hanging all over the place.” Brazil As Market For Australia (Rec. 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 10. Brazil and Argentina represented potential markets for Australian steel, a leading Sydney banker said today on his return from a trade tour of the United States and South America. The banker, Mr R. Deans, New South Wales manager of the overseas department of the E.S. and A. Bank, said Brazil also offered Australia a good market for coking and gas coal. South America also was a possible buyer for Australian lead and copper, he said. Australia should also find a strong market in the United States for Australian boned beef and mutton.