Efforts To Establish Nickel Production in
III inois Valley Slowed by Need of Contract
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BY A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correipondent
Washington The Office of
Defense Mobilization has mom
entarily stymied efforts to estab
lish a major
new industrial
plant for nick
el production
in s o u thwest
t ' n , u...
tXis new solution
"i i is n o w being
P?w sought with
s'ime promise
A. obt mil iiiCKCl lorp
Corporation of America has
plans to build a plant in the
Illinois River valley north of
Cave Junction to produce some
30,000,000 pounds of nickel an
nually from nearby ore. The
plant would employ about 750
workers, the firm estimates.
After the firm began acquiring
mineral lease rights in the area,
with royalties promised to local
owners of the leases, it made
churn drillings and determined
that the operation would be econ
omically feasible at current
market prices for nickel. But
it anticipated that ODM would
purchase its output for the na
tional defense stockpile, as ODM
is purchasing the output of the
Hanna nickel operation near
Riddle in Douglas county.
ODM, however, has informed
the company that it has already
bought or committed itself to
buy sufficient nickel for the
stockpile, so it isn't interested.
Must Land Contract
Before Nickel Corporation can
finance the $20,000,000 to S30,-
000.000 investment it estimates
will be needed to get into pro
duction, it must sow land a con
tract for no less than five year's
output in order to satisfy in
vestors of the soundness of the
operation. Inasmuch as nickel
is currently considered to be in
short supply domestically, there
is a demand which exceeds pro
duction at this time.
Domestic users of nickel, such
as the large steel companies
aren t anxious to enter into a
long contract with a newcomer
whose production couldn't be
gin until 1959 because Interna-
tional Nickel company, giant of
the industry, has promised to
mitigate the shortage by 1960
when it has new productive capa
city coming in.
Turning to the foreign market,
the firm found willing buyers
aboard, where nickel prices
range up to $1.70 per pound,
compared with the U.S. domestic
price of 74c. But the Commerce
Department has refused to issue
an export license to the com
pany, thereby preventing it
Indiana Killer Gets
Stay of Execution
Pending Court Appeal
Michigan City, Ind W A
federal judge in a ruling deliv
ered from the front porch of his
home Monday night granted
reprieve to Leslie Irvin only
five hours before the Chinese
execution-style slayer of six per
sons was to die in the electric
chair.
Irvin was cnvictsJ at Prince
ton, Ind., 19 months aga for the
killing of W. Wwtoy Kerr, an
Evansville filling station attend
ant. He also was acaeed of kill
ing two womfti in southern In
diana and three memhsrs rd a
Henderson, Ky., family.
All of theictims were forced
to kWel with thir hands behind
their backs and then they were
shot in the back of th head in
the style of Chined executions.
Irvin's head, ankles rnui wrists
had already been shaved for
the electrodes which were sched
uled 14j jolt the life from his
body at 1:01 a.m0(CDT) Tuesday
when news of the stay of execu
tion arrived at Indiana State
penitentiary here.
Earlier, Irvin's chances to es
cape the electric chair appeared
dim when a federal judge in
South Bend, Ind., refused to
grant a stay.
But attorneys for Irvin,
known as the "'Mad Dog" killer,
raced against time to file an ap
peal with the appeals court in
Chicago and then to Danville,
111., for a personal appeal to
Judge Walter Lindley of the U.S
Circuit Court of Appeals.
Extraordinary Session
Lindley held an extraordinary
session at his home and granted
the 33-year-old former pipefitter
a stay of execution about 8 p.m.
c.d.t.
Lindley said the stay would
continue in effect pending a
hearing on Irvin's appeal to the
U.S. Court of Appeals in Chi
cago, probably in September.
from selling its output abroad
Commerce officials point out
that nickel is the last remining
meiai unaer government con
trol and exports are banned now
because of the domestic shortage.
Caught on the horns of this
government - imposed dilemma,
John H. White Jr., of Salt Lake
City, head of the nickel firm,
complained to Congressman
Charles O. Porter, Oregon Dem
ocrat. Porter called all the of
ficials involved from ODM and
Commerce to his office for a
conference with White last week
in an attempt to resolve the con
flict. Upshot of this confab was that
White was advised to negotiate
with a foreign buyer and obtain
a five-year contract with which
to secure financing for the com
pany's plant. By 1959, when pro
duction is expected to start, ex
port controls may have expired,
White was told, and he would be
granted an export license to ship
the nickel abroad. If, on the
other hand, controls are still on
and no exports permit can be
issued, it will be because there
is still a domestic shortage and
the foreign buyer can simply
sell the nickel here domestically
until export controls are lifted.
Negotiations are now in pro
gress between executives of
Nickel Corporation of America
and prospective foreign buyers.
Upon their outcome apparently
rides the question of whether
Oregon will get a sizeable new
industrial payroll.
Wednesday, Julr 10, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Editor's not: Ken Murray substi
tutes toaay for vacationing Aline
" odujwods columnist, i
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BY KEN MURRAY
Written for the United Press
Hollywood (IB It requires
no crystal ball gazer to predict
tnat the television trends this
fall will include heavy emphasis
on (a) Western, and (b) flying ad
venture series.
I figure the best hedge against
inflation is to be riding both
trends. I've got a foot in each
bandwagon and I'm sitting pretty
unless the bandwagons take
off in different directions.
"El Coyote Rides" is a Western
telefilm series which Ken Mur
ray Enterprises is producing in
association with RKO-teleradio,
and "Sky Dogs" which I am pro
ducing for NBC, combines the
K9 Corps' parachuting dogs with
the adventures of Civil Air Pa
trol flyers.
Galloping or zooming, I've got
them!
Outlire Us All
As far as the Western is con
cerned, it will outlive us all.
There are perfectly good rea
sons for this, all of which, you
may be sure, are exploited to
the hilt in "El Coyote Rides,"
which is the story of Bat Master
son, famed frontier peace of
ficer, and his daughter, Jane.
One of the factors which
makes the Western deathless is
the physicial action in which
it abounds. Another is the scen
ic backgrounds which it offers.
Another great dimension of
the Western is that in it all
moral values become quite clear
ly drawn. There is never any
question as to which characters
are on our ball team.
Westerns Film Well
And, of course Westerns
"film" well. That is, the things
that make for good Westerns are
visual, pictorial things stuff
you can get with a camera, as
the technicians say.
Still another reason the West
ern will be with us forever is
that horseback riding has more
exciting razzmatazz than any
other form of locomotion or
travel. There is something static
about pushing a button and zo-
Veteran Sea Dog
Dies Aboard Liner
New York IW The death of
Chota Peg, probably the most
traveled dog in the American
Merchant Marine, was reported
Tuesday on the arrival here of
the superliner United States.
The 14 V year -old cocker
spaniel, who logged more than
two million nautical miles
aboard four liners, died at sea
July 1 and was given a sailor's
funeral.
Chota Peg Hindustani for
Small Drink was the pet of
Cmdr. John W. Anderson, mas
ter of the United States. The dog
had not been ashore since 1951.
oming at the SDeed of lieht in an
interstellar space-ship. There is
noining static about riding a gal
loping horse. Brother, there is
action! ,
I Understand the rnmir-s have
just about had it on television.
"I've got a tip for Sid Caesar,
Herb Shriner, et al: Become a
TV producer, or, failing that,
at least learn to ride a horse.
POSTAL NOTE
Anamosa, Iowa IW Joe
Klink left a jacket here while
travelling to the East Coast, so
he mailed a letter to "First cafe
west of drug store, south side
of the street, Anamosa, Iowa."
He got the jacket back prepaid
too.
UNDERWORLD DISSENSION?
Houston, Tex. tfPI Bystand
ers were astounded at the get
away antics of a pair of bandits
who robbed Captain John's Res
aurant here. Police said the men
jumped into separate can and
roared off in opposite directions.
Don't Say
"Hello"
Say
"FILTER-FLO"
REUNION Actress Ingrid Bergman (right) smiles happily
after tension-packed reunion in Paris with daughter,
Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 18, whom she left behind when
she married Roberto Rossellini. It was their first meeting
in six years.
Shakespearean Festival
Featured in Magazine
Ashland Oregon's Shakes
pearean Festival has again been,
featured in a nationwide publica
tion. In the current issue of
"West Magazine" an article by
Ted De Lay covers the past his
tory and the present production
schedule at the Elizabethan thea
tre. Along with the article is a
photograph depicting one of the
scenes from the 1957 staging of
"Love's Labour's Lost."
The magazine is published
quarterly in Las Vegas, Nev.,
and is sold on newsstands and by
subscription through out the
United States. Its theme, as the
title indicates, centers on activities.
19 Fires Reported
In District in June I
A blaze covering 51 acres of j
grazing land near Gold Hill was
the largest of 19 fires last month
in the southwest district of the
state forestry department. '
Jackson unit had 16 fires and !
the Josephine unit three. Crews ',
from both units worked on the
Gold Hill fire.
Causes of the fires were de
Lris burning 6, smokers 5, log
ging, camper, and railroad, all 1,
and miscellaneous 5, according
to the monthly report.
Acreage burned by the fires
was estimated at 74.27 acres, the
report said.
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