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House Death of Minerals Bill Blow To Western Miners m By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Most chrome mines in Oregon and northern! California have been shutting MA down since spring. Sever- al hundred lead and zinc mines in nor thern Idaho and other mountain vf,; states nave 8 closed down VmtJ m tne P a s a KnM smith year ana a half. Copper mining in Mon tana and Utah is off 20 per cent. It was for these reasons that the , domestic minerals subsidy bill was one of the most significant and critical pieces of legislation to many western members of Congress. So in July the Senate passed it, 70 to 12. Killed by House Bat the House, in the midst of an open revolt against sev eral key bills by the old con servative coalition of Republi cans and Southern Democrats, has now killed the minerals bill and with it any early prospect for recovery in the mining district of the West. The chrome producers were not very happy with the bill anyway, for it didn't offer what they wanted. Bruce Man ley, Medf ord attorney who represents the Oregon-California Chrome Producers as sociation, worked here for weeks trying to gain accep tance of the idea of a produc ers' cooperative which would get a guarantee from the gov ' ernment to purchase 50,000 tons a year at the market price for a stabilization stock-1 pile that would be released to chrome users as they required it. Plan Opposed The administration came out against this plan, and offered incentive payments of $35 per long dry ton, with a limit of 10,000 tons for each producer and 50.000 tons an nually for the industry. This plan was put in the subsidy bill. Since the government has stopped buying chrome at Grants Pass last May for the defense stockpile (at $100 to $110 per ton) most of the 525 mines have closed. They em ployed only. about 750 men, the Interior Department esti mates. Employment in the zinc and lead mines has dropped over 5,000 since April, 1957, due to oversupply and price de clines, and will probably de cline further with defeat of the minerals bill. Copper em ployment has dropped over 4,000, so that the western min ing industry as a whole has thrown 10,000 'men out of work in the last year or more. While this is a substantial figure in sparsely populated western mining towns, it was made a figure of some ridi cule by Rep. Mike Kerwin (D Ohio), who made what was probably the most devastating attack on the bill in the three day debate. For Kerwin, a veteran ap propriations committee mem ber, the House fell into a rare rapt silence as he pointed out that since 1951, $2,100,000,000 has been invested in stockpile, S380 million of it for lead and zinc, and that now the stock pile is far in excess of maxi mum defense requirements. There way nothing in the bill to help the 44,000 unem ployed eastern coal miners or the "thousands" of idle Min nesota iron ore miners, argued Kerwin. "What justification is there for spending S650 million to put less than 10,000 back to work?" Both the administration and the Democratic leaders in the House tried to marshal their forces behind the bill but a substantial majority of the House including Reps. Edith Green and Walter Nor blad couldn't answer Ker win's question and sent the bill to its grave. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF MR. GOOGLE knew that his son was the weakest, scrawniest, clumsiest kid on the block, so he was particularly gratified to learn that the boy had been elected president of the club. "Our son must show un expected qualities of leader ship," he boasted to his wife, but the boy next door soon disillusioned him. "It was like this, Mr. Google," said the boy. "We couldn't make your son John secretary, cause he doesn't write good enough. Treasurer wouldn't do; he can't count money. He's too skinny for ser-geant-at-arms. And every-" body in the club has to have some title so we made him president!" A student in the late Irwin Edman's philosophy course at Columbia once told him, "Frankly, I hare nothing but contempt for both Aris totle and Nietzsche." Professor Edman answered amiably, "Not, I take it, the contempt which familiarity breeds!" 1958, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Pro-Nasserism Up Among Arabs After Revolt in Iraq By ZAKI SALAMA UPI Correspondent Cairo (UPD A major result of the Baghdad coup of July 14 has been an upsurge of pro-Nasserism in the Arab world. Apart . from the crises in Lebanon and Jordan, these have been the major develop ments so far: Saudi Arabia dashed back to the Nasser fold. . Yemen speeded up " its procedures of feHeration with the United Arab Republic. Pressure mounted in the Sudan for an all-party gov ernment that would include more pro-Nasser elements. The deputy ruler of Ku wait and the sultan of Lahej huddled with U. A. R. Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser, and official sources said something was afoot in south ern Arabia. The biggest development was the Saudi return to Nasser. , Flies to Cairo One month after the Iraqi revolution. Crown Prince Fei sal, Saudi Arabia's prime minister, flew to Cairo and Going places this summer ? HFC vacation money service is for you If you need extra money to help make your vacation a success, do as thousands of other people do: bor row from HFC.t Household Finance you do busi ness with specialists in vacation money needs people who can give you one day service on a loan up to 1500. At HFC your business is conducted in privacy, and you select repayment terms that suit you best. So phone, or come in today to Household, America's oldest and largest con sumer finance com pany. 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There was as yet no official word of any attempt to federate the two countries. Two days after the Saudi crown prince had flown from Cairo, the Yemeni crown prince flew in. Cairo Surprised , Seif el-Islam Mahamed el Badr came here to work with Nasser on the establishment of the Federal Council, the highest body of the United Arab States federating the Yemen with the United Arab Republic. Earlier, Imam Ahmed of the Yemen had appointed his six members to the twelve man council and had sent them to Cairo. The move took even Cairo by surprise. For seven months both the Yemen and the U. A.R. had been dragging their feet. All of a sudden, after Baghdad, the Yemeni coun cilmen were in Cairo, while the U.A.R. hadn't yet named its members. Under the federal system, President Nasser and Imam Ahmed will have equal status as heads of state. The Federal Council is to weld together the 33,000,000-strong United Arab States comprising the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and Yemen. Drafting Charter In Khartoum, West-leaning Sudanese Premier Abdullah Khalil announced this week his government was drafting a "national charter" which "would be based on the estab lishment of good relations with the United Arab Repub lic, and consolidation of the Arab League." In the past few days, Nas ser met with two leaders from both ends of the British arc of protectorates in southern and eastern Arabia. The two callers were Emir Abdullah Mubarak el-Sabbah, deputy ruler of Kuwait, and Emir Aly Abdel-Kerim, the expa triated, anti-British sultan of Lahej. Kuwaiti spokesmen have been taking pains to deny the ruler of Kuwait, Emir Abdul lah Salem el-Sabbah, had been lending : a sympathetic ear to Baghdad Pact coui ships before the Iraqi revo lution. . The sultan of Lahej also conferred with el-Badr and el-Sabbah in Cairo, and offi cial Yemeni sources said im portant developments would take place in southern Arabia soon. MEAT PACKER DIES Ottumwa, Iowa EH John Morrell Foster, 63, form er president of the meat-packing firm of John Morrell & Co., died Sunday of a heart attack. Congress Will Continue Probes Washington (UPD Con gressional investigators arm ed with remains of S4 million today pusher plans for in quiries that already have ranged from Presidential As sistant Sherman Adams to bomb-tossing labor racketeers. Two of the more sensational investigations of the 85th Congress' second session will continue despite congressional adjournment early Sunday. The House influence-investigating subcommittee will begin Sept. 16 digging deeper into the tangled finances of Adams' gift-giving million aire friend, Bernard Goldfine. The Senate Rackets Com mittee will continue Tuesday its investigation of possible links between Teamsters Un ion leaders and rackets. Moreover, the Senate For eign Relations Committee is planning a $300,000 investi gation of the entire field of U.S. foreign policy. The House this year gave its investigators nearly S2 million to work with. The Senate authorized about the same amount. ' There are 20 -active vol canoes in Alaska. Nautilus Sets Record for Atlantic Ocean Crossing New York fl'PI) The sub marine Nautilus came home to a hero's welcome today with a new record under its belt and the Navy's contro versial Rear Adm. Hyman Rickover aboard to share a nation's acclaim. ' Rickover, "father" of the atom subs, went out in a tug to the Nautilus in early morn ing and then, sailed with its crew in triumphant proces sion through steady rain into a harbor festooned with spouting fireboats, whistling ferries and helicopters. Sets Nw Record Cmdr. William Anderson, the daring skipper who took the nuclear sub on history's first voyage from Pacific to Atlantic under the North Pole, set a new Atlantic speed record for submarines on the voyage here from Europe. The Nautilus made it in six days, 11 hours and 55 min utes, beating the old record of the sister ship Skate. Destroyer escorts and po lice launches saw to it that other craft gave the 320-foot Nautilus a wide berth lest there be a collision on the drizzly day. But Navy ex perts discounted hazards of an atom sub accident, point ing out the Atomic Energy Commission had cleared the Nautilus for entry into ports of crowded populace. The 37-year-old Anderson was first down the gangplank when the submarine docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard. ' Wives in Reunion The Navy had brought wives of the married mem bers of the crew of 103 en listed men and' 13 J officers here for the first reunion with their husbands since April. They and their chil dren waved as the Nautilus slipped to dock and massed Marine and Navy bands played. , The Navy this time pushed Rickover to the forefront after the embarassment of not inviting him to the White House when President Eisen- EX-SCOUT HEAD DIES Los Angeles (UPD Mrs. Mildred Esterbrook Mudd, 67, former president of the Girl Scouts of America, died Saturday after a long illness. hower awarded Anderson the Legion of Merit for the his toric polar voyage. Rickover came today as Eisenhower's special representative. A brief press conference was held after the debarka tion. No Explosion Danger Rickover was asked wheth er a collision between the Nautilus and some other ship would pose the danger of an atomic explosion. "No, there is no danger," Rickover said. "Water would flood through the reactor and in itself prevent such an oc currence." Anderson was asked if the Nautilus was armed. "In accordance with sub marine service policy, we are always armed fully with ac tual torpedoes whenever we put out to sea." Skipper Anderson said the new record "is but another manifestation of the tremen dous capabilities of the nuclear-powered sub and an other indication of even more remarkable and -more routine undersea voyages of the future." MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfortJ, Oregon, Monday, August 25, 195S I In some of Italy's ancient I down in the 16th century are cities, the tile pavements laid I still in use today. ru a m.h. electric heat is .Sunshine Silent. (and as automatic the year around as summer sunshine! So quiet, you know it's there only because you're always warm as toast when you heat electrically.) THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY Sll ; J MR. 4 MRS. ROBERT R. TOMPKINS, SHERMAN OAKS, CAUft, How to get the keys to his car (without half trying) t "matbe you've noticed it, too: "How in every family lucky enough to have two cars, the new and nice one is almost always HIS? 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