House Death of Minerals Bill
Blow To Western Miners
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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
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talked with Nasser. Three
days later Feisal announced
the "summer cloud" which
had darkened relations be
tween the two countries for
six months had disappeared.
The ' "summer cloud" re
ferred to included the U.A.R.
charge that King Saud had
paid money to kill Nasser.
With reconciliation came
joint pledges for Arab nation
alism, positive neutrality, and
non-alignment with foreign
pacts. 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."
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