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i MAIL TRIBUNE, MidforJ, Quick Passage of Airport Building Proaram Pushed Washington -dTB- The Sen ate pushed toward quick passage today of a S565 mil lion Democratic airport con struction bill which President Eisenhower has branded as extravagant. . Supporters have hailed it has assential to air safety. The chamber started action on the measure after dealing Eisenhower's economy cam paign a sharp rebuke late Thursday night by approving 60 to 28 a 52,657,000.000 bill, SI billion higher than he asked. The measure now goes to the House. New Version The airport measure is a new version of an aid propo sal the President vetoed last year as too costly. It would provide $100 million in each of five years to be parcelled out to the states 75 per cent on the basis of population Hawaii Union Org anizer To Face Probers Washington -U?D- Senate in vestigators planned today to question a Teamsters Union organizer who stirred up a storm in sunny Hawaii last year. The organizer, Mike Singer, was described as teamsters President James R. Hoffa's "best friend" in Los Angeles But some Honolulu business men consider him "persona non grata." Varied Activities According to the commit tee, Los Angeles Local 626 sent Singer to Honolulu to organize some meat compa nies. But a committee spokes man said Singer's tactics in cluded halting milk deliveries for two days, picketing the docks and bringing pressure on meat suppliers on the mainland. Small Business. Administra tor Wendell B. Barnes was scheduled to testify about the effects of Singer's Honolulu junket on some firms there. Committee Counsel Robert tt Tr" i . rj .1 ; l c . xweiuieuy saiu uiuer wit nesses would be called to dis cuss Singer's handling of un ion funds and some of his business activities. Winner Refused Post Singer was named in testi mony Thursday as one of the teamsters who tried to keep a rebellious member of Los Angeles Local 208 from oust ing a Hoffa-backed officer. Sidney Cohen, former 208 . president, testified that he won an election last month to unseat John W. Filipoff as secretary-treasurer. But Fili poff, he said, refused to rec ognize defeat. Cohen said he finally yield . ed to pressure from Hoffa's lieutenants and agreed to re sign the post at a meeting here. But when he returned home he had a change of heart and still is trying to make his election victory stick. Costa Rica boasts more teachers than soldiers. The Costa Rica army was abolish ed in 1948 to be replaced by a national police force. Population of the country is about 875,000. mi PIOAL White Toilet Seats D Colored Toilet Seats ....4.50 D Bamboo Lawn Rakes .... .98 2' Stepladder .... ......1.95 g 4' Stepladder . 3.29 2.79 rj p. 25 gal. Garbage Can .. .5.95 4.50 U 30 gal. Garbage Can ......6.95 5.20 BRUCE BAUER LUMBER COMPANY'S BUILOITORIUM 765 S. Riverside D n n fsoii, Friday, February , H5 3 to to to to to to to H in O Q ui 7) and 25 per cent on the basis of need. It also would set aside another $65 million to be used at any time during the five years to help build long er runways and other facili ties for jet-age travel. States or municipalities would have to match all federal money dollar-for-dollar. Ike's Proposal Eisenhower proposed a four-year, $200 million air port program. The President and other Republicans have said the Democratic measure would provide money for ter minals and other items not directly involved with flight But Chairman A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) of the Senate aviation subcommittee denied today that there were any frills in the bill. He said the legislation was needed to make air travel safer. Other congressional news: - Civil Rights: Southerners attacked sections of Eisen hower's civil rights proposals to designed to encourage com to to to to to t2 munities to desegregate their schools. One called for legis lation to make it a federal crime to use force or threats of force to obstruct court orders in school desegrega tion cases. The other -would give federal financial and technical aid to help areas with integration problems. But there were growing indi cations that Congress prob ably would pass some civil rights law this year. Budget: Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt.) said Eisenhower's bat tle for a balanced budget was not "a winning fight." The liberal Republican said the President should economize by eliminating waste and & & a. ) o a US -J (7) plugging tax loopholes in stead of "taking it out on the little folks" by trimming programs. But the GOP Sen ate leadership stiffened its re sistance to Democratic spend ing proposals. Information: Chairman Wil liam L. Dawson (D-Ill.) of the House Government Opera tions Committee ordered his government information sub committee to investigate the Navy's refusal to give a full copy of a study on the Mili tary Sea Transport Service to the General Accounting Of fice. The-Navy has said pub lication of the study would cause its inspectors to be less frank in future reports. Eisenhower Plans Day of Hunting Thomasville, Ga.-tUPD-Presi- dent Eisenhower, barring a re turn of the winter rams planned another day in the hunting fields today. The President spent seven hours Thursday roaming the piney acreage of former Sec retary George H. Humphrey's estate. He returned to his guest cottage with a full bag of quail for the day. Press Secretary James C Hagerty said the President n and Humphrey shot 20 quail between them Thursday. Bar ry Liethead and William E. 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