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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960
MEDFORD, MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE
Mining Safety
Program Marks
50th Anniversary
Washington (1IPD - The Bu
reau of Mines, pioneers of a
safety program to cut the
tragic toll of mining acci
dents, celebrates its 50th an
niversary Friday.
; The bureau, a leader in sci
entific development and con
ervation of mineral resourc
es, was created at a time
when coal disasters were
claiming the lives of many
miners.
, It was essentially a safety
j-esearch and training agency.
Jts cooperative efforts with
management, labor, and other
federal and state agencies
have been major factors lead
ing to improved working con
ditions in all segments of the
mineral industries.
364 Deaths a Year
In the 10 years before the
tuireau opened operations
with a single research lab
oratory at Pittsburgh, coal
miners died at the rate of
364 a year in major disasters.
Now, the yearly average dis
aster toll has dropped to 32,
and impressive safety gains
have been made throughout
the nation in all activities
concerned with the mining
and processing of minerals.
, Marling J. Ankeny, director
of the bureau, said the agen
cy's accomplishments are not
limited to the mining field.
They touch, directly or indi
rectly, the lives of all Ameri
cans. Ankeny cites these examples:
- The electric bill paid by :
most American homeowners
is relatively low, partly be-1
cause bureau research helped
improve the efficiency of coal
burning equipment at power
plants so that a pound of coal
today will generate as much
(electricity as five pounds did
a half century ago.
Leak Tested
- Air conditioners and re
frigerators are leak-tested
with bureau produced helium
a lightweight gas that also
helps insure the purity of
jnany products from candy
mints to medicines and has
essential uses in missiles, elec
Jronios, and space explora
tion. : - Bureau studies paved the
Vay for safe ventilating sys
tems in structures like New
York's Holland Tunnel, and
they still are providing infor
mation that will help reduce
air pollution from automotive
exhaust gases and incinera
tors. - Some hospitals still are
iising radium extracted by the
fcureau years ago from domes
tic carnotite ores. This
achievement, which came ear
ly in the bureau's history,
made the element available
tor medical use af S40.000 a
tram less than the price then
paid for imported radium.
. - By controlling fires that
aometimes break out in in
aciive coal deposits, the bu
reau has saved for future gen
erations millions of tons of
valuable fuel reserves at a
cost of less than a penny a
.ton.
Aided by Program
r - American businessmen
'are aided by the bureau fact
finding programs that supply
statistical information and
economic analyses on domes
tic and foreign minerals.
Friendly foreign nations also
benefit from technical advice
nd assistance provided bv
bureau experts through the
economic cooperation admin
jstration. ' - In half a century, the bu
reau has published nearly 8,
t)00 reports describing its
findings in research and de
velopment work on minerals,
mineral fuels, and industrial
health and safety.
- Bureau scientists provid
ed the nation with new met
als like titanium and hafnium.
They also engineered the
process now employed by in
dustry to make zirconium
metal, used in the atomic en
gine that powered the nuclear
submarine, Nautilus, on its
7ecord-breaking run beneath
the North Pole.
; -Bureau studies of mining
problems and techniques now
enable the American coal
miner to produce, on the ev-
irage, 12'i tons of coal a
"day. In 1910 the average out
put per man was 314 tons a
lay.
J AST PACE
t Washington -JUPD- Sen. Al
exander Wiley (R-Wis.) typi
lied the busy pace of Con
gress Tuesday when a Sen-
-ate clerk called his name to
determine whether a quorum
as present.
"I guess I'm here," he
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