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Ocean Mo Sacred Cow ceGimogmphy Pirogircaimi Feels iifte off Coinigiressio (Editor's not: This U the third in urici on th na tion's new oceano g r a p h r program as part of tha cold war betwttn th United States and th S o r i t Union.) ' By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Unlike the space budget for reaching the moon, the oceanography budg et for getting to the bottom of the seas is no sacred cow on Capitol Hill. Even the familiar concerns about the increase of Russian submarines and the decline of commercial fishing aren't suf ficient to stay the congres sional ax. In January President Ken nedy asked Congress for $156 million for his expanding ' oceanography program. The money was to be split roughly between military and civilian : agencies. The first blow came when the $75 million request- ed for the Defense Depart ment, virtually all of it for the Navy, was slashed by $20 million. This came as a sur prise because defense appro priations have an easier ride through Congress than those for civilian agencies. Th civilian half of th oceanography pro gram is alto in trouble. Congres sional budget -cutting will prevent a number of agencies from expanding their work in the field. Like a new skin-diver who hugs the shore. Congress ap pears fearful of taking the plunge into the depths where oceanographers say th United States must go to match the - Soviet ad vances in this field. The U.S. oceanography ef fort, spread throughout some 20 agencies, is coordinated by the Interagency Committee on Oceanography under the su pervision of the president's science advisor, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner. The committee, com posed of officials from Navy, Commerce, Interior, Treasury, State, Health, Education and Welfare, Atomic Energy Com mission, National Science Foundation and Smithsonian Institution, attempts to avoid costly overlapping by assign- j&T A . 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All proof watch, unbreakable mainspring, waterproof and expansion bracelet. oi lens cryttal. itm end bock arc Intact ' o 1 Medford Shopping Center Phone 773-5348 Open Every Monday and Friday Until 9 p.m. ed research tasks to each gov ernment agency, The Bureau of Mines, for example, was assigned this year the task of studying new and novel oceanic mining sys terns. Today there is no min ing conducted at an ocean depth greater than 400 feet Yet there are vast areas of deep ocean floor that are car peted with nodules of manga. nese and iron which contain cobalt, nickel, copper and other valuable metals. Russia is known to be active in sea floor mineral surveying. Two years ago a University of California engineer and specialist in mineral technol ogy, John L. Mero, urged such an effort by telling a Senate committee: It seems strange that the Fraud Charged in Mortgage Shift At Bend Hotel Portland - - The govern ment has filed a complaint against owners of the Pilot Butte Inn in Bend charging a fraudulent mortgage trans fer. The lengthy complaint, fil ed in Federal Court, claimed that William and Gertrude Corbett paid off a $279,000 mortgage in December of 1955 and then had a false mortgage assigned to a com pany set up to defeat gov ernment liens. The complaint alleged that when the govern ment attempted to foreclose on the liens, the company. Dickerson, Inc., moved in and claimed prior right under the mortgage. The government charged that as a result of the mort gage transaction a fraud was perpetuated on it and the Deschutes County Circuit Court which foreclosed on the alleged mortgage Nov. 12, 1958. Title Transferred The government also alleg ed the Corbetts transferred title of the Inn to their five children to defeat taxes. The complaint asked the Federal Court to set aside all property transfers; set aside the Deschutes court decree, and to foreclose on the un paid balance of the federal tax liens. -The government said liens amounted to about $300,000 when placed in 1955. The complaint claimed the unpaid balance amount to $132,442. The complaint also aksd a preliminary injunction re training any further proper ty transfers pending disposi tion of the case. Federal Judge William East set a hearing for Aug. 26. Princess Anne Now 13 Years Old London-IUPO-Princess Anne, who leaves home soon for boarding school, stepped into the teen-age world today with a 13th birthday party aboard the royal yacht Bloodhound. The princess awoke to find the vessel under way for Aberdeen, Scotland, from where she will go to Balmoral to spend her summer vacation with her mother. Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip and Prince Charles, the 14-year-old heir to the throne, opened the princess's day with a ship board rendition of "Happy Birthday to You." The slim, blonde - haired Anne won't have her "real party" until she reaches Bal moral and is reunited with her mother, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. Anne reports to Beneden, a private boarding school, Sept. 20. Animal Scientists Give Seven Awards Corvallis (UPD Seven ani mal scientists, research work ers and teachers were honor ed here Wednesday evening at the closing banquet of the American Society of Animal Scientists. Dr. Lorin E. Harris of Utah State university was the re cipient of a $2,000 award for notable research. Six men were presented $1,000 awards. Honored in their individual fields were Davis L. Macintosh of Kan sas State university, Dr Ralph Bogart of Oregon State, Dr. Albert Pearson of Michi gan State university, Dr. Har old Cole of the University of California at Davis, Dr. Glen P. Lofgreen of the University of California, and Richard C Miller of the University of Kentucky. The group concludes its 5th annual convention today. 5 U. S. government will invest hundreds of millions of dol lars to develop ore deposits in places such as Cuba - only to lose the entire investment- but cannot spend a few hun dred thousand over the years to help develop the vastly greater in size and richer in grade deposits on the ocean floor. In addition to being politically free, these deposits would be royalty-free ores for us." Kennedy's budget request for the Bureau of Mines was increased this year from $52,000 for oceanography to $412,000 to start a deep sea mining effort. Paul Zinner. assistant director of th bu reau, told a House appropri ations subcommittee such an effort would cost about $20 million over th next decade. Zinner said the bureau would need a ship - a moth balled Navy vessel would do and a suitable shore facility. such as the abandoned Tongue Point naval base at the mouth of the Columbia river which he described as "a very fine facility where " virtually nothing would have to be spent" to make it usable. The House subcommittee headed by Rep. Mike Kirwan (D-Ohio) refused to approve the request. The Senate voted to give the Bureau of Mines half what it sought, but the House refused to compromise with a nickel for the program. So it had to be dropped from the budget last month. Or take the case of the Geological Survey, another old line agency which in the past has been limited to sur veying the geology of the U.S. land mass for mineral riches. Kennedy's Inter-agency Com mittee on Oceanography as signed it the new task of mak ing geological and geophysi cal maps of the continental shelves, which cover about a million square miles, equiva lent to the combined area of California, Oregon, Washing ton and Alaska. Congress last year gave Ge ological Survey about $500, 000 to start this project on the Atlantic coast. This year the agency asked for an in crease to $1,304,000, part of which was for a new Pacific coast lab. Kirwan's subcom mittee approved everything but the request for the new west coast lab, but the Senate refused to approve any in crease at all, so the status quo was maintained. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, which has been deeply involved in oceano graphic work for some years, asked for $16.9 million to fi nance its expanding program of research, ship construction, laboratories and new equip ment. This was a modest in crease in its $15.3 million oceanography budget for 1963. Th House slashed some $4 million from this request by deleting funds for a new research ship to be used to explore th salmon, fur seel and king crab of th North Pacific and Bering Sea, is well as a new shellfish lab at Millford, Conn. The Sen ate restored $2,650,000 for the new Pacific ship and the House later went along. But the result is that th Bureau of Commercial Fish eries fell $2 million short of its projected budget, or with less money than it got last year for oceanography. Other civilian agencies, whose appropriations are still under scrutiny in Congress, await the ax. The agency with most at stake is the National Science Foundation. Next to the Navy, it has the largest budget for oceanography ' $25.8 million, a 42 per cent boost over its $18.1 million budget for last year. The Foundation, a federal agency, doesn't perform any oceanographic work itself but parcels out grants to univer sities and private research in stitutes for ships, labs and other equipment. Last year it gave $6 million for vessels, shore facilities and buoy sys tems. Among its beneficiaries were Oregon State and Johns Hopkins universities, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Woods Hole Oceanograph ic Institution, which got mon ey for new laboratory build ings. If Congress appropriates the funds, this year the founda tion plans to make grants for expanded efforts in bathymet ric investigations, age deter mination of marine sedimen tary deposits, paleotempera ture studies, sediment distri bution and drilling operations, organic and inorganic geo chemistry, sediment transport techniques and seismic, grav ity and gcothermal investiga tions. Next largest civilian budget item for oceanography is $24.5 million for the Coast and Geo detic Survey of the Commerce Department which has two new ships expected for deliv ery later this year and a third next year. They will be as signed to conduct ocean sur veys in the North Pacific, cur rent studies between the sub arctic and central Pacific wa ter masses, and Atlantic coast al charting and continental shelf surveys. The Public Health Service wants $4,770,000, chiefly for research on the effect of do mestic and industrial waste disposal in marine environ ments. Some of this money goes into grants for academic institutions to conduct re- SIGNS NUCLEAR TREATY Nicaraguan ton. Looking on are, left, William C. Foster, Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa signs the nuclear director of the Arms Control and Disarma- test ban treaty on behalf of his govern- ment Agency, and right, Angier B. Luke, ment at the State Department in Washing- State Department chief of protocol. (UPI) Last days of IiiTs SUMMER CLEARANCE DRASTIC REDUCTIONS ON ALL SUMMER MERCHANDISE CAPE COD CASUALS An exciting assortment of canvas casuals... 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The Weather Bureau wants $183,000 to place meteorologi cal technicians aboard seven oceanographic vessels operat ing in all three oceans. The Maritime A d m i n i s tration wants $50,000 to study the ef fect of waves on ship design. The Army's Corps of Engi neers plans to study the move ments of beach sands and the general problem of beach ero sion caused by waves generat ed by large storms. There is even an effort to reduce bar nacles and other marine or ganisms which foul the hulls of ships Much oceanography re search is demonstrably practi cal. But compared to outer space exploration, oceanogra phy is a plain little step-child that receives less generous treatment than does its more) glamorous sister program from members of Congress. (Next - Farming fish like cows.) 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