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(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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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search and train marine sci
entists.
The Atomic Energy com
mission asked for $5.3 million
for research on the diffusion
and concentration resulting
from deposit of radioactive
materials in the ocean and
their biological effects on ma
rine organisms.
The Smithsonian Institu
tion, budgat.d for $331,000.
wants to b capable of han
dling th great quantities
of marina specimens which
th oceanographic program
, will product. It has lab
lith.d a national sorting
cntr at its Musaum for
Natural History in Washing
ton to collect and process
ihtsa specimens.
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.
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