Rail Negotiators Close To
Key Decisions, Wirtz Says
WASHINGTON' (L'PIi - Secre
tary of Uboc W. WiUard Wirti
said Saturday that negotiations on
two key issues in the snarled rail
road rules dispute should come
to a head early next week.
re MiuH-dira ne expects union
Study Slated
On Research
WASHINGTON UP1 - Initial
steps will be taken this week to
ward the first overall congres
sional investigation or govern-
ment-linanced research, an activ
ity that currently totals $14 bil
lion.
On Tuesday the House Rules
Committee will consider a mea
sure to set up a special commit
tee to make a complete, full
and thorough investigation of the
numerous programs."
Impetus for a long look at this
area the committee would have
about a year to finish its study-
stems from the concern of seme
legislators who feel that govern
ment - sponsored research has
moved &n fast and in so many
' directions that Congress does not
liane a full picture of what is
" going on.
That view was summed up re
; cently by Rep. Carl Elliott, D
. Ala., the man who probably w ill
head the committee.
"Federal spending for research
has increased by almost $10 bil
lion in the last 10 years," Elliott
said. "I believe the time has
come for Congress to determine
whether we are getting a full re
turn for our investment."
Elliott said tlie committee
would examine the "scope and ef
fectiveness" of the various pro
grams. It also will be interested
hi knowing what coordination ex
ists between the various govern
ment agencies engaged in re
search. The resolution is expected to
encounter little resistance in the
somelimes difficult Rules Com
mittee. Its four sponsors are
members of that panel. In addi
tion, the house is expected to go
along with the proposal pretty
much as approved by the committee.
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MARATHON, Greece 'UPI
Crown Prince Ccnstantine.
Greece's chief Boy Scout, presid
ed at ceremonies in this historic
city Sunday winding up a world
jamboree attended by an esti
mated 14.000 scouts.
Education Minister Christofcr
Stratos and the chiefs of tlie
Greek armed forces shared tlie
platform with ConsUntine at the
closing ceremony.
MATEEJjrrYUA."
and management representatives
to be near the decision - making
point by Wednesday. But he de
clined to speculate whether an
agreement would emerge from
bargaining on suggestions he of
fered Aug. 2 in an effort to reach
an accord and prevent a nation
wide strike.
Congress has delayed action on
anti-strike legislation proposed by
President Kennedy, pending out
come of Wirtz's negotiations.
Wirtz told United Press Inter
national he had proposed a two-
or three-year contract to dispose
oi tne two mcst disputed issues
di.-placement of firemen and
reduction in crew sizes.
Basis For Talks
Both sides accepted this as a
basis for discussions that have
taken place this week under
Wirtz's direction.
Negotiations with respect to
these two issues and perhaps with
respect to all of them ought to
come to a climax in the first
part of next week," the secre
tary said.
Wirtz spent Saturday morning
discussing the use of (iremen on
freight and yard dicsels with the
four-man management team head
ed bv J. E. Wolfe, chief indus
try negotiator. The railroads' de
mand for elimination o! 37,000
firemen in these jobs has been
the main stumbling block to an
agreement.
At the same time. Assistant La
bor Secretary James J. Reynolds
and National Mediation Board
members Francis A. O'Neill and
Leverett Edwards met with
spokesmen for the five rail unions.
Tliey discussed the pay system,
union proposals for overtime and
other fringe benefits, and re
lated issues.
Sunday Sessions
Wirtz ordered Sunday sessions
to keep the talks going. One rea
son or urgency is the scheduled
arrival Tuesday of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen's 156
member committee of general
chairmen.
This group, summoned at
Writz's request, has the power to
accept or reject a settlement pro
posal if one is submitted. Man
agement spokesmen have declined
to meet with firemen's union lead
At Scout Rally
The jamboree split up into na
tional groups, most of them ex
pected to visit other regions of
Greece before returning home.
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rv
ers on grounds they lack author
ity to make a binding deal.
The railroads have agreed to
postpone until Aug. 29 the adopt
ion of new rules governing pay
and working conditions for 200,000
train-operating employes.
Strontium
Increase In
Milk Seen
WASHIN:ON lUPIi - The
Public Health Service iPHS) ex
pects radioactive strontium-90 in
milk, already at a record amount
to increase in the next several
months.
During the 12-month period end
ing in May, the count was the
highest in the history of nuclear
testing and was nearly twice that
recorded in May, 1962 the PHS
said Saturday. The Federal Ra
diation Council said the count
ill was far below the amount
which if consumed annually,
would injure man.
At the same time, the PHS
said that another radioactive
substance sampled in milk, iodine
131, was at a recoi-d low. A
spokesman said this was because
iodine-131 has a much shorter
life than strontium-90 following a
nuclear explosion.
The PHS blamed the unusually
high strontium - 90 on atmospheric
tests conducted last year by the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
The United States resumed
testing after the Soviet Union
ended the nuclear test moratori
um in September, 1961. Of
ficials estimated that more radio-
activj material was released at
that time than in all the nuclear
explosions before the 1958 mora
torium.
The council has estimated that
a human being can absorb
73,000 picocuries of radioactive
strontium-90 in a year before
protective action must be con
sidered. A picocurie is one mil
lion-millionth of the amount of
radiation given off by one gram
of radium.
In a statement the radiation
council said:
"Health risks from present fall
out levels due to testing through
1962 are too small to require
measures to limit intake by
modification of diet or alternat
ing the normal distribution of use
of foods."
BLOODY BUT UNINJURED
RICHMOND, Ky. Mrs. Donald
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to be covered with blood when
she stepped from her wrecked sta
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in a collision recently. She in
sisted she hadn't been injured.
Ambulance attendants insisted
that they take her to a hospital
until Mrs. Wooten explained that
several jars of catsup had broken
during the collision.
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LARGE CARPET WON'T FLY Lik the man who built a yacht in hit basement, Mrs.
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more than 300 pounds, upstairs to her living room, when the four additional rows of
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Texans Can
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPH The
civic pride of a Texan is one of
nature's strongest forces, ranking
just behind the pull of gravity
and just ahead of the capillary
attraction of a tuberous begonia.
His talent is such that a Texan
can find something affirmative to
say about the place where he
lives, even when the odds over
whelmingly favor the negative.
The untrained eye, for in
stance, might not notice anything
superlative about Merkel, Texas,
which is my old home town. Yet
the citizenry there has never been
without a claim of distinction. I
At one point they used to boast
that Merkel was the only town
in the world where tlie popula
tion was the same as the eleva
tion. At that time it had 1,872
residents living 1.872 feet above
sea level.
Increases Slightly
Unfortunately, however, the
population increased slightly in
the next census. Either that or
tlie elevation sank a few feet. I
forget which. At any rate the two
figures no longer matched.
The change was a catastrophe,
civic Dride-wise, and I wasn't
certain that the town would be
able to recover. So when I visited
in Merkel during a recent vaca
tion, I asked my father whether
there was anything left to brag
about.
"Whv. certainly." my father
said. "This town is now the home
nf Cassius Lipbutton. the world's
most modest Texan."
"A modest Texan!" I ex
claimed. "You must be pulling
my leg."
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"Honest injun," my father said.
"If you don't believe it your can
go talk to him yourself."
When I drove up to the Lipbutton
home, Cassius was out in the
back yard camouflaging his oil
wells to make them less conspic
uous. He wore a pair of low heel
boots and his hat wouldn't have
held a drop more than four and
a half gallons.
I began the interview by com
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swimming pool, which was the
largest one i had ever seen.
"There's a bigger one down
stale," Lipbutton protested, blush
ing furiously. "It's called the
Gulf of Mexico."
"Are those your airplanes?" I
asked, pointing to an airdrome
behind tlie pool.
"Just a few jet transports,"
Lipbutton said shyly. "Shucks,
American Airlines has more jets
than I do."
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Nikita s Caution In Negotiations
May Be Due To Battles At Home
WASHINGTON lUPP - The
United States has found no evi
dence that Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev wants to stampede!
tne west into lull-scale cold war .European conflict still lies in the
negotiations before tlie Allies division of Germany nnd the dis
have had time to thresh things pute over the fate of Berlin.
uut among themselves.
On the contrary, Khrushchev
ippears anxious as President
Kennedy u to move slowly andpniach new negotiations with
for the same reason difficulties!
within his own camp.
Tlie cautious Russian approach
has eased the fears that some
officials had about a possible
Russian peace offensive in the
wake of the limited nuclear test
ban treaty to try to draw the
disorganized Western Allies into
European security talks before
they were prepared.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
his Moscow and Black Sea
talks with Khrushchev and other
oflicials, is said to have found
them greatly preoccupied with
handing their bitter dispute with
TIIK REAL DANIEL BOONE
HARRODSRURG, Ky. A
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a pageant about Kentucky's pio
neer days told an audience re
cently that Daniel Boone was "ig
norant, careless and probably
hiftlcss. Now, before I am
lynched by Boone's numerous de
scendants and admirers," Robert
E. McDowell of Louisville said
'let me hasten to say that he
wasn t a rascal. He was very
exciting and colorful.
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Red China and not pressing for
early East-West negotiations.
Both the White House and the
Kremlin undoubtedly recognize
that the explosive core of their
H
Soulier has come up with any
new idea on how to defuse this is
sue and this is another factor
which causes both sides tn an.
caution.
Prospects are
that the Soviet-
Pilot Okay In
Crash Landing
REDMOND 'UPH - A pilot es
caped serious injury when lie
crashed-landed his burning B-26
plane in a wheat field 13 miles
norths-si of here Sunday after
noon. William Byers, 43, Bend, walk
ed away from the crash w ith cuts
and bruises. He was treated and
released at the Central Oregon
Hospital at Redmond.
Byers told state police that he
discovered the two-engine plane's
left engine was on fire as he was
preparing to dump a load of bor
ate on a fire along the Metolius
River. He said lie released the
borate, started back for his Red
mond airbase, saw he could not
make it and crash-landed in the
field.
The bomber was destroyed by
fire after the crash, which set off
several small blazes in the area.
They were controlled.
No
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American probe will not be re
sumed until late September when
Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko meet at the an
nual session of the United Na
tions assembly.
The absence of Soviet pressure
for "next step" talks eased
Rusk's task in Bonn Saturday. He
was able to reassure Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer that Washing
ton did not intend to plunge in
to any discussions with Russia be
fore fullest consultation with the
Allies to make certain their vital
interests are safeguarded.
In addition, Rusk was under
stood to have renewed American
assurances that Communist East
Germany's signature of the test
han treaty would in no way give
that Soviet-occupied country any
degree of diplomatic recognition
now denied it by the Western
world.
Rusk's Bonn talks are believed
to have paved the wav for an an
nouncement within the next , 10
days by West Germany of its de
cision to sign the treaty outlaw
ing air, space and underwater
tests but leaving the Big Three
atomic powers free to continue
vital underground tests.
This will leave France, which
is pursuing a go-it-alone nuclear
course, as the only hard rock
holdout in the NATO alliance.
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