FRIDAY.
APRIL 12. 1957
Asks Congress to Cut
Bank Appropriation
Ike
Soil
WASHINGTON, April 11 (/P) President Dwight D.
Eisenhower asked Congress today to reduce the appropria
tion he has requested for the soil bank program for $1,254,-1
000,000 to a flat billion dollars.
The 254-million-dollar reduction would be in funds he
ike Seeks
Control Of
Air Traffic
WASHINGTON, April 11 (>P) —j
President Dwight D. Eisenhower,'
declaring there is need for “vig-|
orous action,” today asked Con-j
gress to create an independent!
Airways Modernization Board to!
“expedite the improvement of airj
traffic control.” . i
The President sent to Congress;
a report saying the government;
must take the lead'in ‘‘more so
phisticated and energetic efforts
to reduce the hazard and delay
in the nation’s air traffic.”
Needs Assistance
‘The pilot needs assistance if he!
Is to cope with the great increase!
in aircraft speed and if the dan
ger of collisions is to be mini-j
mized.”
The report was. written by Ed
ward P. Curtis, Eastman Kodak!
Co. vice president who was ap
pointed Eisenhower’s special as
sistant on aviation planning a
year ago last month.
Weaknesses Described
Curtis, describing the present
air traffic system as “antiquated!
and under strength,” proposed a;
three-member Airways Moderni-;
zation Board to start finding solu
tions for the long-range problems
presented by more and speedier
airplane traffic.
The board he proposed, and
which Eisenhower asked Congress
to create, would consist of one
representative each from the
Commerce and Defense depart
ments and a presidentially ap
pointed chairman who would have
“no affiliations with existing gov
ernment agencies.”
State Highway Study.
HARRISBURG, April 11 f/P) —
Gov. George M. Leader disclosed
today a nonpartisan study of state
Highways Department operations
will be started soon by the state
Planning Board.
OMspice
AFTER SHAVE
LOTION
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
has asked for the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1.
The reduction had been fore
cast. On March 15, Agriculture'
Department officials said farmer! A convention vote on the pro
participation in the soil bank pro-!posal brushed aside minority op
gram apparently would fall short' position which described the move
of the government goal. [as an abandonment of the prin-
Slaiemenl Made J'ciple of industrial unionism.
The White House said todav: I HAW President Waller P. I
“A detailed study of the opera-! Heulher. who called the new (
tions of the soil' bank program' policy a “very vital matterde- j
has just been completed. On the ! clared it would not weaken the
basis of this study, it now appears principle of one big union fox
that the financial needs of the aH
[program in 1958 will be less than The 3200 delegates to the 16th 1
[had been contemplated at the time } UAW convention cheered Reuth-I
jof the preparation of the 1958 l er's declaration that production:
;budget for the following reasons:,workers and white collar workers:
i Reasons- Noted ' “ both have S ot to S et more—a hell j
i “1. It is now estimated that the o£ J l lo <- more - in 19 f'”
: sign-up for the 1956 and 1957 con- Reuther announced the vote m,
jservation programs will be much f avor of the constitutional change,
[less than expected last fall, and as *‘ a t ' eas i 95 cent.” j
thus payments to farmers under He said the authorization for ;
the program will be less than' special bargaining and striking j
originally planned. The program rights for skilled workers was
is effective for five calendar years needed to keep craft unions
from 1956 through 1960. ! from taking skilled workers
“2. The timing of the payments' from the UAW.
!for both parts of the soil bankj -Vice President Leonard Wood-
I program the conservation re-jcock, in charge of the union’s
[serve program will be made'General Motors Dept., told the
[later in the: calendar year than [convention bargaining methods
[was originally contemplated. This 1 had to be revised to keep the
[will result in a shift in the need!UAW from becoming a “second
ifor funds between fiscal years.” : class union.”
H omebuil dingDropContinues;
Association Registers Protest
I WASHINGTON, April 11]
,(/P) —Homebuilding continued'
its slump last month, drop-i
ping to the lowest rate since!
1949.
The March figures, reported by
the Labor Department today,
brought a statement from the Na
tional Assn, of Homebuilders that
the Federal Reserve Board tight
money policies have “kept the
industry tottering
on the brink of disaster.”
“This economic brinkmanship]
is a dangerous game that the'
country no longer can afford to'
play,” said in a statement byi
|UAW OK's
JWage Boost
For 'Skilled'
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ„ April
11 (ff) —The United Auto Workers
convention today authorize d
skilled workers in the union’s
ranks to seek pay increases be-
yond those gained by the general
membership in collective bargain
ing. 1
I George S. Goodyear, president of
]the- association. The group is
i pressing Congress for easier mort
jgage credit
! The Labor Department said last
• month’s housing starts totaled
83,000 units for a seasonally ad
justed annual rate of 880,000.
This compared with 1,118.000
starts last year and the record
1,329,000 units actually built in
1955.
The number of housing starts
last month was not only the low
est March total since 1949 but it
also brought the annual and first
| quarter rates to the lowest level
;since that year. First quarter
’housing starts this vear totaled
i 213,000.
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Norman Red Charge
Rejected by White
WASHINGTON, April 11 (,-P) Lincoln White, of the
State Department, taking direct issue with the Senate Inter
nal Security subcommittee, today denied any responsibility
for allegations of communism made against the late Herbert
Norman, a Canadian diplomat.
Norman, Canadian ambassador! —-
to Egypt, committed suicide in a »
Cairo a week ago today. GO VBMttlQnf PICtPS
Canadian officials have blamed, «,, . . -
his death in part on the charges AttCmpt #© AVfi/7
aired by the Senate subcommit- '_ .. 1 . ff
tee, and the affair has put a se- RQtIFOOa WO/KOUt
vere strain on Canadian-Ameri- wAcmcTov A ™
can relations. _WASHINGTON. April 11 i.P)—
The federal government said to-
Denies Statement day it will attempt by mediation
White, State Department pressed avert a threatened strike
officer, called newsmen in to deny [against a railroad serving U.S.
a subcommittee statement that his Steel Corp. mills in the Pittsburgh
department agreed to publication district.
of the allegations against Norman.. A walkout of 1400 clerks and
He replied with an emphatic* maintenance personnel of the
■‘no,” when asked whether the!Union Railroad, a U.S. Steel sub-
State Department had ever givemsidiary. is scheduled for 7 a.m.
the Senate group any secret se-’next Monday unless a basis for
curity data on Norman. a contract agreement is reached.
The Canadian government as-. They are members of the United
serts there is no question about Steelworkers.
Norman's loyalty. A strike could idle some 30,000
I Death Regretted u - s - Sieel employees and others
de^ ! conduct
and the effect it has had on rela-! ta]] . s bet Ween both sides.
tions between the two countries.*
But Heeney reported the Presi- 1 ., . _ .. .
dent gave him no assurance that TOIiC Planned
congressional procedures to which; Dr. Leon R. Kneebone, associ
the Canadians object so strongly a te professor of botany, will ad
would be changed. : dress a meeting of representatives
, a stiff note delivered to the;ofthemushioom industry April 17
i State Department yesterday, the :a t Kennett Square,
[Canadian government threatened,
to withhold certain security inf or
jmation from the U-S. government 1
[unless it had assurances that the
materia] would not he passed
along to congressional groups
without Canadian approval.
I Flood Plan Criticized
[ NEW YORK, April 11 f/P)—:
[Speakers at today’s annual meet
ing of the Association of Ameri-,
can Indian Affairs criticized U.S.
Army Engineers’ plans to flood
9000 acres of ancient Seneca In- :
dian land along the New York-'
Pennsylvania border.
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