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Show 2 ' PROJECTS APPROVED BY BMA DURING FIRST. HALF OF OCTOBER, 1951 The 18 projects for which contracts were signed during the first half of October, with company or. individuals name, metal or mineral sought, cost and government participation are: IDAHO Company and County Donald D. Hanni, Custer Bradley Minins Company, Yellow Pino Lawrence S. Bennett Metal or Mineral Total Coat Oort. Share Antimony . . $ 17,000 .73.026 $ 34,000 97,369 Continued from page 1 in the Wood River Valley, area would most likely result from near Hailey. Other suggestions by miners the testimony heard. out the critical, metLarson said one. of the first for getting als which the nation needs for things his DMPA will do is defense program did not establish an ore purchase depot its By GEORGE S. BENSON President Harding College Searcy, Arkansas The owners of the Dollar Steamship Line have discovered that borrowing money from the U. S. government is often helpful but sometimes can be dangerous too. Getting in debt to the government has cost them cne of the most basic of human rights-rt- he right to their own As collateral on a loan property. from the government .they put up the stock anc physical assets of their company. Now the principal and interest on their loan has been paid, nut the government bureau, refuses to return their stock and their . steamships. Upon being informed of what a federal government bureau has done to the. Dollar Line ' owners, almost any Americani would exclaim: "Oh no! They cant get away with that in our country! But the sobering fact is they have. The Dollar Line .Case' should be clearly understood by every American. At issue, according,.to some of the nations best legal minds, is the question of whether, a bureau of the federal government shall be beyond the reach of constitutional law when it seeks to override basic rights of the citizens. CRIMINAL CONTEMPT The U. S. Secretary of Commerce and his bureau, the Maritime' Commission, have been ordered by the U. S. Court of Appeals in Washington, second highest in the land, to return the Dollar Line stock arid property to the owners. Secretary Sawyer and the commission have not obeyed the order issued last January. So unrelenting has been their defiance of the high court order that, in a unanimous decision, the same court has assessed civil contempt Judgments against Commerce Secre- Government To Help Small Mines, Chief Says . Who Can Defy The Law? ; November 2, 1951 The Western Mineral Survey, ' Salt Lake City, Utah . , meet with such ready acceptance. Idaho Held Potential Metal Source A proposal that the government grubstake prospectors who could not provide matching funds for a goveernment loan was opposed by both Larson and Regan. Regan said he doubted that 10 per cent of the Idahos mineral potential Is prospectors receiving such loans not being fully, exploited, ac- would actually go out and proscording to Verne C. Fryklund pect for new deposits. Jr of the Idaho Bureau of He also opposed an program for .Construction of Mines and Geology. roads, stating that In a new bureau publica- this was not a function of the tion entitled A Reconnais- federal government. He added, sance of Some Idaho Deposits however, that he might favor participation with the Fryklund points out that the federal state and forest service in such state has large undeveloped de- projects. posits of feldspar and commercial-Regan predicted that Congress would grade a is approve the full clay. Feldspar requested by the adnonmetallic mineral used chiefministration for the mine exly in pottery and glass making, ploration loan program and and clay is needed by the cere-mi- said he believed the DMPA would be able to commit that , industry. v Although there, appears to much within a year.. Other- complaints voiced at be no near-b- y markets for feldthe hearing were: spar, produced in Idaho, he smelter charges are too That writes, the geology of the state should be investigated. and is such as to make Idaho a po- high influence is needed That tential producer of feldspar in Washington to get approval and this should be brought to ' of an exploration loan. the .attention of consumers of .That the maintenance of dofeldspar. mestic ceiling prices on metals There are thousands of granunfair itic pegamites containing feld- below world levels is to domestic miners. spar associated with the Idaho That government engineers batholith which underlies near- recommend rejection of loans, of the state, and ly without inspection of adequate very few of them have been the property. .. prospected, he states. Most imOther the witnesses praised portant feldspar areas are the DMA program. and the consci- -. Avon district in Latah County, entious effort its field men the Allison creek district in made in ' helping miners get Idaho County, the Garden Val- loans. ley district in Boise County and ..Representative Baring of Nethe Moulton district in Cassia vada, one of the committee County, he says. members; said, that the biggest The Garden Valley district need in the governments mine also shows significant quanti- aid program is for consolida- -. ' of columbium - bearing tion of functions under one ties minerals, the report states. The head. The DMA, he said, is a Columbite . mine was found to step in the right direction, but contain both columbite and didnt go far enough because samarskite, the latter contain- it left with the reconstruction ing notable, percentages of finance committee final approvuranium. al of loans. He said he has inmine repre- troduced a bill to correct this ... Although this ' sents the most important pros- deficiency. amounts of small pect, oxides oecur in Elects almost all of the pegmatites of Caterpillar the district, the bulletin states. Harry H. Fair of San FranWhile it is doubtful if any cisco was elected chairman of single pegmatite will prove to the board of directors of .Cabe of value for the uranium terpillar Tractor Company at a content alone, an appreciable recent meeting of the board in amount of. uranium could be re: San Francisco. He succeeds C. L. Best, who died in San Franof covered as a concisco Sept. 22. operations, it Elected to the board to retinues. place Mr. Best was A. H. Brawner, president of W. P. Mines Bureau Chemist Fuller & Company, San Franoldest and largest Pacific. To Head Army Research cisco, Coast glass and wallpaper firm. Dr. Bernard Lewis, internationally known physical chemist who is chief 'of the. explosives and physical sciences division of .the Bureau of Mines Northeastern Region at Pittsburgh, - Pa., has been granted a years leave of absence to become director of powder and explosives research and development for the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army, Secy, of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman announced today. all-o- . mine-acce- i the U. S. Supreme Court has Sawyer obeyed this directive twice- refused to intervene in and defied the court, he was in carrying out. of this judgment civil contempt anl the court said: Considered, upon the . THE BACKGROUND of plane high policy and prinHere1 are the bare facts: In ciple, we have the spectacle of a 1938 the Dollar Line owed the ' government, which proclaims $7,500,-00Maritime Commission its adherence to law as a govborrowed to build some of erning force amo-imen, not its big fleet of passenger liners. only refusing for six years to The company accused the com- submit to its own courts . . but mission of withholding normal by every device to mail subsidies due it and other- endeavoring thwart and defeat the judgment wise attempting to bankrupt the of those courts after it has been line and gain control through rendered.. . . recfciversnip. In order to foreIn the American freedom sysstall the bankruptcy they felt tem, the laws and the courts was being pressed upon them; which administer them. are the the owners were obliged to put citizens one great protection of up 91 per cent of the lines stock his. If they can be defied as collateral and agree to the and rights. thwarted by a powerful inMaritime Bureau taking over dividual, or government bureau, control and' operation of the or in any manner, freedom cancompany.not exist." Powerful, This was in August 1938. A government bureaucjhort time later the nation's de- racy is a constant danger Will fense effort began and then war we control or will it control broke out in the Pacific. The us? That is it, grave question thj line a tremendous of this , day. asset to our nation at war, operated profitably and within five years the $7,500,000 indebtedness had been paid in full. The Dollar family asked for the return of their stock and property. The Maritime Bureau refused. It said it would keep the company and the stock.. The Dollar tary Sawyer and eight other U family took recours- - of the law S. officials. and went to court six years ago. The fall meetvig of The But through one of the most The final determination was the Committee, sponsored amazing series of legalistic Court of Appeals unanimous Zinc Institute, blockades on record, they have American the the by ordering have to refused to return the will be held, at the St. Francis Maritime Bureau escaped jail, sigir over the stock as ordered stock and property to the Dollar Hotel, Canton, Ohio, on Thursand they are in possession of the family, and the U. S. Supreme ' Nov. 15 and 16. $68,000,000 steamship line. It Courts refusal, twice, to halt day and Friday; is not my intention to pass Judg- this judgment. According to L. C. Flicking-e- r, ment on the conflicting claims Youngstown Sheet & Tube THE QUESTION of the Dollar Line' owners and Co., Chairman of the GovernOne of the most stunning the Maritime Commission buof the case was an order ing Board, the highlight of the reau. This nations second high- from President Truman, without meeting will be an inspection est court has done that, finding precedent, actually directing trip through the plants of Rethe claims of the lines owners Secretary Sawyer to defy the public Steel Corp., on Thursto be true and correct even courts judgment. When Mr. day afternoon. W. L. Diehl, Wheeling Steel Corp', and his program committee have announced that at the closed sessions on Thursday SUBSCRIBE NOW morning and Friday afternoon, operating problems and techniques will be discussed by OFFER members of Tne Galvanizers Committee. On Friday morning Submit One New or Renewal Subscription Accompanied . an open meeting has (been scheduled wh e n qualified by One Additional New Subscription. discuss continuwill speakers A TOTAL COST FOR BOTH OF ous annealing, rolls, welding, 1 YEAR and packaging and banding. $3.00 Before the close of the meetYEARS 2 $5.00 ing, successors will be named 1 Year 00 Years Single Subscription $4 to fill the places of the two re$2.502 tiring members of the' Govern: TAKE THIS UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY OF - - . 0, g - - well-entrench- ed . Galvanizers Slate Meet This Month Gal-vanize- de--or- rs w . . as-oec- ts . SPECIAL KEEPING UNFORMED ON ACTIVITIES IN THE OR. AND MINING INDUSTRIES WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 22 Vi EAST FIRST SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY. 1, UTAH ing Board which now consists of L. C. Flickinger, Youngstown Sheet &.Tube Co., chairman; F. F. Aloi, Bethlehem Steel Co.; N. E. Cook, Wheeling Steel Corp.; D. W. Frease, Reeves Steel & Manufacturing Co.; J. T. Mayhew, Weirton Steel Co.; L. C. Pietsch, Inland Steel Co., and F. G. White, Granite City Steel Co. ut ss - . $40,-000,0- 00 cs - . one-thi- rd . . - . : colum-bium-beari- ng . col-lumbi- by-prod- uct ; , Thomas H. Miller, acting di- rector of the Bureau of Mines, said that Dr. Glenn H. Damon will be acting chief of the division during Dr. Lewis' sence. |