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Show f fHE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1959 Page Threa Lead-Zin- c Stabilization Act Co-sponso- red by Sen. Moss of the Lead and Zinc Stabilization Act of 1959 was announced by U. S. Senator Frank E. Moss (D). Presented to the U. S. Senate, the bill will stabilize the domestic price of lead at 15 cents per pound and zinc at 13 cents during a base quarter, Thereafter, the price would be. tied, on a quar-terly basis, to changes in the av-erage price index, , "President Eisenhower's failure to follow recommendations of th Tariff Commission, and the resulting present low price level has made a new approach neces-sary if we are to save the lead-zin- c industry," Mr. Moss said. Patterned after the National Sugar Act, the bill was intro-duced by Senator James E. Mur-ray, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insu-lar Affairs. Senator Moss is a member of that committee, and in a speech before the National Western Mining Conference on February 7, in Denver, had said that he was working with Sen. Murray on this approach to the lead-zin- c problem. "Senator Murray has assured me that he will call hearings soon," said Senator Moss, "with the hope that the Interior Com-mittee will report it in plenty of time to receive thorough con-sideration by both Houses." Senator Moss emphasized that no appropriatoin will be needed for the legislation and it, there-fore, will not affect the budget. "Representatives of labor arid industry have cooperated fully in trying to seek an answer to their problems under the present law. This is the only industry in the U. S. that has been before the Tariff Commision twice and has received two unanimous findings of injury. Other attempts to seek relief through Congressional ac- - tion also have failed, and the net result is that the industry has not received the assistance it must have," he said. Under the new legislation, the Secretary of Commerce would be charged with the duty of keep-ing the price at prescribed levels through a system of import quo-tas. Each quarter the Secretary will determine what quantities of the two metals could be imported without causing the price to fall below the prescribed minimum. Each exporting country would be assigned quotas based on the percentage of XJ, S. imports of the two metals from that country in 1956. "In the short span of ten years we have seen employment in Utah's underground lead-zin- c mines and the mills drop from 3200 people to 1400," he said. "And the number of operating companies dropped from 21 in 1949 to nine in 1957. The de-crease continues, and today we have only a thousand people em-ployed and three operations of any real significance in lead and zinc." The Utah Democrat also noted that during this interval Utah has lost two of its three smel-ters. The Midvale and Murray smelters have been closed per-manently because production has simply been too small to make 'them profitable. The lead-zin- c smelter at Tooele is still in op-eration, but present conditions will probably put an end to that too, the Senator said. The price structures called for in the Senate bill are the same as those supported by the ad-ministration when the problem of lead and zinc was before the Congress last year, Senator Moss noted. Utah Labor Sponsors High School Contest The Utah AFL-CI- O this week announced a contest for students in the state's high schools. LaMar Gulbransen, AFL-CI- O president, said a $50 U. S. Sav-ings Bond and $25 savings bond would be awarded to the high school student who wrote the best and second best essay stat-ing labor's position or advocat-ing labor's position in opposing Utah's so-call- ed Right-to-Wor- k law. The composition should be limited to 500 words, Mr. Gul-bransen said. He said winners would be judged by a panel of judges rep-resenting the teaching profes-sion, business and labor. Entry deadline is May 1, he said. Tax Service Offers Information Film A new half --hour film, showing what makes the world's largest tax collecting organization tick is available for showing by local civic organizations, schools, and TV stations. Roland V. Wise, district direc-tor of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service at Salt Lake City, said he has received a limited num-ber cf 16 mm prints, both in color and black and white. He said requests for booking should be made to Joell A. Jen-sen at EM 52, Ext. 467 or by mail to P.O. Box 1288, Salt Lake City. "Since our print supply is lim-ited we will have to make it available on a first-com- e, first-serve- d basis." The picture is of a high pro-fessional quality, depicting the history of taxes and what Inter-nal Revenue Service now is do-ing to collect and account for all forms of taxes. He said it was produced in answer to a grow-ing public demand for a film of this nature. COL FRANK THOMPSON TALKS ABOUT 7 Tear Mellowness , " 1 '1 : "PERFECT 7 YEAR MELLOWNESS is one of the V V reasons our Old Kentucky Tavern is recognized J 'v as the world's finest Bourbon. You'll find its - I flavor and bouquet at their very peak-tha- nks 1 to fresh-ai- r aging in our open-ric- k warehouses!" ! " j ::J:::W::4j COL, FRANK THOMPSON, CHAIRMAN OF mi-m- i THE BOARD. GLENMORE DISTILLERIES $3$S$1 B0TTLED-IN-B0N- D iWjfr&tr ' effflh KENTUCKY STBAI0HT i B0DEB0N WH 8 " M IS I fSSSSSSSfSf' " Ibn Perfection of Product it TraiRJos" X2l lOUISVILLE. KLMTUCCT Mountain States Tel & Tel To Start Revamping Radio Relay Route A major revamping job began April 1 on the radio relay route between Salt Lake City and Denver, according to H. K. Rich-mond, District Manager of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Three of the intermediate relaying sta-tions are in, Utah. The 500 mile route will be the nation's first to be equipped to carry the Bell System's latest de-sign in radio relay systems. The new system to be installed can operate over existing routes with out interference to the original system in operation, and can, at ful capacity, add more than 11,-00- 0 simultaneous voice conver-sations to the communications super highway. Mr. Richmond said that when the work is completed next year, the Salt Lake City-Denv- er route will carry two separate radio relay systems. The original sys-tem was installed in 1951, and is of the type that provides more than 30 per cent of the nearly 63 million miles of long distance circuits making up the Bell Sys-tem's nation-wid- e ' communica-tions network. The new system, called "TH" is capable of carry-ing almost four times as many voice conversations. The Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is coordi-nating the modification work at the 16 intermediate points where antenna topped towers and new equipment are provided along the route. "The first phase of reconstruc-tion involves modifying relay towers and equipment and mak-ing a change in the giant radio antennas now in use to a type known as the 'cornucopit' an-tenna," Mr. Richmond said. He went on to say the "cornucopia" antenna is the latest in design by the Bell Telephone Laboratories and resembles a horn of plenty. The existing system and the TH system will use the same antenna which are designed to receive and transmit in several super high frequency bands simulta-neously. The TH operates in the higher, band. At present, six TV and four long distance message channels, each capable of carrying a tele-vision program or 600 voice conversations in one direction are provided on the original route. Initially the TH will add one television and two voice carrying channels. Both systems will include two channels for standby use in case they are needed to keep service operat-ing. Army Pvt. Craig G. Adamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert G. Adamson, 1776 Mountain View Drive, recently completed eight weeks of advanced ' artillery training at Fort Chaffee, Ark. Adamson entered the Army last July and received basic com-bat training at Fort Ord, Calif. Utah Guard Begins Equipment Move State maintenance workers will start about April 15 moving ar-tillery equipment from Utah cities to Camp W. G. Wiliams so the equipment will be on hand for the annual Utah National Guard summer training camp. A huge tank recovery unit, a 70 foot semi trailer rig will carry the Army's new eight inch self propelled howitzers 45 ton guns, from artillery unit armories in St. George, Richfield, Fillmore, Nephi, Mt. Pleasant and Spanish Fork on the south, and Brigham City, Logan, Garland, Ogden and Layton on the north. The Guard saves about $10,000 over operating costs and salaries by carrying the equipment to and from the field training site each spring and fall. Guard personnel receives the biggest dividend, experience in loading,' hauling and unloading heavy equipment on the trans-port vehicle. And the equipment will be on hand so Guardsmen can receive maximum practical training during the June en-campment. All equipment ordinarily as-signed to each unit is moved in military convoy with the troops on the opening and closing days of camp. Only track laying ve-hicles which would either de-stroy highways or create undue traffic hazards require special transportation. Another crew will be dis-patched about July 1 to return the equipment to unit armories for next fall's hometown train-ing. The equipment is maintained in local armories during the rest of the year. |