Show a we g 0 ashington there Is about a two to one chance that the peace talks now going on in korea between representatives of general matthew ridgway and red china may be successful likely if the cease fire order holds good there will wui be discussion looking toward an armistice but when peace will come will depend upon weeks of discussion in the meantime the government here in washington is operating on a stop gap basis since no appropriation bills i were passed by the congress when the end of the fiscal year june 30 rolled around it was necessary to pass emergency stop gap bills in order that the agencies of government could cou id function and the employees be paid extension by the same token neither house or senate could get together on an extension of the highly important national defense act which al also go expired june 30 so after an all night session congress passed a 31 day extension of the act but hedged it about with a ban on any rollback in prices during the 31 days so the con consumers armers grmers who were due to reap the benefit of some price rollbacks roll backs on thousands of articles which the office of price stabilization had already ordered effective july 2 will be prevented from cashing g in on those these lower prices OPS was forced to ito issue a I 1 quick price freeze again on these articles as of june 30 30 these price rollbacks roll backs would have applied to machinery cotton textiles shoes wearing apparel and many household house hold appliances pli ances and such items as bolts bolti screws nuts plumbing and drainage specialities builders hardware s soaps 0 a P X cleansers watches mattresses and box springs agricultural insecticides and other items what will happen to the foreign aid program including the marshall plan and the aid asked for by general eisenhower Elsen hower is still to be seen it may be that some stopgap stop gap legislation will be necessary to keep the country from lapsing or repudiating some of its commitments under these programs increases In crat because becau bebau s e of democrat increases in the senate such as the replacement of GOP senator vandenburg der iburg deceased by senator blair moody of michigan two republicans have been ousted from important committee posts on the senate appropriations and banking and currency the two senators bumped were those with lowest seniority senators mccarthy of wisconsin and bennett of utah the GOP assigned mccarthy to the senate rules committee and bennett was assigned to postoffice post office and civil service committee this leaves mccarthy without a major committee assignment in the meantime a resolution adopted by the young republicans of the eighth district of wisconsin senator mccarthys McCar thys defeat in 1952 was given widespread publicity here the resolution urged the mccarthy defeat on grounds that he has accomplished complis hed nothing in im importance port during his five yea years rs a in office and has engeged engaged in character assassination and mudslinging tactics thus thu discouraging good men from holding of I 1 fice mexican labor the house on a roll call can of 240 to 139 passed a bill authorizing the importation of mexican farm labor and permitting farmers to employ mexican wet backs backel those entering the country illegally A similar bill authorizing recruitment of mex lean farm labor was passed by the senate may 7 but the senate bill contained an amendment amendme amendee t making employment of wet backs a felony the senate crime investigating committee now Is e engaged in a probe of narcotics in the country As a result of its hearing nineteen narcotics control fas bi bius have been introduced in this congress largely protecting minors from drug addiction in the he entire 81st congress only on one measure was introduced strangely enough two former r topnotch top notch government employees bees jees upheld the moral and ethics C of the average government employee in washington in testimony before senator paul douglas senate labor subcommittee on ethics in government they were former secretary of interior harow harold ickes and former chairman of the atomic energy commission davis lillen 9 thai at 9t classes were held monday through friday for a six week period at elementary school schools in neola myton won duchesne altamont tationa tabiona tabions and roosevelt two classes were taught at roosevelt school one group in the morning and one in the afternoon |