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Show HOWE VISITS DEATH VALLEY Legislation to prohibit mining in the national parks has prompted an inspection visit to Death Valley Nation r al Monument by the House subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation. Congressman Allan Howe, an active memberof the subcommittee, sub-committee, said he will attend at-tend the inspection tour in order to determine whether wheth-er mining should continue in six national parks which did not originally restrict mining min-ing under the 1916 National Parks Organic Act, or whether wheth-er existing valid claims should be purchased by the Federal Government. "Death Valley National Monument poses the most controversial issue, of the six parks. |