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Show ;:.r- , . n. " Herald Telephones Mostly Clear For Ads, News. Circulation: Provo Office, J90 W. 4th N. ....... FR Orsm Office, 741 N. State 50 For Society EIGHTY-SIXT- . AC 05 . .s. FR 84 ' YEAR NO. 248 H PROVO; UTAH" COUNTY, UTAH, through Saturday. Little change in temperature.. High both days near 100. Low tonight 66 to 70. Highest temperature recorded in Provo area Thursday was 95. Lowest Friday morning was 68. PRICE FIVE CENTS FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1959 V Grbmyko EXTRACTING FUEL FROM GRAIN URGED Forced To Back 'Down 0 J"0U(cJ (UPD The House Appropriations Committee recommended "today that the government investigate the possibility of ex- -. tracting fuel from grain by bombarding it with radiation. The committee included $10,000 for a study of this WASHINGTON West Launches Secret Talks; Khrushchev Must WithdrayaV Threat By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United" Press International GENEVA (UPD The W launched a new round of secret Big Four talks today with a demand that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev withdraw the w a r threat jfrom Berlin at once if he really means his latest pledge of ' , Navy Error Admitted on ' in project a $2,629,114,000 money bill to run the Atomic Energy Commission in the est fiscal year thar started July President Eisenhower did not request the grain-fuel funds. Rep. Jensen (R-Iow- , " Wagon Train Victim of . " 'Attack' viock y 4 . on . d , . get-togeth- ers b- : - .... HERALD INDEX ' Hill ivuuva Editorial .................... 13 National, World News 2, 14, 15 .. ............ 4 Obituaries Off the Beat .v...;.......... 13 Society ... . A .............. 7 Sports ........................ 8, 9 Stocks .......... 4 . rancher Jack Henely, , who didn't go along with the idea of -the train using his land for a campground, swore out .a warrant for the arrest of the leader of the train on a charge of tres- . - passing.) Wagon master Gordon Serpa (Continued on Page Four) A Navy WASHINGTON (UPI) to admitted official congressional investigators today that the Navy did a "bad" job negotiating 14 defense contracts on which the government was overcharged more than 12 million dollars. "It was bad we admit it," Assistant Navy Secretary Cecil P. Milne told a House armed services subcommittee. Milne said the Navy had taken steps to prevent such a thing from happening again, but he could not "guarantee" that it wouldn't. Milne took issue, however, with a charge voiced in hearings earlier this week that Navy negotiators were "incompetent or deliber& ately careless." an able are negotiators "Navy into best the dedicated group, terests of the government," he said. "With few exceptions, I feel that certain they reasonably measure up well with industry." Even so, Milne said it is inevitable that occasional mistakes and oversights will occur." The subcommittee ran into a stonrwall in its efforts to get the in its Navy to do an about-fac- e reccertain over turn to refusal General to the ords and reports Accounting Office. The GAO acts as Congress'- - "watchdog" on government spending. Other congressional news: Farm: Rep. L. H. Fountain charged that there has been waste and poor management in the government's big export program for farm products. And he said the Agriculture Department has tried to hide the facts! conForeign aid: Senate-Hous- e to reach ferees continued efforts' a compromise figure on authorization of foreign aid funds. Pick 23 Cgs 2nd pgh The confer- The conferees have been adjusting differences between the $3,-( Senate bill and the Continued on Page Four) ' (D-N.C- t sponsible and convincing words from Dr. Fidel Castro." The rebel radio also called on the working- - class to remain at said ' workers 'should not resort to any strike action which "only serve the enemy . interests in the nation." News of Castro's impending resignation swept like wildfire (Continued en Page Four) their jobs j and Z - , if .) 'Li- v' - 1 i f r - ' i s ' - i-- ' - '-' ; f - ''A H . .. . it mm C I RESIGNS AS PRIME MINISTER Fidel Castro's resignation as Prime Minister of Cuba was viewed in diplomatic quarters in Havana as a move to force a showdown betwe'en Castro's extreme Nationalist policies and the more moderate views of President Manuel Urruita Lleo. Tliese sources said there seemed little doubt that Castro would win. A strike against the nation's basic steel industry cut deeper into employment in related fields today. With no further peace talks scheduled until Monday at 'the earliest, Un i t e d Steehvorkers President David J. McDonald and his top lieutenants carried their fight for a better contract to the picket lines. In Washington, President Eisenhower discussed the steel strike for an hour and 45 minutes today in a separate conference with Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell after the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet. n In. addition to the USW members who struck at mills from at one minute after midnight last Tuesday," it was estimated that more than 25,000 railroaders, truekdriv-ers- , miners and seamen were idle because of the" steel strike. More layoffs in those lines were expected to. raise . the total to 75,000 in another week or two. '"'.-The possibility of a second metals industry strike grew when the USW .presented virtual carbon copies of its major steel demands to the nation's three major aluminum producers, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser. About 31,500 workers in the three companies come under contracts that run out July 31. , McDonald Addresses Workers McDonald took his arguments-t- o the men in the mill Thursday and showed up at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant in Bethleheui, nrTmk Pa., where he addressed an mated asa pack "messenger boys" who had "absolutely no authority to nego-- of tiate." : ' . Soviet Affairs Expert Argentine Navy Head Denies He Has Resigned Bbh len: May Be Offered State Department Post By STEWART HENSLEY United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) High administration officials said today Soviet affairs expert Charles E. Bohlen probably will be offered a high State Department post soon with President Eisenhower's full approval despite . recent indications to the contrary. They said the. President believes Bohlen would be a very valuable aide to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter at this L- : j e seven-dolla- will not be for pigs, it will be, for men of steel and men of dighe told the gathering. nity," : His visit with the Bethlehem pickets was the first in a series to steel centers around the oun- - try. . , . t N USW Vice President Howard R. and Hague Secretary-Treasure- r I. W. Abel hit the picket trail at st , -- ; McDonald said,' 'steel does not want, a new contract. . .their talks-weras phony as a r -bill."' .V x "I guarantee you some day A'e will have an agreement, and it half-millio- These steel strike pickets at an eastern steel mill lead a double life as they combine their picketing duties with a party "at the beach." A union7 worker is already enjoying; the portable pool. The pool was filled by run- I'M i i jy i? i t i ju; mi li is expeeieui to nwKe ning a line irom a water une msiae me mm. ine new aaaiuon Telephoto) picket line duties much more attractive. (Herald-UP- I workers. 2,500 try's negotiating team -- LEAD DOUBLE LIFE esti- He bitterly assailed ther indus- Gary, Ind., and Pittsburgh, spectively. , re--, - Huge Steel, Wage Loss Each day the strike continues, the United States loses 300,000 of steel. The workers will have lost about 62 million dollars in, wages by the end of the first week and the industry 248 million dollars in business. Picketing was reported orderly at steel mills across the country, but at one plant at check on the picket line backfired. A scheduled payday Thursday for 2,000 workers at the American Steel and Wire plant at Joliet, m. was cancelled because pickets refused to permit a payroll employe to enter The strike .spread to Canada also. Workers at the giant Mar-- ( Continued on Page Four) ing- ot-tons -- too-clo- se the-mill- . BUENOS AIRES (UPI Viqe Adm Adolf o Estevez had a half hour talk "with President Arturo therbeddingf Involved n critical stage in Frondizi Thursday night and then relations. that ne Bohlen now is ambassador to denied "categorically" had resigned as secretary of che the Philippines. i Eisenhower has not been in- navy in Argentina.- fluenced against him by the opThe denial camein the faoe position of Republican Senators of persistent reports by a numStyles Bridges of New Hamp- ber of informed sources that Esshire and Everett Dirksen of Il- tevez would be out "within ; 43 linois, unimpeachable hours. sources claimed. By JAMES: L. KILGALLEN ence on negotiating changes in loRebellious naval officer's ha." The Senate Republicans' com- been United International Press cal working conditions to or his seeking resignation permit NEW YORK (UPI) One of the industry to increase plaint is that Bohlen was too dismissal on grounds he does not efficiency with identified setclosely previous reflect their and is coo the big issues preventing a Corp., and the industry's chief Democratic administrations as an lenient towardviewpoint of the tlement nationwide steel who officers supnegotiator, said over the adviser at Yalta and Teheran. on Page Four) ousted Dictator" Juan -- D. strike is' that of "local working ported Bohlen has defended thesa conditions," and management's Peron. insistence that the work rules be agreements with Russia and contended the only trouble changed. was that Russia failed to live up This issue figures to be a stumCity to them. bling block in the path" of Federal Administration officials said the Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan in at Bohlen on his efforts to settle the strike. President's remarks his Wednesday news conference The involves the question were misinterpreted as meaning and controversial topic of touchy that there was no idea of bring"featherbedding." Webster defines a featherbed ing Bohlen into the State Department in a highly responsible' post. rule as a union rule that requires an employer to pay ij Actually, these sources! said, and their steelworkers 'All to the administration still hopes workman, or to pay for to a invited are wives" special $19,-250 unnecessary or duplicating jobs, persuade Bohlen to take a at'. 7:30 p.m. Monday meeting spot on the State Depart' Geneva Local 2701, or limiting the amount! of work called by to bedone in a day, as a means CEDAR. CITY (UPI) ment's policy planning staff if, he Tempers flared briefly Thursday among the. can be persuaded to postpone his United Steelworkers of America, of stretching work. S t eel , management according to W. A. Biggs, Presicontends nearly 250 Iron County union retirement. that efficiency is hampered by workers involved in the strike of A major portion of this, staff's dent of the local. The meeting will be held at the "featherbedding and loafing." It United Steelworkers work involves relations with the against they Steelworkers Union Hall at "the is also charged that extra men Columbia Iron Mining Co. Soviet Union. Administration officials said a top of Columbia Lane in south are frozen into plant payrolls long Things quieted down by Thurs: after their services are needed. final decision on bringing Bohlen Orem. day night and an understanding Steelworkers Union President among the union and managein to the State Departmen would Purpose cf the meeting is to be made as soon as Herter re- explain to steel;' orkers and their David J. McDonald has called ment was apparently reached. The dispute started whe, the turns from the. Geneva foreign wives the issues at stake in the the issue "phoney as a $7. bill." steel struck the Bat The companies ministers conference. dispute started when the present strike, Mr. Biggs said. He The President said Wednesday wil) also make a report on tiie regard the issue as imporant mining company told vicorkers that he hau a "completely nega- New . York negotiations, from and on which must be dealt they would have to pick up1 their tive" report from Herter on Boh- which he has recently returned, with. paychecks, which are due today, R. Conrad Cooper, executive len' s prospects. But high sources and the New York meeting of the (Continued on Page Four) of U. S. Steel vice president said today he meant only that the United Steelworkers secretary told him no progress wage and policy committee, of phone from Pittsburgh today that the union has taken ."a 'negative was being made on the matter at which he is a member. view" on management's insist that time. Tea Soviet-America- New Local Work Ru les Issue In Steel Strike these tele-(Contin- long-disput- (UPI) OF THE MOUNTAIN The Executive director of the Utah Board of Corrections said today the board is against a proposal to unionize Utah State .J Prison employes. Ernest Dean Wright said organState, izers from the AFL-CICounty, and Municipal! Workers' Union have been attempting to place the prison employes on their roles for the past six to eight i '', weeks.: , He said organization; of a union institutions is "a in prison-typ- e a 'definite security risk in view of strike possibilities." He sad the board would be against the measure even if a i -- "can't strike" clause was included in the union contract. Steelworkers, Wives To Hear Strike Issues . Paso Hotel POINT ed Cedar O ; iz. Kf By RUDY CERNKOVIC United Press International PITTSBURGH The (UPI) coast-to-coa- El f - Peace Talk Scheduled Monday j Board Opposes Unionization of Prison Employes on said the people should '.'and wait for the re calm keep " ..... jj t-- t Raul u Gov. EL PASO, Tex. (UPI) of Louisiana, fightiaj Earl. Long sleep while he toured Juarez night spots, stormed into -the Hilton Hotel early today and- tried to ki :k ' down a door. j Capt. Douglas Durrett of th.j Louisiana State Police tried to restrain the enraged, governor but Long cursed and kicked at the door of his room until a bellboy rushed down for a ky. Long stopped kicking and beat ing at the door ,wheri a bellbjy produced a key. Then he rushid into the room, woke his associates and rebuked .them profanely for not being up to let him in. Durrett .tried again to calm (Continued on Page Four) said today. Raul, who is chief of the armed foi ces' said Fidel would report to the people by radio on his reasons tonight, - V There was speculation that Castro had resigned to become minister of state in order to lead the , Cuban delegation to the meeting of the Organization of American States in Chile next month where Caribbeanj tension wil' be discussed. lh a brief statement broadcast ovei- - the rebel radio, Raul called on the nation to maintain serenity and. wait for his brother's him , Tantrum At Castro rej-ignati- '' Afexf s Long Stages BULLETIN FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY By . Lnitcd Press International HAVANA (UPD Revolution-a- r I also was suggested that Castro's move was a maneuver to gain for him a vote of confideice. There were, no indications the was being forced upoi , Reveals Government Overcharged More Than $12 Million leader 'Fidel resigned todaj . as Prime Minister of Cuba But President Manuel Urrutia speaking to thousands of Cubans massed before the Presidential Palace here, said the government would not accept the resignation HAVANA ( UPD Fidel Castro has resigned as Prime Minister of Cuba, his brother, Raul Castro" . it : Castro Resigns as Prime Minister . 5r t Contracts New Crisis In Cuba ... & & jx a) . foreign-minister- f 4 1. Ben. F. told AEG Chairman peace. A. McCone at a closed John The , Soviet Premier's declaramonth that tion in Poland Thursday that Rus tejloor hearing last he atomic scientists hoped sia will' "never, Never, never to how could extract discover start'. a war gave the West an. imalcohol from grain by use mediate opening to challenge Soof radiation. viet, threats against Berlin and Jensen said the testimony Russian rebuffs of western efforts made public today , that this to keep the peace in the divided would help reduce the sur' city. plus of wheat and other grain The 'ministers met' for nearly and at the same time provide three hours but;' western sources motor fuel. tosaid "no progress ward breaking the deadlock on a ' Berlin truce agreement. w as Another secret meeting villa scheduled for Monday at the , of the British (At Soviet request,, a semipublic .plenary session of the conference wa? set for Tuesday. The Big Four finally got down to secret talks at an intimate fililunch today, after a four-dabuster by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who maintained BOISE (UPI) of the Members at first he was against secret ' wagon train had. a East German partalks mock attack of a sort that would ticipation. have sent their pioneering ancesMeet at French Villa tors for mental treatment if they 'Gromyko, Secretary of State had seen such goings on. Christian A. Herter, British ForIdaho Air National Guard jet eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and fighters were scheduled to "atFrench Foreign Minister Maurice tack" the train, complete with Cou ve de Murville were meetiag headdress-equippepilots. with their top aides at the Frencn Also on the schedule for today vlla. : Neither the East nor Wes as the wagon train approached Germans were invited. the city from the south, was a (The Western ministers hopei helicopter visit by Boise Mayor that in such Gromy-k- c Robert Day. would be more frank and busiThe train spent the night" wagon nesslike and leave out the propa last at the Crater station night ganda that attends the semi-puwest of Mountain Home. The stop (Continued on Page Four) ended one of the most unusual days for the wagon train. The J ,; leader had to take time off and spend in court on a charge of trespassing something else the original wagon trains didn t 14 Amusements have to put up with from whUe ' Central Utah News 3, 4, 5, 10, IS men. . . . . . Classified . .... 15, 16, 17 The trouble began, when King was-made- i ' ' Incident Pay Check Issue Stirs Brief Dispute j un-need- ed , 1 . national, . Net Farm Union Maintenance Grews Withdrawn From Geneva After Dispute Over Working Time over 30 minutes of working time in the transportation department today had resulted in withdrawal of union maintenance-- 1 crews from the Geneva Steel Plant. ... struck, are Management employees carrying out maintenance work, and at Npresstime the issue still appeared to be deadlocked after meetings of management and the union Thursday and this morning aparently failed to settle it. Some 200 union men made up the' total Geneva maintenance crews. At the Ironton . plant, some 50 A dispute "-- , union members were still carry-in- g on maintenance work and conditions appeared to be unchanged. A union official said the transwork portation workers refused to, mainand the union pulled its tenance crews 'from the plant when the company told transportation day shift workers they must work from 8 a. m. until 4:30 p. m., with a half hour off for lunch. Union members claim they have always worked a straight 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. shift, and refused to remain the extra -- minutes. countered with Management the declaration that the 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., with a half hour off for lunch, applies to any straight day shift turn where a day shift only is involved, and where there are no rotating shifts around the shifts. clock in three eight-hothe also declared Management conditions to. which the union objected are the same as were set up and agreed upon for similar work during the 1956 strike. Many management employees (Continued on Page Four) 30 ur Income Drops WASHINGTON (UPI) The Agriculture Department reports that net farm income dropped at an annual rate of one billion dollars, or 8 per cent, during the first six months of this year. ' The department estimated that net the amount lert after taxes and expenses, wa? running at an average annual rate of about 12' billion dollars during the first half of the year. It said Thursday that cash receipts from crop marketings werav down only slightly from the first half of 1958. Average prices of farm products , declined but this largely was offset by increased volume of sales. farm-incom- e, , , Y 4 f |