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Show ll4 A'jifcur. VOLUME 1 NUMBER 19 25 Cents Pir Copy JULY 6f 1970 V.' .. r 4 Utah solon warns on coal research cutback halt in y research federal coal programs, WASHINGTON-An- recommended recently by of the Interior Undersecretary Fred J. Russell, would hurt the entire nation, warned Rep. Laurence J. Burton, Burton, in a letter to Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, protested the cutback in coal research, some of which is done at the University of Utah. Russell has recommended that all coal research programs of the h. Interior Department, which includes the Office of Coal Research in the Bureau of Mines, be phased out by the end of fiscal 1972. Burton, however, said the nation should be accelerating its efforts rather than slowing them down. The Utah Congressman noted there were federally funded research projects at the University of Utah designed to obtain the highest production yield while curbing pollution. This is not the type of program which should be halted at this time,' Burton said. He said if Russells recommendations are followed, it would put an end to all of the coal gasification programs which experts in industry and government believe are essential if the nation is to meet is future energy needs without pollution of the atmosphere. Protection from broker failures takes step nearer law W ASH1NGTON Agreement on a proposed $150 million insolvency fund is expected to be reached sometime this week between the Securities and Commission and Exchange representatives of the securities industry, a Senate Banking and Currency Committee spokesman has disclosed. The proposal, to insure customers of brokerage firms up to $50,000, was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Edmund S. about a year Muskie, e, ago. Since then Muskie has been 0 trying to hammer out a bill that would meet with the approval of both the SEC and the industry.' The measure would also provide $1 billion in standby credit from the U.S. Treasury to serve as a psychological safeguard against a panic, the spokesman said. Of the total $150 million insurance fund, $68 million would raised from assessments on member' be brokerage firms. The remainder would be raised through bank credits. Though the details of the proposal have not been fully worked out, the spokesman said the tentative would establish a corporation with 10 private citizens and five public figures chosen by the President to administer the fund. Muskie r Secretary Walter J. Hickel said the nations 1,500 underground noncoal mines will be inspected for health and safety hazards within the next 13 months. Federal inspectors will check 3,000 metal and nonmetal mines' week with SEC representatives and an industry task force to work out final details of the legislation, which he intends to reintroduce in revised form. including spot inspections of nearly 1 8,000 small surface operations beginning July 31, Hickel said in a statement, The inspections will be made by the Bureau of Mines under authority of the 1966 federal metal and nonmetallic mine safety act. Coal mines are covered by another law that took effect this spring. The noncoal mine act gives the federal government the power to enforce health and safety standards after July 30. U.S. suit alleges job discrimination WASHINGTON-Th- e Justice Department has filed a suit COPPER SULPHIDE ORE pours out of stacking conveyor (top) at. Big 'Mike. Mine near Winnemucca, Nev. Aerial view (bottom z photo), shows open pit of the huge mine after removal of some .2.8 million tons of primary overburden. Ranchers Exploration and Development Corp. is the operator of the mine. Ore is being '.shipped to reduction plants in Europe met in his Senate office last Hickel slates inspection for underground mines WELLS--Interio- : measure charging discrimination that a precedent in two represents respects. It was filed in Tucson, Ariz., and announced here by Atty. Gen. John H. Mitchell, who said it was the first suit charging discrimination in the mining the unions. The company was accused of industry and the first involving and violating the 1964 Civil Rights only Mexican-AmericaAct by discriminating against Indians. and Indians The suit is directed at the Inspiration Consolidated Copper in hiring, promotion, job Co., 13 unions and the assignment and other policies, Globe-MiaMetal Trades including the refusal to rent housing. Council, a bargaining group for them company-owne- d ns Mexican-America- ni ns |