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Show NOTES FROM WASHINGTON The Bituminous Coal Division of the Department of Interior has posponed to April 18 the hearing originally at for April 13 on the application by the Arkansas-Oklahoma Smokeless Coals, Inc., regional reg-ional marketing agency, seeking provisional approval of agency - contracts covering the sale of coal in Market Area 40, which includes St. Louis and nearby Missouri Mis-souri and Illinois territory. The hearing is to be held at Washington Washing-ton D. C. Columbia River power will take on an added share of the national nation-al defense job on Sunday, March 30, when the Bonneville Power Adminstration will deliver 27,000 kilowatte under existing contracts to the third unite of the Aluminum Alumin-um Company of America's metal reduction plant near Vancouver, Vashington. Delivery will be made through the Bonneville Pow- er Adminstration's recently ex-i ex-i panded substation near the Alum- inum Company site and through ' its huge power distribution sta-I sta-I tion at Ampere, just north of Vancouver, A high-grade deposit of tung- sten ore, vital defense material, has been discovered jointly by f engineers of the Bureau, of Mines and geologists of the Geological Survey. The ore was found in the Yellow Yel-low Pine district, Valley County, Jdaho, a district well-known for its antimonial gold ores, but not previously known to contain tungsten tung-sten ores. Tungsten and antimony are listed by the Army and Navy Munitions Board as strategic materials, mat-erials, the United States being dependent upon foreign sources for adequate supplies of both of these metals which have highly important military and civilian uses. |