Teamster

Monitor

Board'

To Press Ouster o f Hoffa

Court Avows
Committee's
iLegal Power,
Authority Challenge
Thrown Out of Court
WASHINGTON (M)-Teamsters
monitors said yesterday they will
move soon to lay the basis for
ouster of James R. Hoffa as top
boss of the scandal-ridden Team-
sters Union.
Martin F. O'Donoghue, monitor
board chairman, said his three-
man cleanup group will press
ahead harder than ever now that
the Supreme Court has refused to
interfere with monitor reform en-
forcement powers.
The court yesterday refused to
review lower court decisions giv-
ing the monitors sweeping reform
authority.
Handicapped
The monitors, appointed two
years ago, have been handicapped
all along, O'Donoghue said, with

HIGHWAY PROGRAM:
Panel Studies Fund Sources

U.S.Must
Compete,
Cooperate
NEW YORK (W) - Secretary of
State Christian Herter said yes-
terday the United States can and
must develop ground rules and a
common language for both coop-
eration and competition with
Communist nations.
On some fundamental issues,
the Secretary said, "we can find a
common language because we
have a common interest."
Among these common interests,
he added, are the arts and sci-
ences, essentials of everyday life,
and "the basic will to survive."
"Competition will continue to
be rugged, however, despite any
ground rules or exchanges," Her-
ter said. "The need to take a firm
grasp on both sets of facts - the
necessity for common ground
rules and the aggressive competi-


(Editor's Note: The nation's 41,-
000 mile superhighway program is
still having financial problems de-
spite the one-cent increase in gaso-
line taxes. Here is a report on the
problems and accomplishments to
date.)
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - A special
White House group is reported
considering major changes in the
costly interstate superhighway
program.
Reliable informants said the
group is giving serious study to
proposals that the states pay for a
bigger share of the 40-billion-dol-
lar undertaking. The federal gov-
ernment now pays 90 per cent.
These sources said no final deci-
sions have been made. In any case,
the panel could only make recom-.
mendations to President Dwight
D. Eisenhower. Then Congress
would have to act if Eisenhower
should present concrete proposals.
Bragdon Heads Group
The White House group, headed
by presidential assistant John S.
Bragdon, has been handed one of
the hottest political footballs in
town. Its mission: To find a way
of building 41,000 miles of express
roads without straining the fed-
eral budget.
In the past three years, the
estimated cost of building these
roads has risen by 13%/2 billion
dollars, or nearly 50 per cent.
As things stand, there is little
or no prospect that the govern-
ment can supply the needed funds
by 1972-the target date for com-
pleting the giant road network.
By law, the program must oper-
ate on a pay-as-you-build basis.
Money is spent only as it comes
in from taxes on highway users.
Under present tax rates, the pro-
gram would have to be stretched
out until about 1980 to keep spend-
ing in line with revenues.
Roads Mean Jobs
Because the new roads mean
jobs, and also because they're
deemed necessary for defense,
there is great reluctance to stretch
out the program. However, there
are no easy alternatives.
One, to abandon the pay-as-
you-build proviso, appears wholly

unacceptable to the Administra-
tion.
Another alternative reportedly
considered by the Bragdon group
would eliminate urban superhigh-
ways from the program. Although
relatively little mileage would be
involved, express roads in cities
account for an estimated 42 per
cent of the program's total cost.
This is due mainly to the high cost
of the real estate involved.
Since urban motorists will pay
close to half the cost of the inter-
state system, elimination of city
projects would be political dyna-
mite.
Sources close to the program
said Bragdon has turned away
from this plan, apparently be-
cause of political heat from both
parties. They said he now is ex-
ploring the possibility of cutting
the percentage of federal contri-
butions to all interstate projects.
May Urge Committee
Should Bragdon decide this is
the best coursedhe wouldn't ne-
cessarily make a direct recom-
mendation to this effect. One in-
formant said Bragdon instead
might urge Eisenhower to name a
special committee to give further
study to this intensely controver-
sial question.
Bragdon also was said to be
looking for a way to reduce out-
lays for urban roads without elim-
inating them. He reportedly be-
lieves some frills could be dropped
at a considerable savings.
Bragdon, a retired brigadier
general, told a reporter he hopes
to submit an interim report with-
in three months and a final re-
port three months later. While de-
clining to discuss specifics, he
said:
"We're not out to hurt anybody.
We like the program. It was the
President's own program. We sim-
ply want to make sure it is being
carried out economically and effi-
Includes Several
Working with Bragdon are half
a dozen White House staffers plus
several highway specialists hired
for the survey. Bragdon said his
group is working closely with the
Budget Bureau and the Bureau of
Public Roads.

Ike Approves Budget

Bragdon reportedly is disturbed
because little progress has been
made in building cross-country
highways which the military could
use to truck missiles and other
gear. Most completed projects are
in or near major cities.
Less than 5,000 miles of inter-
state roads are open to traffic -
an average of about 100 miles per
state. This may seem a small fig-
ure for a three-year-old program.
However, roads officials say pre-
liminary studies and land pur-
chases took much of the money
spent at the start.
Little Open
Very few long stretches are open
to traffic. Most of these are in the
northeastern quarter of the coun-
try and generally are toll roads.
These were built outside the pro-
gram but were incorporated into
the network. The Pennsylvania
and Ohio Turnpikes and New
York Thruway are examples.
According to the master plan,
the system eventually will con-
nect 90 per cent of all cities with
populations of 50,000 or more. Ev-
erything hinges at this point,
however, on finding a solution to
the money problem.
Bragdon's group is wrestling
with long-range financing diffi-
culties. The program also is in
short-run difficulties.
Congress last year voted to ac-
celerate the program but provided
no money to underwrite the
speedup. As a result, the highway
trust fund will run dry this month
and get a loan from the treasury.
Revenues Scarce
Even with the penny-a-gallon
gas tax increase which went into
effect Oct. 1, revenues won't cover
all spending that might be done
in the coming months. As a re-
sult, the administration for the
fiirst time has clamped contract
controls on the states.
Each state has been told how
much it can spend, and at what
rate, if it wants prompt reim-
bursement from Washington.
Even then, there will be some de-
lay in making payments to the
states come next June.
Some Democrats in Congress
believe the contract controls are
illegal. They see them as a repu-
diation of federal promises to the
states.
W h e t h e r or not Congress
wrestles next year with the long
range problem, the immediate sit-
uation is certain to kick up a
storm.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (N) - President
Dwight D. Eisenhower accepted
tentatively yesterday a 1961 mili-
tary budget, in the general area
of the current 41 billion dollars,
calling for small manpower cuts
for two of the armed services so
as to stress new weapons.
Modern weapons apparently will
get the nod over personnel.
Military manpower now is about
2,500,000. How much and where it
might be pared down was not dis-
closed.
Manpower Cuts
But Secretary of Defense M&El-
roy, on his return to Washington
said the Air Force and the Navy
are scheduled to take manpower
cuts under the new budget. He
added that the Navy's second nu-
clear powered aircraft carrier
failed to get approval.
,At the same time, McElroy said
the question of calling back some
of the American troops now over-
seas is one that must be faced
some time in the future rather
than immediately.
For something like four hours
the Augusta National Golf Club
was the scene of a conference be-
tween Eisenhower, McElroy and
other top bracket defense and fi-
nancial authorities on what to do
about the military budget for the
1961 fiscal year starting July 1.
Group Meeting
For 30 minutes of that time,
McElroy and the chief executive
were alone in Eisenhower's office.
For the remainder, 11 people, in-
cluding budget director Maurice
H. Stans, were gathered around a
rectangular council table, in front
of an open fire, in the club's tro-
phy room. The Defense Secretary
talked with reporters afterward
at the airport before flying back
to Washington.
Some parts of the military
budget were pushed up, some
down, McElroy said. Again with-
out spelling out details, he told
newsmen that "we're putting very
sharp questions" against some re-
search programs.
To Confer
In that connection, another
budget conference, now on tap for
today, took on special signifi-
cance. The White House an-
nounced that Dr. T. Keith Glen-
non, head of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Agency, will

confer with Eisenhower this
morning.
NASA has been put in charge
of the Saturn Project to develop a
rocketry system capable of get-
ting a man into space.
This year's military budget calls
for expenditures just short of 41
billion dollars, out of a total bud-
get of 79 billions. Speaking of the
defense portion, McElroy said:
"It's going to be very difficult to
find a budget level any lower than
the present spending level."
To a question whether that
meant the 1961 figure would be a

bit larger, he replied "in the gen-
eral area."
The Secretary said he thought
the defense budget could be
cleared by the National Security
Council within 10 days and that
Eisenhower would give it final ap-
proval before taking off Dec. 3 on
a good will mission to 11 nations.
Stans voiced a hope that the
entire budget will be nailed down
before the President gets away.
He said he expects to consult with
Eisenhower on that before the
end of the week, either here or in
Washington.

Output Remains Steady,
Housing Starts Plummet

WASHINGTON (P) - Indus-
trial output fell only slightly last
month despite the steel strike but
private housing starts were down
sharply, the government reported
yesterday.
The Federal Reserve Board said
production in mines and factories
dropped about one-half of one per
cent. In a separate report, the
Census Bureau said housing starts
were down 13 per cent, mostly be-
cause of tight money.
Industrial production, adjusted
to take seasonal factors into ac-
count, was 48 per cent above the
1947-49 average. In September it
was 49 per cent higher than the
average.
Reason Given
The board said the drop reflect-
,A+lfat thatt pAInino in

55 per cent above the 1947-49 av-
erage.
Housing starts in October were
estimated by the Census Bureau
at an annual rate of 1,180,000
units. This compared with a Sep-
tember rate of 1,325,000. Both fig-
ures were adjusted to take sea-
sonal fluctuations into account.
The actual number of starts
last month was 102,000, or 13 per
cent below the September level.
Some decline in starts is nor-
mal for this time of year. How-
ever last month's drop was much
sharper than usual.
Bureau' experts said the steel
strike accounted for some of the
slump. They said a shortage of
structural steel curtailed work on
apartment buildings.
Rising Interest

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER
... cites common interests
tion - will be a severe test of our
political maturity as a people."
Addresses 2,000
Herter, addressing nearly 2,000
delegates to a National Foreign
Trade Convention. also acci-d
.. . in the mere enjoyment of a
prosperous life behind our defen-
sive curtain of nuclear power.
"We must realize instead," he
said, "that the fateful competi-
tion with Communism has placed
a first claim on the energy and
interests of us all.
Public First
"That means subordinating our
private interests to the paramount
public interest," he said. "It also
means using our economy less for
the things which do not really
matter, and more for the things
which do - for the uses which
would train and inform our minds,
promote the health of our society
and keep our country free."

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JAMES HOFFA
...may be ousted

challenges of their legal powers
by Hoffa and the Teamsters.
"Now we can move ahead much'
faster and get this cleanup job
over with," O'Donoghuertold re-
porters.
O'Donoghue and his two moni-
tor colleagues are to meet today
to chart their speeded-up courseI
of processing charges against
Hoffa and other Teamsters offi-
cials and practices that were
questioned by the Senate Rackets
Committee.
Process Charges
A number of charges already
being processed and due to be
made soon against Hoffa himself,
O'Donoghue said, could be the
basis of trials either within the
Teamsters Union or in court,
aimed at Hoffa's ouster.
Hoffa took over the union's
presidency provisionally when the
monitors were appointed in the
compromise of a lawsuit that ac-
cused Hoffa of helping rig his own
union election.
Press Forward
O'Donoghue said these are some
of the charges that now will be
pressed against Hoffra:
k 1) A list of 263 charges of al-
leged misconduct filed with the
monitors by the New York rank-
and-file Teamsters group that
brought the compromised lawsuit
that tried to prevent Hoffa from
becoming union president.
2) Claims that Hoffa and fel-
low Teamster officers have re-
fused to obey reform orders even
when so ordered by various Fed-
eral courts.
3) Financial dealings in which
it is charged that Hoffa used some
$400,000 funds of his Detroit Lo-
cal No. 229 as security for loans
to foot the bill for a Florida real
estate deal.
Assistant Too
Hoffa's No. 1 assistant, Harold
Gibbons, also is under monitor
fire in connection with Local No.
* 245 at Springfield, Mo. The moni-
tors have charged that Gibbons
failed to safeguard now-missing
financial records.
O'Donoghue also revealed that
the monitors will seek to bar
Hoffa from running for re-elec-
ton as president of Detroit Local
229. O'Donoghue said the union
constitution requires the union's
national president to spend full
time at that job.

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Nautilus Discovers Island
'Hidden Under Arctic Ocean

November 17, 1959


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NEW YORK (M - A huge un-
derwater island has been charted
900 feet below the icy surface of
the Arctic Ocean.
The area was discovered by the
nuclear submarine Nautilus on its
pioneering cruise across the Arc-
tic.
Columbia University scientists
measured the submerged plateau
and found the top of it to be 14,-
000 square miles in area. That is
635 times the size of Manhattan
and larger than either Maryland
or New Jersey.
North of Siberia
The island is 500 miles north
of the p of Siberia.
The ceanographers believe the
Nautilus crossed the southwest
corner of the island formation.
The scientists made their study
from a floating ice island, Alpha
II, which drifted across the entire
width of the submerged land
mass.
"The ocean bottom suddenly
leaped from 9,000 feet to 900 feet
in little more than one day's time
-or about 42 miles of drift," said
William J. Cromie, geophysicist.
Cromie and his three -fellow
scientists from Columbia's La-
mont Geological Observatory
found' that the shallower waters
of the island plateau provide an
oasis of activity in the dreary
Arctic.
No Life
There was little or no life on
the ocean bottom-9,000 feet into
the cold waters. But on the island
plateau, several varieties of life

were found and photographed:
sponges a few inches thick, a cold
water shrimp, small fish and sea
anemone.
The scientists also found a de-
posit of fossils, dead 10,000 years
or more, of clams and snails.
"This led us to wonder why we
found no live ones in that area,"
Cromie said.
They also trawled along the
top of the plateau, reaching near
the island's surface for samples
of underwater life. Nothing sur-
vived the long haul to the surface.

nat metai-usingin-
- rely on inventories However, they indicated the
oreduction. In some biggest factor was rising interest
ies ran dry and out- rates on mortgage money. The
curtailed. rise has been in progress for more
the teeworersre-than a year, and has had a grad-
the steelworkers me- ual dampening effect on housing
r jobs Nov. 7 under starts
junction, the board Except in July, starts have fal-
ooks for no imme- len every month since they hit
reto the peak pro- a record annual rate of 1,434,000
r'eached in June be- last April.
e The October drop in industrial
and output in em- production was attributed to
elated industries will slight declines in manufacturing
til steel supplies are of both durable and non-durable
volume," the board goods. In addition, work stoppages
limited the mining of coal, iron
dustrial output was and copper.
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