Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - September 4, 1957, Reno, Nevada Mining Crisis Definitive series of articles oil the state of Nevada's mining industry by Jim Hulse starts Learn what has to the state's minerals Page 1 of Nevada's Largest Morning and Sunday Newspaper ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23, 1870 Today's Journal i 6 Editorial 4 Journal 10, 11 12, IS. H World of 5 Daily lo EIGHTY-SEVENTH 243 PHONE FA 3-4121 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1957 lOc 15c ON NEWSSTANDS 16 PAGES TODAY Silver Sox Swing Into Final Series Integration Issue Flares in South Staggering Blows Hit Mine Industry Cold Production Statistics Break Down Into Trouble for Many Here is the in a series of three articles on the present Nevada mining crises By JIM History is repeating itself for Nevada's often abused raining as in the days when miners talked about crime of the state's mineral producers are being victimized national Tba state's gold mines are Within the last six nearly all of the major tungsten and mines have The copper mines are in The state's uranium claim some of whom have ing property are getting only a cold from the NOUfO which is V showing favoritism to j uranium of the Colorado In of the richest mineralized regions in Briefs Prize Looms For Boniar MAY COVER Sept. 3. Sen William F. declared here today that Congress may eventually he forced to law s to unions as well as tions made his remarks in the opening speech of an extended political tour of his home e t a 11 i which viill carry him from the Oregon to the Mexican borders between now and the end of No- ARRIVES IX MOSCOW Sept. 3. Eleanor widow ot the late President Franklin Delano arrived here today for a tour of the viet DEFECTIVE WHEEL Sept. 3. A defective wheel which tire and seemed to be may have led to the train disaster in which approximately 180 sons were killed and at least half the not only failing to receive favorable attention from it is actually being treated There is no formula for explaining the trouble now faced by the state's mining in- Each company has its own problems and each minera is subject to different forces the strong and producers are en- but in the general the mining industry is staggering in The Nevada Tax Commission produced figures about two ago showing that the net proceeds of mines had fiom in the first half of 1956 to in the first hall of 1957. The state's copper mines are reporting net proceeds this jear which are about one- third of the totals recorded last These cold and have a human meaning Translated into terms that they mean that the 1.500 persons aboard injured In half ot s 17 counties it was learned today is tension and hard times LEOPOLD VISITS Sept. 3. King Leopold of Belgium arrived by Pan American Airlines plane here today for a Scientific tour cf the United WEATHER First figures indicate highest temperature during the last 24 lowest yesterday ram during the last 24 Nevada H. L P. Reno 89 41 85 50 Battle 90 38 Elko 87 3S Ely 82 38 Fallon 90 52 Las 98 67 Lovelock 90 40 87 Tonopah 85 4fi Winnemucca 88 35 National 85 57 Boston 88 70 Chicago 81 65 Denver 85 53 Los 80 59 Miami 79 Paul 71 61 New 89 72 New 88 72 Phoenix 71 80 59 Salt Lake 90 56 San 70 52 D. C. 94 74 Data During the last 24 July 1 to to date fast normal July 1 to FORECAST Fair with little change in Mostly chance of little change in Sierra Mostly chance of after- noon little change In Fire Sunset sunrise ir Many i n Weed feeling the In is not merely another it is basically the only industry for most of the unless one re- gards agriculture as an Nevada business interests make considerable talk over the and the bling but none of the entertainment or attractions are true They produce no permanent and tangible In most other the em- ployment situations are such that if a mine there is ally work for the unemployed within a reasonable distance in another In where there are no neighboring the miner cannot usually commute from his home to another place of When a Nevada miner loses his chances are that he will have to leave the and chances are the effects will eventually be felt in Reno and Las Vegas when large numbers lose their There is no room in the recreation industries or in agriculture for the unemployed Louis secretary of the Nevada Mining has said about men have been dropped from the payrolls of vada mines and mills in the last 14 The trouble which the vidual Nevada mining man is facing in the present crisis is only pait of the current The present difficulty may be having an effect more from a long range point of than the effect on the miner's The present crisis and the at- of the federal government some mining men damage a resource which is as essential as ore That re- source is the initiative of the miners and the mine article on the mining scene will pre- sent a brief contrast between the situation of today and that of the bonanza By LEX CROCKER Journal Sports Writer Reno's Silver Sox w ill open then home stand of the 1957 base ball season tonight at playing host to the Salinas Packers in a single contest sched uled for 8 p.m. Game tine 101 the series has been 15 minutes team Business Mana ger Bib Nitsche because bad sun conditions no longer exis at that time of Reno fans will get one of then last looks at the most explosive hitter in all organized baseball Silver Sox outfielder Fran Boniar currently leading the Call forma League and all a lat seems wcl on his way to winning the emblematic of top percentage in the for the second time in three Some quick figuring last night indicated If Boniar wera to go hitless in four times at bat in each of the team's re- maining seven unlikely lit view of his average and current 19-game hitting still would finish the j ear with a solid The California League percentage established last year by Dick Whitman at San Is 20 points below that at game will launch four games in three days and will be observed as both Picture Night and Bell Telephone Company Employes Night at raplis of the 1957 Reno Silver Sox will be distributed free to the fans to mark Picture while players of both the Reno Salinas and a few tans in the crow will receive miniature telephones as part of Bell Tel's Ray Perry Night Thursday will be Ray Perry Night at honoring the popular playing manager of the Reno entry in the Class fornia It also will be marked by a with the first seven called for 6 p.m. known throughout baseball as the But will be recipient of gifts from the fans of the in tion of the work he has done ing the last two years as manager of the Reno club under its full working agreement with the Brooklyn another single game is on tap to wind up the home The game will be played on Nevada Air Products Tompany and also will Awards Reno's four aers of the California League Star team will be presented with scrolls from the the day Hotel's Most Valuable Player Award will be as will the annual Press Box Award from the Sierra Nevada Sportswriters and Broadcasters In Third Place currently in third place i second half will take to the road again Saturday for a single game at winding up the regular season at the Port lity with a double-header Only action afterward will be the playoffs among the top four finished second in the first half behind which now seems certain of winning the second half as The Silver Sox skipper has named right hander Scott Breeden to toe the mound Cor Reno as the team shoots to maintain its almost home record this season in which the Sox have won better than 76 per cent at Moana To the Silver Sox have won 51 of their 67 home a percentage of In the first of the Reno was 29-9 at home for a and to date in the second half stands at 22-7 at Moana for a Thursday's double header against Salinas was scheduled to make up one of two contests wiped out by fog on Reno's most recent ti if to the lettuce center of Reno needs a solid showing in home show to try to move page 10, col. Moon to Be Used As Relay Station For Radio Signals Sept. 3. Naval scientists have after six years of that the moon can be used as a radio relay An official announcement to that effect was made today at the International Scientific dio Union meeting here by James H. He said the experiments were conducted with six different radar nets at the naval research laboratory in Washington D. C. Trexler called it most significant discovery made by Slar Denies Scandal Tale Sept. 3. Actress Maureen O'Hara denied under oath in the smut trial of Confidential magazine that she ever was in Chinese Theater with a as a story in the publication The flame-haired actress fied for the prosecution that she was only in the famous wood Boulevard movie theater twice in her with her brother and the other time with her mother and Testifying as a rebuttal witness in the criminal libel and obscenity trial the she said she vent to the theater with her brother to attend a The magazine article was en- titled was the hottest show in Arms Moves Up lo Ike Declares Sept. 3. President Eisenhower today chal Russia to make the next move toward an East-West dis- armament The speaking at h news took a tic view of any early break in disarmament He said hp does not now sec further constructive step the United States und its allies can make on disarmament at this hp must pen on the other to p Change Not Likely Eisenhower added policy change does not seem like but there could possibly be some change in the Kremlin's po sition which is not visible at Ihi Disarmament negotiator Harol E. Stassen has returned to Lon don from conferences here for meeting this afternoon of the UN disarmament He may hear Russia's official answer to the West's 11-poinl disarmament propos al. Soviet negotiator Valerian Zo rin already has rejected U The plan calls for inspection against surprise at- suspension of nuclear ons testing for two a ban on production of fissionable materia town when Maureen O Kara cuddled in row 35." It said Missioni atin in conventional Selective Buying VACCINE PRODUCTION SOARS U.S. Court Order Defied In Arkansas 3. integration o f public schools spread uneasily further into ths southland but Arkansas Gov. Orval E. defied a eral order and blocked with troops integration in a Little Rock Attorney General Herbert Brownell began an immediate ul- Defense witnesses set two different dates for the alleged ad- November of 1933 and February of 1954. The premiere she and her brother saw was she than that have you ever been in asked cutor William quite she went with my mother and Judge Herbert V. Walker in- at this point to were asked whether you had ever been in the theater in 1953 ind 1954." Miss chic in a white straw hat and vertically striped blue and white turned to the I have never been n Chinese Theater other than on the two occasions of which I Her testimony was given in somber with a noticeable On her left wrist she wore a golden chain Other news highlights said that while he is not advocating a strike he thinks Americans should buy more selectively and carefully to combat He called tion our major internal problem said he had not materially changed his view that the of the 85th Congress in its first session just ended was dously said Congress actually cut his appropriations budget between 900 million and one billion dollars he is not a sufficient saving to justify a tax reduction in the near warned against placing full credence in the Russian an- Soviet scientists had developed and fired an inter- continental ballistics cataloguing congressional he said the most tant was the fact that the mutual security assistance program was not adequately supported in Soviets Oppose Jet Field Choice Sept. 3 The Soviet Union has objected to plans by the United States for it o land two jet airliners t Air Force N. t was disclosed The State Department i last week that two Soviet et passenger planes would land at the Military Air Transport Service terminal at The Soviet ater informed the State ment that McGuire field is ar from New and would a 60 to 70-mile automobile The planes are b r i n g i n g members of the Soviet delegation o the United The first Russian jet airliner is to land at McGuire ield The second is to arrive about Sept. 14, Twenty-four hours before the irst plane was scheduled to Department and Soviet embassy met to try to out landing The hitch in arrangements was when a reporter for the United Press asked the Soviet when the first airplane vould arrive at An em- lassy spokesman said the plane due Wednesday but he did not know where it would said the Soviet Union would rather have the plane land to the United Nations He said the Soviets would prefer to land the plane at Idlewild tional Companies Slash Red Metal Price NEW Sept. 3. Two big copper companies Phelps Dodge Corp. and cott Copper Corp. today cut their price for copper Ik cents to 27 cents a pound in efforts to pep up demand for the key The third member of the U.S. copper Anaconda is expected to go along with the reduction that knocks the price of the metal down 19 cents from the record 46-cent level pre- vailing from Feb. 17 to July 10, 1956. It is the third cut in the producers price in less than months for a total de- cline of five cents a Helping speed up production of Asiatic influenza Philip Lindsay and John employes in a Philadelphia plant which manufactures a device for purifying prepare test bowls for machines which spin at revolutions per Concerned because seeds of an epidemic are planted through the U. vaccine manufacturers told an emergency meeting of lic health officers in Washington they believe they can increase production to 85 million by the end of the Red Athlete ff Issue Raised The State Department in West lo Seek Final Answer Sept. 3. D. is still the u S. and Britain today demanded question of whether Red Chinese athletes will be permitted to com- pete in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley sources saic The department was under- stood to be preparing a which will say that the United States will not discriminate against athletes of other nations subject to U. S. But officials said this did not mean that the Red Chinese admitted to this They said this decision had not been They pointed out that the law as it now stands bars the sion of communists to this try except under waiver The sources also said that at east eight Americans were being approved to travel to communist Bulgaria in connection with the meeting of the In- Olympic Letters notifying seven officials of the International Olympic Committee members of the California Winter Games Com- already have been sent out by the One American reporter also vas being authorized to go from Paris to Sofia to cover the com- The department said letters had out to Robert the California er Games and man ot the American Olympic that Russia give a final answer on the West's ment offer or suspend tions until ready to do so. American Delegate Harold sen and Briton Cmdr. Alan Noble openly challenged Sov let Prime Minister Valerian Zorin on whether his rejection last week of the Western plan was Zorm refused to answer but said that he would be prepared to discuss questions on at tomorrow's Zorin said that unless Stassen is ready to concede to certain viet demands can be little practical result to the negotiations American sources that the ican delegate was prepared to restate the West's first step disarmament Western delegates have put it up to the Rusian delegation to answer their offer or to seek Certain Soviet delegates were reported to have scheduled Friday in- adjournment of the talks this week or Deputy Air Chief Takes Over Duties COLORADO Sept. 3. Marshal C. Roy chief of the Canadian loyal Air prepared today o take over new duties as deputy of the North American Air Defense who arrived in ado Springs last will be in command of the lined operational headquarters of he Canadian and U. S. air defense orce lecess Appointment To TVA to Be Made Sept. 3. The White House today an- that Arnold Jones has agreed to accept a recess ment as a member the ee Valley Authority board of di- resigned recently as uty director of the met President Eisenhower earlier n the day and told Eisenhower he would accept his offer of a recess LITTLE Sept. 3. Judge Ronald N. Davies tonight ordered ate integration of Central High School disregarding a cor- don of National Guard troops thrown around the school last night Gov. Orval E. 10 Days Granted In Land Dispute Sept. 3. Bureau of Indian Affairs spokesman said today that nessman Stanford W. Barton has until Sept. 13 to meet the terms of a disputed contract for leasing In- dian land in The spokesman said that though the Interior Department has asked the Justice Department to investigate an alleged bad check Barton gave the he still has 10 days in which to settle the Barton signed a contract with interior on Aug. 13 to lease arid Indian land near planning to develop it with water from the Colorado Under terms of the Barton had to make an immediate down payment of and raise a five million dollar bond within 30 The Interior De- said Barton's check for was returned marked sufficient Firm Tone Develops On Stock Exchange NEW Sept. 3. Stocks developed a firm tone day after an early Volume fell off to a mere trickle n marked contrast to that 000-share day exactly 28 ago when the bull that started October achieved its record high that held a quarter of the use of the tional Guard troops to prevent obedience to the court Calm Approach President Eisenhower told his news conference today that the overall progress of school ration is bound to be He said tension between the races can be solved only by approaching the problem A shower of hoots and leers 13 Negroes who en- tered i he high under watchful eyes of state No one w a s injured was shouted at the Negroes was shouted at the negroes who armed in a caravan at the Kentucky integration hot But the crowd of some 200 persons outside the school began disperse as the Negroes entered I the I Little Rock's Central High where about 15 Negroes were to have enrolled was a tense scene of bristling armor ot tlie National clubs and Surround School A cordon of some 250 men and state used by the Arkansas governor as an of the ringed the school to prevent The attempt was 100 per cent None of the groes up The Little Rock board of appealed to the Negroes not to enter the Central High School or any other Little Rock N. in- for the first re- ported e. threats and jeers out no Four flanked by a police officer and a Negro entered a Greensboro grade niggers ain't going to in there elled a white man identified as He was stopped by an officer from entering the taking up for Barnett asked the police Two other North Carolina and school tomorrow on an integrated basis for tha first goes into the venture Sept. 9 with in- first In Missouri and have attempted some integration integrated classes were scheduled to get Highway Carnage Tops Estimates By UNITED PRESS The traffic death toll for the Labor Day weekend soared above the advance estimate of 420 and safety officials said they were As late reports trickled a United Press count showed the traffic death toll hit 442. In 95 persons drowned and 8' died in miscellaneous accident for an overall holiday total of 621 during the period from 6 p.m. last Friday to midnight California led all other with 56 dead in New York lad 29, Texas 27, Ohio 22, Illinois 21, Pennsylvania 20, and North Carolina 18. Nevada reported
