Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 24

Lebanon Daily June 26, 1952-25 America's Helping Hand U.S. Expert Helps Afghans On Coal Mining Problems Today. Know-how whichj American miners acquired over the years is being transport-! ed to distant Afghanistan to aid the government there get a' brand new coal industry going. Claude G. Murphy, one of two Americans "loaned" to 1 the Afghan government for this "Point Four" project, said! that fuel is "scarce and costly" in the Asiatic country the winters are bitterly cold.

i Murphy, home on a purchasing' i mission for the Afghan ministry 1 wore wooloris and was colder coal, explained that until 1942 lhc! lllan waon as in Korea." country made no effort whatsoever! Production of coal got up to tn tap its comparatively rich coal.000 Inns last year. Murphy saitli fields. I (hat "we'll be doing well if we hit! Centuries of wood-burning have the same amount this year." denuded the country of its trees and even, Murphy said, of such vegetation ns sagebrush. Erosion has become a big problem of the hillsides. But a more serious and personal problem for the 10 to 12 million Afghans who live just south of the Oxus River from Russia, is keeping warm in winter.

When the coal industry gets weir established, Afghanistan hopes tni start a few new industrial mills' including a cement plant. Nowj cement comes from Belgium. Mur-j phy said that imports take from' one (o two years "to get in." On his purchasing mission, he will buy some generating and elec-j Ideal equipment and some general Although the government started mining supplies such as wire rope working two coal fields after and cars. little progress was made. Afghanis-! (Next: Food For India's Hungry.

tan finally applied for American: know-how under the Point Four; technical aid program. Murphy seemed just what thej country needed. He had spent 15. years in American coal mines, ris-! ing from such posts as electrician and foreman to super-! intendent. He had worked 18 months as a coal mine technician in Korea before the war started.

Of his year-old Afghan assignment. Murphy said: "We are not trying to build a little America there. We are not out for modernization. We are just trying to get going." When he arrived, the miners did not have enough picks, axes and other hand tools to go around. Coal was carted out of the pits on the backs of the miners.

A big part of Murphy's task has been to convert sheep herders into miners and keep them on the job. Afghan coal is "mostly dust rather than hunks." Murphy said it is made into briquettes by being mixed with molasses. He explained that molasses is a "waste product of the sugar mill and the coal ministry get it for nothing." Coal is rationed in Afghanistan and even Murphy was unable to get enough last winter. He said, Sen. Tall Hopes To Make Hay In Chicago Next Week Even The Hot Stands Go In Glitterville Dog Plushy By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (UP) the lowly hot dog stand has gone glamorous in 45 cent price tags, plushy decor and movie stars for customers.

Points of culture for summer tourists include a beautiful bank with a press shine parlors beneath the palm and a meat market that displays choice cuts, like diamonds, on black velvet in the window. Now in movielown the hot dog stands have turned as fancy as the nightclubs and high-priced eateries too. One, called "The Hot Dog Show," serves charcoal broiled hot dogs to luminaries in tuxedo and mink such as Betty Grable, Harry James, Terry -Moore, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters, Gene Kelley and Virginia Mayo. "The Hot Dog Show" opened ft i I 1 V.I«_H_L,«1LV,,.T four years ago with the flourish of whf) cared (f) scc nim Bl(l a movie premiere. This 17 by 23-, senator final wcek of his prc By LYLK C.

WILSON WASHINGTON (U.P.)— Robert A. Taft will begin Monday; to pin point his campaign for Re-i publican presidential nomination on: control of the national convention- machinery. The Ohio senator will arrive in Chicago June 30 for that purpose. Reminded that mighty few dele-, gates will he on hand a week be-! fore the convention meets, Taft! has pointed out to questioners lhalj members of the key convention! committees will be arriving in! Chicago early next week. These are Ihe national commit-; tee and the committees on credentials and resolutions.

The national committee will begin July 1 hear arguments on contested dele-i gations. The credentials commit-; tee and the resolutions committecj will organize some days before; the convention meets. Both are vit-j al to Taft's convention The credentials committee must' consider and report on the rival! claims of contesting delegates af-j ter the national committee has con-! sidered them. It is in the resolutions commit-, tee that Taft hopes to break the' back of the major policy issue raised against him by Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower. Taft holds that he and the general are not far apart on foreign policy and that their difference is I one of method. The senator believes John Foster Dulles can draft a foreign policy plank on which both he and Eisenhower can stand comfortably. The general said he hoped so, but there was no show of confidence to accompany the hope. Eisen-j hower's foreign policy speech thisi week rated his differences with Taft as basic.

Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty. He was Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy adviser in 1948. Since then, Dulles has been part architect of those portions of Truman foreign policy demand toi be bi-partisan.

I Taft said here he would be able in Chicago for two or three! days to confer with any delegates! foot establishment was nearly hidden by two searchlights, 25 celebrities, 500 customers and bleachers for the screaming fans. The stand is decorated'in copper and antiques in early American styles, and the atmosphere is early confusion. Six waiters fall over each other to charcoal broil the hot dogs. "That's showmanship," beams proprietor Al Melchior, who's Ann Sothern's ex-manager. "Customers like to see the boys bustle around.

It's like a scene from a Marx- Brothers movie." Filmsters drive up in their cad- illacs to order such delicacies as the Mutt (just plain dog with mus- special, the Husky (with chili, onions and melted cheese.) "We get mostly who like to eat hot dogs but don't want to go to any old place," says Melchoir with dignity. "We get the Cadillac trade. "Johnny Weissmullcr holds the record with five hot dogs at one sitting. Ava Gardner likes three. Ginger Rogers always orders 'The which is a hot dog served with sauerkraut." Since the premier of the Hot Dog Show, other fancy hot dog stands have blossomed out among the plushy eateries in movie town's restaurant row.

called Tail O'The Pup, is situated a discreet distance, from the elite tail O'The Cock restaurant. convention campaign will be more' aggressive than that. lie considers influence on key committees or outright control ofj them to be among the prime and legitimate objectives of his pre- convention campaign. This pre- convention appearance in Chicago is designed to build higher barriers against Eisenhower's nomin-' ation. Taft will be back in Washington; for what are hoped to be the final! days of Ihe congressional session inext wcek.

He will return to Chicago Juiy 6, the day before thei convention opens, (o general man-; age his own campaign. Eisenhower' has not yet decided whether toi make a personal Chicago appear-j ance. Awarded BS Degree At Marquefte University John J. Bender, son of Mrs. Charles Bender of 640 Locust Street was degree of bachelor of scienca from the College of Liberal Ajts of Marquette University at the regular commencement exercises held there recently.

A graduate of Lebanon Catholic High School, Class of 1945, Bender majored in philosophy while a I Jlarquette. He is a veteran of 38 months service in the U.S. Army. Bender is currently employed by the DuPont Company in Seaford, Malayan RAF Wants Big Helicopters For Troops INC; A PORE Royal Air Force in jUalaya is making inquiries in London about the possibility of obtaining large helicopters capable of carrying up to 20 men each for use in the war against the Communist terrorists. The big hover-planes could be used by combat troops to descend intoj jungle clearings to intercept flce-j ing terrorists instead of hacking their way slowly as at present.

is understood, however, that! Western Union and other reanna-j reent commitments will make it unlikely that such troop-carrying helicopters will be made available to Malaya for some time. NOT SO SAFE NEW YORK Industrial accidents cost the a i $2,600,000,000 a year and most occur in small manufacturing plants with 100 or fewer workers, reports the National Association of Mutual Casualty Companies. It said two-thirds of the industrial accidents, which resulted in 16,000 deaths and injures to 2,000,000 persons, occurred in the smaller plants. "Iced or Hot SiiURFWE Hits the Spot" Lb. Economy Bag Sterling Coffee bajr Boscul Coffee 840 Hh.

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