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Monday, July I 1. 1966 Editorials And Features U. S. Undersea Wealth Potential Staggering We are only beginning to appreciate the fact that this country, as vast as it is, is nearly a third again as big as we thought it was. Land area of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, is a little over 3.6 million square miles.

But this is not the total area available to us, not by about another million square miles. Those extra million square miles are the continental shelf regions an undersea area of "tremendous economic potential," says a report just issued by the Environmental Science Services Administration of the Department of Commerce. ESSA is a new bureau created a year ago by merging the Weather Bureau, the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards. According tc the report, economic activity over and under the continental shelves totaled an estimated S21.4 billion in 1964. Transportation accounted for more than half of this STL3 billion.

The value of natural resources, such as oil, gas and fish, taken from these areas amounted to another 51.2 billion- Other figures include: Recreation, Fulfon Lewis $3.8 billion; marine engineering, billion; defense and space, 51.3 billion. In all, 10 principal "user groups," both public and private, made up the total- The report predicts a significant increase in activities by all of them. Mining of precious minerals from offshore may occur in the next two or three years, says ESSA. Mining of offshore heavy-mineral sands may come within 10 years. Besides serving as a recreation area and a source of seafood, the coastal waters are also a dumping ground for the wastes of nearly a third of the U.S.

population and the industrial complexes located within 50 miles of the coasts. As the population increases, indiscriminate waste-disposal practices could seriously threaten the use of the oceans as a food source and the livelihoods of some 250,000 people directly and indirectly dependent upon the shellfish industry. To meet this problem, and to meet all future users needs, ESSA recommends that the "highest priority" be given to mapping and surveying the continental shelves and their It does seem logical that we should know at least as much about our own back yard as we will eventually know about the moon. Udall Plan Would Turn Canyon Into Reservoir By BILL SCHULZ (Fulton Lewig Jr. Is rttcap- from surgery.

In his absence Ms column will be written by his associate, Bill Schulz.) WASHINGTON The House Interior Committee is prepared to rubber-stamp a 51-7 billion boondoggle that would permanently disfigure one of the world's great landmarks, the Grand Canyon. The project, a brainchild of Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, is designed ultimately to provide badly needed water for his home state of Arizona- Udall, usually an outspoken conservationist who decries the "rape of Mother Nature," has evidenced no such qualms in this case. Under the Udall plan, almost half of the Grand Canyon would be turned into a dead storage reservoir by two massive hydroelectric dams. They would generate power to pump water from Northwest into central Arizona. Rep.

Henry Reuss has fought the, project, arguing that it would forever mar the "magnificent treasure" of the Grand Canyon. He is joined by Rep. James Cleveland who says the proposed dams represent an obsolete concept in power development. "Big dams are no longer the most economical way of generating electrical power," he says. "Steam plants usually are cheaper and more efficient today, and in the near future, atomic plants will be furnishing cheap power." A Udall aide.

Reclamation Commissioner Floyd Dominy, admitted under Congressional questioning that the Central Arizona Project was "theoreti- cally feasible" without damming the Grand Canyon, But Udall remains adamant that the dams be built He has in fact gone to incredible lengths to silence opponents of the plan. Employes of the National Park Service have been forbidden to distribute literature critical of the project. Experts with the U.S. Geological Survey, which also comes under Udall's aegis, have been denied permission to testify before Congress against the project. A brazen attempt was made to quiet a private organization opposed to the measure.

The Sierra Club, a leading conservationist group with headquarters iti San Francisco, recently ran two newspaper ads opposing the project. Rep. Morris Udall Stewart's brother, promptly demanded that the Internal Revenue Service review the group's tax deductibility status. Within 24 hours the Sierra Club was informed, by hand-delivered letter, that the IRS is "no longer prepared to extend advance assurance of deductibility of contributions to the club." The urgency of the IRS action was probably unprecedented. After describing the action as "routine." an IRS spokesman later conceded that 'Tm afraid that this is the first time in recent times that this has been done." Reuss and other lawmakers were outraged that the IRS had acted in such an arbitrary, highhanded manner.

The New York Times editorialized: "The IRS attempt to restrict the club is a gratuitous intervention in this controversy and looks suspiciously like harassment and intimidation." A number of Congressmen noted privately that no action Try Your Word Power NEA FEATURE Fire Answer to Previous Puiile ACROSS 1 Sign of fire 6 Effect of fire 10 Flake 32Dig (dial.) 33 Contributes 14 Edible bulb 35 People subdued SOrpanizor of a kind 3 Khayyam ant? namesakes 4 Sets of tools 5 Compass reading 6 Fowl by Charlemagne "Nullifies 36 Kind of machine 8 Shuns lab.) 18 Performed 39 Ixwer limbs 20 Philippine peasant 21 Places for sleeping 22 Adjective ending 23 West German capital 24 United States ship lab.) 25 Mistake 27 Remote 29 Incorporated (ab.) 30 fatuus (will-o'-the-wisp) 33 Near the stern (naut.) 35 Rabbit 37 Small house 39 Regulation 40 Before 41 Refute 42 Constellation 43 Donkey Of the sun 45 Arab, for example 47 Run 49 Bird of Toon family 50 Nine-day devotion 51 Relaxation 52 Awaits decision DOWN I Croat's neighbor 9 Watches over 11 Korean, for instance 12 Benedictine title 13 Painter Salvador 17 Jamboree feature 26 Ceremony 36 28 Grow old burning 31 Island in North 38 Biblical city Atlantic 39 Scope 32 Musical 41 Mark van compositions 43 Fruit drink 20 Portable lights 33 Goddess of 44Sap(Fr.) 21 Destroy by fire dawn 46 Boy's nickname 23 Good (Fr.) 34 Tongues of fire 48 Soft drink had been taken by the IRS against the National Student Association, the Fund for the Republic, the National Council of Churches, and other ultra-liberal tax deductible groups that blatantly involve in political controversies. The Grand Canyon project expected to be approved by the House Interior Committee on "Wednesday. It will then go to the House floor where Reps. Reuss and Cleveland have pledged a bipartisan battle to prevent its passage. Prospects for favorable action on the Senate side are not so good.

The Senate Interior Committee is chaired by Sen. Henry Jackson who is believed to be opposed to the bill. SEN. GALE McGEE has denounced the rude, contemptuous manner in which several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee treated Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. McGee, a committee member and staunch defender of U.S.

policy in Viet Nam, mentioned no names, but referred plainly to Chairman J. William Fulbright and Sens. Wayne Morse and Joseph Clark McGee spoke at Oregon State University. He said: "A stranger dropping in (at the committee hearings) from another planet might have thought Rusk and McNamara to be enemy agents or worse. They were abused, harried and insulted in the extreme.

The price paid for this kind of conduct in committee was more than the personal injury to the men involved. It had the effect of downgrading government. The impression was very strong at times that the questioners of the two secretaries started with the assumption of their guilt of some heinous crime unless they could come up wihh a good alibi." McGee answered Fulbright's charge that U.S. officials had displayed an "arrogance of power" by asserting that critics of America's Vietnamese policy were guilty of an "arrogance of dissent." "It never seems to enter their minds that just maybe the American position might be right," McGee said bluntly. Three Texans Killed WASHINGTON (AP) Three more Texans have been killed in action in Viet Nam, the Defense Department reported Monday.

They included Army Spec. 4 William R. Mindach, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B.

Mindach of Corpus Christi; Marine Lance Cpl. James G. Brown, whose wife lives at Terrell, and Marine Cpl. Glenn E. Spratley, whose wife lives at Houston.

PO Contract Approved WASHINGTON Award of a 51,393,962 contract for Area Builders, of Odessa to erect a new post office at Lubbock was announced. Friday by the General Services Administration. The firm's bid was the lowest of seven. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. Try Sun Classified Rusk's Speeches Sincere? By HENBY McLEMOSE NEW YORK I love Dean Rusk, America's Secretary of State.

He is 7 from Georgia, to start with, and that makes us fellow Crackers. I love Dean Rusk for a second reason because he likes his job better than he does his own convictions. I could be wrong, mind you. Maybe Dean Rusk feels about the war in Viet Nara just as he says in his speeches. But I don't think he does.

I am quite sure that if he were not Secretary of State and, let us say, were a congressman from Idaho, he'd be critical of what this country is in Viet Nam. Everything I have read about Dean Rusk indicates he is a smart and logical man, a man who weighs one ounce against another and uses his trained mind to make a solid decision. No man, unless he were following the policy of a man or group above him, would have said what Dean Rusk said in Japan recently. Dean Rusk said the presence of one million men in South Viet Nam would assure victory of the South Vietnamese. Who ever doubted that? Do Americans have to be assured by either Dean Rusk or General Westmoreland that America is capable of defeating North Viet Nam? Who doubts that the lion will beat the chicken in a pitched fight? Who questions that Alabama will beat Yale at football? No one.

As a plain American citizen, I would like to assure Johnson, Rusk, and Gen. Westmoreland, that no American ever worried about North Viet Nam beating America. The only thing that has worried Americans is what America gains by winning. Would Joe Ixiuis get acclaim by flattening Horace A. Smith of New Rochelle, N.Y.? If this country were fighting Russia in a stand-off, head-to- head battle, the world might well place a bet.on the outcome.

But for America to hope to gain anything by beating Viet Nam is ridiculous. Take a look at the two countries on the map. Take a look at the production figures the two countries. Take a look at the population figures. Take a look at the education, the diet, the hospitals, the doctors, the general dream of tomorrow.

"Just to Top Things Washington Merry Byrd Regime Fighting To Keep 50-Year Rule By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Virginia, the state which gave the nation George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and four other Presidents, is now in the throes of its most interesting political battle in four decades. The battle is to upset the 50- year rule of the Byrd regime which, while calling itself Democratic, has swung Virginia to the Republican ticket in three out of the last four presidential elections. Two senators and one all powerful congressman, all pillars of the Byrd regime, are the central issue of the Democratic primary next Tuesday, and conflicts of interest somewhat similar to that revealed Fred Hartman Editor and Publisher James EL Hale General Manager Preston Pendergrrass Managing Editor Beulah Mae Jackson Assistant To The Publisher Bill Hartman Assistant To The Publisher Ann B. Pritchett Office Manager ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT John Wadley Manager Paul Putman Retail Manager Carrie Laughlin National Manager Entered as second class matter at the Baytown, Texas, 77521 Office under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published afternoons.

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Although asthma is a disease that affects many adults, in most cases it has its onset before the age of 5. The first sign of asthma in most children is a recurrent cough. Later the coughing is associated with wheezing. It is important to remember, however, that all wheezing is not due to true (allergic) asthma. It may also be caused by inhaling a nut, popcorn or other foreign body.

When this is the cause, removal of the offender through a bronchoscope cures the wheezing. In many cases of asthma one or more members of the victim's family have asthma or some other form of allergy such as hives or hay fever. An environment of emotional tension is an important factor in other cases. The immediate cause may be animal dander, house dust, a pollen or some food. A study was made recently on a group of newborns who were closely related to asthmatics.

One half were given the usual varied diet and the other half were given no foods containing cow products, chicken, eggs or wheat in their first nine months of life. In the next 10 years, five times as many on the varied diet developed asthma as in the group with the restricted diet. Another factor in causing or aggravating asthma is repeated attacks of respiratory infection. About 50 per cent of the children with mild asthma outgrow it by the time they are 15. If they have an associated eczema or hay fever, their chances of outgrowing the asthma are poor and if the victims are girls their chances are not as good as if they are boys.

Those who have severe or frequent attacks usually have the disease throughout their lives. The first step in the treatment is to find and eliminate from the immediate cause of the attacks. This may be a chair stuffed with horse hair, a feather pillow, woolen clothes or a pet dog or cat. An often-neglected part of the treatment is to see that the child gets enough fluid. Daily doses of potassium iodide may help by loosening the secretions of the bronchial tubes.

For acute attacks inhalation of adrenalin through an atomizer usually gives dramatic relief. If the condition is persistent, small daily doses of cortisone may be required and in some children desensitizing injections may be helpful. If your child has asthma you should avoid overprotecting him because this will add to his emotional problems as he grows older. When he starts to go to school you should tell his teacher about his condition and he should be allowed to take his medicine in school when it is needed. in the Dodd investigation are at issue with two of them.

Here is the battle line-up in the Old Dominion: Sen. Willis Robertson, 78, but so sensitive about his age that be omits it from the Congressional Directory, has served in the senate 20 years and is now chairman of th Senate Banking and Currency Committee. As such he introduced legislation permitting bank mergers regard- Jess of the antitrust laws and i-egardless of Justice Department prosecution. But it's now revealed that the banks have supplied Robertson with plentiful campaign funds and expert campaign personnel. State Sen.

William B. Spong a moderate Democrat running against Robertson with modest campaign funds, has charged conflict of interest, and in th minds of many voters lie has made the charge stick. Robertson, though a staunch devotee of the Byrd regime, may well be defeated. SEN. HARRY Byrd son of the famous senator, is running to replace his retired and ailing father.

He is a likeable chip off the old block of Virginia reaction Armistead L. Soothe, who had the courage to vote in the Virginia Senate against segrega tion at a time when Harry Byrd was talking privately about using troops to shoot down "the pickaninnies," was running ngainst Byrd Jr. Racism is still an issue, and the Byrd machine has mailed out 25,000 letters to selected white voters in Richmond bewailing the election of three Negroes to the Richmond City Council and declaring that a vote for Byrd will help prevent such tragedy in the future. Rep. Howard Smith, 83, chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, is facing the toughest battle in his long career, and if loses as he may his defeat would be more significant than any in the nation, George C.

Railings of Fredericksburg, is a live-wire state delegate who, when a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, dug into the persecution suffered by Bap- mm WORLD lists and other Protestants in the Revolutionary days and helped establish a park Jn honor of Virginia's great Baptist preacher John Leland. The park is a grove of trees near Orange, where Leland and Madison worked out the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. Significantly, Rawlings took the initiative in establishing this park during the height of the McCarthy era when these freedoms were being challenged. Rawlings has pinpointed some of the flagrant conflicts of interest in the congressional career of Rep. Smith, but not all of them.

They are too many for one man to research. THIS COLUMN, for instance, earlier reported that Smith had tried to block the congressional probe of foundations by Rep. Wright Patman, because Smith is chariman of the Alexandria National Bank which is controlled by Financial General and the George Olmsted Foundation. However, I neglected to report some of the juiciest details of this so called charitable foundation. One of its charitable enterprises was to pay $1,068 for a portrait of Mrs.

George Olmsted, wife of Gen. Olmsted, and present it to the U.S. Military Academy. Just why West Point would relish portrait of a banker's wife, even though the banker is a retired general, is hard to understand. Another was a trip to Europe by L.t, Gen.

Henry Aurand, Ret, president of the Olmsted Foundation, with his wife, which cost the foundation 5653.24 for hotels and meals, 5502.50 for entertainment of Olmsted scholars, and $292.92 for transportation. The Aurands paid th rest. Gen. Olmsted also engaged in considerable self dealings with his foundation. In 1958 it purchased 550,789 of Marvil Corp notes from the Realty and Development of Des Moines, the latter being controlled by George Olmsted when it made the sale to the George Olmsted Foundation.

"How come we're old enough to fight and die for our country, but not old enough to vote, drink or see 'Virginia Best Performance Not Book Bid By JACOBY SOX Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WEST NORTH (D) A 1C 8 2 A94 AQ J92 EAST 11 VKQ106 VJ732 8543 AJ104- SOUTH AK96543 85 7 6 Neither vulnerable West North East South 1 Pass 1 A Pass 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening lead You are going to get rather tired with today's South hand because you are going to see it repeated for several days more. The reason is that when your partner opens the bidding with one of any suit but spades you are in the "Hanged'if you do, hanged if you don't" position. If you bid you can get into trouble. If you pass you can get into trouble.

It is a "book" pass but any winning player is going to respond one spade. He knows that he is asking for trouble by bidding but he figures that he is asking for worse trouble if he passes and he also knows that if by some lucky chance his partner can raise spades everything may come up roses as a result of his spade bid. The roses bloom today. He responds one spade and North raises to four spades- West opens the king of hearts. South wins with dummy's ace and plays ace and king of spades.

Then he takes the diamond finesse which loses to East's king. If East and West don't grab a club trick and a heart trick immediately, South will make an overtrick. Nothing will keep him from making his game. If South passes at one diamond West may decide to bid a heart. Or he may look at that singleton spade and decide to let North struggle at one diamond.

If he passes to one diamond, North will probably make about two odd. If West reopens with one heart anything may happen. North and South may still find their spade fit and play at four spades. It is more likely that East and West may buy the contract at some number of hearts. If they buy it at two, three or four they will make their contract.

If they go to five against a four-spade bid they will only be down one trick The bidding has been: West North East South 1 Pass 1 Pass You, South, hold: What do you do? A Raise to two hearts only. With 14 high card points and no singleton your band is not worth a jump raise. TODAY'S QUESTION You bid two hearts. Your partner goes to three clubs. What do you do now? Answer Tomorrow Kipper is really the proper name for a male salmon when he is approaching the breeding season.

He then develops a sharp, hard beak known as the "kip." The word kipper is derived from this from the practice of curing the kip for food by splitting, cleaning, salting and smoking it. The term is now used for other fish, especially herring. Encyclopaedia Britannko TIMELY QUOTES The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows above all that his task is, in the language of the current generation, to 'cool to bring what my generation called 'not heat, but light' to public affairs. President Johnson. Bible Verse IF WE confess our sins, he Is faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from oil unrighttotuncss.

I John 1:9.