The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-02-26

housing units plus re-alloWance of
$1,000 unused authorizations, a
total of 81 900 units. The measure
involved direct Federal loans of
300 million dollars to veterans
] where financing is not available;
loans totaling 400 million dollars
for college housing; and 125 mil
lion dollars in loans for college
! dormitOrieS and class rooms. Some
of the Senators hold that the
Housing Bill goes too far. others
that it does not 90 far enough.
Riverdale, Maryland, Army Re-
serve Project-The Secretary Of
the Army tells me that bids will
be solicited this week for con-
struction of the U. S. Army Re
serve construction at Riverdale,
Maryland. The project is a 5-unit
Army Reserve Center and a Shay
maintenance shop, to provide re-
quired facilities for training Re-
serve members.
Aircraft Work For Private Shops
i have introduced bill to
guarantee to private industry 60
percent of the governments air
craft maintenance WOrkload Some
of the military services have di-
verified to government shops work
which should have gone to pri-
vate-industry plants. and this has
hurt the industry | have felt that
we should protect the aircraft in
dustry- and, for that matter, any
industry which is an. integral
part of the tax producing machine
on which the functioning of our
structure of government depends.
Board Of Visitors. Naval Acade-
my-Senator Saltonstall of Mas
SdCllQSGtJS anu Wei llOilOl GU
last week by being nominated by
the Senate Minority TO the Board
Of Visitors of the U. S. Naval
Academy
Security Reports Rapidly Out
datcd-Our Senate Committee on
Armed Services continues its work
on defense measures. incidentally,
the famous Gather Report on mill
tary security. which advocated a
much higher level Of expenditures
for the military than that pro-
posed by the White House. was
never made public. Weapons are
developed so fast in the Space
Age that report such as that
which the Gather group submitted
is rapidly outdated. A case in
point: one of the most expensive
items advocated in the Gather
Report was a largc-scalc shelter
construction program: this was
opposed by the Pentagon on the
grounds that. due to developments
in the weapons field. the shelter
program would not protect more
than a small fraction of the popu-
lation.
Space Age Offers New Business
The Space Age offers new OPP
portunities for business and in
dustry. Today, defense industries
are shifting gears to make tran
sitions to Space Age challenges.
The production Of rockets. mis-
siles, and other hardware for
space exploration, for both mill
tary and scientific purposes. will
open new opportunities for prime
and sub-contracting. A major
task is TO make sure that small
business-in Maryland and else
WllCIc-GClS It's lar SHARE VI d
new defense and other contracts.
Is The Older Worker Superior?
-Mary,and's Department of En-
ploymcnt Security. affiliated with
the U S Employment Service, has
mailed to several thousand Mary
land employers a pamphlet con
corning the employment Of older
workers. The Emp oyment Service
rejects sympathy as an argument
for older-worker hiring. and
presses home the argument that
it is good business to hire workers
On the basis of their ability, re-
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