European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday july 10, 1959 a congressional Roundup Senate unit oks Public works Hoffa son meet the press Washington up the Senate appropriations committee has approved a �1,256,830,300 pub Lic works Money Hill that was $80, 169,300 bigger than president Eisen Hower had recommended. In Defiance of. President Eisen Hower s policy against starting new projects the committee Hill provided funds More than 100 of them. Or. Eisenhower anticipates budget surplus for the current Fis Cal year of approximately $100 Mil lion. Unit one committee member.  j. Ellender a la said he was not perturbed Over the possibility of a presidential veto of the Public works measure if i cleared Congress. I think we could override on this one very easily he said. The Bill would finance floor control and Rivers and harbours work by the army engineers the Inte rior department s reclamation projects and similar Public works. Some of the so called new starts approved by the committee involved Only planning work.  of them would permit actual construction to begin on new dams flood control works Power lines and the like. The House had approved 44  by the army engineers and Seyen new reclamation  Senate committee added 48 new projects by the army Engi Senate declares War on predatory Sharks Washington Impi the Senate hns passed and sent to the House a Bill to set up Federal program for eradication of the predatory Dogfish shark inthe Pacific. Tinder the measure,., a Bount of $15 a ton Yould be paid for Dogfish carcasses Ami "15 cents Pound for Dogfish livers. My Mem my neers and three additional reclamation projects. In adding its new starts the House had made compensating economies and approved a Hill Only slightly larger than the president proposal. A s a result the Senate committee s Bill was $79,659,300larger than the version which breezed through the House on380-20 Roll Call vote. Bill would streamline management in Navy Washington up the House passed by unanimous voice vote and sent to the Senate a Bill to streamline Navy management functions to meet missile age requirements. The legislation would authorise the Navy to abolish its bureaus of aeronautics and ordnance and con de Gaulle wins support for Sahara a explosion tananarive Madagascar bit already City manager Francis j. Mcgrat Haid it was a misprint. The Council approved the funds to fix the spare  Washington a former sen. George h. Bender swore he received no Money or political sup port from the teamsters Union after heading a 1954 House investigation of High teamster officials. Bender n o w an  for president James r. Hoffa of the teamsters Union gave his statement to the Senate rackets committee. The committee promptly produced sworn statements from two Ohio teamster officials that the Union did support Republican Ben Der in his successful 1954 senat Campaign against Democrat Thomas Burke. The statements were from Walter Schulz and Otto Frobe officials of teamster local 100 in Cincinnati. They contended the Union threw its support to Bender in a Surprise switch. They said the switch w a s ordered by William Presser head of Ohio teamsters who has taken the fifth Amend ment at hearings a number of times. Bender had gone before the com Mittee. As a Volunteer witness to Challenge testimony Given earlier in the Day that teamster Money allegedly had been spent to pull strings to see to it that a con Gressional investigation of Presser storing surplus foods costly new York up deterioration shrinkage and. Spoilage of Price support commodities stored by the Federal government Cost taxpayers $23 million in fiscal 1958,according to tax foundation inc. Chicago up Frol a Koz Lov soviet first Deputy Premier visited with Chicago mayor Rich Ard j. Daley and then headed for the Fertile Illinois Countryside to visit Farmers. I Kozlov was greeted by about 100pickets a and his party entered Chicago imy Hall Lor a Brief visit but he ignored them. They were separated from Koz Lov by the Width of Fla Salle Street visits Chicago mayor Illinois farms \ �-., and about As Many uniformed police were on duty As there , their signs said they were from the american friends of the anti bolshevik bloc of nations inc., and from the anti communist league of America inc. Soviet farms mechanized would be fewer Small Farmers in Russia Asti result of Niech Aniza Tion of farms. In automobiles the soviet party of about 25 persons then took off for the Grundy county farm area Daley asked Kozlov of the trend 55 around Morris 111., Avrich is about Southwest of Chicago.,. In the soviet Union was from the they will visit p half dozen farm farm to Urban areas Kozlov said that this was the Case  ers on Grain livestock and Dairy farms. And one of his aides was  r. Luken president of the Cincinnati teamsters Union coun cil told the committee the refer ence was to Bender s investigation of Presser and Louis babe Tris curo another teamster. Bender told the committe Luken s statement amounted to a reference to raising Money for payoff  it s perfectly absurd the for Mer senator boomed. Far from handing him Money Bender contended the Union spent funds to oppose his Campaign and then to help finance a vote recount. Not a single labor Union of an kind supported him Bender said. He said Burke did have support from organized labor. Rackets Prober Kennedy expected to quit in 1959 Washington up _ Robertf. Kennedy chief counsel of the Senate rackets committee has indicated he will abandon his role As a Senate investigator after the committee expires later this year. He was expected to halt his senatorial career forthe time being to help in efforts Towin the demo cratic presidential Kennedy nomination for his t. Older brother  f.,Kennedy a Mas the senator is regarded As a certain candidate for the nomination even though he is As yet  Kennedy told newsmen he planned to remain As the chief counsel for the rackets group at least through this session of con Gress but he said he Dufis not plan to make a career out of con Gressional inquiries. Kennedy s statement appeared to Rule out the possibility that he would return to his old Post Schief counsel of the Senate s per manent investigating subcommittee after his duties with the rackets group expires i i