European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Sohir Doy april move Hurt drive to keep to apr demands to line me hike biggest Challenge to Kennedy leaders Washington up the $6 a4on Rise in the Price of steel mute til few biggest Challenge this tasn�h1p the Haem Ken Nedy has yet been called upon to to president obviously consider the i a double Cross for the is tue doubt at the Whitehouse Taftt . Steel had planned the Price Rise Long before the re cent labor agreement was reached March 28. The White House sees the steel executive As trading upon or. Kennedy s appeals to the United steelworkers Union to negotiate a agreement while secretly planning themselves to breach the lines with an inflation Ary Price rive. It is generally assumed that Wenthe american Economy steel ranks to the to called bellwether Indus try. If Alt la Well with steel Alt 1s11 with the nation if there Are strike or unemployment to the steel Industry Price to faint or fall Ste meet then there will toe unemployment 01 higher or lower Price throughout the entire Economy it was with this fact in min that president Kennedy pressed the steel companies and the steel worker Union to meet and bar gain a new labor contract month before the current contract sex per Povhe. Pressed them to negotiate Early he urged upon both Side the need to avoid any inflationary trends any contract that would bring about a Rise in the Price of agreement they reached under or. Kennedy s pressure was modest by All reckoning. It in steel faces 2-Prongvd probe Washington a the a steel Industry faces two threats As a newly ordered Federal grand jury investigation takes aim at the 96 a ton steel Price increase. The possible in a of government attack now confirmed by the jus tie department Are 1 possible criminal penalties age Itutti the Price boosting Iran Aid their executives if the govern meat can find and prove any Price collusion 3 a move to dismember thl Dusty s giant . Steel corp tithe a enu nent can convince a Federal court that it so dominate the Industry that it control prices and should be broken administration officials disputed or shrugged off the 55-minute de sense of the Price Rise made by us steel chairman Roger m. Blough in a televised news con Ference a new York. There was no comment on b Lough s defense from president Kennedy Blough stood firm on the Posi Tion that the increases were Neces sary to the welfare the strength and the vitality of the they would he said partially Cor rect a profit squeeze that Handi Caps american steel in meeting stiffening world Competition. Or Kennedy had blasted the Kennedy could direct f orc from air presidential co Minand plane poised by peed a Hoffman Washington at an air Field a few minutes by helicopter own the White House a big Silver plane stands Reedy for flight at Smy hour. It Crew is never far. It is guarded Fay air Force policemen and is no Ordinary air Force plane although it looks about the itt As tankers used to refuel bomber of the strategic air is a new airborne command vhf it especially fitted As a refugee Sam Tett Kennedy and the 1#p coition my to event of sur pros nuclear attack. Thuro Are flare Uch Jet planes one always tending 1 a if War should come die nation defense and counterattack could Viteli be directed from one of these swept Wing giants cruising More than 40,000 feet above the Earth. Aerial command posts intended specifically for the president have been to operation for about two months their existence has been kept under wraps. Together with an underground Sanctuary in Maryland and the Navy command ship Northampton in the Atlantic the planes provide alternate emergency Headquarters from which the president and de sense chiefs could prosecute a Warin safety even though key govern ment and military centers Are destroyed packed with elaborate communications equipment the posts can instantly Contact . Forces around the world with air re fueling and enough supplies they can stay aloft for Days. These command planes convertedkc135 Turbojet tankers form another element in a growing system designed to assure uninterrupted control of . Ground Niland sea forces under All Circum presidential planes Are much Uke the command aircraft which the strategic air come has been flying for 14 months Only less spartan. Sources said the presidential command Post planes evolved from Sac s system and incorporated Many of its february 1961. Sac has maintained a command plane aloft at All times. Three aircraft have been assigned to this Mission. Sac has announced it will in crease its airborne command and control capability this year by adding More specially modified kc135s and for the first time,b47 Jet bombers Art Apted to this number was not announced but it was Learned 21 More kcl33s and four b47s will be made int airborne command posts for Sac. Gen Thomas s. Power Sac Schief said in a new York speech that the command Post planes Al ways carry a staff and a general qualified to assume command Olour forces in Case the main com Mand Post at Sac Headquarters Omaha neb is Well As the various alternate headquarter throughout the country should be put out of Sac command planes also keep constant Contact with the joint War room and air Force command postin the Pentagon. The kcl35s Are rated at Bette than 600 Miles an hour. The Tanker version coat about $3.5 million each but the command types probably Are considerably More expensive. Price hike its. An unjustifiable and irresponsible profit grab at the expense of the National interest. Ever since the scurrying of jus Tice department agents and Law yer has been conspicuous. Thurs Day night it began to make a Pat Tern As atty. Gen. Robert f. Ken Nedy gave out a few crumbs of information. First he announced a had or dered a grand jury investigation in new York of the Chain of virtually identical Price increases setoff by . Steel that was nil the attorney Gen eral said and he said it because Lough under news conference questioning had disclose that Price records of us. Steel had been subpoenaed thursday morn ing. Blough said he was not subpoenaed personally. Later the Bethlehem Jones and Laughon ind Armeo steel corporations confirmed they had receive subpoenas and that Tho president of stil another company not identified has been subpoenaed to appear i a Eek from Friday. Next newsmen teamed that the attorney general had discussed with a group of visiting foreign College professors the possibility of forcing . Steel to digest some segments of its vast Empire of Ore Fields blast furnaces Mills an fabricating plants. Witnesses said the attorney Ren pm i told the professors Tho depart ment was checking two questions one being whether the sep a companies got together and he was quoted a saying if they did that they would Bein flotation of the Law and they would be subject to criminal penalties. The second question is if on company to timely . Steel so dominates the Industry that it controls prices and should to broken up. These matters Are under that. In be done will vie Jet my i ii a. Face Miff not or att not nil Battle of Etta inf press m a mock Betta to it Berlin s 8onm 8�m troops from the with inf end and 3rd Battle Ops figured in the the Niay Xercie a tiled Ewe Betty Tel Keystone put of solved no increase Litno wage Benefit Estl fim 10 cents a hour. 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