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Committers recommended two bills. One would state as national policy that the national forests be administered on a “multiple use basis conservation, judicious timbering, recreation, etc. In general, this is the practice now in effect. The other recommended bill would permit the States of Kansas and Nebraska to make an agreement dividing up the waters of the Blue River and its tributaries..presumably a matter of considerable interest to those two States.

Tuesday—H o us e committees were busy, but the schedule in the House chamber was light. One bill was reported favorably by committee. It would make changes in the law on helium, the gas used in blimps and balloons and for some industrial purposes. The Federal Government controls the national helium supply. (By the time this appears, the bill probably will have

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