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Nomination Of
Tom Lyon Will
Be Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, UPt — President
Eisenhower is in a knuckle-rap
ping mood because of failure of
the administration’s job-screening
program to' turn up the data which
Congress later uncovered in the
Tom Lyon case.
And there were indications the
President may be somewhat em
barrassed personally by his nom
ination of Lyon to be director of >
the Bureau of Mines. The White
House said it will be withdrawn
—the first time Eisenhower has
done that.
Secretary of the Interior McKay
Wednesday asked Eisenhower to
withdraw Lyon’s name, after the
appointee requested such action.
McKay did so in the wake of
Lyon’s testimony before a Senate
committee that he is: (1) drawing
a $5,000-a-year pension as a re
tired official of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co., and (2) is op
posed to the federal Mine Safety
Law he would administer as
Mines Bureau chief.
Government officials who asked
not to be named said Eisenhower
is having the entire episode inves
tigated and that a sharp rebuke
quite likely will be dealt out to
those who failed to give him a
full report on Lyon’s background. *
There was no certainty where
the blame would fall. Some White
House officials were said to feel
McKay would have to take the
rap.
At the Interior Department, on
the other hand, Assistant Secrt
tary Felix E. Wormser said Lyon's
nomination was sponsored by Re
publican Sen. Watkins of Utah,
from whose state Lyon comes.
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