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The House Banking Coni' mittee yesterday approved a 251-million-doIlar program for Federal loans and grants to help out economically de pressed areas with serious un employment.</br></br>The bill, called a> fraud and a boondoggle by committee Republicans, was approved 13-6 with six members not voting. It was explained that the six abstainers felt the bill did not measure up to their ideas.</br></br>The House measure it less than the 38ftmillion-dollar program voted by the Senate, but it far exceeds the 53-million-dollar loan aid program advocated by President Eisenhower.</br></br>Rep. Brent Spence (D-Ky.l, chairman of the Banking Committee, said he would seek prompt action by the House</br></br>The program is certain, however, to run into trouble with the Rules group, which already is sitting on housing legislation. Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats on the Rules group are openly opposed to further large-scale spending.