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.... -" r --t 4 Congress Said Not in Budget Cutting Mood By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON ml At the rate it's going, the present Congress won't oe remembered for its budg , et-cutting record. It's having considerable trouble trimming big amounts from funds requested by President Eisenhower to run the government for the fiscal year starting July l ' The President's budget is what his followers describe as "tight," They say it is hard to cut With all but two of the big annual appropriation bills already passed by the House, the President'! re quests for new money have been trimmed approximately $1,400,000,- That's about 3 per cent, a far cry from some deep cuts made by previous Congresses; However, it compares favorably with the 3.4 per cent cut made last year by Congress on a smaller budget. j A large part of the claimed re duction made this year by the House is in what critics call the "phony" category, including trans fers of funds cr other bookkeeping transactions. ; Current signs are that before the money bills finally reach the Presi dent, the reductions already made by the House win be considerably less. The Senate has shown no inclina tion to be tougher than the House when it comes to appropriating money. In 14 out of 15 cases it has han dled so far.: the Senate has in creased funds appropriated by the Mouse. fn all five ; cases in which both branches have finally agreed on a. compromise, i the compromise ex ceeds the amount voted by the House originally. jhower administration cutbacks in Funds for nine other agencies j Marine Corps and Army manpow are still the subject of Senate- er. Ttco Circus Performances Thursday : m -j TV 'Monitor Odds-Ends Offers Jumble Clyde Beatty and Prince, one of several lions and tiger: which will be seen here when the Clyde ' Beatty Circus come3 to town for two performances xnursnay at z ana 8 p.m. The circus will be held at Roseland addition at Market street Advance tickets can be purchased from Junior Cham ber of Commerce members. ' ij Soviet 'Leads U.S. in 2 Classes of Air Power' WASHINGTON UrV-Sen. Syming ton (D-Mo) said Sunday the United States is leading in only one class of air power while Soviet Russia "is ahead in two, probably ahead in two more." Symington, former secretary of the Air Force in the Truman ad ministration, offered this opinion as he also bitterly" protested Eisen- House conferences, The two big bills still to be con sidered by the House, which origin ates appropriation measures, fi nance the foreign aid program and a military public. works program. Bills passed by the House already provide for the appropriation of $47,117,951,659 in new funds, com pared with presidential requests for $48,564,724,803. ; The Senate still must act on the biggest money bill of the year, financing the defense department The House voted 31 billion for defense, a cut of 744 "million from the President's budget, but indica tions are the Senate will restore a large part of the money. The Senate this week added al most 200 million to funds voted by the House for the Commerce De partment. It has cut only one House bill, lopping off 1 million from the 16 million voted by the House for the refugee program. He released in advance a speech prepared for Senate debate Mon day on a $31,836,521,335 defense money bill that will carry out plans to expand U.S. air power while reducing ground forces. - Spearheads Effort Symington is spearheading a Democratic effort to hold the Army and Marine Corps ' near recent manpower strengths and increase! funds for supersonic jet fighters by 200 million dollars. Administration supporters pre-; , i J j l m .1 ! aicieu aeieai lor iircse moves in w- a - floor action on the defense appro-' f ,rff t f ft I II priation late Monday or Tuesday. iil,tul lutH Symington's speech was critical! tt C of some past military judgments J UTaUlUUl OllC oy .rresiaeni tisennower ana ques- becoming more and more question able. "Of the five chief categories of airpower fighters, light bomb ers, medium bombers, heavy bombers, and missiles the So viet is ahead in Iwb, probably ahead in two more. The United States is ahead in one." 'Hundreds More ! , ' Expanding on this. Symington said the .United States has "hun- jdreds more medium size bombers than the Communists' while they have "thousands more modern jet fighters" and also "thousands more modern light jet bombers." He said the Soviet also may have passed this country in "production of modern long range jet bomb ers" and may be "well ahead with the intercontinental ballistic mis sile the ultimate weapon at least in our time." J Accomplished 3-Y ear-Old Knows Name Falling Horse tioned whether the President's views should be "blindly" fol lowed, now. Symington said the administra tion seeks to justify cuL in ground forces "on the basis of our air supremacy." but added: "That is One of Nation's Foremost Men Of, Science Nearly Forgotten' By CLATJtE COX United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP) One of the nation's foremost scientists has become a forgotten man. Five years ago, physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, the father of mod ern chemical engineering, was elected to New York University's Ball of Fame of Great Ameri cans. There still is no bust of him in the Hall of Fame rotunda, and no one knows when there will be. Of the 83 Americans honored . with enshrinement in the rotunda overlooking the Hudson River, only Gibbs and Woodrow Wilson are not represented by busts. But plans have been under way for some time to install Wilson's likeness next year, on the 100th .anniversary of his birth. Mrs. Bertha Lyons, curator of the Hall of Fame, has been try ing for months to raise the $9,000 needed to install a bust and plaque honoring Gibbs. So far she has promises of only about SL200. Gibbs, who devoted his entire adult life to teaching and study ing at Yale University, is con sidered by other scientists to be the founder of the theory of thermodynamics-the relation be tween neat and energy. His 'theory has been credited with serving as the basis for the major part of physical chemistry and chemical engineering. Raising Money Difficult Gibbs died in 1903. Under Hall of Fame rules, a person must be dead 25 years before he can be elected. The elections are held every five years. Gibbs' name had been put in nomination several times before he finally was elect ed in 1950, along with Wilson, Dr. William C. Gorgas, Alexander Graham Bell, Theodore Roosevelt and Susan B. Anthony. "Josiah Gibbs was one of the greatest persons America has produced in science," Mrs. Lyons said, "but I'm having a very dif ficult time getting funds to honor him in the rotunda. "Yale has tried to help me and has a small fund there. The American Chemical Society has promised to try to do something. It is strictly a question of money. Some persons are .harder to get money for than others. "It's strange how many people there are in the Hall of Fame whose names are not familiar to the general public, but you'd think that if they get nominated and ' elected, there would be enough persons willing to con tribute to a bust" WALSENBURG, Colo. Despite popular conceptions, ur anium fortunes are not made overnight if at all. A lot of walk ing and digging and waiting iS involved, along with a little Iuck such as that of the owners f a palomino stallion. A while back, 0. L. Briscoe of Tucumcari, N. and Henry Walton of Clovis, N. M., took note of an Atomic Energy Com mission aerial survey map oi the Badito Cone area, 25 miles northwest of here. The pair took two pack horses into the rough country for some prospecting. They climbed to within 300 leet oi tne top oi rocky Badito Cone. "We .didn't realize the moun tain was as rough as it. was." Briscoe relates, "and we got lost "I was leading that old stud horse, loaded down with equip ment, and Walton was walking behind. "All at once the horse stum bled and fell. He was wriggling around like a snake on a hot rock. "In his kicking, he knocked a bunch of snow and rocks loose and the scintillator in Walton s hand immediately showed a good reading. "Right then and there we had located the Stumbling Stud Mine." Official AEC assays of the ore run from .28 to .59 uranium, compared with AEC standards of 20 minimum for commercial ore in this area. Wanna buy a horse? PHILADELPHIA W Hubert B 1 ine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen- bergderoff Sr., is quite proud of Hubert Jr.'s accomplishment. The boy, just a shade over three years old, "surprised us by saying his name all nine syllables of it,' says the proud father. You'd think that being a lino type operator, Hubert Sr. would be sympathetic with people who have to tussle with his name. But the telephone directory lists the full monicker Wolfschlegel- steinhausenbergderoff, Hubert B. Sr. on one full line and his ad dress on another line. .r ' he told the utility company he wouldn't pay his bill unless his name was right So his name, on three lines, always comes properly spalled out. After all, he explains. "My legal name is Wolfschlegelsteinhausen bergderoff lit sounds shorter when he says it) and that's the way I want it." The city gets away with an ab breviated form on its voting regis tration books. There he's listed as Mr. Wolfeschlegelsteinha which is as far as the city business ma chines will go. By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD At approxi mately 1:13 p.m. one recent Sun day we were struck by the feel ing that the j greatest med- turn i of mass communicati o n in history just possibly hat fallen into , the hands of people who haven't the faintest idea what to do with it -, This thought occurred to us as NBC engineers switched the pic ture on our screen from the fifth floor of the RCA Building in Radio City to a place called the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., where some indoor types were playing . soft jazz in loud sports shirts as a fragment of a radio show called Monitor. "Monitor," as everyone whe can read or hear surely knows by now. Is NBCs new week end 40-hour radio program, a marathon potpourri of so many leftovers it beggars descrip tion, and the network devoted an hour of television to its operation Jane 12. As TVs first coverage of a radio show the telecast was note worthy, but that sinking feeling mentioned in Paragraph One grew on us as "Monitor" proceed ed to deliver up oddj and ends from various parts of the globe. There was news Raymond Baxter and Frank Bourgholtzer reporting from France on the Le Mans racing tragedy. Sociolo gy a visit of several minutes to San Quentin Prison. Art Vic tor Jory rehearsing a new play at the Buck's County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Religion the president of Harvard venturing the opinion that it was a difficult subject to generalize on. fa!etman, SaUm, On Monday, Juno 20, 1955-fStc 1W7 DAILY-CROSSWORD can lay hands on surely is net the answer. Monitor," of course, is a radio idea, but cramming 60 to 90 min utes full of anything at all is also typical of television or "Moni tor" wouldn't have had its hour on TV. We say let's keep "Monitor" on radio where it belongs and make television say something. After all, that's the meaning of communication, mass or person to person. STARRINTERVIEW: Although in his movies Alfred 'Hitchcock has used the biggest and bright est names he can lay contract on, he tells us the play's going to be the thing on his TV series. Not one big name has been signed for the series of "Hitchcock Presents," half hoar dramas that start filming next month for presentation over CBS next fall ! "I've selected several proper ties," says the English master of suspense, "mostly famous short stories with switch endings, for which I am something of a suck er." The macabre and the humor ous, standard Hitchcock ingre dients, will characterixe the 19 short films. The portly genius himself will narrate ali 39 and direct the first six. He hasn't decided whether to make a sig nature appearance in them as in his movies. Emphasis on the story, bow ever, won't prevent the appear ance of a star from time to time, Hitchcock says. But he won't say whether he has approached Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Montgomery Clift, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant or others who have worked in his pictures. Come to think of it, maybe he's trying to keep up the sus pense. (Copyright 1955 General Features Corp.) ACROSS 1. Mexican I dollar S. Fish 9. River i (Asia) 10. Immense, 11. Grows old 12. Perform j sleight : of hand ; tricks 14. Put on 15. Mai off- spring 16. Alcoholic ' liquor 17. Cite 19. The Threo Wise Men" 20. Masurium a (sym.) 21. Italian river 22. Military student 23. Likely 24. Rubber tree (Mex.) 25. Girl's name 27. Barium (sym.) 28. Gold (Her.) 30. Exhibition 31. Calm 33. Fortify 34. Offer 35. Viper 36. Lariats 38. Egyptian ' goddess 39. Remain 40. A storage structure 41. Chops 42. River ' (Fr.) DOWN 1. A temple (Chin.) 2. Correct 3. Genus of swine (Eur.) 4. Conjunc tion 5. Avoid 6. Embraee closely T. Build by 8. Inundation 11. First man 12. Man's nickname 13. Send forth, as ray 15. People of Scot land It The ! higher of two bunks (colloq.) 19. Of the cheek bone 22. Raised to the third power 23. Mak alive 25. At a 'distance 26. Gaudy 28. Not offside o U ) ETA N , JoptaTTl? h c la W I '$p j tm ip g I3 1 PfciU2g via isnrs ft m!tf5 ittaraty'S Aatr 29. Twilled fabrics 31. UtU girl 32. Relieve 34. Shore recess 37. Marti 38. The Stitchbird (Maori) 40. Thus U & Jm I iittii n i j iv -.cu tj. L 2222 E22.2z22 55 1 w 6-XO And among unclassified at tractions tossed helter-skelter int the 60-minute honner were SLSSSL 'Old Post Office in Sound. Well, this is great, all right, but what is it? Well, tell you what it is. It's proof that a lot of different things are going on in a lot of different places at the same time and if you knew what they all were it would bore you to death. Heaven and the FCC, which are not the same thing, know that TV is a voracious medium that eats up program ideas faster than they can be thunk up, but feeding the beast everything you Vi rgmia uoses BELLS CROSS ROADS. Va. W You won't be seeing this date line again. The postoffice is closed, the sign. "Post Office. Bell s X Roads," removed. The closing marked the end of 65 years service by "Uncle John ny" and "Aunt Kate" Richard son. "Aunt Kate" retired in 1940 after 3d years service and her husband took over, but she re mained as his assistant The post office served 40 customers. Here after mail will go to Louisa. Cars Chased By Pheasant IRONTON. Mich. trv-A cock pheasant which chases automo biles, much like a dog, has taken a mile of country road as his do main. He often, startles motorists rushing from a roadside field and charging along with the front wheels, his hackle feathers brist ling. Glenn Williams of Ironton be lieves the pheasant is one of a flock he raised last year as a sportman's club project. And Wil liams thinks he likely is guarding a harem in a roadside field or at least "showing off for a lady love. As news of the car-chasing bird spread, more and more motorists started swinging into his domain and driving 10 mues an hour to see the bird run, crowing and cackling. A recent survey indicates that 35 million Americans take a break for coffee some time during their working day. Original Fir Panel Shown PORTLAND UTI The first panel of fir plywood manufactured in Portland and displayed at the Lew is and Clark world fair here 50 years ago became a . museum display Sunday. The panel, made at the Portland ' Manufacturing Co. plant here, was placed in the Forestry Building, a huge log structure which has re mained standing since the fair. Unveiling of the display was the opening event in the Douglas Fir Plywood Ass.'s three-day meet ing here. 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