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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, .Thursday, M&y 2, 195"i THE CAPITAL JOURNAK Section 1 Page 9 Eisenhower's 2 Helicopters TIT TmrhTTh Arm J ILK UK mm Cost$201,00Q JJJJJJJJJ C 111 Contract Sum Is Well jAfcove Hagerty's : ,, Estimate WASHINGTON (UP J-iPresident cisennower s : two Helicopters, with necessary spare parts, are costing a total of tMl.ooo, the Air Fore. has advised Congress. . ' The;; contract figure compares with White House press secretary JanifS C. Haaortv'e rnnnrt nn April 9 that the new whirly-blrds oum cosi about 560,000 each, or $120,000. :; HaQertV at that lima rfoniai' a report that the machines were piusn versions costing ahout SKO.OOO each. 20,000 more than the comparable military or com mercial models. Air Force officers answered questions about the helicopter purchase in recent closed-door testimony before a House Appro priations Subcommittee.- The tes timony was made public today. Subcommittee m e m h a r a in pressing for details on the pur- undue, empnasizea mat tney were not opposing it. Chairman George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) said the Pres ident's experiment with helicop ter travel looks like a sound one. Rep. Errett P. Scrivner It Kan.) said he is for the purchase even if the helicopters are used to fly the President from the White House to the Burning Tree golf club a trip which Hagerty said is not planned. Scrjvner said the drive to the club is dangerous and that, be sides, a 10 -minute to 20 -minute saving in, the President's time will make his flying cheaper for taxpayers 'in the long' run than driving. : : Brig. Gen. Waymdnd A. Davis, procurement officer, and Mai. Gen. Frank A. Bogart,' budget di rector, discussed the helicopter purchase on - March 6. The two ships since have been delivered to the Air Force . and currently) are being tested before being put. into White House service. '. State, County Probing Berry Camp Eviction PORTLAND m Clackamas County officials said Wednesday they would join an investigation ordered by Gov. ' Holmes of the transient labor problem growing out of the eviction of 26 workers from' a berry camp. ' .V - The workers were brought here from the camp near Boring and given hotel lodging paid for ' by the Clackamas County Welfare Department. Clackamas County Commission er Darrell Jones said the workers were brought to Oregon April 9 from Eloy, Ariz., by two labor contractors, H. J. Harmon and E. J. Honeycutt., Jones added that he had 'beefl . advised 200 other transients are en route to, the area and that another. 1,000 had: been recruited . to Arizona. ' It will be. several weeks before any large number of workers are needed, berry . growers reported. The 28 avi'cted.from the camp said they' had . worked only last weekend. . .. , At Salem 'Governor Holmes asked Labor Commissioner Nor man Nilsen to look into the situa tion after he was told the work ers at ' the . Boring camp appar ently were subsisting on a near starvation diet. Norblad Would Halve Alien Aid WASHINGTON Ud - Rep. Nor nlad 4R-Ore) believes that the four billion dollar foreign aid budget asked by President Eisen hower ishould be cut in two. He said proposed aid of five million dollars to both Brazil and Siam and. three million' dollars to Ethiopia" "can- be materially re duced of ellminato'd." The .congressman said that while he' supported the foreign aid program after World War II "to aid stricken areas of Europe to prevent their joining the Commu nist orbit," the program now "seems to be growing rather than rfim;nic.l,inn ' 6 Oregon Leaders Go to GOP Meet PORTLAND (i The' Western 3egfonal Republican conference at Salt Lake City will have six Oregon party : leaders attending. 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