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o o o O Wednesday, December 14, 1951 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE- SEVEN al by Russia to sts Seen Sign of Weakness o Ban Nudear Bomb Te o G increased Cost of Weapons Manp evise Defense Spending U pw ower H ara Washington U.R) The in creased cost of weapons and men will push defense spending next year about S1,000,000,000 O higher than the present level, defense officials said today. Congressional leaders who have been briefed on the new defense budget reported that it calls for an outlay of S35.500,- 000,000. It is expected that de fense spending for the current fiscal year will total about $34, 500,000,000. Defense officials, traditional ly reluctant to discuss budget details until they are formally q presented to Congress, declined to reveal the exact0 figures of next year's military budget. But they .confirmed that spending is scheduled to rise above the 535,000, 000,00romark. They cited two principal rea sons for the rising expendi tures: 1. New technological weap ons, such as guided missiles and advanced interceptors and bomb ers, which become more costly as they become more complex. 2. Increased wages for work ers in defense plants as well as for men in uniform and civilian employees of the Defense de partment. The increased labor costs are also reflected in high er material costs. Nearly all the increase will go to .the Air Force. Congressional sources report ed that Air Force spending in the coming fiscal year will total" S17,200,000,000 a $700,000,000 increase over the present fiscal year. Most of the additional Air Go Shdot You rself . . . DOWN TO Laurine's CARPET HOUSE Main & Riverside Specializing in Everything in Floor Coverings and Drapes 9 OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P.M. Nothing Down 36 Months To Pay Force money will go into guided missiles and accelerated produc tion of the new B52 interconti nental jet bomber and new su personic fighter planes, such as the F104. The Navy, congressional sources said, will spend $9,700,- BLM Timber Sold, At Salem Auction Salem (U.R) Five tracts of Bureau of Land Management timber brought $763,584 at oral auction yesterday, Salem Dis trict Forester Otto C. F. Krueger said. A total of 18,216,000 board feet was sold. Two tracts located in Linn county brought high bids of $59 and S53 a thousand board feet for Douglas fir. The first con tained a total of 3,893,000 board feet and was bought by Lulay Brothers Lumber Co. of Scio. Vancouver Plywood Co. was high bidder on 7,421,000 board feet of timber near Molalla at $54.50 a thousand board feet for Douglas fir. Murphy Lumber Co. of Port land was high bidder at $114, 193 for 3,681,000 board feet, mostly Douglas fir, located in Polk county. 000,000, an increase of $200, 000.000. The Army will spend S8,600,000,000 a $100,000,000 increase. About Sl.000.000,000 will be spent by all the services on guided missiles. The budget also will provide for expanded re search and development on long range ballistic missiles, often called the "ultimate weapon" of the future. The enlarged budget appeared likely to win congressional ap proval without much opposition. The complaint of Democrats last year was that the administration had cut defense spending too much. Peron Overthrow Said To Have Saved Oil Buenos Aires. Argentina (U.R) President Pedro E. Aramburo said Tuesday the overthrow of Juan D. Peron prevented the "surrender of our oil" to for eign interests. ' He referred in a broadcast speech to the contract nego tiated by Peron with Standard Oil Co. of California for oil ex ploitation of large areas in south er Argentina. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of the discov ery of oil in Argentina, Aram buru said his government wants "100 per cent Argentine gasoline." a 1 o YES! 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"So they'd like to hoax us into a slowdown while they try to catch up," one man suggest ed. He shares with most other atomic experts here the convic tion that the Russians have no intention of permanently cur tailing their own tests, what ever they might promise. Too Far Too Fast "To do that," he said, "would be to abandon hope of matching the size and quality of our nu clear stockpile." --This man, who occupies a good vantage point from which to observe world nuclear devel opments, believes the Russians have tried to go too far too fast and need time to "improve their atomic homework.' ' He thinks it "quite prob able" that a sizeable number of their atomic test devices have turned out to be duds. He bas es that belief in part on the rel atively few Soviet explosions that have been detected by the West. Reds Have Bcmb That doesn't mean the Rus sians don't have enough A bombs and H-bombs of proven power to do dreadful damage. Some sources estimate the num ber in four figures. And certainly the Soviet test exploded Nov. 22 was no dud. It was the most powerful yet detonated by the Russians, a megaton-plus weapon widely believed to have been a super H-bomb deliverable by plane. Possibly there is something to the talk you hear of nuclear stalemate. But Western observers doubt the Russians have yet developed anywhere near the number of high quality special purpose weapons in the free world's atomic arsenal. At any rate, U..S. atomic au thorities appear to be unanimous in the belief that the Soviet test ban proposal was bogus in side and out. They say: 1. The Russians knew the West would never enter into any agreement, involving its secur ity, that was backed only by un policed Soviet promises. Attempt To Hoodwink 2. But by making a tongue-in-cheek offer to curb foreign nu clear experiments, the Reds hopes to hoodwink at least part of the world into believing they had achieved weapons parity with the West. 3. At the same time, they sought to make propaganda cap ital out of the fact that they have done less atomic testing than the West and so have added less to the world level of radio activity. 4. In any case, if the West should agree to a test ban, the effect would be to slow its own atomic developments while Rus sian weaponers tried to draw even. But the West shows no sign of falling for the Soviet hoax. Prime Minister Anthony Eden has said Great Britain will go ahead with its development of the H-bomb. Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa.), a member of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, has said this coun try intends to test new big weapons at the Pacific proving ground in the spring. The panda is one of the rarest of mammals, with the face of ; a racoon, feet like a cat, and body similar to that of the bear. Si mi 1 : IOWA CAMPUS QUEEN - : Dora Lee Martin of Houston, ' ah wars "Qen of Queens" crovm after her coronation as queen of the campus at the University of . 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