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Washington U.R) The in
creased cost of weapons and
men will push defense spending
next year about S1,000,000,000
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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
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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,-
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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."
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Attempt Believed
To Hoodwink West
Into Slowdown
Washington (U.R) Some
U. S. atomic authorities view
the recent Soviet proposal to
ban A-bomb tests as a proof of
weakness.
They see it as an unwitting
admission by the Russians that
they still are far behind the
West in nuclear weaponeering.
"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.
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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.
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