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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January IB, 1956 o 0 President Asks Beifer Storm Warnings, Help JFor Victims Asked Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower asked Congress to day for increased funds to build more flood control projects, pro vide better storm warnings and give more help to victims of floods and hurricanes. The President, in his budget message, specifically asked for money to: 1. Start construction on 13 new flood protection projects, 16 new flood control reservoirs and two new beach erosion projects. 2. Provide the Weather Bu reau with more of the latest storm detection radar and equip ment for hurricane and tornado studies. 3. Start a new $3,000,0000,000 federal-state flood indemnity program. Immediate Aid Sought The requests stemmed from last year's hurricane-spawned floods in the Northeast, devas tating iloods in the far West and tornado destruction elsewhere. Mr. Eisenhower asked for an extra 34,600,000 immediately in the current fiscal year for the Army engineers as the result of the floods in the Northeast. The President also requested an immediate S25,000,000 to re plenish his depleted emergency disaster fund and for S330,000 to review flood control plans in the Northeast. For fiscal year 1957, which starts July 1, the President ask ed for $194,200,000 for the Army engineers for flood con trol, an increase of 542,600,000. That includes $56,000,000 for the lower Mississippi river, an increase of $4,000,000. He requested $1,025,000 for the engineers to continue their hurricane studies, an increase of $30,000, and $1,650,000 for flood control studies. . Expanding Service The President requested a total of $534,000,000 for the Army engineers, an increase of $23,100,000. This0 included, be sides flood control, $100,900,000 for navigation projects and $167,600,000 for . multiple-purpose power and flood projects. Mr. Eisenhower asked $35, 300,000 for the Weather Bureau, an increase of $3,000,000 for op e. -tions which he said will in clude an expanded, intensive Q investigation of hurricanes and tornades. He included $100,000,000 in his budget to start a new federal-state program to help in sure individuals against flood damage. The federal and state governments would join with private insurance companies to provide flood protection. As much as $3,000,000,000 in in surance could be issued under administration measures already introduced in Congress. Soli Hank Washington flJ.R) President Eisenhower proposed today to put his administration's new one billion doilar "soil bank" pro gram into effect without increas ing total spending by the Agri culture Department. The total would remain at $3,600,000,000 a year. The budget he sent Congress for fiscal 1957 was based on the expectation that the payments ongress for Increased Funds for Flood Control . . 4 ' i i Flan Not To increase Spending, Budget Shows farmers would get for taking land out of production would be offset by reduced government spending to buy surplus crops. The theory was that the new two-phase soil bank plan, which the President outlined to Con gress in a special message last Monday, would cut production enough to make this balance possible. Today's budget message, cov ering the 12 months starting next July 1, indicated that only S350,000,000 in new money would be spent on the soil bank plan. This would cover cash pay ments to farmers who put part of their acreage into a proposed Cash payments Today's budget message, cov ering the 12 months starting next July 1, indicated that only Eisenhowers Increased Foreign Aid Request May Be in Trouble Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, warning that "our very survival" may de pend on strong allies, asked Congress today to increase for eign aid and keep it flowing for years to come His request was headed for trouble It was contained in a budget message which made it plain that the lustre of the Geneva spirit has been tarnished by Russia's continued failure to give "any tangible evidence of an intention to agree on a plan of disarmament that can be ver ified by adequate inspection." The absence of such evidence, Postal Increase Rejection Seen Washington (U.PJ Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes in dicated today that Congress will be asked again to increase the cost of mailing letters by one cent. o Congress last year rejected this and other administration re quests for increased postal rates. The same fate seemed in store this year. President Eisenhower is ask ing a $350,000,000 increase in postal rates. Details were not spelled out in Mr. Eisenhower's budget message. But Hughes told a news conference that it would "be very much along the line of last year's proposal." That called for increasing postage from three to four cents on regular letters and from six to seven cents on air mail. Rates on second class mail (newspapers and magazines) would have been boosted 15 per cent last year and another 15 per cent this year. A 28 per cent increase would have been imposed on third class mail (cir culars, advertising and similar material). Airplane Traffic Funds in Budget Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress today to appropriate $40,000,000 for new air navigation and traf fic control facilities to make the overcrowded airways safe. He also disclosed in his bud get message that federal grants to help local communities build airports will rise from $15,000, 000 this year to $75,000,000 in fiscal 1957. A government report last week warned that the danger of plane collisions on the "over loaded" airways has reached alarming proportions. It said passenger airliners are involved in an average of four near-collisions each day. Mr. Eisenhower said the $40, 000,000 appropriation would en able the government to expand the traffic capacity of the air way system "by installing great ly improved air navigation and traffic control facilities." On another aviation matter, he said government subsidy pay ments to commercial airlines wil be reduced from $58,000,000 to $34,000,000, reflecting "rising profits of the carriers and con tinued vigilance ... in keeping subsidy rates at the lowest pos sible level." Utile 'Brownout' Chance Seen in Northwest Area Washington (U.R) The Bonneville Power administra tion sees little chance of a pow er "brownout" in the Pacific Northwest this year. The agency said in a statement in President Eisenhower's budg et that streamflows in the Co lumbia basin have been above median. Yuba City, Calif. (U.R) The toll of known dead in the Yuba City flood disaster stood at 33 Saturday with the discovery of the body of Mrs. Bernice Speck er Payne, 25, of Yuba City. The body of her daughter, Bernalee, 14-months, was found earlier. Mr. Eisenhower said, means that the free world must be strength ened "to deter possible aggres sors" and that impoverished areas must be helped economi cally "to preserve their inde pendence against Communist threats and enticements." Accordingly, the President proposed for fiscal 1957: 1. Spending $4,300,000,000 in foreign aid $2,500,000,000 in direct military support and $1, 800,000,000 in economic and technical aid for free nations of thu world. The total would be $103,000,000 more than spent this fiscal year. 2. Appropriating $4,900,000, 000 in new funds, $3,000,000, 000 for military aid and $1, 860,000,000 for economic help. This would represent an in crease of $2,200,000,000 over the $2,700,000,000 voted in fis cal 1956. Long Range Program The spending and appropria tion figures do not correspond because much of proposed 1957 spending would come from prior appropriations, and much of the 1957 appropriations would be spent in future years. The appropriation proposal thus included the first install ment on a new long-range aid program which Mr. Eisenhower said would assure "greater op portunity in providing economic assistance for developing pro jects and programs which we approve and which require a period of years for planning and completion." This long-range feature, con templating a possible outlay of $1,000,000,000 in economic help over the next 10 years, was in trouble in Congress even before it got there. For example, Sen. Walter F. George, the influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, told news men: "I can't see the advantage of putting up a neon sign a mile high saying, 'We got it. Come and get it,'." There were re ports the plan may be dropped. Better Health Aim Of Budget Request Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress today for an expanded $441, 000,000 federal program "to help the American people to en joy better health." His new budget called for a $44,000,000 increase in spend ing in fiscal 1957 to provide more medical research, more hospitals, more free polio vac cine. He described the expansion as "substantial, yet orderly." He said it is needed "to fill signifi cant gaps in the nation's pro grams for promoting good health." The budget called for a 28 per cent increase in spending for medical research, mainly on big killers like cancer and heart disease. It provided for a 17 per cent increase to help build new hospitals and an eight percent increase to police the purity of foods and drugs. INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIVE IN MEDFORD Home Economics Club To Meet Wednesday Phoenix The Home ' Eco nomics club of Phoenix .Grange will meet Wednesday, January IS, at 10 a.m. in ihe Grange hall. A pot luck dinner will be served at noon. OK H MARKET 1202 North Riverside OPEN EVERY mruT Til M IXHjm ML ' MIDNIGHT Ask me for a Free Copy of the 1956 Forecast. Sent on request. Would You Like Me to Analyze Your Present Securities or Savings Program? Please phone Medford 2-7471 for any investment information or to set up an appointment either at your office, your home, or Zilka, Smither and Company's office. Mr. Watson of our Med ford office brings you financial information based on the com plete facilities of the Zilka, Smither organization. Out-of-town residents please call collect. RICHARD E. WATSON Manager INVESTMENT SECURITIES 14 S. CENTRAL AVENUE PHONE 2-7471 MEDFORD, OREGON Also offices in: Portland, Solem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Vancouver, Wn. $350,000,000 in new money would be spent on the soil bank plan. This would cover cash payments to farmers who put part of their acreage into a pro posed new long term "conserva tion" reserve. Access Road Speedup Sought in Ike's Budget Washington (U.R) A speed up in construction of access roads in the Oregon & Califor nia grant lands in Oregon was sought today in President Eisen hower's budget. A regular appropriation of S4,500,000 was asked for fiscal 1957, compared with $2,300,000 allowed this year, and the bud get indicated another $2,000,000 will be sought later. The roads are built to "reach stands of otherwise inaccessible high quality timber," a budget statement said. Another $400,000,ff00 outlay, under the "emergency" phase of the soil bank plan, would take the form of certificates entitling the farmer to cash or kind for not growing wheat, cotton, corn or rice. These payments would be financed out of Commodity Credit Corp. existing stocks of surplus crops. The renaming $250,000,000 of the soil bank's estimated $1,000, 000,000 first year cost would be in payments to be made anyway under the government's long time agricultural conservation program. Total About Same Mr. Eisenhower recommend ed a fiscal 1957 spending budget of $3,661,068,548 for the Agri culture department. The fiscal 1956 spending was $3,652,751, 913, only $8,316,635 under fiscal 1957 estimates. 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