FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, January IB, 1956
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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
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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.
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$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.
The President estimated the
fiscal 1957 price support opera
tions of the Commodity Credit
Corp. to stabilize farm prices
and farm income would total
$1,423,437,665. The estimated to
tal expenditure of CCC for fis
cal 1956 was $2,026,777,990.
Mr. Eisenhower called atten
tion to a request for legislation
to permit refunds of federal
taxes on gasoline used in farm
operations. He said these re
funds would tatal $60,000,000
annually.
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