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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1956)
Defense Spending To Increase; Manpower To Be Less Next Year Washington (U.K Defense spending will rise but the num ber of men in uniform will drop next year as a result of further U.S. emphasis on air-atomic power to prevent war. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson laid down this military blueprint at a news conference Tuesday in discussing the out look for the fiscal 1958 defense budget which goes to Congress in January. Although the nation will con tinue its shift to air-atomic strat egy, the United Press learned that the Pentagon is preparing Flying Boxcar Crash in Florida Takes Five Lives Boca Raton, Fla. U.R) A C82 Flying Boxcar, used in a spraying program for the last two months, crashed and burned near the airport here today, killing all five persons aboard. The plane apparently was try ing to land with one of its two engines in flames. The victims were pilot Charles William Day, Oakland, Calif., co-pilot Ray Forrest Howrie. Haywood, Calif., and John Tich ner. Warren and Al Johnson, all of Miami. The plane left the Marine Air base near Miami at dawn for the 35-mile hop to Boca Raton, where spraying operations were to be conducted today. Tichner, Rogers and Johnson were en route to work in the spray mix ing operations at the Boca Raton airport and were aboard only for the short hop. The plane, owned by the Unit ed Heckathorn Co. of Califor nia, normally carries a crew of two during the spray operations. It was one of three planes brought here from California, under contract to the U.S. De partment of Agriculture, to help eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly. The firm Tuesday began the . sixth round of spraying some 200,000 acres of fly-infected areas. The firm said spray opera tions were halted today but probably would be resumed Thursday. t Before this accident, the planes had flown for two months at low altitudes over southeast Florida without mishap. Chicago Polio Soars Past 600 Chicago !U.R Health au thorities redoubled their efforts today and urged the inoculation of city firemen as Chicago's rec ord polio outbreak climbed past the 600 mark. Dr. Herman Bundesen, presi dent of the Board of Health, rec ommended the immediate vacci nation of firemen with Salk polio vaccine. His recommendation was specifically aimed at those firemen manning fire embu lances and members of rescue squads. v Twenty-seven new polio cases and three deaths were reported Tuesday, raising the total for this year to 609 persons stricken with the disease and 16 deaths. This compared with 170 cases and 11 deaths for the corres ponding period in 1952, the city's worst previous polio year. Bundesen also announced that 355 of this year's cases have been paralytic. He said, however, that only 59 of the victims suf fering paralysis from the disease received Salk vaccine. Of these 59, Bundesen said, none received the full series of three shots, 12 had two shots and 46 received one shot. d'Ewart Appointed Agricultural Aide Washington (U.R) Wesley A. d'Ewart, former Montana congressman the Senate failed to confirm as an assistant sec retary of the interior, today was appointed special representative of the secretary of agriculture on drought matters. ! The appointment was an-1 nounced by Undersecretary of Agriculture True D. Morse. d'Ewart quit the Interior De- i partment last week after Con- j gress adjourned without acting ! on his appointment by Presi-! dent Eisenhower to be an assist ant secretary to that agency. d'Ewart gave up his seat in the House in 1954 to run for the ; Senate against Sen. James E. ' Murray (D-Mont.). Murray de feated him in what was describ ed as a bitter campaign. Murray opposed his nomination as assist ant secretary. d'Ewart had been a special assistant to Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson before he was nominated to the inter ior post. i His new post does not re-1 quire Senate confirmation. He i will receive $12,500 a year as ! against $15,000 in the interior j post. During fiscal 1955, 36.523 men j successfully completed the fourth elementary grade in the: U.S. Army. , . to reduce the planned overall :ze of the U.S. Air Force. Both defense and Air Force of ficials are convinced that cuts in manpower and numbers of air Ed Sullivan Remains Under Drug Sedatives Derby, Conn. (U.R) TV star Ed Sullivan remained under pain killing drugs today but was "resting more comfortably," a hospital spokesman said. Doctors took special precau tions to prevent Sullivan from contracting pneumonia. Sullivan, injured with three other persons in a two-car accident at Sey mour, Conn., Monday morning, had a bad chest cold at the time of the mishap. combat units will be possible be cause of the incredible power and variety of atomic weapons and guided missiles. The view of these officials is this: U.S. air power now is so gi gantic that it could "kill" Russia, probably four times over. The power of weapons and quality of planes and missiles will in creased. Regardless of the size of Rus sia's air forces, the Soviets know it would be suicide to start a war. Consequently, there is a point beyond which the United States need not go in the size of its air forces either to deter war or to destroy an enemy who starts one. large or small. Gone Next Summer The present prospect, authori ties said, is that the Air Force will reach its 137-wing goal next June 30 and later gradually fall back to a smaller number as the newer weapons become avail able. The Air Force now has 916,000 men, 59,000 under its authorized ceiling. Wilson told his news confer ence that cuts are coming, start- Stassen Agrees Ike Made Position Clear New York OI.R) Harold E. Stassen said today he agreed with Mr. Eisenhower that the President has made his position perfectly clear on Stassen's "dump Nixon" campaign. "It's perfectly clear that Pres ident Eisenhower is waiting for San Francisco and wants an open convention in regard to the vice presidency," Stassen commented when told of Mr. Eisenhower's response to a morning press con ference in Washington. Stassen said he was "very en couraged" by "mounting re sponse" to his campaign to ob tain the GOP vice presidential nomination for Gov. Christian A. Herter of Massachusetts. Stas sen is on leave, as the White House disarmament representa tive while waging his campaign against Vice President Richard M. Nixon's candidacy for reelection. ljulv 1. in the 2.81 5 (inn-man IIS military organization. The secre tary said that there is an upward trend in military spending with out "any doubt" and that the Pentagon will ask Congress for more than the $36,000,000,000 it expects to spend this fiscal year. "The trend is also to empha size new weapons and. air power and save manpower," he said. "There is some trend downward in men in service." EDITOR DIES Toledo, Ohie-p- (U.R) Funeral services will be held here Fri day for Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade for the past 30 years. The 74-year-old editor died in a hospital here Tuesday of a heart ailment. Wednesday. Auqmt t. 1151 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE MINK Sites Selected for SAC Bomber Units Washington (U.R) The Air Force has named 11 bases where Strategic Air Command bomb er units will be stationed under a new dispersal plan. The plan, announced Tuesday, is designed to reduce the c.. mand's vulnerability to attack by correcting the present "over crowded" base situation. The Air Force did not say how many bombers would be placed on each base, but it said per sonnel strength would range from 1,500 to 2,000 for each un it. The moves will take place from late 1957 through 1959. Oregon Road Deaths 216 in Seven Months Salem (U.R) Oregon's 1956 traffic death toll has passed the 200 mark The state traffic safety divis ion said today that street and highway accidents claimed at least 31 lives in July to boost the seven-month toll to 216. Safety officials said the July toll was 15 below the toll for July last year. On the strength of the July reduction noted so far, however, the state's toll for the first time this year stands below that of last year at the same time when 220 deaths had been recorded. TOP TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE WHY SETTLE FOR 2nd BEST WHEN GENERAL ELECTRI COSTS NO MORE? Open Tonight Until 9 p. m. Sale! General Electric Washers and Dryers v :;- .! ' . . i 1 - , "'if .i ! - " MM? . v , V I it mni wist- -.,.' 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