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.
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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.
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