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Thunday, January 2, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Biggest Defense and Foreign Aid Problems in Years To Face Congress By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington W An election-year Congress alarm ed over Soviet scientific-mil itary achievements convenes next Tuesday with the big gest defense and foreign pol icy problems on its hands since the outbreak of the Ko rean war. The Democratic-led law makers, who goaded the ad ministration last year in the name of economy, will prod it this year to spend and act faster to meet Russia's chal lenge in building inter-con tinental missiles and racing for outer space. Some also will demand tnat the administration search for new approaches toward nego tiating with Russia on dis armament and other means of easing world tensions. Reflecting national con cern over Russia's Sputniks, few members of Congress still cherish any hope for the 1958 election-year tax cut which once appeared possible. Even at the current rate of taxations., the Treasury may slip back into the red both this year and next. Some in Congress are wor ried that budget pressure caused by higher defense spending will kill or curtail domestic projects and pro grams which they think would have election-year ap peal. All 435 House seats and a third of the 96 Senate seats will be at stake in the mid term elections next Novem ber. Congressional prodding on missiles and satellites got an early start last month when the Senate Preparedness Sub committee opened an investi gation with all the trappings of a Senate spectacular, lnis and other committees of the House and Senate will keep rnnsressional attention on sDace-age weapons through the 1958 session. Despite grumbling in some quarters and disagreement over details, Congress prob ably will give the administra- tion all or more than it wants in its defense budget of .about $40 billion. The administration already has told congressional lead ers that it is budgeting $2 billion more than this year for missiles, beefing up the Strategic Air Command, an timissile development, higher military pay and anti-submarine defenses. The administration also is preparing to ask Congress j for upwards of S200 million a year for the next four years for scholarships and other federal help to encourage long-range progress in sci ence education. The outlook for congressional approval is not yet clear. Real opposition is expect- Cash, Jewelry Taken From Home in Portland Portland UP) Jewelry, clothing and cash amounting to $1400 was stolen from the Sam D. Arnstein home here, police said Wednesday. Officers said only the bed room was ransacked and .that the job appeared to be the work of a professional burg lar. Loss included a $400 dia mond ring, a S214 payroll check and a piggy bank con taining S150. ed to those parts of the ad ministration foreign policy which require congressional action. There has been a growing tendency among in fluential Democrats to critic ize the administration for an alleged lack of fresh ideas to deal with foreign affairs. The President's recommen dations for foreign aid and foreign trade legislation are sure to come under heavy fire. Both parties are divided over these issues. Although Congress has reg ularly whittled down his for eign aid requests, Eisenhow er is ready to ask for a new S4 billion program, up more than a billion from the amount voted by Congress for this year. With a budget squeeze on many domestic programs, for eign economic aid will get rough handling from lawmak ers who question its useful Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Santa Monica, Calif. Georgia (Mrs. Red) Skelton, on the New Year's telephone call she received from her hus band from the comedian's hospital bed: "Sick as he is, he talked his doctor into letting him call me at midnight." Tokyo Attorney Abraham Lincoln Wirin, en route to Communist China with the first passport issued by the U.S. government for travel in that country: "I have no desire or intent to be used as a vehicle of propaganda by any one. The sole reason for my trip is as a lawyer protecting the rights of his client." Washington Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles, in hailing 1958 as a year of promise: "The Soviet launching of their Sputniks and rattling of their ballistic armor pose a challenge that may well be a blessing in disguise." Moscow Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, at a New Year's reception during which he toasted Presi dent Eisenhower: "If the Soviet Union and the United Stales can get together and reach agreement, most of the world's problems would be solved." Pork Barrel1 Group Said Seeking Tie-in For Pet Projects Washington rtfl A not ,ed House economizer asserted today that "the spenders" are trying to hook every pet pro ject onto the defense crisis despite what he called an ur gent new need for budget-cutting. "In and out of the Penta gon the country is in a mood of hysteria," said Rep. Clar ence :annon tu-iuoj, cnair man of the House Appropri ations committee. "A lot of people are ready to capital ize on it. Spiral of Inflation- Cannon told newsmen a spending spree now could touch off a renewed spiral of inflation leading toward eco nomic disaster. "There is a greater need for economy now than ever before," he declared. He said interests which a year ago were pressing Con gress to save now are de manding stepped-up spending to restore business to boom levels from which it has slipped. "The pork barrel fellows,' he added, are insisting that locally-popular projects in volving big federal outlays must go ahead as before de spite the obvious need for bigger defense spending. "Where national defense is concerned we can't stop to count the cost," said Gannon "But there is no reason to get hysterical and spend vast sums of money for every thing. There are a great many spenders who use ev ery event to bolster their de mands for appropriations. Sputnik was a godsend to these fellows." Cannon hoisted his go slow signal as the White House put into final shape what promises to be the big gest peacetime budget in history. President Eisenhow er is expected to outline to the returning Congress next week plans to spend about $74 billion in the new fiscal year starting next July 1. He will forecast tax collections sufficient to cover this rec ord outlay and permit a "slight surplus." 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