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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Idaho Police Hold
Man for Mississippi
Payette, Idaho (IPl Po
lice held Eddie Alford, 52, in
custody here today after a
routine fingerprint check
with the FBI disclosed he was
wanted as a convict who es
caped from the Mississippi
state prison more than 16
years ago.
Alford was arrested here
Christmas day on a drunk
charge. As a matter of rou
tine, his fingerprints were
forwarded to the FBI in
Washington, D. C, and Wed
nesday Payette police receiv
ed a telegram from the FBI
that Alford was wanted as an
escapee from the state pris
on at Cleveland, Miss., where
he was known as Willie B.
Alford.
FASHION HI'JINKS
It's June In January
. .... i iNG SUIT The Martin Company of Baltimore,
Md., has announced development of this new flying suit
which combines parachute harness, life preserver and
signal flares which are all retained by pilot during ejection
om high speed, crippled aircraft.
Sunkissed cotfons . . . spring
timed costumes . . . mad, glad
plaids it's the happy
change of fashion pace that
comes with Parker Woods
LEON'S, 21 N. Central Ave.,
JUNE IN JANUARY JUBI
LEE of Vicky Vaughn and
Toni Todd dresses.
Originated eight years ago by
the manufacturers of these
nationally acclaimed dresses,
this annual Jubilee is a per
fect pickup for that mid-winter
letdown in wardrobes
(and milady's morale).
These dresses are spirit-raisers
in every sense of the
word. You'll find new trend-
setting styles to wear this
minute, and in most cases,
well into summer. There are
new easy sheaths, the soft-
shape torso line, full-blown
overblouses everything in
fact that means an exciting
lift to winter - weary ward
robes. The fabric news is boundless,
many are "never - befores"
making their debut in this
sparkling collection. There
are crisp, stay-fresh cottons.
lustrous combinations of cot
ton and acetate, rich tapes
try weaves, fine linen - look
rayons. All are as talented
as they are timely, being
wonderfully washable, crease
resistant and many require
no ironing.
The size ranges include jun
iors, misses and half-sizes and
only the look is expensive.
For you've a choice of any of
these beauties for only $8.98.
Both Vicky Vaughn Juniors
and Toni Todd dresses are
featured in leading national
fashion magazines and onj
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ness and doubt its support by
the voters. Money for foreign
military aid runs into less op
position. Foreign Trad Battle
In addition to the regular
foreign aid program, the
he will ask Congress to en
large the lending authority of
the Exportlmport Bank by
$2 billion.
A still bigger fight is in
prospect over foreign trade.
The President wants a five-
President has announced thati year renewal of the recipro
cal trade law, scheduled to
expire June 30 under exist
ing law. He also wants addi
tional power to cut tariff
rates ' in negotiating trade
agreements with 'other coun
tries. Loud protests already have
been heard from some do
mestic industries, claiming
serious injury from the com
petition of imported goods.
With the national economy al
ready sagging, these com
plaints could be more effect
ive next year.
Another foreign policy pro
posal of the administration
will ask Congress to loosen
restrictions on the exchange
of atomic secrets with allied
countries. Here, too. key
members of Congress seem to
have reservations.
Ex-Pendleton Mayor
Dies; Funeral Today :
Pendleton (IPl Funeral
services were held today for
Cornelius Augustus Moll, 85,
mayor of Pendleton from 1935
to 1937 and a retired ranchen
Moll died Monday after an
illness of a year. ' ..:
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