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nhower !Hlas Mo Entenfion off evealing Qaither Report to Public Washington (IP) At his news conference today, Presi dent Eisenhower said he had no intention of making the Gaither report public. This re port by a distinguished panel of civilians has been repre sented as concluding that Am erica is in potential grave military danger. The President's discussion of the budget was touched off when a reporter noted that some members of Congress in both parties do not believe the 1959 budget will be balanced or wind up with the 500 mil lion dollar surplus forecast by the President. Discusses Budget The president was asked whether he preferred deficit financing or higher taxes to meet a situation created by an unbalanced budget. Noting that the question contained many hypothetical aspects, the President said it is impossible to tell precisely what will happen because the administration is estimating expenditures and receipts 18 months ahead. He said it is quite possi ble that there could be addi tional costs beyond his budg et. But he said he believes that all low-priority expendi tures should be reduced if humanly possible. He added with a wry smile that this is easier to say than to do. Should Congress vote ad ditional expenditures which it regards as necessary, he said his own feeling is that a rea sonable amount of deficit spending would be better than talking about a tax in crease at this time. Expects Better Business He said the consensus of his economic advice is that there will be an upswing this year rather than a continua tion of a downswing. The President seemed to be somewhat paler than usual because winter weather and a heavy business schedule has kept him off the golf course recently. There were repeated ques tions involving his health and in a matter of fact manner he said that after a 'long record of good health, he had suf fered three illnesses with serious implications. Today, he added, he felt very well indeed and would like to play golf this afternoon if he had some sunlight and two hours to spare. He shifted to a somewhat graver mood. He said that as long as he was able, he was going to carry on in the presidency just as he had in the past. As for the future, that was in the laps of the Gods. The chief executive was reminded that the question of his resignation was raised last fall at the time of his mild stroke. He was asked wheth er he had considered such a House Speeds Work On Authorization Of Military Fund: Washington HP) The House speeded toward certain passage today the first bill of the week-old session, an emer gency authorization of $549, 670,000 for missile-age mili tary construction. The bill got a "green light" from the Rules committee this morning and was taken to the floor for debate. Lead ers expected it to pass by a near-unanimous vote. Building authority provid ed by the bill includes a start on the nation's third big in tercontinental ballistic mis sile base at a site still to be chosen. The measure was rushed through the legislative mill In the midst of these develop ments: Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services committee reported that the Air Force has developed a long-range detection system to give adequate warning of an enemy ballistic missile attack. He said the system will be installed1 soon, at least two years earlier than origi nally planned. In Critical Period Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, retiring Army research chief, said in New York that the nation is "entering an ex tremely critical period" in IS weapons development. He said if forced into war with Russia now, the U.S. would have a "reissued World War II force facing the Soviet army, 1 a r-g e s t and best equipped in the world today." It was Gavin's first speech since he announced his im pending retirement. Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Air craft Corp., the prime con tractor for the Navy's Polaris missile, called on President Eisenhower to develop a de fense policy "with a definite, long range plan for imple menting it." He told the Sen ate Preparedness subcommit-j tee there is an "alarming lack ! of a firm, clear-cut policy" on defense; and too much empha sis on "balanced budgets, re duced taxes, and business as usual." Work Slowed Down Dudley C. Sharp, assistant secretary of air and procure ment chief, said in a speech that U.S. missile work was "slowed down" in 1947 part ly because warheads avail able at that time were too heavy. It received "the high est priority," he said, after scientists learned how to compress H-bombs into a space small enough to use them in missiles. step and how he felt about it in general. Discusses Illness He replied that he had not considered resignation in any specific way particularly in connection with his Novem ber illness. Within two hours after his cerebral attack, the President said with a smile, his doc tors had assured him there had been no damage to what ever intellectual faculties he might have. The smile disappeared, however, as he added that any time he or any group of eminent physicians decided he was not up to doing his job, he would have no recourse but to resign. The President was asked about the economic situation in this country several times during the conference, par ticularly on the point of his preference for deficit finan cing over higher taxation. He said if the indications of ec onomic improvement became a reality, this certainly would be no period to increase tax es. On the other hand, he said the government might have to have some increases in ex penditures and if a hike in his budget was absolutely nec essary Congress would un doubtedly vote it. This still, he continued, would be a bad time to raise taxes because what he called a needle in the economy would be vastly preferable to a check rein. Gavin's Resignation He said that even in the face of higher unemployment and recently decreasing bus iness activity, he did not an ticipate at this moment that the government would pro pose any protective or econo mic controls to Congress. He said the Federal Re serve system is a powerful economic force and that he did not think it was necessary to propose that other agencies move into the field of con trols. On defense reorganization, the president was asked first for his reaction to the retire ment of Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin. Gavin asked to be relieved as chief of Army re search and development be cause he did not believe the administration was devoting sufficient money and effort for Army research in the field of missiles. The President said that as far as he knew this was a matter of Gavin's personal ity the general wanted to quit and did. Should Be Agreement As for how he could move Pentagon unification from the field of discussion into action, he noted that he will be com mander in 'chief for no more than the three remaining years of his term, and he felt the solution should not be based on his personal convic tions alone. There should be agreement between Congress and the armed services. He said any reorganization must be designed to be effec tive long after he passed from the Washington scene. For this reason he would try to put before congress a long range, rather than short term remedy for inter service dif-erences. Navy Man Killed On Sunset Highway Astoria (IP) Wilbur Ed win Aspegren, 38, a member of the Navy Shore Patrol de tachment at Tongue Point Naval station here, was fa tally injured early today when the car in which he was riding went off the Sunset highway and crashed into a stump. Police said Aspegren was dead when an Astoria ambu lance arrived at the crash scene about 16 miles east of Cannon Beach. Driver of the car was Ronald G. Kelley, also stationed - at Tongue Point. He was taken to a Sea side hospital with cuts and chest injuries and later was transferred to Tongue Point Naval hospital. Acme's Store-Wide & i W FULL SWING sSoOO F PriAtSll"!'1d NSXN Discount si on Absolutely XySOsO J L I Everything fW yS- LcsS Tha" ihrhout (&0 2c i Store. sv "Sl This pportuni,y may g V J r never come again to " M purchase the things m M neee' 'n nouse" f SJ M q wares, hardwares, Ap- " . PLEASE! Prances, Paint, Plumb- Nf s NO ing' GiftI' Spoons EXCHANGES Goods at such GIVE- M OR REFUNDS AWAY PRICES. V L QUALITY II SPECIALISTS IH HOMEWARESi jj Idaho Negro's Case Would Gel Hearing Boise OP) Gov. Robert E. Smylie assured iresidents of Payette today that he will or der a public hearing if he receives a request for extradi tion of Eddie Alford, 52-year-old Negro laborer wanted for escaping from a Mississippi prison more than 16 years ago. The governor received a petition, carrying signatures of nearly 250 persons, most of them from Payette, where Alford has lived. The petitioners asked Smy lie to refuse to order the ex tradition. However, to date, the governor has not received a formal request for extradi tion from Mississippi authori ties, but he assured the peti tioners he would give the matter sympathetic consider ation should it come before him. Alford, the petitions said, "has lived an honest life in Payette, kept out of trouble, and is a good steady worker." Armed Forces Given Promise Of Pay Boost Washington HP) A key house Democrat promised members of the armed forces a pay raise today, but he was not certain the administration had the answer. Chairman Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex.) of the house armed services subcommittee which will consider the measure said the military "must have a pay increase and some adjust ments." The administration pro posed spending $518 million to keep highly skilled men in the services by scrapping the pres ent "Methuselah" system of giving raises merely for put ting in service time. "Whether they've got the solution we could go along with or we could pass, I just don't know," Kilday said. Postal Pay Raise The White House said it al so will ask congress later for a half-billion a year pay boost for civil service workers and postal employees. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent congress the pay bill that would fatten the pay envelopes of 1,280,000 service men along the lines of the once-rejected Cordiner report to reward merit and skill. The proposed raises ranged from 70 cents a month for new second lieutenants to $423.60 a month for four-star generals and admirals. ' Inflation Feared Former Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strongly urged the military pay boosts last year to halt the exodus of talented men from the armed forces. But the Budget bureau re jected them on the ground that they would be inflation ary. President Eisenhower ve toed pay boost bills for the civil service and postal em ployees on the same ground. The White House said in a statement covering both new pay raise plans that it hoped the military raises would re duce the current excessive turnover of key officers and enlisted men. Wednesday, January 15, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRES Income Tax Season Here; Payments for Most Due April 15 Washingtont OP) Ameri ca's most unwelcome season of the year arrived today the income tax season. From now until mid-April 62 million individuals and corporations will be busy reading the fine print of the tax rules and scribbling with pencils and erasers. Most taxpayers have the full three months until April 15 to decide whether they owe the government or vice versa. But quite a few, espe cially farmers and people in business for themselves, must send forms and checks to the government sooner. Tax Timetable Here 'is a tax timetable to let you know just where you stand: Jan. 15: Persons who pay their tax on a quarterly basis mainly the self-employed and those with salaries above $10,000 may pay the fourth installment of their estimated 1957 tax. Then they can wait until April 15 to file a final return. Or, they may delay their installment until Jan. 31 then file a final return that day and pay their taxes in full. Farmers who don't re port to the Internal Revenue Service until after the taxa ble year may file a declara tion of 1957 income and pay the estimated tax if a final return is to be delayed until April 15. Or, they can file nothing today and submit a final return and payment by Feb. 17. t Social Security Return Jan. 31: Individuals mak ing an early final return, in stead of the Jan. 15 payment on estimated tax, file a 1957 report and pay the remaining tax in full. Farmers file an nual "social security tax re turn for 1957 on wages and employees and pay taxes due. Feb. 17: Farmers who did not send in a declaration by Jan. 15 file a final return for 1957 and pay tax in full. April 15: Deadline for fil ing final 1957 return for both wage and salary workers and the self-employed. First quar terly payment on estimated 1958 income also due. Farm ers who filed a declaration in January submit a final return and pay any balance due. AIL AT THE EAK NOTHING WORN ON BODY! 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