In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I wonder if you read the
tales in the papers the other
day about the Russian budget.
And, if so, I wonder if you
were as much confused as
everybody else including,
probably, the Russians.
rpHE story, as given out in
-1 Moscow, went something
like this:
The Soviet government pro
poses to spend in 1959 the
ruble equivalent of about 177
BILLION DOLLARS. This
more or less fabulous sum will
be expended for industry, re
search and social welfare
(what is referred to in these
days as cradle to the grave se
curity). Nothing is said about mili
tary spending. The Kremlin
communists are quite secre
tive about that, going on the
theory that the less said about
it the better. Their expendi
tures for military purposes
are' presumed to be tucked
away somewhere in the 177
billion total.
CO MUCH for what commies
& propose to put out.
Let's take a look now at
what they propose to take in.
It amounts to a sizeable
chunk of dough. They esti
mate their income at about
180 billion dollars (meaning
the ruble equivalent thereof)
which will not only balance
their budget but will leave
them a SURPLUS of some
three billions.
And
They add
They'll accomplish all this
without levying any direct
new taxes!
Pretty neat, is it not?
TUT wait a minute.
This Russian fiscal sys
tem is a good deal like an
iceberg. All one sees of an ice
berg is what sticks up above
the surface of the water. What
sticks up above the surface is
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- It's much the same with the
Russian fiscal system. A lot of
it is HIDDEN.
l?OR example: the
govern-
ment owns everything.
If
there were a General Motors
in Russia, the government
would own it. If there were a
Ford Motor company, the gov
eminent would own it. If
there were an AT&T In Russia
the government would own it,
And so pn down the line
Russia s ' communist govern
ment takes in all the money
and it spends all the money.
AND-
It keeps the books.
So, you see, it has the inside
track all the way around.
A WORD now about Russian
taxes.
One would think that in a
country where the govern
ment owns everything and
takes in all the money and
pays all the wages there
wouldn't , be any taxes just
like Papa and Mama, who own
the house and pay all the bills
and give the children an al
lowance. Papa and Mama
don't charge the children for
the privilege of living in the
house.
In Russia, it's different.
Russia DOES charge the chil
dren. It levies taxes on them.
It take the taxes out of their
allowance.
IN RUSSIA, the government
has another cute little trick.
It sells bonds to the people. It
doesn't really SELL them. It
TELLS them. It tells them
how much in the way of bonds
they must buy or else! Even
that isn't all. It pays them no
interest on their bonds.
And
When the bonds mature
The government decides
whether or not it will pay
back the principal. So far, in
most cases that have come to
light, its. decision has been
that -it won't pay that Ivan
can keep his bonds, but the
government will keep the
money.
o
1 You see
It isn't too hard for the gov
ernment of the U.S.S.R. to
show a balanced budget or,
if it chooses to put it that way
to SHOW A SURPLUS.
If you wonder how the So
viet government does all these
miraculous things it claims to
do, the answer is really quite
simple.
It does it with mirrors.
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New Hospital This is how the new $200,000
Osteopathic hospital will look when it is
completed at Central Point during 1959.
Ground will be broken on the modern 29
bed structure this spring to replace the
present Medford Osteopathic hospital. "The
hospital is designed for expansion to 50
American Mother Asks for Assistance
In Finding Son Who Vanished in Japan
Tokyo - (UPD - An American
mother appealed for help yes
terday in finding her only
son, a former serviceman who
vanished in Japan 21 months
ago.
The missing man is Manuel
Phillip Kautzman Jr., 25. He
cashed a traveler's check in
Tokyo March 27, .1957, then
disappeared. -
"We have gotten about to
the end of things," wrote his
mother. Mrs. Manuel Kautz
man, Eureka, Mont., in a let
ter to United Press Interna
tional's Tokyo bureau.
"We don't know where to
look for Manuel now. We
don't know what happened to
the boy or where he went
We wonder if he could have
met with foul play some
place." -
' Shortly before he left his
home he was on the verge of
telling his mother something
that might have explained
his disappearance.
"Shall I tell you a secret?
he asked her one day at their
home during a conversation
about Tokyo.
Yes," said Mrs. Kautzman,
She was surprised. Her .son
normally kept things to him
self.
Search Is Fruitless
"I acted anxious to hear
it," Mrs. Kautzman wrote
"and then he wouldn't tell
me. I often wondered what
that secret was. I never coax
ed him to tell me and I've
been sorry I didn't."
Mrs. Kautzman said a de
tective firm in Butte, Mont
and the American Embassy in
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hospital to be
enniai year, a
to be occupied
Tokyo made fruitless efforts
to find her boy.
"I've cried a good many
tears over his disappearance,"
she wrote. "He is our only
son. We just can't figure out
what happened to him."
Kautzman is five feet, ten
inches tall, weighs 16 0
pounds, has brown hair and
brown eyes and a small scar
on the back of his right ear.
He goes by the nickname
"Sonny." He carried neither a
passport nor a visa.
Mrs. Kautzman asked that
any information about her
son be transmitted to UPl or
to the consular section of the
American Embassy.
Returned To Orient
Kautzman served as spec
ialist third class with the 57th
Field 'Artillery Battalion in
Korea until January, 1957.
He had been home only five
weeks when he suddenly an
nounced he was going to visit
relatives in Seattle. He left
Eureka, about 10 miles from
Clergy and Laymen
Set Up New Center
Evanston, 111. - (UPD - Clergy
and laymen of this quiet
"City of Churches" have set
up a new interdenominational
study and research center to
link the Christian faith with
the problems of the modern
world. x
The Evanston Institute for
Ecumencial Studies is the
first of its kind in the United
States and only the second
such center in the world.
The institute is a direct out
growth of the ecumencial
movement the drive for
world-wide cooperation among
all Christians.
Twenty-eight denominations
are represented on its gov
erning corporation and all
major seminaries in the Chi
cago area joined in sponsor
ing it.
Dr. Walter W. Leibrecht,
31-year-old German-born the
ologian who is director of the
institute, said it will study
the grave and difficult is
sues which confront our gen
eration and which are of vital
concern to Christianity."
One of its first major proj
ects, he said, will be inten
sive research on atomic radia
tion as a biological and ethi
cal problem. The research
will be carried out by a physi
cist and a ' geneticist at the
institute's headquarters: These
are about 20 miles from the
spot under the squash court
at the University of Chicago
where man unleashed the first
sustained nuclear chain reac
tion and ushered in the Atom
ic Age.
Leibrecht said the institute
also hopes to train Christian
laymen who are going abroad
for the government's Point
Four program and other aid
programs.
"We want to develop spe:
cial four-week courses for
such Americans so they will
be better informed when they
go abroad," he said.
Leibrecht said the need for
an ecumencial institute was
voiced by delegates to the
World Assembly of the World
Council of Churches here in
1954.
A committee of Evanston
churchmen took up the idea
and began planning. Evan
ston churches chipped in from
$100 to $4,000 each to help
get the program under way.
After four years of plan
ning, the institute opened lor
business recently in an old,
22-room ; Queen Anne man
sion on a tree-shaded residen
tial street in this North Shore
suburb.
Leibrecht launched the in
stitute's work with a program
of 13 conferences. The first
of these studied the responsi
bilities of the Christian lay
man in tne moaern worm.
The second was on "The Mis
sionary Task of the Church
Today." A third dealt with
the Christian press and "The
Necessity of Dealing With
Controversitl Issues."
Conferences to . come in
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any major changes. Dr. P. T.
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hospital, is constructing the new facilities..
This will be the second new osteopathic
opened during Oregon s cen
near-mmion aouar plant is
in January in Portland. -.
the Canadian border, March
1, 1957.
He carried $1,200 in travel
er's checks, his honorable dis
charge papers, a birth, certifi
cate and two suitcases.
Kautzman left Seattle
March 8 and flew to Hono
lulu. From there, he probably
hitch-hiked to Japan aboard
military plane by wearing one
of the army uniforms he was
carrying and posing as a sol
dier. This would explain how
he entered Japan without
passport or visa
A few days before his dis
appearance, Kautzman ran in
to some Army friends from
Korea who were on leave at
the Gaioen Kanko Hotel in
Tokyo.
"When they asked him why
he returned to Tokyo so soon
after going home," Mrs
Kautzman wrote, "he would
n't answer them. After many
tries they gave up
This was apparently the last
time Kautzman was seen' by
anybody who knew him
1959 will take up such prob
lems as human rights, reli
gion and ethics in - business
decisions, juvenile delinquen
cy, religious tolerance and
Christian faith as it relates
to modern art.' "
By next fall, Leibrecht
hopes to. have a permanent
faculty and regularly sched
uled classes for theological
students and others interested
in the ecumencial ' program.
Plans for the future also en
visage a 20,000-volume library
devoted to ecumencial study
and denominational relations.
Leibrecht hopes that the in
stitute eventually will give
the United States a study cen
ter rivaling the Ecumencial
Institute of Bossey, Switzer
land, which was formed after
the first meeting of the World
Council of Churches.
Twenty per cent of all the
fires in the U.S. in 1957 were
caused by electricity and elec
trical equipment.
UNCONDITIONAL Rus
sian Foreign Minister Gro-
myko, speaking' to parlia
ment in Moscow, has said
that Russia is ready at any
time to sign an agreement
with the West on the dis
continuance of nuclear tests,
with "no reservations or
preconditions of any kind."
He did not mention the mat
ter of controls.
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Cigar-Smoking Millionaire
Fails To Stir Muscovites
Br PATRICK RILEY
United Press International
London ' tOPD What sort of
stir would be created in the
streets of Moscow by a cigar
smoking, ; monocle - wearing
Western millionaire?
, Niibar Gulbenkian, a cigar
smoking, - monocle-wearing
Western millionaire, decided
to find out just that during a
recent trip to the Soviet Un
ion. '
"I had expected the Musco
vites to glower or snigger as I
strolled down the streets,"
said Gulbenkian, whose curl
ed musjachios. and broad
beard are even more impress
ive than his cigar and mon
ocle.' ' " - '"
"But I found only a few
curious stares." ,
Gulbenkian's father -was
the late C. S. ("Mr. Five Per
Cent") Gulbengian, reputedly
the world's richest man until
his death. - . - r
In ; Soviet Armenia, where
Nubar attended ceremonies
marking the third anniver
sary of the coronation of the
Armenian Orthodox church's
catholicos (chief bishop), he
found .-"no resentment at all"
over his very obvious wealth.
"In fact," he said, sipping
his Armenian- brandy and
puffing on a Havana cigar in
his luxurious suite at the Ritz,
hundreds of Armenians gath
ered outside my hotel to greet
me." ..
Gulbenkian was one of hun
dreds " of Armenians living
outside Soviet Armenia who
were in Vazgeh I, to help him
celebrate his 50th birthday
and the third anniversary of
his coronation.
The Western millionaire
said there was "every evi-i
dence" of complete religious
freedom in Armenia.
He pointed out that the gov
ernment had . helped restore
the 1500-year-old cathedral of
Edtchmaidzine, cradle "of
Christianity in Armenia, (Gul
benkian's late father donated
almost half a million dollars
to the project.) . ;
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Gulbenkian also said that
every Armenian churchman
he spoke to stressed that
church-state relations were
"more than cordial."
He said that Armenian
churchmen could not be ac
cused of servility to the state.
In support of this statement
he pointed out that the Catho
licos publicly urged the for
eigners who attended his festi
vities to be loyal to their
adopted homelands.
Gulbenkian added that gov
ernment officials attending
the banquets given by and for
the Catholicos "remained at
respectful attention during
prayers."
He said the banquets 4last
ed five or six hours and 20 or
30 speeches' and that there
was "plenty to eat and drink,
and plenty to listen to." ;
Gulbenkian said he was al
lowed perfect liberty to travel
wherever he wanted to while
in Russia.
"I was even given permis-
Deputies Search
Channel For Body
1 Portland (UPD Multnomah
county sheriffs deputies
searched the Multnomah chan
nel Saturday for Reuel Law
rence, 65: missing since Christ
mas day when he failed to
appear at his daughter's house
for dinner. .
Lawrence had been living
alone in Float House No. 13
at Hageman's moorage south
of the Sauvies Island bridge
on St. Helens road. Beverly
Ann Green, St. Helens, report
ed her father missing when
he failed to appear at her
house Christmas. Police check
ed his boat house and found
a door unlocked and the lights
on. In his car, parked in the
parking lot was a potted plant,
as if ready to be delivered
as a Christmas gift.
First broadcast of London's
Big Ben was made in 1923.
a', r 1 ...III .1 '.l.i'- . . i t .
sion to visit the militarized
zone along the Turkish bor
der," he said. "I travelled
about 200 miles by car in the
neighborhood of Erenan, and
went to see Mount Ararat as
well as the River Alex, sacred
in the memory of Armen
ians." He said that during a visit
of less than three weeks, he
"could not form an opinion of
Soviet Russia, but only an im
pression." . "I was impressed by all that
I saw in Moscow," Gulben
kian said. "True, I saw only
the finer parts of the city. But
the streets were broad and
there was plenty of construc
tion going on."
He said the Muscovites
struck him as "earnest, dedi
cated and almost dour."
"They seemed to have a
slight pity for the Western
way of life," he observed.
"I was struck by the ab
sence of the profit motive.
People do things for you not
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courteous to me whether I
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nearly 200 Armenians who
spoke with him ("I counted up
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ly one asked him for a hand
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