Day's lews
lly HtANK JKNKINfl
Union to this-which came lick,
lug oil the wires Ironi Washington
a Irw minutes ago;
"The usual wiivo ol economy
demands rolled out nt congress
today In the wako of President
Truinau'H record $110,444,000,000
lelghly-llve million, lour hundred
lorly-lour million dollnri pence
llino spending budget lor Ilia llftcul
j or starling July I.
"Outs ol up to M billion dollars
enough In prevent n ledcral delicti
next year were demnndrd.
"BUT
"There termed Mile likelihood
llmt such it goal or even anything
resembling II would be attained.
Why not?
Congress, you know, In the
KEUI'ttn OF TIIK PUI18I5 no
designated by the constitution n(
the United Males. 'Ilie keeper ol
the purso rnn do ANYTHING In
I ho way nl cutting route by lliei
simple process ol saying lo every
body who docs env spending:
"You can spend ONl.Y-BO-MUC1I.
There Isn't going to be nny
more, lor we aren't going to ap
propriate it. Period, Class dis
missed.'' That would do the trick II con
gress stayed with It.
For venis those ol us who b
lleve Unit Nntlonul bankruptcy In
the lira, llnnl. WORST calamity
Hint enn bela II a mitlon and thnt
Mtuatloiml bnnkruplev lollowii Inevll
I'iihly hi the wake ol too imirh gov
(iernnienl spending have been yell-
in bloody murder ebout Ihe ex
travagance ol Ihe two Presidents
we have had In Ihe past 110 years.
We have been right, ol course,
fiboul the extravufnnt hublls ol
these two Prenldenla.
But xr hi.ve been wrong
Dead wrong
In our nupronch lo the nrnb
'" ol over-Miemlln'f, In nil these
tears. II hna been CONORFHft not
Ihe President -Unit hn been re
sponsible or Ihe fuel thai we have
aoenl too much, money. Th" Presl
dent nnn't npproprlnle. He ran
only upend. It It l-n't appropriated,
he can't apend H.
If there l ever again to be wlie
and resaonable economy In the
conduct of our federal government,
II muni come ebout by the process
ol electing congress that will
lorce economy by rcluslng to ap
propriate too much money.
Thai la the only way It can be
done.
One word here about President
Truman's 84 billion dollar budget:
II amounts to $550 lor each man,
women end child In Ihe country
or 'J'0 lor each family ol lour
persona.
What eboul President Truman?
personally. I don't think we call
allord him. He Isn't e good enough
manager. But If we're going lo gel
economy back Inio our govern
mental processes, the Initiative will
have lo be taken bv congress.
We're doing e lot of talking
about whom we're going to have
lor our next President. We'd belter
be doing a lot ol miking AND
THINKING ebout whom we're
going to elect to the next congress.
Clerk Caught,
Money Found
WEST FAI.M BEACH, Fla. Ml
Ernest I.. Whetrel Jr.. who lied
Camp Gordon, Oa.. with e Coast
Guard payroll and blonde, wait
ress, has been arrested here end
'120,000 of the money recovered.
Chlel or Police Richard M. All
r.hlre suld the missing 36-year old
Coast Guard pay clerk was seized
Monday night In a nlghl club a
block from Ihe police Million.
He quoted Whelr.el as admitting
he left Camp Gordon Jan. 3 with
130.000 of Coast Guard funds.
Tlie FBI reported thnt Whel.el
left with Ihe waitress "slmuKnne
ntislv'wllh the discovery that $45.
330.99 '.vus missing from the safe
ol which he had custody as pay
roll officer."
Albhlre aald Whetr.el told him he
"had been going through Ihe pay
roll for some time" end took only
tJO.000 when he left.
Weather
FOR KC AST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern t'alilnrnia:
hnnw flurries through Wednesday.
High Tuesday 30, low tonight 28.
Illdi Wednesday 33.
tilth temp yesterday . 27
Low last nlghl 21
Preclp Jan. 21 .19
Since Oel. 1 10.24
Normal for period -0
fame period last year .. - - 9.90
(Addlllonal Weather en Paee 41
' t u .
.!. ll iir.ii l.i.vc.
HONO KONG lift The Shnnghai
Communist parly ncw'pnpcr Liber
ill Ion Dally nays special Commu
nist party teachers are going to
lake over the political education of
one million Industrial workers In
East China. Labor union commis
sars supposedly have been teach
ing the workers communlMn rlRht
along, but apparently It didn't
lake. The newspBUer said "some
of the workers still adopt an at
titude of Indifference."
College's 'Free' Campus
Line Brings a Backfire
JONESBORO, Ark. IB Olll
rials al Arkansas Stale College
here have a puzzler on their hands:
What to do wllh a 20 year-old
Arab whoso life savings were spent
on a trip to the United Stales for
free college education.
Schukkl Mohammed El Khatlrl
appeared at Arkansas Slate Mon
day Miylnp he was ready to begin
classes.
He had only $10 In his pocket
all thai remained Irom the sale
ol a (arm In Israol to finance his
flip tu America,
Klmtlii gave Dean of Men Koucn
Moore this account:
After finishing high school In
Jerusalem, ho Blurted writing let
ters to colleges In the United States
In ijiopcs of completing his educa
tion. Scores of colleges sent hlin cata
logues. And then lornt letter
from Arkansas State arrived.
fin
U.S. Jets
Prowl, No
Reds Found
flffiQUL. Korea (ifl U.S. Jets
paced Mid Alley over Northwest
Korea for 30 minutes In foul flying
weather Tuesday without sighting
n single Hcd awepl-wlng fighter.
Other United Na lions plnnei
roared through heavy clouds In
continuing uttucks on Communist
rail lines In North Korea.
it was the fourth straight day
ol bad weather but the U.S. Fifth
Air Force racked up 153 sorties by
IIUOII.
On Ihe frozen ground front, Ihe
battle calm was disturbed only by
patrol clashes. Snow Hurries slowed
action all along Ihe M6-mlle fight
ing line,
Allied carriers launched Ihelr
wurplanes at east coast rail lines,
trucks, bridges and supply build
ings. U.N. warships pounded Ited tar
gets off both Ihe east and west
coshIs.
Slide May
Have Killed
Four Skiers
HUN VALLEY. Idaho 'P - Still
Valley olllrlals reported Tuesday
a lourlh man may have been killed
Ui Ihe sr.owsllile which hns already
definitely claimed one llfo and pro
bably two others.
They said Rudolph Mandl, South
Bend, Wash., Is missing and feared
rapped In the slide along with
Arthur Gardner, New York, and
Btuiirl Fraser, Enscnada, Mexico.
Civtor Gollschalk. a ski Instruc
tor al the resort, was pulled Irom
Ihe tons ol snow which roared down
Baldy Mountain Saturday. He died
a lew minutes later,
Search opera I Ions enter their
fourth day.
Mandl was al Sun Valley looking
lor work, resort olllclals said, and
was la-it seen al breakfast Satur
day. A check of his room showed his
clothing was still (here and his
car was believed stored at the
resort.
Mandl recently came here from
Australia.
Search operations are being con
ducted by Slgl Engl, director of
skiing at the resort, and Nelson
Bennett, head of Ihe ski patrol.
Eight Inches of snow has fallen
at Hun Vulley since (he elide oc
curred. '
Taft Charges
Truman Faking
BELOIT. Wis. tfi President
Truman's demands for a bipartisan
foreign policy, says Sen. Taft, are
"pure hypocrisy."
The Ohio Republican Senator,
speaking Monday night on what
he termed hie presidential cam
paign ';batlle ground." said that
Mr. Truman, since his reelection
in 1948. has "thrown nny idea of a
bl-pnriiMin foreign policy out the
window." .
Tall declared "tnV Korean war
Is n Truman war."
Tail's Initial major speech In his
bid lor Wisconsin's 30 delegates
to the Republican Presidential con
vention drew an enthusiastic crowd
ol 4.000 to the Rocky County Wo
men's Republican Club Lincoln
IDnv dinner at the Brlolt College
Flcldhouse.
noo RF.sn'F.n
CHICAOO (li A man and a ma
chine lenmed up to rescue a dog
Irom Ihe Chicago River. The dog,
wet and shivering, clung (o a tiny
sneck of land at the bottom of a
L2S-foot banki Arnold Ollsch, a hu
mane officer of the Animal Wei
tare LeaRiie, arrived on the scene.
A tow .truck was backed up to the
bank. Clinch fastened a steel cable
about his waist end, as the line
was paid out by Ihe truck, he
slid to Ihe water's edge. Then Ihe
cable operating In reverse, hauled
up Ollsclt and the dog.
COMMUNISTS ORGANIZE
STUDF.NTS
8RINAGAR. Kashmir ITI Kash
mir's small but well-knit Commu
nist party Is concentrating on the
creation of cells or pockets among
Kashmir students. Officials here
said a procession of Prlilagnr stu
dents against "the British govern
ment's policy in Egypt" was Communist-dominated,
and blamed the
same left-wing organizations for a
student strike atnlnst higher tut
Hon In the state's schools.
It slated (hut "campus Ilie at
State is full, free and friendly,"
and Khatlrl took the sentence lit
erally. He decided that Arkansas
Slate was the place for htm.
He got $400 for Ihe small farm
hit him by his lute father and
used tho money for a steamship
tlckot to New York.
He arrived In this country with
$50. Khatlrl decided that wasn't
enotiQli to get hhn In Arkansas.
Ho visited a friend In Portland,
Mo who gave him $45.
Khullrl arrived at Joncsboro
Monday. Ilo had $10 left.
Denn Moore said Ihe slightly
built young man Is being quartered
in Ihe men's dormitory until school
offlelals figure out what to'do.
Tho denn said an effort would be
mado to get Khatlrl a job If he
could raise $300 to finance his first
year's study.
W M
Mil
Price Five Cents
12 Page i
No Progress
Reported At
Truce Meet
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
MUNBAN, Korea i.tl The Al
lies accused Communist truce ne
gotiators Tuesday of making "un
out and out grab lor military ad
vantage'' In Korea and showing
"ruthless disregard of the rights of
the Individual."
Rear Adin. R. E. Llbby made
the charge In again rejecting Red I
demands for "forcol repatriation"!
of all prisoners ol war. I
"We again tell you." Llbby said, j
"that we are not going to give up I
our insistence upon" voluntary re-1
uatrlatlon.
In a second subcommittee ses
sion the Reds refused to ban air
Hi Id reconstruction although the
U N. Command olicrcd to accept
Communist wording on other terms
tor supervising a Korean armistice.
That meeting lasted only M min
utes. No progress toward a 'truce was
made by either subcommittee.
But negotiators did take steps to
seleguard prisoner.! o war from
air attack. They agreed stall ol
I leers would start working out sale
guards Wednesday.
Forum Draws
Wide Interest
Response of tho listening au
dience to the Herald' and News
"Build the Basin," again last night
caused prolonging ol it 30 minutes
over Its scheduled lime.
A panel of seven persons dis
cussed al length and answered
questions on how to put our best
Joulh Ideas Into immediate action.
Mrs. Edith Klngdon. KUHS Par
ents and Patrons president, said
parents are to blame for delin
quency and must set a better ex
ample. Carrol Howe, county schools su
perintendent, stressed Importance
of learning lo work, accepting re
sponsibility, learning the value-ol
money - and of rendering a good
day . worn lor a day s pay
Dot Am Fleming. Henley HighiCity Council session.
School Keillor, dwelt on church al -
tendance for youth and parental
example in the home.
Arnold oralapp, superintendent
,1. ..l .. .., 1 ,, i.t
J uuiHu.i.u.jr .iirai B-- Hum
of 18 years as an aid to combat-
im Ht inniin,-v ,
Rev, George A'tler, president
Klamath Ministerial Assoc.. voiced
al "coimnerciallred enlertalnment
which was eating away al the
very roots of the home."
Chick Qulnowskl. KUHS student,
said he thought Ihe youth problem
was greatly exaggerated.
Ray Blggers, president of YMCA
board of directors, explained that
Ihe Y Is open to persons of all
ages, race, color and creed. He out
lined the various Y programs and
explained no person without dues
would be refused admission to the
Y. ,
Hilltop Cagers,
Payless Win
On Saturday nlghl, Hilltop Cafe's
hoopstcrs took Medford's . Crazy
Swazces Into eamp at Pelican
court to the tunc of 46-43. The
Hllltoppers were never out of Ihe
lead, but In Ihe final minutes the
Mcdfordlles succeeded in hacking
down the lead to the four-point
margin.
In Ihe double-header. Payless
Drug of Klamath defeated the
Mobil Gos team of Mcdford by a
score of 64-61. It was a March of
Dimes benefit.
IKE AND MAC Admiral
Lynde D. M c C o r m i c k
(above) is slated to head
the North Atlantic Treaty
Navies in 'the Atlantic. It
will be a post co-equal with
that of Gen. Eisenhower.
Washington reports say
President Truman will
recommend him.
' f ' Ilk
1 X
Snow Cost; High,
Airport Closed
Snow and how to feet rid of the
stuff occupied much of last nlght'a
1 Ihe Street Department Is claim-
!!ng fair success at keeping down -
lewn streets f r p m becoming
I cioggea. dui me airport just isn i
r.ittf P-,w,Ia Tovl Thntnat e-
; j ,
Imales that by the time the vt.s -
Ible efiect ef the current storm
, -- ----
i are cleared off the streets, his de-
wrunml win have spent about
, "'. "r "
Wider Street
Meeting Set
A Dubllc hearing on the Di ouosal
cost of'from $47,000 to $57,000. has
i-been scheduled Ior Monday, Feb.
18, 7:30 p.m. at City Hal.
A resolution lo Uiit cflect was
adopted last night by the City
Council.
Opposition lo the plan has been
developing and petitions against
di ini),u,ciiiv,i n.c wuv ...
me ruiuu icuntt n in, '"
llUUIlllg r ITU. A I 13 CApct-IU 111 ut
a lively one.
The plan is to cut four feet off
e plan Is to cut four feet or enninment to do the work an
each side of Ihe center esplanade
down Pacific Terrace from Lowell
,A ll.ii.uln I r. ninll, tl,A rf-lvlnn
to Alameda, lo make Ihe driving
lanes 20 leet wide instead ol 10.
Tlie street Improvement was in
itiated by the City Council and. If
done, the cost will be assessed
against property along the street
and half a block back on each
side of the street.
The hearing is to determine
whether' the project will go ahead.
II the owners of two-third of the
property Involved, in area, object,
the improvement project will be
cancelled.
RFC Boosts
Price of Tin
WASHINGTON l.fi The Recon-
structton Finance Corporation
raised the price of tin Tuesday
to American Industry from $1.03 a
pound lo $1.21 .. .
the old price naa uecn in enect
since Aug. 1.
Tlie RFC was given a monopoly
over tin in the United Stales 'last
year ln an effort to bring down
prices, which began to skyrocket
when the Korean war broke out.
The government agency Is the
sole Importer of tin Irom abroad.
It sells about 50.000 tons a year
lo American Industry.
Dime Phones
Irk Students
EUGENE ;Pi University ol
Oregon students Monday night pro
tested increases in pay telephone
rates.
They parrolcd through the streets
here with a banner readuig "A
Dime la A Crime" and built a
bonfire at a downtown intersection.
Pay telephone rates were in
creased from 6 to 10 cents Monday.
Earlier most telephones In liv
ing organization houses had been
cotivortcd to pay type.
Mm jL4mimmMl mm,, , im-i K. .n e.'-ir..liai Mmm.,m,
KLAV AtOnKii O NT L' K 8 1) A Y J A X LA RY 22, 195J Telephone 8111 No. 2730
am a LiUlo Ilream . .
V tj . a
J
i Up to lost Saturday. -he said the
figure was about $2,300. But ves -
Iterday alone the work cost $1,000.
mostly in rental on bulldozers,
'blades and other equipment.
BARGAIN '
j The city Is getting one bargain,
A . ' .. - I
iourncau carryall irom isea h-Ul-
!uam. ioggin!r contractor. That rig.
i-k.. .7- -i . -,u.
ii.iwiiiK um awui ci;ii stilus ui
snow at . tune nns moved as
jmuch in ,2 hours as ,, city
previously could do m two days,
'.jusin'r two loaders and five trucks,
I And the cost for the 12 hours
cMn . tin n. I ..- ..t..t ,i '
.
;im?Mii. Willi ii UCK5 nnu llnuua,
i Thomas estimated, the same
amount ol work would cost S500.
j Yesterday .he city had the cariT-
all. five bulldozers, a couple of
i graders and other equipment work-'
' lne. and the work went on all i
!the city garage.
I But at the airport it's a dilfercnt
siory.
CLOSED
' Airport Manager Wilbur Whit-
I comb said the equipment he has
cannot keep up with the snowfall
it0 cieBr Ihe 220-foot wide runways,
n n mm ne airpuri. nas UCCII
closed since suiiaay.
He asked City Council pertms-
sion for the purchase of a piece
PWD hvdroulically operated snow -
wovv Counted on an 188-hp. 4x4
I ' .... .
lonr - wneei arive iruca, cusiiuk
$14,260.
The proposal got an exceptional-
W cool reception from members of
the Council.
The airport does not have enough
money lo nay for the equipment
outright, whitcomb saia, dui couia
put it on a two or three year coiv
tract.
The proposed purchase was re
ferred to the Airport Commission
for study and report to the Coun
cil. ,
ROl'TIXK
Otherwise, the Council session
was routine. Business Included:
Authorization for the Street De
partment to buy two 650-gal. slor-
age tanks lor luel now kept ln SO -
gal. barrels in the department's
garage. '
Authorization for Street Depart -
mpnt In have Inn mermirv i-nnnr
j ilRhts mslniied at Riverside and
j,iBm. Oregon Highway Engineer
r, h. Bakiock suggested, the lights
I and said he would recommend the
, Highway Department install a
flashing beacon at the corner;
Instruction of the Police Depart
ment to check up on music ma
chines, ulnbiills and oilier coln-ln-siot
devices to sec if properly li
censed.
Anm.ivni of courtesy UBiklne
permits for stockholders attending
the Klamath Production Credit As-
socinlion meeting here Saturday.
Atithoriziuion lor the Youtn ciuDjias were flown out ot Koc.y ear
of St. Augustine Church. Merrill
lo display a steer downtown Satur
day in connection with a church
fund-raising project.
Councilman Wendell Smith', be
set with requests to 'make a change
in tratlic control at Oregon and
Biehn, in his ward, pointed out
that tlie city has no authority over
that corner, it. being a state high-
way junction. 1 - v
Smith said he had been Rsked lo
get Ihe control dimmed so Unit
Biehn, coming into Oregon, would
be a stop street, rather than hav
ing Oregon the stop street as at
present. The Stale Highway Do
pertinent has made a survey of
traffic there, he said, and may
come up with a decision to change
the stop sign.
t
Carlsen Tells
Of Ship Loss
! NEW YORK if Capt. Kurt! cent OPS premium over local cell-1 the National Potato Chip Institute,
Carlsen testified Tuesday that thejing quotations and he said he felttreporta potato chip production In
ilreighter Flyhig Enterprise sui- that Oregon growers would get the ; 1951 reached an all-time high of
jlered her death blow "when a 60- same treatment. 133V336.1U pounds
i rtrir-- hanct.
1 i. ...i. ...
sm .r.t. ..mil i.,;
; hcibre her fatal olunee Dassed
lightlv over his own efforts' and told
.Coast Guard Board of Inoufr?
i how his crew lought to save the
H- .(H the heavv sw and eale
! Si soil reasoiis ISr toe Wss
were tne sole reasons ior me loss
lafV-"" ' .Med at a round of re-
icepll01w a7ld pal.adcs ln New York
N. J.,sea cap -
tain
related first how the sh o
cracked open from starboard to
... ,., e-e an hurritn.
l'M.VL "VJ .,V".V.
England
E"?!a"d,' r , frnn,
Then he told of the blow from
which the vessel never recovered.
L"Thi??
!, du,5":,,h Pnf, the s'mrboard
ji"" ,1 " , atiemnt to get down to
h,a ihinninn lane-; and we were do -
ieH until about U'30 en a
60-foot sa hit the shin with a ter-
I ri(j- imoact . . .
H"e said this smashed the star -
! board 'lifeboat and ripped steel fur -
: nitnre lnne irom steel OUIKIieaus
to which It was Doited.
i tha rrnsstree on the foremast
: rii,HrjDeared in living water and
,-. ors thrown out of
! their binnacles," he continued,
I carlsen said that, at this time.
. .. ,(
,ne sent' out a securiiy. siKim..
statin the situation was "grave"
f,na ordered passengers and crew
jt0 aon Hfeiackcus. He said several
I ships responded to the security sig-
!nai
Later he ordered the security
signal changed to an
SOS" he
said.
Mother, Son
Man Rescue
1 MOUnTAIN riOMfi!, Idaho l.fl
1 Tlie lour men who pulled Mrs.
1 Gene jack and her son to Rocny
'Bar on a toooggan spent another
; day wailing lor tne -weather to let
n n ihnv "ntilri leave tlie tillV
mining camp,
f Rauio contact with the group was
: prevented by a snowstorm Monday,
Air force officials al Mountain
l Home Air Base said they would
try lo land a ski-equipped plane at
Fcalherville and ihe lour men
would probably snowshoc the eight
miles lo reacn the plane.
They said the men, Mrs. Jack s
husbaiid, Lt. Daniel A. Fitzgerald
i ,i t.s.oi Frank Sackrider. and
I vein Mackey, a miner, have ample
supplies.
! mi-s. Jack and two-year old Doug-
bv helicopter Saturday. After an
examination al a Boise hospital,
i,a and the child returned to
Mountain Home to await her hus
band. , '
Fitzgerald and Sackrider were
parachuted into the area last
Wednesday lo help bring Mrs. Jack
and the child out oi me remote
Urea. ,
1)009 ATTACK PEER
NEW GLASCOW, N.S. ID Loud
barking of dogs brought Stanley
Porter from his home. An injured
deer was being attacked by three
large dogs. He and Frank Adam
son drove the dogs away and took
the deer to a barn where it is
recovering.
fl
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. ...
Spud Ceiling
Explained;
Some Boosts
Polato ceiling price regulations
ihave been clarified ."omeuhat by
ircports from Klamath potato grow
ler Scott Warren, In .Washington,
I D. C, attending sewions with the
uirice ol Price Stabilization.
The base potato price had been
sei at u.bo per hundred pounds,
rolling back prices from as high
as a reported So.Ja per Hundred
weight price to the grower at the
beginning of the year.
The rollback was effective Jan.
19: it will be reflected in retail
prices, by OPS order, alter Jan. 23.
CRATE RATE
According to Warren, a 70-cent
additional price has been provided
for government crate business: a
portion of Southend shipments have
been earmarked In the past for
Army contracts.
Margins for services in the mar-
keting of a hundred pound sack of
spuas cannot, rjy OPS order, ex-1 icnucni, iur nve dii-
ceed the following. Warren re-' llon dollars more taxes was made
poned: wilh no real expectation that con-
Ten cents for country shipper; 8rr Sadncrant "' '
six cents for transit risk: 45 cents , '"'.,, i, . .
for primary receiver .country ship- Lade or Seety o f fe Tre?
lomesecoZTobbr1 35 S" Pl
Ior lne seconaary Jobber. plan to lne House Ways and Mea,
MARGINS I Committee, starting point for all
It appears. Warren noted, that irei'e.e 'f,?isl?,tlonv, .. , ,
the shipper and primary receiver , 2- ne President himself, In glv
must operate on a 51-cent margin. ln& newspapermen an advance pre
He said the $3.65 base celling an-' i'i ,all Saturday of his $85,444,
nounccd is Just that to the grower i ""0.000 budget for the next fiscal
ana not less a 10-cent commission
to the shipper.
A total of 88 cents is provided
for shipper, receiver ond jobber
margins between the grower and
the retail store. Previous "orig
inal" regulation, he said, called for
only a 60-cent provision for these
services.
Warren said there is a good pos-
sibility of some increase In Idaho
ceilinzs already selling at n 2n-
Usual Economy Demands
Follow Budget Request
WASHINGTON OP The usual
lwa.ve f economy jdemands rolled
, 4.saZ L" tnT
btifeT1
record
SDending
"""
! July 1.
uu ui up io n oiiuon oouars
t-..t.. -r i , . j.
cnoush to Dievent a federal deficit
neSt year-were demanded.
But there seemed little likelihood
""'S
; '""s"?"a f. .LcVe" a.n,51."?
Congress Is Umited in
Itrimming the President's spending
program, since much of the con -
1 tempiatea ounay win come irom """"""" f,"-" ?' "u
nioney already allocated but not, a bUhon dollars in the new year.
;yct spent. Defeiise spending aho is likely
I Congress works only on appro-; to be curbed, but barrlns an un-
; pnations, although it can recapture .expected turn for the better In
1 unspent money appropriated in world affairs, no deep cuts are
i
INDO-CHINA consists of three "associated states" Viet Nam,
Cambodia and Laos. Viet Nam is by far the largest and most
important, with 25 million people, compared to five million in th
other two kingdoms. VJ t Nam is the most troubled, too. For over
live years violent, hit-and-run warfare has raged between French
and Indo-Chinese on one side and Communist-led Viet Minh forces
on the other. Viet Nam was born a Japanese puppet state In World
War II, but sought self-rule after VJ-day under ihe gaunt Ho
Chi Minh. At first the French tried to go along with Ho's ''nation
alist" aims. But, finding Ho had hitched his wagon to the Kremlin
star, France in 1948 switched its support to Bao Dai a Viet Nam's
chief of state. War in Viet Nam has been a series of Indecisive
battles between 350,000 French and loyal Indo-Chinese forces (who
recently lost their brilliant leader, Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny)
and a like number of loosely-organized Reds under Ho. Viet Minh
guerrillas, holed up In the mountains, have staged sporadic night :
raids on, Viet Nam cities and villages. Result has been a crippling
of Viet Narp's "rice bowl" economy and a severe drain on French
' military resources. Because loss of Indo-China might doom all of
rich Southeast Asia, the U. S. has poured hundreds ot million! of
dollars worth of military aid into the anti-Communist battle. Most
serious threat to Indo-China looms from north, where Chlne
Reds are feared planning to stage "another Korea." This threat
may become reality if fighting ends ln Korea.
Plants Burn,
Loss Placed
At $250,000
PORTLAND 11 Fire burned
out the Interior of two Industrial
plants In southoast Portland Tues
day morning.
Loss estimates ranged above a
quarter of a million dollars and
idling of the plants put 125 men
out of work.
Five firemen suffered minor in
juries. The foundry and sheet metal
shop of the Northwest Foundry and
r urnace company ana tne lasrical
mg shop of Armco Drainage and
Metals Products Company were
those hit bv the spectacular early
morning fire. The first was in a
100 by 350-foot building and the
second in an 80 by 300-foot struc
ture. Bruce Fltzwatcr, manager of the
foundry, said loss would be about
$200,000. and 85 men would be out
of work. Eugene Gibson, general
manager at Armco, said he would
tint PStltllflt lVt hut tirmmmn
' placed a tentative estimate of $30.-
uoo on it. Gibson said 40 men
would be idled.
The firemen's Injuries were cuts
and nail punctures.
HST's Budget
Hopes Empty?
WASHINGTON Wl
Evidence
i mounted Tuesday that President
u ' "'"'
ncd no special message to Congress
on taxes.
He 3aid he had made clear last
year what he wanted, when he
asked for at least ten billion extra
tax dollars, and that is still his
program.
AMERICANS 'IN THE CHIPS'
rHTHAOO VPi Amprirnnct in onu
sense, are In the chips. Martin A.
Linnio nr TnioHn ntiin n,Myii r
I In new appropriations for the
comlns vear. the pre3ident rcouest-
e $84,260,000,000. some 10 billion
nun v holt c.,.t rn- tu.
ni-nvon,
Congress cut this year's appro-
UIIUUUU3 u iiLLie uvRi' iniiv niitinn.
,t. . " .
. '"' securuy programs
,unnnV?nriQA 0jlnTSn
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on the old-line civilian agencies.
I Cuts of up to 10 per cent In
! civilian employment have been de-
; manaea oy leaamg Kcpurjiicans,