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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Olitary Budget
Ms Stress On
Air Power, Atoms
- " Br ELTON C. FAY
"WASHINGTON IS) President
Elsenhower recommended today a
$37,(75,000,000 military outlay lor
the next fiscal year, with a shift
in emphasis from foot soldiery to
a "full exploitation of air power
and modem weapons."
The spending budget he proposed
to Congress for the Defense De
partment is about four billion dol
lars less than that estimated for
the current year, which ends June
30.
Eisenhower said the budget Is
based on a "new concept for :
our national security program."
' A substantial part of the sav
ings obviously would come In man
power, particularly Army man
power. The budget figures reflect
- an over-all reduction of about 8.7
per cent in 'manpower for all' the
armed forces. Army personnel
would be reduced by 17.3 per cent,
and three divisions would be
dropped from the present 20.
He said the Air Force, Navy
and Marine Corps now have,
among them, about 83,000 planes.
During the next three years, he
said, this Will be Increased to 40,
000, more than half of them Jets.
Twenty-two per cent of defense ex
penditures in the new fiscal year
would go to airplane procurement.
The 1055 fiscal year program,
the President wrote, "calls for im
proving combat effectiveness by
the application of nev weapons
and new techniques, including full
realization of our nuclear capabil
ities, and provides for the rapid
and orderly phasing of programs
to Improve continental defense
against possible enemy attack."
Be continued:
"Last summer I told the Amer
ican people, that 'the Soviets now
have the capability of atomic at
tack upon us, and' such capability
will increase with the passage of
time." I made this statement short
ly after it was established that the
Soviet Union had successfully det
onated a thermonuclear (hydro
gen) device which, is successfully,
converted into an offensive weap-
' on and if exploded over our Amer
ican cities, would be capable, of
effecting unprecedented destruc
tion ...
"Our military planners and those
of the other nations of the free
world agree as to the Importance
of air power. But air forces must
be complemented with land forces,
' amphibious forces, antisubmarine
warfare forces, and fighting
ships."
Aa outlined by a Defense De
partment spokesman, here is the
way the budget for the year be-
i ginning next July 1 will relate to
. that policy: '
Manpower for the armed serv
ices Now about 3,400,000; will be
8,328,000 by next June 30 and ,
037,000 at the end of June 1965.
Army Present strength 1 Vz mil
lions; by next June 30 it will be
1,407,500; at the end of next fiscal
year 1,164,000. By mid-1955 the or
ganisational strength will be down
to 17 divisions. For the first time,
: there is no request for authority
for the Army to make new con-
i tracts for procuring major com
bat equipment; It will have left
over from previous appropriations
: a total of 14,800,000,000.
The Army, like the other eerv-
: Ices, will build up in new weapons.
. At present there are 114 antl-
' aircraft battalions. By tho end of
this fiscal year there will be about
1301 The goal is to increase the
antiaircraft force by more than 60
per cent, with more than one-third
of the units using the new Nike
guided missile weapon.
Air Force Present strength
920,000; next June 855,000;- a year
later 870,000. Present unit strength
110 wings (a wing ranges from 30
heavy bombers to 75 fighters); to
. be 121 by the end of fiscal year
1955; up to 127 at the end of the
following year and to the present
ly fixed ultimate goal of 137 by the
end. of the 1957 fiscal year.
Navy Present manpower 770,
. 000; 740,000 by next June 30; 688,
000 a year later. There will be a
; decrease from a present average
, of 409 combat ships to 402 by June
30, 4955. The new budget contains
funds for a fourth 80,000-ton car-
. rler of the Forrestal class; but not
- for a third atomic submarine. One
' of the four 45,000-ton battleships
now in the fleet will be withdrawn.
The number of large carriers will
remain unchanged at 12; the num
ber of carrier air groups of planes
will continue at 16.
Mnrines Present strength 260,
000; by next June 30, 225,000; end
of June 1055, 216,000. Continue pres
ent organizational strength of
three divisions (a Marine division
' has about 25,000 men compared
with 17,500 for the Army) and
three air wings.
The cutback in military man
power would account ior a big
share of the reduction in spending.
Eisenhower estimated the reduc
tion In forces would mean a cut
in expenditures of about 600 mil
lion dollars for pay, allowances
and other direct military person
nel costs.
In spending, here is what the
. armed forces will spend In the
present year and the estimate for
tho next fiscal year:
Army, $14,200,000,000 this year,
$10,188,000,000 next year; Navy,
$11,300,000,000 this year, $10,493,
000,000 next year; Air Force 115,
60,000,000 this year, 16,209,000,
, 000 next.
; Underscoring the emphasis on
nuclear weapons, Eisenhower not-
'GiHHfti:i ii, Hf
ed that "under the recommenda
tions in this budget, expenditures
of the atomic energy commission
will rise 1n the fiscal year 1955
to the highest point in our his
tory" from 912 million dollars In
the current year to $1,182,000,000.
He said this increase is due pri
marily to expanded operations at
A EC plants at Oak Ridge, Term.;
Paducah, Ky.; Portsmouth, Ohio;
Hanford, Wash.; and Savannah
River, Oa. It is at the new Savan
nah River plant that material for
hydrogen bombs Is being produced.
Eisenhower noted that the first
atom-englned submarine, the Nau
tilus, was due for launching this
month (actually today), to be fol
lowed by a second nuclear submer
sible, the Sea Wolf, in the coming
fiscal year.
Research on the more difficult
problems of aircraft propulsion by
atomlo energy will continue," he
wrote.
In the past, Secretary of Defense
Wilson had indicated a diminished
emphasis on the atomic airplane
project.
Eisenhower obviously referred to
some basis defense planning poli
cies of the Truman administration
when he said: , '
"Our military planning in pre
vious years has been based on
several assumed fixed dates of
maximum danger, which were ex
tended from time to time with pro
curement' and personnel plans
focused to achieve maximum
readiness by each such date. This
budget is aimed Instead at pro
viding a strong military , position
orhlMi nan Ha maintainor! nvpp thf
extended period of uneasy peace.''
CLASSY
BINGHAM, Utah W Awakened
by a fire in his apartment, Calvin
Miller wrapped himself in the first
thing he touched as he dressed
to flee. He appeared on the street
wearing only a rug.
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BOTTLES AND HANGERS, from homes all over town, have been collected by local Cub
Scouts for resale to cleaning and bottling establishments with proceeds going to the
March of Dimes. Helping in the collection were these boys from Den 2, Pack 4. Front
row, left to right, are Lester Plowman, Robert Hunteman, Kenneth Ellis, Kenneth Gal
loway, Stanley Heminger, James Kaler; back row, Don Aschenbach and Charles Galloway.
Butte Valley To
Aid Dimes March
DORRIS Butte Valley post and
auxiliary 5944, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will sponsor Its annual
March of Dimes dance Saturday
Jan. 23, at the Red Barn in Dorris,
Chairman Aidan Fenwick an
nounced. - Proceeds from the affair will go
to the 1954 March of Dimes fund of
the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis. Fenwick pointed out
that some 88,000 persons have been
wholly or partially cured of the
disease through funds supplied by
previous campaigns.
The Jan. 23 dance will feature
the music of the Red Barn's regu-
new.
Moderntone
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ART NEEDLEWORK SHOP
lar orchestra, Peewee Stldham and members are offering dance tick
his Rainbow Melody Boys. VW I els for a $1 donation,
CattleMecf
Held In Weed
MACDOEL Mr; and Mrs. Clar
encT Cross of Macdoel reprMd
e Butte Valley Cattlemen s Assn.
at a recent dinner in Weed given
by the California Cattlemen's Assn
to kick off its "Bt M"re BeeI
campaign. . ,. ,, ei.
Representatives from all over Sis
kiyou County heard Chairman Ed
son L. Foulke Jr. declare that the
increased consumption of beef will
dp not only the cattle producers
but all residents of the county.
Foulke pointed out that Beei
prices as a result of producers
,.., i th.ir animals in place ot
iua..cw .-- - hav-
price support. "
average of 20 per
l agricultural
declaring that the lower prices have
benefited the economy cui jiiuoi,
said these cuts are Just as nourish-
... 1.1-U nnef EtofllfR and.
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when prepuicu yi--
demanding
dropped an
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Mrs. Evangalyn Dow bf the coun-
Long Bell Man
Named Group Head
DnpTT.ANn m H. J. Greeley,
sunsrvlsnr of UldUStriai reiauuuo
t ih. in Bell Lumber Co., Long-
view, Wash., was elected president
of the Lumbermen's Industrial Re
lations Committee weanesoay.
That group of employers met to
discuss the contract negotiations
soon to start with AFL ana iiu
unions. Also elected to office were
Henry Dennis, Everett, Wash., vice
president, and S. L. Gregory, Port
land, treasurer.
Notice to members Annual meet
ing Weyerhaeuser Klamath Feder
al Credit union, Weyerhaeuser
Hotel, 1:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. a,
1954.
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CATSyiP s 13e
Tomato Juice
25c
Del Rogue.
46-oz. tin
lb.
U.S: Good and Choice Beef
Irib steaks
Prime Rib Roast
iLeanGro
IP0R1CR0ASIS
Chinook Salmon
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C?S PULLETS
Prune Juice
Del Monte -
Quart IT ,
UPTON'S TEA
48 Tea Bags 59c
16 Tea Bags 24c
3
Center cuts
Fresh
lb.
NBC SNOWFLAKE fj&tt
CRACKERS lip
' Mb. 25c . ; . i "
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Liauid Detergent feJ Jj'
32c I
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4 to 6 lb. ave.
lb.
Deviled Meat
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CORN
Apricots
Pineapple
Del Monte
Hunt's 2Vi tii
Del Monte
Crushed
Swift's No. Vi tin
303 tin
flat
Prices Effective Friday and Saturday,
Jan. 22 and 23 Klamath Falls and Merrill
WOW! ' S:Aa
ARIZONA SEEDLESS
Grapefruit
8-lb. BAG
No Sales to Dealers!
Oranges
Turnips
Bananas
252 size
Clip Top
5-lb. mesh bog
Golden ripe
2 2
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swim
GRIGG'S
FOODS
412 Main St.
Klamath Falls, Or.