SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1953
Truman Seeks
'Hit Red' Budget
WASHINGTON - , Jan. 9 (!P)—President Truman bequeathed the
Eisenhowet administration today what he called a tight federal
budget proposing to spend about
being" at home and for combatti
Republicans in Congress cried
"spendthrift" and vowed to slash
the figure. Some mentioned a cut
of at least $lO billion. The vast
spending proposal for the 1954
fiscal year starting July 1, 1953,
contemplates a big boost in for
eign aid and a record peace-time
outlay to finance and equip
America's growing military force.
The President estimated it
would spell a federal deficit of
nearly $lO billion, increasing the
national debt to a total of $274
billion.
Prosperity Assumed
The new budget near
ly $7 billion less than the
one Truman submitted a year
ago. At that time he proposed
spending almost $B5 l / 2 billion in
the current fiscal year. But Con
gress changed some of his plans,
and others were altered by fail
ure of the defense program to
meet production schedules. So
today he estimated that spending
for the present year would be
about. $74 1 / 2 billion instead of
$85 1 72 billion.
The budget for next year as
sumes that present prosperity will
hold at present levels, that some
taxes now on the books will be
allowed to die on schedule, and
that th e incoming administra
tion will continue foreign aid and
military spending at a heavy
rate.
GOP protests in Congress in
cluded such terms as "fantastic."
Those talking of slashes singled
out foreign aid as -a likely start
ing point for economizing:
Some Democrats Agree
Both in Senate and House, Re
publicans who Will have a hand
in handling money and tax legis
lation predicted it won't be long
before Eisenhower comes along
with a much lower budget. Many
of them said it ought to be pos
sible to 'belance the budget and
cut taxes 'balance
the same time.
Some Democrats joined in the
clamor to slash spending.
The House started right in with
the reading of the 20,000-word
presidential budget message as
soon as it met at noon today. The
98 members on the floor chatted
and rea d papers, for the most
part, as a clerk droned through
the rqessage—skipping plenty of
it on the way.
More Federal. Jobs . • -
With Truman Budget
WASHINGTON, Jan. - 9 (?P
President Truman's new budget
calls 'for 140,000 more federal
jobs, the Budget Bureau said to
day. It estimated the cost at half
a billion dollars.
This would bring federal em
ployment to 2,715,000 in the year
beginning next July 1 and make
the annual payroll $10,100,000,000.
Employment in the present fis
cal year totals 2,575,000 at a cost
of $9,600,000,000.
The Budget Bureau said the
employment increase—which, like
everything else in the budget,
can be altered by the new admin
istration—would mostly involve
civilian employes of the Depart
ment of Defense.
Brodies 'Holding Own'
CHICAGO, Jan. 9' (W) TI.
Brodie Siamese twins were' rr:
ported "holding their own" al
though still critical today—:.
days after the operation that sep
arated them. Rodney, the strongc...,
is fully conscious and eating well.
Roger Lee has been in a coma
since the separation operation.
Ag Courses Offered
A. Leland Beam, director of
short courses, will be in charge
of two short agriculture courses
being offered at the College dur
ing January. The first, which
started the sth and extends un
til today is Testing Milk, Cream,
and Dairy Products. The second,
which started the 7th and run:.
until Feb. 4, is a General Farm.
ing Short Course.
FOR' BEST RESULTS USE
COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
~ 781 / 2 billion for "safety and well
g the Communist scourge abroad.
Winter Lashes
New England
By The Associated Press
Winter lashed New England
;kith its worst snowstorm of the
season Friday, sent twisters skip
ping across Central Florida and
drenched parts of the South and
West with torrential rains.
The biggest wintry storm to hit
Boston in seven years dumped up
to a foot of snow on New Eng
land with no sign of a letup for
another 24 hours.
Power and telephone • service
was interrupted in some sections
of Pennsylvania.
By mid-morning, the snow
buried New York state's Hudson
Valley, the Adirondacks and Mo
hawk Valley. Some 15 inches of
snow had fallen north of Glen
Falls, N.Y., and a foot at Albany
and it was still snowing.
From 12 to 18 inches of snow
was forecast for New England be
fore the storm peters out Satur
day.
Student Draft
Outlook Bad
AUSTIN, -Tex., Jan. 9 '(P)
National Draft Director Maj, Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey said here today
the nation is going to have to
"toughen up" on draft deferments,
particularly on college students.
The tightening up is not up to
him, however, but to the Presi
dent, Congress and local draft
boards, he said.
"I don't . issue the regulations.
The President never delegated
that authority," Hershey told re
porters. He said Congress would
act "when it has to."
The nation's draft chief was
here on an official visit to the
state's selective s e r vice head
quarters.
"Our manpower pool is shrink
ing," he said. "We have used up
two-thirds of it in two years. We
will need changes in the next six
months to a year but the changes
will undoubtedly be gradual."
Gen. Hershey said he favored
being tougher on all deferment
classes. In the college class, he
said, he would favor raising the
minimum examination grade from
70 to 75, make a deferment an
exception rather than the rule for
a graduate studeklt. He said he
would also be tougher on under
graduate students the further they
were from graduation.
M ililary B a ll
- FEB. 27, 1953
Eisenhower
Hits Deficit
Budgeting
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (W)—Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower reportedly
renewed his opposition to deficit
spending today —at almost the
same momer{t
that President
Truman was sub
mitting a deficit
budget to Con
gress
Rep. - Coudert.
New York Re
publican, visited
Eisenhower and
told news men
the Pr e s ident
elect reaffirmed
"he is very much
in favor of bal-
anced budgets and against deficit
spending."
Coudert said he was confident
the Eisenhower administration
would work with. Republican
Senate and House majorities to
wipe out waste and duplication
and reduce expenditures `!to en
able us to balance the budget with
reduced taxes."
Washington produced other de
velopments today concerning the
ne w Republican administration
that takes over - Jan a 20.
Sen. Wiley, Wisconsin Repub
lican, told the Senate that Eisen
hower has chosen Walter Bedell
Smith, head of the Central Intel
ligence Agency and former am
bassador to Moscow, as an under
secretary of state.
There had been no announce
ment of it from • Eisenhower's
headquarters here, despite pre
vious reports to the same effect.
Billy May
and His
Dancing 8:30 - 12:30
Senate May Remove
Morse from Posts
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (?P)—Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, whO
bolted the Republican party during the heat of the presidential
election campagin, today appeared likely
.to be bumped from two
choice committee assignments in
the new 83rd Congress
A tug-of-war over Morse's sta
tus as an independent developed
as Senate leaders worked to 'fill
out the all-important slates of
committee assignments.
Republican informants said pri
vately the probable' upshotwas
that Morse would lose his present
seats on the powerful labor and
armed services committees and
drop to minor committees where
his role as the Senate's lone inde
pendent would not threaten ma
jor GOP strategy.
Sen. Case (R-S.D.) told news
men the GOP theory is that
Morse lacks seniority for com
mittee assignments because he is
starting out anew as an indepen
dent'.
Eigenhower
Case said the party takes the
position that Morse lost his eight
year seniority as a Republican
when he quite the party last fall.
Morse told reporters he plans
to appeal to the entire Senate if
he is dropped from the two key
committees when the assignment
slate comes before the chamber
next week.
"I am going to try to show that
it is the responsibility of the Sen
ate to make committee assign
ments, not a party caucus," he
said,
Morse's predicament arose when
the Senate, by voice vote, ap
proved a new plan boosting the
size of nine committees and de
creasing four others.
Orchestra
Aerial Attack
Under Probe
SEOUL, Saturday, Jan. 10 (A
Air Force and Army investiga
tors Friday examined burned
tents, 15 bomb craters and a dud
bomb in .a U.S. service unit be
hind. the lines where several
American soldiers were killed or
injured in an air attack but fixed
no responsibility for the raid.
One soldier who saw the at
tack Thursday declared it came
from a U.S. FB4 thunderjet, but
there was no official identifica
tion.
Others at the artillery. service
unit behind Western Front lines
near Yonchon said the raid was
so swift they could not • identify
the plane.
An Air Force spokesman said
the facts would be made public
as soon as it was known definitely
if a U.S. plane was involved. Re
porters who visited th e scene
were escorted by officers. Men
they talked to were instructed not
to speak of the attack.
The raid destroyed, riddled or
burned 10 tents and a pre-fabri
cated building, burned a fuel
truck and destroyed a jeep.
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