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Treasury, Post Office Bill
Benson Sees Ag Surplus
WASHINGTON, May 16 (JP) —Congress
wrapped up and sent to the White House to
day its first hig money bill of the year, and
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) proclaimed:
“We have saved $80,363,000 for the tax-
payers in the first of the 19 an
nual appropriations."
The $3,884,927,000 bill, to fi
nance the Treasury and Post Of
fice departments and .the tax
court, was- $80,363,000 smaller
than President Dwight D. Eisen
hower had asked.
While the reduction was only
two per cent, it symbolized the
uphill struggle Eisenhower is in
for in his effort to get all, or
nearly all, of the $71,800,000,000
he plans to spend in the year be
ginning July 1.
His newest appeals in support
of the budget, voiced in a speech
to the nation Tuesday night and
In his news conference yesterday,
developed little if any effective
response.
Other bills nearing final action
are carrying cuts averaging eight
per cent under White House re
quests, and even deeper slashes
have been predicted fob some
items like foreign aid which are
yet to reach either the House ori
Senate.
The Treasury-post office bill
was dispatched to the White
House—“put it on roller skates,”
Johnson jokingly suggested to
Senate clerks—after the Senate
accepted a minor House amend
ment.
The total included $691,467,000
for the Treasury, a cut of $22,-
364,000 under White House fig
ures; $3,192,000,000 for the Post
Office, a cut of $58,000,000; and
$1,460,000 for the tax court, with
no cut.
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-II 1)
predicted that the Post Office
will call for more money before
the year is over. To that, Johnson,
the Senate Democratic leader, re
plied: “I will not look with sym
pathy on any supplemental re
quest,” v
The House Appropriations Com
mittee meanwhile approved a
$78,470,285 bill to operate the
House and related agencies dur
ing the year beginning July 1.
This total represented a cut of
less than three per cent from
overall requests, as compared to
the eight per cent average cut
made in previous bills.
Franke launches
Third Atomic Sub
GROTON, Conn, ffl Under
secretary of the Navy William B.
Franke came here today to launch
what he called the first of the
“assembly line" atomic subma
rines, the USS Skate.
In a speech prepared for the
ceremony, Franke said the
launching of the Skate —third of
the nuclear powered undersea
craft—marks the end of the era
of research and prototype devel
opment.
Thhe other two—
The other two the Nautilus
and Seawolf—also were built at
the yards of Electric Boat Divi
sion of General Dynamics Corp.
The Skate, said Franke, “will
soon be considered the conven
tional attack submarine."
Franke spid the Skate has a
“power plant proven by exper
ience with the Nautilus and while
smaller than the Nautilus, she
will be capable of similar record
setting achievements.”
German Class to Act
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en by the German 12 class 'at 8
toinight at the Lutheran Student
Center, West College Ave. and
Atherton St.
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WASHINGTON, May 16 (/P) —Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today predict
ed a further pileup of costly farm surpluses
if yesterday’s House vote to junk the major
part of the Eisenhower administration’s soil
Britain Reports
Slight Fall-Out
From H-Bomb
LONDON, May 16 (JP)— Prime
Minister Macmillan declared to
day the radioactive fall-out from'
Britain’s first hydrogen bomb ex
plosion was “almost negligible.”
He spurned opposition Laborite
demands that the series of tests
in the Pacific be called off, and
declared Britain is now in a much
better bargaining position in
world disarmament negotiations.
“First indications are that the
operation proceeded as planned,”
Macmillan told a crowded House
of Commons. “Scientific records
are being collected for accurate
evaluation. When these have been
received 1 will then consider
what further inform lion I can
give to the House. I have nothing
to add, except that first indica
tions are that the local fall-out
was almost negligible.” -
He declined to give any further
details of the type of bomb which
exploded over the Pacific yester
day after being dropped from a
four-engine British jet bomber.
The Labor party leader, Hugh
Gaitskell, quoted reports from
Japan published here saying ef
fects there of yesterday’s blast
were as great and even more pro
longed than those from previous
United States tests at Bikini
atoll.
Depot at New Cumberland
WASHINGTON, May 16 UP)—
The House Armed Services Com
mittee today approved a $464,000
project for expanding the New
Cumberland, Pa., Army Depot
for maintenance of Army planes
and helicopters for the eastern
part of the country.
Blizzard, Floods Rage in West
A snarling blizzard dumped up to two feet of snow across the
, central Rocky Mountains Thursday as northern Oklahoma braced
[against flood threats and one Texas cdmmunity counted the dead
after the season’s worst tornado.
At least 24 died as a result oi
The Far West and the Northtc
storms drenched scattered areas
from, the Northern Plains into
the_ Great Lakes region,
. The snowstorm, hitting hardest
at Colorado and Wyoming, was
termed the worst May blizzard
in seven years in that area.
Meanwhile, Texas state police
set the toll of known dead at 19
and counted 58 persons hospital
ized in the wake of the most
deadly tornado of the season’s
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bank program is allowed to stand.
“Surpluses will again pile up
at the expense of. our taxpayers,
he said.
Benson denounced the House
action, in which 38 Republicans
joined 154 Democrats, as 4alse
economy.” Voting against the sur
prise move to cut off the 750-
million-dollar acreage reesrve part
of the soil bank program after!
this year were 141 Republicans
and 46 Democrats. Thus the tally
to end further soil bank subsidy
payments was 192-187.
Spoke to Committee
Benson addressed his words to
the House Agriculture Committee,
but he was aiming them at Senate!
ears, since the next move is up]
to that chamber.
“If the acreage reserve is not
permitted to function for 1958
crops ” he said, “there is every
likelihood that surpluses will pile
up still further, rather than di
minish.”
Sees Support Rise
Benson added that if land re
tired into the soil bank this year
is returned to production next
year, the cost of government price
supports “will in all. probability
be greater than would have been
the cost of the acreage reserve
for 1958 basic crops.”
Benson contended the acreage
reserve plan, in which farmers
are paid to refrain from planting
crops of which there is already
an abundance, had not been given
a fair chance.
Demonstrations Quelled,
Haitian Government Says
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May]
16 (/P)—Haiti’s army headquarters
announced tonight that all anti-i
government demonstrations have
ended and calm prevails in the
country after two days of high
tension. |
An Army spokesman said, how
ever, that soldiers were still try
ing to reopen the main coastal
road into the seaport city of St.
Marc, 45 miles north Of the capi
tal.
By the Auocialed Prass
the weather.
ist enjoyed fair weather. Thunder-
violent weather there. The twis
ter whipped down on the little
town of Silveron, some 65 miles
southeast of Amarillo, Wednesday
night..
Officials at the scene estimated
as many as 80 persons were hurt.
Not all required hospitalization.
Unofficial estimates of property
damage ranged beyond three
quarter million dollars.
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House Kills State
For More College
Cut;
Rise
HARRISBURG, May 16 i/P) —Tha House today sounded tha
death knell for Gov. George M. Leader’s proposed college opportunity
program in the 1957 Legislature.
It ordeied a long-range study of the plan by the Joint State
Government Commission, the Legislature’s research arm. The Sen
ate was expected to concur quick-f
ly on the measure. | eel ■
House Democrats withdrew op
position to the resolution after 1 IVUmJ
the GOP made it clear the Leader: •
program would not be released, • I ■
from the House Education Com- J | |j il |Qf|
“We have no other choice but l i g g ■
to act in favor of this resolution," MflH I*ft
declared Bep. McCann (D-fCTIUII I I GUI vl
j Greene).
Rep. Johnson. Republican
floor leader, said the resolution
is "our Republican answer to
the scholarship program."
"The present thinking of the
majority GOP is we would pre
fer to have the Joint State Gov
lemment Commission study this
| question before we act,” he added.
j The hour-long discussion of the
! school study resolution highlight
ed an otherwise non-controversial
House session at which 19 bills
were passed unanimously and sev
eral others were approved over
token opposition.
Another resolution passed by
the House in a voice vole re
quests the Automobile Safety j
Foundation—an independent-re- I
search agency— to make a study j
of the Pennsylvania highway !
system and the Highways de- I
parlment. i
The measure was approved
without debate. It must also he
approved by the Senate.
The Senate gave unanimous ap
proval to a bill that would raise
minimum salary scales for teach
ers in Pennsylvania’s 14 stats
teachers’ colleges.
Armstrong Elected
Scrolls President
I Roberta Armstrong, junior in
l home economics from Pittsburgh,
jhas been elected president of
| Scrolls, senior women’s hat ao
jciety.
Other officers are Joan Krei
der, home economies major from
Lancaster, vice president; Joyce
Fullerton, education major from
Wayne, secretary; Marilyn Ro
berts, home economics major
from Washington, D.C., treasurer;
and Mary Hurley, education ma
jor from Canton, historian.
Scrolls has awarded the Mary
Jane Wyland Scholarship to Mar
ian Ahlquist, freshman in educa
tion from New Castle. The schol
arship was awarded for the first
time this year. The funds came
from Scrolls’ annual cookie sale.
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WASHINGTON, May 16 (>F>—
A grim-faced Dave Beck took the
Fifth Amendment again and
again today at a swiftly moving
Senate inquiry marked by these
other developments: 1. A Team
sters Union bookkeeper testified
he had no idea that Beck was
using union funds until Beck
paid back $200,000 in 1954.
Repaid $370,000
- 2. The bookkeeper. Donald Mc-
Donald of Seattle, disclosed Beck
has repaid $370,000, having sent
in. $lOO,OOO within the last two
weeks.
]. 3. The Senate Rackets Commit
tee confronted Beck with a list
of some 32 ways in which It
[charged he has "misused his au
thority, position and trust.” The
portly Teamsters boss entered a
blanket denial but refusing to an
swer questions on the ground he
[might incriminate himself.
Business. Labor Allied
4. Sen. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) de
clared the inquiry has uncovered
“an alliance of big business with
big labor with apparently little
regard being paid to the rights of
union members whose funds were
involved.”
Kennedy said his remarks
were aimed at officials of the An
heuser-Busch brewery, St. Louis;
the Fruehauf Trailer Co., Detroit;
Associated Transport Truck Lines,
New York; Occidental Life Insur
ance Co. of California, Los An
isic:; and Montgomery Ward &
Co., Chicago.
5. Testimony was given that
two writers for the Seattle Post
lintelligencer, Nard Jones and
Douglass Welch, were carried on
the Teamsters payroll while writ
ing a life story of Beck entitled
“The Driver’s Seat.”
Caesar Breaks Contract
With NBC for Show
NSW YORK. May 18
vision comedian Sid Caesar to
day ended hi? 10-year contract
with the National Broadcasting
Cc. His Saturday night show has
received low ratings in recent
months.
The contract had seven yein
to go but NBC regretfully let
Caesar out. He will finish out the
I current season which ends May 25.
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