Half Billion -
Dollar Pay
Hike Becomes Law
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower Tuesday signed
legislatioh boosting military pay,
with the aim of making career
service more attractive. «
The first year cost is figured
at half a billion dollars.
The increases, effective for
payrolls next month, would go
to most persons on active duty
in the Air Force, Army, Navy
and Marines with more than two
years service.
Draftees and young officers in
their initial required duty tours
would get no increase, but boosts
in base pay range from $599 a
month for the five members of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff ddwn to
$6.20 additional for some pri
vates and apprentice seamen.
Reservists on active duty or
taking periodic training would
share in the increases.
Retired m i 1 i t a ry personnel
would get flat 6 per cent cost of
living increase, except for retired
three and four-star generals who j
would get larger increases.
The increases also apply to
uniformed members of the Coast
Guard, the Public Health Ser
vice, and the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
The military ,pay roll, already
is above 10 billion dollars annual
ly. The estimated increase for
the first year is $576,438,000. The
hope is that money will be saved
in the long run by retaining men
trained at great expense.
Army Will Not
Disband 6 National
Guard Divisions
MIAMI, Fla., UR — The Army
disclosed today that its plans
for disbanding six national guard
divisions have been abandoned.
The disclosure was made by
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army
Chief of Staff, in an address pre
pared for delivery to the Gover
nors Conference here.
9 The original plan for reduction
in the size of the ground na
tional guard grew out of federal
government economy measure.
Earlier Chairman Carl Vinson of
the House Armed Services Com
mittee said he had information
that the House Appropriations
Committee would approve money
enough to keep guard and reserve
forces at full strength.
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House Committee Calls
For Civilian Leadership
In Space Exporation
WASHINGTON, UP) — A special
House Committee, choosing civil
ian over military efforts to make
America the world’s sfiace leader,
called for agreement among na
I tions for peaceful exploration of
outer space.
The House Space Committee
approved Monday night a bill
to create a new civilian agency,
headed by a single director, “to
initiate and follow the boldest
and most sustained large scale
effort in the history of man’s ex
ploration.”
The concentration on purely
military space efforts now at the
expense of broader civilian pro
jects, said a committee report,
would weaken the strength of
this country’s next generation.
Purely military aspects would re
main in the Defense Department,
but the civilian agency would
push* exploration.
Anchorageite Named
To Alaska International
Highway Commission
WASHINGTON, .UR — Presi
dent Eisenhower has appointed
Albert C. Swalling of Anchorage,
Alaska, to be a member of the
Alaska International Rail and
Highway Commission.
Swalling, a Republican, is a
native of Marysville, Wash., and !
president of Swalling Construc
tion Co. in Anchorage.
He succeeds Charles G. Bur
dick, who resigned to move to
Seattle. The law requires that
members from the public at large
must reside in Alaska.
The President accepted Bur
dick’s resignation with “sincere
appreciation of the fine contri
bution you have made.”
Peter Townsend Spends Six
Hours With Princess Margaret
LONDON, (#> -— Peter Town
send had dinner at Princess Mar
garet’s place last night and stayed
six hours.
It was the third time Town
send has visited Margaret since |
he returned in March from a
world tour.
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