Eisenhower Promises New Tax Cuts
And Defense Geared To A-Weapons
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, — President
Eisenhower said yesterday new
tax cuts “can and will be made”
and he told Congress America’s
defense plans are geared to use
of atomic weapons “if they are
needed to preserve our freedom.”
The President, in his state of
the union message, outlined a pro
gram he said would build the
military might of the United
States, bolster other free nations
against Communism, and main
tain a heathy economy at home.
Proclaiming encouraging devel
opments in the struggle for global
peace, Eisenhower said in a 7,000
word address prepared for a joint
session of the House and Senate:
“Slowly but surely, the free
world gathers strength. Mean
while, from behind the iron cur
tain, there are signs that tyranny
is in trouble and reminders that
its structure is as brittle as its
surface is hard.”
Eisenhower went before the leg
>-—
islators just 24 hours after open
ing of the second session of the
83rd Congress.
Calling for a thorough revision
of the entire tax structure, Eisen
hower declared:
“We should now remove the
more glaring tax inequalities, par
ticularly cm small taxpayers; re
duce restraints on the growth of
small business; and make other
changes that will encourage in
itiative, enterprise and produc
tion.”
On the other side of the picture
however, the President said again
that corporation income taxes
should be kept at the current rate
of 52 per cent for another year
instead of being allowed to drop
to 47, and that excise taxes on
such items as liquor, tobacco,
gasoline and automobiles — also
scheduled for an April 1 cut—
should be maintained at prevail
ing rates.
On the foreign policy and na
CIO Says Unemployment
Picture Worse Than As
Outlined In Govt. Report
WASHINGTON, UP) — The CIO
said Friday the unemployment
picture is far worse than the
1,850,000 figure reported official
ly by the Commerce Department.
A statement by CIO vice presi
dent Emil Rieve, chairman of the
labor union organization’s Econ
omic Policy Committee, said the
official data fails to disclose an
additional 1,400,000 out of work.
Under Rieve’s method of calcula
tion the total of those willing to
work but without jobs would be
closer to 3,250,000.
tional defense fronts, where
Eisenhower already has made an
open bid for cooperation from the
Democrats, he said America has
gained the initiative during the
last year in the struggle against
Communism—and means to keep
it.
“American freedom,” he declar
ed, “is threatened so long as the
world Communist conspiracy
exists in its present scope, power
and hostility.”
Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
There has been considerable
movement of planets during re
cent days, the most conspicuous
of which has been Mars.
Mars, which occupied a posi
tion, between the star Spica and
Saturn, has now moved so rapid
ly eastward that it has overtaken
Saturn and is now east of that
planet. It has a diameter of 4,200
miles, which is a little greater
than half that of the earth. It has
an axial rotation of 24 hours and
37 minutes. There are two satel
lites that revolve around Mars;
they were discovered by Hall in
1877. Because the atmopshere of
Mars is fairly transparent, the
surface markings can be easily
observed. It is viewed more clear
ly than any other planet.
The constellation lying between
the Corona Borealis and the bright
star Vega is Hercules. Its shape is
that of an inverted K. One of the
finest globular star clusters is lo
cated in Hercules. It is commonly
called “the great star cluser in
Hercules.”
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of 52 feet, including the tentacles.
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Rumors Of Million Dollar
Fire Loss At Army Depot
Unconfirmed By Officials
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Army offi
cials at Ladd Air Force base have
refused to confirm or deny a per
sistent rumor in Alaska that a
million dollars worth of ordnance
was destroyed in a fire at Mile 6
Base, south of here, ten days ago.
The day after flames destroyed
the warehouse at the ibase the
Army released a report here stat
ing only that a “tar paper covered
storage building” was destroyed
and that damage had not been
estimated.
The building belonged to the
ordnance section of the 4th In
fantry here. A number of Alaska
newspapers have printed the re
port that the structure contained
a million dollars worth of equip
ment. But a spokesman for the
4th Infantry public information
office Jiere said Wednesday that
the report cannot be confirmed
or denied until an Army board’s
investigation is complete.
Alaska’s “Flying Bishop”
Rescues Pilot Missing
In Sub - Zero Weather
FAIRBANKS, UP)—A pilot miss
ing in subzero weather in the cen
tral Alaska wilderness was found
and rescue yesterday by Episco
pal Bishop William J. Gordon,
known as Alaska’s Flying Bishop.
Bishop Gordon, recently chosen
one of the ten top young men in
America by the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
was flying his own plane with
the Civil Air Patrol here in the
search.
The lost pilot, Harry Botsford
of the Fairbanks Air Service, dis
appeared in a Piper Cub in a wil
derness area northwest of Fair
banks last night. Seven CAP
planes and one Air Force plane
started a search Thursday morn
ing.
Bishop Gordon located the lost
pilot’s downed plane, made a suc
cessful ski landing at the scene,
and picked up Botsford.
Some types of bears grow to
weigh as much as a ton.
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