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Show Friday, March 25, I960 THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Page 4 new intercontinental der development Air - Space bombers un- NOT ENOUGH! Belittling Low Altitude Col from Page Private (Cont Bomber Penetration Roscoe Liet LAST The Air Force contemplated Wilson, who is in charge of Air Force Research and Development, velopment and production of a low Enterprise million a year altitude penetration bomber. At said that with 1 "There is a whole political mythology based on the proposition that you amt tell people the truth, whether it is the facts of domestic economic life or of the world around us. Thus speaks The Wall Street Journal editorially. And it goes on to relate this proposition to the existing Federal budget situation. The Journal praises the President tor his concern about a balanced budget But, it then says: even he has not made as forceful a case for the economic facts as could be made. It is not enough to warn people about the monstrous mortgage on Americas future: it is necessary to tell the Congress and the nation that the Government must stop its extravagance, and to show them specifically bow to do it, including changing the laws that provide the extravagance. 'Tor one byproduct of this mythology is a belief that nothing can be done. You cant change the legal monuments to waste tint sub 5) Gen. YEAR de- $200 for two years, we Could have nuclear powered aircraft in flight Instead of authorizing the funds to mke possible this achievement, for budgetray reasons, General Wilsons request was cut to $75 billion annually. As a consequence, it will now four to six years before we mn develop nuclear powered aircraft Unfortunately, the Reds are likely to accomplish nuclear aircraft propulsion earlier than we. ROCKET ENGINE. There is an urgent need! for a large booster rocket engine developing one million pounds of thrust to put military spacecraft into orbit After much delay, development of this engine was transferred to National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) where it becomes and unavailable for peaceful some time to come. use for military The Soviets already have engines developing one million pounds of thrust It would cost some $375 million to develop this booster rocket engine for military use. Our Striking Power Although SAC constitutes the principal war deterrent fen: ourselves and the entire free world, it is being reduced by five wings (225 bombers). The Congress voted 43 SAC wings for I960; the budget of F. Y. 1960 provides for 40 by June 30; the budget for F. Y. 1961 provides for 38 wings by mid 1961. low altitudes present jet bombers Consume enormous quantities of fuel For reasonable fuel economy at low altitude a special engine is necessary. At low altitude radar detection is difficult The Reds already have successful low altitude penetration bombers. For economy reasons this Air Force development program, which would have cost of a billion an estimated one-thir- d dollars, was rejected. i . ICBM i i . , rt Recent hearings in the Congress indicate that our present production program of ICBM is only one-thir- d that of the Soviet Union. This ICBM production should be stepped up immediately. The cost of an ICBM program to outdistance the Reds is estimated at $400 million. THE POLARIS SUBMARINE promises to be a formidable striking weapon against which there is, as yet, little if any defense. The Navy is asking for supplemental appropriation of $1 billion to expedite and expand this program. Funds should be made available. Our Continental Defense i The program tor the a supersonic, long range high performance fighter interceptor, was cancelled. The research and production costs were to have totalled about $22 billion over perhaps a sevqn year period. To save money, THIS DECREASE in SAC is the entire program has been canfurther aggravated by the fact that celled. This cancellation leaves us with no long range supersonic inits bombers,' the 7 and the are wearing out. Moreover missiles terceptor and no interceptor airhave not. yet strengthened SAC craft of any kind under development Today, the number of Missiles (ICBM) in the TAKE-OF- F INTERhands of troops and which SAC is VERTICAL CEPTOR. Air The Force planned ready to fire, number less than the a vertical take-of-f It interceptor. on one hand. fingers would require no landing strip. A THE The Air Force planned small concrete pad is desirable to replace the our present but the craft can take of vertically sub-sonintercontinental bomber from, and land on any terrain first flown eight years ago, by a which can be traversed by a truck. production program of some 200 The vertical take-of-f interceptor 0 bombers. But production of could be readily and widely dithe 0 bomber, with intercon- spersed so that only the individual tinental range and a speed three interceptor would offer the enemy times that of sound, has been can- a target celled. Only two prototypes, not EXFIGHTER INTERCEPTOR bombers, are to be produced. PANSION. must We expand our Production of the B70, over a We defense. fighter interceptor period of some seven years, would have intertoo far few supersonic have cost an estimated $750 million annually. The announced Ad- ceptors for the defense of theU.S. ministration reason for cancellation E MISSILE. No was it would take five years to such defense exists. The Army produce the bomber. This is a should have ample funds tor R & O normal time factor. The be- and for production ir the problem gun in 1948, was not flown until can ever be partially solved. 1952. The 0 program was not cancelled because it would have Conclusion been superseded by missiles. It is now established that missiles will Attainment of the above cancomplement, not entirely replace, celled weapons systems and of the the manned bomber. recommended expansion programs It is clear that the 0 cancel- would mean American lation resulted from lack of funds. over Red striking power.ascendancy It would As our 7 and 2 bombers be the best possible insurance wear out or become obsolescent, against Red attack of the United this cancellation leaves us with no States and the free world. F-10- F-10- 8. B-5- 2, B-4- Inter-Continent- 8, Every time the Soviet Union announces a new production goal in some field of industry or agriculture some group in this country cries They are getting ahead of us. says the New Era, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It Cites a report stressing the Soviet Unions intensive efforts to build dams for power production and irrigation. The implication of this report is that we had better get to work and build more dams. Here the New Era says: But, why? We already have used up most of our best dam sites and Russia hasnt We have tremendous power production and Russia hasn't. We have too much land under cultivation now and Russia hasnt enough. Theres a test of whether we should build a new dam: Do we need it and is ft economically feasible? If we start a dam building program just because Russia has one, we would be pretty silly. The most glowing reports of what Russia is doing or plans to do in the field of electric power production come from those who favor socialization of the U. S. utility industry. Russias achievements, whether real or exaggerated, are thus employed in an effort to destroy taxpaying private enterprise here, and replace it with 1MY FABM sidize the former, the healthy vetand all the eran, the home-builder other pressure special-intere- st groups. The theory is that the people are so craven and weak that they will resist any such change because that mans subsidy is a justification tor this mans hand- out "Well, of course; there will be no change if no one tries it But if an Administration would present a budget that called for the changes and showed the rewards in lower taxes and greater economic growth, the popular support might be such as to jolt the polii : tical cynics. i The nations political leaders may have sadly underestimated the intelligence, the resolution and the integrity of the American people, and the American peoples deep concern with the future in which their children will live. Some plain, unvarnished truth-tellin- g could produce a public enthusiasm that s. would confound the . . super-spender- i BIST TOWS BUENA PARK, CALIF. monolithic government power monopolies. The enormous achievements of our own private power industry, which dwarf those of Russia by a huge margin, are belittled or ignored. tax-eatin- g al City Hall (Cont. from Page 1 Col. 3) B-7-0. B-5- 2, ic B-7- B-7- ANTI-MISSIL- B-5- 2, B-7- B-7- B-4- B-5- ty. That Commisisoner Ted L Guerts, who was Commissioner of Finance be made Water Commissioner. That he (Lee) be made Com- missioner of Finance. That was voted unanimously, yes. A local daily. The Deseret owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, had been promoting in early issues of their paper that the public must watch tor the Full discussion of the controversy (which) will apear in Wednesday nights Deseret News editorial page. As a result of the Wednesday morning vote of confidence and the changing of jobs . .'. the Deseret News had to kill their Noon edition and State edition because the editorial was in it The paper was made up again and hit the streets 2)4 hours late without the editorial. 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