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Show ill the Utah SIM ''A Weekly Newspaper Devoted Good Government" Salt Lake City, Utah Vol. 11; No. 14 Friday,. "$8 Billion Can Be Saved" Natioonal Ass's, of iEnufactioireirs i large Budget Cut ecommeiiicSs sensible spending, the habit of spend, spend, spend wiir become a fixed pattern of government life in this country." Economics can be made without Impairing our national defense, the NAM said. "In fact, of the budget increases since 1955 has been in the area of civilian services " Military Spending High "It's hardest to cut the defense budget, since proponents of spend, spend, spend cry that the safety of the country is threatened. However, the Hoover Commission has offered suggestions which indicate many economies which could be effected in the military establishment," (the NAM said. "Short of outright war, and in view of the obvious reliance on new weapons and mechanization, it is believed that manpower in the military can be reduced and Although many individuals, organizations and politicians are calling for a reduction of the 1958 federal budget, the first tangible suggestions for the ticklish surgery came (to light this week from the National Association of Manufacturers. Striking hard at what is called the "battle of the bulging budget which has outflanked the President," the NAM called for total reduction of $8.2 billion. In a detailed study, .the NAM suggested reducing foreign aid by $2.2 billion, military by $1.9 billion and expenditures by $4.1; billion. Such reductions would lower spending to $63.6 billion. "The drive to cut the budget is more (important than the battle for one year's appropriations," the NAM stated. "If the American people don't speak up now for two-thir- non-militar- y ds Cities Gain Most Population Increase, 1956 Report Shows latter figure being an estimate. The rate of growth for the Of the increase of 14,700,000 persons in the civilian population of the United States between April, 1950, and March, 1956, or 85 per cent, was accounted for by the increase in the population living in the 168 standard metropolitan areas of 1950, according to figures from a sample study conducted by the Bureau of the Census, published in No. 71, 1956 (Wash-intoSeries 10 cents a copy). The samabout 22,000 houseincludes ple 230 areas comprising holds in 453 counties and cities. The total civilian population was 149,633,-73according to the Census of 1950; and 164,308,000 in 1956, the P-2- 0, standerd metropolitan areas was about four times as rapid, as that for the territory "Within the standard metropolitan area, the outlying parts grew about six times as rapidly as 29.3 vs. 4.7 the central cities cent. increase in of Half the per the population of the standard metropolitan areas occurred in territory classified as rural dn the 1950 Census." But "much of this increase was in newly developed suburban areas which will be classified as urban in the 1956 non-metropolit- an n, 1, Census," Murray Barbecue Set For County GOP, April 26 A big spring festival and barbecue will be held at the Murray Armory on April 26th at 6:30 p.m. for members and their partners of the Salt Republican Club. All Republicans in Salt Lake County are invited to come and join the club and participate in the festivities. Fine food and excellent with many fine and useful door prizes. Lake-Count- Let's keep up pur party spirit and help to further the of the go-ahe- ad The standard metropolitan areas had 96,235,000 persons in 1956, compared with 68,073,000 in "other" or non metropolitan territory, there were 24,453,000 persons in urban areas, and in rural communities. Between 1950 and 1956, the increase in urban areas was 6 per cent, and in the rural, 2 per cent. In the United States as a whole the urban population increased by 7,700,000 persons and the rural population by 7,000,000. The respective rates of growth were 8 and 3 per cent. But the rural population within the standard metropolitan areas accounted for 6,100,000 of the gain in the total rural population. In 1956, persons 65 years and over numbered 9,207,000 in the urban population, or 8.9 percent of the total of 103,631,000 persons; this age group included 5,197,000 persons of the rural population, or 8.6 per cent of a total of 43,-620,0- 00 y further that its more effective use would reduce its cost," the NAM continued. . The association called for a per cent reduction of $1.9 billion in the $38 billion military budge!. 5 Civilian Cuts Suggested Just half the NAM's suggested $8.2 billion budget cut would be in the realm of civilian programs. Biggest reductions are proposed in health, education and welfare (suggested reduction of $1.02) ; agriculture (suggested cut of $763 million); housing and home finance (suggested reduction of $359 million) ; and veterans administration (suggested cut of $337 million). Virtually every other major civ ilian department also came under the NAM economy tax. orthwest States Mislead Congress, Watkins Reports Already accorded . the lion's share of all Federal funds for development, the States of Washington and Oregon by using the defeat last year of the high Hells Canyon Dam project as an excuse are falsely charging that they are being discriminated against in river-basidevelopment. So remarked Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah) in a supplementary statement submitted for the record of Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee hearings on the current Hells Canyon project bill. The statement was also delivered on the Senate floor by the Utah Senator. The Northwest's "loquacious spokesmen," the senior Utah Senator commented, "are giving so much emphasis to the defeat of the Hells Canyon bill by the 84th Congress that they are causing many people in other parts of the country gain the impression that the Northwest has been dise criminated against in development. "Nothing could be farther from the truth," Senator Watkins com mented. water-resourc- es n water-resourc- This, Senator Watkins declared, was only part of the story; these are just first-cos- t expenditure items, he said, and do not in clude "hundreds of millions of dollars" that are certain to be ex pended in planning, operation and maintenance of the projects again largely out of Federal funds. Such continuing major overhead costs will have to be assumed by he Federal Government through scores of years, the Senator point ed out. The Utahn also noted that hrough sales of power from cer- ain of the Federal projects in the Pacific Northwest at below- cost figures, Washington, Oregon and Montana are subsidizing big business and private utilities. He indicated that neither the com panies nor the Federal agencies involved are to blame for this application of a "postage stamp" rate setup established in the late 930's, but that, nevertheless, pow er from every new Northwest hydro project is being sold for ess than it costs at the ion site. produc- - He said that Washington and Senator Watkins added, "The Oregon through Federal flood-contr- proponents of high Hells Canyon now demand that we hold the and navigation projects by early last year already had Federal Power Commissionap- benefited by total Federal expen proved three-daproject, pay the ditures of $929,909,000, or one- - Idaho Power company the many ol m . seventh of the total civil works millions it has already invested at construction appropriations for all Brownlee and Oxbow sites, and of the 48 states. also spend $500,000,000 to build a high Federal dam. Authorization Currently authorized flood con of this highdam project, there trol and navigation works for the fore, would commit the Federal two states total an additional Government to spend a half- $1,828,717,000, and the current billion dollars that it does not Senate - proved omnibus civi have to to spend and forego Federaworks bill included an additional l-State revenues of about the $133,012,000 in new or extended same amount. project ThU gives oneifth of the total national projects back "Such a wasteful proposal simto two coastal Northwest the log ply does not make sense," he Concerning housing and home states, he added. finance, NAM elimination of the urban planning grats; the reserve of planned public works and the urban renewal grants. The organization also advocates a limiting of funds provided for the Federal National Mortgage Assn. and the Public Housing Administration. - -- - ; ; The NAM's suggested cut of $337 million in veterans affairs is designed to bring .the total spending of the VA in 1958 down to the 1956 level. Coincidentally, on the basis of the costs of this agency at the time of this study, the Hoover Commission advised that $337 could be cut from the VA total, the NAM pointed out. Blue Cross paid $652,707 to hospitals in Salt Lake County in 1956 for services rendered members of the plan. This was part of the $2,039,240 paid to hospitals in the state by Blue Cross last year, Lewis G. Hersey, executive director, announced today. Christian Labor Ass'n Cains Ground In Minnesota Area -- Republican principles party. Salt Lake County Republipeople. can Club was organized to create the estimate . . . present"Since and and maintain, good fellowship good-wil- l in Salt Lake County. ed in this report based on a Come join us and help us in this sample, they are subject to samcause. pling variability." 60,-677,0- 00 "The Christian Labor Associan independent union ation, which includes prayer and Bible reading in all its meetings, has won a foothold in western Min, nesota against the giant it is reported in Christianity Today, Washington, November 12, AFL-CIO- 1956. "CLA's highway - construction engiLocal 78 defeated AFL-CIneers Local 49 in National Labor Relations Board elections among some 120 employes of two nign way contractors." O MUs Caleno Henrit, Utah's Cherry Blossom Quttn, Is greeted upon Capitol Hill in Dixon prior Washington, D. C, by Congressmen William A. Dawson and Henry A. chosen was Henrio by the Utah to attending a reception In her honor. Miss National Guard. |