Salt Lake Tribune | 1959-01-20 | Page 4

t The Salt Lake Tribune ‘Tuesday January Military’s Share To Rise Slightly NE Vi OBLIGATiONAl a “k Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Jan 19— The administration estimates It can continue to build up the nation’s defenses— on land at aea In the air and in space— for $40945000000 in the coming fiscal 1 sent to Congress Monday represents by administration calculation only a mild 145 million dollars more than it expects to spend In the year ending June 30 For the first time iri the past three or four years the Pentagon fiscal experts appeared to be basing some of their spending estimates on a hope that the cost of hardwareand services won't spiral up with more inflation $189 1958 ONE OFFICIAL SAID that during the last three or four the price tags on things for which the military pays has gone up each year by about 3 per cent But he thought If there isn’t a stabilization the Pentagon's 145 million dollars might be less than enough just to provide the things whidh are bought with this year’s money The new defense budget contains some seeming conflicts which the budget makers seek Ike Budget Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Jan 19 — Sen Frank E Moss assailed the President's budget as showing ‘‘a decided lack of appreciation for the urgency of no new starts projects is extremely said J5enMoss policy on under ready v He said the way” budget proposes "Ihe appropriation of 77 million dollars for the Upper Colorado Storage Project in the fiscal year starting July 1 but estimates that only 65 million dollars will be spent “We are making very good on the Upper Colorado” said Sen Moss 10 million we assume dollars of the Proiident figures shows estimated costs compared to outlay in 7 ’58 1960 ’59 EXPENDITURES GROWTH OF THE BUDGET RECEIPTS f 771 77 0 1930-196- 0 V Buying orders for others will be completed in the coming AEC SPENDING will be highest yet and determination to maintain our position of world leadership” in nuclear weapons until armament control can be agreed Upon Related to military requirements in many ways but not directly included in the military budget is the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration Military missiles are used to launch NASA’s and satellite vehicles" space-probin- WHAT IS discovered from those scientific explorations is of use to a military planning for defense and offense in a coming era of space warfare 'The administration’s budget emphasizes ballistic missiles reports progress and cites goals already obtained progress "Why— should of Budget year Ufah’s new senator held that even more serious is the administration's "obvious intention to slow down or delay the completion of projects al- that Chart of Bureau space exploration of th $ BILLIONS e short-signe- OHitt Cxtcutiv Bureou of flit Budgot 396 y "The Military Missiles £ The' development or production of some missiles Is being curtailed or canceled President Dwight D Eisenhower in hjs budget message resource devemakes plain that the $40945-00000for the "military funclopment In the West” hut Sen tions” of the Defense JDepgrt-men- t Wallace F Beisn't the whole picture of nnett national defense needs defended the He totes up $45800000000 document and for "major national security” Baid he saw no That category includes in addireason why fed-tion to the main military funcr a 1 expendi-ture- s tions spending outlays for the cannot be Atomic Energy Commission 77 billion dollar figure recom- the assistance promended by the chief execu gram military for allies and stockpiling tive of critical materials water EST Dept of Defense and Atomic Energy Commission EXCLUDES to explain There is an 800 million dollar increase for missiles and research— although the Pentagon estimates the over-al- l increase in the military budget at only 145 million dolIarsThe expla--natiogiven toy this is that while more proney is being spent for some missiles less Is being spent for others Utah Solons Divide on 1960 nmi isfii National Aeronautics and Space Administration INCLUDES more favorable this time for a stabilization of prices” 1959 FISCAL YEARS years look I I il a H year “things k 1960 573S By Elton C Fay THIS FROPOSED MILITARY spending budget $833 AUTHORITY $ MILLIONS 41 51 33 91 b'iX 1930 1940 1960 1950 Estimate - Fiscal Years et growth from fiscal 1930 to President Dwight Eisenhower’s I960 budget shows In Budget Bureau chart USr-budg- D Big Slice of Money Goes to US Parks Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Jan 19— A good chunk of the record 77miIHorf dollar budget for tile National Park Service which President Dwight D Eisenhower sent to Congress Monday will be spent on parks and monuments in the mountain states A breakdown shows that Yejlowstone National Park will get $1011300 from the buildings and utilities construction program $2281600 for new major roads and $1138500 for minor roads YELLOWSTONE’S new major roads include: vicinity Madison Junction relocation of roads and new Gibbon River bridge $1250000 reconstruction of west entrance road $250000 loop road reconstruction and new bridge at Bridge Bay $500000 and relocation of portion of south entrance road $281600 Utah’s southern Utah parks will get $169100 for minor roads and trails with Bryce Canyon receiving $37700 Cedar Breaks Monument $80000 and Arches Monument $51400 The only new buildings and utilities scheduled for Utah In fiscal 1960 are at Dinosaur National Monument where $50000 is scheduled to be spent There is $263000 in the budget for the Lake Mead national recreational area in Nevada the bulk of which is earmarked for camping and picnicking facilities ARIZONA'S PARKS and monuments are recommended for $2509700 worth of new roads and ti ails and $360100 in new buildings and utilities 77 million dollars will no't be would seem to me be asking whether 77 million dollars is enough MR EISENHOWER said Sen Bennett disagreed and that “as part of the growing Baid "I believe the state fares emphasis on missiles” the new well” very budget provides for accelerated "IN CONNECTION wjth the programs for the Atlas Inter Ballistic Missile $ 13 500 Ihebulk is-- for Grand Ca nyarrb u t th e re Upper Colorado item” said continental submarine-firePoitem and for roads ahiTTfie for Glen trails the recreation Bennett Canyon be “it should Sen bal area near the big dam now under construction ((emphasized that laris intermediate range Ithe total expen-llitur- listic missile A 50 per cent increase for estimate lmade by the Bu theMinuteman ICBM program 'Increase of reau of the is provided for the President Budget is only a said $5-- 8 tentative target THE MINUTEMAN in it best It is not will development stage i ceiling upon early solid-fuel rocket capable be a spending for the of mounted in underbeing project ground launching sites for “I have 7 inreviewed long periods and ready for Tribune Washington Bureau hower asked Congress Monday stant firing t h e reclamation " WASHINGTON Jaft 19 -P- to The last session of Congress appropriate $5835000 to budget with the Department voted 90 million dollars D Eienresident Dwight exin further construction work on of Interim and am informed tra money for the Minuteman Utah’s VVber Basin reclamathat the Bureau of Reclam- program senasome Recently an ation can pioceed’-- at tion project during-thfiscal have been demanding to mum efficient rate of progress tors 1 the know year starting why July Pentagon with the funds recommended wasn’t using the money THIS WAS slightly more by the President If additional The explanation of a Pen furfunds must than the $5789745 which Con1960 was Monday spokesman tagon ther congressional action gress appropriated for the curmoney is being used would be required beyond ap- that the somehow rent fiscal year and well above By Associated Press Congress but the President's budget hadn't been infoffned proving WASHINGTON Jan 19 -- the $49J1741 originally asked recommendation D Eisen- by the administration for the If President For the first time in hower’s 1960 Dwight “The money would be budget stays in Weber program years Air Force spending balance it will give him three The money is earmarked for available in the treasury will decrease while Army and four deficits in continued construction of the “It should be noted1 that the and Ngvy spending goes up surpluses the seven budgets he has sub- Willard Dam and Reservoir new obligational authorityis — and the Davis Adqueduct and mitted Both changes are slight called for by the President laterals and the start tf conThat would the match or share The for fiscal just to exceeds Army’s actually equal on the Layton Canal struction forrecord of comhis be 1960 recommended" will levels predecessor $9264000000 by "the"Sen- Clinton P Anderson pared with $9165000000 for mer President Harry S TruConstruction also is soiled- last year for fiscal 1960 the present year Navy spend- man The first Truman budget uled for completion on the for fiscal 1947 was balanced Sen Anderson’s proposal was ing next year would be Ricks Creek laterals and the as were those for 1948 and Bountiful to get against $li472-00000for a crash program where-Bsthreservoirs e this year But the Air 1951 us out of the recession Mrr Eisenhower had deficits 'President’s recomme- Force expenditures for fiscal There is $632000 in the 1960 are set at $18675000000 until he got surpluses of about budget for the Provo River ndation is based upon the of optimum compared with $18993000000 $1 600000000 each in 1956 and project' on which $810900 is — 1957 for this year funds required” being spentthisyear: needed? It we should isa e $45000 Million Budget Seeks For Weber Basin Project care-"full- Ike Harry Even IfUS Stays On e ’ Budget (D-M- 0 Total Cost’ to Utah: $277 Million Utahns would be asked to droit approximately 277 million dollars irfto the nation’s operating pot as its share of the proposed 77 billion dollar I960 budget submitted Monday by President Dwight D Eisenhower the estimate of Utah’s share the cost was made by the Utah Foundation a private tax research organization Another estimate released Monday to the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce by the Council of State Chambers of Commerce In Washington would place the state’s share at Some jf 269 million dollars “Actually Utah’s share and the per capita cost of the President’s budget for 1960 is somewhat less than Under the 1959 budget” the Foundation report stated Utah’s calculated share of the fed-era- spending for fiscal 1959 is 291 million dollars the report disclosed l - The foundation estimate was based on a formula developed by Tax Foundation a nationwide agency which indicates Utahns pay approximately 36 of 1 per cent of the total federal tax burden The Chamber o Commerce formula shows the state’s share as 35 J j Income Barely to Balance Outlays EXPLORATION SPACE 20 1959 of 77 billion dollar 1 per cejnt of the figure Though the per capita cost of the 1960 budget is less than that of 1959 the Utah Foundation points out there would be no tax reduction under the proposed budget “In fact” the foundation said “the budget recommendations Include a proposed 1 per cent Increase In the gasoline tax” ’ The share Utahns pay for the biggest item in the 1960 budget national security will be about 168 million dollar? or $186 a persorj the foundation report stated lice Requests $77 Billion for Fisckl ’60 THE BUDGET’S revenue es- tlmate of $77100000000 is on the assumption that the value bf the nation’s output of goods Continued from Page One gan picking the message'apart The committee starts hearings on the budget Tuesday" sonal lncomesare Over and over he sounded d Ci v fc ta And that amount he said the public debt or a o tax cut th di Both Stans and Anderson said as far 14 they know the administration has set no priority although Mt Eisenhower listed a tax cut first in mentioning the alternatives Anderson held the door’opcn for a tax increase rather than a cut if Congress should and appropriations far above the levels of the Je P lii or b push-spendi- budget B- - - ASKED WHETHER he would favor higher personal and corporate taxes in that event Anderson replied: “Some kind of consideration along this line might prove to be necessary" Anderson and Stans both emphasized that the budget is merely a spending plan which Congress can accept or change as it wishes being and To protect personal Commission will go up from from 202 million dollars this fiscal savings and incomes erosive inflation year to 340 million dollars in the next year Nonmilitary YET IT ALSO calls for highspending in this new realm is er gasoline taxes that surely expected- - to rise from 160 to would be passed on to the con- 280 million dollars sumer and for another boost The total for space developin postal rotes If Congress ments thus is slated to jump all 258 million in a single year to goes along— and it isn’t sure that Congress will— the a total of 620 million dollars federal gas tax will jump from As did the President Budget 3 to 4 cents a gallon and it Director Maurice H Stans and probably will cost a nickel in- Secretary of the Treasury Robstead of four cents to fnail a ert B Anderson bore down on the idea of a sound growing letter economy Eisenhower said three of every five in the budgThe two held separate et— a total of $15805000000 briefings on the budget for out of $77030000000 — must newsmen go to keeping the US military structure ready to meet any "I believe” Stans said “the threat with weapons operating expectation isthat 1959 will from the bottom of the sea be the best year in our hisand through the fringes - of tory” Yet he said the budget repspace resents a deliberate "hold PROJECTED SPENDING down on new programs of the on satellites and other government” and inprojects by the Defense De- cludes "an absolute minimum partment and Atomic Energy of new legislation” at dol-lar- s - The budget counts on tapping taxpayers for a record sum while dangling before them a hope of tax reductions in the uncertain future The message holds out promises to enhance domestic well to year NEVER IN PEACETDIE has so big a budget been laid before the legislators at the opening of a new session A year ago Eisenhower proposed what was then a record peace time budget just short of 74 billions But the recession sent government income down and spending up So the spending figure for the present fiscal year ending June 30 now estimated at nearly 81 billions And the half billion dollar surplus anticipated a year ago has turned into a deficit of almost 13 billions for the 1959 fiscal year that recovery refrain expected lr fi a climb 20 billion to 374 billion dollars and corporate profits are projected at 47 billion dollars a gain of 10 ’billion Stans said revenue can be expected to go up three billion dollars in the 1961 fiscal REPUBLICANS are fore casting that Mr Eisenhower will wield the veto again in order to protect his program and financial policies But Democrats have more votes now to throw into motions to override vetoes Eisenhower Furthermore told Congress it must raise the permanent limit on the national debt to 285 billions and provide a temporary limit even higher than that The current temporary debt ceiling is 288 billion It is due to drop to 283 billion next June 30 The new budget is a bare 70 million dollars in the black But it is what Eisenhower called a responsible confident attainable budget positive backed by glowing prospects of ‘‘continued vigorous economic recovery” -- and services will rise from 437 billion dollars in the 1958 calendar year to more than 470 billion dollars in 1959 Per- omy may come on an airport Construction "bill patterned along lines of one Mr Elsenhower vetoed last year Some 540 senators are sponsoring the five year 575 million dollai measure The Eisenhower budget suggests a four-year- program starting- - at 65 million dollars the first year and then dropping off The estimated deficit Is up nearly 700 millions since ‘ September I KEY MEMBERS of Congress questioned in advance whether the budget wotild carry enough money for defense The total is down 315 millions from the current year’s expenditures for the Defense Department atomic energy stockpiling of strategic materials But it ail but calls a halt on continued whittling down of military manpower It places less emphasis on planes and moie on missiles— some 800 million dollars more YOU GET EXTRA CARE ON UNITED AIR LINES SCHEDULES TIMED TO 19 so of m ef lif Ih si A K of yc sc th Li Ai YOURS extra care on United Air Lines! DAILY NONSTOPS TO CHICAGO THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE TQ DENVER SAN FRANCISCO CALL DA OR YOUR TRAVEL AGENT 11 -- m United Air Lines flights are timed to offer the most service at popular hours Your choice of service too — deluxe Douglas DC-- 7 First Class Service or economical Air Coach — radar on every plane and you’re flown by captains Another example of and mi- litary aid to allies For the Defense Department alone the spending figure is up 145 millions to a total of Some Dem$40945000000 ocrats and a number of Rcpub-lican- s on Capitol Hill have criticized suhis of that size as mapequaterIn contrast with last jear's budget message this new 30000-wordocument speaks of a persisting rather than a growing military danger from the Communist world a A Tr sa in ap sli 95