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Show 2A DESERET Wednesday, January 15, 1969 NEWS, LBJ Asks Boost i , iOfil ' WASHINGTON (AP) resident Johnson asked the accent in Johnsons final defense budget is on beefing up the fighting power of forces elsewhere in the world and on developing new weapons and equipment. He urged the increased defense spending the largest in any year since World War II to continue the military "momentum achieved during the last eight years. -PCon- gress Tuesday to spend $81.5 billion for defense in the nm-in- g fiscal year( slightly reducing Vietnam costs but warning of the need to counter a wide range of potential military threats. for fiscal year topped those of the current year by 95Qp million, despite a cut of $3J billion in the cost of supporting 639 P'K) fighting men in Southeast Asia. 'Vietnam alone accounts for d of the pronefrly moted military spending, but ;flis spending propsoals th 1970 The President attributed reduction in Vietnam spending to changing combat patterns and revised supply requireLarge-scal- e ments. operations have been reduced anti the bombing of North Vietnam has been halted. one-thir- where ir corns from But his proposal to finance an additional 5,006 men by June 30, 1970, in the Southeast Asian area including Thailand, the Philippines and support bases farther afield, held no hint of beginning a phased manpower cut from Vietnam, as has been rumored I n Saigon. The new budget, subject to changes by the Nixon Administration and the Congress, provides for 3,455,000 men and women in uniform on active below peak 32,000 duty, sfength in the current year. The Army will absorb most of the cut, 26,000, mostly through the release of re nuclear-powere- a jumbo-siz- e air In-er- trans- more F3111 and short range missiles for that aircraft, and 24 squadrons of B52s. Thirty squadrons cf the big bombers are now in servports, buy fighter-bombe- ice. The cost of running the Selective Service system next year is pegged just under the current $70 million annual level despite an anticipated increase in draft calls. Johnson reminded. Congress of his earlier intention to de d V Fed- - lion for 85 local schools, an WASHINGTON (AP) velop a fair and impartial con- crease of 27 grants. random system of selection would aid to education for drafting men, a plan tinue to rise under the budget Aid for areas with large numthwarted by Congress in 196 A proposed today by President bers of children of federal perHe used his farewell budget Johnson, with major increases sonnel would be cut by $205.9 message to plead for a law going to help disadvantaged is bein but million, legislation providing for a variation of a children under Title I of the Elmore to relate Eduproposed closely for selecting ementary and Secondary lottery system federal assistance to school dismen to bear arms. cation Act. tricts which serve children In other areas covered by The President called for an whose parents live on federal the defense budget, the Presiincrease of $405 million, to a property, and thus contribute dent called for a slight total of $5.3 billion, in educa- less to local tax revenues. to $551 million, in miltional spending for fiscal 1970 million a and $120 itary aid, a steadily rising Cutbacks also are proposed in continuing rise in Atomic Energy Com- curve of aid to educa- funds for elementary and secfederal mission outlays, to $2.5 biltion over the past four years. ondary school equipment and lion, for improved nuclear for guidance, counselling and The budget proposes an in- testing. weapons and atomic power plants for warships in fiscal crease of $103 million, for a 1980. total of $1,226,000, for programs to improve slum schools. submarines will expand from 41 to 47 next year. The outlay program covers Air Force costs to operate the first two squadrons of the new serves. The Air Force will drop 8,0C0, more than offsetting a 2,000 increase for the Marine Corps and a near 1,000 net rise in Navy manpower. The Army will have the same number of divisions 18 and its air unit roster is unchanged at 218. The Marine Corps will field the same four divisions and three air wings as it does in the current year. The budget will enable the Navy to sail its present 15 attack aircraft carriers. It will have one less antisubmarine carrkr and air group and 16 fewer amphibious assault ships. But the operating fleet of attack In Education Aid DESERET NEWS Funds for educational opportunity grants would rise from President Seeks Other and universities. THE Stepped-U- p to Drive On Crime Yoor WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pr- esident Johnson asked Congress today to vote funds for a war on crime, a stepped-u- p dominant issue in his scees-sor-s 1970 Estimate A Social Insurance Taxes and Contributions rants would go from $139.9 million to help another 370,000 stu dents and $62 million is proposed for interest payments insured loans for 923,500 students. Work-stud- BUDGET DOLLAR fiscal $124.6 million to $175.6 million to help 308,000 students in colleges Veterans ance Administration which provides direct grants for state and local law enforcement agencies. A total of $18 million was for the National budgeted Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice for research and technology. It got $3 million in fiscal 1969. y $154 million SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH lrt Sovlb Editorial Office, M Advert itine Md Circulation 143 S. Main St. Salt Lake City, Utah Mill Established June IS, 1850. Published Mch evening. 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Spending for the Teachers an organization which Corps seepned on the brink of financial extinction only 18 months ago would rise by $10.2 million. The Office of Education, election campaign. which provides grants and techThe retiring president sought nical assistance to local school a 1970 budget calling for more boards faced with desegregation To money for almost every area of I problems, would get $13.7 mil- criminal justice and law enon with a forcement, emphasis RAPPEDFUNDS new strike force concept to Nixon scathingly denounced Social Insurance be used against organized the $20 million spent paltry crime. Funds WHERE IT COES on overall crime research in a 2 MEASURES statement issued in New York DEFENSE He proposed no new anticrime City May 8, 1968. He noted it Education legislation, but dusted off two of was only one half of 1 per cent his propbsals from last year-fed- eral of the law enforcement budgets Major state and federal gun registration and cf the and a stronger anti- governments. Social Programs licensing O the gambling statute. Citing the achievements of his i President-elec- t Richard M. Administration, Johnson told Nixon, who made a strong Congress, As an urgent next Reductions anticrime campaign, will likely step, the Congress should enact have no quarrel with Johnsons legislation requiring federal gun $714 million budget for the registration and licensing, to Justice I reduce firearms. A stronger Department. Interest I A major thrust was the $36 law is also of the .Source Bureau Paid To Trust million proposed for control of needed to strike at organized crime. organized crime. Johnson said the FBI and the Congress last year banned the Chart shows th federal government's expected revenues and projected expenditures for fiscal year 1970. Criminal Division of the Justice interstate sale of firearms but intensify balked at registration and Department would their efforts against organized licensing. Nixon favors it only crime, sending special strike at the state level." force teams of attorneys and GAMING MEASURE , investigators from key federal Johnson did not elaborate on into nine additional agencies law cities this year and into 13 more the stronger but apparently referred to in 1970. proposal he submitted last year 8 OPERATING which would make it a federal Eight strike forces now are crime to engage in a substantial operating in Buffalo, N.Y., business enterprise of gambling. Detroit, Brooklyn, N.Y., PhilWASHINGTON (UPI) He also called for $1.2 million Seeing is believing! 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