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Show "k SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS 'A nj Main Street and the World Ifeesong Out As Conference Site; 1 $ OPS Violations Are Reported W' HOUR OF DECISION-For weeks the people In the home towns of SSSI ,. country have held to the hope of peace in Korea through neeotiaUnn, kl joint chiefs of staff following a conference In Tokyo with Gen Mat- JewHidgway. gave an irrevocable "no" to Communist demands that the ifnited Nations send negotiators back to Kaesong to resume the peace s talks. a en-. AS an alternative, the UN. command offered to meet the Reds at e' v songhyon in no-man s-land. At the same time, Gen.- James Van Fleet s; cmmander of the eighth army, issued a warning that has been interpreted .. . thinly veiled threat. He implied, in a statement ' K ' i $ J-- L ilfci-- Ys.t opening of an Allied fall offensive, of-fensive, that his forces are capable of driving the Reds completely out of North Korea. Ko-rea. Should the Reds refuse to meet the Allies at Songhyon and do not suggest another meeting place, which is considered con-sidered possible in many quarters, the newspapers of America will be filled with news of all-out war in Korea Ko-rea during the next few months. Some observers believe the Chinese do not want tn 5 . flht another winter cam- History Made paign. In this hour of de- j VS. marines in Korea recently added cisin. in which Communist mother chapter to their long record of a"d forces face each (rsls when, in "operation summit," they other across a bloody and I Undid on a mountain by helicopter. war-torn Korea, the hope of 1 peace rests squarely on the -ttft Chinese. I2il In Us announcement that his forces are capable of driving the Reds from North Korea, Van Fleet said that the Allies inflicted 188,237 casual-jjjp casual-jjjp ties on the enemy during the past four months. This is equal to approximately approxi-mately 10 Red divisions. B Since the war began the United Nations forces have inflicted an esti-IDi esti-IDi mated 1,200,000 casualties on the North Korean and Chinese. United 2? states army officials estimate the Reds now have 400,000 men on the Jw fighting front with another 200,000 in Immediate reserve. T NEW DRAFT CALL More men from the home towns of the nation ' ! face a draft call during November and December with the announcement last week that 55,900 men will be called for duty in the army and marine A corps. CI The latest call will bring to 734,680 the men called since the draft was pi I resumed in 1950. The marines have taken 41,680 of the total, jw The 39,000 needed in November is 5,300 more than previously an- Wi nounced. Present strength of the corps is about 211,000 officers and W men. Of the total, the marines will take 19,900 men. TAX BILL By tne time this appears in print the house and senate committee may have finished its work on the new tax increase measure and reported it in final form. The senate version calls for a $5.4 billion 5J boost in taxes; the house $7.2 billion. Whatever the final figure, the total tax bill will be one of the largest in the nation's history. Last week's tax news, however, was not confined to the new tax bill. W Ot interest was the announcement by Senator George that the new bill 1 I "is the last tax-increase bill I will support short of all-out war or a war A crisis." 7M The senator's announcement was of special significance in that he is chairman of the senate finance committee and it is his job to guide tax ijg measures through the senate. 1- A He pointed out that the new tax measure will increase revenues to "JSj S67 or $68 billion a year in a full year's operation, an all-time high. "That ''X is enough to spend in a year," he said. "It is about $15 billion more than ,jT we should spend even with a stepped-up defense program." r fl Then he added, "There must be a cut. I know there can be cuts if there is any strong will in the executive department." 22 Without Senator George's support any future tax measure would have jj little, if any, chance of getting through the senate. MEAT-RULE VIOLATIONS The office of price stabilization made Aj the startling announcement that its agents have found 934 violations of A meat regulations, involving 435 slaughterhouses, in raids in every section "! ot the country. Two out of every five of the 1,145 slaughtering plants f check were found violating beef regulations. Michael V. DiSalle, price stabilizer, made a bitter attack on the rt meat industry when the violations were announced. He said, "The price of beef is a vital element in the housewife's table budget and it must be M, held within reason. Surely if the members of the meat industry, who J have been putting selfish interest against the nation's economic health, will stop to think of this, they will join with the great mass of people and wj help us keep the American economy on an even keel." iv If found guilty of breaking OPS regulations, violators can be fined 3 damages of three times the amount of price overcharges, and sentenced 2- 3 to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine, or both. ' POPULATION SHIFT Since 1790 the center of population in the United States has continued to move westward. The new center, established estab-lished by the 1950 census, is located eight miles northwest of Olney, 111. is 42 miles west and V'A miles south of the 1940 cen- ter near Carlisle, Ind. f The new shift reflects the estward and southward migrations that took place I Juring World War II when ti ew industries moved into I these areas, census bureau f officials reported. The trend is expected to continue as more and more industries move west and south. On the 18th of this month x i marker will be erected in 1 lie cornfield on the farm of ( and Mrs. Pari KniHfr where the center is located. Nobody lives within half a mile of the point. Once a farm home stood 200 feet from the point. The population center's westward movement has totaled 664 miles V to the last 160 years. In 1790 the center was 23 miles west of Baltimore. UNITED DEFENSE FUND The united defense fund has joined with e national community chest campaign this year in an effort to raise 518.624,854 to carry on its work. Of the total, $16,511,854 is being sought through chests and the remainder will be raised in New York city and other non-chest areas. Bulk of the funds $13,658,207 will go to USO. The united defense fund was formed in November, 1940, to raise i ds for services to the armed forces through USO and other organi-"'ions; organi-"'ions; to aid defense-impacted communities through united community Jtefense services; and to help process clothing collected by American rebel re-bel for Korea. The annual community chest drive was opened September 30 with nation-wide radio address by President Truman. Community chest "icials said their best estimate of the combined total to be raised by "dividual chests this year is $250,000,000. |