Truman Asks For
' $71 ¥2 Billion For
Spending Money
(Continued from Page One)
* last Monday.
He called in it for many of his
pet “Fair Deal” measures such as
the civil rights program, federal
medican insurance and a major
part of the Brannan farm plan.
That seemed certain to arouse ire
in some Congressional quarters.
Fierce outcries from “economy”
advocates also appeared so sure
that Mr. Truman anticipated them
by laying down a defense of his
spending program in advance.
Observing to reporters that
opinions differ on what are “de
fense” and “non-defense” outlays,
he dropped the heading of “de
fense”—direct military costs and
strategic stockpiling — which had
been used in past budgets. He put
a “national security” tag on the
new listing.
Then he budgets “major nation- '
g1 security programs” at $52,510,
000,000 for the next year, an in
cerase of $25,466,000,000 over this
fiscal year now half gone.
The “remainder” of his program
was price-tagged at $19,084,000,
000. He described that as a saving
of $1,082,000,000 from this year’s
costs even though it contains op
erations ‘influenced by the pres
ent, emergency;” for example,,
coast guard, port security work,
and FBI loyalty checks cm govern
ment workers.
In the budget itself, the Presi
dent:
1. Estimated U. S. military serv
ice costs for the year starting July
1 at $41,321,000,000—58 per cent
of the budget total. That is more
than .double the $20,427,000,000
the President estimated will actu*
ally be spent in the current year.
It counted on active armed force
strength of nearly 3,500,000 by j
mid-1952, with “our troops sup- i
plied with the best weapons in the
world.”
2. Proposed a $7,461,000,000 out
lay of military and economic aid
to friendly foreign countries—
compared to $4,726,000,000 this
year—to further the cause of “in
ternational security.” The foreign
program would take nearly ten
cents of each dollar spent.
3. Assigned $22,712,000,000 or 32
per cent erf the total to multiple
other home front costs of govern
ment, a $1,222,000,000 increase |
over this year. j
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4. Included in this total propos
ed outlays of $1,100,000,000 to help
expand production of such .basic
products as rubber, steel and
aluminum; $1,277,000,000 to en
force the price-wage controls Mr.
Truman says are inescapable;
$24,000,000 for rent controls; $90,
000,000 for business loans.
5. Tucked in quietly most all
the major items which fly the
Truman “fair deal” flag—includ
ing the *FEPC plan for equal job
rights for Negroes, federal aid to
state schools, federal medical in
surance with a first-year payroll
tax totaling $275,000,000 and
housing for “low income groups.”
6. Confronted Congress with an
o v e r all budget $24,384,000,000
bigger than this year’s and one
within $27,209,000,000 of the
World War II peak.
7., Faced American with pros
pects of the stiffest taxes in his
tory, draining fore than 27 per
cent of the national income into
federal ohest. The $16,465,000,000
tax hike suggestion, details of i
which will come later. Posed a j
nearly 30 per cent increase in rev
enues.
8. Asked a $351,000,000 increase
in postal rates—mostly on news
papers, advertising matter and the j
like—to trim a threatened $521,
000,000 postoffice deficit. Without
the rate hike, the budget deficit
will go to $16,807,000,000. |
9. Claimed “strict economy in
non-defense spending” was his
policy and it was “incorporated
in this budget.”
10. Called on the nation to
“work longer and harder” and be
prepared for prolonged sacrifices
because “the present emergency
may be of long duration and we
must be prepared for crises in the
more distant as well as in the im
mediate future.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
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Monahan, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,
is officer in charge of the helicop
tre detachment aboard the U. S.
carrier Leyte.
Jacobs, of Kiowa, Kansas, ditch
ed his plane when his engine fail
ed while enroute to a strike in Ko
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rea.
CLIFFORD BEACH, N. J. »(JP)—
Mrs. Clara Carey, 34-year-old wife
of a $60-a-week boiler engineer,
gave birth to a 10-pound boy yes
terday—the couple’s 18th child in
18 years of marriage.
SAN FRANCISCO, (IP) — Joe
Curran, president of the CIO Na
tional Maritime Union, Friday in
dicated the NMU would launch an
organizing campaign to bring
West Coast marine cooks and stew
«h
ards into his union.
Curran told a press conference
that the NMU was going to try
to “replace the communist-cap
tured” independent Marine Cooks
and Stewards Union headed by
Hugh Bryson.
Bryson’s union, along with Har
ry Bridges’ International 'Long
shoremen’s and Warehousesmen’s
Union was ousted from the Na
CIO on grounds that it was follow
ing t.# communist party line.
The CIO union office where
Curran was staying was picketed
by some 100 members of the MCS
wsa passed out leaflets which said
“We have never had a single de
lay in military cargo. Our losses
were higher than that of the arm
ed forces. We are patriotic Ameri
cans; we love and support our
country and we definitely support
our great union.”
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