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VOLUME xvn
Tuesday, December 27, 1955
NUMBER 11
Russians claim cut in budget
for defense spending in '56
Supreme Soviet
opens with lengthy
speechmaking
MOSCOW (/P) Delelgial.es to
the Supreme Soviet today sat
through six hours of speeches,
all in praise of the Kremlin’s
1956 ibuget promsing a out in de
fense spending. Six more hours
of speechmsdcing were schedul
ed for tonight.
Although the delegates pnais
ed the (budget, several voiced
complaints against prices, short
ages of goods and lagging de
liveries.
The two houses of the Soviet
parliament were expected co
meet on the Ibudiget again to
morrow. This would delay the
anticipated report of Soviet,
premier Bulganin and comraun
its party secretary Khrushchev
on their trap to Indian. Burma
and Afghanistan unltil Thurs
day.
With Bulganin, Khrushchev
and other Soviet leaders look
ing on, (finance minister Arseny
Zverev presented the outline
of the 1956 financial statement
to the 1,400 delegates early in
%heir opening meetlnjg. Zverev’s
speech lacked the criticism aim
V eatchcombing
0 l had a wondeilful Ohrist
xmas and received a number of
nice presents — including the
one the Iboys at the AOS gave
me (though I didn’t know I
(W'as a rodeo performer.) The
medal (?) was engraved with
“Champion Bulil Thrower”.
% One of our citizens was!
(gettimlg! ft present and he asked I
the butcher “Have you any
4og bones?” “'No” was the re
tort he received, “bait we do
hftve (beef bones ifor dogs.”
# The High School alumni
took it on the chin Friday night
and tonight they are going to
play the “kids” again. Bull this
time they have enlisted a lot
of extra “talent” to help enter
tain It he audience. They simply
don’t work well together any
more — or are the local high
sdhool team that much (better
than we think?
% 'We understand that several
children came down wil.h the
mumps just as the holidays
were starting — it was Itoo cold
to ibe out anyway, especially
with all the new toys to iplay
with.
• I didn’t wanli to (bother
Ken on Christmas so I asked
about the streets as to how cold
it was Christinas night — and
* boy was it cold -2, fthen -4 and
then -8 and -12. Better have,
your thermometers checked for
officially it was only -1.
!
ed in previous years at “capital
ist and imperialist warmong
ers.”
The 'budget, slightly higher
than that outlined in February
for 1955, estimated expendi
tures at 568,800,090,000 rulbles
and revenues at 991,900.000.000
The 1955 budgd. put expendi
tures at 563,482,000,000 rubles
and revenues at 590,192,000,000
The (finance minister added,
however, that a comparison of
the figures for the two years
was misleading Ibeoause whole
sale prices had (been out con
siderably during 1955.
Zverev said defense appro-1
prialaons for the coming year
would be 102 M2 billion rubles,
just over 18 percent of the to
tal expenditure and nearly 10
percent below the 1955 esti
mate of 112,122,000,000 rubles.
(The Russians value i.he ru
ble arbitrarily at 25 cents, but
its purchasing power is sub-1
stantially less. However, the:
actual Soviet defense appropria j
;ion cannot Ibe estimated aocur
ately since many items which
would be included under that
category in other countries are
hidden under other headings).
The U. S. government is
spending if or defense at Ithe rate
of about 34M> billion dollars an
I nuially, or about 55 percent of
its expenditures).
Zverev declared the saving
in the military budget would
be used Ito help advance the na
tionlal economy, education and
culture. He recalled the cut of
620,000 in Russia’s armed for
ces, announced earlier this
year, and Russia’s decision to
return to Finland the Porfckala
naval base. Ml Irhese moves,
he said, showed Russia’s con
cern for reducing world ten
sion.
Fairly mild in
most of nation
by The Associated Press
Fairly mild weather for late
December appeared the out
look for most of the nation to
day.
Bt was a little colder in the
middle Atlantic states, with
temperatures about 20 degrees
lower than 24 hours earlier.
Coldest areas were New Eng
land and in Michigan wir.h
readings around 10 degrees.
The freezing line extended
from northern North Carolina
westward through southern
Kentuokv. northern Missouri,
central Kansas, eastern pahts
of Nebraska and South Dakota
and through central Montana.
A warming trend was in (pros
pect for much of the midwest.
Temperatures this morning
were in the 50s and 60s along
jthe gulf coast region, southern
'California and southwest Ari
zona.
Rain continued along the
Pacific coast but falls were
lilght in most areas.
It was raining in Seattle .
Fire destroys ACS
i power house at
j remote Barrow
FAIRBANKS (JP) The Arctic
village of Barrow was out oft
from communication with oth
er (point s yesterday when fire
destroyed the Alaska Commun
ioation System power house
there.
Destroyed in the fire were
two diesel electric sets, a brack
ed snow vehicle, a bulldozer
and much valuable radio e
quipment. AGS said damage
would run between $150,000
and $200,000.
An auxiliary power plant
was pressed into service a few
hours after the fire and' com
munications wit h other parts
of Alaska was reestablished.
■Four AOS employes at the
Barrow station, helped by
townsmen, were handicapped
in their efforts to fight the
blaze by hand (because of a
temperature 20 degrees ibelow
zero.
The fire fighting equipment
in Barrow was inside the burn
ing building.
The fire, of undetermined
origin, broke out soon afl er
two AOS employes had made
a routine check of the building
The first indication of trouble
was a flickering of lights in
the bufding. Within a few rnin
u es the flames became visible
and power went off.
U. S. air force sgt.
disappears in Red
sector of Berlin
BERLIN </P) An American
air (force sergeant from Paris,
who visited Berlin over Christ
mas, has disappeared in the
Soviet sector of Berlin after an
automobile accident, U. S. of
ficials disclosed today.
The army said M. Sgt. Mike
Kliman, Brooklyn, N. Y. was
involved in a crash Iasi: night
and was last seen being taken
| from the hospital by common- j
| ist police. i
1 Preliminary inquiry failed
to locate Kliman’s whereabouts
A request, is (being sent to the
Russians to look into the case.
| Kliman, on duty at Orly field
in Paris, visited his Berlin
born wife over the holidays
. and drove with her to visit
friends in East Berlin in his
American car.
The East: German Igovern
ments news agency, ABN, said
Kliman was “drunk,” drove
through a stop sign, and caus
ed a collision with an East Ger
man car.
An American investigation
showed, the army said, several
people riding with Kliman were
! given (first aid at an East: Ber
j lin hostpital and were then re
leased.
j An army spokesman said
East Berlin communist police
j told Kliman he could recover
his car by accompanying them
to the police headquarters. He
. has noe been seen since, the of
ficial added.
California delta area faces
inundation by raging flood
Report conditions
critical in low-lying
delta region today
SAIN FSANCISCO f/P) The
flood danger area in California
today shifted to the San Joa
quin river delta region near the
inland port of Stockton, 70
miles east of San Francisco.
The death J;oil in California
and Oregon was 31 dead from
the storm, which lasted more
than a week.
California had 29 dead and
at least 19 others were presum
ed dead. Oregon had 12 dead,
including a family of 5 killed
by a mudslide at the coastal
town of Remote, and 3 missing.
Conditions were reported
f critical in the sparsely populat
ed, low-lying delta region.
One Island Empire Tract,1
was inundated. Flood waters
for a time Cascaded over the
levees of Venice island, (but. j
when Empire Tract dikes broke
the water dropped quickly and
saved Venice.
Army engineers at Sacramen
to said the del'a area “came
through” last night as far as
they knew, huh “they’re (going
to be against it again today.”
An army spokesman said
there were danager spots “all
through the delta.” He added
that, the high tide at 2 p. m.
would be higher than yester
day’s.
The Yuba City flood situa
tion meanwhile eased, with the
Feather river dropping.
And the weather bureau pre
did ed fair weather — for the
first time since Dec. 15.
At Yuba City, a peach grow
ing community about 100
miles northeast of San Fran
cisco. the Feather river sent
wa/.er about a foot deep into
the southern portion of the city
today.
Same 7.800 residents were
| driven from Yuba City last
week, and none had returned.
I Crest of !‘he Feather river
Russian has not
changed intention
toward world
TOKYO (/P) The chairman
of the government (part y’s na
tional defense committees said
today the Soviet Union has
not changed its indention of
“bolshevizing the world.”
Zenshiro Hoshima, formerly
a vice admiral, said the Rus
sians ‘‘intend to deceive other
nations (by (talking peace while
they are nd powerful, and to
try to launch direct or indir
ect aggression when powerful
'enough.”
He said Japan should have
| sufficient defense strength to
resist dired: foreign invasion
for two or three months until
American aid comes.
arrived earlier than expected to
day 'but /was not as severe as
anticipated.
Construction companies mean
while toiled (to repair a half
mile long ibreak in the Feather
river levee, and a ■'weakened ;por
tion in the levee 5 miles north
of Yufba City.
Other flooding was feared in
the rich delta 'area just east of
San Francisco Bay where re
cord flood waters from the
mighty Sacramento land Sian
Joaquin rivers are racinlg to the
sea.
Damage was estimated con
serval ively at ISO million dol
lars.
Ellsworth Bunker, national
Red Cross president, predicted
between 4,000 and 5,000 famil
ies would look to his organiza
tion for a “long time” to come.
He said he had assigned 116
trained disaster s/ aff men to
the flood district.
The delta area, and Yuba
City were the remaining dan
ger spots.
The intensively farmed delta
laced wii h small streams, is
the last stretch before flood
waters pour into the ©ay and
on to the Pacific ocean. So str
ongly have the floods been run
ning /.hat the Golden Gate was
brown yesterday.
Val Peterson, federal civil de
fense administrator, and high
army officials set out on a two
day tour of the three northern
California areas ravaged by
floods. v
“I intend to go out and get
my feet wet,” Peterson told
Gov. Knight at a conference
called yesterday to discuss fed
eral aid .
The party, usirtgi an air force
transport plane, will fly up the
water-soaked Sacramento val
ley for an on-the-spot survey
of Marysville, which escaped
damage, and its neighbor, Yu
ba City, which was flooded.
Continuing to Eureka, (the group
plans a helicopter tour of the
Huimibolt-Del Norte area. It
will return to Hamil on air
force base near Sian Francisco.
Because of lack of water and
sanitation, residents have been
barred from returning to Yulba
City. Dr. F. P. Wisner, health
serpice director, declared, “We
have to keep these people out
of town lest a runaway health
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Marine .forecast from Tues
day to Wednesday,
j Outside waters Dixon En
trance* to Sitka variable winds
5 to 15 mph todiay becoming
soiith to southeast 5 to 15 rniph
tonight.
Increasing cloudiness today.
Snow late tonight,
j Outside waters Sitka to Ya
knitat variable winds 5 to 15
mph today becoming south to
southeast 15 to 25 mph tonights
Increasing cloudiness today,
- occasional snow tonight.