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Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
u. S. BUDGET:
Under Attack

The question whether President
Truman's 81 billion dollar budget
was excessive was being raised
again. This time John Foster
Dulles, chairman of the U. S. delega-
tion to the United Nations general
assembly in Paris, raised the issue.
The budget, which Dulles ques-
toned, provides Is billions for
military expenditures, six billions
for foreign aid during fiscal 1850.
DULLES THOUGHT it too high.
He pointed to dwindling war fears
and potential menace to U. S.
economical health as reasons for
curtallment of Truman proposals.
Conceding that there is risk"
of war, Dulles declared the risk
is not so great that we should
seriously jeopardize our own eco
nomic health by saddling our
selves with such vast armament"
Dulles suggested cause, implied
a remedy. He blamed lack of suf-
ficient unification of U. S. armed
forces for administration belief in
the need of huge military outlay,
and declared that present huge
military expenditures cannot go on.
II think our armament is exag-
gerated by the fact that there is not
sufficient unification bet we n
the different branches of our
(armed) services" he said. 1T
seems as though the rivalry were
such that each branch wants to be
strong enough so that if there is a
war it can win it alone, without
help from, anybody"
Dulles said there is less fear
of war;" than there was last year.
but commented:
''OF COURSE, there is always a
risk. You have a tense situation
like dry autumn in the woods
when any fool can start a fire.
1T is entirely possible, however,
to have better relations with
Russia and think it is probable"
The problem was up to congress.
Could it gamble on the fool" in
the woods, or should it prepare with
all possible equipment to stand by
for a possible conflagration?
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
SIX "NO'S":
Was 1t RevOLtf

Six Democrats joining with SEN
ate Republicans gave the COP
victory in the first test of strength
since the 8lst congress convened.
The issue may have been trivial,
but the result burned Democratic
leaders. Scott Lucas, Illinois, sue
eessor to Vice-President Barkley as
majority floor leader, "sputtered. I"
Barkley was also put out. For. it
appeared. the result was an unex-
pected as it was ''humiliating.
THE ISSUE was exemption Of
Inauguration tickets from federal
amusement taxes. The exemption
slid through the house 1919 to 49,
90 one can imagine the surprise
when it failed in the senate.
Chief target of administration
censure was Kentucky's Virgil
Chapman.
But those who remembered the
Kentucky campaign would recall
that Chapman showed no little
independence in his drive for votes.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
PERFECT:
Testers Amazed

4 6SC6TS AWUG6U
u. S. air force intelligence testers
rubbed their eyes, looked again.
Yes, there it was-a perfect I. @.
score by a gangling, bespectacled
Kentucky youth seeking connec-
ton with the military.
WILLIAM M. BELEW, 18, Of
Simpsonville had done what no one
before him had been able to achieve,
something the army believed i'm
possible. Told he was not expected
to answer all the questions correct
ly, he nevertheless went ahead and,
in rapid-fire order, dashed through
the test without single error.
It was the preliminary test given
volunteers at the air force recruit
ing office in Louisville. The testers
were amazed. They checked, re-
checked the score, found it perfect.
They then checked the records.
Sure enough. Belew was the first
to make a perfect score.
THESE NEW TESTS, much more
exacting than the old, have been
in use since last May. Questions
are divided into three sections,
vocabulary, arithmetic, and per-
ception Of spatial relationship.
There are As questions and they
must be answered in 40 minutes.
Belew will give the air force a
trial. If he likes it, he will make
it a career; if he doesn't he will
take up accounting.
A Simpsonville high school
basketballer and diamond per-
former. Belew stands six feet tall,
weighs 160 pounds. was expected
to pass the army physical examina-
ton with ease,
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
Cupid Curbed

The army is making it tougher
for American G.I.'s to marry Ger
man frauleins. In the first place,
many army authorities and chap
lains suspect too many German
girls are using marriage as an
excuse 70 escape from the hard life
of occupied Germany to the United
States. There is also an apparent
desire to protect young draftees
expected to start arriving soon in
Germany.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
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Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
INAUGURATION:
Brief InterLMde


President Truman could lay valid
claim to the title busiest man in
the world" The inaugural behind
him, the nations chief executive
was up to his neck in problems.
both foreign and domestic.
ON THE HOME FRONT, there
was a little matter of having con-
gress impliment Democratic cam
paign pledges and provide funds
for the continuing armament ex-
pansion. Abroad, with this nation
committed to the gargantuan task
Of saving the world from COM
munism, the problem was equally
monumental
But for awhile, on January 20,
Harry Truman. Missouri farm boy
who rose to the presidency of the
United States, once by succession,
currently on his own vote-getting
prowess, relaxed. basked in public
adulation, may even have forgotten
the tremendous pressure under
which he labored.
ORIGINALLY PLANNED as a
more or less sedate affair, with
this atmosphere desired by Truman,
the inauguration, instead, was
turned into one Of the most lavish
and spectacular since Andrew
jackson rode into the top spot.
Packed and jammed, Washing
ton gave q hero's welcome to the
World War ! artillery captain. Tru-
man buttons, Truman pictures,
Truman banners were greatly in
evidence and the President, seeing
these and the vast multitudes, must
have wondered if there were any
one at all who voted against him
In the November election.
BUT THE INTERMISSION from
duty was brief. The parade. the
swearing in ceremonies, the round
of gala capital affairs that night,
and the next day, Harry Truman
was again on the job.
Peace has been his rallying cry.
Its importance marked all his
utterances. Now he was buckled
down to the job of trying to pre-
serve it. Men of good will every
where in the world were wishing
him success.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

I'D, L0fN, EVe D1N T100H enough.
committee looking very different
than he wants it to look, though it
may not always suit all the other
members. Doughton doesn't 60 so
far as to say that fiscal legislation
should be non-partisan, but he does
say it ought to be as non-provincial
and as pro-national as possible.
His experience in collecting mon
ey that ought to be collected goes
back long way.
One story involves a man he went
to see about horse-two horses, to
be exact. This man had bought a
team from Doughton (the congress
man is still a farmer in his own
right, though he has to spend more
time away from home than he used
to-. Later on the man wrote that
he didn't think the span was worth
the $500 he had agreed to pay and
wouldn't pay it. The deal had been
negotiated at a distance and the
principals had never met. So one
day Doughton dropped in at the
farm and said he wanted to look
over a good team. The man showed
several, but none seemed to suit
Mr.. Doughton.
"All right" said the man,
'T'll show you the best pair
you ever saw in you life."
He brought out the horses re-
Gently acquired from Mr..
Doughton, but still unpaid for.
And what might they be worth?
Well considerably over $500.
Mr.. D0ughtOn introduced him.
self and didn't have much trOu-
BILE in collecting.
There is another reason why
Doughton is good man to have on
the collecting end of a bargain
If you aren't the debtor. He's q
farmer, true, but he is also bank
er, and he works at both when he
isn't in Washington. He doesn't
keep bankers hours, however. He
goes to his office at $3.50 am,
works throughout the day. and he's
often back in the office after din
ner. He lives right across the plaza
from the Capital.
For the first As years or so Of his
life, Mr.. Doughton held no elective
orfice, but he managed to find time
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
MONKEYS:
On in the Air

For whatever benefit 1t may be
to scientists or anthropologists, two
sad-eyed dogs will not calm 300
Rhesus monkeys.
THIS WAS graphically, if some
what disturbingly demonstrated
when 80 crates of the monkeys ar
rived in New York by plane from
the Azores.
The trip started sedately enough
with all the monkeys locked in their
crates. Two large, sad-eyed dogs
were along because someone had
said their presence would tend to
keep tranquil the monkeys spirits.
Somehow most Of the monkeys
got out Of the crates and suddenly
there were monkeys in the cockpit,
monkeys through the plane, mon
keys peeping out of windows and
monkeys even trying to Iberate
other monkeys.
Capt. Miguel Braganca and his
crew. heavily outnumbered, was
forced to stay In the forward part
OF the ship while the monkeys
cavorted. The monkeys saw to that.
Says the captain: ''They kept hang
Ing on the cockpit door and watch
ing us all the time"
When the plane reached La
Guardia field, about dozen chat
tering monkeys were starting to
climb out the windows, but eight
airline cargomen joined the crew
and with brooms and blankets fl
nally shared the truants.
The monkeys were consigned for
infantile paralysis research.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
Best Voices

The best telephone voices" in
the nation for 1948 were chosen by
telephone operators of New York.
The voices? Most sincere: Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Ted Collins,
owner Boston Yanks pro football
team; most courteous: Joe Di-
Maggie and Mrs. Alfred Gynne
Vanderbilt; most senSuous: Rita
Hayworth, Actor Richard Ney; most
expressive: Actor Jose Ferrer and
Sister Elizabeth Kenny.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
BONUS BILL:
AmUetS Reddy

Amvets, World War II veterans
organization, has announced its
intention to ask Congress for an
immediate veterans bonus which
they think might cost as much as
81 billion dollars. The organization
said it wall carry its proposal to
congress soon.
A similar bill prepared by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars is in the
house hopper, having been offered
by Rep. Rankin. Mississippi
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
DIXIECRATS:
Rough ROad

AVOWS'V AVN~U
The road ahead looked rough for
states Fighters.
< Democratic administration forces
were showing little patience with
southern old-liners who had bolted
the party in the presidential elec-
ton.
THE PURGE SWORD swung first
at the un-American activities COM
mittee and two heads tumbled.
They were those of Representative
John A. Rankin, fiery Mississippian,
and F. Edward Herbert, Louisiana,
both of whom supported the states
rights ticket against President Tru-
man in November.
Rankin. along with everyone else,
knew the blow was coming, ac-
cepted it calmly.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04


munity which is deep in the Caro-
lima hills. Laurel Spring, N. c., is
still his home. He was born on his
parents farm near there. His
father, wounded in the war between
the states, died when he was a
grown boy. His mother was keenly
active to her last hours, interested
in the days mail and the daily
newspaper to the last.
1nheriting some land from his
father, the boy started off for him.
self, gradually acquiring more until
he became livestock raiser and
farmer. Then he entered business,
finally becoming president of a
bank.
He has described himself as a
horse trader. There are many tales
that have grown up about his
astuteness that, if embellished by
repetition, are not doubted by
those who have watched his steady
advancement in congress.
He entered under a Republican
regime-President Taft's-acoepted
minor committee appointments,
but rose rapidly to the position he
holds today-chairman Of the power
ful ways and means committee.
One Of the horse-trader
stories he tells is this: after
disposing of some animals he
had meant to sell, he was made
a very attractive offer for the
horse he was riding-his own
saddle horse. Done, he took
the money, turned over the
bride, put the saddle under his
arm and walked back home, 20
miles, says tradition, under his
own power.
There does mt seem to have been
any deep-laid plan for a political
career in the farmer boys mind
when he began life among the OK
carts and hand looms of those early
days in the South following the war.
Nor yet when he had acquired his
own acres and entered into the
business life of the community. He
was chosen a member of the state
board of agriculture and served on
the prison board.
Then one day it was decided to
run him for the state senate. He
was elected and served for a term.
Congress was next, but there was
a sort of unwritten law in his dis
trict that one term was all a man
could expect, for Republicans and
Democrats had always swapped
terms.
But Doughton changed all
that. Or at least his con-
stituents did. When he had
served his term in the 62nd con-
gress, instead of retiring him,
as had been the custom, the
voters sent him right back
again, and they have been doing
1t ever since.
There isn't any question that
Robert L. Doughton likes his job
in Washington. But it's equally
true that when the session is over,
he likes to HE himself back to his
Carolina hills and enjoy life
there.
Around the capital he has the
reputation as being as good a
judge of men as he is of horses.
This year President Truman's s
request for six billion dollars more
in taxes, including some social
security withholding levies, will
get very careful scrutiny before it
becomes law. Meanwhile, Dough-
toms committee has to take care
of the bill to extend reciprocal
trade treaties. Also, studies will
begin on the subject of extending
social security benefits. There is
in addition the matter of certain
revisions in the basic tax code.
But Representative Doughton is
- -
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

He did not completely endorse the
Democratic platform, would not be
led into enthusiastic ''me too" dec
larstions.
Lucas was vehement. "Cn whose
coattails did Chapman come to the
senate" he demanded, It h e
Truman-Barkley coattails or those
of Dewey and Warren?" Other
angry Democrats rushed to point
out that Chapman ran 100, 900 votes
behind Truman and Barkley in
Kentucky.
JOINING CHAPMAN in the mo"
votes were Democratic Senators
Byrd, Johnson, Maybank, Nc
Clellan, Robertson and Russell.
Chapman didn't take criticism
lying down. He declared, in effect.
that if such taxes are to be removed,
it ought to be done in regular legis-
lative process, not by hurried
action on the floor.
Republicans were more meta
phorical They argued that since
there is tax on powder used on
babies, a woman dressing up for an
Inauguration ball should regard her
powder as more of a luxury than
powder applied to a baby. This
statement followed an effort to
exempt baby powder from federal
taxation which failed of approval.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

tax-cutting bill and
and fired it back at
congress, a reporter
asked Doughton how
he felt about it. He
leaned back and
told a story, for he's
fond of answering in
parallels.
A Tarheel house
wife, it seems,
served her husband
rabbit stew every
night for a week.
When the second
Saturday night came
around a n d the
Game old dish with
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
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Tax Bill Is Rabbit Stew
To Congressman Doughton
By BAUKHAGE
Meas Anaiyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON, D. C-Anoher rabbit stew has been served
Rep Robert Doughon North Carolina he's all ready
for Representative Doughton might suggest don't know
not only the oldest member of the house of representatives
(85( but likewise the Oldest hand at handling tax
He had down from the Craftsmanship the
committee for the brief Republican nterlud Now back the old
stand, sharpening the butcher knife again.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
OLIVE BRANCH:

British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin apparently was relenting in
his stand on the Palestine situation.
Gingerly he held out an olive
branch: Britain's willingness to re-
lease Jewish immigrants Of fighting
age now held in Cyprus, his per-
sonal and strong support of peace
negotiations between Israelis and
Egyptians at Rhodes.
Observers declared this position
a deliberate and genuine effort
on his part to seek peace with
Israel and his critics in Britain and
in the U. S.
WHATEVER MOTIVATED the
foreign secretary, there was no
overlooking the fact that criticism
had been mounting both in England
and America. With the pressure
continuing, the situation might have
resolved itself into one holding the
very political future of Bevin.
The foreign minister also in
dicated that de facto recognition
of the government of Israel was
being seriously considered. If that
step were taken by Great Britain.
it would mean the death knen Of
Arab hopes for continuation Of
strife or any eventual triumph in
the Holy Land controversy.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

1t, the husband bowed his head as
usual, but instead Of saying grace
he was heard to mutter:
rabbits rough. Rabbits
tough. Oh, Lord, I've had rab-
bit enough"
That, opined Mr.. Doughton, was
the way he felt about the tax
bills.
But he has to help meet the big
gest peacetime budget ever SUBJ
mitted to a congress and he's ready
for it.
In the 38 years that he has rep
resented the state of North Carolina
in the congress. the habits of the
dean of the octogenarian'S club in
the lower house have changed very
little since the last time. I
explored them in some detail
more than score of years ago.
He has earned a tremendous re-
spect from the men who work on
fiscal matters in the house Of rep
resentatives where the money bills
have to originate. And because he
has theory of his own about COL
lecting and spending the peoples
money, no bill comes out of his
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

The biggest peacetime budget
ever submitted to a congress
($48, 1853, ,OOO, ,OOO) has its Oppon-
ents, too. Rep. Charles Halleck
(R., Ind.), former COP major
ity leader, and Rep. John Taber
(R., N. ", former chairman
of the house appropriations COM
mittee, look grimly at the voIu-
minOus budget, promise a
fierce fight to slash all spending
proposals.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04

But to get back to rabbit stew.
Last season when President Tru-
man vetoed the second Knutson
Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
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Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
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Arizona sun., 1949-02-04
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The Nome nugget., 1949-03-21

The average temperature on Mars is about 40 degrees below zero but it rises to freezing at the equator of the planet on warm summer afternoons.
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. BPS

Nome, Alaska, providing for the leasing of certain piece of ground now dedicated to public use to the Standard Oil Company of California,
 WHEREAS, the Standard Oil Company of California desires to acquire a certain parcel of ground bordering on Snake River within the limits of the City of Nome, Alaska, for the purpose of install ling oil pumps and
 1 WHEREAS, the property so de- sired has been heretofore dedi- cated to public use,
 NOW, THEREFORE, be it or dained and enacted by the Com mon Council of the City of Nome, as follows, to-wit:
 SECTION That the City of Nome shall lease to the Standard period of time and under terms to be hereafter agreed upon by the Nome City Council and the said Standard Oil Company, the fol- lowing described property, to-wit:
 Beginning from point on | the East jetty of Snake River ! determined by running 1 straight line West along the
 North boundary line of Lot l One D in Block Twenty-three
 (23) until it intersects with
 said jetty: thence in a North
 erly direction along said jetty
 distance of approximately
 Twenty (20) feet to a point on ! said jetty: thence in straight line in an Easterly direction 1 parallel to the North boun- dary. line of Lot One CD in Block Twenty-three (23 distance of Twenty (2O feet
 to a point: thence in straight i line in a Southerly direction
 distance of Twenty (20 feet
 to point: thence in a straight
 line in westerly direction a
 distance of Twenty (20 feet to
 the point of beginning: Provided, that any such lease shall specify that the City of Nome does not warrant title to the property aforesaid and shall not be held liable in the event title to such property is not in the City of Nome.
 SECTION 2-That in the event of the consummation of the forego- ing lease, the Standard Oil Com pany shall cOncurrently with such lease have an easement across City of Nome owned property for the purpose of installing and maintaining in a reasonable man. 1 ner, underground oil pipe lines from the aforesaid leased property to its oil tanks presently erected in the City of Nome: provided, that the said pipe lines when in- stalled shall not interfere with or obstruct surface rights and use.
 SECTION g. This Ordinance shall be submitted for ratification to the qualified voters of the City of Nome at its general election to be held on the 5th day of April, 1949.
 PASSED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NOME IN SPECIAL SESSION ASSEMBLED THE End DAY OF
 MARCH, 1949.
 APPROVED MARCH 2, 1949
 LUTHER DUNBAR,
 Mayor, City of Nome. Attest:
 CARRIE M. McLAIN,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-03

is that this possibility longer is in the realm of fiction. The week before last the forty-fifth an niversary of the first flight of the Wright brothers Kitty Hawk celebrated in Washington During that interval the speed attained by airplanes has increased 30 times, from approximately 40 miles an hour to some 1900 miles hour--the latter portedly reached by the supersonic X-1. At the dinner commemoratng the Wright brothers fight Lawrence D. Bell President of the Bell Aircraft Corp which built the Xl asserted that plane designers now have the knowledge to construct aircraft that will go two or three times the speed of sound
 It is almost superfluous to pay additional tribute to the many in aviation who have made possible such attanmeus The much feared sonic barrier prov ed to be less formidable than persons had antci pated; but to breach it required great ingenuity on the part of designers and manufacturers well as
 tremendous personal courage the part of the pilots willing to subject themselves to supersonic strains These men are pioneers of the same breed as those who tanned the wilderness. Supersonic planes are of course, still in the experimental stage, and it will require great deal work both with design and with fuels before such speeds either practicable or useful for other than military purposes But no one can say today without fear of contradiction by fact that hops over to London for lunch are not in the cards The prospect is both wondrous and frightening