The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-12-20
MARCH OF DIMES

and it would be a dangerous risk to decontrol any
major item now. -"%"&% y
Increases. the Bureau Of Labor Statistics revealed that its latest index
previous report.
The bureau pegged the price index at 2s12 That placed it 1872 per
cent above the 1859 average and IA per cent above June. 1852
Leading the advance were fruits and vegetables, and dairy products.
including milk. cheese and butter. Meats. poultry and fish declined, a did
~. TRUCE s IALKsaThe dra"n-Out, frustrating Korean peace talks CON
Reds refusing to open discussions on the exchange of prisoners. u
negotiations atiop have av 4 eDtere eIa the sRth na month l0 II s sim nase in ssms is 1a' ts sntI
two parties can talk for five months without agreement if there was good
made the people in the home town of America pessinisic of the outcome
By the time this reaches print the December 2 deadnne OF the pro-
agreed on. then a new. cease fire line must be drawn before a final settle
reached) increased fighting can be expected on the battlefront as IS b both I'll
sides attempt to improve their positions.
I~RuMAN-presidsn Truman cut short his Florida vacation and re-
sudden world emergency dictated his return.
It was. obvious two things we're uppermost in the Presidents mind:
scandals. "4@
It was considered unlikely there would be any public announcement
been carried out. The tax scandal, however, was another matter.
The President and those surrounding him have become more and
White House intervention, even. the calling in of j. Edgar Hoover. FB1
chief to conduct a sweeping investigation appeared to be a likely pros
MRS EDR-Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most controversial
figures to appear o. the American scene. came under attack Of Arch
fataGst'.
Mrs. Roosevelt said on a radio program recently: II don't know
Wnelnerl N q Iuulre ue ! came 10 Ieel tnaI II d really
matter very much because whatever the future held you'd have to face
it when you came to it. just as whatever life holds you have to face it In
exactly the same way.
Il think I am pretty much of a fataist. You have to accept whatever
comes. and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and
with the best that you have to give"
The archbishop said he considers it "a strange situation that one who
is chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, on the
question of religion, assume the role of an agnoshc and fataist"
DEFENSE-Secretary of Defence Robert A. Lovett has announced that
a provision for increasing the Air Force from 90 to l4s wings-l26 of them
combat-win be in the 1858 fiscal year budget now being prepared and
which will be presented to congress early next month.
The actual size of the defense budget has not been announced, but it is
believed to be within an informally set ceiling Of S45. O0Oy O0. 900 for the en-
tire military establishment
Congress appropriated a total of SIS. 4O3. $4,000 for the Army, Navy.
Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the present fiscal
year. exclusive of foreign military aid. L., III
The present go wings of the Air Force-their size varies from about IS
planes for fighter units to 80 for heavy bombers-are not nodernized since
they are in many instances made up of aircraft such as the BIG and B5O.
These planes are World War II vintage and must be replaced.
TAX FIX-The House Ways and Means subcommittee graft in the
Revenue Department was blown wide open by the charge Of Abraham
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