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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-01
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days. They lived, they learned,
approximately 100 miles apart
in Russia.
Mr.. Brown had msde his exit from
the land of the Corhmies by way of
Turkey, while Prpf. Klassen chose
the gate through Latvia. Both were
Russians of German descent, their
great grandfathers having settled in
Russia during the days of the Czar.
THE PERENNIAL Albino
squirrel story this year pops
right up in Bluffton. Paul Eiken-
barry of Route i Bluffton, shot
an albino red squirrel last Satur-
day while hunting. Mr.. Eiken-
barry is employed at the Triplett
Electrical Instrument company
these days when not hunting.
Other hunters throughout the state
have not been 50 fortunate with their
weapons, and each year there are
those who return from the woods
with something beside game. A
Ravenna resident owned a pet mon
key Vhich escaped the day before
squirr4 seasbn~ 5peped. He ran an
ad in Ae lseal pap9. Next day he
received a call. fep,'you guessed it.
Some hunter had mistaken it for a
isquirrel-above average size.
Another hppter was treated at a
Youngstown hospital for squirrel
bite .sanN arather hunter, incensed
at being shdt AMI specifically wound
ed BIZ a. companion, fired back. Both
F0t'S''s' :: ! hospital: "
ONE PLACE the high cost of
v living, contrary to the usual con-
dition, is lower in the big city
than in smaller town, it seems,
is the sewage disposal item. A
release from the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce announc-
ing that Cincinnati will break
ground on a huge disposal plant,
states that the average twelve
month sewage disposal bill for a
Cincinnati resident is S6.
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fulfill their great responsibility. The
extent to which Ygwspaper editors
and their associate I bring an inform
ed intelligence to- the work of news
selection and evapation, in turn
determines how VIII informed are
the rest of US a&ut the events of
the day.
By and large, z am impressed by
what good job ou3daily and weekly
press does 365 dks or 81 weeks a
year. BY and large, we are informed
people because those who manage
our press are Informed individuals,
sensitive to the demands of their high
calling. The batter educated our
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-01
Miami II. Prery
Cities Importance
Of Informed Press

In observance of National
Newspaper Week, October 1-8,
the following editorial was sub
mitted to The oxford Press upon
the invitation Iof Mrs. Avis w.
Cullen, editor by DR.. John d.
Millett, new president of Miami
university.
Because this paper belives that
DIR. Millett has summed up nicely
the importance of an informed
press and the goals of all think
ing newspaper people, it is re-
printed below:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-01

F1ChLE, but some weeks ago, When
the butter was still lhot on the roast
ing ear and we pfofessed our love
for the friendly shaggy-headed sweet
corn in our backyard garden, it
seems we overlooked the tomato.
Faithful until the first killing
frost, our friend, the tomato,
stands staunchly by us now that
the roasting ear is just men,
ory. Each days sunlight seems
to bring forth more of the red
ripe fruit from the vine. We
pass down the row each day to
relieve them of the Iripe ones, and
they show no 81 ms of resent
ment at our having been neglect
full when we wers busy crowning
corn king of the garden vegeta-
bles.
Being a novice at gardening, it
was a surprise 10 us to learn that
with proper care one can still be eat
ing homegrown tomatoes lar INTO
November-and some say December.
The tomato, it seems will continue to
turn red even though picked very
green, and there IRE thofe\who pull
up the vine at the firsy wIrning Of
heavy frost, and hangI theh iA tie
basement to pick red Etonhtoss fA
into the winter. IL \
AS a matte of fAcA<many
tomatoes purchased d of sea-
son and thought to Nave been
hothouse bred and reared, are \
really the tagfend of the summer
supply, permitted to change color
if not really ripened with the
suns blessing.
This sets us to wondering at
mans ingratitude particularly in
regard to those gardeners who
sing widely the praises of their
blue beans, rare banana type
muskmelons and red, white and
blue watermebns. We wonder,
if they too, IRE not neglecting
the gardener's best friend.
ADD TALES of wedding day
woes:
This one opens in the living room
of the Clayton zBixel home.
"Do you have something that does
MT belong to yDu," an excited tele-
phone voice asked Clayton.
And to make long story short,
Mr.. Bixel did. The thing which didn't
belong to him happened to be the
Gerald Hubers' Wedding license, mix
ed up, it seems with papers involving
the purchase of a new car earlier on
the wedding day.
Clayton had held the courthouse
door open for them with his foot un-
til they rushed in at the last minute
before closing time to complete the
auto deal The. new car, of course,
was to be driven on their New York
wedding trip that evening.
The result was that Mr.. Bixel
made a quick trip to the Blue
Lick home of the bride, the form
er Miss Ruth Byerly, while an
anxious bride and groom wonder
ed whether wedding guests
would have to wait beyond the
appointed time. But our hero
delivered the goods in good speed
and the couple quickly became
newlyweds.
HENRY J. Brown of North
Lima and Prof. John P. Klassen of
Bluffton College have been close
neighbors for many years now, but it
was only last week that the two men
learned that they had also practical
ly been neighbors in the borscht and
caviar days of their youth in South
ern Russia.
When Mr.. Brown entered his
daughter as a freshman student
in Bluffton college recently, he
talked with the Rev. p. e. Whit
mer about his early days in Rus
sia about fleeing the country
after the revolution. Since Prof.
Klassen had the same experience
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newspaper writer's and editors, the
better informef will be our citizenry.
which we livet cannot survive un-
less an infor1ed press makes it pos
sible for an khformed people to carry
forward thdr daily lives with conf
dence, certainty, and trust in one
another.
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Labor disgraces unfortunately, you occasionally
find men who disgrace labor-ulysses S. Grant.
Evening star., 1953-01-09

and a pay-as-we-go policy in
our rearmment program.
New Obligational Authority.
While Mr.. Truman's expense
estimates for the next fiscal
year were up 81 billion to $78.6
billion. he asked Congress to
vote new authority to incur OBJ
legations" mostly appropria-
tions-of only $72.9 as compared
to $80.8 in the current year.
He pointed out that new OBJ
ligational authority has exceeded
expenditures in each fiscal year
from 1851 to 1853 because ap-
preparations represented orders
being placed and expenditures
were mostly for goods being de-
livered. The time lag between
placing orders and deliveries
means that in the next fiscal
year expenditures will exceed
appropriations for the first time
since Korea.
Actually. only SAL billion of
the $78.6 estimated expenditures
for fiscal 1854. will come out of
new obligational authority. The
remaining expenditures will be
from funds carried over from
previous years. And $31.8 billion
of the new obligational authority
asked for fiscal 1854 would not
be spent until future years.
Mr.: Truman said the carry
over funds are expected to
amount to $81 billion next June
80, with practically all of this
amount already obligated but
not paid out. The carryover is
expected to decline to $75 bill
lion at the end of the 1854
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1953-01-09
Budget
Continued From First Page.)

446.3 Is for military services.
Atomic development, aid to allies
and foreign relations. promotion
of defense production and eco
nomic stabilization, civil defense
and Merchant Marine activities
take up the balance.
Mr.. Truman emphasized that
the budget estimates were his
own and not binding on Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower although
the new budget will not come
into effect until nearly six
months after Gen. Eisenhower
becomes President.
THE President-elect has no
responsibility for the amounts
included in this budget" Mr..
Truman informed Congress, land
will be entirely free, of course,
to propose changes in them"
No Miracles.
Gen. Eisenhower's staff al
ready is at work on trying to trim
the budget. But Joseph M.
Dodge, who will be Budget Di-
rector in the Eisenhower admin
istration, has warned against ex-
pecting "any 60-day miracles"
Mr. Truman told reporters
that Mr.. Dodge has been kept
fully informed about their pre-
paration and understands that
it is a tight budget.
But the President replied that
he couldn't say. when asked, if
the thought the Republicans
would have any luck in trimming
his estimates.
Any budget projecting ex-
penditureS 18 months in advance
Is little better than an informed
guess, however, as demonstrated
by what is happening to Mr..
Truman'S estimates last January.
He estimated then that ex-
penditures for the current 1853
fiscal year would be 1854 bill
lion. Today, he cut that esti-
mate by $10.8 to $74.6 billion.
The difference reflects produc-
ton difficulties and changes
Evening star., 1953-01-09
President Urges
Congress Put More
Thought to Budget

President Truman wants Con-
gress to give more attention to
the budget. ~
In his budget message to Con-
greSS today, he said:
"As President. I have given the
budget my constant attention. It
should receive that same atten-
ton from the Congress. particu-
larly because of one basic fact
often overlooked and often mis-
understood.
"The fact is that the financial
program Of the Government can
not be planned in terms of a
single fiscal year. It must be
planned in the light of security,
economic and budgetary goals
not just for the ensuing year but
for three and even four years
ahead"
Evening star., 1953-01-09
$40 Billion Asked for Highest
Military Outlay Since War

w. j.. Mcneil. the departments
controller who is repeatedly
slated to remain during the
Eisenhower administration, said
the White House and Budget
Bureaus estimate of spending
might prove right. But, he said,
the military was being guided
in its predictions by improving
rates of deliveries in weapons
and other equipment long on
order. AS an example of the up
ward trend of spending, it was
noted that the monthly spending
figure reached 81 billion for the
first time last month.
Military expenditures are ex-
pected to reach their peak in
fiscal 1854, Mr.. Truman said,
and then start declining as pre-
viously placed orders for planes,
tanks. ships. ETC.. are paid for.
He pointed out that from the
start of the military build-up as
the fighting began in Korea,
authority to issue new contracts
for procurement and production
had steadily increased with each
year and had exceeded actual
spending. However, next years
total of new contracts let would
be lower under the Truman
plan.
The President asked for au-
thority to issue new military
contracts totalling SAIL billion
81 billion less than the armed
forces asked and compared with
$48.1 billion this year. He, said
$14.2 billion was for major pro-
curement and production. OF
the latter, So per cent is for air.
craft. "a per cent for artillery,
ammunition and other major
items and eight per cent for
shipbuilding, including $215 mil
lion for the super carrier.
At his own seminar" for the
press on the budget, the Presi-
dent insisted there was no way
that money for the Korean war
could be singled out of the gen.
eral budget.
He told reporters he couldn't
give them the exact figures on
the Korean war and he didn't
think they could get it from the
Pentagon itself. In his message,
he indicated he foresaw no i'm
mediate end to the war.
Ammunition Shortage.
PreSident-elect Eisenhower has
stated that certain serious prob !
lens of supply" in Korea must i
be corrected and military off,
cials have identified this as am
Evening star., 1953-01-09

vision was made "for additional
operating costs that might result
from continuation Of combst
operations in Korea -"
Mr.. Truman pointed out Con-
greSs had enacted $8.7 billion
in obligational authority for
military construction since the
start of the Korean war and he
estimated the armed forces must
spend $2.7 billion next year TO
pay off some of these contracts.
He said nearly 60 per cent Of this
huge building program had been
for the Air Force and asked $700
million more in contractural
authority, principally for the air
arm.
Evening star., 1953-01-09
COP. Calls Budget Fantastic,
Expects Eisenhower to Revise 1t

writing Finance Committee, re-
fused to say where or how much
could be cut. But he said he was
confident existing tax levels
would be reduced.
Senator Ferguson, Republican.
of Michigan said a balanced
budget would require a slash of
about $12 billion in the Truman
spending plans. National Secu-
rity problems can be met within
the income Of our Government" I"
he said.
Democrat Is Cautious.
Even the new Democratic
leader in the Senate. Lyndon B.
Johnson Of Texas, said the Tru-
man estimates will have to be
carefully screened by Congress
after we have had an opportu-
nifty to look at the proposals of
the President-elect."
''Disservice" Seen.
Senator Watkins. Republican,
Of Utah commented that it
would be difficult for one ad-
ministration to take another's
bulky budget and whittle as
much as $40 billion from it.
Congress actually won't get a
chance to do anything about
the budget for several months.
It will take the House Appropri-
ations Committee at least that
long to prepare the big depart
mental money bills which are
the basis Of the Federal budget.
Byrd Asks Veto Power.
Along that line, Senator Byrd,
Democrat. Of Virginia, and Rep
resentative Bennett, Democrat,
of Florida. proposed today a con-
stitutional amendment to let
the President veto individual
items IN appropriation bills
without vetoing entire bills.
The President can't do that
now. If there's something in a
bill he doesn't like, the only way
he can stop it is to veto the
entire bill, including the things
he does like.
Evening star., 1953-01-09

munition, which is now rationed.
Mr.. Truman told Congress addi-
ttional funds for ammunition
may be necessary this spring
unless it becomes clear that
combat consumption will cease
during the calendar year."
This is how the services would
fare under Mr.. Truman's plan:
Army-20 divisions and 18
regiments and regimental COM
bat teams and supporting ele-
ments. An average strength of
1,555.200 compared with $780,
600 now) including personnel
to continue the rotation policy in
Korea" An average of 291 900
National GuardSmen and 225 900
reservists in drill pay status.
Navy-An active fleet of 4O8
warshipS and 496 other COM
batant vessels and 296 auxiliary
ships for total of 1900. Six
teen carrier air groups. three
Marine air wings and three Ma
rine Corps divisions. An average
Navy strength of 100000 (com-
pared with around 100000 now
and Marine strength of 259,C00
compared with $4,000 now
An average of 100000 Naval and
$4,000 Marine reservists in drill
pay status.
Air Force-An average strength
of Loaf, 1000 compared with
969, 900 now An average of a.
900 Air National GuardSmen and
$4,000 reservists in drill pay
status.
A total of $10.3 billion was in
cluded to meet the costs of OPP
Grating and maintaining the
forces. weapons, equipment and
IN c q q fiay1e k,,k
Evening star., 1953-01-09
New Request Made
For Fund 10 Build
Airport at Burke
BY w. H. Shippen

The administration made an.
other request today for funds tt
advance the bitterly contested
Burke Airport project.
This years budget recon-
mendation for $1.660, 900 for the
additional air terminal is a re-
newal of President Truman's ef-
fort to obtain a supplemental
appropriation of SIG million last
February.
The rejection of this item last
spring by House and Senate Ap-
preparations Committees placed
Congress in the position of re-
fusing to finance a project 1t
had authorized and directed.
Under the law as it now stands
the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration is directed to proceed
with the purchase of land and
the development of detailed
plans for Washington's No. 2
airport in nearby Fairfax
County, Va.
The stoppage of funds, how
ever, halted the job of acquiring
1890 acres by negotiation or
condemnation after more than
100000 had been expended. The
Government had taken title on
some 1000 acres and plans were
almost complete for acquiring
the remaining parcels.
At present few residents have
moved off the land acquired by
the Government. A CAA spokes-
man said they are paying rent
pending some settlement of the
question-is Burke Airport to be
completed. or abandoned wholly?
The project has encountered
powerful opposition since Con-
gress authorized a $14 million
development on September z.
1850.
The current budget request
provides that any sums left over
from the original appropriation
for land be merged with the new
appropriation.
Last January experts esti-
mated that all the land required
would cost about SIT million, or
a 10 per cent increase over a
preliminary estimate made sew
eral years ago when the site was
first considered.
At the same time, traffic at
National Airport continues to
increase despite the fact that
new business is discouraged be-
cause present facilities are taxed
to capacity.
The current budget contains a
recommendation for $455, 900 to
provide extensive repaving of
loading ramps at National, and
$4,000 for the acquisition of
land needed to improve an
access road.
Evening star., 1953-01-09
Continued From First Page0

President and the new Con-
gress." Senator Bridges said. II
am confident the American peo-
pie can count on such teamplay
to work this country out Of the
fiscal morasS into which it has
been plunged by 20 years of def
cits piled on deficits. of living
for today without thought of
tomorrow"
Taber Urges Slash.
A $40 billion cut was the goal
set by Representative Taber. Re-
publican, of New York. chairman
of the House Appropriations
Committee and top G. o. p. con-
gressional spokesman on the
Federal budget.
Mr.. Taber didn't say where
the money would be cut.
"A $40 billion cut is not too
much," Mr.. Taber said, adding
that a bigger slash might be
made.
Mr.. Taber said the Presidents
own budget figures didn't jibe in
some respects with Treasury De-
partment official figures.
"The whole picture presented
is that of utter confusion" he
added.
Budget Called Fantastic"
Representative Reed, Republi-
can, of New York, chairman of
the House Ways and Means
Committee and a leading advo-
cate of tax reduction for indi-
viduals. called the budget fan
tastic."
Representative Cannon, DEM
ocrat. of Missouri, top minority
member of the Appropriations
Committee and it's chairman last
year, called the budget proposal
very realistic" He said he
couldn't figure how to cut it $40
billion, but agreed sharp cuts
could be made in foreign-aid.
Senator Millikin, Republican.
of Colorado, head of the tax
Evening star., 1953-01-09
By John A. Giles

President Truman today
handed Congress a military bud
get which would include provi-
sions for ordering more than
$500 airplanes and the building
Of third 60.O00-ton super air
craft carrier.
The $46.3 billion spending pro-
gram-biggest cash outlay for
defense since World War II-was
heavily slanted in favor of air.
power. The air arm would be al
loted STA billion in the fiscal
year beginning next July l.
some 50 billion more than this
year.
OF the STA billion earmarked
for major procurement and pro-
duction expenditures, $8.7 billion
would go for aircraft and the Air
Force would spend some 81 bill
lion of the total.
Mr.. Truman also spelled out
the ep-by-step build-up of the
Air Force to 143 wings by mid
1855. It is operating some 100
wings now and the President
said it would fly LOG by July /
and 1873 by June 80, 1854.
The President outlined $15.3
billion for the Army, slightly less
than this year-and $11.8 for the
Navy or 81 billion less than dur
ing the current period. The over
all total included nearly 81 bill
lion for stockpiling of critical
materials.
ManpOwer Increase.
An average strength OF more
than 3.6 million servicemen-a
slight increase over this year
would be maintained.
The more than $500 planes the
military would buy under the
program would add to the 80, 800
new aircraft ordered by the
Army. Navy and Air Force since
the start Of the Korean war in
1851. BY midsummer it is esti-
mated the Air Force will have
an active inventory of $1,000
planes. the Navy 1880 and the
Army 3,000-a total of $4,000.
Since 1851 the Air Force also
has ordered some 5000 planes
for the foreign aid program.
While Mr.. Truman estimated
the military would spend $46.3
billion next year, compared with
$44.4 this year, it developed at
a Pentagon briefing that the
Defense Department thinks the
spending next year will be even
higher-$48 billion.
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Evening star., 1953-01-09
50 Troctor Types in Russio

BERLIN.-Factories in the So.
Wet Union now are producing so
different types of tractors. ac-
cording to accounts from Mos
cow. They range from q =
horsepower garden model to an
80-horsepower monster that Is
used in the fields and for road
and building work.
Evening star., 1953-01-09
Three SIoyers Executed

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 9
P.-Three convicted murderers
were garroted to death last night
in Barcelona's city prison for
the holdup murder of a local
contractor. Garroting (strangu-
lation) is the Spanish method of
execution for capital offenses by
civilians.