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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 17, 1963
Budget Briefs
Cuban Relief Fund
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Kennedy asked Congress today for $70 million to help Cuban refugees who have settled in the United States and those who may flee Cuba in the future.
The refugees include the men taken prisoner in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion and released by Fidel Castro in exchange for medical goods at Christmas.
The money requested by the President was $100,000 less than granted by Congress for fiscal 1963.
Although many of the refugees have settled in all parts of the country, the majority remain concentrated in the Miami, Fla., area.
The program, conducted by the Social Security Administration, provides reception and registration, classification of skills, cash assistance and welfare services, resettlement and employment opportunities, and provision for education and health services.
Per Capita Costs
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The cost of the federal government will average out to $641.13 for every man, woman and child in the United States in fiscal 1964 if Congress goes along with President Kennedy's budget proposals.
The figure was obtained by dividing Kennedy's $122.5 billion overall spending request by 191 million, the estimated national population on Jan.1,1964,the half-way point in the fiscal year 1964.
This represents a per capita increase of $35.82 over the current fiscal year when Kennedy expects the government to spend $116.8 billion. The 1963 figure averages out to $605.3 for each individual on the basis of an estimated population of 188 million people on Jan. 1, 1963.
Weather Service
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The new federal budget proposes a $377 million, 14-agency program to improve weather services and perhaps the weather itself.
The money, an increase of $22 million over fiscal 1963 appropriations, would include $68 million for development of weather satellites.
This country has launched six Tiros weather satellites and plans to keep space storm observations of this series in orbit until it can put the advanced Nimbus series into the sky late this year and next.
The budget proposed by Kennedy would finance a host of federal weather programs including the Agriculture Department's forest fire control project and efforts by the military services to speed up forecasting with the help of electronic computers.
Space Projects
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Kennedy today budgeted a record-smashing $6.1 billion for exploration and exploitation of space in the year starting July 1.
This would be a jump of more than $2 billion over present space expenditures. Most of the new spending would go to support the U.S. project to land men on the moon before 1970.
The rest would be invested in "military astronautics" to make space safe for peaceful uses, in development of space stations for worldwide weather forecasting and communication systems, in bigger and more efficient rockets, and in preparation for future projects aimed at exploration of Mars and Venus.
The $6.1 billion total for fiscal 1964 proposed by Kennedy in today's budget message to Congress includes space spending proposals for five different agencies. Their estimated spending for the current fiscal year is $4 billion.
The biggest space spender in the new year would be the Civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) budgeted for $4.2 billion compared to $2.4 in fiscal 1963 and $1.3 in 1962.
Runner-up would be the Defense Department whose space budget was increased from $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion. Next in line is the Atomic Energy Commission with a new space budget of $247 million, an increase of $56.6 million.
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James E. Gunn, director of university relations at the University of Kansas, has been notified that Bantam Books would publish a collection of his science fiction short stories this year.
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Title of the book will be "Future Imperfect." All of the 11 stories except one have previously been published. Gunn is author of several books of science fiction, including some that have been translated for international publication.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Here is how President Kennedy proposes to cut up the budget dollar for fiscal 1964:
How Kennedy Plans To Cut Up the Budget
National security and space 51 cents.
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Social security, health and welfare — 23 cents.
Interest on national debt - 6 cents.
Veterans — 5 cents.
Agriculture - 5 cents
And here is where the money comes from:
Corporation income taxes — 19 cents.
All other - 10 cents.
Individual income taxes - 38 cents.
Employment taxes — 14 cents.
Excise taxes — 11 cents
Borrowing — 8 cents.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy told Congress today that he has broadened his program of health insurance for persons over 65 to cover those ineligible for social security benefits.
Kennedy Broadens Medicare Program
His original "Medicare" plan — stalled in Congress for the past two years — was to have been financed entirely by higher Social Security and railroad retirement taxes. Benefits would have been limited to persons covered by those programs.
Kennedy said in his budget message that he now wants to tap the treasury to finance benefits for other persons 65 and older.
All other - 10 cents.
Although the President's $10 billion tax-cut program is his no. 1 legislative goal, the health insurance program has high priority. The White House has high hopes it will be enacted by 1964.
Kennedy gave no estimate of the cost to the treasury of his new approach. Even if enacted this year, the program would not start until Jan. 1, 1965. Thus, it could not affect his new budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
The new program was modeled after the Javits-Anderson compromise which the administration supported and the Senate rejected 52 to 48 last year. The defeated plan would have covered all but 400,000 of the estimated 18 million persons who will be 65 or older on Jan. 1, 1964.
Record Defense Budget Asked
WASHINGTON — President Kennedy today sent Congress a record $51 billion military spending plan to expand nuclear missile forces and bolster conventional land, sea and air arms.
By United Press International
His defense budget for the year starting July 1 called for a $2.7 billion hike over this year's outlays to support a dual strategy based on readiness for nuclear or non-nuclear war on any scale.
With 2,695,000 men in uniform,
major elements of military might will be 19 Army and Marine divisions, 873 combatant and supporting ships and more than 30,600 aircraft.
The eventual missile force will comprise about 1,800 Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Polaris rockets.
THE NEW fiscal year will mark the first time in history, save three World War II years, that military spending has topped the $50 billion level.
"There is no discount price on defense," Kennedy told the lawmakers. He said the perils span the gamut from guerrilla activities to global nuclear war. America must be able to resist any enemy, "whatever his choice of weapons."
The President estimated his total national security program at $56 billion, including $5 billion for foreign military aid, atomic energy and other defense-related activities.
THE MILITARY spending plan continued the shift of emphasis toward greater reliance on nonnuclear forces to deal with a broader variety of threats.
"Special emphasis," Kennedy said, was placed on gearing the armed forces for "sustained conventional warfare operations." To that end, the Army will buy a host of new small arms, artillery, tactical missiles, aircraft and helicopters and the Navy and Air Force will expand their buying of fighter planes and transports.
A breakdown of spending by service:
Army -- $12.2 billion, a $300 million increase.
Navy — $15.1 billion, a $900 million increase.
Air Force — $19.9 billion, a $200 million decrease.
Defense-wide agencies — $2.7 billion, an $800 million increase.
Kennedy also proposed $900 million for the first armed forces pay raise in 41/2 years and $210 million
for fallout shelter protection and other civil defense activities.
TWO NEW WEAPONS showed up in the budget. The Army will undertake "initial development" of a new "Nike-X" anti-missile missile. The Navy will start arming planes with a new guided bomb called "Walleye."
New for the Air Force will be use on B52 bombers of the Navy's Shrike missile for blotting out enemy defense radar.
The largest weapons spending category, as always, was aircraft which was set at $6.1 billion compared with $3.7 billion for all types of missiles.
The Army was allocated a 15,000-man unit for experimenting with a new air assault division concept, based on extensive use of helicopter and light airplane movement in battle areas.
THE BUDGET provided for ordering 964 new Air Force planes, mainly jet fighters. The Navy will get 681. An additional 100 Minuteman missiles will bolster the Air Force's goal to 900. The Navy will get money to complete the last six of its 41-ship fleet of Polaris submarines, scheduled to be in service in 1966. It will have 24 of them in service with 384 missiles aboard 18 months from now.
The Navy will order six more nuclear-powered attack (non-Polaris) type submarines to bring its planned total to 45. It will buy 29 other new ships from motor gun boats to escort vessels, concentrating on antisubmarine warfare and amphibious types.
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