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Summary Of Message
WASHINGTON — (U.P.)— Topical summary of President Fisenhower's state of the union message to Congress:
Taxes
Farm
The special farm message he will send to Congress Monday will propose "a new attack on the surplus problem" including a "soil bank" plan under which the government would pay farmers to divert lands from crops to a "conservation reserve." But he made clear he is standing firm on the flexible price support system which some farm state lawmakers are blaming for falling farm income.
No tax relief for the present. No tax cut can be "deemed justifiable" until the budget is balanced and a "modest" start is made toward trimming the $280 billion national debt. Excise and corporation tax rates, due to drop April 1, should be continued at present levels for another year.
Foreign Aid
Foreign Policy
Communism still "poses a serious threat to the free world." Ked tactics have shifted since the Geneva summit meeting from "reliance on violence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity."
To assure America's friends abroad of "continuity" in U.S. economic aid, he asked "limited authority" to make long-term aid commitments for projects that will take several years to complete.
Defense
Highways
The United States will "persevere in seeking a general reduction of armament and control." But until Russia agrees to a workable program, we have no alternative but to maintain powerful armed forces to deter aggression.
posal for a special bond issue to pay for the roads.
Negro Rights
The need for a big highway building program, which he proposed last year, is "even more urgent this year." He did not repeat last year's controversial pro-
He recommended that Congress create a bipartisan commission to investigate charges that "in some localities. . . Negro citizens are being deprived of their right to vote and are likewise being subjected to unwarranted economic pressures."
Housing
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1956.
Congress should authorize construction of 35,000 new public housing units a year for the next two years, and "liberalize" other existing federal housing programs.
Other Legislative Proposals
He requested, or renewed previous requests for; amendment of the Taft-Hartley labor management law; extended coverage of the minimum wage act; further expansion of social security coverage; higher mail rates and new post office buildings; a "substantial increase" in funds for the U.S. Information Agency to tell America's story abroad; authorization of "an atomic-powered exhibit vessel" to demonstrate peacetime use of nuclear energy for ship propulsion.
Economic Boom
"Our economy, approaching the 400 billion dollar mark, is at an unparalleled level of prosperity. The national income is more widely and fairly distributed than ever before. The number of Americans at work has reached an all time high."
Missouri Plans New Prison
Including Prescrintions
PROVIDENCE, R. I.—(U.P) Judge Eugene L. Jalbert has a suggestion for doctors. After trying unsuccessfully to decipher a medical excuse written by a doctor for a potential witness, he commented: "I think doctors ought to be compelled to use a typewriting machine for everything."
The most practical method of freeze-drying potatoes for cattle feed is to spread the potatoes on the open ground in layers no more than six to eight inches deep.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — (U.P.) State Director of Corrections James D. Carter revealed plans today for a $12 million, new Missouri prison for men to be located away from the riot-wrecked institution here.
Mr. Carter said the new prison will have top priority on his requests from the $75 million state building bond issue which goes before voters Jan. 24.
Construction of a new institution, separate from the outmoded structure here, was recommended by groups which investigated the state's prison system following the 1854 inmate riots.
KEY WEST, Fla. (LF)—Brazilian President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek arrived here today for breakfast with President Eisenhower on the first leg of his 20-day goodwill tour of the United States and several European countries.
Mr. Carter said the proposed structure would be a medium custody type, ringed with a cyclone wire fence. He said the institution would mainly be devoted to industries, as opposed to the minimum security prisons farms which surround Jefferson City.
The director said the new prison would house some 1,200 to 1,400 inmates. Location of the new institution would be up to the state legislature.
Brazilian President In U.S.
Plans for the prison system, including estimates for the new institution, will be outlined to state budget officials at a hearing set tentatively for next week.
METHUEN, Mass. —(U.P.)—Because she sounded a false fire alarm, a 10-year-old schoolgirl was ordered by the fire chief to write an essay entitled "The Hazards of False Alarms."
Alarming Essay
Government Approves Plan For Private Atom Projects
WASHINGTON—(U.P.)-The government took another big step today toward establishment of a privately-owned industry for peaceful exploitation of the atom.
New Toll Road To Be Studied
TOPEKA (U.P.)—The Kansas Turn-oike Authority will be asked to conduct a feasibility study of a toll road between Kansas City and the Oklahoma state line between Columbus and Coffeyville.
R. F. Newlin, vice president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, acted as spokesman for a group of businessmen from his city in requesting the Kansas Highway Commission support the feasibility survey.
If a toll turnpike in Kansas near the Missouri line is not practical, he said, the highway commission should consider building an improved north-south throughway in the area.
Mr. Newlin said Kansas should keep pace with Missouri's planned improvement of US-71, a principal north-south trafficway near the Kansas border.
Adenauer Is 80 Today
BONN, Germany (U.P.)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer celebrated his 80th birthday today and the free world joined his countrymen in saluting the "grand old man" of West Germany. Gifts and congratulatory messages cascaded into Bonn for Mr. Adenauer. The gifts included an estimated 4 million deutschmarks (nearly $1 million) raised by West German industry for Adenauer to use as he sees fit.
The Atomic Energy Commission approved a plan to encourage U. S. companies to build and operate chemical plants for recovering precious materials from fuel which has been used in nuclear research and power reactors.
Chemical processing of irradiated atomic fuel is one of the last major segments of the nuclear power program which is still entirely monopolized by the government. Methods used by the government have been top secret up to this time.
The AEC offered to hand over its accumulated information about chemical processing to firms interested in building and running their own plants.
It also offered to give limited amounts of AEC fuel processing business to firms which submit acceptable proposals "at a date to be specified, about 18 months from now."
Search Continues For Bank Robbers
RICHLAND—(U. P.)—Shawnee County officers and KBI agents buckled down today to the tedious job of checking all possible leads, many admittedly of doubtful value, in seeking the three robbers of the Richland State Bank and general store.
Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, former U. S. treasurer, was forced at gunpoint Monday night to turn over some $1,800.
Law enforcement officials checked out numerous tips but so far deputy sheriff Vernon Robinson said, "we've just drawn blanks."
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