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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 28. 1961
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JFK Asks Boost In Defense Budget
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy today sent congress urgent proposals for a $650 million defense spending increase and disclosed plans to arm the nation with more than 1,300 ballistic missiles by 1965.
He called for assembly-line construction of Polaris missile submarines, reaching a one-month rate by June, 1963. He also charted expanded production of new Minutemen intercontinental missiles and a hefty boost for the bomber-carried Skybolt missile.
The revised military spending plan for the fiscal year starting July 1 totalled $43.8 billion, including Kennedy's new $650 million proposals plus upward revisions of the former Eisenhower administration estimates which he claimed were too low.
the boosted arms outlay would throw the government's over-all fiscal 1962 budget a further $890 million
out of kilter for a total deficit of $2.7 billion.
In military manpower, Kennedy proposed an increase of 13,000 to a new total of 2,506,000.
West Hopeful-
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IN BANGKOK, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization's ministers ended their second secret session shortly afternoon today but all refused to comment on their morning-long deliberations.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said only, "We had some useful discussions."
Philippine Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano declined comment until a special television interview tonight.
Laos Crisis At a Glance
SAIGON — Powerful U. S.
Naval forces, including an aircraft
carrier, are in the Gulf of Siam and
the South China Sea to put troops
ashore in the event of a showdown.
VIENTIANE — Fighting in Laos has been bogged down by heavy rains two weeks ahead of the regular monsoon season. But a strong Communist force threatens to cut the jungle kingdom in two at its narrow 75-mile waist.
PARIS — Former Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma was reported to have insisted that the International Control Commission established by the 1954 Geneva talks for Laos be reactivated before the calling of a cease-fire.
MOSCOW — Communist Europe's top military and political leaders are meeting in the Kremlin, with the subject of Laos high on their agenda.
TOKYO — The rebel Pathet Lao radio claims that the Communists have dealt successive blows to Laotian government troops along the Mekong River and that Royal Laotian troops are deserting in large numbers.
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Finch, Mistress Are Convicted
LOS ANGELES —(UPI)— Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his mistress, Carole Tregoff, today faced possible death in the gas chamber for the gunshot slaying of the surgeon's wife.
Finch 43, was convicted of first-degree murder, and Carole, 24, was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday when a 10-man 2-
woman jury wrote a sudden end to their 15-month fight for freedom through three trials.
Some Mileage
BOSTON — (UPI) — The Automobile Legal Association reports that the average motorist could keep his car on the road for 30 years with the fuel consumed by an intercontinental missile in 60 seconds.
HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY
With tuition costs spiralling ever upward, more and more undergraduates are investigating the student loan plan. If you are one who is considering the "Learn Now, Pay Later" system,you would do well first to study the case of Leonid Sigafoos.
Leonid, the son of an upholsterer in Straitened Circumstances, Idaho, had his heart set on going to college, but his father, alas, could not afford to send him. Leonid applied for a Regents Scholarship, but his reading speed, alas, was not very rapid—two words an hour—and before he could finish the first page of his test the Regents had closed their brief cases crossly and gone home. Leonid then applied for an athletic scholarship, but he had, alas, only a single athletic skill—balancing a stick on his chin—and this, alas, aroused only passing enthusiasm among the coaches.
And then, huzzah, Leonid learned of the student loan plan: he could borrow money for his tuition and repay it in easy monthly installments after he left school!
Happily Leonid enrolled in the Southeastern Idaho College of Woodpulp and Restoration Drama and happily began a college career that grew more happy year by year. Indeed, it became altogether ecstatic in his senior year because Leonid met a coed named Salina T. Nem with hair like beaten gold and eyes like two squirts of Lake Louise. Love gripped them in its big moist palm and they were betrothed on the Eve of St. Agnes.
Happily they made plans to be married the day after commencement—plans, alas, that never were to come to fruition because Leonid, alas, learned that Salina, like himself, was in college on a student loan, which meant that he had not only to repay his own loan when he left school but also Salina's, and the job, alas, that was waiting for Leonid after graduation at the Boise Raccoon Works simply did not pay enough, alas, to cover both their loans, plus rent and food and clothing.
Sick at heart, Leonid and Salina sat down and lit Marlboro Cigarettes and tried to find an answer to their problem—and, sure enough, they did! I do not know whether or not Marlboro Cigarettes helped them find an answer; all I know is that Marlboros taste good and look good, and when things close in and a feller needs a friend and the world is black as the pit from pole to pole, it is a heap of comfort and satisfaction to be sure that Marlboros will always provide the same unflagging pleasure, the same unstinting quality, in all times and climes and conditions. That's all I know.
Leonid and Salina, I say, did find an answer—a very simple one. If their student loans did not come due until they left school, why, then they just wouldn't leave school! So after receiving their bachelor degrees, they re-enrolled and took masters degrees. After that they took doctors degrees, loads and loads of them, until today Leonid and Salina, both aged 78, both still in school, hold doctorates in Philosophy, Humane Letters, Jurisprudence, Veterinary Medicine, Civil Engineering, Optometry, and Dewey Decimals. Their student loans, as of last January 1, amounted to a combined total of eighteen million dollars, a sum which they probably would have found great difficulty in repaying had not the Department of the Interior recently declared them a National Park.
© 1961 Max Shulman
You don't need a student loan—just a little loose change to grab yourself a new kind of smoking pleasure from the makers of Marlboro—the unfiltered king-size Philip Morris Commander. Welcome aboard!