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Show en oy tap Ripa fi?) Ike Maps $800 Million Boost So \the the beginning and end of fis- The military spending blueprint sent to Congress called for | I “aang $40, 945,000,000 to run the armed | forees in the fiscal gent starting | subs now scheduled. _ July 1. Eisenhower said development By putting the stuieeze on of the Nike-Zeus missile system, other elements of military or defense against. ballistic misstrength, the President was abh es, would be speeded.| |to expand missile, bomber @ 4 Other highlights of the new ‘space research outlays | fi apons -\holding the total increase @ | this year’s budget to $145,000 at! ‘missiles it. will carry.. The B58. bo mber, which flies | bout 1,300 miles an hour, will tart to. ‘replace the Strategic Air congressmen cry |have contended the’ lid . n- | fense spending is too lew, E | hower said: “This a as that essenti ial o Se. dame eer He said . x aim 4. |rounded force under yommand’s -wellis unified di- | Fy rection and properly equipped, ready for any kind ‘emergency. of military gee v . NO cuTS For the first time since the »|Korean War ended, Eisenhower order any substantial ’-|euts in manpower. He. told the i |Air Force to trim by a “moderate” 5,000, but aded that with jg | the. Communists “constantly ‘probjing free world positions” i . |further cuts were warranted.. te |. Missiles got dominant of |is- Their procurement no emphas- was _al- ig | loted. $3,825,000,000, up $493,-| 000,000, and were given a lion’s 1 bs share of the $364,000, 000. increase. for weapons “research, 5 |ment and testing. develop- ve| Eisenhower said the first At- xt | Jas missiles “will be at launching nt| Sites” by June 3 when the curnt.|rent fiscal. year ends and “addin.|tional missiles will be put in ve | Place in 1960.” The first squadron of the 6,300—|mile missiles, at Cheyenne, “Wyo- will have about 10 missile launch- i,The President also said more |Thor and Jupiter intermediate. range missiles will be deployed. - ele, speed. will pe in’ pu m-|f be ,000,000 a year. ‘Money > is rovided to continue reactor and. e|sile unites for sda. defense and ‘| offense.: . “long-range e program to build h \rine divisions and growing mis- not 600-mile-per- hou L ic-powered aircraft will be con-|| forces of fiscal tinued at its present level of | The military 1960 will. comprise 2,520,000 men | with. an air armada of more than 29,000 planes, a fleet of 864 re ships. Seventeen Army and Ma- |did: program: - Greater production. ‘of the: B52G. joml -r and the Hound Dog guid- As if in challenge to skep 1g |Democratic es the next 18 months. The are range Thors ii,ae |in first, ‘Ens1500-mile gland “DOW: ‘and Jupiters are ‘| slated for Italy. 'V-| Money for the Titan intercon °F | tinental ballistic missile (ICBM), ©\a year behind the Atlas in de-| -|velopment, was. ‘increased 50 per’ “\cent. The Minuteman’ ICBM, a ‘|solid-fueled, easie r-to-handle}, ‘| weapon expected. to be operationjal in 1963, was ‘down for 40 per cent more. Nike Hercules, Bomare and -|Hawk anti-aircraft. missiles, all “| atomic-capable, were slated: for ‘lexpanded production. ; The Army was told to end production of its 200-mile range Redstone missile, deployed to Ger-| many last summer, and speed up its successor, the solid-fueled Pershing.. The Navy. will press. ‘development of its Polaris to be fired’ —————_ | nineteen jetta 5 anime eet ‘Steel Scatfolding Bees ee rs | je — ing bombers to meet “any major a ea expanding air-atomic power with new supersonic. and. missile-launch- * 1 plans for i\ 594 a person. also unfolded i r capita debt would. be dollar’ increase. inArmy—$9,264,000, 000. an crease of 99. million. dollars. “ Navy—$11,596,000,000, an = threat. to our national security. crease of 124 million dol ars. Air Force—$18,675, ,000,000 - a from nuclear submarines. But it decrease of 318 million dollars, got no go-ahead. to build more than the nine Polaris-carrying podget me idpoint in fiscal 1960, the His record peacetime: defense \/ stimates that the population ill total 178,700,000 at the. missiles will be in combat first Atlas intercontinental cere se official — = on wa Based -e 1960, are solved. Defense ‘Department, including the Air Research a ‘millon units. by |c¢ million: dollar increase in missile spending today and disclosed that to be 285 billion dollars at ‘al military value” in building the plane until technical problems President Bisenhower aed aan 800. ‘WASHINGTON (UPD). the national debt oe ee he expects senkiower said ron President engine devslopual but not for aircraft construction. The President said there is “no practical - To Meet ‘Any Major Threat’ current fiscal year. Budget <i Befendl )MYA LAN AN‘\ ll the Reeve ~ we $460 in |For U.S. Missile Production — W\V WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration’s ne we spending budget for fiscal 1960 adds up to $431 for ev-. _ ery man, woman and child in - the country, This compares oath estimated per capita spending of \7 BUDGET COSTS US ALL $431 |