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Saken Says GOP Power Policies May BeUnder Army MayBe JetFighterIs ‘Russia AndUS.May Be Near Atom Stalemate | + ‘Added To FAWTU By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER required to do a devastating/government estimates that war fa For Training ee ne ee al eee een iM bn dienilice te Oat | y, icy i | e spreading idea that.an atom./is an a ative to t ron 3 fOr ar c ‘der nil _ cai bet ic stalemate is approaching stems when the Reds had atomic wea The officers and men of Fleet proaching an atomic stalemate. ‘The Army All Weather Training Unit, Atian-|oe from the estimate that the United pons in their arsenal the danget H States and Russia will soon be able Of war would immediately in “ |’ Some think this may tend toto do devastating injury to each |crease. may be hardest hit of the three rect NAS, paige a or agrnld stabilize relationships of the big other. | Thereis ‘no evidence that respon- = a — patent — F2H-2 Banshee jet fighter. This powers and so contribute to devel- ss avin toacbourenie tattemoee es Stagity couarons the danger has we abpcppciation | vost addition to the FAWTU fam-'opment of more peaceful relations, | $ . j ia i os &e ialetl I i < i? RE Pid efclie ate , 1i0y E Hf t [ i f i He $3 asz’ else gee int He i g § HONG KONG w—Forty-six Cath. ‘clic al jel: 5 E He rt gett 5 nt 9 ffi i bil Hl pu "ai Ss size of forces and needed for the report, now overdue, within the next week for deliveries of ment belfor a year or several inn Wilson og zeporters Jast week, referring current budget “we had over-financing in ne Force—not any question about said that, in compiling ate for the next fiscal military recommendations assembled “and when we answer maybe it will be rising as it was last all the cuts seemed to Air Force.” man administration the fiscal year ending Proposed that Congress ite about 41 billion dollars military. But the Eisen- administration trimmed the to about 36 billions. Con- finally approved about 34 bil- The bulk of the reduction is Wilson said, in Air Force Army emerged with nearly billions or more than 100 mil- over the Truman administra- I recommendation, _——. * REE i hdd: Frehe i Fe ed s HL FF of from “!Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, “IN. C. jily_of aircraft will replace the/however uneasy. | = } At the same time, foreign policy| Tuesday, October 6, 1953 F6F-SN Hellcat, currently in use} in the FAWTU training program. Officer, and Ledr. C. L. Kullberg, |FAWTU Maintenance Officer, igreeted the new arrival. Lt. C. W.! Parr, acted as the “stork” and ferried the plane from the Mari The Banshee is a twin-engine,’ ‘single-place aircraft which saw con-| |siderable action in Korea and is! |presently being used in the Fleet as a firstline jet. fighter. FAWTU will continue to utilize the TV-2 as) a dual instrument jet trainer and) ithe SNB as a dual instrument con-| ventional trainer in carrying out jits mission. The F6F Hellcat has {been in operation with FAWTU} here since 1947 when the squadron first arrived in Key West, ' The advent of this Banshee repre- sents the first step in the transition of FAWTU into an all-jet night! fighter training unit, in keepin, with the rapid advancement of avi- ation in the Navy today. HORSE SENTIMENT MATTOON, Il. #—Farmer Ray ‘Youngs owns a tractor, but he likes horses, too, He works his team of black mares just to keep them in condi. ‘tion, saying: “These mares hard. ly pay for their feed, but I'm keep- ‘ing them just the same. Fellow wanted to buy them the other day. I told him he'd just kill them and experts believe a situation ap- ely by other factors, is already | at hand. | State Department officials gen- rally believe the Soviets are ac- ively avoiding any real negotia- tions concerning Germany now and will do so for many months to come. They question whether the Reds want to talk seriously about | the Far East, although their posi- tion is relatively stronger there. The combination of an atomic stalemate, if it becomes an ac-| cepted fact in great power policies, | and a diplomatic standoff might) very well freeze the present state | of relationships indefinitely even) without any formal East-West! agreements to that effect. The essence of the atomic bal-| ance is simple. With its reported | mastery of a hydrogen explosion | and its established atomic prog-| ress, Russia is close to the point) ‘of achieving a kind of balance with ithe United States. Most estimates are that the United States retains a sizable margin in the number of bombs] stockpiled. But the destructive power of the big bombs is so great that equality of numbers is not the | key to their effect on military strategy. 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