TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TEME'V' THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAEW TWW~ - a a .aawajw xraad3;r nir M Proposed Federal Department To Coordinate Transportation WASHINGTON (P) -.President' Johnson is about to make another pitch to Congress for a Depart- ment of Transportation. Why? Who needs another fed- eral agency when there are 35, already functioning in the trans- portation field? If you travel frequently or are in the shipping business you al- ready know the transportation business is feeling the strain of a booming economy and a rapidly growing population. The federal government is now spending $6.6 billion annually on highways, waterways, ocean-go- ing shipping and support of air- lines. Just to give you an idea of what the regulatorsy agencies are up against there are 42 trillion freight rates on file in Washington cov- ering every conceivable item and means of movement. The private investment in trans- portation is $140 billion., By 1980 the transportation needs o fthe nation are expected to double, assuming the economy continues to grow at the rate of about 4% per cent annually. By the year 2000 the transport needs are expected to double again. This doubling is not a straight line matter in terms of costs. For example, the assets of the nation's railroads have a book value of $30 own conclusions on what the in- billion. But the Department of vestment need will be in 2000. Commerce figures that to replace In 1950 there were 52.3 million what the railroads now own would units of transportation in the cost $70 billion. United States - automobiles, Need Thus, if the need for rail trans- port double by 1980, the total in- vestment by that year would be close to $140 billion-a minimum of $280 billion by 2000 if costs remain stable-which is unlikely., A guess would be that the cap- ital investment in moving people and goods in 1980 will be some- where in the neighborhood of $400 billion. Double that and add what you think will be the cost of in- flation and. you can reach your, trucks, railroad cars, barges, ships and aircraft.. In 1965 there were nearly 90 million automobiles and trucks alone choking the cities and crowding the highways. Developments Over the past 65 years the world has seen the development of two new and major forms of transpor- tation-the motor vehicle and the airplane. There are two improvements waiting in the wings. One is the surface-effect ship which will skim waterways at 100i miles an hour, the other is the development of what is called containerized cargoes. Flying Shipj The surface-effect ship will ride on a cushion of air. While mo- tionless it is a ship. At maximum. speed it is an aircraft. Should it be regulated by the Maritime, Administration or the Civil Aero- nautics Board? Over the past three months agreements have been signed in Great Britain to begin an experi- ment in what the trade calls con- tainerization. Goods are packed in standardiz- ed packages akin to the body of a department but Congress did not huge regulatory agency, but one big over-the-road tractor-trailer. act. pected to propose is not another This body can be fitted onto The new department would pro- which would, among other things, trucks ,railroad cars, barges, ships vide somebody to gather informa- law down broad guidelines on na- and aircraft and might travel in tion on problems and then advise tional needs and then assign fed- all these ways on a single trip. the President, especially on how eral resources to help meet them. Since the container travels via federal funds can best be spent The present regulatory agencies, assorted carriers, now regulated toward improving and promoting such as the civil aeronautics board separately, which agency would transportation. and the interstate commerce com- have jurisdiction over rates? Is it better to build more high- mission, would continue to regu- Brief ways into cities or should mass late, but would be shorn of such In brief, Johnson and before transit systems be improved or functions as promotion research him Presidents Kennedy and Ei- expanded? and development. senhower and others back to the 43rd Congress in 1875, have con- cluded' there is a need for na- tional policymaking machinery and coordination. It is now becom- ing acute. Kennedy asked 'such a Federal Task? Should the federal government come to the aid of traffic-jam- med cities by loans to municipali- ties for parking facilities? What President Johnson is ex- A new department quite prob- ably would gather to itself all fact-finding functions and might well become a sort of public de- fender where mergers are propos- ed or rate increases asked. . .. ........ . . ...... .... ..... . ......... ....... ..... Viet Cong Still in Valley, U.S. Deficit Cut In Half MOSCOW TRAIL: Russian Writers Convicted; Allies Mop Up Stragglers During 1965 Claim Books Harmful to State I t Humphrey Tours Laos; Offers Aid Gives Reassurances, Promises To Support Neutral Government BANGKOK, Thailand (M-U.S. Vice-President Hubert H. Hum- phrey spent 12 whirlwind hours yesterday trying to nail down U.S. friendship in a visit to Laos and examining key Thai development projects. Thee-seemingly tireless vice-pres- ident fell so far behind his sched- ule that he had to drop six proj- ects from his aerial inspection list because darkness fell. He accomplished several objec- tives with his 700-mile-round trip to Vientiane, the Laotian' capital, for a visit of only a few hours. He restated to neutralist Pre- mier Souvanna Phouma the U.S. determination to hold an unswerv- ing course of supporting South- east Asian nations against Com- munist encroachment. Earlier, Humphrey had reassur- ed the. Thais of U.S. military sup- port. After conferences with Hum- phrey, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman told a reporter: "We can now sleep easier." Arriving at the Vientiane air- port, Humphrey said: "I have come to reassure you of my gov- ernment's pledge to work with you" in .developing the rich re- sources of the Mekong River Val- ley. Mines Kill Civilians On Buses, Retailiation Is Viewed As Result of Troop Protection of Harvest SAIGON (P)--U.S. 1st Cavalry, airmobile, division troopers grap- pled hand-to-hand with Viet Cong guerrillas yesterday in continuing operations around An Lao Valley that since mid-January have kill- ed 1,295 enemy troops and appar- ently scattered Communist forces entrenched there for 11 years. Reports from the base camp at Bong Son said in the day's close- in fighting the U.S. troopers kill- ed another 29 Viet Cong, boost- ing to 703 their own kill in four phases of the An Lao operations. U.S. Marines, South Vietnamese and South Koreans accounted for the others. About 40 miles tosthe south, Viet Cong road mines killed 54 Vietnamese civilians and wound- ed another 18 in a huge rice bowl recently wrested from Communist control by U.S. and allied forces. The victims were in three buses on a road 10 miles from the rice harvesting center of Tuy Hoa. Air Strikes Heavy clouds limited U.S. air strikes against North Viet Nam. U.S. military spokesmen in Sai- gon said Air Force and Navy planes carried out 19 missions against coastal installations, particularly around Vinh, a railway and high- Viet Narn Conflict May Upset Favorable Balance-of-Payments WASHINGTON RA) - The U.S. balance of payments made its best showing in eight years during 1964 but the administration is watch- ing the Viet Nam conflict close- ly lest it reverse this favorable trend. MOSCOW (P)-Two.Soviet writ- ers who smuggled books out to the West were convicted yesterday of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda and given heavy sentences. The Supreme Court of the Rus- sian Republic sentenced Andrei D. Sinyavsky to seven years at hard labor. Sinyavsky published abroad as Abram Tertz, depicting Soviet life as brutal and corrupt. Pen Name Yuli M. Daniel, whose pen name ed an equally unfavorable picture. Sentence was imposed after a four-day trial closed to Western- ers. The two defendants pleaded in- nocent and argued that they were entitled to artistic freedom of ex- pression. Judge Lev N. Smirnov, highest ranking jurist in the Russian Re- public, the Soviet Union's largest republic, and his two lay assist- ants ruled that Sinyavsky and Secretary of the Treasury Hen- was Nikolai Arzhak, got five years, Daniel had done harm to th ry H. Fowler said yesterday a re- also at hard labor. He had paint- country by providing material th view of the entire balance-of-pay- ments program may be needed if the Southeast Asian conflict pro-' ducesoa larsger than antpaed olinson Asks Funds outflow of U.S. dollars for de- fense purposes this year. -rf-4 a - eir hat could be used against it. This constitutes a crime, the Soviet le- gal code says. Both Married Each man is 40, married, and has children. Their wives were weeping as they left the court- room. The court gave the full prison sentences asked by the prosecu- tion. The sentences, reported by the official Soviet news agency, Tass, did not include exile. The prose- cution had demanded five years in Siberia for Sinyavsky and three years for Daniel, in addition to imprisonment. Creative Instincts The two writers denied repeat- edly during. the trial that they were politically motivated, insist- ing that they wrote only to sat- isfy their creative instincts. Siny- avsky and Daniel were secretly arrested Sept. 13. The intellectual underground spread the word of the arrest and about 200 students staged a pro- test at Pushkin Square in Mos- cow Dec. 5, Constitution Day. Three of these students are re- ported to have been placed in in- sane asylums as punishment. But he said no change is plan- ned at the moment in the admin- istration program to keep in check For J~ent subsidies SHOWN HERE IS Gen. Enrique Perez y Perez, who is the new minister of armed forces in the Dominican Republic. DominicanSnipers End Uneasy Peace the flow of dollars overseas. WASHINGTON (P) - Presidentr This Year Johnson asked Congress for thei The 1965 deficit-the difference relatively modest sum of $30 mil- between U.S. spending abroad and lion yesterday and fired up what foreign spending in this country may become another major brawle -was officially announced at $1.3 over his rent-subsidy program. 2 billion. This is the figure fore- Congress authorized the pro- cast by President Johnson last gram in a housing bill last year1 month and is less than half the but refused to vote the funds need-t deficit for each of the preceding ed to put it into operation after two years. Republicans attacked it as a "grandiose scheme" that they said The best recent year was 1957 would benefit contractors, proper- which produced a $520-million sur- ty owners and lending institu- plus. tions more than the low-income Fowler ruled out at a news sirenter. conerece nymanatoy cn- Johnson said critics. were mis-I conference any mandatory con- led by "false propaganda and mis- trols to stem the private flow of E yrepresentation."d dollars abroad. The voluntary pro-; In renewing the request yes- gram initiated one year ago.he terday, Johnson included it in a said, has been successful and is three-way package seeking a to- largely responsible for 1965 im- tal of $55.88 million for the cur- provement in the balance of pay- rent fiscal year ending June 30. ments.;rnficlyaenigJn30 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic OP) - Six Paraguayan troops of the inter-American peace force were slightly wounded early yesterday in a hit-and-run gren- ade attack in downtown Santo Domingo. Snipers also opened up in pre- dawn darkness with a machine gun at a U.S, jeep patrol. There rent bill after they had put up 25 per cent of their income toward it. It has been estimated the gov- ernment payments might average around $45 a month and would be paid only to nonprofit type land- lords such as churches, unions, co-ops and similar organizations. were no casualties. These were the latest develop- ments, reported by U.S. and peace force military spokesmen, in the continuing violence in this city,I where the death toll after five days of disorders stood at 19. Downtown Violence Voluntary Asked if the voluntary lines might be tightened, said "not at this point." He said the two main in erables are the rising bala payments costs in Southea in both the military and a grams and the direct and i impact of Viet Nam on t mestic economy and bala trade. World News Roundup By The Associated Press NEW DELHI-A Foreign Office WASHINGTON - The United' spokesman said Humphrey's vis-I SHasrecntyadvis-T China it to India beginning, tomorrow States recently advised Red C had enctfomteoiia through an ambassadors' meeting hreencyto my the orinal in Warsaw that it was prepared to three days to a day and a half. let Chinese Communist newsmen: The spokesman reported that enter -the United States even besides discussing Viet Nam with though U.S. newsmen are barred Indian government leaders, Hum- from Red China. phrey will study the economic sit- State Department Press Officer uation, with special reference to Robert J. McCloskey said yester- the food shortage. day that as far as he could de- termine the offer "wasn't taken In Washington, the White up" by the Chinese Communists. House announced Humphrey will The offer was made at a meet- visit Korea on his tour. It left ing between U.S. and Chinese en- open the possibility of other voys in Warsaw. stops. On orders of President Hector way hub that leads to the South Garcia-Godoy, in a move aimed at land the Ho Chi Minh Trail in stopping the downtown violence, a new company of American 82nd the west across the Laotian bor- Airborne paratroopers was or- der. The cloud cover prevented dered into the center of Santo calculations of damage. Domingo. This makes a total of T 330 Americans now on duty in The allied operations in the An what once was the rebel sector Lao area were described as the of the city. harshest punishment handed out yet by the allies to the Commu- Most of the capital appeared nists in an area they had held for tightly shuttered by a nationwide a long time. An Lao Valley, 280 general strike called by ex-Presi- miles northeast of Saigon, had dent Juan Bosch's Dominican Rev- been Communist real estate since olutionary party and backed by December 1954, and South Viet- left-wing extremists. The strike namese attempts to penetrate it was hit hardest in government of- were always beaten off. The two other items are $13.2 guide- million for the national Teachers Fowler Corps, which also suffered a last- minute turndown when Congress was preparing to adjourn last fall; mpond- and $12.68 million for helping the nce-of- Selective Service System meet st Asia added demands for manpower. id pro- The program would be open to ndirect families whose incomes are below he do-. the levels established for public nce of housing projects. The government would meet the balance of their AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL GRADUATING SENIORS The walls of ivy will soon be replaced by less familiar gne5; equally exciting, challenging, and self rewarding. 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