European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday february 23, 1959 i a 1 til report finds growing obsolescence in 13 areas Ike foreign Aid plan. May be Cut by demos " v irked at spender tag Washington and the annual fight Over foreign Aid has a new twist tills year. Some democrats plan to counter president Eisenhower charge of bring spenders i a proposing 1up vols in his i 1 risen Lovvor has asked 5,930,000,000 in now foreign Aid spending and Hull or Willon for the fiscal year beginning july 1. He maintains. That any substantial reduction Mit would jeopardize National Security. Ill Tiff s Occil the $3,930,000,000 foreign Aid re of quest represents a considerable shift from military to economic As program asks new York a America s older cities have been reported to be decaying in the midsection with business and population flee ing to the open spaces. The trend was reported in a lengthy study published by the committee for economic develop ment ced it said a Gray Belt of deterioration has settled Over leading metropolitan Areata Between the Busi 3 thugs beat Union official Active in strike Tenafly . A sol Greene an official of the International ladies garment workers Union was jumped by Throe men is he got off a Nils near his Home Here mid was severely on the head. Nineteen stitches were required to close the wounds. Greene who is Active in a strike against 10 new York City jobbers was Token to Inglewood Hospital where to was treated and released. It Wail l Osl a at san Juan puerto Rico where inc executive Council of the al c1o is meeting David Dubinsky. President of the 1lgwu, offered n $.10,000 Reward i or information and asked the Fri to step into the Case. Detectives pieced together the following account of the incident Greene 44, who moved Here from , pa., five months ago. Got off a bus a few blocks from his Home Friday night. Three men. Who had apparently been waiting in a car jumped him and struck him on the head. They left him on the Street. Greene managed to get to a Tele phone and Call his wife who drove him to the Hospital. Ness districts and remedies were seen on the horizon to Stop what it called the growing obsolescence of this Cen trial Urban decline in population jobs property values and economic activities was reported under Way with Only the downtown business districts and suburbs still on stable footing. Surrounding the study was prepared by or. Raymond Vernon director of the sitting Duck for pigeons seven killed in 5-car crash Oceanside Calif. A seven persons five of them members of one family perished in the crash of four cars and a pickup truck during heavy rain near Here. Investigators said a head on collision of one Auto and the truck started the Chain reaction crash which left the Pacific coast High Way two Miles North of Here littered with bodies and wreckage. Coroner s Deputy Jesse c. Canute identified the dead As Arnold Boatner 32, his wife Olga about 30, two daughters Becky 8, and Eyon 4 months and n son David 11, All of Garden Grove Calif. Mrs. Carmen Caslllas about 45, los Angeles and Bernard Patterson 36, of Anaheim Calif. The injured were Danny boat Ner 9, Lone survivor of the family three of his companions Tony Steele 11, Harry Caspar 10, and Tommy Wedan 10. All of Garden Grove and Lazaro Samudio 50, of los Angeles. State Highway patrolmen said Patterson s Auto crossed to the wrong Side of the Highway and collided head on with the Boatner truck. Distance the new .62 per cent of the total for Mili tary and defense support categories and 38 per cent for economic pro Grams. The request a year ago divided 69 per cent for military and defense support and 31 per cent for economic programs. Main reason for this shift is the increasing pressure of the soviet Union s economic offensive. Credits and Grants from the russian Chi Nese bloc to underdeveloped free world countries luring the last year totalled about $1 billion a dramatic acceleration of the Tempo of the drive As termed by under Secretary of slate c. Douglas dil Lon the state department s chief economic . Eisenhower in a report Jan. 28, old Congress where the for eign economic Aid Money went in fiscal 1957-58, ended last june. He said thut in this year of tension foreign Aid was the most economically effective Means of blunting und turning Back. Blandishments of the the report said . Aid during that year went to 64 nations 54 of them underdeveloped. South Korea tops South Korea topped the list of recipient countries with $221 Mil lion Vietnam followed with $184 million and India was third with $81.4 million. The Lutter also got $225 million in Loans and surplus farm products from other govern ment fourth ranking recipient was Turkey allocated $74.5 million Fol Lowed by Pakistan $65,3 million and Formosa $60 million. Others in the top 10 were Spain $54.6 Mil lion Jordan $32.5 million Laos $31.5 million. And Cambodia $28 Spain West Berlin $8.2 million Iceland $5.1 million Yugoslavia $11.7 million and Poland $25 million represented the european Aiea. Other recipient countries were Greece $15.7 million Iran $11.5 million Israel $8.9 million Iraq $2.7 million Lebanon $2.6 million and Afghanistan $8 million. Italian wine goes further Rome a government agents said More than 1,200 persons have been charged with fraud during the past 18 months for diluting and Misla Beling the wine they offered for Sale on the italian Market. New York metropolitan Region study for the area development committee of the ced a business supported economic research an education organization. Although the 92-Page printed report included detailed data Only for new York City it said the same conditions prevailed in 12other cities Baltimore Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleve land Detroit los Angeles Phila Delphia Pittsburgh St. Louis and san Francisco. Losing ground so far the report said the Cen trial cities of these big towns still dominate the metropolitan complexes of which they form a part but they re gradually losing ground. By almost any objective stand Ard the report added the major Central cities of our nation Over the past 50 years or More have been developing More slowly than the suburban areas that surround them. By Many such standards this relative decline has lately begun t
