Eisenhower Requests Congress To Ease Farm Price Supports, Increase Allotments on Planting

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16--President Eisenhower called upon Congress today for authority to reduce price supports and to ease production controls on major crops.

In a special message, he said in effect that the government must shift its farm policies away from efforts to restrict production to programs designed to move the expanding production into markets.

"The scientific revolution in agriculture is irreversible and is continuing," he said. "It cannot be avoided and it need not be feared."

Eisenhower asked for authority to set supports for major crops well below present levels, and for power to increase planting allotments.

Chairman Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee predicted such requests would get nowhere. He accused Eisenhower of trying to give Secretary of Agriculture Benson czaristic-type to fix acreages as he pleases.

Rep. Cooley (D-N.C.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, called the Eisenhower program a blueprint for bankruptcy.

The top Republican on Ellender's committee, Sen. Aiken of Vermont, said he would not introduce the legislation Eisenhower asked. "I will not put my name to a bill that puts the squeeze on the dairy farmer," Aiken said.

Also, Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) of the House said Eisenhower seemed to be making Benson a czar over agriculture.

Eisenhower outlined 14 recommendations--some requiring legislative action and others not--for setting up what he called a new farm, food and fiber program to help farmers to adjust to today's rapidly changing economy.

Specifically, his major legislative recommendations--which had been outlined previously by both himself and Secretary Benson--asked for authority to set supports for cotton, corn, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco as low as 60 per cent of parity and to increase planting allotments of these crops as much as 50 per cent above levels now directed by law.

Dulles Proposes Space Police

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16--Secretary of State Dulles proposed today that Russia join in an international commission to police the skies to make sure outer space is dedicated solely to peace and not missiles.

Soviet Premier Bulganin, he said, should "jump at this chance" to ease international tensions before control of new space weapons becomes impossible.

"I certainly hope from the depths of my heart," Dulles said, "that the emphasis President Eisenhower put on this in his letter--to Bulganin last Sunday--will find a response by Bulganin."

The secretary made these other main points in handling a shower of questions: 1. Red China should be barred from any summit meeting because it is not an. "indispensable or proper" authority to discuss world problems. The United States has no reason to the Peiping regime but would not hesitate to meet with its representatives if it would serve peace.

2. American prestige "stands higher than ever before" with Allied governments but he "can't say the same for public opinion ... which is somewhat misled."

3. The United States is ready to join European countries in giving emergency financial aid to France provided it "gets its house in order at home."

4. The Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner.

Johnson on Missiles

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16--Sen. Johnson of Texas, the Senate's Democratic leader, protested today that U.S. defense projects are at the mercy of "any little budget officer down the line."

These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The preparedness group, which Johnson heads, is investigating the defense program in the light of recent Soviet advances in the military scientific field