The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1962 Page: 2 of 16
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The La Grange Journal - Thurs., Jan. 25, 1962
EDITORIAL «id FEATURES PAGE
DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
A reader nas sent us the following word picture of a twentieth
century American:
A young man lived with his parents in a public housing develop-
ment. He attended public school, rode the free school bus, and par-
ticipated in the free lunch program. He entered the army, then upon
discharge retained his national service insurance. He then enrolled
in the state university, working part time inthe state capitol to supple-
ment his GI education check.
Upon graduation he married a public health nurse and bought a
farm with an FHA loan; and then obtained an RFC loan to go into
business. A baby was born in the county hospital. He bought a
ranch with the aid of the veterans’ land program and obtained emer-
gency feed from the government.
Later he put part of his land in the soil bank, and the payments
soon paid off his farm and ranch. His father and mother lived very
comfortable on the ranch on their social security and old-age as-
sistance checks. REA lines supplied electricity; the government
helped clear his land.
The county agent showed him how to terrace it; then the govern-
ment built him a fish pond and stocked it with fish. The government
guaranteed him a sale for his farm products at highest prices.
Books from the public library were delivered to his door. He
banked money which a government agency insured. H.s children
grew up, entered public schools, ate free lunches, rode free school
buses, played in public parks, swam in public, pools, and joined the
FFA. He owned an automobile so he favored the Federal highway
program.
He signed a petition seeking Federal assistance in developing an
industrial project to help the economy of his area. He was a leader
In obtaining the new post office and Federal building, and went to
Washington with a group to ask the government to build a great dam
costing millions so that the area could get “cheap electricity’’.
He petitioned the government to give the local air base to the
county. He was also a leader in the movement to get his specific
type of farming special tax write-offs and exemptions. Of course,
he belonged to several farmers’ organizations, but denied that they
were pressure groups.
Then, one day, he wrote to his Congressman: “I wish to protest
these excessive governmental expenditures and attendant high taxes.
I believe in urgged individualism. I think people should stand on
their own two feet without expecting handouts.
"I am opposed to all socialistic trends, and I demand a return to
the principles of our constitution and the policies of States Rights.’’
Do you happen to know this man?—The Brookville American,
Brookville, Pennsylvana.
★ ★ ★
FALLOUT BOOKLET IS PUBLISHED
What undoubtedly will be the most widely read booklet for 1962
is ready for distribution. It is “Fallout Protection, What to Know
and Do About Nuclear Attack.” It was prepared by the Defense De-
partment’s Office of Civil Defense. It will be distributed by local
civil defense offices and at post offices. It will be free. The first
publication is 25 million copies.
“Fallout Protection*’ is tastefully printed and contains 20 colored
illustrations, but its message is grim. Its purpose is to help save
lives if a nuclear attack should come, but its usefulness would be
limited to those who survived a nuclear blast and were exposed to
radioactive fallout. Fallout protection would be of no benefit to those
in a blast area. The booklet says bluntly that in a major attack on
this country, “millions of people would be killed.’’
However, readers are assured that “an effective program of civil
defense could save the lives of millions who would not otherwise
sruvive. Fallout shelters and relatived preparations, for example,
could greatly reduce the number of casualties.”
The empahsis of the booklet is largely on mass community-type
shelter facilities, but it gives descriptions of several low-cost in-
dividual and family shelters developed by the Office of Civil Defense.
Detailed plans and construction procedures for these shelters will
be contained in another booklet to be issued soon.
“Fallout Protection” also lists supplies that should be placed in
a shelter, discusses radiation sickness and first aid, and explains
how decontamination is achieved. Although its treatment of these
subjects is by no means exhaustive, there is much information that
could be of value if the need for it were to arise.
We all pray that the need never will occur, but it would be wise for
all householders to get a copy of the booklet._
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‘THE NEWSPAPER WITH A PURPOSE—SINCE 1880*
Published every Thursday at 127 West Travis St., La Grange, Texas,
by Central Texas Press, Inc.
Address all communications to —
The La Grange Journal, P. O. Box 59, La Grange, Texas
Member: Texas Press Association, Texas Gulf Coast Press Asso-
ciation, and South Texas Press Association
SUBSCRIPTION RATES;
In Fayette County, per year........$2.50
Elsewhere, per year.............$3.00
(Foreign Postage Extra*
Editor 6 Manager.......Durwood L. Fuchs
News 6 Society Editor ... * Mrs. Dottie Roberts
Bookkeeper & Artist.....Mrs. Florioe Zapalac
NOTICE—Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing,
or reputation of any person, firm, or corporation which may happen
to appear in the columns of The Journal will be corrected gladly if
brought to the attention of the management.
COMMENTS FROM
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
Dear Neighbors:
We in the 9th District are for
the most part connected one way
or another with agriculture. We
are either producers, processors,
or handlers. Those who do not
fall In one of these categories are
apt to be Involved In shipping,
manufacturing, or in some phase of
foreign commerce. One way or
another very few of us are not
concerned with the reciprocal
trade agreements between the
United States and foreign coun-
tires.
Every so often the law under
which our foreign trade functions
must be renewed. This is one of
those years. The more freely our
commerce flows overseas, the
more our own economy at home
can flourish. All of this Is with-
in reasonable limits, of course,
and when we talk about reciprocal
trade and lowering our tariff bar-
riers we don’t mean that any
Industry in this country should be
made to suffer through competi-
tion from low-cost foreign pro-
ducts.
In Western Europe a so-called
Common Market has been develop-
ed by which those nations will be
able to trade back and forth among
themselves without tariff restric-
tions much as we trade between the
States of our Union. Unless the
United States is geared to compete
with the European Common Market
our foreign trade will suffer. That
is one of the problems which we
must solve in our Ways and Means
Committee in the coming weeks.
Reciprocal trade is just what the
name Implies: we do business with
the, they do business with us. If
our job works out, great benefits
will accrue to our agricultural
economy and I will have done ser-
vice to agriculture equal to any I
have performed In the last 10
years.
Some weeks ago I wrote to as
many of you as I could reach about
available farmers’ bulletins. In
response to requsts which you
have sent In to me, some twenty
thousand of these publications are
either in your hands or on their
way.
This yar, I have mailed out to
those of you hardest-hit by Hur-
ricane Carla a list of some special
bulletins which I have been able
to acquire, which may be helpful
either In your rebuilding process
or now that the freeze has hit In
replanting vegetation which has
been destroyed. These news lists
may not have reached all of you
yet, but they are being processed.
Wonderful news for Freeport
this week. The Board of Army
Engineers meeting in Washington
took favorable action on the Hur-
ricane Protection measures as re-
commended by the District
Engineer in Galveston. The pro-
posal now goes to the Governor for
his approval and then we are ready
to Introduce the bill which we trust
will be included In an Omnibus Pub-
lic Works Bill and approved by the
House and Senate before we
adjourn. This has been a long,
hard fight and I am happy as any-
one in the Brazos port area about
it.
Now, we move on to areas not
yet protected and we go to work on
measures which will some day ren-
der them safe from the effects of
another Hurricane Carla should
one ever hit us.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★a*
FROM THE J
Edited ;
VlabiboolL J
By DURWOOD L. FUCHS J
VALUE OF ALL FARM products
sold In Fayette County last year
was $11,108,127, according to in-
formation released by the Agri-
culture Committee of the'Houston
Chamber of Commerce.
Only seven of the 29 counties
within 100 miles of Houston top-
ped this total, the report shows.
Counties having a higher value
of all farm products sold than
Fayette County are Brazoria,
$12,106,626; Colorado, $14,577,-
164; Fort Bend, $14,344,666; Har-
ris, $21,184,317; Jefferson, $11-
703,256; Matagorda, $13,171,194;
and Wharton, $22,671,477.
Fayette County’s value of farm
products sold Is further broken
down In the report as follows:
Field crops, $3,044,269; vege-
tables $6,301; fruits and nuts,
$43,557; forest and horticultural
specialty products, $132,657; a
total for all crops sold of $3,-
226,784.
Dairy products, $1,914,477;
poultry and poultry products, $1,-
716,979; and livestock and live-
stock products, $4,249,887; a total
of all livestock and livestock prod-
ucts sold of $7,881,343.
All of this goes to show that
Fayette County Is right up there
with the best of them in this
golden Gulf Coast area, agricul-
ture-wise, and, in spite of all we
hear sometimes about the decline
of agriculture In this area, it’s
still a pretty big business in good
old Fayette County.
Next Monday, Feb. 5, Is the
deadline for candidates to file
for a place on the Democratic
Primary election ballot.
* * •
AS AN ADDED safety factor
for motorists, automobile manu-
facturers will begin using amber
lights instead of white for front
turn signals starting with 1963
models.
The change, recommended by the
Board of Directors of the Automo-
bile Manufacturers Association, Is
another in a series of lighting
improvements resultng from the
work of a cooperating Industry re-
search and development group.
This engineering task force from
both the automobile and lamp
manufacturing Industries found In
an intensive program of visibility
tests that amber signals can be
seen more readily than white a-
gainst glaring reflections and also
provide greater contrast against
headlamps at night.
* * *
Isn’t It amazing what snowflakes
can do when they stick together?
--Hamilton, 111., Press.
* * •
W—W!
A Boulder, Colo., min'
ister hung this sign on the
announcement board out>
side his church:
“CH--CH
“What’s missing?"
„ „ . ... *
for CHRIST-against
COMMUNISM
BY
BILLY JAMES HARGIS, LL.D.
FOUNDER CHRISTIAN CRUSADE
DOES AMERICA NEED
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?
During the past couple of
years there has been an inten-
sive campaign in process in our
nation to convince Americans
that Big Government should
provide medical care for the
aged. Of course this so-called
program for the aged is merely
a foot in the door for bigger
things. In its January 10, 1961
report, the Kennedy Task Force
said: ‘The Task Force has con-
fined itself to the most imme-
diate necessities for federal
action and does not present its
recommendations as a com-
plete program for health and
welfare.” The December I,
1960 issue of the socialist pub-
lication "New America” pointed
out that the “precedent” which
the program will establish is
the important thing. Once this
foot is in the door the socialists
were told that “this nation will
be provided with a mechanism
for socialized medicine capable
of indefinite expansion in every
direction until it includes the
entire population.” Never for-
get that complete socialization
of the medical field is the ulti-
mate goal.
Before Americans swallow
the clever propaganda sweep-
ing the nation in behalf of
socialized medicine (without
calling it that) they had better
consider what has happened in
Great Britain’s program. The
July 18, 1960 issue of U.S.
News and World Report niaga-.
zine reported that many pa-
tients in Britain complain that
they have to wait too long to
see a doctor and when they
finally see him, he does not
have time to give them proper
attention. The article said that
a serious shortage of hospital
beds had developed in Britain,
and that “twice in the last four
years the British Medical Asso-
ciation has gone to the point
of threatening a mass walkout
from the Health Service in
order to get doctors’ pay
raised.” The article pointed out
that visitors to a London hos-
pital may find an office file of
patients which shows admission
lists of people who have been
waiting as long as three years.
This is socialized medicine in
action.
The Tulsa World newspaper
had one of its reporters do a
little checking ana reported in
an editorial on February 5,
1961 that the $1.54 deducted
each week from the average
British worker’s paycheck for
government health care is more
than a reasonable medical in-
surance policy costs in the
United States. The cost of tax-
payer-financed medical care
in Britain is steadily rising.
When government planners
seize power and money from
the people to promote the peo-
ples’ welfare, they make the
situation worse. They use the
failure of their own socialistic
methods to argue for more
power and more money. The
excuse is that they did not have
enough money and power in
the first place to do the job
right. This vicious circle goes
on and on. The ultimate end
of welfare state politics is total
dictatorship. Socialized medi-
cine is an important step on
the way.
• • • •
Address your questions to
Dr. Hargis, Christian Crusade,
Tulsa 2, Oklahoma.
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