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2- — Breckenridge American —SUNDAY, MARCH 5, i561
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Passage Seen for Kennedy's
Redevelopment Measures
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—fNEA)—There are 20 major and 83 minor
"areas of substantial and persistent labor surplus"—as they're
politely but officially called—in the United States today.
These 103—out of a total of 150 labor market areas surveyed
by Department of Labor—would be eligible for help under
President Kennedy's area redevelopment proposals now before
Congress as one of his recovery measures.
Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg indicates the February
unemployment figures will be higher. And Kennedy may visit
some of the worst areas, to focus attention on their problem
and his proposed solution.
THE CRITERIA HIS LEGISLATION sets up to define what
classifies areas as depressed are these:
HOT A CHANCE—• g
M'&StlLL um/Tr
• They must be areas of long-standing unemployment, above
low 6.6
>0 pe * " ... "
unemployment—which today would be 9.9 per cent—for three
the national average unemployment rate—now 6.6 per cent.
• They must show 50 per cent above the national average
of the last four years. Or,
• They nvist show 75 per cent above the national average
—11.5 per cent—for two of the last three years. Or,
• They must show 100 per cent over the national average
■—13 2 per cent—for the previous year.
By any of those measurements, this is a definition of serious,
Img-term business recession.
SOME BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS are violently opposed
to government aid for depressed areas. One of their principal
arguments is that such areas can help themselves, if they try.
But behind this private enterprise bravado is a fear that
building up depressed areas will only take business away from
jieas where business is better, making them depressed. This
is the self-interest approach to the problem.
-The positive approach is that raising depressed areas to
flosperity should make business even better in areas that have
*s than average unemployment.
NEW VERSION of area redevelopment which the Kennedy
administration is now backing would set up revolving funds
for loans of $100 million for urban communities, $100 million
for loans to smaller and rural communities and $100 million
for public utility loans in all areas.
• -This $300 million in loans is intended to finance building or
. remodeling of public works, or plants and facilities that will
ettract new industries or commercial enterprises.
The so-called give-away part of the program would include
.annual appropriations of $75 million as grants to communities
•i®r public utilities they can't finance themselves.
There would also be $10 million a year in grants for retrain-
ing workers in new industries and their subsistence while
learning Finally, there would be $4.5 million a year for tech-
nical assistance to depressed communities. This is to help them
plan for new businesses to replace dead or dying industries.
l_ There is a further provision that in the first year of this
"redevelopment effort, only $90 million in loans and $15 million
in grants for public works could be made.
There is little doubt that legislation in this field will be
passed a- one of the President's first recovery measures.
*/HAb 71 Qptr.Too
~ I COULOU'T/Mto
75 mCH SCHOOL r
SUfc LUCKY, MOM—
K&TA SEAT /H .
SCHOOL TODAY!*
That First Month In Office
PEACOCK DOES. TOO. HAVE
PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE SAYS
The Abilene Reporter News
to the people cif Pracock.
The Censu* Bureau, rather .stuffily
thought, reported recently Pea-
toek i*?ople aren't, that Peacock
a formal town with /.cm number
tif people. The 170 to 180 people
who obviously are present in Pea-
cock point out that the govern-
ment's oificial counting agency is
ivrorm.
An error it was. an error which
« anic about because of uncertainty
i>t Peacock's status as an organiz-
LITTLE LIX
fflSC
ileconMpybusee'
world ii' up to
ed town, not uncertinty about the
number of people there. It once
was incorporated, but incorporation
. has been abandoned in practice u
I not in legal fact. The lower levels
of the Census Bureau considered
the town unincorporated and count-
, ed the people as rural residents.
, The upper levels of the Bureau con-
sidered the town incorporated —
and, lo it had no people listed in
I it.
Peacock was developed in 1909
by the Stamford and Northwestern
Railroad when that once-busy line
| extended itself trom Stamford over
: to Spur. We have two versions oY
■ the naming of Peacock Residents
report it was named Yor B. B.
! and Morgan Peacock, owners and
. operators of a general store and
; kinsmen of Peacocks still living
in the area. The usually authorita-
tive Handbook of Texas, published
by the Texas State Historical Asso-
ciation with Walter Prescott Webb
as editor ■ in - chief, gives a dif-
ferent version. Peacock it says,
was named Alluvia when it was
'started in 1909 and was renamed
in 1910 for 'J.- W. Peacock who
became'postmaster when he mov-
e0 his general store from Lingo,
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
President Kennedy's Ylrst month
in office was a great deal more
crowded than former President
Eisenhower's back in 1953.
A day by day review of the two
periods produces a list of Kennedy
actions more than three times as
long as Ike's.
Partisan politicians naturally dis-
agree as to the reason ior Ken-
nedy's much brisker pace.
Democrats say he simply is act-
ing as he must, to meet develop-
ing crises abroad and a receasion
at home. Republicans argue he is
consciously stirring an emergency
mood so he can ram his favored
legislation through Congress and
later take credit for curing trou-
ble.
Both sides agree that the two
of the office, with the incumbent
men have sharply dilYerlng views
committed to a driving use of presi-
dential power and Eisenhower pre-
ferring a more cautious approach.
In the first month, both men de-
livered State of the Union mes-
sages, but Kennedy sent Congress
half a' dozen others on such topics
as the general economy, our Inter-
national economic problems, the
nation's health, specific anerce-
sion proposals, a program to boost
farm income and ease surpluses of
corn and feed grains.
Ike in that period held one press
QUI O Wt WAY
one mile north.
Be that as it may. Peacock's his-
! tory since has paralleled that of
i thousands o'i other small towns. It
flourished as the range became
farm land. It had stores, a bank,
a newspaper 'the Index* and po-
pulation up to an official 350 in
1920. But farming became mech-
anized, farms grew and farm la-
bor force dwindled and the town
lost population. Instead of a busi-
ness "square," Peacock now has
a "main street."
The good people oY Peacock
aren't angry over being bureauera-
tlcally classed as non - existent.
The error, they say. has given
their community more publicity
than it has had in a long time.
We Join them In the publicity ef-
fort. We want everybody to know
Peacock still is. We think the small
towns of this area are very impor-
tant places, even though they are
littler than they once were. We
would like each of them t* keep its
identity. The Census Bureau and
it classifications to the contrary
notwithstanding.
ORN TMlKTV Y1AK too 5qom
conference, almost as the month
was up. The President has held
four.
Eisenhower became quickly en-
grossed in trying to end the Kor-
ean War, but decisive action was
still months off. Kennedy was
plunged into crises in Laos, the
Congo, the United Nations,. He
conferred steadily with key U. S.
diplomats from the trouble spots,
with Yoreign affairs advisers, and
visiting diplomats.
Ike's principal legislative move
was to draft an 11-point program
of "must" bills. Most of the bills
he listed were sent to Capitol Hill
irt later weeks.
In the mater of exective orders,
the fot-mer president ordered all
controls off wages and prites, dir-
ected the U. S. 7th fleet to stop
guarding Red China against For-
mosa, named a commission to plan
a unified cold war strategy.
The Initial Kennedy month saw
bills going to Congress to aid de-
pressed areas, ease general unem-
ployment strains, hike Yarm in-
come, provide medical care for
the aged, add 59 new federal jud-
ges. boost the federal minimum
ge fl<
i orders, aimed largely at arresting
, a home iront downturn and a gold
outflow to nations abroad, poured
out In volume.
Historians will say both the men
and their times were different. And
theji will have to decide which
man's "first month" did most Yor
the United States in the troubled
postwar era.
wage
The
loor.
new
President's executive
BARBS
By HAL COCHRAN <
The safest side for a man to
fake in an argument between
two neighbors is the outside. /
•* • • A
A Mexican man celebrated]
, his 101st birthday. Imaging*]
only one soft year.'
fas
There are plenty of women
who live in a shoe that,fits go
W
_ Robber* have takbi loot
from ait Ohio tobarto store
three times. -Police should
smoke them out. - "
CARNIVAL
by DICK TURNER
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BRECKINRIDGE AMERICAN
published Btudav morning and Tuesday, Wednesday, Tbuitday
oon by Brefckenridgc American, Inc., at 114 K.
Friday afternoon _
n j Street, Breckenridge, Texas.
filtered at the Post Office In Breckenridge, Texas aa aecond-daaa
Batter under the Act of Congress, March I, tfTO.
Inert class restate paid at BreekeorMte. Tlx as.
PnbscriptioD rate In PNfcbM* County, by nail 5.93. Bbewbote
jn Texas 6.50, out of state 9.00.
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"Helen, Jarttef.
use tonii
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Getting General
The Star-Telegram
Sooner or later, it appears, Tex-
as will have a general sales tax
even while its governor and many
of its legislators piously proclaim
their unalterable opposition to such
a levy. For if sales taxes continue
to expand, it will not be long until
the items excluded are far less
numerous than the items included.
Having abandoned his payroll-
earnings tax plan as "unacceptable
and futile," Governor Price Daniel
now turns to other taxes to raise
the money to meet the needs oY
the state government.. And in
great part what are the taxes he
proposes? Why, sales taxes. Selec-
tive sales commodities on which
they are levied would be specifi-
cally designated, but sales taxes
just the same. And as the number
of items specifically designated
is broadened, the tax becomes
less and less selective.
Take the items which he proposes
to tax. or to tax at a higher rate-
gasoline (a 1 cent - a - gallon in-
crease i, motor vehicles, central air
conditioning units, restaurant
meals, cosmetics, boats and mo-
tors, automotive and boat parts,
house hold appliances, jewelry,
watches, business machines, build-
ing materials, home and ofice
furnishings, soit drinks, alcoholic
spirits. Together with the items
already "selected"' for taxation,
the list would not have to be broad-
ened a great deal to blanket the
entire field oY purchasable items
— with the exception of food and
medicines, which are excluded
from most general sales tax lev-
ies.
This gradual broadening of the
sales tax coverage is causing some
legislators to reconsider their pre-
conceived oposition to anything
that might be called a general
sales tax. At least as the legisla-
tors look over their difficult re-
venue problem and the ways avai-
lable for meeting it, sentiment for
a general sales tax reportedly is
rising.
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30—Faith For Today
:00—Travis Ave. Baptist Church
00—Sunday Matinee
30—NBA Pro Basketball Game
:00—Omnibus
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30—People Are Funny
00—Shirley Temple Show
00—National Velvet
30—Tab Hunter Show
00—Chevy Show
00—Loretta Young
; 30—This is your Life
00—News Final
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30—Movietime USA
Aside from playing host to vaca-
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oh, all right here.'
NAVE A BITE.
mdos best, th'/ yeh.„lts
jungles / hard tbew
ht.' rl a banana,
aint it?
well/that5 all
right if ITS not
pterodactyl? ) TOO old. but
with gator an* fros
an' triceracrops.too f aw,
just waftin' around/ i bont
FOR us t5tew want any
stew.'
brought
e...bu
would
\
pine?
ROUND I
to la'
which
if thais all it whats fire
6, >our worries i got tdo
retire.' you canv
fight it on; fire
WITH FIRE!
i take it f yeh...a
then, fdr bunch of
cryikt out \ guerrillas
lour vourev '
up
ouite a
crowd
oh th&t, my friend, & but
a figger OF SPEECH for
a plan of combat 1hkts
^ peach/
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FROM
ARMY OF
CAPTAIN EASY
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