The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1955 Page: 4 of 10
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Moment of Meditation
Therefore all things whatsoever jre
would that men should do to yoti, do ye even
so to them: for this fa the law and the pro-
phets. Matthew 7:12.
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fa Unwise Tn Reduction Proposal
A Democratic proposal t6 reduce indi-
vidual income taxes next Jan. 1 without first
cutting government spending enough to avoid
a huge budget deficit is not onlv fiscal ir-
responsibility, as the President termed it, but
also political irresponsibility.
• Sponsors of the proposal were not content
to introduce it in Congress as a separate bill
and let it stand or fall orf’its own merits
They tacked it onto a tax bill which the - - -
President cannot veto without losing a lot of memb«r
needed revenue. . ''
A1 the face of it, the income tax reduction
plan looks like a good thing for the individual
and doubtless, will give the Democrats some
powerful ammunition for the political wars
of this-year and next. But, like all other ideas
for reducing federal revenue without first
providing for a cut in government spending,
it just doesn’t make sense. .
if a cut in personal income .taxes causes
Sn increase in the federal deficit—as it is
* bound to do—■ there will Have to be-borrow-
ing. That means interest will be added to the
amount which eventually must be collected
from the taxpayers to make up the deficit
and those taxpayers will be the same ones
supposedly benefited by the income tax re-
duction.
Each $20 given back to the individual
under this proposal is likely to cost that same
individual somewhere close to $30 in the
years ahead. Is that supposed to make ec-
onomic sense? >
Actually, we doubt that the American
people as a whole can be tricked with this
sort of political chicanery these days. Most of
us know enough about, government financing
to realize that a tax cut which increases the
public debt—and the interest paid on it—is
not good for the taxpayers.
Most of us also realize that when Congress,
or any of its members in either party, dodge
their responsibility for keeping government
spending down to the lowest point possible
under the circumstances they are not repre-
senting us as they should. And when they
compound such negligence with a proposal
which will make future taxes higher than
necessary they are adding insult to injury.
Let no one tell you federal spending can’t
be cut mole than enough to justify the in-
come tax reduction now under consideration.
There isn’t a department or agency of the
government which can’t get by on less money
than it is now spending and many of us re-
main perpetually baffled by the inability or
unwillingness of our lawmakers in Washing-
ton to reduce their budgets.
If, somehow, Congress can whittle down
these departmental and agency appropriations
to what they should be there could be a com-
h pletely justified bi-partisan move for a re-
duction in personal income taxes.
Commission Opposes Aid to Schools
The Leader now has powerful support in
Washington for its argument that the states
and local districts, not the federal govern-
ment, should provide the new schools which
the nation needs.
A presidential commission yesterday was
handed a report declaring federal aid is not
necessary for construction of new schools.
The report came to President Eisenhower’s
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
as some members of Congress were accusing
the administration of being too stingy with
federal funds in its school building program—
a stand which is not shared by many persons
familiar with the consequences of govern-
ment participation in school construction and
operation.-
Prepared by a -commission study group,
the report made public yesterday recommend-
ed that the government gradually withdraw'
from the school lunch program, sharply cur-
tail its aid to vocational education, and stay
clear of assistance tq community libraries.
It said federal aid is not necessary for
either current operating expenses for public
schools or for capital expenditures for new
school facilities. The states, it added, can af-
ford to spend more of their owm money.
In those statements we heartily concur,
with this exception: In some districts (Orange
is one of them) there is federal ownership of
large tracts of property which in private
hands would yield substantial amounts in
school taxes. There i should continue to be
some form of payment in lieu of taxes on
such propwly but this should be made with-
out attachmg strings which would give even
the least measure of federal control over the
schools. .
JOHN U MCCLELLAN, bora
Feb. «. ISM. in. Sheridan, Art,
son of a country
lawyer. The
senator (D-Ark.) ff
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the Senate In- |
vestigations Sub-
committee sue- i
c e e d i n 8 Sen. (
Joseph McCar-
thy. Says he will]
rule out “one -i
man hearings’
by his commit- stratton
tee. Elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives in 1934 and to Senate in
1942, Re-elected in 1954. Known
as an independent, conservative
• of his party.
Boyle Writes:
Daredevils Need
Not Apply for Job
As Jet Test Pilot
By HAL BOYLE
FARMINGDALE, N. Y. (AP)—
Would you be afraid to ride in a
jet airplane as it broke through
the sound barrier? ->
The public generally pictures
this a frightening physical or-
deal in a plane
I vibrating like a
j sparrow caught
[ in a tornado.
Oscar P. "Bud”
i H a s s, a veteran
j test pilot who
’wort his wings
| at 17 and now is
^47 and a grand-
father, says this
| is only one of
[many miscon-
ceptions about
j the work of the
’elite fliers who
Hal Bayla test the nation s
, war planes.
. ’I*1 most airplanes today if you
didn t have a speed indicator you
wouldn’t know you’d gone through
the sound barrier,” he said. “You
usually don’t even know when it
happens.”
Supervises Crew
Hass, director of flight opera-
tions at Republic Aviation- Corp,
supervises a crew of 16 pilots who
test the new F84s Thunderstreak
fighter bombers. The planes can
exceed 650 miles an hour and car-
ry an atomic bomb.
Bud estimates there are perhaps
no more than 600 jet test pilots in
America.
“It’s a pretty new field.” he
said. “Hardly anyone in it de-
liberately set out to be a jet test
pilot. Most of them are former
armed forces fliers with combat
records. There is no other place
for them to get the experience,”
Nice work if you can get it. The
pay is good—in the $10,000 a year
class. The hours are good—an av-
erage of 35 hours a month in the
air. compared to 85 for a com-
mercial transport pilot. The fliers
check in at 7 am, and check out
at 3 p.m.
There is also plenty of fresh
oxygen and exercise on the job,
The test pilot really starts his
main chores at an altitude of 40,-
000 feet.
No Daredevils
But no daredevils need apply.
No manufacturer wants to put . a
hot rod flier in the cockpit of a
$400,000 airplane. The test pilot is
an intensely serious young man";
who must serve both as a scientist
and a highly paid bookkeeper as
he puts a plane through its final
performance check before it is
turned over to the Air Force.
“When I flew- my first plane,
an 0X5 standard, a plane similar
to the old Jenny.” recalled Bud,
“all I had to worry about was the
ignition switch and three instru-
ments. They showed the oil pres-
sure, the water temperature and
the engine speed. No compass. No
radio,
“We had a dip stick to tell us
how much gas w-e had left, and
we, filled her up with five-gallon
cans from the nearest auto filling
station. She burned four gallons
an hour, and flew at 60 miles an
hour.
“A jet fighter - bomber today
burns more than 1,000 gallons of
fuel an hour at sea level, and the
cocKpit has more ttan 200 switches
and instruments.”
MACS MARCO*
Th# World Today:
Financing of More Adequate
Highway System Is Problem
---- By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Presa News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP)—One of. 1955’s best un-
derstatements was in the report to President Eis-
enhower by his advisory committee on highways.
It said: “There'can be no serious question as to
the need for a more adequate highway system. Only
the . cost and how it is ip be met
poses , a problem.” I
Then the committee suggested!
• superhighway program and a]
Way to pay for it. In terms much ]
vaguer than the committee’s, Eis-j
enhower recommended it to Con-1
gress.
There it Tan into a critical!
chorus: there was no disagree-1
fnent on the need for better high-
ways but plenty of question on!
how to pay for them. T j
- Under the present program—
if continued over the next 10 years l
—the government would spend
8 3-4 billion dollars on main and
secondary roads.
Under the proposed program—over the next
19 years—the government would spend 31 billion
dollars: 25 bllllona on superhighways, 6 billion
on lesser roads. ■■■—
Under the present program the states, cities and
towns are spending $3,825,000,000 a year, which
would be $38,250,000,000 over 10 years.
Under the proposed program—over Iff years—
the states, cities and towns would be called on to
spend 70 billion but only 2 *4 billion on super-
highways. v 1 • x ’.
So far and away the 'main cost of the super-
highways would have to be borne by the federal
government.
A special federal corporation would be created
to handle the superhighway financing. It would
sell bonds to raise 25 billion dollars for a 10-year
program with the bonds to be paid off in 30 years.
The money the government got over 30 years
from taxes on motor fuel would be specially set
aside to pay off the bonds. And Eisenhower sug-
gested the government might get revenue from toll
roads .
This isn’t the whole picture but it raises some
of the main questions and arguments:
Why set up a government corporation at all?
Why not Jet the Treasury pay the costs out of
ita general fund as it does for other government
debta?
It might be cheaper; the corporation might have
to pay higher interest rates on its bonds than the
Treasury pays on bonds it sells to raise money.
The committee estimated the corporation’s in-
terest costs over 30 years at 11 billion dollars. That,
added to the 25 billion for superhighways, plus 6
billion for secondary roads, would make this new
highway program cost at least 42 billion.
By law Congress puts a limit on the money the
government can borrow through the Treasury.
Wouldn’t setting up a special corporation which
could borrow money be just a device to get around
the debt limit and make the public debt look
smaller?
Television-Radio News: 1
Paul Winchell Is Well Content
With Saturday Kiddie Show
Bv WAYNE OLIVER
, NEW YORK (AP)—One of the early stars of
nighttime network television, Paul Winchell now
is entertaining the kiddies on NBC Saturday morn-
ings and says he’s well content with the arrange-
ment.
“I like it much better,” says ventriloquist Win-
chell, the voice of Jerry Mahoney and Knuckle-
head Smiff, his dummy costars.
"I feel I’m accomplishing something good. We
try to make it fun for the kids but also to include
educational elements.
“There’s a mueh heavier responsibility than
on a night show when your only responsibility
Is to he as entertaining and as funny ss you r.in.
Children are tremendously lmnresslonahle. We
never do anything on the show that Isn’t tailored
to the Idea that youngsters must be able to under-
stand it—and repeat it.”
Winchell, now 31, was well known in radio,
Supper clubs and theaters when he first went on
TV in late 1948. For 2*4* years he was eo-featured
with Dunninger’s mind reading act, and then for i
two seasons he and his wooden pal Jerry had their |
own program billed as the Paul Winchell and Jerry ;
Mahoney Show.
“I changed that the next season to the Paul |
Winchell Show, starring Jerry Mahoney,” Paul re-
calls. “That was because the program listings had
been carrying it as the Jerry Mahoney Show. I
didn't mind losing my identity—but I wasn't going
to lose it to a block of wood.”
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have received 30.-
000 fan letters commenting on the cnange of the
mythical locale of I Love Lucy from New York to
Hollywood, where it had been filmed from the
beginning. Most were favorable . . , Milton Berle.
Martha Raye and Ray Bolger head the cast for
NBC’s Sunday night spectacular entitled “Big
Time” . . . Art Linkletter flies from Hollywood to
Mexico late today for a week’s vacation. He will be
back on his Houseparty on CBS-TV March 7.
WHERE ARE
THOSE CREEPS?
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GENERAL CONFERS WITH IKE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, commander
of the U.S. Army forces in the Far
East, called yesterday on President
Eisenhower. He declined to say
what they discussed and would not
comment on Tokyo reports he will
succeed Gen. John Hull as U.N.
commander in the Far East
April 1.
The Orange Leader
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J. Cullen Browning .
Mrs. James Dees —
L. R. iBobi McHugh
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_Sports Editor
-Admtttln* Director
. Circulation Manager
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JUST A CHANGE OF DRIVER
I Literary Guidepost: Today's Best Book
By W. O. ROGERS
BON JO UR TRISTESSE. By even warmer Interest
Francois* Sagan, translated from
French by Irene Aih. Dutton.
The narrator In this 18-yssr-
old author's first novel is 17-
year-old Cecile. The heroine*
convent education is being radic-
ally revised under the tutelage of
her unwise, fond father Long a
widower, he has, instead of a new
mother for his daughter, an end-
less string of mistresses for him-
self. Cecile no sooner gets used to
one, than another takes her place.
As the novel opens, father and
daughter, with his current Elsa,
are vacationing on a Mediterran-
ean shore. Cecile is showing an
A Problem a Day
Two trees. 90 ft. and 108 ft.
high respectively, stand on the
same level. If a rope 112-172 ft.
long attached to a peg in the
ground between the trees vyill just
reach the top of either tree, how
far apart are the trees?
ANSWER
99 ft . Subtract square of 90 and
square of 108 each from square of
112.5; extract square rot of each
result, add together.
in Cyril, a
neighbor; and then there comes to
join the threesome at Cecile’s,
Anne, former friend of her moth-
er's.
Anne believe* girl* should
study, shouldn't be gond all hours
with boys, and certainly should
not roll around in half-childish,
half-adult clinches on the soft
earth under the pines. Cecile at
first doesn't care what Anne
thinks; but the situation change*
entirely when Elsa is driven out
and Atine and the father decide to
marry. Now the girl’s love-and-
let-Jove existence is threatened;
though she may like Anne, she
likes her carefree liberty even
more. So she connives to save
the empty, meaningless life she
and her father had enjoyed.
Here is a remarkable story —
and not merely became the au-
thor. though in her teens, has a
graybeard's wisdom. This is a bril-
liant picture of that precarious*
frontier between half-knowledge
and knowledge, between child and
grown-up. This is a tart, malicious,
modern version of the old fash-|
ioned notion about how insidiousl
A via.
The translation is good, the title
tightly kept in French-
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1955, newspaper, February 25, 1955; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth556854/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.