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Page 4, Taylor Daily Pres, Monday, July 17, 1961
Published In Taylor, Texas, since 1913 and serving a market area of
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Needed: Nose for Fraud
We have some pretty alert watchdogs who
turn up evidences of waste and fraud in the spend-
ing of government money.
/ What we do not seem to have, however, is a
really effective system of inspection and control to
prevent major irregularities from occurring — or
at least halt them in their tracks.
If we had such a system, the watchdogs in the
General Accounting Office and elsewhere would
not have so much to do.
Obviously, where huge federal outlays are in-
volved, as in the interstate highway program and
other types of construction, the temptations are
great and control is of crucial importance.
It is not new that inspection officials at var-
ious levels sometimes yield to bribes or are now
and then careless and indifferent.
Less realized is the fact that inspectors fre-
quently are thrust into a situation, a working cli-
mate, which subjects them to a variety of human
pressures that affect their performance in other
ways.
One example concerns an architect who in-
spected new homes for FHA. When he found some
flaws, he served notice he would withhold appro-
val until they were corrected. Such firmness, he
learned, was not usual.
Those involved on the project let him know in
plain terms that his insistence on strict compliance
with FHA standards was not only inconvenient but
downright unsporting.
More recently, a House Public Works sub-
committee looking into highway irregularities un-
earthed some interesting facts about inspection on
an interstate project in Oklahoma.
A state inspector determined that truckloads
of asphalt were being improperly weighed. Contrac-
tor and truck drivers were paid on a tonnage basis.
When the inspector disclosed his findings to
project authorities, they treated him with cold hos-
tility. Truck trivers said he was “taking the cream
off their coffee.” The contractor made known his
displeasure, and forced the inspector’s removal.
A U.S. Public Roads engineer charged with
over-all control of this same project testified he
took at face value the word of project officials
that specifications were being rigidly followed. In
the easy atmosphere of good faith they fostered,
he never looked beyond the surface evidence —
which was largely fraudulent.
Clearly it is not enough to know that an hon-
est, conscientious inspector is on the job. We need
men openly bent on hunting for waste and fraud,
who can work under government procedures that
give them reasonable immunity against the pres-
sures here illustrated.
We can shoot for nothing less in trying to get
full value for the vast volume of public dollars
spent by government today.
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Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON—Ex - President
Eisenhower promised JFK recent-
ly that he would do his best to
se1!! congressional Republicans on
the foreign aid program. True to
his word, Ike invited leading GOP
congressmen to Gettysburg a
week ago and. spent considerable
time taking to them about the
importance of foreign aid in the
present precarious cold' war.
Before they left Gettysburg, de-
lightful Sen. Ev Dirksen of Illi-
nois and dejected-looking Charlie
Halleck of Indiana, the two
GOP leaders, promised they
would climib aboard Kennedy’s
foreign aid program—which is es-
sentially similar to Ike’s.
In view of this promised Co-
operation and in view of Republi-
can support recently given the
Kennedy bill to increase1 postal
rates, it might be well to take a
careful look at some of the key
Democrats who helped elect Ken-
nedy but don’t support him.
One of the most interesting
and closest to the President is the
handsome and charming junior
senator from Florida, George
Smathers, an usher at the Ken-
nedy wedding, a frequent golfing
partner and breakfast guest.
Whenever the president goes to
Palm Beach, Smathers usually
turns up in Florida at the same
time, drops in casually on ihis
old Meld.
Of late, however, this friendship
appears to be cooling.
Interesting Law Practice
One reason—at least on Ken-
nedy’s part—is not difficult to un-
derstand. In somewhat the same
manner that Eisenhower’s golf-
ing partner, George Allen, got
himself in, various profitable busi-
ness deals as a result of dose
affinity with the White House,
Senator Smathers has been using
his high position in the Senate to
push legislation of interest to his
law firm’s clients.
Smathers is a partner in the
firm of Smathers, Thompson, Max
well and Dyer, one of the most
important in Miami", with a long
string of clients listed in the law
directory of Martindaie-Hubbell,
including air lines, insurance com-
panies, steamship companies,
banks, hotels, and drydocks.
The first and foremost Client
listed by the Smathers firm in the
1960 directory is Pan American
World Airways, obviously not in
alphabetical order.
And' some of the senator’s acti-
vities as a member of the key
Senate Interstate Commerce Com-
mittee which writes the legislation
for the airways andi confirms
members of the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board are important; also
his speeches on the Senate floor.
This column once reported the
manner in which ex-Senator John
Bricker of Ohio used his place on
the same committee to vote the
interests of 'the railroads when
his firm was retained by the
Pennsylvania RR. The revelation
led to Bricker’s becoming an ex-
senator.
This column also reported on
some of the votes for the oil and
gas industry by bush-maned Sen.
Andy Schoeppel of Kansas, also
a key member of the same com-
mittee, though his law firm rep-
resents four important oil and gas
companies.
Bricker and Schoeppel are Re-
publicans. Smathers is a Demo-
crat. Though Smathers has a
habit of deluging editors with
complaining letters, a senator in
his important and' influential posi-
tion cannot escape comment.
Interesting Tax Amendment
Last month Smathers intro-
duced an amendment to the 'tax
bill eliminating $300,000,000 in tax
revenue from, the ten per cent
tax on railroad, airplane, and
bus travel. Smathers’ dose friend,
President Kennedy, wanted the
tax to remain in order to keep
the budget from going deeper in
the red, but Smathers’ law firm
happens to represent both the
Seaboard Railway and' Pan Amer-
ican Airways.
He fought hard for this amend-
ment, and lost in the finance com-
mittee, of which he is third-rank-
ing member, by 'the close vote of
10 to 7.
He did not advertise the fact
that his law firm represents two
powerful companies which would
benefit from the tax cut.
A month earlier, Smathers
made an important speech in the
Senate accusing the State Depart-
ment of “failure to maintain a
firm, established policy of award-
ing air routes and a failure to
see that the legitimate economic
interests of 'the U.S. airlines are
properly protected.
“The consequence of the State
Department’s failures is a steady
weakening of our international
air transport industry,” said' the
junior senator from Florida.
Smathers went to great lengths
to elaborate on this and to attack
the State Department, though the
policy of both Democratic and Re-
publican administrations have
been to give landing privileges to
foreign air lines when they give
similar privileges to U.S. lines.
What the handsome senator
from Florida did not tell his Sen-
ate colleagues, however,, was that
his law firm represents the big-
gest of all U.S. lines doing busi-
ness overseas—Pan American.
When Smathers complained to the
Senate that “less than 40 per
cent of this traffic is being car-
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They Tell Me He's Taming Down'
Life Begins at Forty
Golf Too Expensive for Him
By ROBERT PETERSON
Q. “What a laugh—-my doctor
examined me recently and recom-
mended that I take up golf.
What does he think I am,
rich or something? Now that I’m
retired I can’t even afford to go
bowling.”
A. Golf isn’t necessarily expen-
sive. Most cities have a munici-
pal golf course at the edge of
town where you can play for a
reasonable fee. He probably just
mentioned golf as an example of
the type of activity you need.
Check with him and see if he
doesn’t agree that there are
many forms of activity as good
or better than golf, including
brisk walking and setting-up ex-
ercises.
Q. “We’ve^ always lived in an
apartment. But last year on my
55th birthday my wife gave me
half-an-acre of woodland ten males
from town and along a river.
We single-handedly built a one-
room log cabin for $400. And our
taxes are only $30 a year. This
cabin 'has given us more pleasure
than anything we’ve encountered
since we passed 40. Every week-
end when the weather is good we
drive out to the cabin and may-
be spend the nighit. We relax,
putter around, and fish. Don’t
you agree more people should
have a hideaway like this?”
A. Yes, much of the boredom
afflicting people in their middle
and later years could be banish-
ed if people had a second resi-
dence—no matter how simple—
where they could go for a change
of scene. As you point out, such
a place need not be expensive.
Q. “I was shocked when I stop-
ped at the local golden age club
which my mother attends. She
was standing there with a mixed
group shooting pool on a table
donated by one of the members.
I don’t think it looks well for
women to stand around a pool
table. What’s happened to the
standards of older women”
A. What’s wrong with pool. The
game itself is as innocent as
checkers and many people find it
a lot more entertaining. Of
course, pool was once played
largely by rough males in smoky,
unsavory pool halls. But the game
has graduated to the recreation
rooms of genteel clubs and
homes. Even Queen Mother Eliz-
abeth was recently protographed
with a pool cue in her hand, thus
conferring on the game its ulti-
mate stamp of respectability.
Q. “I made the mistake of urg-
ing my husband to get a retire-
ment hobby. And he took up
the horses. He never went to a
race in his life before he retired
Now he follows racing forms
and goes to the track daily dur-
ing the season. He’s already
spent what we had in savings,
and he’s got his eye on $3,000
of securities in our safety deposit
box. He says he earned the
money so why shouldn’t he spend
it on the horses' if he wants to.
Any advice
A. You can’t do much for peo-
ple who become addicted to the
horses. They ordinarily won’t sit
down with a psychiatrist or
counselor to discuss their prob-
lem. And they can’t be cured mv
til they want to be cured. My
only suggestion is to use your
feminine wiles in persuading him
to stop gambling for your sake,
and try diverting his interests
into ether channels which he
will find more stimulating than
the horses. 1
IT OCCURS TO ME
SEVENTH STREET PLAN
POSTPONEMENT SEEN
By LIN MILLS
Taylor Press News Editor
STREET COMMISSIONER
Charlie Schroeder says he’s
pretty sure the city commission
will postpone the widening and’
re-construction of West Seventh
Street until next year.
He said he favored instead
“experimenting with what we
have” this year.
He had reference to paving
graveled streets and to the re
cent slurry seal work.
“I think we’re going to try to
do some good for those people
who have been suffering so long
with gravel streets,” Schroeder
says. “Those poor people have
been living on gravel streets for
a long time. The streets would
not be so bad if they weren’t
thoroughfares, but many of
them are. The dust is really
bad.”
And in connection with the
slurry seal coat put down oh
four Taylor streets recently by
Young Brothers Construction
Company of Waco (in coopera-
tion with Alcoa and TP&L),
Schroeder said, “we’ve got a
lot to learn about this slurry.”
With paving of gravel streets
and testing the slurry, he add-
ed, “We may not do as much
this year, but I think we’ll
make a lot of people happy.”
The new street camissiomer
said he knew that the council
had agreed to try to rebuild a
through street a year and that
this was “a pretty good plan’ ’
but that “these other things
keep corning up (gravel and
slurry) that sometimes might
knock out the street-a-year plan
temporarily.”
Said Schroeder, “I feel that
these other jobs should have
preference over the Seventh
Street project. If they (the city
council) go with me, that’s
what I want to do.”
Schroeder said paving of gra-
vel streets “ought to go on all
the time, wheether the city puts
on any pressure or not.” He
had reference to the fact that
the city and property owners
share in the cost of paving
the streets.
If a time payment plan is
needed by property owners,
Cromwell has always been will-
ing to work it out with them,
Schroeder went on to say.
If you would like a "booklet
Happy Birthday
Greetings of “Happy Birthday”
are being extended to the follow-
ing birthday celebrants:
Mrs. R. L. Headrick, Richard
Batla, L. G. Gonzenbach, Billy Zi-
dell ian,d Joyce Gail Baohmeyer.
Why Grow Old?
Plan Change in Hair Style
By JOSEPHINE LOWMAN amazing what a great difference
How long has it been since
you changed your hairdo? Are
you sure that you are wearing
your crowning glory in the
most becoming way? It is truly
a hairdo can make. It’s like ma-
gic.
Often when we see a woman
for the first time for a while we
suddenly think, “What’s happen-
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Try a new hairdo — following a few simple rules
to guide you.
ried on U S. flag lines” — because
of State Department policies—this
actually meant that a large part
of the 40 per cent was carried
by his client, Pan Am.
Then there was 'another fam-
ous bill which Senator Smathers
introduced and passed in 1958—
I he transportation act—a bonanza
for the railroads. Unquestion-
ably the railroads, suffering from
truck and airplane competition,
needed some relief. However, the
man who introduced and push-
I ed the bill, from his vantage
point inside the Interstate Com-
merce Committee, ’ was hot the
man to do it. His firm represent-
ed an important railroad—Sea-
board.
This is part of the record of
the charming and delightful sena-
tor from Florida, usher at the
Kennedy wedding and close
friend of the president—now not
so close.
(Copyright, 1961, By The Bell
Syndicate)
ed? She is so much better look-
ing.” Then we realizp that she
is wearing her hair in a different
way. Thai is what a change the
arrangement can make.
I think it is money well
spent to go to, a clever hairstylist
hairdo. If you cannot afford to
continue going to an expert, you
will find the hairstylist will be
willing to cooperate in planning
a style which you can handle at
home yourself or which an opera-
tor can carry out for you.
However, if you have no such
expert nearby, I can give you a
few simple rules which will allow
you -to experiment yourself.
If you have a long thin, face
you should try to make it appear
shorter and wider. Do this by
wearing your hair flat on top
of your head and fuller at the
sides.
If you -have a round face, do
just the opposite. Wear the hair
high on fop and close at the
temples.
The square face is somewhat
difficult to manage, yet it can be
a beautiful face. If this is your
type, avoid all square effects.
A standing part is flattering.
Wear your hair fairly high on
top of your head. Your hair,
should be close to your face at
the sides and the ears should
be covered. The hair should ex-
tend a little -below the ears.
All hairdos strive for the oval
effect, the oval face is considered
to be the most nearly perfect
one. If you have an oval face,
you can wear just about any
hairdo flatteringly.
Those women who have coarse
hair do not know how lucky they
are!
They can do virtually 'anything
with it. The woman with fine
hair can use a set of lotion to
advantage and she usually should
have her hair set on the large
rollers. If your hair is thin,
avoid parts, and also use a hair-
set.
If you would like to have my
lealfet on hair care, sent a stamp-
ed, self-addressed envelope with
your request for leaflet No. 52.
Address Josephine Lowman in
care of tins paper.
(Released by the Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1961)
“Starting a Travel Club for Old-
er People” write to this column
in care of the Taylor Daily Press
enclosing a stamped', self-address-
ed envelope.
Copyright, 1961, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
He said he thought the widen-
ing and reconstruction of Sev-
enth Street would make more
people angry -than the city made
-on Fourth Street. He said it
was the widening angle he had
particular reference to.
“I’m just not for making
them angry. They way I look
at it, we’ve got a lot of little
paving jobs that need' to be
done worse.”
In connection with one of
these small jobs—the short sec-
tion of North Drive just south
of Dellinger Drive that needs
paving—Schroeder -said, “We’re
going to get that section paved
by Sept. 1 (when school starts)
if I have to do it myself. I’m
not going to hear about it any
more alter school starts. But
the residents on the west side
of the street have indicated
they are willing to pay their
share of the cost if arrange-
ments can be worked out.”
Schi’ceder said there are “a
lot of places like that.”
And he explained that Tom
Bullion, city attorney, is trying
to work up a plan where resi-
dents in isolated' paving cases
can be forced to pay their
share.
He had one other comment
on the proposed Seventh Street
project.
He thought it would be con-
siderably more expensive than
Fourth Street, the first job
in the street-a-year plan that
has never been on schedule.
Fourth Street was supposed to
have cost something like $17,-
000. Seventh Street, according
to estimates, would run some-
thing like $50,000 or more. How-
ever, where Fourth was widen-
ed and rebuilt from Main to
Howard only, Seventh Street
would be from Main all the
way to Sloan.
The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
Master, which is the great
commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou
shalt love the Lord they God
with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. (Matthew 22:36, 37.) ^
PRAYER: Heavenly Father^
through the window of prayer,
show us Thy will. Increase
our love for Thee and Thy
work. Strengthen; us to put
Thee and Thy church above
self. Grant wisdom, patience,
and love as we serve Thee
this day. Through Him who
served all, Amen.
--o-
Mr. Merchant: Your Taylor
Daily Press ad man has your
master plan for more results from
advertising.
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
New Haven R.R. Failure
Is Lesson for the Nation
BY PETER EDSON ■
' Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—(NE A)—The whole toted States—not just
southern New England—has something to learn from the New
York, New Haven & Hartford application for appointment ofj
trustees to run the railroad under U.S. bankruptcy laws. \
This action follows the government’s legal inability to mak©
$5.5 million Defense Plant Corp. disaster loan to the railroad
to meet interest due on its bonds.
It points up the problem of mass transportation to and from
urban centers all over the country. For if the New Haven is
allowed to go bankrupt and go out of business, it would have toj
be recreated to handle the daily commuter load.
SO HOW DID if GET THAT WAY? The lesson to be learned!
is how to prevent it from happening elsewhere.
The New Haven has been in trouble for years. It sustained
heavy losses from the Connecticut River floods of 1955. Repair®
were made only with the help of federally guaranteed disaster
loans. j
Then in 1958 the Connecticut Turnpike and New England
Throughway were opened. For miles this superhighway runs
right alongside New Haven tracks. It is known as “The Chinese
Wall.” It effectively prevents any new industries from building
alongside the railroad right of way.
That, plus the recession and loss of business that rolled over'
the free, tax-built-and-maintained turnpike cut freight revenues'
57 per cent in two years. By August 1960, New Haven had
barely enough cash to meet its $1.5 million weekly payroll,
IN OCTOBER, NEW YORK Gov) Nelson Rockefeller saw that
the road’s commuter services had to be saved. He called a con-!
ference with Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts offi-;
cials to see what they could do.
On Oct. 31, the four states pledged $6.2 million state ta:
relief and the Interstate Commerce Commission guarantee!
loans of $4.5 million, later raised to $7 million.
Last March, New York state passed special legislation givin
the New Haven, New York Central and Long Island railroad
special relief. Similar legislation, applicable to the New Haver
has been passed or is being considered by the other three states
But even all this has not saved the railroad.
THE CASE OF THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD must also b
considered in this connection. It has been in as bad shape a
the New Haven, and for a longer time. But at a cost of $6
million over the last dozen years, it has been rehabilitated ii
equipment and service to a noticeable degree.
It faced exhaustion of its cash reserves last April. Again th
state of New York and its affected municipalities came to th
rescue with a $3 million program of abatement on local prop
erty taxes and assumption of passenger station operating cost
outside of New York City.
In return for this, the new State Transportation Office h
the right to impose standards of service to commuters. So tl
Long Island now has four years more in which to complete i
rehabilitation program.
If it can t make the grade and if the New Haven cai
reorganize and get a rehabilitation plan working, then the alt<
native will be more and more government operation.
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