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Page 4, Taylor Daily Press, Thursday, June 8, 1961
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i Working on the Plus Side
a -W® came awa^ from the meeting of the Taylor
Agriculture and Industrial Foundation meeting Mon-
day with the strong feeling that if a sound industrial
prospect is presented Taylor will rise to the call.
The meeting was valuable for its fine exchange
ot opinions, the constructive criticism offered, and
openmany opportunities for Progress so obviously
' Some foundation members believe a new corpor-
ation within the present organization should be
lormed with stock subscriptions promising a return
to investors should be the course followed. Others
leel a new drive for donations should be conducted.
The officers will conduct a limited drive based
on a 10 per cent addition to existing pledges in order
to wipe out a deficit and provide some funds for
investigating new prospects. This will suffice for
the present.
I For the long haul, either course could get the job
done. However, the prospect of the return of their
investment might be the most attractive' to Taylor
people. This course has been followed in other cities
and has proved most effective. , ■
Having once sought subscriptions in the- form
of donations, it might be difficult to raise an ade^
quate sum by this method.
Some foundation members felt a better turn-
out would have been encouraging Monday night.
This is true but we must consider the fact that foun-
dation’s efforts have been successful in landing new
industry for the city. We have a good record for
having aided several projects and in bringing Kerr-
Ban to Taylor. Perhaps a few mistakes and the loss
of funds would have resulted in a corporate battle
similar to the New York Central or Alleghany
Corporation. This would certainly have stirred in-
terest.
1. Instead, we believe a great deal of confidence
is vested in the present board of directors and of-
ficers. They have followed a prudent path and have
shown results for their efforts.
What we are trying to accomplish here is typi-
cal of the efforts of many cities across the nation.
Competition for new industry is the fiercest imag-
inable. Economically, nearly every area is hungry
for plants and payrolls. It means business opportun-
ity, jobs for our wage earners, good prospects at
home for our children. In a day of larger farms and
increased mechanization, we need more and more
opportunities for our young people who a generation
ago would have found a vocation on the farm.
/ We have a type of sincerity and business acu-
men in Taylor that will result in success in these
efforts. There are many negative events plaguing
us that will be overcome. We are in the midst of a
constantly changing economic picture. But sound
business principles and alertness to opportunities,
linked with a practical approach to establishing
plants in our city, will bring us out on the plus side
m the months and years ahead.
... BARBS ...
1 Things aren’t really half as trying if you are.
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7 . Life begins at forty right along with rheum-
atism and arthritis.
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The way some grownups act at a party, maybe
toys should be saved for second childhood.
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Constant misuse wears away most anything,
including friends.
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A gal whose face is her fortune should watch
out that it isn’t overdrawn.
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON—The story can
now be told how an angry tele-
phone call between a wildly shout-
ing Gov. John Patterson and a
white-lipped Attorney General Ro-
bert Kennedy finally ended the
Kennedy - Patterson political
partnership during the Alabama
race riots.
The Alabama governor was the
first: prominent southerner to en-
dorse Jack Kennedy for Presi
dent, worked closely with Bob
Kennedy during the fight for the
Democratic nomination, cam-
paigned faithfully for the Kennedy
ticket against Dixiecrat opposi-
tion.
But Patterson could not be
reached when the attorney gen-
eral tried to call him about pro-
tecting the freedom riders who
had been mobbed in Alabama.
He was just not around. Even
Charlie Meriwether, Patterson’s
political pal who was given a soft
Washington job by the Kennedy's,
could not get through to the gov-
ernor whom he had helped elect
and whom he had served as his
No. 1 man.
Finally, during the long, tense
night as a white mob gathered
outside Montgomery’s First Bap
tist Church to waylay the wor
shipping freedom riders, Patter
son came out of seclusion and
himself called the attorney gen
eral who had been trying to reach
him. He said he had ordered the
National Guard to the scene.
Then Patterson launched into
tirade against Kennedy. Be-
coming almost incoherent with an
ger, he accused Robert Kenne
dy of sending the freedom riders
into the stale.
“You know that isn’t true,” re-
plied the attorney general evenly.
The governor cooled down for a
few minutes, then let loose an-
other outburst. He demanded that
Kennedy withdraw his federal
marshals from the state, and
warned that his use of the mar-
shals would have dire political
consequences.
“It is more important that
those people survive physically
than we survive politically,’’ snap-
ped Kennedy, referring to the
beseiged freedom riders.
No Protection for Martin
The governor of' Alabama re-
torted that the National Guard
would be able to protect all the
freedom riders except the Rev.
Martin Luther King, who was
holding down the pulpit inside the
beleaguered church.
Kennedy demanded to know
who said King couldn’t be pro-
tected, and Patterson named Ad
jutant General Henry Graham.
“You have the general call
me,” barked Kennedy. “I want
him to say it to me! I want to
hear a general of the United
States Army say he can't pro
tect Martin Luther King!”
Patterson backed down, agreed
that the National Guard could
protect everyone.
The attorney general then
phoned the Rev. Mr. King in-
side the church to assure him of
protection. The Negro minister
was just as dubious as Patter-
son as to whether Alabama state
troops would protect him. He also
wondered whether the federal
marshals could keep the situa-
tion under control.
“Now, Reverend,” chided Ken-
nedy. “You know that without
those federal marshals all of you
would be dead.
Throughout the crisis the
young attorney general remained
cool but tough, showed a matur-
ity that amazed veteran Justice
Department hands.
“I was proud of him,” said
one with unconcealed admiration
Even Republicans seemed im
pressed when Abraham Ribicoff,
the new secretary of health, edu-
cation, and welfare, finished his
testimony on water pollution be-
fore the House Public Works
Committee.
Are there any further ques
tions?” inquired Democrat John
Blatnik of Minnesota, who was
presiding,
“I have no special comment,”
spoke up the ranking Republican,
James Auchincloss, a New Jersey
conservative, “except to say that
am not at all surprised that
the secretary made such an out-
standing statement.
“I have listened to a lot of
statements from cabinet mem-
bers, but you hit the nail on the
head here. There is only one
thing that bothers me.”
What is that?” inquired Ribi-
coff.
“I wish you were a Republi-
can.”
When Vice President Johnson be-
came chairman of the Equal Em-
ployment Opportunity Committee,
some people wondered whether he
would really take the job seri-
ously. They remembered that
Johnson comes from Texas and
there’s a lot of opposition to job
ihtegration in that state.
Telephoning Secretary of De-
fense Robert McNamara shortly
after, his appointment, Johnson
said: “This question of job inte-
gration has got to apply to the
big detense contractors, not just
to a few officers in the Army,
Navy, and Air Force. I want to
know what Lockheed and Con-
vair and Boeing are doing in re-
gard to job opportunities.”
Secretary McNamara took John-
son at his word, made an imme-
diate investigation of job oppor-
tunities with big defense con-
tractors.
As a result, Lockheed Aircraft;
Marietta, Ga., hitherto neyer in-
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A Meal Fit for a Sucker
Why Grow Old?
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Simple Exercises Good for Figure
By JOSEPPHINE LOWMAN
Today let me give you a few
simple exercises which are not
difficult to do but which do won-
ders for your figure. The follow-
ing one is corrective to bulging
thighs, a flabby inner leg line and
fat under the arms.
Lie on the floor on your back,
legs straight and arms resting
on the floor overhead. Keep your
elbows straight and your knees
stiff as you drag your legs apart
(heels do not leave the floor)
and swing your arms down to-
ward your sides, touching your
fingertips to' your thighs. Drag
your legs apart as you move your
arms sideward-upward to over-
head position. Arms stay close to
the floor. Clap your hands togeth-
er as your legs come together.
Continue, slowly, taking time for
the stretch.
The old standby, the front bend.
Contrary to popular notion
Australians do not speak Cock-
ney. The Australians invented
this slang out of time and circum-
stances in their own country.
-o-
Save gasoline, shop at home.
tegrated, has just signed an equal
employment agreement. This is
revolutionary in Georgia.
The vice president and Secre-
tary McNamara are checking on
other big defense contractors.
(Copyright, 1361, by The Bell
Syndicate)
is a good exercise if you do it
correctly. Most women do not
give enough attention or time to
the upward stretch. This is an
important part of this exercise.
When you raise your trunk after
bending forward, lift your rib
cage also. This gives you a won-
derful pull over the diaphragm.
Front bends keep the spine flex-
ible, reduce fat over the dia-
phragm and stretch the back leg
muscles (if you keep your knees
stiff, as you should).
The following are two easy ex-
ercises for the waistline. Stand
with your feet separated'. Raise
your arms overhead. Keep the
arms in this position as you
sway from side to side, as far to
the right as comfortable and then
to the lett.
In this same position make
large circles with your torso, cir-
cling first in one direction and
then in the other.
Just these few simple exercises,
done correctly, will give your fig-
ure a big lift tov/ard beauty.
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If you would like to have my
short, daily routine of exercises
which are corrective to the most
usual feminine figure faults, send
a stamped, self:addressedi enve-
lope with your request for leaflet
No. 19. Address Josephine Low-
man in care of this newspaper.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1961)
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN *
Here's 'Why' and 'How' of
Proposed Withholding Tax
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—Mail from readers shows more mis-
understanding and opposition to the proposed 20 per cent
withholding tax on interest and dividend payments than on
any other phase of the Kennedy administration’s tax reform
program.
Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon has explained that
the principal reason for the withholding on interest payments
proposal is to close a tax gap estimated at $2.8 billion.
This is the amount which people cheat the government out
of in a year by not reporting and not paying taxes on interest
payments they receive. It represents a little over a third of
the $8.2 billion due the Treasury in taxes on interest.
MOST OF THE CHISELING is believed to be done by big
investors. They simply don’t report on their income tax re-
turns all the interest payments they receive.
There is far more tax cheating on interest received than
on dividends received. Internal Revenue Service believes it
collects taxes on about 92 per cent of all dividends received.
With only 8 per cent, or about $600 million, getting away.
The proposed 20 per cent withholding tax on both interest
and dividend payments would of course give the Internal
Revenue Service good information on where this money is
going and who is not reporting it as income.
People who receive dividends are squawking a little about
this. Businessmen claim- it would curb private investment.
But the big beef comes from the people who get interest from
savings accounts, loans, mortgages and investment type bonds.
. THE PROTEST MAIL ON THIS reveals a certain amount of
ignorance on the part of the taxpayers. Their letters indicate
they do not know that such interest payments are taxable
income.
This problem was fully appreciated by former commissioner
of internal revenue Dana Latham in the Eisenhower adminis-
tration. He started an educational campaign to inform interest
receivers of their tax liability.
But this educational campaign didn’t work. One trouble
was that corporations are required to advise Internal Revenue
Service of all dividend payments of $10 or more, while infor-
mation on interest is limited to payments of $600 or more.
Various proposals are being considered to change this in
the new law, which hasn’t yet been drafted. It is admitted that
the $600 figure is too high.
It has been suggested that information be required and with-
holding be applied on interest payments of $10 or more.
But this might be too low, for it would require tax with-
holdings on the $500-to-$l,000 savings accounts of children
preparing for college, retired people dependent on interest
for living expenses, small investors and all lower income groups
with a few bucks saved up for rainy days.
TO TAKE CARE OF THESE HARDSHIP CASES, where with-
holding of a few dollars in interest payments might mean
serious financial embarrassment, treasury tax experts are try-
ing to develop a system for making rapid refunds. They would
appljf also to tak-freo educational and charitable organizations.
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When you raise your trunk
after bending- forward, lift
your rib cage also. This gives
you a wonderful pull over the
diaphragm.
Happy Birthday
Greetings of “Happy Birthday”
are being extended to the follow-
ing birthday celebrants:
Elsie Evans, Mrs. Alan Ochs,
Mrs. K. L. McConchie, Mrs.
George Cumings and Mrs. Willie
Werchan.
The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words
of this prophecy, and keep
those things which are writ-
ten therein: for the time is at
hand. (Revelation 1:3.)
PRAYER: Almighty God, crea-
tor and ruler of all heavenly
and earthly things, may our
worship of Thee have more vi-
tality and our lives encourage
others to follow Thee. Lead
everybody to read the Bible
and spread the good tidings.
For Christ’s sake. Amen.
State's Deficit Dropped
$24 Million in May
AUSTIN 13 — The state’s gen-
eral revenue (fund deficit drop
ped $24 million during May, the
state treasurer said Monday.
Corporation franchise taxes
helped lower the deficit to $78,-
848,137 on May 31, about $15 mil-
lion more than the deficit is esti-
mated to be at the close of the
fiscal year, Aug. 31.
The deficit was $102,646,220 on
April 30,
IT OCCURS TO ME
LIONS CLUB PROJECTS
SERVE PUBLIC GOOD
By JAMES CUTCHER
Taylor Lions Club President-Elect
I appreciate Lin’s invitation
to fill the space in this column
with information concerning the
Taylor Lions Club. Our Lions
Club has a present membership
of 64, with an average attend-
ance of better than 90 per cent.
Thirty-two of the members had
perfect attendance during the
past year. These facts are evi-
dence that the men in this ser-
vice club not only believe in
what they are doing, they also
enjoy the participation and fel-
lowship of the club; it is also
a tribute to President Joe Casey
for his outstanding leadership
during the past year.
The Taylor Lions Club cele-
brated its 20th anniversary in
1960 and in reviewing the ac-
complishments of this service
organization, in Taylor for the
20 years I believe that the con-
clusion can be reached: that this
service club, like all service
clubs, has not done anything
spectacular; however, the many
small things that it has done
have certainly made Taylor a
more enjoyable place to live
and many individuals have bene-
fited by the work of the Lions
Club.
Some of our many projects go
unnoticed by the general public
and some of our projects we at-
tempt to publicize. Among
those projects that are less
publicized is our program for
sight conservation. Any child’
in the Taylor Public School
System that is in need of glass-
es, where the family, due to
financial circumstances, is not
able to provide them, is fur-
nished eye care and glasses
by the club. The teachers of
Taylor, upon noticing any sight
defect, may refer the child to
any optometrist of the parents’
choice and the doctor sends the
bill to us. We have a three-
man committee to pass upon
these applications and none of
the other members of the club
ever know the child or family’s
name. During the past 12
months we have purchased ten
pairs of glasses.
Among the more publicized
projects of the Lions Club is
the distribution of baskets to
the needy at Christmas. The
Crippled Children’s Camp at
Kerrville is another publicized
project. The camp at Kerr-
ville is owned and operated by
all of the Lions Clubs of Tex-
as. The camp has special faci-
lities and special instructors,
and any crippled child that de-
sires to attend a summer camp
may do so at no cost to the
parents, regardless of financial
status of the family. This year,
two children from the Taylor
area will attend the camp; we
could and would send' more
if we had other applications,
For the past three years the
facilities of the camp have been
utilized as a school for the blind
during the winter months.
The Lions sponsor a Little
League team and have made
financial donations to the Tay-
lor Public Library Building
Fund, the Taylor Literacy Coun-
cil, the All-Faith Chapel for Re-
tarded Children, at the State
School for Retarded Children,
purchased an eye testing mach-
ine for the Taylor Public School
Nurse, and. at the present time
the Club is in the process of
purchasing equipment for the
Williamson • County Crippled
Children’s Clinic for the treat-
ment of cerebral palsy. Recent-
ly we contributed to the cost of
an operation for a child whose
family could not bear the ex-
pense.
Lions have been donating
their time to operate the con-
cession stand at the Little Lea-
gue ball park (the Little League ,
receives all of the profit).
The Lions Clubs of Texas are
the principal outlet for all of
the products manufactured by
the blind in Texas. We com-
monly call this our “broom and
mop sale.”
Our principal fund raising pro-
jects are our annual chili sup-
per and the operation of the
concession stand at the annual
Taylor Rodeo; however, there
are times when we have spe-
cial projects such as the sale
of light bulbs approximately
two years ago when we raised
over $750, all of which was
donated to the Taylor Public
Library Building Fund. Recent-
ly, we had a special project
where we gave away candy
(and asked for donations in re-
turn) to raise additional funds
for the Crippled Children’s
Camp.
Since 1948 the Taylor Lions
Club and the Rockdale Lions
Club, acting jointly, have honor-
ed the outstanding farmer of
the Taylor Soil Conservation
District and presented a bronze
plaque to the outstanding farm-
er of the District each year.
This column, would not be
complete without mentioning the
fact that three members of the
club have recently been honored
with election to the highest of-
fices in this district, composed
ol' 47 clubs. These men have
given a great deal of their time
to serving all of the clubs of
this district. Stanley Pavlik is
now district governor.- Erwin
Teggeman recently served as
district governor and is now
serving as international council-
or. Alex Klattenhoff is now
serving as secretary-treasurer
for the district. No other Lions
Club in this district has fur-
nished as many outstanding
leaders in Lionism as the Taylor
Club.
A great deal of the credit for
the smooth operation of the de-
tails is running our Lions Club
must go to Mary Olson, our
paid secretary since 1945. She
keeps our records straight and
usually informs us of our over-
drafts.
The Lions Club is usually
broke due to the fact that when
we have money in the treasury
we look for some place to spend
it for the betterment of the
community.
NO
COMMENT
By
JAMES W. D0UTHAT
WASHINGTON, June 8 — The
hearings by the House Ways
and Means Committee on Presi-
dent Kennedy’s tax program have
served to point up the vital neces-
sity for enactmient of real
tax rate reform legislation if the
nation; is to achieve the economic
growth essential for tue future.
So widespread has been the op-
position expressed in the Kenne-
dy program, there does not seem
to be any likelihood that any
substantial part of it will be enact-
ed this year.
-Even the AFL-CIO joined vigor-
ously in, criticism of the Adminis-
tration’s tax proposals—which in-
clude a $1,700,000,000 tax credit
for business investment in return
for acceptance by businesses of
various tax penalties.
The Kennedy program—in the
words of Charles R. Sligh, Jr.,
executive vice president of the Na-
tional Association of Manufactur-
ers—conjures up the picture of
the “government strangling the
taxpayer with one hand and offer-
ing him artificial resuscitation
with the other.”
Business witnesses before
Ways and Means Committee were
almost, unanimous in condemning
the key provisions of the Admin-
istration’s program:. In, addition to
the proposed tax credit, the key
provisions include repeal of the
four per cent dividend credit and
$50 exclusion, rigid regulation of
business expenses, drastically
changing the present method of
taxing business income earned
abroad, and twx withholding on di-
vidends and interest.
These penalties would be ex-
pected to retrieve for the govern-
ment the $1,700,000,000 granted
annually as tax credits for busi-
ness investment.
The Kennedy argument for the
tax credit is that it would result
in the creation of new jobs to
help solve the unemployment pro-
blem. But members of the Ways
and Means Committee — both
Democrats and Republicans—in-
dicated a growing belief that the
Admisistration’s proposals can-
not possibly bring about the solid
economic growth that is essen-
tial.
What is necessary, a num-
ber of business witnesses testi-
fied, is enactment of the Heriohg-
Baker bill which, among other
things, would lower the personal
and corporation tax rate to a
maximum of 47 per cent by a ser-
ies of five annual reductions.
This, its advocates contei
would make capital available
a surge of business expansion
and modernization which would
create many new jobs and, in ad-
dition, provide in the long run far
more tax revenue than would be
lost by the reductions.
By proposing his tax program
President Kennedy recognized the
relationship between tax policy
and economic growth. This was a
step forward, but his specific
proposals failed dismally to meet;
the needs.
Government Economy Need*
Needed also is a grassroots
campaign for elimination of /all
unessential government spenlding
—so as to increase the chu&nces
for tax reduction and fo/ bal-
anced budgets.
And more spending requests
are being prepared for Submis-
sion to Congress.
The latest official forecast con-
templates a $2,200,000,000 i deficit
during the present fiscal) year
(ending on June 30) and ;a $2,-
800,000,000 “red ink” operation
during the next fiscal year.
But a disturbing prediction has
now come from Elmer B. Staats,
deputy director of the Bucget
Bureau, that next year’s deficit
more likely will be double t|u^
present estimate—and may socSV
to around $5,600,000,000.
All of which emphasized1 the
necessity for economy is every
way possible.
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