The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
PAGE TWO Monday, July 30, 1962
Dollars Into Dollarettes
Columnist Henry J. Taylor recently devoted an
article to the cost of the Peace Corps. This runs to
about $9,000 a year for each of the corpsmen. By way
of contrast, many of the church-supported missionary
groups operate for as little as $2,000 a year for each
man and woman they send abroad.
The comparison, Mr. Taylor learned, is not abso-
lute. But even if the private cost figure were doubled,
it would still be less than half of the Peace Corps fig-
T hrough
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ure.
Mr. Taylor is not critical of the work or the ob-
jective of the Corps. Nor does he blame it for the
relatively high cost of fielding its people. But he does
say this: “Regardless of the merit in any service, the
government machine itself contains an invisible ax that
atuomatically chops the taxpayers’ dollars into dollar-
ettes. The government’s currency rotating process
passes the people’s tax money through a sieve of gov-
ernment overhead that drains off more of its value all
the time . . . This is why, in terms of human welfare,
it s important to debunk political propaganda claim-
ing ‘the government can do it better’ whenever men
and women can do what needs to be done by their own
associations. When politicians so often (and profit-
ably) insist ‘the government’ should do something —
like medicare — where is the money coming from?
We pay every penny.”
And this is why, Mr. Taylor could have added, the
welfare state is at best a snare and delusion, and at
worst a plain fraud. It represents a system of gradual
impoverishment of the people, to the ultimate weaken-
ing of the welfare of all.
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Pubhshed Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
By
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS INC
Nev H. Williams, Publisher
Richard E.Dwelle President; Nev H. Wiliams, Executive Vice-
President; David Donosky, Treasurer.
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office in Kermit
Texas under the Act of March 2, 1879.
Nev H. Williams .................................................Editor & Publisher
Dave Sclair ..........................................................................News Editor
Marvin Ellis ..................................Sports Editor and Photographer
Maud Green ..................................................................Woman’s Editor
Frank B. Knight ............................................—.Advertising Director
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Dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the unifi-
cation of the townspeople in a common purpose for
the betterment of our community; to our churches,
schools and homes, that Kermit shall ever be a good
place in which to live and rear our children. And,
above all, honesty, decency, justice, tolerance, faith
} ln Almighty God—These shall he our citadel.
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20 YEARS AGO
Miss Evelyn Reagan,. regis-
tered nurse, will replace Mrs.
Irma Bob Melton as instructor
for the Red Cross Home Nurs-
ing class that is being con-
ducted at the high school
building.
Speeders were given a stern
warning by War Price Ration-
ing board officials and were
cautioned not to drive over 40
miles an hour or they will for-
feit their eligibility for new
tires or retreads.
More of Winkler County’s
young men . . . and some not
so young . . . appeared head-
ed for military service this
week as over 50 were sent
notices to take physical exam-
inations preparatory to a pos-
sible call into the Army.
H. L. (Button) Roberson
had an attack of appendicitis
late Wednesday but refused to
have an operation after doc-
tors said he could get by with-
out one until after the run-
off campaign for County At-
torney, in which he is op-
posed by A. T. Folsom.
15 YEARS AGO
Oscar Maples and Donald
E. Tracy of Kermit have
been appointed by Governor
Beauford H. Jester as mem-
bers of the Voluntary Parole
Board of Winkler County.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Span-
gler were hosts Thursday
flight for a bridge-dinner in
their new home. Mr. and
Mrs. John Moore won high
score and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Barton played second high.
Work on Walton Place City
Park was resumed Tuesday,
leaders of the Kermit Garden
Club report. J. I. Strange is
in charge of sodding and fer-
tilizing the park grounds.
10 YEARS AGO
Dr. and Mrs. Joe Hunter
have returned from a month’s
vacation in California and
Oklahoma.
Larry, Pat and Tony, chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Quinton
Reans, returned home last
Friday after a month’s visit
with grandparents and other
relatives in California and
San Antonio.
Visitors in the J. E. Powell
home were their daughter and
son-in-law, Mary and Doug
Lindsey of Charleston, S. C.
They arrived Friday and left
Wednesday morning.
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tqual, but it’s what they are
aqual to later on that counts.”
Member F. D. I. C
WASHINGTON — Almost
everybody outside of Congress
would like to see a bill passed
now to cut income taxes. Al-
most everybody inside Con-
gress, however, is afraid to
enact such a law because it
could be a political boomer-
ang.
This paradox extends to the
White House, too. President
Kennedy isn’t sure that this
is the time for a new set of
income-tax rates. Most of his
advisers think now is just the
time.
The contributions are easily
explained. Everybody is for
the idea of a tax cut, but, if
Congress to give them the tax
cut they expected to get.
Then there are the voters
who just don’t believe it’s wise
from the standpoint of the
national economy deliberately
to pile up the large deficit
that surely would follow a
Politically speaking, too, it’s
harzardous for members of
both parties to rush a tax
bill through just before the
November elections, when the
voters will be especially well
informed about the failure of
the rates are changed, many
voters are bound to be dis-
appointed. Politically, it’s
risky for a member of Con-
gress to have voted for any
reduction in tax rates for the
wealthy and failed to give the
benefit of virtually the entire
cut to the voters in the lower
brackets.
tax cut. The argument that
business will be spurred and
tax receipts will be increased
somewhat so as to offset the
deficit in part doesn’t regis-
ter very deeply with those
vbters who see dangers in a
continuation of an unbalanced
budget. If there’s a bigger
Treasury deficit, moreover,
the effect may be felt in a
lack of confidence abroad in
the gold value of the dollar.
It may be reflected also in
higher interest rates at home.
The theory of the advocates
of an “across the board’’ tax
cut is that it gives the people
more money to spend, and
that this acts as a spur to
business. It hasn’t proved
that way in the past. Spending
for consumer goods has held
up fairly well.anyway in re-
cent months. A tax cut for a
man without a job isn’t par-
ticularly helpful.
Job creation comes out of
the steady expansion of all
branches of business. Today
unemployment is largely cen-
tered in the heavy-goods in-
dustries. These would not be
materially benefitted by the
increases in consumer spend-
ing for a short-term period.
It is no answer to say, as
the theorists do, that there is
plenty of idle plant capacity
now anyway. Actually, what’s
needed is new plant and equip-
ment and modernization so as
to reduce manufacturing costs
and prices and bring about
an increase in the total vol-
ume of sales in various class-
es of goods.
A selective formula is all-
, important so that certain
rates in corporation taxes and
BY DAVID LAWRENCE »
regulations covering tax de- ;
ductions for various items
may be modified in order to
furnish a stimulus for long-
term investment in plant and
machinery. The new depreci-
ation rules will help in some
respects, but the present ten-
dency toward .Jjigher interest
rates can delay purchases of
new plant and equipment.
So far as tax legislation is
concerned, the political pres-
sure will grow also for an in-
crease in personal exemp-
tions. Yet a $100 increase in
exemptions means a cost to
the Treasury of $7 billcon.
If, to be sure, there develops
a serious movement toward
adjusting the tax rates them-
selves, the joint proposal by
representatives A. S. Herlong
Jr., of Florida, Democrat, and
Howard H. Baker, of Tennes-
see, Republican, constitutes a
sensible approach. They would
reduce tax rates for both in-
dividuals and corporations
gradually over a five-year
period beginning next Janu-
ary. They would bring cor-
porate-tax rates down from 52
per cent to 42 per cent by
1968. As for individual income -
duced on a consistent pattern, -
taxes, these would be re- 2
with a top rate ultimately of 2
42 per cent and a minimum §
reduction of 25 per cent for
every taxpayer.
The President has been
backing a general tax-reform
bill, but it has run into snags
on, Capitol Hill, as the Admin-
istration has introduced sev-
eral new proposals — design-
ed to increase revenues —
that have caused an unsettling
of confidence among busi-
nessmen. If the theorists
would step aside, and if the
Congress would ignore the
pressure for a reduction of
individual tax rates and get
an equitable set of tax regu-
lations from a sound economic
standpoint, the effects of such
a reform measure would be
felt for a long time to come.
President Kennedy is be-
lieved to be inclined to wait
till January for the enact-
ment of a tax-reform bill, so
that the full effect would be
felt in time for his re-election
bid in 1964. He is represented
as feeling that to pass a tax
law now could complicate the
economic situation and cause
a loss of many Democratic
seats in Congress. So, as
usual, the “when-in-doubt-
don’t’’ school of thought is
gaining headway here, both
at the White House and in
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U. S. Senator
MEDICARE: The Senate
vote, that effectively killed
President Kennedy’s proposals
for health care for the aged
under social security, was his-
toric in several ways. It was
momentous, in that this is
only the second time in his-
tory that all 100 Senators
voted, and only the second
time in years that 10 per cent
of the Senate membership has
voted. In this important roll
call, the Senate voted 52 to
48 to table an amendment to
a public assistance bill which
would, in effect, have given
us a medical care program
which, you know, I believe to
be very unsound, and very
unwise. Some 31 Republicans
and 21 Democrats teamed to-
gether to defeat Medicare.
Only 5 Republicans, and 43
Democrats, voted on the los-
ing side. I am very glad the
Senate performed a very
statesmanlike act. The House
of Representatives has not
acted, but it is my feeling
the House will not act now on
the medical care issue, and I
am convinced the proposals
are dead for this session. An
'analysis of my mail on this
subject for recent weeks: for
1,835 telegrams, letters, and
postcards, showed 1,786 against
the President’s proposal and
only 49 for the plan. This is a
37 to 1 ratio against the bill.
TRIP TO GERMANY: By
way of the German Embassy,
a Republican and a Demo-
crat Senator were invited to
address a political seminar of
the Evangelical Academy, at
Tutzing, in Bavaria, near Mu-
nich, Germany, and it was
my privilege to be invited.
Senator Vance Hartke, of In-
diana, spoke for the Demo-
crats, and both of us, at dif-
ferent times, discussed the in-
fluence of American politics
on foreign affairs with many
German leaders. They asked
many questions. I talked with
them for a total of five or
six hours, at two long ses-
sions, and came away con-
vinced they are good friends
and allies of the UnitedStates,
and are determined to stand
firm in the face of the Com-
munist threat. They are count-
ing on us to continue to sup-
port them, and I was impress-
ed by their will to resist the
Communists, and their desire
to reunify. I likewise had an
opportunity to tour Berlin, and
the Communist wall that
seals off the eastern part of
the city from the free, west-
ern portion. I saw the Com-
munist guards, and the police
guarding workers, strength-
ening the wall. My first re-
action was one of anger. Then,
it occurred to me that this is
a monument to Soviet weak-
ness, and shows the Commu-
nists can hold sway over cap-
tive peoples only by force of
arms, by suppressing the
truth, by isolation, literally
by imprisonment. I am confi-
dent that the people of the
free world have the strength
and the will to stand firm
against world Communism.
The U. S. must afford them
the courageous leadership
their determination merits.
Texans I met during my vis-
it in Berlin included Colonel
Glover Johns, of Austin, who
led the first battle group into
Berlin during the buildup last
fall, and who is now acting
chief of staff for General Al-
bert Watson II, U. S. Com-
mander in Berlin, and Leiu-
tenant Everett Baker, of Long-
view, my escort there. I was
impressed throughout with
the character and ability of
our military men in West
Germany, at all levels.
KENNEDY BOXSCORE:
Following the Fourth of July
recess for Congress, an in-
formal one, of course the
Congressional Quarterly sur-
veyed the record of action on
President Kennedy’s legis-
lative program, as a way to
judge the slow pace of the
current session, and the de-
gree of resistance to Kennedy
proposals. At that July time,
the President had made 285
specific legislative requests
and Congress had approved
20 — or 7 per cent. At the
same time, it had defeated 8,
and taken no action on 75.
This boxscore reminded me
of my April newsletter refer-
ence, following the Easter
recess three months ago, to
the “failures” of the Kennedy
legislative program, and the
“inability, or disinclination,”
of the Administration - dom-
inated Congress to pass any
major share of .its 1962 pro-
posals. I believe even more
strongly now than then, if
possible, that this “ineffec-
tual record,” already appar-
ent last April, is continu-
ing. This table, and these per-
centage figures, will be even
more adverse when the re-
sounding defeat in the Senate,
that killed medicare for this
session, is taken into account.
SERVICE ACADEMIES: I
am now accepting applications
from young Texans between
the ages of 17 and 22, who
will have completed high
school by next June for nom-
ination to the Air Force,
Naval, Military, and Merchant
Marine Academies. Since my
nominations will be given on
the basis of a competitive ex-
amination administered by
the Civil Service Commission
completed applications must
have reached my office be-
fore Sept. 30.
RESPONSIBILITY: Presi-
dent Kennedy, in a speech at
Yale University on June 11,
quoted Thomas Jefferson as
saying 'new circumstances
under which we are placed
call for new words, new
phrases, and for the trans-
fer of old words to new ob-
jects.” As a longtime adher-
ent to the Jefferson philoso-
phy, I am completely in agree-
ment with recent comment by
Senator Harry Byrd of Vir-
ginia, that the President used
the quotation for “purposes A
foreign to the fundamental ’
principles” of Jefferson. The
President, after carefully ex-
plaining he was not concern-
ed with “political debate,”
spoke in detail concerning the
“myth” -of big government,
the federal budget, the fed-
eral deficits, and public con-
fidence. Such talk is pure non-
sense. Certainly, big govern-
ment is not a myth. Just as
certainly, federal deficits ex-
ist for 25 of the past 31 years,
and our national debt will
climb to $308 billion this year.
The statutory limit on our
national debt was raised three
times, for ia total of $15 bil-
lion, in the fiscal year end-
ing last June 30. The purchas-
ing power of the dollar is just ^
46 cents today, measured on j1
the 1939 index. The free
spending by the Kennedy Ad-
ministration has given us a
$8 billion deficit for our fscal j
year just ended, and another fr
deficit of several billion dol-
lars is in prospect for this
year. In my report to you last
Jan. 28, after the President
submitted his budget of $92
billion plus, with 20 per cent
of the total for welfare spend-
ing and subsidies, I proposed
a cut of $10 billion in waste-
ful, non - essential domestic
spending. The need for such a
budget reduction, to restore
flagging confidence in the
Adminissration, both at home
and abroad, is more and more
evident every day. I would
much prefer to have our
President use, and be guided
by another Jefferson quo-
tation, “I am for government
frugal and simple, applying
all possible savings to the na-
tional debt ... I am not for
increasing — by every device
—the public debt, on the prin-
ciple of its being a public
blessing.”
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, July 30, 1962, newspaper, July 30, 1962; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982364/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.