The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 162, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 5, 1961 Page: 4 of 6
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TW UVK1AND DAILY SUN NIWS, I ml mi. Imam _ Wednesday, July 1,1U1
Levelland Doily Sun News
Editorial commont and opinion
Tax opinion poll' gives
people chance to 'vote'
On page three of today’* news- a verification of these views with
paper is a “public Opinion Poll”
submitted by the Citizens for Fair
Taxation, a group which was
bound to be formed as a counter-
weight to the Citizens for a Sales
Tax group which has been propa-
gandizing the state for months.
J. E. Connally of Abilene, chair-
man of the committee, states frank
ly, "We are preparing to launch
an extensive campaign at the grass
roots to build up support for a
compromise of conflicting views
when the Legislature reconvenes
on July 10.”
Connally says the Citizens for
Fair Taxation will seek an equit-
able revenue program including a
natural gas pipeline tax; a fran-
chise tax on interstate corpora-
tions on the same basis as wholly
domestic corporations; an aban-
doned property escheat enforce-
excise taxes to avoid taxing basic
necessities such as food, medicine,
low cost clothing and farm sup-
plies.
Travis Shelton of Lubbock, form-
er district attorney for Hockley and
Cochran County when the counties
were a part of the old 72nd judi-
cial district, is the committeeman
from the 28th state senatorial dis-
trict, which includes these coun-
ties
—The tax ideas of the Fair Tax-
ation committee are already pretty
well formed judging from the
statement of Connally.
What it apparently is seeking is
A complaint
Phil Weaver has been inviting
his associates to take a hard look
at the way in which a cluster of
bureaucrats here has been spend-
ing die taxpayer’s money.
Phil Weaver’s associates com-
prise the membership of die House.
Mr. Weaver represents Nebraska’s
First Congressional District. He is
a Republican.
The cluster of bureaucrats of
whom Mr. Weaver complained are
the officials of the Small Business
Administration (SBA). Small busi-
ness in the United States is like
motherhood, education and reli-
gion. To oppose them is unpatriotic
and politically hazardous.
Mr. Weaver’s complaint is that
SBA has imposed on Government
procurement officials a set - aside
policy. This policy sets aside for
small business Government con-
tracts for construction work even
tho the bid of a small business
may be substantially higher than
the bid of a large business for the
same Job.
This favoritism to small business
will raise the cost of construction
for all defense facilities by at least
10 per cent. That is Mr. Weaver’s
estimate. Ten per cent of the cost
of all defense facilities represents
an enormous sum, most of it out
of the U. S. taxpayer’s pocket.
Such of this enormous sum which
is not paid by the U. S. taxpayer
is borrowed money.
This borrowed money directly in-
creased the public debt, quickens
the deadly pace of currency infla-
tion, the further rotting of the U.
S. dollar. The taxpayer, therefore,
has a double stake in stopping this
special subsidy. It not merely ab-
sorbs his tax money; it tends to
build inflation which in turn,
a poll from the people all over
Texas.
Readers of the Levelland Daily
Sun News are Invited to partici-
pate if they desire to do so. This
is the reason the public opinion
poll form is being provided.
Or they may send the forms di-
rectly to State Rep. Olen R. Petty
of Levelland or State Sen. Preston
Smith of Lubbock. These are the
men representing the people of this
district in Austin, and they’ll be
casting their vote for Hockley
and Cochran County people when
the tax issue faces the legislature
again in July.
. But the time for making your
own opinion is growing short,
since the legislature convenes in
five days.
Japan’s new 10-year-plan envis-
ages raising the standard of liv-
ing of workers and farmers 100
per cent.
Lake Ontario, 53 miles wide, is
the narrowest of the five Great
Lakes.
Switzerland’s famous Matter-
horn was first climbed in 1865.
But the British-led expedition end-
ed tragically when three mem-
ber of the party fell to their
deaths during the descent.
Among the Tanala people of
Madagascar, a widow must di-
vorce her dead husband before
she is allowed to remarry.
against SBA
shrinks the purchasing power of
the. taxpayer’s remaining collars
which the tax collectors did not
take.
Mr. Weaver cited places and bids
in eight instances in which small
business obtained contracts altho
larger business had bid at less
cost. The increased cost in these
eight constructions projects rang-
ed from 2 to 83 per cent. The
range in dollars was from $1,294.90
to $165,000.
In a letter to SBA, Mr. Weaver
wrote:
“Your program may be self -
destructive and the only loser will
be small business itself. Once pro-
tected by a canopy of Government
subsidy, small contractors will lose
their initiative to complete and
grow. The tendency will be to re-
main small so as to qualify under
your regulations. Only the desire
to grow fosters growth. Your ac-
tion inevitably will destroy this de-
sire to grow in one very large
segment of our American industrial
economy.”
Mr. Weaver had a clincher for
his argument. He had checked with
Associated General Contractors
(AGC) representing 7000 members
of whom 89 per cent were classi-
fied by SBA as small business.
AGC told Mr. Weaver its member-
ship opposed the SBA set-aside pro-
gram and that a great majority of
AGC members were publicly on
record in opposition to it.
The question before the house:
Why does SBA impose a costly
subsidy program on the taxpayers
in behalf of small businessmen who
don’t want the program? On the
theory maybe, that big brother
knows best?
— Washington DC, Daily News
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BUSINESS MIRROR
Easier financing, lower payments
to offer incentive for new homes
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK (AP) - Easier fi-
AP Business News Analyst
naneing terms will be available
now for many would-be home
owners. That means those with a
real urge will need less cash for
a down payment and their month-
ly payments will be smaller be-
cause the mortgage will run
longer.
The less they put up in cash
and the longer they have to pay
off the mortgage means, however
that the final cost of the house
will be higher. Interest payments
will add up over the year* while
their equity in their home will
build up at a slower pace.
This may deter many who take
a long-range view of managing
their finances. But perhaps more
persons will be interested in the
down payment and monthly pay-
ment aspects-of the new housing
law which President Kennedy
signed last week. The monthly
payment as a way of life becomes
more entrenched each year.
Builders with houses on their
hands, especially in the lower
price brackets where the new
law particularly applies, hope the
easing of terms will give a boost
to their somewhat lagging in-
dustry. ‘
Many others think any boost In
housing starts may await next
year, because of ihe time lag be-
tween planning and starting of
construction.
The new law should widen the
market for the lower priced
house. Many who couldn’t quite
meet previous financing terms
may find they can swing the new
eones.
But what happens to ihe home
building industry in general is
still to be seen. The slackening
in the last year or so has oecn
attributed to many factors.
One, of course, is the ve>-y
thing the new law is aimed to
correct—the inability of lower i.n-
Butmanyintheindustrycon-
come families to shoulder the fi-
nancing terms.
But many in the industry con-
cede that financing isn’t the only
factor.
The deeper reason for the slow-
down may be that the home-
hungry horde of the late 1940s
and the 1950s has by now been
accommodated. Then family for-
mations fell off, as the i-maller
baby crops of the depressed 1930s
HAL BOYLE SAYS:
came of age and married. Now
the bigger baby crops of the war
years are reaching the marrying
age—but it may be some time be-
fore they can afford new homes,
even on the lower monthly pay-
ment terms.
Nothing since coffee
break can match this
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) — Nothing The fatherly bookkeeper — “A
more time with the new girl.
stirs the average office out of its
usual summer doldrums more
Ilian the hiring of a new steno-
grapher.
This ia particularly so if the
girl is pretty, and engineered like
an adolescent’s dream. Her ar-
rival creates more excitement
than anything since management
surrendered unconditionally to
the coffee break.
For a time she is more popular
than the water cooler.
The career wolves and the
seasonal bachelors converge on
her desk from all corners. Every-
body suddenly needs to borrow a
pencil, some paper clips, an extra
typewriter ribbon—any excuse to
get acquainted.
The fact the new girl can type
only 25 words a minute under full
steam worries nobody but the
boss.
Here is the impact she has on
some of the office characters:
The office boy—He comes in 15
minutes early so he can slip un-
noticed on her desk a rose he
has stolen from a neighbor’s bush
and wrapped in a poem he spent
half the night writing. (The
quality of his verse is so poor
the new girl suspects the boss
himself wrote it.)
The hypochondriac—His idea of
courtship is to lend her some of
his medicines. ‘‘Try this new
miracle pill,” he urges. “It came
out only last week, and it made
me feel wonderful.”
The junior executive—He hasn’t
dictated a letter in months, but
now he suddenly develops a
heavy correspondence. He even
writes letters to strangers in the
phone book, just so he can spend
MODEST MAIDENS
V-*—* lwfcbr* U. X Ittot <*k.
young girl like you has to be
pretty careful these days.” he
murmurs, clutching her hands in
his. “You can’t believe a word
some of these jokers tell you, but
you can trust me.”
The boss’s spinster secretary—
everybody talks about how
young she is,” she tells her
cronies spitefully. “But she isn’t
all that young.”
But the romantic ardor that
swept the office dies down as
abruptly as it arose. For after
three months the new girl an-
nounces she is leaving to marry
the boy back home. Everyone
has to dig down to buy her some
farewell gifts—which include a
bottle of trarjquilizers from the
hypochondriac. His last words:
“Honeymoons can be so tense.”
All then wait expectantly to see
what the next new girl will look
like. She turns out to have a
shape like the Pentagon, a face
like a tornado and hair like
Harpo Marx. But she can type
75 words a minute blindfolded—
which, after all, is how She looks
best.
“Now,” growls the boss,
“maybe we’ll get some work
done around this place!”
Maybe.
Maybe.
Actor Audie Murphy
is honorary Ranger
FALFURRIAS, Tex. (AP) -
Actor Audie Murphy, the Texan
who was the most decorated sol-
dier in World War II, has been
made an honorary member of the
Texas Rangers.
THE WORLD TODAY: ’ „ ,,
Did Hemingway seek
to avoid long illness?
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ernest
Hemingway’s people confronted
death as something not to be post-
poned, as Hector in Homer’s Iliad
did when he stopped running to
face Achilles, armed but without
hope.
Hemingway said 26 years ago,
long before illness overtook him,
“I must write because if I do
not write a certain amount I do
not enjoy the rest of my life.”
It is a reasonable guess the
prospect of years of invalidism,
or at least marginal vitality, took
the joy out of life for him.
This may be too simple for
future analysts seeking the mean-
ing of the shotgun blast which
killed him last Sunday. You can
almost read them now:
That his concern with death,
which dominated all he wrote,
meant he was obsessed with fear
of it and that he sought to buy
time through the years by march-
ing character after character to
inevitable doom as a substitute
for himself.
The literary pigeon - fanciers
who like cooing or a message
mauled him. But he was no sooth-
sayer, he used words like rocks,
and, in the beginning he had no
message.
Maxwell Geismar once Wrote
that Hemingway’s people “act as
if thought is unthinkable.” This
was true. He was an artist, writ-
ing about the muscles of the heart,
not the capillaries of the brain.
The muscles got tired as he
grew older. His best work was
his early work: the short stores,
“The Sun Also Rises,” “A Fare-
well to Arms,” some parts of
“Death in the Afternoon,” some
parts of “To Have and Have
Not.”
It was downhill after that—al-
though for him was up on the
mountain for most of his con-
temporaries—as if he had listened
too much to the critics who
wanted a message, who said he
had no social consciousness.
In those early days he showed
none of it. Why should he have?
He was an artist writing about
people in trouble as he saw them,
without moral judgments. He had
one measuring rod: to write
“truly.” It was his ewn word.
He knew what happened to
writers who. listened to critics. He
talked about theta in “Green Hills
in Africa”—“if they believe the
critics when they -say they are
great then they must believe
them when they say they are
rotten and they lose confidence.”
He began to have a message
in “to Have and Have Not.” It
spoiled a brilliant book. Before
then he could have written about
the sudden, brutal switch of Henry
Morgan to murder because some-
one flim-flammed him.
Now he made Morgan an ex-
ample of the class struggle, a
grotesque distortion. Hemingway
put a moral tone into “For Whom
the Bell Tolls” and then ruined
it altogether by making his peo-
ple talk as people never ‘alked.
His prize - winning “The Old
Man and the Sea” was simply
an allegory about man’s wither-
ing struggle against the uncaring
universe.
But no one can ever really un-
derstand—perhaps feel is a bet-
ter word—what Hemingway real-
ly meant to American literature
unless he was alive and young in
those middle 1920s when Heming-
way’s work began.
The woods were full of literary
frauds and second - raters oho
played it cute and safe, wrote
strictly for bucks, suffered from
Victorian anemia', or pumped out
sex-shockers which disappeared
in the garbage can.
There were some honest men
writing, like Theodore Dreiser
and Sherwood Anderson, whs
tried to cut new roads with stor-
ies about the world as they saw
it themselves, but Dreiser was
clumsy and Anderson was sentir
mental.
Then Hemingway, who used his
ears to listen and not to keep his
hat off his chin, broke through to
write about talk as it’s -poken
and life as it is. He wrote to writs
and not for money. He made no
concessions.
He did it with enormous self-
discipline and economy in lan-
guage and emotion. He created
a yardstick by which those com-
ing after him had to be mea-
sured. At his worst he was a gi-
j ant.
Perhaps the future will decide
his greatest contribution was not
his style (which sometimes be-
came a caricature of itself) or
his ear (which wasn’t nlways
good) but his honesty above all
in a field where it’s a cinch to
cheat.
HOLLYWOOD:
Director
to shoot
film rape
By BOB THOMAS
AP Movie-TV Writer
LONDON (AP) - Director Leo
McCarey, in a censor-defying
mood, says he’s going to be “tho
Catholic Otto Preminger.”
You’ll recall that Preminger
did battle with the censors rm
such films as “The Moon i«
Blue.” “Man With the Golden
Arm” and “Anatomy of a Mur-
der.”
McCarey, the man who gavo
you Father O'Malley, is the east
likely to emulate Preminger. But
his Irish is up, and when that
happens—watch out.
McCarey is here to film “Satan
Never Sleeps,” the story of two
contending priests — older and
younger. Sound familiar? But thin
one is different from his classic
“Going My way.”
The difference Is Whal ran him !
afoul of the Johnston office, which
censors American films no mat-
ter where they are made. Me-
Carey explained:
“I have a scene in the picture
in which a young Red Chines#
army officer rapes France Nuyea
in front of the priest, played by
William Holden. The young Chi-
nese does it to taunt the priest,
whose spirit he can’t break. Tho
scene isn’t played for sensation;
the rape is never seen.
"I showed it to Catholic author-
ities, both in the United States
and here. Both approved it. But
those jerks in the Johnston of-
fice wouldn’t allow it.”
What is he going to do about itT
“I’m going to shoot the seen#
as it was written,” he said defi-
antly. “Why should Preminger
have a monopoly?”
The theme of “Satan Never
Sleeps” is a touchy one. Holden
and Clifton Webb play mission-
aries caught in the Red Chines#
sweep. One of the refugees in
their charge is France Nuyen,
who falls in love with Holden.
"He thinks he can handle tho
situation,” McCarey said, “but
Webb warns him he is getting
himself into quicksand. And ho
does.
“I’ve had no trouble at all with
the church on the story. Tho
priests tell me, ‘We’re no more
than human.’ They havo no ob-
jections as long as no physical
contact is shown.”
Low level wind mysteries slated
for study on 1,520 foot tower
By araymond hoi brook
DALLAS (AP)—A dozen wind
gauges attached to a quarter-
mile high television tower at
nearby Cedar Hill, may help
bring new safety to air trans-
portation by solving some of the
mysterieon of (he low level jet
stream.
Pilots have long been aware
of erratic winds at lower elova-
ing 100 miles per hour at an
altitude of 1,000 feet while only
a light ground breeze is blowing.
But the phenomenon has taken
on new importance and concern
with the advent of jet aircraft
and their more critical landing
characteristics.
To find out just what does on
in the first quarter • mile above
the earth’s surface, the 12 wind
gauges have been mounted on the
1,521-foot transmitting tow-
er shared by television stations
KRLD and WFAA, owned res-
pectively by the Dallas Times
Herald and the Dallas Morning
News.
Installation for the project, the
only one of its kind in the United
States, includes a quarter-million
dollars worth of electronic com-
puting and recording equipment.
Electrical impulses from in-
struments at 30, 70, 150, 300, 450,
600, 750, 900, 1,050, 1,200, 1.300
and 1,420-foot levels are contin-
uously feeding data into an elec-
tronic brain which every 1 min-
utes automatically types out a
complete report of temperatures
and wind velocities and directions
for each of the 1* levels.
Except for one disruption be-
cause of an ice storm and brief
instrument calibration tests once
a week by supervisor Oscar Car-
ter the observations have been
on an around-the-clock basis tince
November.
Copies of the report are sent
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to the University of Texas and
to the Air Force Cambridge re-
search laboratory in Massachu-
setts where they are edited and
interpreted and then forwarded
to the national weather records
center at Akheville, N.C.
Although the findings to date
in the two-year study are stiH
preliminary, the study, already
has provided a pretty good pic-
ture of the low level jet stream.
The most pronounced jet
streams to date have attained
a velocity of 70 miles an hour
at 1,000 feet while the wind at
l, 420 feet was only 15 miles an
hour and on the ground was only
9 miles per hour. Winds of 71
m. p.h. are considered of hurri-
cane force.
The study is of vital interest
to military and commercial jet
pilots because a drop in the
velocity of the wind can mean
a corresponding drop in tho
plane’s air speed.
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