Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 95, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 14, 1973 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGB 4—LEVELLAND DAILY SDN NEWS WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14.1973
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A budget analysis
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By John Tower,
R-Texas
This week, the President
submitted to the Congress his
budget proposal for the next fiscal
year. Portions of that budget will
be controversial issues in the
Congress this year, but I do not
think the Congress should quarrel
with the basic goal of the budget
which is to hold down government
spending in order to avoid new
developing the federal budget is eliminationofftindsforthe Office appear to be worthwhile
the I e v e 1 ^ of manditory of Economic Opportunity, the programs without sufficient
expenditures. A great deal of our OEO. In general, I think we have regardfor the aggregate spending
federal revenues each year must taken the good, workable level which results. The
go for such uncontrollable items programs the OEO originated and Congress has sometimes passed
as interest on the national debt placed them in other agencies for an overall spending ceiling and
and payments for social security, continued work. The programs left it to the Executive Branch to
Gl benefits, widows and orphans left to the OEO have generally determine where to make the
assistance and various federal proved to be unsound. necessary cuts. To retain its
retirement payments. approbations power, the
a.uiu NC» The Adminis,r»tion and **>e One of the major questions Congress should begin toexhibita
taxes and keep up the fight ag- Co",re” ?J*‘ ** p,r‘,c“tar!y *urr««d'"f «»e budget this year cognizance of the impace of its
ainstinflation. critical of the controllable is (he relative power balance appropriations power, the
portions of the budget if between the Executive and Congress should begin toexhibita
expendituresaretobekcpt. Legislative Branches. Over the cognizance of the impact of its
Concern for domestic needs is past several years, the Congress appropriations in context with
reflected in the new bdget by the has too often funded what might antiepated federal revenues,
factthattwopercentofthe budget
By Jack Anderson
Army choppers for cops?
FAA standing in the Navy
Overall, the budget is slightly
higher than for the prev ious fiscal
year, but the increase is not as
large as expected in revenues due
to our expanding economy.
I have always felt, from a
philosophical and idealistic
standpoint, that government
budgets should be drawn up in
mu, h of the same way as
household budgets. When my wile
and I look atour household budget,
wetakeourestimatedincome and
we adjust out anticipated
expenditures so as not to exceed
that income. I have learned that
such a simplistic approach is not
possible with our federal
governmentbudget. but I do think
that such a situation is a proper
goal to be sought.
This is why I was encouraged to
see in the new budget that the level
of deficit spending is to be cut in
half.
One of the main problems in
main intelligence base at Nam
Yeu for operations into
Communist China. Sabotage and
reconnaisance teams, operating
out. of Nam Yeu, have been
penetrating deep into China's
dollar is being diverted away
from national defense to various
human needs. In the new budget,
47 percent of expenditures are to
go for such human resources as
education,health, social security
and welfare costs; 30 per cent will
go for national defense; 10
percent for physical resources
such as transportation, housing,
agriculture and environment; the
remaining I 3 percent will go for
other programs and
requirements.
In submitting his budget, the
President asked the Congress to
Who Nose?
Watchem
go!
BY LYNDELL KENLEY
The Levclland Lobos really
place a legal ceiling upon outdid themselves in the first
expenditures at the level set in his third of last night’s contest with
budget. I will support such a Dimmit. The Harlem
ceiling because I believe the Globtrotters should have paid to
Congress must work in a see them. The whole gym was
responsible manner to help keep filled with excitement as the
spending within reasonable locals putona show that was hard
limits. tobelieve.
This is not to say that I agree Plan to attend the Bi-district
down the line with every game which should be announced
budgetary request. I see both shortly. You'll get a thrill,
pluses and minuese in the budget + + +
details. The Congress must
cooperate in the effort to hold A monologue is a conversation
down expendituresandavoid a tax beI*een b*o people such as a
WASHINGTON—Hundreds ot
helicopters, most of them
perfectly airworthy, have been
cosigned to the scrap heap at
Davis-Mountain Air Force Base
in Tucson, Ariz., while law
enforcement agencies around the
country are paying through the
nose fornewpolicehelicopters.
The police units, with few
exceptions, haven't been able to
cut through the red tape to acquire
surplus military choppers. This
is forcing them to buy new
helicopters for $60,000 to
$100,000 apiece when they could
refttrbtsh an old battle chopper
fara few thousand dollars.
JN» Is evidence, moreover,
that the Federal Aviation
Administration is -cooperating
with the big
mamifacturers to
bargain surplus helicopters out of
police hands. Here’s how they
work it:
The FFA won't issue
certificates of airworthiness for
the surplus choppers unless the
manufacturers issue new data
plates. Bell Heilcopter, for
example, explains that it cannot
determine without a total factory
aircraft
keep the
overhaul whether a chopper still
meets Bell's specifications.
Bell won'triskdamage claims,
therefore, by issuinga data plate.
Without this, the FFA won’t
certify the aircraft. And
insurance companies won’t grant
reasonable liability rates without
FFA certification.
Representative Ogden Reid, D-
N.Y. has suggested in a private
letter to FAA Administrator John
Shaffer that there is a simple
solution. “I have checked with the
services mvolved and have been
assured,” he wrote, "that the log
history of each helicopter is
readily available and that cither
the manufacturer o(Jfe FAA
could easily dele rtnhfe whether
the craft is airworthy from this
and some personal inspection..”
Reid suggests suspiciously that
FAA’s rafusal to issue the
certificates “Is based on a
technicality which seems
designed to protect the market for
new helicopters rather than the
public interest”
Conflict of Interest
An unpublished study exposes
the cozy relationship between the
Food and Drug Administration
and the businesses it is supposed under Johnson's control, the FDA
to oversee. currently conducts tests on the
Such commercial giants as nutritional value of soy meal and
Swift and Company, Smith, Kline soy protein,
and French; and Libby, McNeil Other FDA officials intend to
and Libby have been able to place return to the drug and food
top executives in watchdog posts industries when they leave the
inside the agency government. Typical is Dr. Virgil
The study, by the Center for Wodicka, who formerly worked
Science in the Public interest, for Hunt-Wesson, Libby and
reveals that some 22 of the FDA's Ralston Purina, but is now FDA's
top 54 officials have held key director of the Bureau of Foods,
positions in FDA regulated He has made no bones about his
industries or in front plans to return to the industry
organizations which cater to when his government service is
these aidustries. completed. Even the most noble of
A typical case: Dr. Marion men might avoid doing battle with
Finketcame from the large dn* a corporation which bolds the
ffiSwEir -IKS
Bureau of Drugs. She inclined to go to the well with big
acknowledgedtousthatshe set to business might even be seduced
work in her new post reviewing by what FDA insiders call “the
four Merck drugs for marketing deferred bribe.”
licenses. Three of the Merck dr- Intelligence Items
ugs were subsequently approved. SECRET ATTACK—Pathet Lao
Dr. Ogden Johnson, head of troops, attacking in battalion
FDA's Division of Nutrition, strength a few days ago, overran a
came from A.E. Staly key U.S. intelligence outpost in
Manufacturing Co., an Illinois soy the remote northeastern corner
product producer, which is of L aos near the Burmese border
actively researching new soy Knocked out by the attack was the
food. At the FDA laboratories Central I Intelligence Agency’s
southern Yunnan province. The
teams stayed inside China for as increase, but ft cannot abrogate husband andwife
longas four to six months, some fts responsibility to determine + + +
penetrating as far north as which programs should bear what “Did you hear about the awltil
Kunming. The clandestine portion of the burden caused by fri*ht Geor*e Sot on hls wedding
reports were sent by lightweight budget limitations.
sideband equipment to Nam Yeu TheCongress should look at the "Oh, yes; I was there I saw
for translation and replay to budget request in minute detail. In ber-
Vientienne, and on to CIA so doing, it should realize the + + +
headquarters at McLean, Va. economic value of expenditures Fat Boy sentusscurrymg to the
SEASAGA—Secret intelligence which provide jobs and serve to Good Book yesterday when he told parents senthis pictureto Robert
reports describe what was increase tax revenues- and it “s H said there wouldn't be any Ripley and got a letter back
should also realize that »omen in Heaven. saying. "Idon'thcl.eveit."
administrative costs and
programs which do not generate HifMightS t Sidelights ffOID yOUT State Capitol
Sure enough, there in the very
first verse of Revelations 8 it
says: "When the Lambbrokeopen
the seventh seal, there was
silence inHeavenfor about a half
hour."
+ + +
Healso tells about the guy who
sued his wife for divorce on
grounds she was living a double
life — his and hers.
+ + +
You probably know the reason
you don't send a boy to do a man's
job.
You can never find him.
+ + +
Thought for the day: All of us
areworking for the Government.
The trick is togetpaxl for it.
+ + +
Sign on window of downtown
paint store: "We haveevery color
but V ida Blue."
+ + +
When Bob Ford was born his
probably the last naval action of
the Vietnam War. Four missile
boats, each loaded with twodeadly
STYX missiles, slipped out ot
China and crept down the
coastline, carefully staying in
Chinese territorial waters until
they reached some small North
Vietnamese islands north of
Haiphong. They tried to hide
the islands but failed to
income are direetdrains upon the
treasury, upon the taxpayer
generally. PEOPLE’S WATCHDOG
Some programs are of such P ROPOSED — AG A IN —
merit as to override the test of Legislators from Houston and
economic return. I am not Fort Worth have introduced
convinced that all the reductions legislation proposing to create
in the health and education and the office of “Ombudsman” in the
- defection. Ol Dcwnhw agateulfare fields are wise enact f
17, American A-7 fighter- Conversely, I am pleased to sea
I
person applying for insurance.
Rep. Nichols says “older
people and younger people are the
victims of automatic
discrimination when buying auto
insurance, even though they may
have good individual driving
bombers struck the boats in their
hiding places, sinking one and
damaging two. The fourth got
away.
budget increases
environmental protection
crime fighting, and
! Government in Texas
The idea has been put before the J’eS4Tds-'ri I-|«f
■ . > A KJ ■ i, I I I #'
What do
you want?
your community
What have you done
lately?
If you intend that Levelland and its
surrounding area retain land values and develop
intoa more desirable place in which to live and
work, it’s necessary that you contribute to its
welfare.
Thedeclinii^ child population means that we
must provide the kind of facilities and
opportunities for young people
encourage them to come to Levelland if there is
to be a Levelland in the future.
The quality of life in our town is excellent. We
have relatively few of the problems that grip the
bigeities. We have all of the benefits of urban
life without paying the penalty. But, if we don’t
maintain momentum in population we will begin
the swing toward nothingness that some of our
sicter cities on the South Plains have. South
Plains College has provided the impetus for
growth over the recent years. It cannot forever
carry the city on its own. We must help. We must
enter into growth plans in our lives and
businesses in order that others will see the
things that we already know and will make them
want to become a part of our community. That is
the challenge for 1973.
Do something!
for legislature in previous sessions
and only to receive a cold shoulder,
the The Ombudsman would be an
independent and politically
neutraloffice with the soleduty of
investigating and recommending
action on citizen complaints about
state govemmentadministration,
under the proposed legislation.
The two sponsors. Reps.
Hawkins Menefce of Houston and
David Finney of Fort Worth, said
the Ombudsman would be able to
protect individual citizens by
giving them recourse for their
grievances against unfair or
abusive administrative
practices.
Another Nichols’ bill would
require that the only kind of life
insurance policies which can be
sold in Texas would be level term
policies which are guaranteed
renewable to age 80 — without
evidence of insurability.
'The typical cash-value life
insurance policy is one of the
most prevalent and least
understood consumer frauds in
existence," says Nichols. 'The
simple fact is, at the death of the
insured the beneficiary
automatically loses the cash
value of the policy.”
SHORT SNORTS
Rep. Neil Caldwell has been
Ombudsman, however, appointed by HouseSpeaker Price
would have only the power to
criticize and publicize, but not
reverse, undesirable
administrative actions.
MICKEY MOUSE
DISCRIMINATION?—Houston
Rep R.C. (Nick) Nichols has
introduced legislation which he
says will eliminate the “mickey
Daniel Jr. totheTexasCouncil on
Marine-Related Affairs. Caldwell
fills theunexpired term of former
Rep. Ray Lemmon of Houston.
Texas Agriculture
Commissioner JohnC. White has
named Donald Olson of Lubbock
as supervisor of the Texas
Mouse” discriminatory Department of Agriculture’s
practices of some insurance com- District II at Stephenville and
panies when it when it comes to nmed R«Ymond Houtchens, an
selling automobile and fife insur- insl*ctor in District I (Lubbock)
CC' to succeed Olson in the
One bill would prohibit any fire ‘JUW^isory position,
or automobile insurance company Dr. Kenneth H. Ashworth, vice
from cancelling, reftising to chancellor of the University of
issue, or reftising to renew a Texas System, has been named
policy because of the age, sex, executive vice-president of the
race or place of residence of the University of Texas at San
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