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Dear Editor:
As I understand the latest
idea for national defense,
satellites bearing laser
beams and all sorts missile-
detecting. aiming and firing
devices would be put in cir-
culation up in space.
When an enemy nuclear
warhead came sailing toward
us, the apparatus up there
would spot it and before you
could say Jack Robinson
blast it out of the sky.
The system is being called
an umbrella defense, forming
a shield over the United
States that'd make Soviet
nuclear missiles as useless as
Roman candles
Naturally Russia would
order its scientists to come up
with an umbrella too, thus in
turn making our nuclear
missiles useless Thus the
threat of nuclear destruction
of everybody and all their
kinfolks would be eliminated
So some scientific inven-
tors are going to say, look. we
have all this money invested
in nuclear weapons, it's a
shame Ihose umbrellas up
there are keeping us from us-
ing them They then invent a
missile that can penetrate an
umbrella
Naturally this calls for a se-
cond umbrella to protect the
first one, then a third to pro-
tect the second, and so on at a
total cost of all the money
there is.
I don't know what'll happen
when the world uses up all the
money there is on defense,
but I know this; it's a sure
way to end the arms race
Yours faithfully.
J.A.
50 YEARS AGO
As the result of investigations of county expenditures
and an endeavor to put off unnecessary costs, the commis-
sioners court of Deaf Smith County has passed an order
that every purchase to be paid for out of county finances
must be signed by one of the four commissioners or the
county judge
The Farmers Creamery announces today the nse of two
cents a pound for butterfat on the local market, making a
price of 16 cents, the highest it lias reached for quite a
while.
75 YEARS AGO
The array of fine hats for all sorts and sizes of the fair
sex at the three openings last Saturday was enough to turn
the heads and pocketbooks of the whole male population in
Hereford The feathers, flowers and fixings, and nameless
things in the millinery departments which had fallen from
the artistic and deft fingers of the makers were beyond the
imagination of a common country newspaper reporter
A stroll along the main street will make one think he is
no longer in a frontier town The large show windows,
beautifully and artistically decorated by the display of
seasonable goods is enough to create the desire to pur-
chase
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"Haman capital formation," Pifer terms IL and waste
through inadequate nutrition. health care, education and
motivation can no longer be afforded Especially among
minority communities Blacks and Hispanics because of
their, higher fertility rates are contributing proportionately
more young Americans to the limited number of productive
workers Making the most of them is a national challenge
The trouble with this idea is
that it ignores the habit man
has of not being satisfied with
what he has The world would
be a lot safer place today if
everybody had been satisfied
with muzzle loaders. But
some restless guy started
tinkering with is and before
long we had the repeating ri-
fle and now the machine gun
and 1984. but then equal to it
in the years following
Amount: $66 billion Yes 28
percent. No 55 percent
7. Currently, Social Secuir-
ty retirement benefits are not
subject to federal income tax.
We should make benefits sub-
ject to tax, with the proceeds
going into the Social Secuirty
trust funds. Note: Amount of
tax paid if any would still de-
pend on the person's total in-
come from all sources.
Amount 8134 billion Yes 36
percent No 55 percent.
NOTE Totals do not add
up to 100 percent because
some readers did not respond
to every question
telligently - "Not all nations
are capable of making
themselves equally at home
in the modern world."
We cannot imagine why
everybody does not follow us.
They can’t. We imagine that
because our Marshall Plan
for Europe was so successful
that international welfare
would accomplish that objec-
tive everywhere. It won’t.
Uruguay was a welfare
state long before our nation
tried it. A "progressive
model for the rest of the
southern hemisphere."
But no other Latin nation
followed - and Uruguay has
itself reverted to military dic-
tatorship.
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East, Southern Asia and
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Thumbing back
25 YEARS AGO
Installation of eight new street lights was approved on
Star Street and in the Aikman School district by members
of the City Commission in regular meeting Monday night.
The group also passed a resolution to sell the recently
voted 8100,000 street improvement bonds, passed an or-
dinance to control future alley paving and followed the
recommendation of the zoning committee for one change
on Park Ave
Fate of the LaMance test well, eight miles southwest of
Hereford on Western Reality Co . in Lubbock leases, will
be determined within a week to 10 days The well will
either produce or be abandoned following work which
started Wednesday
10 YEARS AGO
William L. I Bill i Albright. 47. of Fort I eaven worth.
Kan., was named Saturday morning as as the new
manager and executive vice-president of Deaf Smith
County Chamber of Commerce
Texas cattle feeders are up tight about beef boycotters
who don't understand the law of supply and demand But
rather than fight back with holding actions, they're using
the "olive branch approach" and inviting city investors to
become "business partners in a pen of cattle."
I YEAR AGO
Widespread layoffs and plant closings pushed the
unemployment rate to nine percent last month, matching
the postwar high, the labor Department reported today.
Gov. Bill Clements has appointed Deaf Smith County
Judge Glen Nelson to the state's Advisory Committee on
Nuclear Energy. The committee was formed by the Texas
and Natural Resources Advisory Council to consider wide
range of issues relating to nuclear energy.
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By Dm Graff
If you can tear your attention away from the details of the
great arms debate in Washington long enough, there's a
basic question that deserves at least a few minutes consider-
at ion
Granting the national necessity of a massive defense
establishment, what are we ultimately defending'’
It is a question that is at the heart at recent remarks by
Alan Pifer, outgoing president of the Carnegie Corp Pifer is
retiring after 17 years at the head of the foundation created
by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 for the advancement and diffu-
sion of knowledge and understanding
Pifer's remarks introduce the Carnegie annual report. and
they are unusual in that they focus not on the condition of the
corporation but state of the society in which it functions
Pifer views that with both sorrow and hope
Sorrow because of a "short-sighted and uncharitable
spirit"' he sees at work in current efforts to dismantle social
programs established not only to help those unable to help
themselves but to develop the nation s human potential
"It took years to summon up the national will to put these
programs in place," Pifer observes, "and now they are being
torn down with a degree of haste and thoughtlessness that is
truly astonishing. ”
Not, he fears, without considerable cost to individuals and
Professor Kristol recently
wrote in The Wall Street
Journal. The notion that
land reform or old-age pen-
sions or a minimum wage
would bnng stability and pro-
gressive economic growth to
these countries is wishful
thinking."
He concludes - and hear
this carefully so that you can
consider foreign aid in-
sionals have a right to
organize, or associate to
reach common goals
instead of believing the
claims made by the Chamber
of Commerce, workers
should have faith in
themselves and in their abili-
ty to form a strong and fair
union and to elect good and
reasonable leaders.
There is no reason why a
union would have meant the
destruction of the company
and the economic security of
this community. In fact, the
job security of each in-
dividual worker is what has
been lost by the recent vote
Since the Chamber of Com-
merce played such an import-
nal role in the outcome,
perhaps individual workers
who are discharged or
treated unfairly by the com-
pany should try to seek
assistance from the
Chamber. now that they have
no other place to go
Sincerely.
Pedro Gonzales
Albert Murillo
Rodolfo DeLeon
elude all government every July, at the same
workers and nonprofit percentage that the Con-
employees in the Social sumer Prize Index iCPII
Security program, and went up the previous year
agreed to delay cost-of-living We should delay these in-
adjustments for one year and creased for six months
then adjust COLAs Amount 640 billion; Yes 62
downward. And you over- percent, No 30 percent
whelmingly rejected increas- 4 We should skip the cost-
ing payroll taxes or taxing of-living adjustment i COLAI
Social Security benefits. I on- in 1983, resuming it as usual
ly wish Congress had shown in 1964 Amount: 694 billion
the same courage and Yes 49 percent. No 40 percent
wisdom 5. We should still provide
Thus while the survey COLAs every year, but make
showed that Americans these two payment less than
wanted to see benefits the increase in the CPI
brought back into line with Amount: 8103 billion. Yes. 57
the ability of American percent, No 34 percent.
workers to pay for them 6. COLAs should be two per
I Social Security benefits cent less than CPI for 1983
have increased by 205 percent
since 1970, while after-tax
wages have grown by only 110
percent) Congress refused to
make any meaningful ad-
justments of the COLA. In-
stead Congress voted out a
package that is three parts
tax increase to one part spen-
ding restraint.
The survey shows that
when the American people
asked for spending control
and no new taxes. Congress
responded with just the op-
posite - new taxes and more
spending.
I don't usually presume to
tell the readers of this column
what to do, but I would sleep
better at night if some of you
would run for Congress
Here are the survey results
to date:
1. Currently, civilian
federal employees (including
members of Congress) are
excused from participating in
Social Security. The same is
true for nonprofit employees
and many state and local
government workers These
employees should be required
to participate. Amount: 8100
billion. Yes 91 percent. No 7
percent
2 Laws are already on the
books to increase Social
Security payroll taxes on both
workers and businesses on
1985, 19M and 1990 All of the
tax increases should be put
into effect as of Jan. 1, 1984.
Amount 9133 billion Yes 17
percent. No 73 percent
A belief in legislative magic for year has been deep-
ly imbedded In the psyches of folks who roam the halls
of Congress. We've tried to ignore their superstitions
but recent events have compelled our attention. Look
what has happened
Tip O'Neill said his "jobs" bill, with its innovative
ideas for paying people to do not much, would restore
the economy. And presto, the economy bounced back
in January, even before the jobs bill had made it
through the House.
Sen Bob Dole's contribution to the recovery has
been to bring the deficit under control through an elixir
called "revenue enhancement." There could be no
recovery, of course, until the deficit was licked, even if
that means giving people bigger and bigger tax loads to
carry interest rates started falling even while the Tax
Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 was a
gleam In the senator's eye, and if we now have a
recovery, it must be because its tax boosts have finally
succeeded in balancing the budget.
Messrs. Dole and O'Neill, your powers are truly
miraculous!
But maybe we too have fallen prey to popular
superstitions. Possibly that enormous jump In the
leading economic indicators In January, the sharpest
rise in 33 years, should not be attributed to things that
have not yet happened. Hmmmm, what has happened?
Well, come to think of It, the first words in these col-
umns during 1983 were, "At last, a tax cut." Eighteen
months after President Reagan pushed through a bill to
reduce personal Income tax rates, we finally got a
reduced tax burden, effective for economic purposes
on January 1. Until then, the cuts in rates were offset by
higher Social Security taxes and bracket creep. Could it
actually be that tax rate changes actually do what price
theory would predict? Could they actually encourage
people to work and invest by allowing them to keep
more of what they earn? Could they even induce people
to postpone economic activity from periods of higher
taxes, like December 1982, into periods of lower taxes,
like January 1983? Why that sounds just like the
discredited supply-side economists, who actually were
predicting a strong 1983 in the face of gloom from all
other quarters Thank goodness for the sound conven-
tion wisdom of the jobs bill and deficit fighting.
Of course, neither prospective "jobs" featherbed-
ding nor prospective revenue enhancement has
brought back the economy from recession.
When those initiatives come to bear on the economy
they will only serve to weaken the recovery.
Still, recovery is starting. This is because monetary
controls restraint has, not without some pain, correct
inflationary expectations and because we finally got
some tax cuts to put new incentives in the economy.
If there is some other explanation, we were not hear-
ing it last January 1.
society.
The dismantling comes at a time of major alterations in
the American population With a declining fertility rate,
fewer Americans are being born proportionate to the total
population, which puts a higher premium on the smaller
numbers who are the future of the society
fortable living in the past,
whether we like it or not.
We forget that the people at
El Salvador recently voted in
free elections with a secret
ballot to repudiate what we
consider social justice."
Americans. confronted by
the advance of communism
when our obviously better
ism is in retreat, forget that
dictatorship is enforceable
while neither a social
democracy nor a political
republic
Our problem is much closer
to home than El Salvador:
our nation - to whom our
form of government is un-
familiar and not necessarily
preferable.
Unless they change, we
will. T
« COMMENTARY
•m Don Graff
Dear Editor: for your free self-test on
Many local volunteers have cancer risk With your help,
rallied for the American cancer can be controlled.
Cancer Society’s annual A.T. Mims, M.D.
education and fundraising President
Crusade in Deaf Smith Coun- Deaf Smith Unit
ty The campaign will peak in American Cancer Society
April, which has been
declared Cancer Control Dear Editor.
Month’ by an Act of Congress Because there are always
On Sunday, April 17, two sides to every story, and
volunteers in Deaf Smith recently only one side of the
County will be visiting their Swift Union controversy has
neighbors to collect contribu- appeared in the pages of the
tions and to hand out what Brand. a group of former Ar
could be the most important mour Company union
test any of us has ever taken, members would like to ex-
The self-administered test is press what we feel is the
designed to help each of us more accurate version of the
determine if we have a higher facts
than normal risk for develop- In letters to the Editor and
ing certain kinds of cancer, other articles, and ads. the
Once we know this, we will be Chamber of Commerce
more aware of possible symp- blames the union for theAr
toms of cancer and more apt mour plant shutdown. They
to participate in the also charged that the union
American Cancer Society's leadership ignored what the
free cancer screenings and workers wanted and refused
public education programs, 10 renegotiate the contract. In
Few, if any, of us can say fact, the work force in the
we haven't been touched in Hereford plant was reduced
some way by cancer Each of by 47 people and the workers
us knows someone - a friend, were willing to take a 82 wage
a relative, a co-worker - who cut if the company would pro-
is fighting cancer Thanks to mise to stay open until the
advances in cancer research, end of the contract period,
more and more of us know The company refused this
people who have beaten the offer because it did not want
disease to make any promises.
Half of those who get Similarly, plants in Missouri,
cancer could and should be Tennessee. South Dakota and
saved Your American Minnesota took a wage
Cancer Society's immediate freeze, and some even took
goal is to save 220,000 lives - wage cuts, but this did not
half of those who will die of prevent the plants from being
cancer in 1983. To do this, we sold to SIPCO. The unions did
must reach our Crusade goal make concessions, but the
of 811.000 here in Deaf Smith plants were sold anyway.
County How can it be said that the
The money you contribute union was to blame? The
to your American Cancer union members were willing
Society is working for you in to make sacrifices, however
our community and the company employees and
throughout Texas last year, office workers were not even
the society supported -ked to give up anything,
research in Texas institutions We firmly believe that the
with 84.298,213, ACS Unit union leadership did not 8-
Volunteers conducted free nore the wishes of the
education programs in- workers. Everyonensshould
eluding cancer screening know that in a Union the
clinics to promote early workershave no vice. A union
detection and prevention of is the workers, and like a
cancer In addition, we pro- chain, it is only as strong “
vide assistance to cancer pa itsweakestmember o, com
““please give generously munity,businessomen.and
whyourdonornnprilandask belleve that only profes-
U.S. Rep. Kent Hance (Dist. 19) U.S. House of Hep.. 1619
langworth Bldg.. Washington. D.C.. 29515. Pho
202-225-4005.
BY RICHARD L. LESHER.
PRESIDENT
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
WASHINGTON - Congress
has finally passed the Social
Security "bail out" plan A
triumph of bipartisanship.
Tip O'Neill is happy. Robert
Dole is pleased And although
your responses to the reader
survey on Social Security are
still pouring in. I thought this
would be the appropriate
time to see what you thought
of the Social Secuirty "com-
promise” bill.
The January survey asked
readers to vote for a com-
bination of measures which
would close the projected 8150
to 8200 billion funding gap
facing Social Security in the
next seven years.
Well, you outdid
yourselves. A majority of
readers agreed on a package
worth 8300 billion which
would actually allow Con-
gress to reduce Social Securi-
ty taxes and maintain the
solvency of the system.
Summarizing the survey
results, you voted 13 to 1 to in-
"backward"? Why have they
not developed and prospered
as we have?
They had a head start on
us. The climate is com-
parable Natural resources
are altogether as plentiful.
They can't blame colonial
occupation any more than we
can.
Argentina should be as af-
fluent as Canada. Mexico
should be as prosperous as
Texas. Why aren't they'’
Irving Kristol is professor
of Social Thought at NYU, a
Senior Fellow of the
American Enterprise In-
stitute. Let’s see what he
says.
Professor Kristol reminds
us that every country in Latin
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