The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1952 Page: 2 of 8
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Three newly elected members of the Security Council of the
United Nations—Chile, Greece and Pakistan—took their seats for
the first time on 17 January, when the Council reconvened in
Paris for 1952. Here they are shown after their first meeting, left
to right: Hernan Santa Cruz of Chile, Ahmed S. Bokhari of Pakistan,
the Security Council’s President Jean Chauvel of France and Alexis
Eyrou of Greece. They replace Ecuador, India and Yugoslavia.
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Quintus McCord had been mar-
ried the previous -Friday in Mc-
Dade. She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stanfield, he
the son of Mr. J. B. McCord.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Gage had
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where “an excellent musical pro-
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Budget Study Time
The signs are increasing that American legislators
are going to probe in detail the proposed U.S. budget
of $85 billion. Evidently the anguished howls of tax-
payers are being heard this year by Senators and Con-
gressmen who must stand up for re-election. Last year
these same gentlemen had a tendency to question
briefly, then to admit that the whole thing was so
fantastic they couldn’t understand it.
It’s about time they attempted to understand it,
however. It is truly fantastic. In fiscal year 1952 the
U. S. government proposes to spend over one-fourth
the total national income. It now takes the average
wage earner 13 weeks of labor out of each year
TO PAY HIS TAXES. Agencies appropriate (and mis-
appropriate) millions as blithely as Rockefeller used
to give away dimes.
Yet the question which legislators must attempt
to answer is not whether the money is being allotted
for just purposes but whether it is being spent with
economy and discretion. National defense, aid to our
allies, prosecution of the Korean war, domestic expend-
itures — each item of the budget, if examined intelli-
gently, can justify its necessity.
But what no government agency can justify — and
the armed forces probably least of all — is the reckless-
ness with which money is spent. The Army, Navy and
Air Force compete violently with each other for federal
appropriations. They bid against each other and hoard
critical materials. Each chases off expensively in pur-
suit of its particular strategic and tactical dream.
The orgy of spending has no boundaries. Obscure
little agencies need more and more clerks and secre-
taries. The executives of various departments have to
make more and more grand tours at government ex-
pense. You cannot find a bureau in the miasma of
_ Washington which is not short of help and short of
funds. This, despite the fact that the U.S. government
spends almost as much money annually as all the other
governments of the world combined.
Yes, it’s high time that Congress took an intelli-
gent look at the national budget. With $85 billion to be
spent, surely some of it will be wasted. Congress is the
only branch of the American government which can
discover and check this waste.
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No man can take his eyes off
progress for a second these days
I have specific reference to Boris
Landrum, who used to be an
automobile owner back in tne
Model T days and who got caught
in the depression and had to ge
by with a saddlehorse until re-
Week before last I was in town
to cash my pension check, and
who should be in the bank cash-
ing his’n but old Boris. We fell
to talking, and pretty soon i
popped out that Boris had leased
his land to a wildcatter and had
several thousand dollars burning
a hole in his Levis.
He allowed he was going to
trade his saddlehorse in on a new
automobile. I tried to tell him
he didn’t have no use for an auto-
mobile at his age. He said he
realized it, but that his wife had
demanded it. Not only was she
getting too old to ride double but
it was making the horse sway-
backed and ruining its trade-in
value.
WELL, SIR, that was the last
I heard of it until I was in the
telegraph office the other day
and overheard Robert MacAlester,
local dealer for the Skidmore
automobile, sending a wire to the
police in Butte, Montana. Thun-
der, I thought, what business had
he got with law officers in that
section of the country? I’m a mite
curious by nature, and it wasn t
long till I’d had the whole story.
Poor Boris! He just hadn’t kept
up with progress. It seems he’d
bought that automobile. But Boris
thought he was buying hisself a
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AND four county NEWS
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Spring had almost come to
Elgin 25 years ago. Said The
Courier’s editor on Page 1” . • •
It makes people forget their
troubles to get out, stir around
and mix with other folks. We have
all been too prone to look on
the dark side of things just be-
cause the day was dark and
cloudy. But watch things brighten
up now. The M. & F. Bank will
open soon which will bring a
smile to faces of lots of folks
who haven’t smiled since the bank
closed . . .
Funny how some people in-
sist on magnifying bad news and
discounting the good prospects.
One man yesterday when accosted
by another about the sunshine,
says, ‘Yes, but we don’t know
how long it will last.’ Sure we
don’t know/ but let’s enjoy it
while it’s here.”
Major C. B. Carter and his
sister, Miss Hattie Beth Carter,
were en route to the States from
Nicaragua. They had been at
Managua almost a year, where
Major Carter had been attached
to the Native .Constabulary and
Miss Carter had taught English in
a native school. Their parents,
Mr and Mrs. A. H. Carter, and
their friends and relatives here
were eagerly awaiting the arrival
home of the travelers.
The Texas Company had
abandoned drilling a deep test 10
miles south of Thorndale after
reaching a depth of more than
3,000 feet. It was the third test
for the crew in that fault. Their
next test was to be at Red Rock
in Bastrop County.
A distinguished Texan, Miss
Fannie Ratchford, sister of Mrs.
Ed Fromme Sr. of Elgin, had re-
turned to Austin from an ex-
tended visit in the Eastern U.S.
Miss Ratchford was librarian at
Wrenn Library in Austin. Before
the Modern Language Association
of America at Harvard University
Miss" Ratchford had presented a
paper on her personal investiga-
tions of manuscript works of
Charlotte Bronte. She had also
visited in many of the great
libraries in the East.
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deluxe special with overdrive and
automatic shiftgear.
HE SAID to Robert, “I swear,
it’s been so long since I’ve drove
one of these I’ve plumb forgot
where the push gear’s at.”
“Right here,” Robert said.
“You just pull this little lever
down and away you go.”
So that’s what Boris done. He
pulled her down and away he
went. The trouble was he didn’t
wait long enough for Robert to
tell him how to stop the blamed
thing.
Next morning they sighted him
nine miles north of Dallas beat-
ing on the windshield and yelling
for help. That afternoon they had
a report from Tulsa saying he’d
run all the traffic lights and was
standing up in the seat screaming
and cussing. One fellow managed
to throw him a sandwich passing
through Iowa. Reports have been
coming in regular for a week
now, and Robert said they had
road blocks up all over Montana.
He’s PLENTY worried about
it, too. It ain’t so much that he’s
got an old-fashioned customer
running wild in a new-fangled
’ contraption. What he’s afraid of
. is that the automobile factory
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It’s this automatic age,” he
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McMillion, Bonner. The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1952, newspaper, February 14, 1952; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1548998/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Elgin Public Library.