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Thursday, Feb. 3, 1966 Griffin Daily News
Washington Window
CS Not Living
Within Income
By LYLE WILSON
United Press International
In the five years of the
Kennedy - Johnson administra
tions there has not been a year
In which government lived
Within its income. In those five
years the public debt has
Increased by more than $36
billion. This enormous sum
represents five years of bor
rowing by the federal govern
ment to pay current bills.
The Kennedy-Johnson admi
nistrations collected and spent
Shades Of
UNCLE And
Agent 007
LONDON* (UPI) — It
smacked of “U.N.C.L.E.,”
“Smersh” and maybe even
“Zowie.” Cali in James Bond,
Napoleon Solo or Our Man
Flint. The villains planned a
“full-scale military attack,’’
complete with “limited atomic
weapons.”
The woras coming from
Durham County Police Chief
Alec Muir sounded to reporters
like something from Ian
\ Fleming. He disclosed that
Army riflemen had been sent to
Durham Prison when It was
feared an all-out assault would
be made on the Alcatraz-like
fortress to free one of Britain’s
three “great train robbers.”
The three are Douglas
Gordon Goody, Roy (The
Weasel) James and Thomas
Wisbey, conviced for their part
in the August, 1963, holdup of a
royal mail train which netted
$7.3 million.
Muir revealed Wednesday he
demanded the troops three
months ago when he became
convinced associates of the
three planned to spring at least
Goody, regarded as the brains
behind the robbery.
He said the attack could
Include the use of tanks,
bazookas, bombs and “limited
atomic weapons.” Regular army
troops of the Royal Irish
Fusiliers, an Infantry regiment,
were rushed to the prison and
have been on duty since the
request, Muir disclosed.
“With over two million
pounds at their disposal they
can go to any lengths
irrespective of risk to life or
limb,” the chief said. “If that
happened there would be a
pitched battle and a lot of
people would be killed.”
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in those five years about $400
billions. Mortal mind cannot
comprehend such a sum of
money nor comprehend the
sum of the public debt
President Johnson envisions in
his current budget. The debt is
estimated at $321 billion at
midnight next June 30, the end
of the current 1966 fiscal year.
The spending and debt bulge is
steeply up.
The first complete fiscal year
of the Kennedy-Johnson admi
nistration was fiscal 1962. In
that period, the government
spent $87.8 billion and collected
in revenue $81.4 for a deficit of
$6.4 billion. As the lat e A1
Jolson used to say: You ain’t
heard nothin’ yet!
President Johnson calculates
that he will spend $106.4 billion
in the current fiscal year and
collect $100 billion. The deficit
will be $6.4 billion. In the fiscal
year 1967 which begins next
July 1, LBJ expects to collect
$111 billion and to spend $112.8
billion. On that basis, the
deficit would be about $1.8
billion.
But the sharp pencil opera
tors have been going over
LBJ's 1967 budget. They report
that is too optimistic by far.
The deficit is likely to be much
more than $1.8 billion.
These figures may seem
academic to the average
citizen, with not much applica
tion to him and to his family.
On that, the average citizen is
mistaken. The government has
been borrowing money for
upward of 30 years to pay for
war and for the good things of
life. This reckless deficit
spending has contributed sub
stantially to the erosion of the
dollar’s purchasing power.
The U.S. dollar handed by
Herbert Hoover to Franklin D.
Roosevelt before World War II
SMALL BUSINESS BREAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) —GOP
members of the House Select
Committee on Small Business
want the Defense Department
and other big-spending govern
ment agencies to give a better
break to the nation’s small
businesses.
Rep. Arch A. Moore Jr.,
W.VA., ranking Republican on
the panel, complained Tuesday
that the federal small business
administration has withdrawn
its representatives from De
fense Department procurement
centers, thereby reducing the
chance of contract awards to
small businesses.
. has lost about 57 per cent of its
purchasing power. That dollar
is worth about 43 cents at
today’s prices. Since 1949 alone
the U.S. dollar has lost 27 per
cent of its purchasing power. It
is worth about 73 cents in
terms of today’s prices.
That is what is known as
currency inflation. It is a
deadly process. The so-called
senior citizens who must live on
Social Security checks or other
fixed sources of income cannot
survive currency inflation.
Lacking relief, they will suffer
a genteel starvation.
Prices edge steadily upward.
Each month the price index
hits a new high. The latest
headline (Jan., 28) read like
this:
MOST COSTS
OF LIVING
SOARING
The U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics recently reported the
steepest December climb in
living costs in 15 years.
The big spending politicians
talk about preventing inflation.
It is too late to prevent
inflation. Inflation already
is here. The problem is how to
stop it. Labor is exhorted by
Washington to accept responsi
bility in holding to non
inflationary wage increase
guide lines. Industry is exhort
ed to hold down prices. The
citizens should exhort the
politicians to consider the beam
in their own eyes.
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News Commentary
War That Came
From Nowhere
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
From the runway of Dan
Nang, from Thailand and from
huge carriers at sea, U.S.
fighter-bombers have resumed
their attack on North Viet
Nam after a lull of more than
month.
It was a sad decision that
President Johnson finally
reached. And a sad one too for
the American people faced now
with a struggle of indetermin
ate length and the practical
certainty that American in
volvement from the beginning
in 1954 with only a handful of
military advisors now easily
can reach a half million or
more.
The beginning or 1965 saw
U.S. dollar costs estimated at
about one million per day. The
beginning of 1966 sees the daily
cost in ammunition alone at $10
million.
This correspondent just has
completed a trip extending
from coast to coast. In
conversations along the way I
found much the same divisions
as those now affecting Wash-
ington, and the feeling that this
was a war the more unfair
because it seemed to come
from nowhere.
The debate raging around
presidential decisions in Viet
Nam is fortunate both because
it is late and because it can
lead North Viet Nam and its
Communist allies into a belief
that a divided United States
soon must abandon its efforts.
As the United States pressed
its peace campaign, the diffi
culties of reaching even a
beginning to negotiations also
became more apparent.
With whom should the United
States negotiate? Hanoi, t he
Communist-dominated national
liberation front of South Viet
Nam, Peking or even Moscow?
Washington holds to the view
that even though the National
Liberation Front may take
part, the chief negotiator must
be Hanoi. This view contends
that the war is directed from
the north and that the
Liberation Front which came
into being in 1960 simply is a
Hanoi tool.
Hanoi insists that the chief
the doctor says
i 100 Years And
4 Plague Still Here
By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
In the epidemics of plague in
17th century Europe, 60 per cent
of the victims died. No such epi
demics have occurred in this
country but the disease is still
with us. Six or more cases were
negotiator must be the Libera
tion Front.
This would require the United
States to admit that the
struggle in South Viet Nam
actually is a civil war in which
the U.S. has no business.
This is a Communist claim
that also has been supported by
France, the former colonial
power which ruled all of Indo
china.
Compounding the difficulties
are differences within the
Communist world itself.
Both Moscow and Peking
have prestige at stake in Viet
Nam. Of the two, Moscow is
deemed the most likely to favor
negotiations. But in her strug
gle with Peking for influence in
Asia she dare not surrender her
revolutionary role.
reported in 1965 in the western
states. Because doctors no long
er see enough cases to be famili
ar with the disease, it may go
unrecognized until it is too late
for effective treatment.
The term that causes plague
is present in the blood of rodents
that have become immune —
chiefly rats, squirrels and prair
ie dogs. The fleas that feed on
the blood of these animals may
be transferred to another ani
mal or a man and in biting the
new host inject their saliva con
taining the plague germs. Thus
living in an area where plague
infected fleas abound may result
in an attack of the disease even
without direct eontact with any
rodent.
After an incubation period of
two days to two weeks the vic
tim gets chills, fever and a
headache. His lymph nodes be
come enlarged and tender and
hemorrhages appear under
the skin. This form is called bu
bonic plague. Less common is
the pneumonic form which is
characterized by a loose cough
and shortness of breath. This
form Is especially dangerous be
cause it can be spread Iran
man to man through the inhala
tion of the droplets propelled
into the air by the victim In a fit
of coughing.
A scientist from Boston con
tracted plague on a visit to New
Mexico. He flew home during
the incubation period and did not
feel ill until several days later.
He had the bubonic form of the
disease but, if it had been the
pneumonic form, Boston might
well have suffered a serious epi
demic of plague. As it was, the
cause of his disease was not re
c^jnized in time to save his
life.
Sulfa drugs and such antibio
tics as streptomycin and the te
tracyclines, when given early in
the course of the disease, shor
ten the course and result in a
cure but, to be on the safe side,
most doctors also give an anti
toxin. Prevention, however, is
far better than cure. In areas
where the disease is reported, in
tensive insect and rodent con
trol measures must be applied
and the population should avail
itself of plague vaccine.
Send your questions and com
ments to Wayne G. Brandstadt,
M.D., in care of the Griffin Da
ily News. While Dr. Brandstadt
cannot answer individual letters
he will answer letters of general
Interest in future columns.