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Thursday, April 21, 1966 Griffin Daily News
Buildup
Boom To-Some,
Hard Times To
Other Areas
By LOUIS CASSELS
U n ited Press International
WASHINGTON OJPI) —The
Viet Nam military buildup has
brought boom times to some U.
S. communities and hard times
to others, a UPI survey
revealed today.
The communities which have
felt the greatest impact —for
better or worse —are those
near big military bases and
defense production centers.
In Delaware County, Pennsyl
vania —just outside Philadel
phia —a sharp stepup in
helicopter production has creat
ed 9,000 new Jobs. A Chamber
Of Commerce spokesman told
UPI reporter Ed McFall that
business is better than ever
before in the county’s history.
But in Columbus, Ga. merch
ants report a precipitate
decline in sales of everything
from beer to automobiles since
the 1st Cavalry Division was
transferred from nearby Fort
Benning to the Vietnamese war
front.
For every one community
Where the economic effects of
the expanding war are clearly
discernible, the survey showed,
there are many others where
general prosperity has made it
virtually impossible to detect
specific results of the military
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buildup.
In Joliet, Ill., a UPI reporter
found citizens gratified but not
terribly excited by the reactiva
tion of an arsenal that will
employ 4,000 people. Banker
William J. Roth pointed out
that 60,000 people already are
employed in manufacturing and
service industries in the Joliet
area, and three new industrial
plants —not related to defense
— have opened within the past
year.
“Any pickup in business
would be difficult to attribute
specifically to Viet Nam,” he
said.
Small Log
Joliet’s expierence is more
typical than that of either
Delaware County or Columbus.
Nationally, increased military
spending has thus far been only
one more log —and a relatively
small one —on the inflationary
fires of a general economic
boom.
President Johnson estimated
in his budget message to
Congress that the “special
costs” of Viet Nam would
amount to about $10.5 billion
during the coming fiscal year.
That’s a lot of money from one
viewpoint —but it is not a large
proportion of a gross national
prduct of more than $700
billion a year.
During the three years of the
Korean war, XJ. 8. defense
spending soared from five to 12
per cent of the gross national
product. By contrast, defense
outlays are expected to in
crease only one-tenth of one per
centage point —from 7.5 to 7.6
per cent of the national output
— between 1965 and 1967.
In a large metropolitan area,
It Is particularly difficult to
differentiate between the econ
omic effects of general prosperi
ty and the specific results of
the defense buildup.
In the St. Louis area, the
McDonnell Aircraft Corp. is
increasing its work force from
35,000 to 42,000 to speed output
of Jet fighters. But UPI
reporter Leonard Adams notes
that the effect of this payroll
boost is “somewhat muted by
the fact that employment was
already high before the big Viet
Nam push.”
“Another factor which tends
to diffuse the effect is the
large area in in which the
McDonnell workers live,” he
said. They aren’t concentrated
in one community but are
spread all over the sprawling
metropolitan area.
Jack Sullivan, operator of a
service station on the highway
leading to the McDonnell plant,
said his business is “pretty
good” but he has not noted any
special pickup since the McDon
nell plant began hiring more
workers. i*
“Most people buy gas and get
their cars serviced in their
home neighborhoods,” he ex
plained.
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George Vossbrink, St. Louis
County superintendent of public
instruction, said the influx of
new workers was reflected in
“extremely crowded” condi
tions in several school districts
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Qhang Craftsmanship— Sacrifice
to Please-the Living to Appease the Dead
in the Shang era the first and most original
element of (Chinese) culture toas bom —a
pictorial script ... Chinese psychology shaped
this strange structure and was shaped by it
'n its turn over thousands of years.
— Amaury-de Riencourt
While no archelogical proof exists for the
Hsia, China’s first dynasty, the remains of the
next, the Shang, indicate there must have been
many centuries of previous bronze development. has
been Shang surpassed. skill in working Pottery making never of
was a
high order. Writing on shells and oracle bones
was in an advanced script, showing many of
the basic forms of modern Chinese.
Inscriptions found on Shang tombs, exca
vated only in the 20th century, give an insight
which embrace neighborhoods
occupied by industrial workers.
“But you have to remember
that it’s not just McDonnell,”
he said. “There’s Monsanto
Chemical, and a big Ford plant
and several other industrial
firms in the area that are
expanding their payrolls."
Elmer C. Carlisle, president
of the real estate board of
metropolitan St. Louis, said the
demand for housing is “much
greater than it was a year
ago,” but like others, declined
to try to allocate the pickup
between defense and non
defense workers.
At Grand Island, Neb., UPI
correspondent Charles Wieser
found that reopening of the
Cornhusker ammunition plant
has had fairly dramatic effects
on th§ local economy.
Downtown merchants report
ed sales running 10 per cent
above the same period of last
year. Furniture stores said
their business was up about 25
per cent. “Many married
women are employed at the
plant,” Wieser said, “and their
salaries obviously are being
used, in many instances, for
such things as new furniture,
new cars, etc.”
From Minneapolis, UPI corre
spondent Richard M. McFar
land reports that the reopening
of the Twin Cities Army
ammunition plant, which will
employ about 3,000 persons, has
so far had no detectable impact
on the economy of this large
and thriving metropolitan area.
On the contrary, he said
several auto dealers reported a
fairly sharp drop in used car
sales, which they attributed to
higher draft calls. Young men,
it seems, are belhg drafted at
just the age at which they
would otherwise become prime
prospects for used car purcha
ses.
That Columbus, Ga., should
have been hurt economically
when an entire division was
pulled out of nearby Fort
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into the way of life of a people who flourished
nearly 40 centuries ago.
The king was both king and priest, inter*
mediary between the people and Heaven, rep
rese nted by Shang Ti, the Supreme Lord. The
king, as Son of Heaven, led the rituals and
sacrifices which insured that the behavior of
men on earth was attuned to the rhythm—the
"Vang and the Yin”—of will Heaven the celestial interpreting order. Priests the
divined of by
cracks in the heated bones of animals.
element Worship Chinese of ancestors religion. was Sacrifices—some- already a strong
in
times human—were made to them and* to
other potent spirits of nature to insure suc
cess in mortal undertakings.
. Below and around the king were nobles, who
lived in luxury and served as governmental the ignorant
functionaries. Below them were
Benning is hardly surprising.
But the survey turned up some
less-obvious situations in which
communities near large milita
ry bases have been adversely
affected, even though no major
units have been withdrawn.
Take Killeen, Tex., for
example. It is next door to Fort
Hood, home of the 1st and 2nd
Armored Divisions. Neither
division has been transferred,
but both have given up many of
their veteran officers and non
coms to lead combat units in
Viet Nam.
Meanwhile, thousands of new
recruits and draftees are
pouring in to Fort Hood to be
trained. But trainees are at a
base for only two months. They
usually are not accompanied by
families, and they seldom get
into town to stop or patronize
restaurants, bars, movies or
bowling alleys.
The result of this exchange of
one type of soldier for another
has been a large number of
vacant rental apartments, a
slowdown in new construction
and a general slump in
business in the Killeen area.
Ted C. Connell, Killeen’s
businessman-mayor, made it
emphatically clear that no one
is complaining.
“Every time we think about
business being bad, we think
about the tremendous hardship
on our former citizens now
serving in Viet Nam, and their
families who are separated
from them,” he said.
At Fort Jackson, the Army’s
big basic training center in
South Carolina, the number of
trainees has increased by about
7,000 during the past year. But
UPI correspondent Lewis Lord
notes that nearly all of the
increase has been In recruits—
not in “permanent party” or
Cadre troops.
No Impact
"The recruits stay at Ft.
Jackson for eight weeks,” he
says. "They are not allowed off
the base except on two
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weekends. The movies, bowling
alleys and other entertainment
businesses in downtown Colum
bia have profited from these
brief leaves. But htrer has been
no noticable impact on such
businesses as groceries, applian
ces, cars and real estate.”
Fort Gordon, near Augusta,
Ga., has had a buildup of
nearly 12,000 men since the
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and toiling peasants, upon whose bent backs
the entire structure of Shang—as of later—
There was as yet no nation that could b*
called China (or as the Chinese know it, tho
Middle Kingdom). The authority of the city-states Shang
was limited and challenged by rival
ana As shaken to happen by frequent again wars. and again in Chines*
was
history, the ruling dynasty fell into decadenc*
and was overthrown. After six centuries, in
1122 B.C., the Shang succumbed in violent up
heaval to the warlike Chou clan from the west
ern frontiers.
which Now began be the third longest—900 dynasty, the years—in Chou,
was to the
China’s history.
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Vietnamese war heated up.
Bars on downtown broad street
report excellent business on
weekends. Bowling alleys and
movie theaters are crowded.
But since the new troops are
trainees, who arrive without
families, there has been no
detectable increase in demand
for housing, furniture, applian
ces or clothing—and no effect
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on such public facilities as
schools.
San Antonio, Tex. is one of
America’s most “miitary”
communities, with five bigbases
in its environs. It has felt the
effects of the builduH through
out its economy—more retail
business, more demand for
housing, a drop in unemploy
ment.