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Hiatory from Iho file of The
Mall Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
If) YEARS AGO
snt. s. 1K3 (Saturday)
Terrific storm hits vsUey;
many fires started; pew dam
arft feared.
Car loading fire, blast takes
Ufa of Medford worker.
20 YEARS AGO
Srnt. s. 1943 (Sunday)
William McAllister, Medford,
sneaker of House of Represents-
tives, to be acting governor for
short time.
,' From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The Joe
Fliegel boy is still working in
the orchards picking more pears
than he eats."
30 YEARS AGO
Sent. S. 1933 (Tuesday)
Medford pica for RFC funds
for sewage disposal plant re
turned for changes.
Klamath county ducks die of
mystery disease.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, V (Wednesday)
Road liop of Roxy Ann
urged by Chamber of Com
merce. School directors abandon plan
to refinish Jackson school as
junior high school.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1013 (Friday)
Ad Wolgast, ex lightweight
champion, in Medford with view
to buying ranch in valley.
Funeral services for Mayor
W. W. Eifer Urges In city's
history.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct It tueerler;
aavan or elahl la eicellenrj five er
ait it too.
" 1. With what industry do you
associate the words Cheltenham,
Caslon, Gothic?
i 2. Does the Statue of Liberty
bold the torch in her right or
cft hand?
3, In what country is G u y
Fawkes Day celebrated?
4. Name the Montana man who
is Senate majority leader.
5. The title of the wife of a
Maharajah Is what?
6. What arc the male, female,
and young of a deer called?
7. What Is the name for the
tribunals that try military per
sonnel for military offenses.
8. In which U. S. city was
President William McKinloy
shot?
9. Which of there plaets tan
can most closely appr o a c h
the earth; Venus, Mars, Mer
cury? Answers: I. Priming t. Kight
hand. 3. In England, t. Mike
Mansfield. S. Maharanee. S.
Buck, doe, fawn. 7. Courts mar
tial. S. Buffalo, N. Y. ). Venus.
Udall Plans Climb
Of Mt. Kilimanjaro
Washington (UPD- Interior
Secretary Stewart L. Udall, an
.avid outdoorsman, plans to con,
qucr yet another mountain this
time one of the most famous in
the world during his two-week
trip to East Africa.
Udall, who left for Africa
Wednesday, plans to spend three
days, beginning Sept. 10, climb
ing 19,590-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro,
whose snow-capped peak is the
highest in Africa.
VAMOCIATIOM
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER I. IMS
The COP'S Prospects
If Sea. Barry Goldwater wins the Republican
nomination next summer and runs against John
F. Kennedy for the presidency, he will get clob
bered. But then, we'd estimate, so would almost any
one the GOP cares to put up.
It is not that Kennedy is overwhelmingly
strong, necessarily, though clearly his position
is considerably improved from his whisker-thin
victory over Dick Nixon in the last election.
No, it's just that each of the Republican hope
fuls at this moment, at least is suffering from
some kind of fatal political flaw.
e
MELSON Rockefeller, the personable gover-
nor of New York, has apparently .iuddnrr
trom tne latest public polls virtually eliminated
himself from the race with his divorce and remar
riage.
Those who had most earnestly honed for
change of administration can well weep over it,
too, for Rockefeller probably had the best chance
or unseating Kennedy from his Presidential rock
ing chair.
But if everyone else has counted him out,
Rockefeller seems to be determined to make a
fight of it. His activities at the recent Governors'
conference in Miami showed clearly that he
doesn't intend to roll over and play dead. On the
contrary, by some adroit footwork, he seems to
have stolen the show. And this in spite of the
fact that there were powerful .forces at the con
ference predisposed to frustrate and humiliate
him in any way possible.
All visible signs as of now, however, would
appear to augur against
fOLDWATER, the darling of the ultra con
"servatives and the obvious front-runner now,
doesn't really have a chance, whatever his ad
mirers may think.
Granted, he has all the external charm and
rugged masculine appeal that one could ask for
in a presidential candidate. He's a solid family
man, a major general (and a jet pilot) in the
Air Force reserves, a financially successful busi
nessman, and his platform manner is warm, sin
cere and vital.
But the Arizona senator is inextricably tied
perhaps willingly to extreme right wing ele
ments, and we doubt that identification could
ever be successfully disavowed. For all their stri
dent shouts, which make them appear stronger
and numerically greater than they actually are,
these radical rightists represent a very small per
centage of the American voters.
A national candidate whose political views are
rigidly and narrowly conceived, as are Gold-
water's, cannot hope to
his party s leaders, much
of the people.
rpWO dark horses, Pennsylvania Gov. William
Scranton and Michigan Gov. George Romney,
keep getting- mentioned by political pundits as
uossjoie cioices, out. so lar
-M- 1 - - I. T - - I. ...
any real support or enthusiasm.
Neither has compiled any sort of a record, by
dint of having been elected only last year, and
neither has had time or opportunity to travel
across the country to establish those vital con
tacts in each state that are so important to a
presidential candidate.
Their main chance, probably, lies in the some
what remote possibility of a hopelessly dead
locked convention in which the popular candi
dates would cancel each other out, forcing a com
promise choice ot a lesser known man.
It is possible, of course, in these times of
huge campaign budgets and mass communication
media to take a virtual unknown and in the space
of a few months turn his name into a household
word. (Remember Wendell Willkie?)
And should either Romney or Scranton get
the nomination, that is exactly the herculean task
that would confront the Republicans, since nei
ther could be said to possess a truly national repu
tation at present. At best, it would be difficult.
A NOTHER name that keeps popping up as
has been noted in this column before is
Oregon's Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield.
At first, his name was invariably mentioned
as a likely running-mate for Rockefeller, but
several political writers recently have added his
name near the end of the list of dark horse hope
fuls for the GOP presidential nomination.
For a variety of reasons, Hatfield would make
an attractive candidate, and the governor is sure
ly not unaware of the possibility that he might
be selected.
But, realistically, his chances are less than
slim at present. The only way we can see in which
they might be improved would be if Rockefel
ler, convinced after a
couldn t make it, were to throw his support at
the convention to Hatfield.
lHOMEVER the Republicans, in their collec
" tive wisdom, finally decide to pit against
President Kennedy, he will almost certainly have
a liberal slant.
He will have to be young, possess boundless
energy and be ready to submit a solid, forward
looking political platform to the people. One is
sue he will have to meet head-on, with abundant
plain talk, is the matter of civil rights. The Negro
will have to be reckoned with positively at the
polls next year.
Rut as of now and in politics, who can really
predict what will happen tomorrow? the betting
odds will have to favor the ring-wise Kennedy.
He could be beaten, we think, but it will take
a real GOR-Jiger, not a lumbering elephant, to
do iL G.I1.R
a successful comeback.
command the support of
less the majority vote
'
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neuner nas treneraieci
good try that he himself
"Well, We're Not Fanatics About Saving
Money"
Communications
Lefters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer.
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of TO
paper. In fact the contrary Is often
Taylor Get - Together
To the Editor: Calling all de-
sendants of the Stephen Phelps
Taylor clan to be at TouVelle
park this Sunday, Sept. 8 for
our annual get-together, as it
is now 110 years since our
people crossed the plains. It
was in 1853 they started on their
westward journey to a new
country, some wagons with ox
en, some with horses.
This group of wagons was
known as the preacher wagon
train as so many preachers
were among them, and what
a great joy it was when they
reached the top of Green Spring
mountains to see the Rogue
River valley spread out below,
to them the promised land.
They took up donation land
claims south of old Roxy, as it
was called then. Much of this
land is now under develop
ment into new home sites. The
first location of the Taylors is
now known as the Quail Run
ranch up Cherry lane. The Bell
Aire sites development is also
part of this same claim, con
tinuing north to Prescott park.
So many changes since that
early date, and we look for
ward to these gct-togethcrs each
year. Picnic lunch, 1:30 to 2 p.m.
Mrs. Nevah Taylor Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Release of Frustrations
To the Editor: I have just
noted your "far, ultra" left ed
itorial on "Where Is he 'Far
Right'?" and your extreme at
tacks on the John Birch Society.
Essentially you are wantonly
attacking Americanism and all
that America stands for in the
fight against Communism,
when you Inveigh against this
great organization of patriots.
You complain of the J. B. So
ciety members taking over a
meeting called in Coos Bay to
show sympathy for "the free
dom march in Washington."
What was wrong with the ma
jority at a public meeting vot
ing their opposition to a move
ment largely promoted by the
Reds?
Why are you not fair-minded
enough to publish the findings
r - :,.... r tl fl;r.. ,
ui u iuiiiiiiiiiic ui vuiiiui-
nia State Senate on the John
Birch Society?
Gov. Edmund Brown s ma
jority leader in the Democratic
controlled California Senate
Hugh Burns is chairman of
a California state sub-committee
which completed a two
year detailed study of the John
Birch Society, and found that
'The John Birch Society is nei
ther secret, fascist, subversive,
un-American, nor anti-Semitic'
Bums and his committee, m
repudiating all the epithets
add: 'We have found the aver
age member to have boon con
cerned about the advances of
the world Communist movement
and the advances of Communist
subversion in this counlrv. The
John Birch Society has provid
ed the only organization with
a militant program of study
and action through which the
frustrations of the people can
be released'."
Charles R. Weede
278 Idaho st.
Ashland, Oregon
Go llninr!
To the Editor: In seeking ex
planation (or the latest Sea.side
riots, I am struck by the patent
inadequacy ot tne rationalir.a-
lion of the youths involved that
"There was nothing at Seaside
for us to do.
Some time ago, a distinguish
ed friend and close observer of
American youth, Judge Phil Gil
liam of the Denver Juvenile
Court, had this to say on the
general subject:
"The plaintive cry of the teen
ager is all too familiar to par
ents and all adults: What can
we do? . . . Where cane go?
"My answer to these kids can
be summed up in two words Go
Home!
"Hang Uit storm windows,
1WEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
It WA('Ma?n' TOJf
the case.
paint the woodwork, rake the
leaves, mow the lawn, shovel
the snow, wash the car, learn to
cook, scrub some floors, repair
the sink, build a boat, eet n inh
"Help the minister, priest or
rabbi, the Red Cross, the Salva
tion Army. Visit the sick, assist
me poor, study your lessons.
And when you are through
and not too tired read a book.
"Your parents do not owe you
entertainment. Your city or vil
lage does not owe you recre
ational facilities. The world
docs not owe you a living. You
owe the world something. You
owe it your time and energy
and your talents so that no one
will be at war, in poverty, or
sick, or lonely again.
"In plain simple words
grow up: quit being a crybaby.
Oct out of your dream world
and develop a backbone, not a
wishbone, and start acting like
a man or woman.
"You're supposed to be ma
ture enough to accept some of
the responsibilities your parents
have carried for years. They
have nursed, protected, helped,
appealed, begged, excused, tol
erated and denied themselves
so that you could have every
benefit. You have no right to
expect them to bow to every
whim and fancy just because of
your selfish ego; instead, let
common sense dominate your
life, personality, thinking, re
quests and demands."
Both as a father of four and
as a public official hopeful at
the latent potential of our mod
ern day youth, I agree complete
ly with Judge Gilliam s eloquent
expression.
Howell Appling Jr.
Secretary of State
Salem, Ore.
Vacation's Over
To the Editor:
A hearty laugh, a merry shout,
Everyone's glad that school is
out.
Now all can play in shady
nooks
And not be bothered with
arithmetic books.
All we'll do is laueh and olav.
We'll have our fun each sum-
mpr .
May is gone, and June is here
The boys and girls still play
with cheer.
June is gone, July has come,
They are not having quite as
muen lun
July goes on, they fret and
fume.
They'll be
schoolroom.
August is
has come,
glad for the old
gone, September
And everyone's
glad vaca-
Hon s none.
Shirley Jones
4L'8 North Holly
Medford.
St.
m
"Sure, kid, they come out here and forsel about the racial
rrlsrs. Vtel-Nam. Berlin, but you can t blame yourself for
contributing to escapism"
O
Political Storm Blowing Over
Arises From Stand Over East Germany
By PHIL NEWSO.M
L'PI Foreign News Analyst
A political storm is blowing
over West Berlin.
It arises from oppositon par
ty s u s picions
that Mayor Wil-
ly Brandt's So
cial Democratic
a d ministration
is softening its
stand against
C o m m u n ist
East Germany.
The d i s p ut e
N.w..m could well
spread beyond
the confines of West Berlin and
become a major issue in the
1965 narliamentarv elections in
which Brandt again will be his
parly s candidate for chancel
lor. At the storm center is
Brandt's crown prince, Deputy
Mayor Heinrich Albertz, but pol
iticians agree that the real tar
get is Brandt himself.
The start of it was a speech
by Albertz criticizing the "pro
vincial anxiety" shown by the
government of Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer in delaying sign
ing of the Moscow partial test
ban agreement. He also express
ed regret that the smallest
American step to find a way
out of the East-West impasse
was greeted by "timidity and
distrust" in West Germany.
The local branch of Adenau
er's Christian Democratic par
ty promptly demanded a non
confidenqe vote against Albertz
Matter of Fact
(cl New York Hnraid
SOME VERY HARD FACTS
New Delhi, India In a lit
tle more than a fortnight, the
monsoon will end and the cam
Daianine season will begin on
tne inaian iron-
t i e r. Judging
solely by t h e
practical indi
cations, the
Chinese have
devoted the
whole interval,
since their at
tack last year,
to active prcp-
Aimp para lions tor
taking further advantage of the
favorable fighting season. The
indicators are as follows:
First, most of the Chinese di
visions in Tibet have been mov
ed down to positions close to
the Indian frontier to poten
tial jump off positions in fact.
BETWEEN the Indian and
American analysts, there
is some difference of opinion
about the human weight of
this force threatening the fron
tier. The entire Chinese force
in Tibet numbers 125,000 men,
according to our estimates,
whereas the Indians think the
number is 50 to 75,000 higher.
lhe Chinese have as many
divisions in Tibet as we have
in the Indian army," Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told
me without qualification. And
even if this is a shade too
gloomy, the truly significant fea
ture in the situation is not the
exact size but the menacing dis
position of the Chinese forces.
Second, the Chinese have also
made all the other normal prep
arations for an offensive effort.
A remarkable road net has been
completed with great speed
Armed Robbers
To the Editor: Why do so
much raving about alcoholism?
Why isn't something done about
the strong arm robberies that
are going on? Pay day is when
they do their dirty work, hold
up some old crippled-up pension
er, take his money, then beat
him up, then lie around and
hide in the skid row or railroad
jungle and wine up till it is
gone. That's going on all over
the country. It is dangerous for
an old man to get off the main
street for a bunch of rates will
get hold of him if they think
he is some kind of a pensioner,
or gets Social Security. They
are always able bodied men but
won't work. Very few of them
arc ever sent to lhe pen.
Charles McKinley,
White Cilv. Ore.
who further aroused their ire
by a slighting reference to the
West German Federal Republic
as a "Rhine State."
The issue will be debated next
month but has no chance of
passage because of the Social
ists having a large majority in
the city government.
It will, however, put new em
phasis on charges which have
been levelled before against the
Adenauer regime by its politi
cal opponents.
Chiefly they are that the aged
chancellor has been too rigid
in his approach to reunifica
tion of Germany with his all-or-nothing
demands for free elec
tion. Brandt's press chief stirred
wide attention with a speech
in which he said the Russians
were not simply going to stand
aside in East Germany and
that the Adenauer policy "is
not only hopelessly antiquated
and unreal but meaningless in
a strategy of peace."
For the most part Brandt
has kept to the background and
permitted his aides to do the
talking. They have not spelled
out a new program but they
have made it clear they are not
contented with the old one.
This in turn has aroused
fears among the Christian Dem
ocrats and other political op
ponents that the Socialists are
hinting at an increased measure
of recognition of the East Ger
man regime.
It led the West Berlin inde
By Joseph Alscp
Tribune Syndicate
along the entire frontier, with
spurs leading up the frontier it
self alone the best attack-routes,
Very large forward supply
dumDS have also been built up.
"They have stocks in the for
ward area to sustain three
months of active operation
aeainst us." a very high Indi
an military source told me. "But
of course they can also use
these supplies to see their forc
es on the frontier mrougn me
winter.
rrHIRD, and perhaps most
1 ominous of all, the Chinese
rnmmanriers have recently been
going all out to round up all
possible pack animals in the
frontier areas; ana incy nave
also been trying to intimidate
or win tribal leaders on the
Indian side of the line. These
activities hardly suggest pru
dent, peaceable preparations to
go into winter quarters.
If one glances at the situation
on this side of the line, more
over, it is easy to see why the
Chinese must at least be sorely
tempted to attack again. Con
sider the part of the frontier
from the Chumbi Valley east
wards, where the main Chinese
concentrations are located. In
most of this area, to begin with,
the Chinese now have immeas
urably better roads leading to
the frontier than the Indians
have.
The specially heavy Chinese
concentration at the head of
the Chumbi Valley is decided-
lv disliirhine. because of an
accident of nolitical geography
In brief, East Pakistan all but
cuts off Assam province from
the rest of India. The only link
with Assam is the very narrow
Silieuri Gap, between the North
ern tip of Pakistani territory
and the mountain wall of the
Himalayas. And the Chumbi
Valley leads straight down to
the Siliguri Gap.
The Indians have therefore
stationed strong forces in the
Tista Valley, in position to pre
vent the Chinese pourinc down
the Chumbi Valley and blocking
India s sole access to Assam.
But this is literally the only
nlacc on the whole long East
ern part of the frontier where
attacking Chinese torces would
meet with upposition at the out
set. rPO BE specific, the entire huge
area of the Northeast fron
tier Agency, which lies between
Assam province and the border,
is now a military vacuum. This
is mountain country. The Indi
ans, not being ready as yet
for mountain warfare, have
placed their forces in As
ham on lhe plam: and they
have left the Northeast Fron
tier Agency with no garrison
except for the local police.
I Ihus lhe Chinese nave two op
tions, if they are feeling pug
nacious. They can play for high
sliikos. with an attack down the
Chumbi Valley, which would
put both Assam province and
the Northeast Frontier Agency
into the hag if it should suc
ceed. Or they can simply move
into the vacuum of the North
east Frontier Agency thus tak
ing no immediate risk, yet leav
ing the Indians no options ex
cept lo yield this huge addition
al chunk of territory or to fight
their way back into it which
would tie up-hill work in the
most literal sense.
Such arc the hard facts. With
almost supernal insight, the
American analysts have report
edly concluded that the facts
are misleading, and a Chinese
attack is therefore unlikely.
They may well be right. Yet
the facts at least demand some
thought about the consequences
of s successful Chinese attack;
(or the analysts can also turn
out to be wrong.
pendent newspaper Morgenpust
to demand that the city govern
ment say clearly just what its
policy is toward the Communist
regime.
The rigidity of the Adenauer
regime has been attacked not
only by the Socialists but also
by the Free Democrats who par
ticipate in his coalition govern
ment. The Free Democrats,
without spelling out the details,
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
fct Field Enterprliei lno.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Show me a man who mistrusts
others, and I would not trust
him with a shoelace of my own;
our opinion of mankind is the re
fracted opinion we secretly hold
of ourselves.
People who believe that "en
thusiasm" is the principal in
gredient of success forget that
the school cheerleader is gen
erally the fellow who can do
nothing else.
I have never understood why
it is that we contemptuously dis
count a person who praises him
selfyet when he forms an in
stitution or a corporation and
does the same thing, we accept
this self-praise with respect and
submissive credulity.
Speaking of self-praise, one
of the most amusing and in
formative books is Darrell
Huff's "How to Lie with Sta
tistics," which shows how
modern montcbanks can use
figures, charts and percent
ages to achieve any effect
they care to. I especially
enjoyed his chapter on "The
Gee-Whiz Graph."
Pious people who impute a
virtue to their dullness have
done a great disservice to re
ligion, by making it easy for
sinners to dismiss heaven as a
place filled with intolerable
bores. Religiosity without charm
or humor creates more rebels
than converts. God cannot be
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem:
Certification of the 13 Ore
gon legislature's $60 million tax
increase measure to a special
election on October 15 has been
assured.
A review of the referral peti
tions made over the holiday
week end by the elections de
partment of the secretary of
State's office showed 55,475 val
id signatures.
WHICH is to say:
In the relatively short time
in which the referral petitions
were in circulation, approxi
mately two and a half times as
many signatures as were needed
to refer the tax measure to a
vote of the people at a special
election were obtained.
TllEANWHILE
Secretary of State Appling
is preparing to go before the
state emergency board on Fri
day of this week to request re-
Only Three Fires
Noted on State Land
Salem - (UPI) - Only three
fires, all less than one-tenth of
an acre in size, were noted Wed
nesday on state protected forest
and rangelands, state forestry
officials reported.
One blaze was in the eastern
Lane district, and two were in
the southwestern Oregon dis
trict. Forestry officials said Wed
nesday was one of the worst
fireweather days so far this
year.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
TiOOKS ABOUT lions are very much in fashion these days.
tfne, ,f 018 most fascinating "Ibamba" by Wynant
Hubbard, in which the reader will discover, for example,
that:
Most lions have a def
inite sense of humor. Ke
male lions moan piteous
ly with rage and grief
when their mates are
killed. Male lions go for
cheap perfume in a very
big way. Lions whistle
like birdsl (Mr. Hubbard
swears to this). A lion
bellowing on a misty
night can be heard eight
miles away.
"Dost ataay tesata
pressed with the) doincs of
the ao-cJle4 upper crust," turn M4 his vara, "stop nem
lnjf thoaa aeeiety oolumna! Remember the definition of crwt. r
dear: a ooUecUra crumaa kcl e:tker y deucfc!"
e n
Aboar tte Btisu, a Texan and a Brltoaj became !
olved la a rlt?.r fame. The aiton drew a good card and aajd,
'11! bet a peuid." "I don't know how you count your moiy-?
admitte te-e Texaaa cheerfully, "but I raise you a ton."
"What this country needs,"
O UU. by Bennett Catt t if
Berlin;
have demanded fresh initiative
on the part of the Bonn govern
ment which they say has de
pended too much upon the West
ern Allies for an all-German
settlement.
Adenauer is scheduled to re
tire this fall, although against
his will.
His chief fear has been that
his retirement will lead to Ger
man weakness against the Com
munists. J. Ha.rlt
solemn, or he would not have
blessed man with the incalcul
able gift of laughter.
Candor in the arts is the
most dangerous device a man
can use many great novels
have estranged their authors
from society, for society fears
it will he too pitilessly depict
ed. "Every lime 1 paint a por
trait, I lose a friend," John
Sargent wistfully remarked.
It is difficult for some person
alities to understand (until too
late) that doing nothing is a
form of doing something and
often its most disastrous form.
The refusal to make a decision
is a grave decision.
The best and most succinct
argumcntagainst the necessity
of "equal rights" for women
was given long ago by Samuel
Johnson, when he told a
friend: "Sir, nature has given
woman so much power that
the law cannot afford lo give
her more."
We can see how little real
meaning such words as "liber
al" and "conservative" have,
when today the liberal is cling
ing tenaciously to the strictest
letter of the Constitution, while
the conservative is busy trying
lo pry loose some of the nails
on the Fifth Amendment. His
tory loves to play havoc with
our neat little political pigeon-
holes.
lease of $300,000 to finance the
October 15 referendum election.
The $300,000 was set aside by
the legislature for use in case
the tax measure was referred.
WHAT Is the significance of
this referendum of the 1963
Oregon legislature's tax struc
ture? It lies in the speed with which
the petitions were filled. Appar
ently, just about everybody who
was sauce! to sign signed without
an argument.
That indicates that people in
Oregon at least are getting hot
under the collar about taxes.
IHAT prompts this question:
HOT AT WHOM?
The answer, presumably, is
that they are HOTTEST AT
THE CLOSEST.
HERE are some interesting
figures, vouched for by the
National Tax Foundation. They
show the per capita tax load in
fiscal year 1963:
Federal government $546.
State governments $130.
Local governments $119. ,
TOTAL, $795.
TN OTHER words:
Out of every dollar that
comes out of the average tax
payer's pocket, the federal gov
ernment takes out 68.7 cents. '
f ET'S put it this way:
" The federal government
takes the MOST out of our pock
els. It is the FARTHEST
AWAY.
The stale governments take
the next largest bite. They aro
the NEXT FARTHEST AWAY.
Local governments take the
smallest bite. THEY ARE
CLOSEST HOME.
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