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Big Question
A TAX REDUCTION BILL has passed the House. It will meet
tougher going in the Senate. But the chances are that an
overall federal tax cut in the $10 billion-plus area is in sight.
Welcome as that may be, some extremely important questions
are yet to be answered.
One is whether major tax reduction which is not accompanied
by any reduction in government spending will lead to more infla
tion. Many a recognized economist thinks it will—then the decline
in the dollar’s value here and abroad will more than offset any
benefits.
Another is whether the spiraling cost of state and local gov
ernment will eat up any dollar gains from federal cuts, aside from
the inflation problem. These costs, proportionately, have been
rising faster than federal costs in late years. If one tax collector
takes from you what another tax collector leaves, you aren’t gaining.
The interest of the citizen lies in how many dollars he has left
after taxes, and in what those dollars will buy in the way of goods
and services. That is the big unanswered question.
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azine “Tailor and Cutter” sets
itself up as the authority on style
and clothes. It chose the recent
death of American movie actor
Adolph Menjou to lament the lag
of elegance and smart dress on the
American screen and television.
It deplored the blue-jean styles
made popular by horse operas
around the world.
The magazine suggests American
tailors take a hand to switch inter
national taste to modern styling
and individual tailoring in both
movies and TV. It says U.S. fa
shion prestige will be enormous,
especially when color television be
comes universal.
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TROOP 66 NEWS
The meeting was called to or
der and the Scout Oath and Law
were recited. We were then given
a few minutes to finish “sprucing"
ourselves up, and then we had
a formal inspection. After the in
spection, a game was played. We
were told that patrol leaders
would be elected next week. The
Scout Benediction was recited, and
the meeting was dismissed.
— James Kelliher, Scribe.
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! Memorials Held
For Vietims of
Nazi Persecution
DACHAU, Germany OT*—Solemn
memorial services were held
throughout Germany Saturday for
Jewish victims of Crystal Night—
the night 25 years ago when Nazi
led mobs roamed German cities
burning synagogues, beating Jews
and looting Jewish property.
Special services were held at
Dachau and Flossenbuerg, in Ba
varia, sites of infamous concentra
tion camps.
West German newspapers de
voted an entire page in their Sat
urday editions to the anniversary.
The night of Nov. 9, 1938 be
came known as Crystal Night be
cause of the smashing of windows
in Jewish stores.
It was the first organized, large
scale terror against the Jews in
Nazi Germany. Thousands of Jews
were taken to concentration camps.
Some were released later but others
were never seen again.
The Nazi government called the
attacks on Jews a “spontaneous re
action" to the assassination by a
Jewish refugee of Ernst von Rath,
a secretary of the Germany Em
bassy in Paris.
It was the excuse the Nazis had
been waiting for to speed up their
program against the Jews. The
groundwork had been laid some
years before with boycotts of Jew
ish stores and with the Nuernberg
racial laws.
When 17-year-old Herschel
Grynszpan fired five shot at von
Rath on Nov. 7, Nazi propagandists
began to fan the flame of violence
that exploded two days later, when
the German diplomat died of his
injuries.
The German Protestant Church
announced it planned to build a
churbh in Dachau in memory of all
victims of Nazism. The infamous
camp is still inhabited by refu
gees. The Bavarian government
and the town of Dachau have prom
ised to build them new housing.
The U.S. Army has a prison com
pound in the bunker part of the
camp, where thousands of Nazi pri
soners were tortured to death.
Memorial sendees also were held
in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hannover,
Hamburg and Munich, as well as
smaller cities.
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problem, but Britain has even
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every 38 yards of highway, street
and country lane.
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Egan Implores Presidential Action to
Avoid ‘Incident’ with Russ Trawlers
JUNEAU (JV-Governor William
A. Egan has advised President
Kennedy that continued interfer
ence by Russian trawlers with
American king crab operations off
Kodiak Island “cannot help but
lead to unfortunate incidents”
which could strain U.S.-Soviet re
lations.
Egan, in a letter to the President
dated Nov. 5 and made public late
Friday, said he was deeply appre
ciative of the concern Kennedy
has shown over Russian trawling
activity off Kodiak, where Amer- :
ican crab fishermen have suffered ;
extensive gear losses because of |
Russian trawling.
Egan said the state has pro
vided conclusive evidence that in
many cases where gear losses
were heavy, the aras of crab pot
concentrations were well known
to the Soviet trawlers.
“The Soviet fishing fleets should
not operate in that area,” Egan
said. “Their activities amount to
outright harrassment and un
reasonable interference in a fish
ery developed and conducted
through the years by United States
nationals. Moreover, the fishing
! methods employed by the Russians
j are destructive to crab life and if
; continued, threaten to deplete the
resource.
‘The history of coastal areas over
the world is replete with docu
j mentary evidence that for genera
j tions nations have honored un
written laws of the sea, far re
| moved from territorial limits set
I by national edict or international
agreement.
“Moral obligation and under
standing dictates that discretion
and common courtesy demands
that any nation abstain from en
gaging in or interfering with a
fishery in areas where another
nation has traditionally developed
and is conducting a fishery.
“Particularly is this so of the
area historically known as the
Kodiak king crab area, which ex
tends over large distances and
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where rigid conservation prac
tices are adhered to by American
crab fishermen. . . .
“I submit, Mr. President, that
continued activities as are in
volved here by Russian fishermen
cannot help but lead to unfortu
nate incidents which could result
in the comity of our two nations
becoming more than seriously
strained.
“For these reasons, as well as
the recognized incompatibility of
mobile gear — such as used by the
Russian trawlers — and the fixed
pot gear of the United States fish
ermen, I again strongly urge that
our United States Government give
recognition to the historic right of
our American fishermen through
a declaration that king crab are
creatures of the Continental Shelf.
“While such a declaration, prop
erly enforced, would provide
needed protection for the king
crab resource, agreement must also
be obtained from the Soviet Gov
ernment that its fishermen will
avoid trawl operations in general
areas of traditional crab pot op
erations.
“Such an agreement apparently
is already in effect between Japan
and Soviet Russia in the king crab
fishing area of the Bering Sea off
Port Moller where, despite heavy
trawling operations by both coun
tries, none is conducted within the
king crab fishing area.’’
MEET THE TEACHER
Our teacher of the day is Miss
Glenda Spillers. She is in charge
of the fourth grade, with a back
ground of three years of teaching.
Miss Spillers is a graduate of the
Texas College-of Arts and indus
tries, and she calls Port Lavaca,
Texas, her home.
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