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WHILE YOU’RE WAITING FOR YOUR WINNER
America’s Public Payroll
By Lawrence Sullivan, Coordinator of Information Office
(Mr. Sullivan visited Nome last summer)
r[E UNITED STATES SENATE pulled up sharply when it
heard its distinguished Treasury Watchdog, Sen. Harry Flood
Byrd, of Virginia, proclaim one quiet morning recently:
"We find nearly 40 million people will receive federal pay
ments this year, totaling some $40 billion, including Social Security.
With their families, 40 million people could total well more than
half our entire population.”
American public opinion has been acutely conscious of run
away bureaucratic proliferation and extravagance for a decade or
more, but few indeed, even in the halls of Congress, realized that
almost 40 million Americans received monthly paychecks or assist
ance subsidies from Washington.
Sen. Byrd’s calculations, from his long-standing loint Com
mittee on Reduction of Non-Essential Federal Expenditures, sent
a wave of shock, not only through official Washington, but through
the world financial community, as well.
On reaching for the details, government financial experts
found that routine monthly payments, now go from Washington
to 37,723,091 persons; and the state and local units of government
carry an additional 10,389,485 on their compensation rolls—a
grand total of 48,112,576 persons sustained in whole or part by
monthly remittances from the government.
One item of $637 million for farm loans by the Farmers
Home Administration, Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1962, indicates the scope of some of these
secondary programs now operating out of Washington. A total of
205,000 farm families were assisted by these loans.
The Byrd study points out that 175,000 employes were added
to the direct federal payroll since January 1961; and the number
is climbing steadily at the rate of more than 5,000 per month.
"I wish I could say this trend is abating. It is not. It is sub
verting our federal system, changing our attitudes, and hobbling
our national will to freedom.”
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Tax Loss to U.S. for
Cuban Prisoners’ Ransom
Could Reach $20 Million
WASHINGTON M — Through
tax loss, the U.S. government’s
share of paying the Cuban prison
ers ransom could reach $20 mil
lion.
Mitchell Rogovin of the Internal
Revenue Service, in an interview
Friday, cited that sum — spread
| over three years — as the highest
possible loss to the U.S. Treasury
from the deal that sent millions of
dollars of food, drugs and other
supplies to Fidel Castro’s Cuba in
exchange for the 1,113 Bay of Pigs
prisoners.
But Rogovin said he thought the
tax loss could be less than $20
million. He stressed that it could
be considered a tax loss only in
the sense that the U.S. government
always loses revenue through in
come tax deductions after some
drive for charity.
Rogovin is counsel to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue. He
was a member of Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy’s four-man team that
helped manage the government’s
part in the deal that freed the
prisoners.
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Twenty Homes Destroyed
By Fire In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA W — A smoul
dering shell of a nine-story build
ing and the smoking ruins of
many homes were left today after
what authorities called the worst
fire in the city’s history.
William Eccles, Deputy Fire
Commissioner, said the damage
might run to $2 million. There was
no indication as to what started
the fire.
The flames, which broke out in
a block-long factory warehouse in
north Philadelphia, raged for more
than three hours.
Twenty homes were destroyed,
buried when a factory wall top
pled minutes after the 50 families
which occupied them fled.
Thirty-five other homes and
three additional buildings were
badly damaged.
At least 250 persons were left
homeless and at the height of the
fire about 2,000 others left their
lodgings. Emergency relief serv
ices took care of hundreds.
Rev. George Loveless, who
started the Nome Gospel Mission
in Nome, is now located in De
troit where he is working as a
Hebrew missionary.
The expression “haywire” comes
from logging camps, where wires
that bound hay bales were used
for all sorts of purposes. When
removed from the hay, they be- \
came all mixed up—and the term
later began to mean just that. I
>Tavy Will Launch
Oth Polaris Submarine
WASHINGTON W — The Navy
will commission its 10th Polaris
submarine, the Thomas Jefferson,
next Friday.
It probably will bo mid-summer,
however, before she is deployed
with nine other missile-firing sub
marines off the cost of northwest
Europe.
The intervening time will be
needed for missile launching tests
and a shakedown cruise.
In addition to the 10 Polaris
subs to be in commission, five
others have been launched but
not yet commissioned. Twenty
more are being built or are author
ized, and procurement of the equip
ment for six others has been au
thorized.
The 41 Polaris submarines built
or programmed are all atomic
powered. In addition, the Navy
has or will build under the present
program a total of 39 atomic
powered attack submarines.
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Discharged: Ora Gologergen, Ray
Foster, Dwanne Sockpick, Marian
Sockpick, Harriett Kiyutellick Jo
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Cakes, Candles, Commemorations
Light March of Dimes 25th Year
Throughout the nation
this month, candles will be
lit on birthday cakes to
symbolize the 25th r.nniver
sary of the March of Dimes.
, The cakes will range from
real ones of conventional size
to monster, multi-tiered models
as much as 12 feet in height
and 10 feet in diameter—the
approximate dimensions of the
one to be erected in New York
City’s famed Times Square.
Guests at anniversary events
around the country, where
cakes will be of more modest
proportions, will be invited to
decorate them with coins for
the March of Dimes.
Many “parties” commemo
rating a quarter of a century of
disease fighting will be held at
special treatment centers for
birth defects, arthritis and polio
which March of Dimes contri
butions are financing today in
more than 40 cities across the
U.S. Other gatherings will be
held in county chapter offices
of The National Foundation
March of Dimes, in the homes
of volunteers and elsewhere.
In many instances, guests at
these campaign “kickoffs” will
include governors or their
wives, mayors and outstanding
authorities in health fields.
Other guests will be Americans
of all ages who received March
of Dimes aid during and after
polio epidemics and outbreaks.
Also present will be children
and adolescents with birth de
fects or arthritis who have been
treated at these March of
Dimes centers. ,
To raise the millions required
every year for patient aid and
research in birth defects, ar
thritis and polio, each March of
Dimes campaign is carefully
?lanned many months ahead.
here are millions of contribu
tion envelopes and coin collec
tors to be distributed around
the nation; hundreds of thou
sands of posters to be erected
in every hamlet, town and city;
two million volunteers to be
organized for the Mothers'
March (the climax to the cam
paign at the end of January),
and March of Dimes films to
exhibit to explain the work of
the voluntary health organiza
tion.
Arrangements must be com
pleted for the visit in January
of the National March of Dimes
Jimmy Boggess, 5, of Coy, Ark., the 1963 National March of Dimes
Child, blows out candles on birthday cake symbolizing first 25 years
of aid to the crippled by the health organization.
Child—who this year is Jimmy
Boggess, 5, Coy, Ark.—with
President Kennedy at the
White House and with various
Senators and Congressmen and
other dignitaries as well as
with personalities of the stage,
screen and television.
Special events for the March
of Dimes are staged in all the
big cities, many lesser ones and
in some small towns. These in
clude March of Dimes bowling
tournaments, with “roll-offs” to
select a national man or woman
champion, fashion shows, auc
tions, teleramas, Coffee Days,
Tag Days and street sales,
neighborhood bread sales, air
lifts and a long list of sports
activities.
The theme of this 25th An
niversary March of Dimes,
which is “Give for the Life of a
Child,” will be stressed in all
these special events, and the
story told of the first 25 years
of the organization. Highlights
of that story are:
Patients aided, 338,000; ex
pended for the medical care
program, $385,500,000; for sci
entific research, $73,600,000;
and for professional education,
$38,000,000.
Basil O’Connor, president of
The National Foundation
March of Dimes, referred in a
recent speech to the 25th an
niversary of the health agency.
“Most certainly we take pride
in our past 25 years, and we
rejoice. But deep down we
really think of that quarter of
a century as only the spring
board for our future.”