The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-12-21


ium on politics" A roundup @
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MILITARY SPOKESMAN Pen
tagon): THE Army, Navy an
Air Force have more than douhle'
their striking power in the frs
IL months OF the politics morator
ium.' A unified harmonious team
work among the services has beer
achieved. All armament produc
ton is ahead of schedule. Th'
National Defense budget of $4'
/ billion has been adequate. And ii
! addition, spontaneous voluntary
contributions from individual:
and business firms now relieved
Of the burden of non-essential
non-military expenditures have
| totalled nearly $l4 billion"
Not Much DEDICATION
FORMER GOVERNMENT
WORKER (now in Baltimore): 81
was out Of work only six days az
ter being fired by the Fishing Re-
ports Section of the Recreational
Reports Division Of the Office Of
the Department of. Interior. I'm
working harder but I'm making
more money in my job here with
company making guided missile
fuses. My jobs secure because the
company plans to make parts for
television sets when defense or
ders play out"
LOUISIANA FARMER Cotton
rice): 1--WE didn't expect to starve
when farm supports were halted.
/ changed my program, cut down
on my rice and cotton acreage. I
grew some truck crops (but no po-
tatoes, thank YOU'D and the market
gobbled them up at fancy prices.
There are some new chemical in
dustries going In in our area and
the payrolls are taking up the
slack caused by hating the flow
Of government checks. Business
everywhere is good"
Wen Get BY"
OLD AGE PENSIONER: ''The
Federal Old Age Insurance pay
ments (pension) from the Social
Security reserve fund have come
regularly the past IL months.
However, that may be the end of
it. Government officials admit
ted, you know, that they'd borrow
the rest Of the funds money with
out leave; nothing left but Fed
eral government l. o. us. But
we'll get by. / can still do mite
of work; I've got relatives, and
the county and state won't let a
citizen starve if things should get
desperate"
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
COMMISSIONER: "Washington's
has shrunk about a half
million but the city's riding it out
well. The major businesses dras-
tically retrenched and most will
Sixteen of the 81 former
buildings vacated
when the moratorium" took eff
feet have been leased to Look-See
Tours, Inc, as points of interest
for sight-seers (entrance fee 15c;
were eliminated, found jobs in
no taxO. Most of the ATS, 900 work
er native to this area, whose jobs
new and expanding industries
hereabouts. As for myself, I'm
going back to work too. The Dis
trict has voted itself local self-gov-
eminent"
Budget Balanced
A CT somewhere in the Pacif-
ic): Tell Nom, for me, that at
least we've got plenty of warm
clothes, plenty Of divisional siren
9Th when and where we need. it,
first class guns, good hard-hitting
tanks - and we're backed up by
the best Navy and Airforce in the
world. The whole Of Asia is re-
specting us again. The word out
here is that the folks back home
are really in there pitching with
us, taking it on the chin whenever
necessary. Swell! Our country
is unbeatable when we all bend
our backs and use our heads"
FEDERAL COMPTROLLER:
1.-THE Federal budget is in balance
- second time in 2oyears."
SOVIET AMBASSADOR: Mar
shall Stain tells me not to like
what is happening!"
eve do not need to permanently
or even temporarily eliminate al
the domestic services Of the Fed
oro, cox,orrrort Rut in the ter