The Republican., 1962-07-19

S6,653 each, never used. stored, sold
for SITS each met loss to the tax
payer. 88.5 cents on the dollar; Is
walking tractor saws. power driven,
cost 81, ,129 each, never used stored.
sold for S197 each loss, 81 cents
on the dollar heavy lifting double
gypsy winch, cost $4,000, never
used, stored, sold for $500 Qoss.
973 cents on the dollar: imprcg-
mating plant for processing clothes,
cost S44260, never used stored.
sold for $2,669 loss. 93.8 cents on
the dollar; switchboard panels,
cost $1,000 each, never used stored,
sold for STA each Qoss 97.5 cents
on the dollar: mechanical power
press, cost S174,494, never used,
stored, sold for S25.509 Qoss, 85.3
cents on the dollar); and so on.
Actually. the net loss is even high
er when storage and disposal costs
are taken into consideration.
Falsehoods To Advance Social
lied Medicine-There has come to
my attention a handbill printed in
Chinese characters which was
given wide circulation in and
around New York City last week.
/ am told that the handbill said to
the hundreds of thousands of
Chinese in that area that the King
Anderson Bill tthe much-touted
''medicare" billD would give all of
them free rent, free food, free
clothing, free medicine, free nurs-
ing, free doctors care and free hos
pitalization, and it eXhorted them
to come to a big 'medicare" mass
meeting at Madison Square Gar
den to make big show for tele-
vision viewers" Now, of course,
the King-Anderson Bill would do
none of these things claimed for
it. Some of the people who want
to push this and other socialistic
schemes are resorting to lies to
win support. The ballyhooers for
the 'medicare" scheme have cruel
ly deceived the elderly Most of
these with whom I've talked did
not seem to understand that, un-
less they we're already drawing So
cial Security benefits, the King
Anderson bill would not help them
have explained that "medicare," :"
the King-Anderson plan. would pay
no doctors bills, would cover no
hospital bills until they had paid
the first $50 and wouldn't do a
thing for those not having Social
Security, and then only after they
we're IS.
l do not know who is response
BILE for the hoax on the New York
Chinese. or for the cruel decep-
ton of the elderly. but I think
that the White House, which has
taken the lead in promoting the
'medicare" plan should make it
known that it is not in sympathy
with the deceptive claims being
made for it,
Cottonpickin' Scandal: Gifts,
Resignations!-I understand that
when the whole truth is revealed
the scandal involving Billie Sol
Estes of Texas and his boys in
the Administration in Washington
will make Teapot Dome" look
like peanuts.
Titov Didn't Tell Much-Soviet
astronaut Gherman S. Titov and
his attractive wife. on their visit
to the United States, were, gen.
orally speaking, able goodwill am
baSsadorS for the Soviet Union,
but they concealed much more
than they impaired. When Titov
appeared before an 18-nation
meeting of space scientists in
Washington, he refused to admit
even one Soviet failure in their
satellite-rocket experiments (and
few believe HIM and he failed to
talk details concerning his flight
and spacecraft. By contrast, Ameri-
can astronaut John Glenn, appear
ing before the same group of world
scientists, went into great detail
about his space vehicle and readily
admitted earlier United States fail
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