The Sidney herald., 1963-09-04

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The Herald's subscription drive is 60
ing along at good clip. Although only
a couple weeks old, nearly 800 new sub
scribers are now reading the Sidney
Herald. A check of our number of sub
scribers now reveals that more than 4, ,4OO
families are getting the Sidney Herald.
That figure easily makes the Herald the
largest newspaper printed once a week
in the state.
We have had another publisher and
other persons ask us why the subscrip-
ton drive They pointed out that we
were covering a large area thoroughly
as it is. Our reasoning has been to reach
out into areas bordering the Sidney trade
area and we have been successful.
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l read somewhere early this summer
that Sen. Mike Mansfield had been pick
ed as one of the senators that was on
shaky ground and was likely to be beaten
when the election rolls around. This
thought, or perhaps bit of wishful think
ing, blew in on summer breeze from the
eastern section of the country.
What puts the majority leader on this
shaky ground I do not know. Like the
saying goes, the only certainties are
death and taxes, but sending Mansfield
back to college won't be an easy task.
Mansfield held out little hope for the
nations wheat farmers during his talk In
Sidney. 1t was discouraging to sense that
the Senate majority leader shared the
opinion of other referendum supporters
with the ''they made their own bed now
let them sleep in it" attitude.
A survey was taken in Kansas anc
Texas checking to see if farmers woulC
be putting everything they could int
seed. The majority said no. They pointed
to the economic effects that would reSul
if this were to happen.
Farmers are pretty intelligent groul
of people, They have to be nowadays t.
cope with all the red tape They obvious
ly just didn't like what they saw in tn
Freeman approach. But because the,
didn't think he had the right answer
they are apparently on their own. A
least that's the way interpreted Ser
ManSfields remarks.
The Senator gave some good soun
reasoning on foreign aid. He pointed t
many shortcomings that have been par
of foreign aid. 1t was good to hear tha
this country is going to be more discrim
nate when they hand out OUR money
It's about time
He was specific in naming some {
Britain's responsibilities and felt we ha
no obligation to these countries. I hope
he would say we had no obligation
the Communist bloc countries who al
receiving OUR money After all, thin
Britain is more sympathetic to our caus
then is Poland or Yugoslavia
E Recently l spent an evening visitir
with an engineer from Turkey who w;
studying irrigation methods in this coul
try He said that up until two years as
when his country ousted their presider
the people received very little bene1
from the money we poured into Turke
1t got to Turkey all right, but stayed
the pockets of the government.
4 Is it any wonder some of our elect
S representatives are finally beginning
: question the foreign aid budget?
h Mansfield said it: ''When I came ba
t from Wet Nam last December made
d report first to the President and tn
t. public that since my last trip five yea
It ago and two billion dollars later, t
S situation was not better, but worse"
It There's gopher hole across the all
e from our house that would serve
a same purpose.