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Is Debt Old ■ Fashioned ?
THE FORD FOUNDATION recently interviewed
a number of people as to their reasons for saving
whatever money they saved.
Understandably, such items as “to provide for
old age” (98 per cent), “for emergencies” (60 per
cent), “for children’s education” (44 per cent), and “to
leave an inheritance” (29 per cent) ranked high on
the list of answers.
But the shocker was at the bottom.
“To pay off debts” was the reason given least, by
only 14 per cent of the respondents.
It’s not hard to understand why “debt” no longer
seems like anything to worry about to many Amer
icans.
A major goal of our businessmen is to urge us to
■go into debt on a planned basis; i.e., time payments.
But if a real recession ever strikes, we wonder if
the same businessmen will be happy- to discover the
attitude toward debt so widely fostered.
GRASS ROOTS OPINION
From the Leavenworth. Wash., Echo — “Some
people have made an art of being slow to pick up the
check. You’ve really got to hand it to them.”
Earthquake Hits Hard on
Nationalist Chinese Island
TAIPEI, Formosa. UP) — A
strong earthquake struck the
southern tip of Formsa Saturday,
knocking down houses and killing
at least 14 persons, it is reported.
Officials listed 70 houses razed
and 48 badly damaged.
Southern Formosa is emerging
from the - paralyzing effects of
v floods, caused by torrential rains,
that struck last week, taking
hundeds of lives.
SWANBERG FAMILY REUNION
A family reunion is being held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nels
Swanberg with their daughter,
Lois Hough and family, Diane
Peterson and family, visiting
from Fairbanks. The only missing
member is “Buzzy,” who is still
in the U. S. Navy, and could not
be present.
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Nixon Stresses U.S.
Show of Strength
Will Deter Reds
CHICAGO, UP) — A position of
strength offers America’s greatest
hope for reaching agreements with
the Soviet Union, says Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
“Strength is the only thing the
Russian leaders understand,”
Nixon said. “I mean military
strength. When one side has more
strength than the other, you get
ultimatums that could lead to
war.”
The Vice President said his
recent tour of the Soviet Union
and Poland has convinced him the
only hope for progress toward
world peace is for the United
States to deal from a position of
strength at any future summit
conference.
Nixon, in Chicago for Friday
night’s college all-star football
game with the Baltimore Colts,
expressed his views at a press
conference and at an informal talk
to the Football Writers’ Associa
tion of America.
In a television program re
corded in Washington for New
York stations in advance of his
trip to Chicago, Nixon said Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev be
lieves the United States is weak,
sinking economically and split
over foreign policy.
He said Khrushchev’s forthcom
ing visit to America will be worth
while if it removes “his miscal
culation” about U. S. strength
and determination. The net effect,
he added, could advance the cause
of peace.
Nixon said the Soviets repeat
edly had asked him “Why is the
United States so heavily armed?
Why do you have your bases
abroad?”
“And I told them simply and
directly, because a good offense
is the best defense. I told them
our establihment of overseas
bases and the tremendous effort
we are putting into arms produc
tion is the result of the Soviet
Union’s actions in Korea and in
the Berlin blockade and elsewhere
in the world where its power was
threatening the free world.”
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Air Force, Coast Guard
Assist In Rushing Cobra
Serum to Snakebite Victim
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., — A 4
foot-long Indian cobra bit an em
ploye of a reptile garden near
here yesterday. He may live be
| cause of a dramatic 1,300-mile
flight from Miami, Fla.
The Coast Guard and the Air
Force flew anti-cobra serum from
Miami to St. Joseph after Wil
liam White, 32, was bitten. The
serum was administered several
hours later.
A single drop of cobra venom
| can be fatal. Usually it takes
only four hours to kill, said Wil
liam H. Haast, operator of the
Miami serpentorium.
But the cobra’s fangs pierced a
sack of heavy material before
they hit White on the thumb. The
bag apparently absorbed some of
the venom.
A hospital attendant said White,
who has 'been bitten about 100
times by non-poisonous snakes
during his four years at the rep
tile garden, remarked as the ser
um was injected, “I knew all
the time I’d be okay.”
The Methodist Hospital reported
at mid-morning White appeared
to be in good condition.
After White was bitten, a tele
■ phone call was made to the Miami
Serpentorium. John Flinchpaugh,
owner of the Reptile Gard.en, said
the Miami place was the only
\ source of anti-cobra serum in the
United States. The serum is made
( in Bombay, India.
WThile Air Force Lieutenants
James Ahmann of Louisville, and
Larry Marks of Miami stood by |
a T-33 jet trainer, a Coast Guard i
helicopter picked up the vial of j
; serum at the SerpentoriumT
The jet covered the 1,300 miles j
from Miami to this city in north
west Missouri in 3 hours, 48
minutes.
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Dirksen Advises
GOP Tread Lightly
On Labor Bill
By JOE HALL
WASHINGTON, U!) — Senate
Republican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen R-Ill) said Saturday he
was certain the labor regulation
bill would be sent to conference
by the Senate early next week.
Some Republican senators have
urged that a move be made to
accept the more stringent House
bill, and send it directly to the
White House.
But Dirksen told a reporter he
did not think the votes were avail
able for success in such an at
tempt. He said it might be a mis
take in tactics in that it would be
a challenge to the pe/ogatives of
the Senate leadership, and thus
might solidify all Democrats, in
cluding the Southerners against
the move to by-pass a conference.
Senator Barry Goldwater <R
Ariz), senior Republican on the
Senate Labor Committee, also said
he did not think it would be wise
to make such an attempt.
The Senate is expected to act
on sending the bill to conference
Monday or Tuesday.
Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. <D
Mass>, chief author of the Senate
Senate bill, said he feared that
sending the bill to conference
might end any chance for legis
lation this session.
Senator John F. Kennedy <D
Mass>, hief author of fthe Senate
bill, said he believed House ap
proval of the toughest of the three
bills before it made Senate-House
agreement difficult. But Kennedy
added he considered it the duty of
Congress to get a bill this year.
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