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TODAY IS MEMORIAL DAY
Our American day of memories, Memorial Day,
is a hopeful and peaceful observance when we take
time to remember the fond smiles and happy words
of dear ones gone before us.
Each community has its own way of remember
ing, by pilgrimages to last resting places of those we
treasure, by prayer and flower*.
In our community, the beauty of the day is marred
by the unsightly condition of our cemetery and on
this day we briefly shudder and resolve to do some
thing about it and then promptly forget it for another
year.
Those who served their country are not forgotten
on this day, as the American Legion members take
time to honor their former comrades of several wars
and visit their graves remembering that “God grants
liberty only to those who love it and are ready to
guard and defend it.”
A LONG-NEEDED BILL
In sponsoring the Kennedy-Payne accounting re
form bill, Senator Harry F. Byrd declared that he had
been trying for ten years to achieve one of its major
objectives: to end the carrying over by government
agencies of enormous unspent balances from year to
year. Except where long-range programs (that cannot
be completed in a year) are involved, the new bill
would require an agency to turn back its left over
money to the Treasury at the end of each fiscal year.
Considering that the current total of such old, left
over money is $74 billion, we can all wish that Senator
Byrd had reached this goal ten years ago. That kind of
money would allow for quite a tax reduction.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
“Our liberty depends on freedom of the Dress and
that cannot be limited without being lost.” —Jefferson
“Like a small boy with a new knife, a man who
has discovered he has a sharp tonge never knows when
to stop using it.” Chicago Daily News
“No public man can be a little crooked. There is
no such thing as a ‘no man’s land’ between honesty
and dishonesty.” —Herbert Hoover
Indiana & Illinois
Recovering From
Weekend Floods
(By the Associated Press i
Dry, warm weather today hast
ened the recovery of flooded areas
of Indiana and Illinois.
A hot sun began to dry out the
speedway at Indianapolis, and
thus assured the running of the
500-mile automobile race there
today.
Indianapolis was placed under
a state of flood emergency Mon
day by Mayor Phillip L.. Bayt. Of
ficials called out more than 2,100
civil defense workers and ordered
policemen to remain on duty.
The flood troubles of Illinois
and Indiana were caused by tor
rential rains during the weekend,
and in some areas again on Mon
day.
More than 1,500 families were
forced to evacuate their homes
Monday in Indianapolis and sur
rounding Marion County after the
weekend rains of six to seven
inches submerged much of the
area. Twenty-one schools were
closed as main highways blocked
off the east and north sides of the
city at the height of the deluge.
In central Illinois the overflow
of the swollen Sangamon River
and Salt and Kickapoo Creeks be
gan a slow recession, permitting
flood waters to drain from thou
sands of acres of rich farmland.
Heavy cloudbursts over the
weekend dumped as much as nine
inches of rain on some sections,
washing out highway bridges and
undermining railroad tracks.
Swollen creeks led to the drown
ing of two Illinois children, a 12
year-old boy and a 15-year-old
girl.
Congressmen Urge Present
Airlines Serving Alaska
Be Given Certification
WASHINGTON, WT—Members
of the House from Washington,
Oregon and Alaska urged yester
day .that airlines operating be
tween the States and Alaska be
given permanent operation auth
ority.
The unanimous bipartisan plea
went to Rep. Priest (D-Tenn), the
chairman of the House Commerce
Committee, in a joint letter urging
approval of a Senate-passed bill
now pending before the House
committee.
Affected by the bill are the
Portland-Seattle to Alaska opera
tions of Alaska Airlines and Pacif
ic Northern Airlines and the route
of Northwest Airlines from Min
neapolis to Anchorage via Edmon
ton, Alberta.
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