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IT .M «*« >1 mm fc£* * v \Put \Life\ tcith the tchodunits this week\ It's not state aid^ it's your tax dollars Clinton County taxpayers will have to dig deep next year to pay for the \T957\ Budget; And they hove no real realization about just how deep they do dig. The Clinton County budget is $7,- 209,000 for tcrM appropriations. With $3,738,000 of this budget to be paid from state and federal tax money and $907,000 estimated as revenues, the local levy is $2,3l3 r 000, up more than 22 per cent over this year. And the average tax rate will jump $4.01 to about $18.18 in the Town of Clinton to more than $21 in most of the towns and the city. It colls for a $427,000 increase in Clinton County property taxes. Most people wil! fee! the impact of the sudden increase in taxes on the focal level. But they will fail to realize that all so-called state and federal aid is tax money, too. Most of the vast increase in the county budget is for welfare and med- icaid. Next year's budget for public welfare and medicaid $3,446,721. Medicaid takes $1,500,000 of this total. Of the total welfare budget, $2,- 370,000 rs from taxes collected by state and federal governments. This is the point that most people foil to realize. State end federal gov- ernments have successfully managed to fix the term \aid\ in the public mind The public smm% unaware that the vast sums which are colled state or federal aid hove to come from the taxpayer. And we here in the North Country pay our shcre. When the ^stafesays that the county-gets 4100,- 000 aid for some project, it's really saying that first it has to collect this sum—and far more—in taxes. When Albany or Washington savs they're giving us aid, it is to laugh. The only way they got the money was to take it from us in the first place. It's time to start calling things by the right name. And \n this case, the right name is tax money. For that's all state and federal aid is, taxes collected right from your pocket- book in the first ploce You don't get something for nothing in this world Our state legislators rush through without proper study and e- valuation a bill providing for millions of people to get a large port of their medical expenses paid by the state. County taxpayers hove to pay 25 per cent share. But they also pay toward the state and federal shares too. Only when the taxpayers realize this, will there be hope for good ef- ficient government at the lowest pos- sible cost. As long as people cling to the myth that they're getting \aid\ from the state or the federal govern- ments, our taxes will continue to go up and up. Remember, there's no such thing as state and federal aid — it's tax money, your tax money. The term aid Is only the sugar- coating for a very bitter pill JLight Side 9? GENE BROWN Foreman: \Why does It take Owe of yoa gays to change a meteo* light buSbV Aafctant: \Am holds the bulb fruk and I tara the GRIN AND SEAR IT BY LICHTY -&.-£ **&&>&!&*£ , November 26, T966 Pratt 1894; Th» fr«ss-R*pubfk<sn 1942 the old days &- K<- 4 14- >3\% The *mall «ociet> mm mmmm By FEAN* PEOVOtT FtPTEEN YEABS A00: Milk brought ft JL Fires destroyed the Kenneth Dubuqae home it Pom and damaged the plant of the Dame Sign Co. Accidents: Jeanne Lafontalne, 31, of Champlain, fatally in- jured in a car mishap. — The Rev. Howard NcCasland, Glor- ia Castine, Bentadettt and Theresa Guay of Champlaln and Robert Venne of Chazy, injured in an auto mishap — Merrttt Hall, 4J, of We la Motte, drowned when his boat capsized near Butler Island — Paul Jen- nings and Donald Hemingway of Dannemora, shaken up in * car-train collision at the Em* mons St. Crossing. Newlyweds: Mildred M. Pel- key of Sciota and Vernon F. Jubert of West Chazy — Louise Rivers and Rupert Chase of Keeseville — Shirley Neverett of Sciota and Ernest Manor of Mooers. Deaths: Mrs. Elizabeth Titus Gilmore at 85 — George A. Brown, retired clothier, at 71 — Mrs. Francis Loughan at 43. • • * TWENTY YEARS AGO: Charles Nephew's saddle horse, injured in a fail on Sail- ey Ave., was put out of its mis- ery by Clem Young, then a pa- trolman. The Rev. Wesley Logan came from North Granville to replace the Rev. Richard P. Weld at the Dannemora Community Church. Accidents: Mrs. Arthur Po- land of Port Douglas, burned in a fire that destroyed her home — Andrew and Gregory Popp of Witherbee injured in a car mishap — Mrs. John R. Doug- las of Dannemora, injured in a fall on Margaret St. •Ne»lywfid^I..Marjorie A. Du- pra of Peru and .Man L. Ha- loney of Keeseville — Velina Mildred Trombley of North Adams, Mass., and Roland Clavton Crossley — Helena A. Lucia and George A. Latour- neau of Chazy — Nancy Anton- acci of St. Albans, L.I. and Ar- thur E. Bird. Deaths: Nelson Latour at 70 — Mrs. Ellen Randlett of Scio- ta at 17 - Mrs. Periey LaRock at 32 — George Harris at Gardner, Mass. — Mrs. Charles Schmitt of Dannemora at 5*- David R. MacAvaney at W — Willis Monty of West Chazy at •7. • • • TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: Snow! Plattsburgh Electric Supply opened a branch store at 92 Margaret St. The NYA inaugurated the feeding of surplus food for school lunch programs. Fire destroyed the Howard Brown home on Peru Road. Accidents: John Ryan of the Moffitt Road injured by an au- to — Frank and Lester Twa and Halsey Smart of Keeseville injured when their car hit a stone wail — ldolet Lafebvre of Champlain, injured in a mishap near Cumberland Head corners — Mr. and Mrs. Elric Dukette, James Dukette and Stanley Spiegel, injured in a car mis- hap on Peru Road. Newlyweds: Margaret Reyell of West Chazy and William Riv- ers — Yalida Elizabeth Mes- seck of Mooers Forks and Don- ald Arcar Campbell of Hudson — Frances Donah and Robert Prunier — Lauretta Lavoie and James BeU of Redford Deaths: Frank A. Wolcott at 83 — Halsey Smart of Keeseville at 50 — Mrs. Mary Brunelle of Altona at 74 — George La Porte of West Plattsburgh at 67. The Press-Republican wel- comes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters mast be signed and the name wttt be published. Please keep letters short and to the point, not more than 300 words in length. l£>H& LMT PLOtUttf 111*10/ OP LOCAL 1>US«T !• x^ AMfifclCAU AJtTVSTS HAVE *OAlBTUl)4<£ IMTHft-fcANK.,. \K * tftfl* Telling the French WASHINGTON - (It is tradi- tional that every year I pause in my duties and explain Thanksgiving Day to the French people. This holiday which means so much to us is incom- prehensible to them, and I sin- cerely believe if the French could understand Thanksgiving they could understand us.) One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day (known in France as le jour de merci dormant). Le jour de merci dormant was first started by a group of Pil- grims (pelenns) who fled from TAngleterre before the McCar- ran Act to found a colony in the new world (le nouveau monde) where they could shoot Indians (les peaux-rouges) and eat tur- key (dmde) to their heart's con- tent. They landed at a place called Plymouth (now a fam- ous voiture Amencaine^ in a wooden sailing ship called the Ma>1lower ior Fleur de mai) in 1620. But while the pelenns were killing the dindes, the peaux-rouges were killing the pelenns. and there were sev- eral hard winters ahead for both of them. They omy way tba peaux-rouges helped the peler- ins was when they taught them to grow corn tmais). The rea- son thev did this was because Bs ART BUCHWALD they liked corn-with their pel- erins. • • • In IBS, after another harsh year, the peleons' crops were so good that they decided to have a celebration and give thanks because more mais was raised by the pelerins than pel- erins were killed by les peaux- roughes. Every year on the jour de merci donnant, parents tell their children an amusing story about the first celebration. • • • It concerns a brave capitaine named Miles Standish (known in France as Kilometres De- boutish) and a young, shy lieu- tenant named Jean Alden. Both of them were in love with a flower of Plymouth caJled Priscilla Mullens (no transla- tion). The vieux capitaine said to the jeune lieutenant: 4 Go to the damsel Priscilla tallez tresvit chez Priscilla*, the loveliest maiden of Ply- mouth (la plus jolie demoiselle de Plymouth). Say that a blunt old captain, a man not of words but of action iun view Fanfan la Tulipe^ oilers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier. Not in these words, you know, but this, in short, is mv meaning. Just remember Pearl Harbor By RICHARD SPONG Because Pearl Harbor is as much an emotion as a place, controversy continues over why the United States was caught by surprise. As the 25th anniver- sary of the attack on Pearl ap- proaches, the more relevant question is probably: What can be done to prevent another and presumably much more crip- pling sneak attack? The strangest thing about the surprise in Hawaii, as the dis- tinguished naval historian, Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison has ob- served, is \the fact that during the first 10 months of 1M1 both Army and Navy commands there considered a surprise at- tack on the fleet a distinct pos- sibility, even a probability.\ Gen. George C. Marshall's first plain warning to the Hawaii command came in June 1M0. • • • Bat as late as II days before Pearl, the high command of the Army and Navy united in re- porting to President Roosevalt that the Japanese might attack \the Burma Road, Thailand, Malaya, Netherlands East In- dies, the Philippines, the Rus- sian Maritime Provinces.\ Among the most dispassionate studies of the 1941 disaster is that by Roberta Wohlstetter. Pearl Harbor: Warning and De- cision. l4 We failed to anticipate Pearl Harbor not for want of the relevant materials, but because of a plethora of irrelevant ones.\ she wrote . . . 4, It is much easire after the event to sort the relevant from the irre- levant signals.\ For the present cold war pe- riod, she adds: \The possibility of such surprise at any time lies in the conditions of human perception and stems from un- certainties ao basic that they are not likely to be eliminated though they might be reduced.\ The threat of an atomic Pearl Harbor is relevant to the an- timissile dispute. Our own anti- missile system is off the draw- ing boards but not out in the siJos. John S. Tompkins, a writ- er on military subjects, ob- serves: 'We now spend nearly half a billion a year on antimis- sile missile research, and the likelihood is that we will contin- ue to do so indefinitely —with- out deploying a system/' Tompkins describes our mis- sile defense development as \intramural gamesmanship.\ And he reports that we have \run through generations of new equipment in striving to keep ahead.\ Are the Russians playing the same game of missile and anti- missile — developing new weap- ons and then immediately seek- ing out their antidotes 0 Secre- tary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara on Nov. 10 said there was \considerable evidence'' that the Soviet Union was tak- ing steps to deploy an antiballis- tic missile system. McNamara said that he and President Johnson had consider- ed the possible deployment of the Nike-X antiballistic system, which is currently in the prepro- ducuon stage But they had not, he said, arrived at a decision on deployment against the Sov- iet offenseive systems. As for the Chinese threat, it was \much too early to make a de- cision for a deployment/ 1 It can be and is argued that the huge cost of an anumissiie system is unwarranted for a nation surrounded by water and thus vulnerable to atomic attack by submarine. This may weli be, but some remember eerily the night club comedian of World War II who In his imitation of an isolation- ist U.S. Senator used to include that haunting line: \What was Hawaii doing out there in the middle of the Pacific, anyway? M \I am a maker of war (}e suis un fabricant de la guerre) and not a maker of phrases. You, bred as a scholar (vous qui etes pain comme un etud; ant,) cansay it in elegant lang uage, such as you read in your books of the pleadings and woo ings of lovers, such as you thin- best adapted to win the hear: of the maiden/* AJthough Jean was fit to b< tied (convenable a etre emba le), friendship prevailed over love and he went to do h > duty. But instead of using eleg- ant'language he blurted out h;< mission. Priscilla was mute-; with amazement and sorro-. (rendue muette par 1'etonr.c ment et la tristesse). At length she exclaimed, in- terrupting the ominous silence \If the great captain of Ply- mouth is so very eager to we;; me. why dots he not come h:r self and take the trouble woo m3 0 \ <Ou est-il. le vieux Kilometres* Pourquoi he vier- il pas aupres de moi pour tenter sa chance?) * • • Jean said that Kilometres Pe- bouush was very busy ar.a didn't have time for th<^e things. He staggered on. tellir: what a wonderful husband Kilo- metres would make. But fir.?/.- l\ Priscilla arched her eye- brows and said in a tremulcu? voice: \Why don't you speak for yourself* John?\ (a chacu-. son gout.) And so, even' fourth Thurs- day in November, America- families sit down at a lar~- table brimming with tasty elit- es and for the only time dur.r: the year eat better than th~ French do. No one can deny that le y - de merci donnant is a grar.:. fete and no matter how weZ-:'e: American families are, the. never forget to give thanks \ Kilometres Deboutish, * r.' made this great day poss::;? Dailv tlevoion So built we the wall. . .: f~r the people had a mind to work (Nehemiah 4:6) PRAYER: Grant us. our Farm- er, the vision to know what *e should do. and the courage an: wisdom to do it. May we do de- part in buikiing the wails of a new Jerusalem here on earr We ask this in Jesus' name Amen. Inside Washington Romney starts drive for presidency By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT •O0TT WASHINGTON - Governor George Romney is dcring a lot more than just taking a \long hard took\ at seeking the Re- publican presidential nomina- tion. This disclaimer was for pub- lic consumption It's a normal ploy at tMs early stage of the contest Political insiders are folly aware that actually the -ilicbiguJeutoA^Oftojhi^ lag and workta* m 1M8 cam- ptfeft ptatt for mam time. Bit initial preparations tad organizing are cprite weD ad- vanced, as fofknrs: - AH bet gates In the Middle West and West. — Robert Price, 33-year-old mastermind of Mayor John Lindsay's smashing election, who quit as his depoty mayor last week, win be another top RaD lieutenant with the East- ern states as his principal sphere of operations. — F. Clifton White, a highly > eflective ore-convention Goidwa- letarnBBer aod iater\T305K2r of tt» Cfc26tts lor Gold- Mffier Commttlee, will Ms talents and efforts t* the Sooth and other difficult ory and Leonard Rail oo the lat- ter taking charge of the crtdal Atvt lor eopvegtkm drtegatn HaH a veteran of presidesdal campaigns, vas Repobficaa Na- tional Chairman, HB-CT, under aged Kim's IM race tor the - Robert (Jack) Mdatoah, — OUfard Golfer, Washington lnfcatotM bnker, ambassador to Beigksn k the Eisenhower adntaBstraioo, former head of the COP national Fteaace Com- mttee sad a tea&ag Vtxon fuDd-nuer to 1*M. via fiH a for Bosaey. — Alee itatad to be actrve m the Bomaey campaign are WQ- vs*' direct his drive for convention delegates. As head of the National Com- mittee, Buss is getting $60,000 a year and expenses. I; was indicated to him that Romney was witting to pay SiDG.OOO or even more. But the Ohioai: decided He explained he preferred to re- main at the National Commit- tee, budding up a strong, force- hil and \*« fuianeed part> or fanixaueo u> capture the White Boose and control of Congress in IMS. Bliss stated this would take all his time and energy, and he would maintain stnet Beetratify m the aormnauon acramble. Romney arid Leonard Hall had a 9enes of discissions o\er a period of aeverai monies Sa- andeoded beueen t^rn is a press chief. Han favors Richard Gujlay, now wttk a New York pcouc relations finn, who was press director wfee& Hall headed ibe and x the Romney he vooM preier else. as t peesfoQity is Fred MuSlns. Jssoce Depart- In Nixon's campaign. He Is now doing pubUc relations work in Washington. Another prospect is Robert Carter, Colorado airline executive, a close frier>d of Rom- ney. \OMINOUS ROADBLOCKS — Already shaping up as a major problem in the fight for conven- tion delegates u the strong like- lihood that powerful -favorite son\ candidates will control the deiagatioas oTa mirrfbar of key states Roth Romney and Nixon stra- tegists have talked of blitzing presidential primaries through- out the country, as Governor Rockefeller and Senator GoW- water did to 1M4. It was the latter's resounding victory in California that cieared the\ «y for his nomination. But popular governors aad senators already are letusg :t be kno*-n they have ideas of their enrn aiosg that line, and are thinking of running in their state primaries as \favorite soc\ candidates That vocid vrtaaHj torpedo any hiHa ftrataCJ h> Sxtoz and . It wmid be far too to rhi.aiat» * 'iavora* t* Ms ova fcaibvidL ALLEN ready are in the field, as fc!- io^-s: — Senator Norris Cotton, cf New Hampshire — where the first of these primaries u:<e? place He has no chance for # J-.e No. 1 spot but would like « whjrl at the \ice presidency. — Senator Jacob J a MIS r-f New York — whose chances f:r the try plare am remote, <U»; who strongly fancies himself a 5 * vk* presidential hopeful. T>.e New York £nd California de,e gates wiii be the largest it v.e GOP convention, and their sup- pert could be cnxiaL — Goven>or Jame Rhodes -? Ohio — recently cn-er^-he*rr..r£ ly rejected, he is eyeing b:z- ger political prizes. His pa--L- sa.^ are tafking of Rhode* *: a precedential prospect, asi -? is cero^i to go to the cor^-?-- tioc as his state's \favors so- candidate — Newly • eiected Senate: Qkaries Percy — yoong. weal tfey, piotepenic and eofffe^ca-- iy aatttwis, wi» aiso is be^ tatod cd as his party*! stand- ard - hearer. He toe » acre t.- Cfli&e to the axr^aooc as I**.- \favtinfte so*.\ u. *W * 4 ^. & THE R Father Buffalo BUFFALO - The Peter Arrupe, SJ, SL eral of the Society o announced the app the Rev. Cornelius . as the Provincial Su; Jesuits' Buffalo Pro He will assume \ Dec. 8, succeeding th James J. Shanahan, held the post since J Father Shanahan Canisius College, least until January will tran:>fer to Bell lege in Plattsburgh will develop plans foi sional preparation o penors in a project been encouraged by Superior General. Territorially, the B ince embraces the Buffalo. Rochester. Ogdensburg and Alb includes a 27.000- area of the South U.S. Trust Territory Deatt Mrs. Mary E. M Mrs. Mary E. May of John Mayo of St , died Thursday a^ Hospital after a bri Mrs. Mavo was b V* . June 20. 1SS4, - El: and Matilda Blai She had made her for the pas: 50 year Surv.V'-T- include Lester Mayn of Po daughters. Mrs. E: Ashhne of Stand^h S William (Delta. E- Albany; 11 grand d greaf-grandchiidren : Mrs. Margaret Tayic Vt. Funeral services v day a; 9 a.m. a: Church, followed b; in Sacred Heart C Chazy. Tne body is at the ker Funeral Home w may call from 2 i to 9 p.m. Mrs. Ruev Rob WEST CHAZY-M. Robmson > 84. widow Levis G. Robinson ^ Sept 10, died Fridaj Physicians Hospital Mrs. Robins-n * Chesterto^r. on No\ daughter of Dr. and Aidnch. Mrs. Robinson ^-ai of the Chesten.o^Ti I Church and an alum Mountain Junior Co! ney. M She was an accoi arust, having grad: Trrv Conference A :v>i Ker only immedia relative is a sister. bert Hovey of Glens Funeral services • -Monday et S ptn *e Walker Funeral Hor burgh, foliowed by t^e Robinsor. Ma West Cbar-' Rural 1 The bod;- is at the ker r^neral Home - TTAy call from 2 to • p m Iaaac LaVallev MOVERS -D VN *&-€;•. v z** at \ a*^ey M->?pita. .*-J ag a ic^ ^j:ess He was bam in 3 Dec. 17. ISM. the aad Esther Provost He was a recred Be is scnlred i the termer Eva E sooi| Edward and Mooers Forts; fdu .-^r-<- ^^JST.
