Wataugans At Work
Jim Cannon of 103 Carolina Avenue hat
worked as a meat cutter at Hollars Grocery
for 6 years. He and his wife, the former Miss
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Thelm* Barber of Lenoir, have ? ton, Steve,
age 15.? Staff photo.
Washington Report
By JAMES T. BROYHILL
Member of Congress
For th-ee days last week, the
long-anticipated debate about
ttiis country's foreign aid effort
rang through the House of Rep
resentatives. It was the most
bitter and impassioned argu
ment so far this year. At one
extreme, some advocates in
sisted that this country's se
curity demands that the aid
program be kept at a maximum
and should be stoked with more
money and given an even broad
er scope. On the other side,
demands were made that for
eign aid be completely abolish
ed, charging that money spent
on It is poured down a rat hole
and does no good in protecting
pur essential interests in the
light against Communism.
' In my opinion, both of these
Arguments are wrong.
Last January, the President
asked for $S billion to spend
for foreign aid next year. This
ranked among the largest re
quests in the history of the pro
gram. However, in an obvious
bow to public indignation and
the findings of an independent
study committee appointed by
the White House, the President
later reduced the reauest by
sooroximately $400 million. The
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee, which has beep traditionally
friendlv to the program, recom
mended a reduction of another
half billion dollars. When the
dust settled oyer the debate
last Friday, the House had ac
cented its Coipaittee's cuts and
reduced the authorization of
funds by still another half bil
lion. I supported these reduc
tions and, although I felt the
legislation was a great improve
ment over what had been pro
posed. I felt it did not go far
enough in several directions and
J opposed the final passage of
the bill.
i For many years, disagree
ments about foreign aid have
too often become entangled in
a numbers game. How much wc
spend is admittedly important,
but equally important is how it,
is spent and what kind of a re
turn thk country gets for the
tremendous investment it
makes. On reason Congress has
resorted to talking ari thematic
is because of the secrecy thrown
up around what is going on and
where and how money is being
spent. Too often, administra
tors have been resentful of
Congressional interest. They
seem to prefer to sell the idea
that if we spend vast amounts
of money abroad we are ac
complishing vast amounts of
good. The dreary record will
not support this theory. In case
after case, when we have been
able to break through the ob
structions we have found a quag
mire of waste, questionable
goals, boondoggles, and even
stupidity. Any domestic pro
gram that was so poorly admin
istered would have brought
dowa the wrath of Congress
long ago. The foreign aid pro
gram certainly does not deserve
the remarkably privileged posi
tion is has held. Major reforms
need to be made and Congress
ional control should be reassert
ed.
Many of the amendments off
ered in the debate were defeat
ed, but some useful ones sur
vived. One would assure that
all contracts for foreign con
struction comply to the same
standards as those within the
United States. Others denied
aid to countries whose planes
and ships carry supplies to
Cuba. Still others would tight
en Inspections of how other
countries use the aid we give
them, limit aid to projects that
would create competition for U.
S. industries, and deny aid to
countries who seize U. S. prop
erty without compensation. Pro
jects abroad costing more than
$100 million would also receive
special scrutiny. Some of these
things could have been done
long ago if the program's ad
ministrators had desired to do
them. In view of their oppo
sition to the changes, we can
wonder how eagerly they will
MIRACLES . . .
are not our business. Your health
is! But MUKdag new developments
in medical science enable our phar
macists to fill your doctor's pre
scriptions ... for near-miraculous
results- Trust is us!
carty put pay new restrictions.
Blank checks frojn the Ameri
can people are not a substitute
for a vigorous and effective for
eign policy. If we have depend
ed on this program to buy
friends for us, it h|i bought
very few, indeed. It baa, how
ever, created animosities in
various countries which thought
our generosity ought to be
greater.
PESTICIDE STUDY NEEDED
Secretary of the Interior
Udall called on Congress to lift
the present $2,969,000 limit on
appropriations for pesticide re
search, citing a new report on
the complex effects of pesticides
on wildlife.
The Interior Department re
port discloses that among sam
ples of adult and young ducks
and eggs, collected more than
900 miles north of any known
insecticide application, the eggs
and immature ducks contained
more pecticide residue than any
adult samples. Scientists assume
tha( the adult f*uckj wejy ex
posed to pest'cides during mi
gration in wintering areas.
Trade, Tenij. News
Dinner guests Sunday, August
11 with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Cornet! and Betty Jean were
Mips Glenna Hay and Mr. and
Mra. Delmer Mock of Trade,
and Mr. and Mra. Herman Os
borne of Rural Retreat, Va. The
dinner was given in honor of
Mr. Mock who was celebrating
birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson
and Mrs. Glenn May and Glenna
visited Thursday night with Mr.
and Mra. Glenn Tester and Mary
of Silverstone community.
Misses Linda Donnelly of
Trade, and Jackie Yuggerst of
Silver Springs, Md., recently
yjlited Miss Betty Jean Cornett.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Ruther
ford of Bristol, Tenn., spent the
week end with Mrs. Amanda
May and Mr. and Mrs. Claude
May. Mrs. Rutherford is spend
ing a few days with her mother,
Mrs. Amanda May.
Steve and Donald Bumgard
ner, Mack Thomas and Freddie
Wilson enjoyed a camping trip
at Longhope last week.
Mrs. Glenn May and daugh
ters, Glenna, Mra. Tech Mains,
and Mrs. Gil Mains and daugh
ter, Mary Jane, attended a
household shower Saturday af
ternoon at the home of Mra.
Maggie Notris in honor of Mr;.
Dennis Love. Mrs. Love received
many useful gifts, and delicious
refreshments were served.
Miss Linda Donnelly returned
home last week after spending
several days with relatives at
Elex Falls, N. J. Miss Donnelly
also visited Music Hall in New
York.
Rev. and Mrs. Barney Oliver
9 1 Mattel were Sunday dinner
gueats of Miss Artie Rash and
brother, Mr. Monroe Rash.
There was a homecoming at
St. John's Episcopal- Church,
Valle Crucis, Sunday, Aug. 18.
Those attending from this area
were Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Cor
nett and daughter, Betty Jean,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas
and grandson, Ronnie Mc-Glam
ery, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Mock,
and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Os
borne of Rural Retreat, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Fletcher
of Sllveratone community visit
ed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bumgardner.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude May are
vacationing this week at Myrtle
Beach, S. C.
DIRKSEN ON TREATY
Senator Dirksen, of Illinois,
said he is balancing "the long
record of Russian perfidy"
again United States national de
fense needs in reaching a de
cision on the limited test ban
treaty.
Dirksen, the Senate Republi
can leader, discounted in an
interview the reluctant conclus
ion of New York Governor Nel
son Rockefeller that United
States prestige is so "solemnly
committed" as to require Senate
ratification of the Moscow
agreement.
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