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Show Federal payroll on increase level and when federal dol- ! , lars are necessary, local re- I sponsibility for their spending must be retained. i Federal civilian employment at the end of April was estimated esti-mated at 2,644,244, an increase of 33,464 in that month alone. This total does not include 128,160 foreigners working overseas ov-erseas for the U.S. The end of April figure represented one U.S. worker for every 67 Americans, accordig to Tax Foundations, Inc. But the numbers may grow, according to a more recent report re-port by the U.S. Civil Service Commission. It estimates that Federal employment will further fur-ther increase by 100,000 by 1969. This report pointed out another an-other n o t-of ten-touched-u p o r fact of Federal government employment in the lower four, or clerical grades (also lesser paid) declined by 38,000 while employment in the high-increased high-increased by 51,000. In March, points out the Foundation, Federal, state and local government civilian workers work-ers together (10.7 million) exceeded ex-ceeded the total number of workers in finance, insurance and real estate businesses, in the retail trade. The temptation to almost ev-; ev-; ery community today is to get as many Washington dollars as possible for local projects. The temptation must be steadfastly resisted in the future because be-cause the price of Washington dollars is Washington direction and control. More must be done and sacrificed for on a local |