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Show Millard County Chronicle Thursday, January 13, 1966 The Millard County Chronicle Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. H. (Bob) RIDING OWNER-PUBLISHES INEZ RIDING EDITOR Entered as Second Class matter at the Postoffice at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 Subscription Rale: $4.00 a year In advance; Six months, $2.25 Advertising Rates on Request NATIONAL EDITORIAL fUM sun FIRST WARD AREA MEWS BRIEFS MARIE MERRELL Oak City News Mrs. Mae H. Shipley There isn't much news this week. Most of the people went to Stake Conference Sunday. They reported a very worthwhile conference. I forgot to mention the arrival of a new little daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Twitchell and family fa-mily Dec. 28th. She weighed 6 lbs. 7 oz. and will be named Angela. The grandfather is Esdras Finlin-son. Finlin-son. Yes, and the great-grandmother is Mae H. Shipley. The little newcomer lives in Enterprise. It was nice to know LeRoy and Viola Walker returned home after about six weeks in sunny Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Nielson and children spent the weekend visiting at Beaver. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Anderson went to Salt Lake Friday. They are not home yet at this writing. Mr. Irving Jacobson went to Salt Lake last week for a medical check up. Mr. Jack Finlinson has finished his school in mechanical training at Cedar City and is home now. He said he was looking for work to use his training course. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Talbot and little son were weekend visitors with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Talbot. Mr. Leo Finlinson is home again after a week visiting with his daughters, dau-ghters, Virginia and Julia and families fa-milies the past week at Spanish Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Roper and Alan visited Saturday and Sunday from Cedar City. Mrs. Ada Jacobson and daughters Nancy, Bertha and Shiela visited Saturday and Sunday from Provo. They attended conference at Delta. Del-ta. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Walker visited visit-ed in Oak City last Wednesday with Mrs. Mae H. Shipley. There were no services held Sunday Sun-day evening. Last Thursday Mrs. LeRoy And erson entertained a few of the older old-er ladies at her home with a lovely dinner. It was a very thoughtful welcome for the ladies present. The time after dinner was spent visiting visit-ing and looking at family pictures. The afternoon was really enjoyed by all. 7.500 Read It In The CHRONICLE Many friends will be happy to have Elder Peter Doolin's new address: ad-dress: Elder Peter Doolin, Corso Re Umberto 42, Torino, Italy. He was recently transferred from the Mu nich Italian mission to the newly established Italian mission. He had the opportunity of stopping at the mission headquarters in Switzerland Switzer-land enroute and was enchanted by t h e Alps and the beautiful scenery. He reports that Torino is where the Fiat cars are made, but the smog is as bad as in L. A. The business section is as large as Munich Mu-nich which is the crossroads of Europe. It is interesting to note that the city is laid out on the square, as the Romans did years ago. He first learned German, then was transferred to the Italian sector sec-tor and learned a new language, now he is working on Spanish. We are looking forward to hearing from him in about three months in English. Fenton and Ora Gardner returned return-ed Thursday from a visit with thei daughter Marietta and husband, Ray Foreman in Downey, Calif. They were able to visit with their son, Lynn in Los Angeles, also. He has a pharmacy there. Our congratulations to Dr. Mel Lyman for his appointment as Pres. of the Stake Mission. We are confident con-fident of his abilities in the field and we are also happy that he is able to be back in his office for a couple of hours each day. Mr. and Mrs. Rod Shie'ds spent Wednesday in Salt Lake. Melva was happy to be able to spend some time at the genealogical Archives. Ar-chives. The beginning of the new year brings changes and one of the regrettable ones is the end of the genealogical class in Sunday School that Melva has been so ably teaching. She has truly been an inspiration to members of the class. Grant and Pearl Snow returned home Sunday r.oon from their trip to Calif, where they attended the funeral services of Pearl's brother, Stephen W. Bowman at Hollister. They were also able to visit another an-other brother, Leon in Los Angeles who has recently been released from the hospital following a heart attack. Donna and Eldon Sorenson have returned from their trip to Calif, to visit with daughter Carol Dawn and husband, Ken Kendrick. This was Eldon's first introduction to his granddaughter Cynthia, now four months old. She has a brother Doug almost three and they live in Wood land Hills in the San Fernando Valley. Val-ley. Mr. and Mrs, Keith Dalton went to Spanish Fork on Sunday and Monday they left for Las Vegas on a business trip. Word was received Monday that Kathleen Nickle Edwards of Cedar Comment from fhe Capital K THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER: CASUALTY IN THE WAR ON POVERTY fg byvantNttt The War on Poverty is a noble idea. For almost two years the program has used vast amounts of the taxpayer's money. Has this money been usoil nobly? Let's examine the available record and see for ourselves. New York City's War on Poverty is a good subject for review. A recent investigation of War on Poverty expenditures expendi-tures in Harlem has brought much material to light. Maybe New York will show how Federal Fed-eral money is handled in the War on Poverty across the nation. New York's version of the War on Poverty, Haryou-Act, has a large staff. It is just as true of War on Poverty facilities facili-ties throughout the country. For instance, one Job Corps training center in Kentucky has 350 staff members and only 3o8 students! In addition, a re--cent study showed that the wives of 51 of the camp's employees em-ployees were on the payroll. Another Job Corps camp, in Indiana, In-diana, has more employees than students! But, to get back to Harlem. The Haryou-Act staff is well paid. In fact, the monthly payroll comes to $500,-000. $500,-000. That's $6 million a year! So much for salaries. Let's examine other expenses. During Dur-ing its first eighteen months of operation, $800,000 "evaporated"' "evap-orated"' from Haryou-Act's coffers. cof-fers. That is, no one can tell where it went. There are no vouchers, no receipts, no nothing. no-thing. (This fact came out only after the Government seized the books of Haryou-Act. Previously, Previous-ly, Haryou-Act's director had arrogantly refused to let government gov-ernment investigators see his records. Now that the cat is out of the bag, the director barefacedly bare-facedly claims that there was no "mismanagement" of funds . . . even though he can't say how the money was spent.) There's a strange inconsistency inconsis-tency here. The Federal Government Gov-ernment requires you and me to account for our income and expenses in detail on our income in-come tax reports. Businessmen must explain such small items as taxi rides, lunches, and tips in reporting on their expense accounts to the Internal Revenue Rev-enue Service. Yet, here's a Federal Fed-eral official who plays fast and ' loose with close to a million dollars of your money and mine, and so far has got by with a simple "I don't know where it went!" Now that we've looked at salaries sal-aries and other "expenses." let's take note of one example tit how the poor get money from Haryou-Act. Here's how one "crash pro-pram1 pro-pram1 got started. According to Haryou-Act's director, sev-tial sev-tial hundred Harlem youths threatened him with a riot. They'd turn New York City into a bloodbath . . . "make Watts look like a tea party." (Thirty-three people were killed, kill-ed, and over 1000 injured, in the Watts "tea party.") What would a competent, balanced individual do in a similar situation? situ-ation? He'd pick up the phone and call the police. Hoodlums are a police matter. However, instead of doing the normal thing, Haryou-Act's director borrowed $400,000 from a bank. This money he used to set up "blind alley jobs" to appease ap-pease the young extortionists. By "blind alley jobs" he meant jobs that didn't improve the youngsters' skills, but merely put money in their pockets! That's the ignoble way money is being used in the noble War on Poverty. The "staffs" are well paid. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are disappearing disap-pearing . . . nobody wants to say where, or cares. And taxpayers' money is being used to buy civil obedience from juvenile delinquents delin-quents at the rate of about $1000 per kid! Two questions loom up : Who is responsible for this Harlem mess . . . and how did he get his job? Livingston Wingate, the director di-rector of Haryou-Act, is responsible. re-sponsible. How did he get his job? Very simple ... he "knew somebody." And that "somebody" "some-body" is the powerful political Ikjss of Harlem, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. (He's the lawmaker who put his wife on the Federal payroll to the tune of $18,900 although she spends most of her time in Puerto Rico. He's the minister who has had so much fun spending spend-ing Federal money on foreign junkets that Congress had to confine his trips to the U.S. Recently a New York State Supreme Su-preme Court judge described him n a man "not to be believed be-lieved or trusted" because he "used every trick and device in the book to flout the law."' His honor refers to Powell's efforts to avoid paying a fine imposed on him in 1963 for slandering a woman. The fine still isn't paid in full. Few favored Wingate for the job. Even the ultra-liberal writers on the New York Times were against his appointment. ap-pointment. But Wingate got the- job because Powell "influenced" "in-fluenced" the House Committee that controls War on Poverty funds. Apparently War on Poverty appointments are based more on "who you know" than high qualifications and sterling character. Even Black Muslims, Mus-lims, members of the sect that has sworn to destroy the white man, are on the staff of Haryou-Act! The point is, the bright promise prom-ise of the War on Poverty is being tarnished by the dirty, or inept, hands to which it has been entrusted. Money staggering stag-gering amounts of it is being lost, mishandled, or put to questionable use. The reason is simple: The War on Poverty Pov-erty is becoming the expensive plaything of politicians, professional pro-fessional "bleeding hearts", and unqualified administrators. administra-tors. (The "bleeding hearts" are just as dangerous as the unscrupulous. Recent reports have shown that one Job Corps camp was completely undisciplined undis-ciplined . . . gangs of .thugs terrorized the serious students. A staff member reported that the mess grew out of the director's di-rector's "bleeding heart" philosophy: phi-losophy: "Spoil these boys . . . they've never been spoiled before" be-fore" was his dictum.) The cure is equally simple: 1. Get the political hacks, the dreamers, and the parasites out of the program. 2. Put down in black and white what specific purposes Federal money mon-ey is to.be used for, exactly how much, and require precise accounting. Unless the cure is applied, the War on Poverty may end up wasting vast sums of the taxpayers' money without with-out accomplishing any useful social purpose. After all, if it cost us $100,000 to quell a few hundred kids in Harlem, how much will it cost to appease similar threats across the country next year . . . two years from now . . . ten years hence? Up to now the Government has taken only stop-gap measures. meas-ures. For example, Wingate was finally asked to take a leave of absence WITH PAY. But are stop-gap measures enough? Or should the program be stringently string-ently revised? Or, scrapped entirely? The Federal Government Govern-ment is already spending billions bil-lions of dollars more than is taken in. How long can waste and profligacy be tolerated? Fortunately, the People still have a voice ;n the United States Government . . . and a stream of mail to Washington could bring action. Tell your Congressman your opinion. After all. the War on Poverty is wasting your money! City was sustained Sunday as the first counselor in the Relief Society in her ward. Ethel and Ray Western went to Reno on Friday to take Myrna and her two chldren who have been here for the holidays. We are happy hap-py that the baby is better as he has been very ill. Mr. and Mrs. James Nickle are leaving Friday for their trip to Hawaii. Ha-waii. They expect to return on the 26th. Mr. E. Eugene Gardner returned Tuesday having spent most of the Christmas holidays in Salt Lake with his children and their families, fami-lies, Bill, Larry, Muriel and Artemisia. Arte-misia. Johnny Nickle entertained 18 of his young friends at his 10th birthday birth-day party on Thursday. Mrs. Ruth Jensen and children, Zelma, Dan and Elbert, Mrs. Warren War-ren Jensen and son Douglas went to Salt Lake on Saturday. They stopped in Spanish Fork for Ar-villa Ar-villa Faris. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winsor and baby daughter of Cedar City visited in Delta with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Winsor, returning to their home on Wednesday. The death of David Jacobs Tuesday Tues-day morning was certainly a shock. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family. Many out of town relatives and friends attended the funeral. We have watched him help with the city cleanup with much admiration and-it has been a distinct dis-tinct pleasure to witness the unfolding un-folding of his home-improvement projects. It has been gratilying to receive the comments of the First Warders about this column. We appreciate your interest and if it is to continue as representative of our activities we must hear about it. Please call me at 4452 before 8:00, after 6:00 or on the weekends to give me the opportunity of letting your friend and neighbors, near and far away, hear from you. 7.500 Read It In The CHRONICLE Weekend visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fon R. 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