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Show Senator Watkins Talks Problems At Delta Clinic The Korean situation, Universal Military Training, international debts, loans abroad, the Atlantic Charter, Gen Eisenhower, exports to Britain materials used against us in Red China and other topics were discussed at the legislative clinic held in Delta Thursday night with Senator Arthur V. Watkins. In opening the clinic Senator Watkins stated that it would be non-political and informal, conducted conduc-ted along the old town meeting lines with everyone free to express ah opinion. About a hundred interested inter-ested persons were present. Speaking of the Korean War, Sen. Watkins termed it a "ghastly mistake", and said it has already cost some 94 billion dollars. He said the country is now spending nearly a billion dollars a day in its armament race and help to foreign powers - - this. money all coming from taxation. Not only is all our money spent, he stated, but that of our children, our grand children, and our great grandchil- dren. He would vote for no more ! tax increases, he said, short of an I all-out war, as the public debt has about reached its limit for the people to stand. He was commended by County Commissioner Golden H. Black for the legislation he had supported for the completion of highway No. 6. The senator was accompanied by Mrs. Watkins, and two of his staff members, Roy James, his legislative legislat-ive assistant, and Richard Cardell, his administrative assistant,. These clinics throughout the ctato oro heine conducted by the senator and his staff with no expense ex-pense to the government. They are paid from their own personal funds and are not a government-paid government-paid junket. |