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Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 18

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-IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Thursday, December 1, 1960 TJED TO DOMESTIC GOALS Growth Is Prime Requisite To Keep America Healthy Editor's Note--A lengthy study by a presidential commission has set up a number of recommendations, for national goals. These and other proposals almost certainly will be debated sharply in the months ahead as a new Democratic administration takes over. The commission's domestic goals are discussed in this first of a series of three articles by Sterling F. Green, veteran AP writer on economic affairs. Subsequent articles will deal with foreign affairs and with costs.

By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON (AP) Several hundred goals for the 1960s were set before Americans this week by a White House commission, Yet one simple, overriding, all- essential word told the story -growth. Growth to provide at least 13.5 million new jobs, growth to avoid higher taxes, growth to support new multimillion-dollar outlays for research and education, growth to rebuild decayed downtowns, growth to arm more strongly against danger." Without economic growth, at a rate apparently not less than one- sixth faster than American production has increased over the past 30 years, the commission says some of the nation's vital objectives will be lost, its security and leadership endangered. In such a case, said the President's Commission on National Goals, Americans are going to have to sacrifice--perhaps by tax increases, loss of leisure time, a slower rise of living standards, and unaccustomed controls. The commission said it this way: "If the growth rate is lower, it will impel consideration of higher taxes, increased quantity of labor and the greater individual effort and sacrifice exemplified by forced savings and reduced consumption." This was the essence of the report filed with President Eisenhower by 11 distinguished Americans after 10 months of study.

The While House released it Sunday. On the home front, the commis- sion dealt with many matters not lied directly to economic policy- breaking down racial and religious bias, reducing juvenile delinquency, and reorganizing the government, to name a few. But the central theme was that the United States must make a greater investment--of both private and public money--in its own future, or it will risk the loss both of world leadership and its own cherished freedoms. The growth goal was stated mainly in terms of jobs. The target, said the commission, should be the fastest possible rate which is "consistent with primary dependence upon free enterprise and the avoidance of marked inflation." What will that rate be? The commission was uncertain.

One careful study, it said, suggests that the total output of goods and services con be boosted by 3.4 per cent a year--if unemployment held consistently below 4 per cent und if a climate favorable to investment and research is maintained. Yet equally careful studies indicate that a 5 per cent growth can be achieved "without extraordinary stimulating measures," said the report. The average increase in gross national product recorded since 1939 has been 2,9 per cent. The commission's proposals for insuring growth included many that will be cited in Congress next session when the hot issues of recent years arc rekindled. They include federal aid to education, aid to depressed areas, medical care for the aged, tax revision, and civil rights.

Here are some of the specific targets: EDUCATION--Yearly U. S. out- MUSICALS FROM BOOKS NEW YORK (AP)-Two musicals based upon popular books are being prepared for Broadway by Theatrical Interests Plan, a producing-investing group. The projects are "Dance to the Piper," the autobiography of Agnes de Mille, and "Laughing Boy," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Oliver La Farge. lays must be doubled by 1970, to 540 billion.

"The federal role must now be expanded." The commission htwed Iq the line (hat education is "primarily a responsibility o( the states" and shied away from an outright endorsement of federal aid for school construction. But it -said that since 1787 the federal government has participated in the suport of education "without destroying local initiative and responsibility." TAXES--An "overhaul of the tex system" is necessary, whether tax rates go up or down, to improve the climate for new business investment. The changes, said the commission, should include more liberal depreciation deductions on business and indus- i a equipment to encourage modernization and investment. AUTOMATION Technological change should be encouraged but with careful advance planning to avoid hardship to those displaced by new machines and processes. Where whole areas are left in distress, both stale and federal governments should help provide loans and grants to assist the communities in attracting new industries and in retraining and relocating workers.

AGRICULTURE Supply and demand must be brought into, balance so that the market--instead, presumably, of federal subsidies- will provide farmers a fair return. There should be "much increased retirement of farm land, with emphasis on whole farms." But federal farm programs, in eluding price supports, will be necessary for some time to come. CITIES--Slum conditions must be remedied and the process of decay in big cities arrested, the commission said. It called for urban renewal programs "costing as much as $4 billion a year." HEALTH--Among a dozen recommendations in this field, 'the commission called for further efforts to reduce the burden of the cost of medical care. "Extension of medical insurance is necessary, through both public and private agencies," it HAVE YOU HEARD? ABOUT STATE HARDWARE'S TOY Spring Horses Lirga ifie.

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The conference of 75 scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain is discussing disarmament. Eaton organized the first conference, which gets its name from his estate in Nova Scotia. "Whatever you do, don't let him put an apple on your head!" Red China to Buy Sugar from Cuba TOKYO AP)-Communist China agreed today to buy a million tons of Cuban sugar in 1961, formalizing a five-year pact signed in Havana last July. The original agreement, which stands, was for at least half a million tons of sugar a year. The deal was announced by the New China News Agency in a broadcast from Peiping.

The agency said Cuba also will get loan credits totaling 240 million rubles --worth $60 million by Communist reckoning. A joint communique signed by Maj. Ernesto Guevara, head of Cuba's National Bank the Chinese Finance Minister Li Hsien -nien pledged closer friendship, the agency said. A camera called an evaporo- graph can photograph a black cat sitting on a coal pile in a moonless night. The evaporograph gathers heat radiation which objects send out in varying degrees and and a dump.

2 Inmates Repeat Dual Escape Act WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) Two inmates fled the Washington State Penitentiary here Tuesday-the third such dual escape this month. Warden Bob Rhay said James Angevine, 29, and Billy A. Linthicum, 25, used morning fog as a cover to flee the minimum security building outside the walls. Both had only 90 days left to serve on their sentences, and Rhay speculated the pair escaped in order to be sentenced to additional time.

He said some convicts do this because they fear life on the outside. Journal Cla-jsified Ads Get Results Four Union Pacific Workers Seek Retirement, Disability Pay Four employes-of-the Unfon Pa- Railroad, one from Pocalello, live applied for retirement or disability annuity. Herbert William Lushluky, OS Roosevelt, yard engineer, has applied for annuity to Nov. 16, I960. He entered the service of the company as a fireman at tello on April 4, 1913.

He was promoted to yard engineer. Jan. 13, 1917. His service with the company has been at Pocatello. Mr.

Lushinsky was born Oct. 7, 1892, at Plaltsmouth, Neb. Ralph W. Muck, Glenn Ferry, resigned Nov. 25, I960 to apply for arm unity.

He went to work for the UP at Pocatello.Sept. 1, 1915 as a machinist handyman. A year later he transferred to fireman, and on Oct. 18, 1935 he was promoted to road engineer at Glenns Ferry. He has in service there since that time.

Mr. Muck was born Dec. 12, 1890, at Darrance, Kan. I Charles W. Waid, Boise, a carpenter in the Bridge and Building department of the UP, applied for tnnunity of Nov.

25, 1960. went to work for the UP on the UUh division on Dec. 4, 1923. He worked in Kemmerer as a warehouseman in 1924 and as a pumper at Alexander in 1930. Ha worked'as a carpenter at Nampa and in 1950.

Mr. Waid was born Nov. 6, 1893, at Marble, Ark. Floyd Morgan, Ucon, a section man, who went to work for the UP July 20, 1923, has applied for disability' pension. He was 'employed as a brakeman at Pocatello in 1924, and has worked as foreman, sectionman and track patrolman at Lorenzo, West Yellowstone, Rexburg, Tetonia, Humphrey, Ashton, Rexburg, Ucon, Newdale, and Rigby.

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