Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1960 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1900

Record-Keeping By Government Costly By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — The General Services Administration recently brought out a report which serves to illuminate a deep-seated Amerian trait. I refer to our national reluctance to throw anything away. Even as I write this, I can look about my desk and see stacks of literature I have saved on the off chance that I might need it some day. Just now I extracted a couple of papers for a random sample and this is what I found: (1) A newspaper clipping indicating that the first filibuster was staged in 412 A.D. by the Visigoths and (2) A copy of the “GOP Victory Wheel" published at the onset of the recent cam-

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paign. / At the moment, I can foresee no earthly need for this material and J certainly hope I never have an unearthly need for it. But there it is and Where it probably will remain. Records, Records, Records I can appreciate, therefore, as I’m sure you can, the problem that the General Services Administration is up against. The GSA has to collect, store and process non-current records for the entire federal government. And it can’t throw anything away without the permission of the originating agency. In a report on its fiscal 1960 operations, the GSA revealed that it had managed to discard, burn er otherwise destroy 416,106 cubic feet of old government letters, receipts and other documents. Let us pause and ponder this for a moment. I estimate the size of my living room at about 3,000 cubic feet. Therefore, the GSA threw away enough papers dur-

ing the year to fill my living room some 138 times. This would seem to indicate that the government is making some headway in its never-ending struggle to avoid being buried by a paperwork avalanche at Its own creation. But. . . 14 Warehouse Bulging During this same fiscal year, the inventory of the 14 record warehouses operated by the GSA increased by 633,944 cubic feet. Thus, despite a record number of papers destroyed, toe GSA continued to lose ground. New papers destroyed, toe GSA continued to lose ground. New papers piled up faster than it could get rid of toe old ones. At year’s end, it had on hand 5,301,331 cubic feet of records, or enough to fill my living room some 1,767 times. The cost of maintaining these records is 56 cents per cubic foot, so ther bill for fiscal 1960 ran close to 83 million. And bear in ind that they are non-current records. Current records are kept

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by toe agencies themselves. Since 1950, the transfer of nopcurrent records to the GSA has enabled toe agencies ,to clear 5,100,000 square feet of storage space by emptying nearly a half million filing cabinets and a million linear feet of shelving. It is safe to assume, however, that enough new stuff has been written, typed, printed and mimeographed to keep toe cabinets and shelves full. It is even safer to assume that some agencies have had to buy additional cabinets and shelves. Interior Painting When applying only one finish coat to interior walls, better coverage will be insured if the white undercoat is tinted with a little of the finish color. This will be especially helpful if the walls are to be finishde in a delicate or pastel shade.

Speculate Ike Will Submit Tight Budget By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UP!) — Barney Kilgore’s well-edited Wall Street Journal speculates that President Ike plans to submit to the new Congress a rock-bottom, narrowlybalanced budget and to let Presidentelect Kennedy take it from there. Take it where? That is the obvious question, and it is a good question, too. The questions of budget balancing, inflation, taxation and deficit spending should have been bigger and better poli-

cy issues in the presidential campain than they ever came to be. The Eisenhower plan to submit balanced budget proposals to the new Congress in January reflects more than his own pride in his administration’s success in abruptly slowing the process of currency inflation. Currency inflation or the rotting of the dollar has the same effect on the value of money as, cancer has on human tissue. Cancer of the dollar as cancer of the human body is all too likely to be fatal. Inflation Like Cancer Currency inflation, like cancer, is progressive. The U.S. dollar has suffered severely in the past 20 years. No citizen is too rich and and none is too poor to ignore this money disease. What the Eisenhower administration is up to with its plan for a balanced budget is to put President-elect Kennedy’s feet to the fire. The President wants some answers to some questions he asked in a Philadelphia campaign speech on Oct., 28. Political buffs hereabouts who favored the Republican cause rated that speech the best of the campaign by anyone. Uniformly, they all hoped Vice President Richard M. Nixon would study that speech carefully and go forth and do likewise. Much of the speech, of course, merely was a defense of the Eisenhower administration record. Ike Takes Offensive President Ike got on the offensive when he discussed Democratic presidential platform promises and candidate Kennedy’s support of them. The Democrats did not permit his questions to go wholly unanswered. But they were answered with words, not with figures representing dollars and cents. Words do not count for much in a federal budget. It will be Kennedy’s job as president to accept or to revise the budget which President Eisenhower will send to Congress shortly before the inauguration. The answers on new taxes and-or deficit spending must come then.

Kokomo 'Cals Top Season's Initial Poll By KURT FREUDENTHAL United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Kokomo’s Wildcats, the top pre-season choice for the 1961 Indiana high school basketball championship, today topped the season’s first United Press International coaches’ ratings. Coach Joe Platt’s balanced powerhouse polled 13 of 19 first-place votes and a total of 181 points to outdistance runner-up Fort Wayne Central by 23 votes. The Fort Wayne Tigers, with 158 points, were among the final four in the last state tourney. Tourney runner-up Muncie Central, No. 1 during the entire 195960 seqpon, was third with 130 points. The upper bracket was rounded out by Indianapolis Cathedral in fourth place with 99 points and by city foe Attacks in the fifth with 59. 35 Teams Named The lower bracket, in order, was composed of defending state champion East Chicago Washington, Indianapolis Manual, Jasper, Gary Roosevelt, and Madison and Elkhart tied for 10th spot. Eight of the first 10 also made the final rundown last year. Missing were Bloomington, the southern semi-state tourney champion last March, and South B«n d Adams. The experts’ opinion regarding the top teams in the state still varied widely. No less than 35 teams were selected for the season’s initial roll call, and some of them, like East Chicago’s Senators, Manual and Attacks, had played only once through, last Saturday. Balloting was for games through last Saturday, with 10 points accorded first place, 9 for second, and so forth down the line. Fort Wayne’s Tigers received four firsbplace votes and the other two were divived between Muncie and Cathedral. Michigan City 12th The breakdown, with first places and total points: 1. Kokomo (13) 181 2. Wayne Central (4) 158 3. Muncie Central (1) 130 4. Indianapolis Cathedral (1) 99 5. Indianapolis Attacks 59 6. East Chicago Washington 52 7. Indianapolis Manual 46 8. Jasper 37 9. Gary .Roosevelt 36 10. Madison & Elkhart 26 12. Michigan City 22; 13. Evansville Central 21; 14. Logansport 19; 15. Gary Froebel, Lawrenceburg 15; 17. Lafayette 10; 18. New Castle 9; 19. Gary Mann 8; 20. Evansville Bosse 7; 21 Franklin, Alexandria, Hammond, New Albany 6; 25. Washington 5: 26. Gary Tolleston 4; 27. East Chicago Roosevelt, Connersville, Columbus, South Bend Adams, South Bend Central 3; 32. North Central (Marion), South Bend Riley 2; 34. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, Jeffersonville 1. a— Food for emergency use should be selected for easy storage and keeping qualities. It should keep for months without refrigeration.

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Inter-American Cooperation Vital

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The road from Caracas' airport slants upward until it meets a tunnel through the Venezuelan coastal range which cuts off Caracas from the Caribbean. On the Caracas side, huts cling to the mountainsides, finally giving way to off-white and cream colored buildings on the outskirts of Caracas itself. It was here two years ago that anti-U.S. demonstrators surged down the mountainside to the broad highway and set upon the automobile caravan carrying Vice President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon into Caracas on an official visit. It was here, too, this week that other demonstrators sought to overthrow the government of Venezuelan President Romuto Betancourt. The jobless whose shanties spread across the mountainsides surrounding Caracas were not the only centers of anti-government demonstrations. The skyscraper University of Caracas was another. Want Another Castro For here, encouraged by a hard core of leftist instructors, many students look to the same sort of leadership that established Fidel Castro in power in Cuba. Preceding the outbreak in Caracas had been abortive revolutionary attempts in Guatemala and Nicaragua, a successful coup in El Salvador and guerrilla fighting in Costa Rica. By chance or not, they accompanied that period in the United States when President Eisenhower waits to hand over the reins of government to John F. Kennedy. And they also accompanied a period of indecision within the Organization of American States wherein, no matter what their sympathies, other Latin American nations still are unwilling to move openly against either Castro or his Communist helpers. Betancourt, under constant attack from the left ever since he took office, still has the strong support of the Venezuelan army and at least lip service from other political parties. Needs Loyal Army So long as he retains the loyalty of the army,- his office remains reasonably secure. But the attack upon him, as r

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well as upon the governments of Central America, brings into strong relief the recent warning of Brazilian 'President JusceUno Kubitschek that Latin American peoples may well turn to revolutionary tactics unless something is done about their living standards. The solution, and the salvation of the moderate elements, he said, is inter-American cooperation. Into this fits closely the SSOO million U.S. aid program for Latin America. -——■ — J i K PRIVATE —Tiny wooden stairway leads to a private entrance for Fritz, 7-year-old dachshund, into his master’s I Brooklyn, N.Y., home. Fritz is owned by William Brickman. That’s Fritz at the top.

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