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Page 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 1967 CHALLENGE TO THE MTH ALL PREDICTIONS are for the 90th Congress to pass fewer new programs than has any Congress in recent history. Yet the challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities of the 90th Congress loom larger and more demanding than those of any recent past Congress. To meet its challenges, the new Con gress must be more self-assert ive and hard-working than it has been in recent years. INITIALLY, the 90th Con gress has a responsibility to reassert Its constitutional pow ers as the policy-making branch of the National Government. Previous Congresses have in creasingly tolerated and con doned usurpation of legislative powers by both the Executive and Judicial Branches. The in itiative in proposing new legis lation has been largely surren dered to the President. THE AREAS which are cri tically in need of a reassertion of congressional authority art many. FISCAL- Despite high levels of prosperity, a rapidly expand ing economy with near full em ployment, and a gross national product reaching new highs each year, the central govern ment continues to sink into debt. Private predictions are for a sharp increase next year over the deficit of the current fiscal year. Interest on the debt alone will soon rise to almost $14 billion annually. The fiscal ir responsibility of the National Government glares through a smoke-screen of figure-juggling which features such gimmicks as certificates of participation, concealment of total war costs, and propaganda exercises by the Defense Department on its imaginary savings programs. Congress must check excessive spending by insisting on a “fis cal fitness” program of its own. NATIONAL DEFENSE—Ne glect of our Nation's strategic defenses has reached the criti cal stage. Despite congression al authorization and funding, no start has been made on de ploying a defense system for the United States against bal listic missiles, although it is now officially acknowledged that the Soviet Union is pro ceeding rapidly with the de ployment of such a system. The United States has continued to reuuce its efforts on offensive weapons despite the increased threat comprised by an all-out Soviet effort in the strategic field and the entry of Red China into the nuclear arena. IN VIETNAM, the United States continues to sink deeper into a ground war of attrition while refusing to use its su periority in air and sea power to shut off supplies to North Vietnam by closing its ports and by destroying the war- making and industrial poten tial of the Communist North. ID REDUCE YOUR HUSBAND'S RISK OF HEART ATTACK prohibitions with the enemy Is urgent, visions are also needed to vent use of executive over trade to enforce United Nation's inter-meddling In the affairs of tions, such as Rhodesia. AVAILABLE TO THE CON GRESS are the necessary tools to do the job. Among the tools are the much-neglected and un used power of the purse strings, the power of investigation and exposure and the power to re organize the executive bureau cracy and to limit its author ities. WHILE THE TOOLS AND the methods are at hand, only time will tell whether the other essential ingredients—the will md determination— are avail- ible. rfA n mn rm Jl , NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of Curtis R. Bush in the Probate Court for New berry County, S. C., on Friday the 9th day of December, 1966, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereaf ter ask for my discharge as Administratrix of said estate. Alice Marie Bush Kinards, S. C. Administratrix. November 17, 1966 31-4tc Auditor’s 1967 Tax Assessment Notice I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of taking tax returns on all personal property, boats, motors, trailers and mobile homes; also real property, new buildings, and real estate trans fers. Persons owning property in more than one district must make returns for each district. All able-bodied citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. ST. LUKES Moore’s Store, Monday, Janu ary 16, 1967, from 10 until 12. O’NEAL Sligh’s Grocery, Monday, Janu ary 16, 1967, from 2 until 4:00. MACEDONIA Stockman’s Store, Tuesday, January 17, 1967, from 10 un til 12:00. KINARDS Oxner’s Store, Wednesday, Jan uary 18, 1967, from 10 until 12:00. PROSPERITY Ddtord Honored at conference WIFE’S ROLE in helping husband to avoid or delay heart attack is emphasized in intensive risk of your Heart Association. It is aim supported by public contributions to the 1967 Fund Campaign, being conducted throughout February- VA Insurance pays dividends Veterans holding G. L In surance will be paid $211 million in dividends during the year 1967. The announcement of the dividend payments was made today by William J. Dri ver, Administrator of Veteran* Affairs. World War II veterans wifi be paid $196 million over the 12-month period beginning o* January 1. All dividend pay ments will be made on the an niversary date of the policy. Driver said. This is the same procedure P. Lu Buford off file berry branch office of Liberty life Insurance Co. was among 14 representatives honored at the company's regional Bales conference held January IBih in Columbia. Mr. Buford, staff manager, was presented a service em blem for 25 years of oerviee with the company. Francis ML Hinp, president, and Bobby Richardson, director of community relations, made the principal apPochoB at the banquet at the Wade hotel. Owes- IS© from nine branch offices the Columbia area attended the conference, which included an afternoon business meeting for managers and staff managers. A Newberry College philos ophy professor, John C. Coop er, received the PhJft. degree from the University eff C3ao- cago December 14. Dr. Coop er's dissertation was entitled “PauTs Influence in Tiffidh’s Doctrine off fpiril.'” He is bead of the Depart ment off Pb",<i*oj»hy et ^Sew- beeeiy College . c onuenienilif yours sTcTn in'rLLm, 1118 Harrington St. 1119 Sopoe St GREAT SOCIETY PRO GRAMS—The Congress has an immediate responsibility to cor rect its own mistakes. In the forefront of these is the pro liferation of inefficient, over lapping, and directionless bu reaucracy spawned in large part by ill-considered programs which make up the so-called “Great Society.” The “war on poverty,” for instance, has pre dictably turned out to be only a “skirmish” on poverty, but a full-fledged “war” on taxpay ers and workers. 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