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THE SUNDANCE TIMES
An Independent Newspaper
Published Every Thursday by The Times Publishing CAk
The Times is a legal newspaper for all publications.
John E. IAndsey Owner-Publlsher
Howard Allen, News Editor, Advertising Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$3.00 per year in Crook and adjoining counties; $3.50 per year
elsewhere.
Entered at the postoffice at Sundanee, Wyoming, as second class
matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
~Vi~h
~VIT.V.YAM HEN~11' HARRISON
During the first session of the
Bard Congress, a total of 425 bills
and resolutions of all sorts were
referred to the House Committee
on Interior and Insular Affairs,
~f which I am a member. Of that
~otal, 58 were enacted into law
and two resolutions were approved.
The Committee has 209 bills
]pending in the various stages of
legislative process, and 30 House-
passed bills are awaiting Senate
Committee action. The House Com-
mittee had four Senate bills be-
fore it upon adjournment.
Bill referrals to subcommittees
mf the House group included: Pub-
lic Lands, 133; Irrigation and Rec-
lamation, 76; Territories and In-
~sular Affairs, 72; Mines and Min-
ing, 39; Indian Affairs, 105. At
~he beginning of the session, I
~¢as chairman of the Indian Affairs'
:subcommittee; in mid-session I
relinquished that chairmanship and
became chairman of the Irrigation
and Reclamation subcommittee.
This Change was in connection
with Committee reorganization f01-
lowing the resignation from Con-
~gress of Norris Poulson of Cali-
fornia, who was elected mayor of
the city of Los Angeles. Until
resignation, Mr. Poulson had
been chairman of the Irrigation
and Reclamation group.
Committee reorganization leaves
mac the fourth ranking Republican
member of the full Committee,
among 16 Republican members.
There are 14 members of the min-
erity Democrat party.
In both the House and Senate,
~during the first session,~ total of
:10,695 measures were introduced--
7,764 in the House and 2.931 in
the Senate. Congress enacted into
law 288 public bills and 227 pri-
~ate bills.
WHH
More emphasis can be expected
~[rom the military establishment on
advertised and bid contracts, des-
l~ite some reluctance within the
]Department of Defense .
Bureau of the Budget and con-
:gressional groups have let the mil-
itary procurement divisions know
they frown on continued use of
megotiated contracts. Defense of-
ficials have been told to resort
to negotiated contract procedures
enIy in matters involving special
ananuf~cturing problems or in rare
instances requiring strict secrecy
for security reasons. Thus, the
American public will know more
about how our defense dollars are
]being spent, and, very probably,
qeconomies will be effected. When
bids are open to public gaze there
la less chance for a "padded" ac-
count, than if secrecy shrouds con-
L--act prices.
WHH
We have money to burn--but
it's an expensive process. Until
July of this year, the federal gov-
ernment was spending upward of
:~00,000 a year to burn old, worn.
~ut currency. A Treasury Depart-
Inemt release says that "hereafter
a b011lon and a quarter pieces a
year of worn-out U. S. currency.
previously bundled up and sent to
'Wa~hubagten (to be burned) will
Im verified and destroyed locally
I~ the Federal Reserve banks."
The old system cost the taxpay-
$200,000 a year in shipping
alone.
What they're saying: Washing-
ton Daily News in an editorial--
"In the hope of getting a final
war settlement, Austria has offer-
ed the Russians $150,000,000, and
has asked the Russians, in effect
what more they want. By the
time the Russians get through
answering that, the Austrians may
be sorry they asked."
.d2TzTAD
IF NOT NOW~WHEN?
John Q. Citizen has two re-
sponsibilities which must be acted
upon at once if our federal govern-
ment ever again is to balance its
budget and get on a safe and sound
financial foundation. They are:
(1) give positive assurance to
your representatives in Congress
that economy cuts, even on your
pet federal projects and se:vices,
will be accepted without a squawk;
and (2) give positive assurance
that you expect immediate ful-
fillment of the administration's
pledge to balance the budget, to
start reducing the national debt,
and to cut taxes substantially.
Most American citizens are will-
ing to take these positive mea-
sures, but being willing and then
actually arousing oneself to posi-|
tive action are two different|
things. Those who want a balanc,.|
ed budget ad reduced taxes, and[
who are willing to accept economy[
cuts in any and all federal opera-
tions, are the very ones who are
not acting on their wishes. The
fact that there are about 10 or 20
of them to every one citizen who
doesn't care whether the budget
is balanced, makes no difference
in Washington--if they continue
to remain silent and inactive.
Terrific Pressure
Recently I addressed the annual
conference of the Council of State
Chambers of Commerce. Present
were business and state govern-
mental leaders from more than 30
states. On the program also was,
Rowland Hughes, deputy director
of the Bureau of the Budget. He
reviewed the effortsI being made
by the administration to drastically
cut expenses and told how every
single proposed cut, whether for
$1,000 or $10,000,000, was being
bitterly opposed by influencial in-
dividuals or groups.
"Why," he exclaimed, "every
time we prune from the federal
payroll a man who has been on
it two years, we can expect two
letters from Congress." He said
the average citizen back home
"doesn't know what pressure is!"
There is "terrific" pressure in
Washington, he said, against econ-
omizing in even the most minor
services.
Self-Interest Groups
Yet, this terrific pressure against
each proposed expenditure cut,
against each move to trim some of
the 2,500,000 employees off the
$9,863,000,000 yearly civilian pay-
roll, comes from a very small
minority of citizens. It represents
the personal self-interest of in-
dividuals and groups. Such "lob-
bying" wields a big stick in Wash-
ington only because it is vocal
and active, and virtually unchal-
lenged. Its voice woud be drown-
ed out and its power cut to proper
size if all the John Q. Citizens who
want government spending cut
regardless.of "pet" projects would
write Congress and the White
House.
It isn't "lobbying" to write your
government in Washington and ask
for a balanced budget and a big
cut in governmelat expenditures
which now are about 10 times what
they were in the years just prior
to World War II. It is simply an
act of good citizenship, fulfilling
one's obligation to himself and
future generations.
AUCTION SALE
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We will sell at public auction at the ranch located 10 miles south.
east of Gillette, Wyoming. Turn off Highway 14 - 16 one mile
east of Wyodak coal mine and go 21/s miles south. Watch for
Auction signs, on . . .
Tuesday, October 27
Sale Starts at 10:30 a.m. Lunch served at noon by Ladies Club.
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127 -- Head Cattle -- 127
42 Head Hereford Stock Cows; 39 Head Calves; 2 Good Registered
Bulls; 35 Head Mixett Hereford Yearlings.
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4 Dozen Chickens -- Some Furniture
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Tractor - Pickup - Farm Machinery
1952 FORD TRACTOR, like new
1948 FORD PICKUP, in good condition
2 Hay Wagons with racks; Ford buckrake; Ford tumble bug;
Ford mowing machine; Ford lister; Ford sub-soiler; Martin ditch-
er; John Deere 8-ft. binder; 2 section harrow; 10-ft. sulky rake;
8 ft. grain drill; Corn planter with furrow openers; 3-section har-
row; Heavy duty two-wheeled rubber tired trailer; Overshot stack-
er; Small water tank; Fuel oil tank heater; 3 100.ft. rolls of 36
inch yard fencing, new; 2 spools new hog wire; Spool of new
barbed wire; Gas barrels; Wheel barrel; 3 stock saddles; Harness
and collars; Lawn mower; Deep well electric pump; Lot of garden
hose; Road drag; Small disc; Whell barrel spray; All shop tools
and miscelaneous Items too numerous to mention.
Feed and Grain
About 30 ton of extra good Crested Wheat Grass Hay
200 Bushels Wheat Approximately $00 Bn. Corn 500 bu Oats
TERMS--CASH
DICK BAUMFALK ESTATE, Owner
Mrs. Minnie Banmfalk, Administratrix
L .4. "Dick" Mader, Auctioneer, Gillette, Wyoming
LeGrand Patrick, Clerk, Gillette, Wyoming
Citizen Watch Dogs
Government financing can never
be entirely entrusted in office-
holders whose jobs are dependent!
upon the practice of politics. The
citizenry as a whole must be a
watchdog and constantly demand
and require sound financial prac-:
tices. History reports the decline
and fall of many nations whose
people were lulled into apathy of
their government. Spending bor-
rowed money and building up debt
over a continuing number of years,
with the resultant money infla-
tion, has spelled the doom of
these great nations.
Today in the United States,
the national income is the hiohcst
in history. There is no significant
unemployment. Jobs are plenti-
ful; new businesses are opening
every day. Private enterprise has
demonstrated it is capable of tak-
ing up the slack as big government
spending is whittled down, along
with its 25 to 90 per cent taxation
on incomes.
If our federal budget cannot be
balanced now, when can it be
balanced? I'm afraid the answer
would be, never! But it can be
balanced in the 1954-55 fiscal year.
And it will be -- if enough people
who care about their future and
the future of their children will
speak up and act in the true role
of American citizens.
Personal Items
Mrs. Wayne Anderson and two
daughters of Wheatland are visit-
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Hejde.
THE SUNDANCE TIMES
Sundance, Wyo. Oct. 22,
Mrs. Rodney Ware of
visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Saturday.
Beautiful Johnson bedroom
niture that might easily have
styled for you individually.
it at Dusek's in Rapid City.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsey
to Deadwood Sunday
visit Mrs. Lindsey's mother
is hospitalized at St. Joseph's
pital.
Frank and Jack Cubbison
Mrs. Nellie Cubbison returned
Saturday from a two weeks
into southwest Mexico. They
ited relatives as they
through Okrahoma, Texas and
sas.
No Hunting
or
Trespassing
on the old
Ed C. Fowlkes
place.
VIOLATORS
WILL BE
PROSECUTED
W. F. l~ewland Established 1885 3ames I. Newland,
Founder Manager
Registered Hereford
Bull Calves
GOOD CATTLE
REASONABLY PRICED
Greenwood
NEWLAND & SON
COLONY, WYOMING
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