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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1951
Page
4
The author argues for higher taxes in national survival while condemning wasteful government spending. They claim the public must sacrifice, yet officials refuse to cut nonessential expenditures, warning that politics as usual persists despite one third of national income supporting government outlays.
The piece argues post office reform to cut staff and charging other government units for mail, urging Congress to cover legislators’ postage costs and end losses. It then cites Interior Department cost estimates for the central Arizona project, noting vastly higher eventual costs and historical pattern of underestimation as support for caution before passage in Congress.
The piece argues pro rata costs for 420 large Arizona farms would total about 2.118 million dollars per farm, with the Colorado River project part of a broader plan costing up to 500 billion dollars. It warns the plan would raise taxes to borrow funds, benefit only a small landowner group while offering vague national gains, and describes massive irrigation extending over 152 500 acres plus 73 500 desert acres with pumping and 300 miles of canals and pipelines.
A public address argues that tax funds should support civilization not war. It criticizes government spending on nondefense projects as unnecessary, inflationary, and harmful to liberties and savings, calling for restraint.
A discussion of typographical mistakes in press work and their humorous impact. The Idaho bride and groom wedding “cows” example illustrates how errors slip into print. An eastern weekly notes editors sometimes insert errors to inflate reader ego, yet most papers endure numerous slips before final printing.
George Peck argues the post office should be privatized to improve service and finances. He criticizes government ownership, urges cost-based pricing, and suggests private management could lower rates and boost efficiency despite current broader push toward socialism.
The piece contrasts Britain's 100 million pound peanut scheme in East Africa with the United States interior department's Arizona irrigation project. It critiques bureaucratic bungling and cites high costs of the multipurpose plan as evidence that domestic economic planners are not far behind the overseas failure.
The Idaho potato crop for 1951 was forecast at 36,850,000 bushels on July 1, about one fifth below last year’s production and near the 10-year average. Harvest acreage is seen at 134,000, about 15 percent under last year but 5 percent above March planting intentions. Yield is forecast at 275 bushels per acre, the third highest on record behind 1948 and 1950.
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