The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 21, 1953, Page 10

Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, March 21, 1953 FLASH GORDON oo eI KEEP AN EYE ON THOSE TWO AND PRAY THAT FLASH GORDON HASN’T COME THROUGH THE TIME-CASE YET/ ASTER LOTHAR EATS THE POWDERE! i) HE WILL BE A WONDERFUL COONAN OVER HIS TRIBES. 11'S NOW OR NEVER, BUSTER.WNO CAME IS GONNA REACH FOR A T RACKED MY BRAIN, IT CANT THINK TAKE A GOOD LOOK. WHO IS SHE? WHAT IS HER WHEN MANDPAKE } SENT MESSAGE HE SAiD-- COME-FAST. OON’T EAT. REMEMBER, H CARSON.. ASSERT ft & THING THEY'D BE GOOD FER E IS INTO THE HOUSE AT THREE THIS MORNING / I'M OUT OF CIRCUL jf CHBER UP! I KNOW ITS RUGGED, BUT YOULL GET OVER ME IN y YOU REALLY, ACTUALLY MEAN YOU'RE GiVING LP ALL YOUR GIRLS, INCLUONG ao THE CISCO KID (WA. OF COURSE. 1 { TRAVEL SO MUCH. COULONT BE A STEADY CUSTOMER ANYBOOY. SURE FLL HAVE A TREAT ON YOU OSCO. A PLEASURE! DONT SEE MUCH OF SOU By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy COULD ONLY TELL Mew YOU MEANT? | T WOULD MAKE A || \ VERY HANDY cLUuB! ‘a bunch of surgeons with ; Glisten knives-in their hands, just aching to cut the fat out of the Plained the Democrats were over-{ spending. Let us get in, the Re-| public: said, and we'll get rid of the fat, get down to the bone. This is:their chance and they’re | { at them in the | President Eisen- cial family. Bud- As: usual: every January, former « Truman, before leaving the White House, presented Con- gress with his estimate of what! governmest expensés would be for | the fiscat:year*beginning July 1. | This bud filling a fat book | with itemized government opera-’ tions and costs, wasn’t flung to- gether by a couple of White House secretaries while Truman was busy packing his :trunks. y The budget ‘was the’ result of a lot of work by a lot of people who started on it long .ago as last summer, particularly in the huge Defense ‘and State Departments which have to think in world Everywhere officials in depart- ments, bureaus and commissions their costs for the next a small bureau with | fixed staff. But it | And, when all that was done and there was a difference of opinion between the Budget Bureau and a government gets any that money to spend, Congress the budget, too, and looks | to cut because it’s Con- | i H Hi a 62-year old Mich- made him head | eau. He has to| the same ground trav- Trumanites. king over the Interior Ys operations Dodge . oar gla “ could be. reduced million dol- lars ‘Truman's figures which | were ly the figures of the old | of the interior, Oscar | ed i & fi & 2 5 i | over the empty gun he ordered, ; disgrace. | intensity of his thinking that he requirements | jtougher to balance Gunfighter’s Return by Leslie Ernenwein | PGs Sessa drew his gun and triggered a quick shot so close to Stromberg’s shoulder that he dodged instinctively. “Do like I say,” Rimbaud commanded rank- ly, and when Stromberg handed “Now go to the corral and saddle my horse for me.” That seemed to shock Lew Stromberg beyond the power of speech or movement. It was, Rim- baud supposed, the first time this arrogant little man had ever been told to saddle a horse. The enor- mity of it drove the ruddy color from Stromberg’s face, leaving his cheeks chalky. “Do like I say,” Rimbaud or- dered, “and do it now.” Stromberg glanced at the gun. ‘When Rimbaud’s thumb drew the hammer back he walked across the yard in the reluctant fashion of a man doomed to irrevocable Rimbaud dropped Stromberg’s gun into the water trough. He watched Lew saddle the roan, checked the tightness of the cinch, and motioned for Stromberg to go to his own horse. He left the corral gate open so that the brindle cow could get at the haystack during his absence. It occurred to him now that he would probably never step foot in this yard again. Win or lose at Junction, he would be all through here. A good place to be away from, he thought cynically. A place to “We're heading toward town,” Rimbaud said. “Mount up, Lew.” The ruddiness had returned to Stromberg’s cheeks, but anger still ‘ipped him. It showed. in the tted tightness of his jaw mus- cles and the compressed thinness of his lips. He rode like a man in a daze, so clutched by the vicious was oblivious of movement, or the man who rode beside him, or the — which they rode. en they topped Big Mesa Rimbaud said, “Now you siay be-| hind me, Léw, while I ride into town. I mean out of gun range.” “You planning to vent your| spite on Hugh Jubal?” Stromberg asked, and when Rimbaud nodded, | hand Stromberg warned, “Se! Rebil- larde won't stand for any more] ed rough stuff in town. He'll throw you both in jail.” “Not me,” Rimbaud said, and grinned, thinking how little chance there would ever be of Sol Robil- larde’s arresting him. Then he asked, “Did Shafter and Booger Bill ride into town too?” Stromberg nodded. So it's to be three against one again, Rimbaud thought, and rode on down the slope alone. (EcuING north of the cattle pens, Rimbaud rode down a back alley to Gabbert’s corral. Here he dismounted with deli- berate slowness, guarding against strain to his bandaged ribs, and tied the roan. It had occurred to him that there was no way of tell- ing exactly where Jubal would be, but because it was still a trifle early for supper, Rimbaud rea- ; soned that Hugh would probably be at the Shiloh bar. So thinking, he walked toward the saloon’s rear doorway. Rimbaud stepped into the door- way, and peered at the bar, where several men stood drinking. Rim- baud looked at the bar, thinking that this deal would be settled soon, one way or the other, if Hugh Jubal were there. He was. Freshly shaved and wearing his Sunday shirt, Jubal lounged there with Red Shafter on one side of him and Booger Bill on the other. He was talking and smiling, gesturing with a hand that held a whisky glass. Shafter was smiling also, but Booger Bill just stood there, stolidly listening. A cynical smile quirked Rimbaud’s lips at the knowledge that this would be three to one—the usual odds for a Sonora Serenade, he reflected as he walked on into the saloon. He was within fifteen feet of the bar when Hugh Jubal swung around and stared at him. “You!” Jubal blurted in a queerly croaking voice. “What you doin’ here?” “Hunting skunks,” Rimbaud said. “Three skunks.” He made a tall and menacing examine all the itemized figures Truman gave them, that they could cut the budget as much as 10 or 12 billion doliars. It would be nice’ if they could. | That would really balance the bud- get. The question was: How? Where would the cuts be made? Of the total $78,600,000,000 Truman bud- get, about 87 per cent, or $68, 300,000,000 would be for paying off interest on the national debt, for veterans payments, and for nation- al defense and foreign aid Nothing could be cut off the in- | terest on the debt. That's fixed. | Nothing could be taken from the veterans. That would be bad poli- ties. How could cuts be made in defense and foreign aid without endangering the country? | Well, maybe President Eisen- | hower could solve it when he took over Jan. 20. During the campaign | he had spoken often about all the government waste that could be cut out. | Right after he took office he said eliminating that $9,900,000,000 deficit would be the “first order of business.” He’s been looking for ways to do it ever since Still, some of his Republicans in Congress were hot for ¢ taxes. He knew tha’ which meant a cut in revenue, would ma ernment he budget So at his first White Ho n conference Feb. 17 he government cou'dn't taxes until it had in s spe ing program which balanced ir come and outgo That didn’t stop a veteran Ho Republican, Rep. PD of New York, whe i the Ways and Means (x which handles all inx problem mitte 8 for the House. He wanted a tax cut pman esti-| is only one- | In- Dodge he is "s es-| _: present law the excess oney Interior m of opinion within the Eisenbower official family is the only that’s come to light. | cf dollar national 7.406 008, an iy: [i Geficit of al-; and soon. Reed and his committee voted | ~|to cut individual income taxes 19 per cent. When would it sf When the budget was balanced jot necessarily. July 1. » new budget, which miz revenue, would go into effect This needs expisining profits ¢ on business will expire July 1 Claim Custer Boots Found HARTINGTON, Net collect of wes he has the black : worn by Gen. George Custer the Little Big F The swore he go or of the ba A Nationa Said the boots ar type worn by Army held & im 1876. The expert said items of Custer’s turned up since the acre but not the The oldest item » leetice the date“iéii” canee. Park Service is @ #ie-foot carved less Congress votes to extend it. And, under present law, the income tax in individuals is scheduled to drop 10 per cent, starting Jan. 1, Reed argued: If it’s fair to drop the excess nrofits tax on business | July 1, then .t’s only fair te move up that 10 per cent income tax on individuals from Jan. 1 to July 1, too, Together the end of the excess} profits tax and F ‘s 10 per cent drop in income tax would mean a total loss of revenue to the gov- ernment of $4,300,000,000. Eisenhower's position is: We gun. at this insta s smoot-Sowing matien smooth-flowing J Bill's hand made a white above his holster. 2 Rimbaud slammed’ into Shafter’s shirt pocket and. fired at Booger shots coming in such rapid succes- sion that the reports one long roar of room-'! sound. Red Shafter’s ashe ole — -, ing a floor ~—— front of Rimbaud’s boots. Booger Bill’s clumsy draw hadn't npetes as he fell back Hugh Jubal, who now with both hands high, cot” the “Don’t shoot!’ Roman Four ramrod yelled shrilly, “I ain't drawin’!” (To be continued) can’t cut government revenue be- fore we can cut government ex- | penses down to a point where they -|match the revenue. He said that lagain yesterday. He not only didn’t want, Reed monkeying around with a tax cut but said that if Congress lets the excess profits tax éxpire July !. he wants it to pass some «© ~ |kind of tax to make up ths: ; This might. indicate h>,. ‘want income taxes: drops i - 1, either: So Kisenhow. . talked freely during the c- - ‘about. cutting expenses, isi it's easier shid than done. ** a FAWTU Course Completed By Naval Officer Ensign James H. Bowden, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. 1129 N. 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