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$1,202,804,514 of that amount was in defense appropriations which may not only have to be restored to the budget level but might have to be increased if the international situation does not improve. . When Secretary of State Dulles returned frofn the Geneva Conference last week it seemed apparent that our- two principal allies—Great Britain and France—were unwilling to unite with us in positive action against Communist aggression in IndoChina or anywhere else. If we find at the end of the Geneva Conference that there are no strong allies ready to stand firm with us when the chips are down, our foreign policy will have to be revised and spending for defense forces of our own will have to be measurably increased. -
These facts give point to the recent statement of former President Herbert Hoover that the budget deficit next year may be as high as $7 billion and that this is therefore not a proper time for future tax cuts regardless of the desirability of revising the tax code.
GLIMPSES OF YESTERDAY
DECEMBER 17, 1896
Rev. J. N. Daffermgre will preach at the Forest Grove Baptist Church on the fourth Sunday of this month at 11 a. m.
Mr. H. S. Fletcher has filled his ice house.
Mrs. C. L. Revercomb spent the past week with her daughter, Mrs. D. B. Burton.
38c gets you a good Overalls at,, Meneffee’s.
Miss Susie Swindler of Sperryville spent Saturday and Sunday in town7’:
Enterprise; roasted coffee irr packages for 19cts. a lb.
Col. J. C. Gibson and C. M. Waite of Culpeper, and S. B. Settle of Madison, were in attendance upon our county court this week.
A gentleman of this county (whose name we with-hold on account of his bashfulness) recently shipped 104 cattle that
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