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The somber talk in Washington in recent weeks has been of recurring federal deficits ranging between $ip and $15 billion annually for the indefinite future. How will the gap be closed? By higher taxes; by heedlessly passing the debt to our children and grandchildren on the assumptisn that things will get better in the coming decides, or and this seems to be only a long-shot bet, by a determined reversal of spending trends.

Will the tornadic spirals of inflation slash the fabric of our economy to ragged ribbons and whip away the savings of our people in the whirlwind before we come to our senses?

This is the critical question that faces not only the Executive and the Congress but each and every citizen who looks^to Washington for “federal aid’Wn any project, no matter how desirable.

Boston

Mr. and Mrs. James Wharton, Mrs. Ruby Jenkins and daughter Lois of Marshall, Virginia., and Mr. Jesse Wharton _of--Casfleton qpent Saturday evening at the Colonial Beach.

Mrs. Oscar Jenkins of Slate Mills\ntered the University Hospital, Cfiarlottesville, Va. Tuesday where she will undergo an'bpcration. While Mrs. Jenkins is a patient there her daughter Ruby Jenkins will spend a few days with her father Oscar Jenkins of Slate

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