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Evening star., 1962-03-25
BY EDMOND LIE BRETON
Associated Press staff Writer

It's no secret that President
Kennedy's plan for medical care
for the aged through social Sc
curity faces trouble and major
hurdle is right at the starting
gate.
Standing squarely across its
path Is Representative Wilbur D.
Mills, the possessor of one of the
pleaSantest sets Of manners and
one of the hardest political heads
in Congress.
Mr.. Mills, the Arkansas Demo-
crat who is chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
doesn't particularly like being
known as the major obstacle to
the favorite domestic project of
the Democratic administration.
He feels he is being credited
with even more than his share
Of the responsibility for the diff
ficulties it faces.
But neither does he like the
health care plan, which would in
crease the Federal social security
tax to pay for hospital and nursing
home benefits for the retired aged.
Moreover, Mr.. Mills is con-
vinced, the voters don't like it in
Kensett, Ark, where he was born
in 1909, nor in the rest Of the
13-county district he has repre-
sented since 1899.
A Drive for the Bill
The White House has now
launched a massive grass roots
drive for the bill and Mr.. Kennedy
is taking an active, public part.
Opponents also have stepped up
their efforts in Washington and
elsewhere.
So the pressure on the urbane
chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee has mounted and there
has been a steady trickle of
rumors that some Of the COM
mittee members who consistently
voted against the tying together
of social security and health care
are weakening in their opposition.
are few rumors mention Mr.. Mills
himself, suggesting some compro-
mise version could be framed
which he might support.
But he has told friends he has
seen nothing yet that would make
him change his position of per-
sonal opposition. And he insists
the much more restricted legis-
lation he helped put together two
years ago for care of needy old
folks has not yet had a fair
chance to show its potential.
Soft voiced, courteous, rather
youthful looking, Mr.. Mills could
sit for the composite portrait of
that recognizable and important
type-the Southerner who has
made good in Congress.
Another attribute, sharp and
well-trained mind, shows up at tax
legislation hearings, which fire.
quently are technical enough to
drive a layman to distraction.
More than one witness has stopped
with his mouth open as the chair
man cited from memory an OBJ
scure subprovision, complete with
figures and legislative history.
Explaining Imposse
If Mr.. Mills were the kind of
Southern lawmaker who in
stinctively and invariably takes
the conservative side OF any issue,
it would be easier to explain the
impasse that has developed be-
tween the two mannerly, in
telligent Democratic political pro-
Evening star., 1962-03-25
UPAssE OVER HEALTH CARE PLAN
Mills Holds Ground on Principle

both in the White House and
elsewhere, keeps alive the possibn-
ity the Ways and Means Commit
tee may yet come up with ma
jority vote approving 1t. OF all
possibilities, this would give the
measure it's best chance in the
House.
If the committee does not so
launch it, the hackers are left
with a choice of awkward moves.
The most likely is a discharge pc
tition by which, If a majority of
the House signs up, the bill can
be brought to the floor without
committee action. Discharge petit
tions rarely succeed in the House.
Sometime, however, they generate
enough pressure so that the legis-
lation is helped on its way-then
or later.
Whatever happens, pressure is
sure to mount on Mr.. Mills, and
on the position he has taken-one
he would undoubtedly term real
istic, if he would discuss it at all.
you've got to remember" one
of his associates said, Wilbur
may look very conservative up
here, but in his district people
call him up and say, Wilbur, don't
you go too far along with that
crowd, now.'
"He thinks his people are prob
ably two or three to one against
enlarging social security to pay
hospital bills"
A tireless campaigner, Mr. Mills
certainly should know the district
where he was born and reared.
The town bankers son, he went
to Hendrix College in Conway,
Ark. then to the Harvard Law
School. He came home to a job
in the bank and a home town
bride. But he soon left banking
for politics, the county bench and
Congress.
Spotted by Royburn
In about three years, on his
second try, he got the assignment
to the Ways and Means Commit
tee. The late Speaker Rayburn, a
grooming. He was for time con-
grooming. He was for a time con-
sidered prime Speaker material.
Somewhere along the line, per-
haps because of the widening
Northern Southern Democratic
cleavage that resulted from the
1854 school segregation decision
and its dramatic aftermath in
Little Rock, Mr.. Mills seems to
have lost his footing on the lad
der that might have reached the
speakership. He mas no mean con-
ISOLATION prize, however, as chair
man of Congress No. l commit
tee, in terms of traditional pres
tige, and perhaps of power, too.
But no congressional promo
tions free Mr.. Mills from the spe-
cial intricacjes of Arkansas poll
LlcS. ReolSCrlcClng OF Cne state TO
adjust for the loss of two seats
threatened him with tough oppo-
sition for the first time in years.
This threat has now evaporated,
but Mr.. Mills loses no opportuni-
ties between the grinding meet
ing schedules he sets for his COM
mittee to go back to Arkansas
and shake hands with con-
stituents old and expe cially new.
There is always the district. And
if the general conservative bent of
the district seems to have hard
ened during the long bitterness
since BOSWELL, this is the kind
of thing realist takes into &C
count.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Continued From Page C-1

NOuCIHucU CEUH0 rage III
through Congress, came as a
shock to many Europeans.
He made his decision under the
escape clause" of the existing
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act,
which permits the increase in a
tariff, once reduced, if a do
mestic industry is suffering from
foreign competition.
Meanwhile. the hearings on the
new trade measure went on apace.
Former Secretary of State Herter
testified on its behalf, while the
protectionists, led by o. r.
Strackbein of the Nationwide
Committee on Import Export
Policy, got in their first heavy
licks against it.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Conqo Criticism

The U. N. operation in the
Congo, with the drive against Ka-
tanga, is one reason. Another has
been the refusal by the Soviet
Union and several uJner coun-
tries-including our ally France
to pay their share of the organi-
zation's bills. And a third has
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Moral Standards

Nothing is more evil and trag-
ically devastating in actual con-
sequence than ones own moral
and religious ideals, fine as they
may be, when they are accom-
panied by an ignorance and re-
sultant provincialism and blind
ness with respect to people and
cultures acting upon, or proceed
ing from, assumptions different
from ones own.-F. S. C.. Nor
throp in The Meeting of East and
West.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Rage Greater

II thought that Kennedy, with
full knowledge of the facts, was
jeopardizing the security of for
eign policy operation and my
rage was greater because I could
do nothing about it," he wrote.
(Mr. Kennedy, as a candidate,
urged that the United States take
stronger stand against Cuba,
even to aiding anti-Castro rebelsD
News stories of the Nixon charge
brought prompt denial from the
White House. Press Secretary Pi-
ere Salinger, asserting that "Mr.
Nixon's account apparently is based
upon a misunderstanding" said
that the then Senator Kennedy
first heard of the Cuban invasion
plan on November Is, 1860, in a
post-election briefing by the CIA
chief, Allen Dulles.
Mr.. Dulles, a Republican, backed
the Presidents reconstruction of
events. He said, however, that he
was certain Mr.. Nixon's account
was the result of an honest mis-
understanding"
Evening star., 1962-03-25

fessionals, the President and the
chairman of the powerful House
committee.
Mr.. Mills record is not one
sided. For example, when the
Eisenhower administration pro-
posed special tax treatment of
dividend income, Mr.. Mills, then
a minority member of the Ways
and Means Committee, voted and
spoke against the change.
Yet, when Mr.. Kennedy asked
Congress last year to reverse that
action and once again tax divi-
dends like other income, the issue
was never even raised in the COM
mittee, of which Mr.. Mills by then
was chairman.
Mr.. Mills is known to think
there is no prospect the House
will vote to abolish the deduction
and tax credit which recipients of
dividends now enjoy.
Royburn's Kudo
And he is known to regard as
a compliment remark attributed
to the late Speaker Rayburn: That
under Mr.. Mills leadership the
Ways and Means Committee al
ways worked out tax bills that
Congress could agree to.
1t is possible, although not GER
tain, that the House would pass a
social security health bill if the
Ways and Means Committee in
dorsed such a measure. Propo-
nents claim they already have the
votes and stand to get more if
only the bill would come to the
floor in the regular way.
Presumably, this is part of what
Mr.. Kennedy wanted to tell Mr..
Evening star., 1962-03-25

worth of the bonds right away.
Although the committee plan is
acceptable to Mr.. Kennedy there
is no assurance that it will get
by the Senate. Its passage in the
House is considered even more of
a question mark.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Wants Public Hearings

He maintains it is much fairer
to all concerned to hold these
hearings on public record which
enables all the parties to know
what is being said and to submit
contradictions. In a private hear
ing the individual witness can
read the record only of what he
has testified and not what had
been testified against him.
If lawyers were allowed to in
tervene, Dixon says, the hearings
would become an endless "rhu-
barb" and the basic facts would
not be obtained. The Chairman
maintains that valid trade secrets
are protected by the Commission's
readiness to receive such infor-
nation in camera, which means
that it will not become a part
OF the public record.
Dixon maintains that in the
milk case the FTC in endeavoring
to learn everything it can about
a situation that is of broad public
concern in many areas as we'll
as Indianapolis. THE FTC must
not only enforce the laws that
we have" he said. I'VE must learn
whether they are adequate to the
demands of the public interest"
Evening star., 1962-03-25

Mills when he asked the chair
man to drop by the White House
for a private chat in January.
The conference was one of the
first the President set up after
returning to Washington to get
ready for the congressional ses-
sion.
Mr.. Mills slipped in and out of
the White House, eluding report
ers. Neigher participant has told
the world about that conversa-
ton.
No Strotoeems
But it is safe to say it was
pleasant and frank. On the tough
issue of reciprocal trade expan-
sion, there was general agreement.
On the health care bill, points
of view were expressed-not with
out humor and the discussions
ended on a well, that's that note.
Mr.. Mills later said publicly, to
nobody's surprise, that he will not
support the health bill, but that
he will not use parliamentary
stratagems to block consideration
of it by his committee once the
trade bill is out of its way.
With Mr.. Mills active support,
the health bill might or might
not be approved by the predom-
inantly conservative committee.
Some members oppose social Sc
surity on principle. Others, in
Guiding the chairman, have ex-
pressed fears that Incorporating
a whole new program into the
system would lead ultimately to
an unbearably high payroll tax.
The all-out effort being made
by proponents of social security,
Evening star., 1962-03-25

are being required to divulge ex-
tends deep into the area Of trade
secrets and will therefore be harm
full to their competitive positions.
With the support of the Com
mission, the hearing examiner,
William F. Lemke, has ruled that
the companies attorneys may not
participate beyond giving off-the-
record advice to the witnesses
they represent. The attorneys are
not allowed to object to questions
on any grounds, croSs-examine or
introduce evidence, or to make
statements of any kind for the
record. On the occasions when
they do interrupt. the attorneys
have been warned by the Examiner
that they may be subject to re-
moval from the hearing room or
to diSbarment from practice be-
fore the FTC. These prohibitions
are contrary to the practice in
adversary hearings, when the
counsel for company under COM
plant has the right of extensive
participation similar to that of
lawyers in court cases.
Evening star., 1962-03-25

that the CIA was helping to train
refugee troops to invade Cuba.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
New Procedure in FTC Heorinqs
Raises Protests From Business

from adverse publicity until a
complaint has actually been filed
against them and they have been
fully apprised of the charge to
which they must respond.
Mr.. Adamy maintained that an
important difference exists be-
tween these hearings and those
conducted by Congress since the
latter are ordinarily aimed at
determining the need for new leg
islation which would be general
IN application while the FTC
hearings are presumably aimed at
initiating complaints against spe-
cific individuals. He asserted that
the FTC procedure is pregnant
with needless injury to all con-
cerned."
Chairman Dixon, who incurred
considerable fame and controversy
as counsel for the Senate Anti
Monopoly Subcommittee, is con-
sclous that his body's move is
blowing into major storm. He
points out that while the ETC
has previously held is investiga-
tional hearings in private, it has
the right under its 1914 act to
decide whether they shall be pub
lie or private.
Evening star., 1962-03-25
Would Awoit CompIoint

Clarence G. Adamy, Executive
Vice President of the National
Association of Food Chains, has
complained to Congress that the
new procedure rejects the tradi-
ton that persons accused of law
violation are entitled to freedom
Arizona tribune., 1962-02-02

The Antler Guard presentation
tea is scheduled Feb. 10 and IL.
The banquet will be on Feb. 10.
7 pm. at Elks Lodge, 1907 So.
Seventh Ave. You may purchase
tickets at the door.
Special services will be held
Sunday, Feb. II at Southminster
Presbyterian Church at IL am.
A grand parade starts at noon.
Sunday. Participants will meet.
at Harmon Park. Units fromAri.
zona and California will compete
in drill.
49, u
Grand Canyon Temple 437 will
meet Feb. 2. The w. H. Patter-
son Lodge ATT meet is Feb. l3.
*# #*#M
PDRC will meet Mon., Feb.
5th at s pm. ALI members are
urged to attend.
= y y 49, 80 q
Grand Canyon Temple men,
bership drive is open. All daugh-
ters are asked to contact inter-
ested ladies' Immediately.
%** = &##
DIR. Alice Wheeler s husband,
Emmanuel succumbed after
prolonged illness. Final rites
were held last Saturday at Tan
ner AME Chapel.
Our deepest sympa thies go out
to DIR. Wheeler at this time.
%&%* *##A
DIT. Jean Eppinger's mother,
Mrs. Floyd Williams is recup-
Grating at home.
y 4 4
Correction - Mrs. Egaltine
Tillman, of Kansas City is the
daughter Of Jim Mccarthy (you
will remember him as former
Elk bartender).
y - y
Dt. Ruler Ruby Blackshear
wishes to thank all daughters who
attended the first annual meet
ing. She wants them to continue
and show interest and keep build
ing stronger group.
Charlesetta McClammy
Reporter
Arizona tribune., 1962-02-02
POLICE GROUP
ORGANIZES IN NJ. Y.

President Calvin w. ALLEN said,
to the newly elected officers of
the Council of Police Societies,
The. Council is devoted to the
aim and ambition of achieving
for the Negro police officer, in
a direct and concentrated drive,
the same detectives for which
the Urban League and the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People are
striving to attain for all citi-
zens on a broader basis. I"
The Council is extending MEM
bership to social police officer
organizations. President Allen
pointed out the importance for
organizations to gain early mem-
bership in the Council so that
they might lend to the shaping
of its basic policy and tenets.
The Council will assist the
development of the professionals
cation of police service, and halt
unfair practices in recruitment,
promotion and advancement of
qualified Negroes.
Requests for information and
applications for membership can
be obtained by writing to: Coun-
Gil of Police Societies, zoos AM
sterdam Ave. NYC 80.
Arizona tribune., 1962-02-02
KEEP COOL

AUSTIN TEXAS University of
Texas researchers found house,
wives in air-conditioned homes
spent forty-five minutes a week
busting compared with two and
one half hours for women In
similar but not air-conditioned
homes in the same neighborhood.
Arizona tribune., 1962-02-02

DON'T LET THESE STERN fool you. These young
have ENJOYABLE March 81 when they will
escort the debuantes Colion Ball. the Ramada
Inn.
Top-om ef-frontComez Browder Tucson; Burke Whitfield
Tucson; Harvey Lindsey. James Hall, and AL Green.
George cson Donald Tarngton
CALDWELL Levi Irving Tucson, and Virgil Grant, Tucson
Bottom Solomon, William Hawkins. .ardiman
and Henry Harvey.
roweonar Callahan Edward Kuyknda John washington
]. Irving, and Eugene Crigsby.
Arizona tribune., 1962-02-02

For a quick check on cost per
ounce of your packaged grocer
les and supplies, divide price by
ounces. Often you'll find that
the small size is really less ex-
pensive and can save a good
deal Of grocery money over the
year.
Copper River current., 1962-11-08
Editor
Kenny ke my Lake: Lake cont. cont 2

Kenny Lalze eQnta honostc ader, andc perhaps nni3hbor, rumble back on the rou; ;h road sore dark winter day and leavc the four by eight black patch of ground underne ath it naked to the cold as they head for the wood shedo
 The rabbits arc harder to hit nou- adays since their environment finally caught up with their biological change of clothes, guess l I'll have to break out the snareso
 iloBo Co., is rapidly sprucing up their operation against the day rhen they will finally admit defeat in their bout with Jack Frost and retire to their cor- Ter to a3ait the dianonm willow buds appearance next spring. The job is pre- senting distinct changes on the six nile stretch Of road to Chitine.
Copper River current., 1962-11-08
L.2TTAR FRO. I'll! zDITQR

It SCOTS that since have been ap- pointed "Idito1" Of this COPPER RIVER CU!lR INT thot SOTO of. the rcadcrs have quested to ;5ritc an editorialo Due to the fact that this is the very first tire l havc ever bcon an 'Editor' it is bit difficult for re to write 2aXthinz - much less m editorial but you have asked for it so bcar uith rae--~--- You all knou that this paper is a ne7corer in this arec but as Editor 1 have found that the people rho rc2d tho paper arc very kind and urdor taInin; vith our gro jing p2inse
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 The last issue of our paper printed the speech of the President in it's entir- ety. Ard I you'd like to take this oppor- turity to tElonk Ill of the people tho r'adc It possible for us to pr55--nt the speech. First let Ic thank KE1I radio sta tion for the loan of the tapeo Next thanks go to Sgt iGillaid gho l2dc 1t possible for us to borrow tho t2pco 1Isc Fred "clls t7pod rough copy frcr the taIe ond lc:9y typed until 1850 ao:ao on the stencils of course tho staff vas p25!ol5 in ~aitin3 all thi!c tirc at tho office in order to run tho stencilo LasJ but not the lclst Of oc,.: l-clp the American Lc ion tho paid the cost of printing the spcoche "o printed e<tra copies and if anyone wishes a copyo please contact the Areric2n Le3iono
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Copper River current., 1962-11-08
L4TT:E2 L.:!.l:i2 TO TO TIE EDITOR
Dear Vclna Billiard,

l have enjoyed reading tho tTo copies of the COPPER RIVER CURRENT that ny husband, Ted, brought horc nth hin. It Joulo be to- have -ncus paser~ which would include ne"s items from all parts and sections Of l1ska. perhaps that you'd stimulate q better feeling of unity in our larcc State.
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 If ever you have 8 ch1nce to drive through our city, would be pleased to roet youo l believe when tho ferry starts running that many moro "Alaskans will erive through ::'ay and ye 3ill become better .acqaaintedo Tn this ray all Alaska
 Sincerely yours,
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Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-30
..PROCRAM HICHLICHTS-.

I G.. E. COLLEGE BOWL-5:30-
The University of Tennessee schol-
ars (Knoxville) meet Kings College
tWilkes-Barre, Pa.
MISTER ED-6:30-To cure Mister
Eds fear of high places, Wilbur
calls in psychiatrist, and when the
doctor is told the horse can talk,
he decides Wilbur is the patient.
LASSIE = = After Jimmy and
Lassie nurse a prematurely born
calf back to health, Jimmy thinks
the calf should belong to him and
the matter is taken to court.
DENNIS THE MENACE 100
Grocer Quigley, in the interest of
boosting business, becomes the coach
of Dennis baseball team.
ED SULLIVAN s. Guests in
clude: Bobby DARN, Nancy Walker,
Jaye P. Morgan and others.
TWENTIETH CENTURY .
The Creative Thirties," the story
of time in America when,
against background of depres-
sion and despair, an exciting fer
ment in the arts was born.
JACK BENNY = $50 = Comedian
Ben Blue makes one of his infre-
quent television appearances when
he stars with Jack.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-05-30
Contributions 10
Needy Eskinlos
On Camera Show

The willingness of Americans to
make financial contributions even to
causes with such dubious labels as
Needy EskimoS" is demonstrated
in Candid Camera sequence
Sunday at 10 on KTVF, Channel
Eleven.
Another segment finds Allen
Funt bound and gagged in an office
that has apparently been fansacked.
A succession of delivery boys car
rying lunch orders to the office
respond to Funt's pleas for help by
removing his gag and blindfold,
but none of them will unite him.
Funt also pretends to be Dorothy
Collins husband and. while the lady
tries on spring millinery in a hat
shop. he dragons passersby off the
street to get their opinions of the
headgear.
The hidden camera captures the
expressions of diners at counter
when they try to use cube sugar
for the usual purposes, unaware
that the sugar" is wooden blocks
painted to resemble the real article.