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New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Seattle Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and Timothy 1:6, 7. I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind Eleanor Roosevelt. 4A TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20, 1972 Off The Battlefield I- Headlines across the nation told "quite a story, one which had been "long in developing and had been the foundation for as much divi- -sion to the nation as any sngle issue in modern times. The story centered on the deactivation and phaseout from Viet- of the 3rd Brigade of the -'1st Air Calvary Division, the last infantry brigade remaining in the war zone. The U.S.

command, therefore, that ground combat in the for United States troops was "rover, though there remains a commitment of a air and force to the war. The war is not over, of course, 3mt the fact that ground troops longer are involved certainly -places the United States on a different level than held in the past years when more troops were -Jbeing sent to the battle zone and -when the South Vietnamese were teioing comparatively little of th6 fighting. The President's "Vietnamaniza- tion" program meant that more emphasis would be placed on training and supplying the South Vietnamese to handle battlefield action. It took longer than anticipated, and there still is no certainty that this mission has been accomplished, but the South Vietnamese have handled themselves well in the latest offensive and show increasing strength and military capabilities to go far beyond the level of combat than seemed possible as the U.S. troop pullout started growing on a large scale.

There is no way to determine how long other American forces will remain in the area in supporting and advisory roles. It is apparent that diplomacy is at work in trying to develop meaningful peace talks in Paris to bring the war to an end. It also is evident that the North Vietnamese can expect little help from Russia and China, as shown by their lack of direct response after harbors were mined, to continue the war. It is possible, in fact, a considerable behind-the- scenes activity is developing that can lead to a settlement. In the meantime, the United States has upheld its commitment of getting its ground troops out of the action, and this is important not only to this nation but with cooperative approaches which other nations can take in their roles to help bring the war to an end.

For the present, however, the long-awaited day of getting U.S. troops off the battlefield has been met. This, by all standards of judgment, is a major achievement. Stinking Quarters Has Its Meaning It well can be understood why the name of "Stinking Quarters" could be considered offensive in identifying our Alamance County creek. But let us hold up, by all means hesitate for as long as needed, before any change in the name would be voted.

Stinking Quarters Creek has quite an identity and is one of the few places remaining in our area to tie us to our earliest history. It was along the banks of the creek that Indians slaughtered their game and discarded the remains. It was an early Indian custom to locate near water for all the purposes it served. The Indian village wasn't centered directly on the site where the animals were killed, but early history shows the close link of the creek to the Saxapahaws and their place on our land. And while Alamance Battleground has been our chief claim From Washington Star to history, Stinking Quarters Creek is on the select list in being researched.

The name prompts a question. Why? Why Stinking Quarters? Then, in the answer we claim a part of our history Also, in some past research, it was found that residents of the area did not dislike the name. Many of them have shown a considerable pride in the name, in fact, for they relate themselves to the past and to the Indian life which was a part of it. We discard many of our links with the past. It appears that this comes with a more rapid pace.

The past, however, holds its meaning in the present. We need to know our heritage, our past, to better appreciate what we have today and to move toward our future. And Stinking Quarters Creek has meaning, not just a questionable name. That's too important to overlook merely to satisfy the present. It's A Joke, Son Strange as it may seem to those of us on the outside, a bit of levity appropriately elephantine seems to be creeping into the highest circles of the Nixon administration.

Its practitioner is equally improbable: Commerce Secretary Peter G. (Pete) Peterson. Twice in recent speaking engagements, before the Japan Society in New York and the National Press Club just down the street, Peterson has attacked Henry Kissinger's reputation as a Don Juan. The zest of the jest comes from the fact that Peterson and Dr. Kissinger are reputedly close friends.

"All this womanizing image of yours is a hollow shell," Peterson claims he told the White House advance man. "There is an enormous gap between your rhetoric and performance." Kissinger, joining in the merriment, is reported to have riposted, "What you don't understand is that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." Peterson, by his own admission a "gray, lowly Cabinet official," says he constructed his attack on Kissinger out of sheer envy. "I decided that if I couldn't be Henry Kissinger, nobody would," he told his listeners. A laudable ambition, no doubt, if meant sincerely. But that is precisely the trouble.

Credibility of top level officials being what it has been in recent years, a Cabinet secretary could appear in cap and bells, shaking a rattle, and there would still be plenty of people who would believe every word he uttered. And where would that leave Dr. Kissinger? The Conservative View BBV High Court Is Moving In Varied Directions Cepyriflht 1S72 Timw Washington Merry-Go-Round Shady Mortgages Develop WASHINGTON Some of the nation's most prestigious banks and insurance companies have been putting up money for shady mortgages. Such, iminent institutions as Chase Manhattan. Manufacturers Hanover, Metropolitan Life and Prudential Insurance are helping to finance a mortgage racket, which is blighting our cities and defrauding ghetto dwellers.

In Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York City, St. Louis and Southern California, pressed and pomaded bankers are up to their boutonnieres in FHA mortgage scandals. The cost to the taxpayers runs into the billions. Part of the story will unfold this week before the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. Bearded, bemused chairman Phil Hart, always fair to a fault, will take testimony from a host of financial tycoons, mortgage men and FHA officials.

As with most financial scandals, the details are complex, but the results have been stark. Here's the scenario: Ghetto dwellers in search of accommodations go to fast-buck real estate operators with a ready supply of rundown houses for sale. "Why rent?" urge the salesmen. "Why not buy?" With a sucker on the hook, the real estate dealers call in unscrupulous mortgage companies to arrange the financing. By bribing FHA appraisers and falsifying credit ratings, these companies have been able to obtain FHA loans far above the value of the houses.

Short Stay The proud new home owners usually can't afford the huge payments they have been horn- swoggled i contracting. Often, the houses are in such disrepair that they break down, and the new owners can't afford to fix them. Result: the FHA mortgage is foreclosed and the hapless purchasers are back in the street. After the eviction, the scavengers move in and strip the houses of everything that can be carted off. In many inner cities, whole neighborhoods look like bombed-out sections of Berlin after World War II.

This doesn't bother the mortgage companies or the banks behind them. They are paid off by the FHA at face value. It's the taxpayers who are stuck with houses that are unsaleable or, at best, worth nowhere near their FHA mortgages. Mortgage companies, you see, are always short of cash and go to the banks for loans. For instance, New York City's biggest mortgage company, Eastern Service Corporation, now under indictment for fraud in connection with i mortgages, called upon Chase Manhattan, the aristocrat of the banking world.

Chase Manhattan cheerfully granted the mortgage firm a line of credit for more than $20 million and even bought up some of Eastern Service's dubious mortgages. There was no risk for the big bank. The mortgages were backed up by the FHA, and Eastern Service, in the meantime, paid high interest rates. Under The Rock Prudential Insurance, which urges its customers to own "a piece of the Rock," doesn't mention the sordid ghetto mortgages in its advertising. But if the customers will look under "the Rock," they will find about $14 million worth of mortgages purchased from Eastern Service.

As evidence that Prudential was suspicious of these ghetto mortgages, it is permitted under the deal to sell back to Eastern Service any mortgages that fall into arrears. Metropolitan Life, apparently was more a victim of naivete than of greed. It decided to put money into the inner city and a Manufacturers Hanover to obtain some ghetto mortgages. The bank went to Eastern Service and other mortgage companies- Many of these mortgages have now ended in foreclosure and the houses have been abandoned to neighborhood vandals. Spokesmen for Chase Manhattan, Prudential Insurance and the other respected financial institutions earnestly insist they were unaware they were doing business in shady mortgages.

Footnote: Several smaller banks have found failing, non- FHA mortgages on their books. They have peddled the bad mortgages through mortgage By Jack Anderson companies to a speculators. The speculators -managed to get FHA mortgages on disastrously property, and then sold the government-backed mortgages back to the banks for a profit. Again, the taxpayers were stuck. By JAMES J.

KDLPATKICK WASHINGTON After eight months of marking time, the Supreme Court last week came suddenly to attention, right- shouldered arms, picked a lively cadence--and marched off in all directions. At the end of the day's exercises, it was apparent the court had gone somewhere, but one is hard put to say exactly where. In one case, Argersinger v. Hamlin, the court reasoned its way into chaos. In two other cases, Adams v.

Williams and Colten v. Kentucky, the court got tough. In Fuentes v. Shevin, the court went soft. In the case of Harrisburg's Moose Lodge No.

107, a six-man majority, over the prostrate bodies of Douglas, Brennan, arid Marshall, began creeping back toward common sense in one field of Fourteenth Amendment law. It was quite a day. In Argersinger, the court laid down a sweeping new rule that must be applied henceforth in the trial of misdemeanors and petty offenses throughout the land. In earlier decisions, the court had established a right to counsel in all felony cases, and generally speaking, in all cases that might result in imprisonment for more than six months. Now the rule is extended.

This is the new requirement: "We hold, therefore, that absent a knowing and intelligent waiver, no person may be imprisoned for any offense, whether classified as petty, misdemeanor, or felony, unless he was represented by counsel at his trial." As an abstract proposition, the rule makes sense. The Sixth Amendment says "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right. have the assistance of counsel for his defense." A charge of disorderly conduct involves a criminal prosecution. It should follow that a person, so accused, enjoys a right to have a lawyer at his side. Constitutional explication to one side, the new rule accords with the great concept of equal justice under law.

As the court noted, one study has shown that misdemeanants represented by attorneys are five times as likely to emerge from police court with all charges dismissed as are defendants who face similar charges without counsel. Even a small offense can present large questions of law. The rule should be of great benefit to the little people of our society, the poor and the black, who henceforth are guaranteed counsel before they can be sentenced to jail. Yet, as a practical matter, the rule invites chaos. Justice Lewis F.

Powell, though he technically concurred in the result, filed a long and convincing-dissent. In his view, the requirement places an almost impossible burden on police court judges. They must either abandon their discretionary power to impose jail terms, in effect; make a preliminary finding before a trial begins that a jail term might be required. In the latter event, the right to counsel raises its head. Where are the requisite defense lawyers to be found? A 1965 study indicated that some four to five i i mis- demeanor are tried an- 'nually, wholly apart from 40 to 50 million traffic cases.

Some of these are "criminal prosecutions," too. In rural communities, especially, no reservoirs of counsel exist. And as Powell pointedly inquired, what is the constitutional difference, as a matter of due orocess, between depriving a defendant of his liberty (sending him to jail), and depriving him of his property (fining him)? Where does a right to counsel stop? It probably has not stopped with Argersinger. Open Forum Support For Auctions Is Urged To The Editor: This is the story of a helping hand which now desperately needs a helping hand! The need comes in the form of the newly constructed Civiian Shelter at Lake Burlington, which is the campsite for Camp Green Leaves, daycamp for retarded children. The helping hand (the combined Civitan Clubs of, Alamance County) pooled their efforts and built the Civitan Shelter at Lake Burlington as visible proof that public energies and concern for other people can be channeled into useful and adequate facilities.

The shelter is now completed equipped for winter or summer use--and will be scheduled by the public on a reservation basis, in addition to serving as the campsite Camp Green Leaves this summer. The demand for picnic shelters by the public becomes greater every year, and this new facility will serve a dual purpose, for each week the Recreation Department has far more calls for shelter reservations than it can fill. But, this is where the helping hand needs a helping hand: the cost of completing the Civitan Shelter has been greater than anticipated in the beginning, and the Civitan Clubs are making plans now to hold an auction sale at the'Shelter on Saturday, June 24, to raise money to wipe the slate clean of bills owed on the facility. They need the support of the public, in. donating items to be auctioned off as "we as the attendance of a large, enthusiastic crowd to bid'on the articles.

Because of the support this group of club members has given in the shelters they have built at City Park and Lake Burlington, both for the use of the public, we urge public support of the auction sale -in donating and purchasing. By helping Civitan members, the public will really be helping themselves, fop here at Lake Burlington is an adequately equipped shelter that can be reserved for family dinners, reunions and get-togethers in a quiet, clean atmosphere. But right now, the helping hand needs our helping hand in order to have the debt on the facility cleared away. Sincerely, JOE C. DAVIDSON, DIRECTOR Dept.

of Recreation Parks Pain Still Felt In His Chest Wes Hayden Back With Sen. Jordan Wes Hayden is back on the job in Washington' with Sen. B. Everett Jordan. His recovery from the bullet wound at North Hills Shopping Center in Raleigh on May 29, while campaigning with the senator, has been much faster than earlier thought.

Paul Clancy, Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer, went into some depth with Wes a former Daily Times-News staffer on his return. Here is what he reported: WASHINGTON Just as Wes Hayden looked in the direction of the shooting he saw the gunman raise his rifle and fire. A bullet struck Hayden in the chest. That was three weeks ago today at the North Hills Shopping Center in Raleigh. But the events are still fresh in his mind.

Pain still lingers in his chest. Last Friday was the first day Hayden, 57-year-old executive secretary to U.S. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, returned to his office on Capitol Hill.

Friends on the Hill greeted him, saying he looked "terrific." Lt. J.O. Blockston, a Capitol Hill policeman, wrapped his arm about him, "You're a recovering son of a gun," Blackston said. Hayden, who has lost eight pounds recuperating, said he would be back on the job today and plans to ease into his work at first, just to see how it goes. Hayden had been traveling with Jordan who was at the shopping center to shake hands.

It was less than a week away from the June 3 runoff primary in which Jordan would lose in his bid for a third six-year term. Jordan had just gone inside the entrance to the shopping center and Hayden was returning from the parking He had gone to get something from the station wagon he drove to the shopping center. There was the crackling sound that everyone, including Hayden, took for firecrackers. But he didn't pay much attention to it. "I was coming back from there when I saw the children laying in the middle of the driveway with their mother hovering over them," he said.

The woman's husband had been killed and both children wounded, but not seriously. "I was momentarily stunned when I saw it. I couldn't quite take it in." "I looked up and saw him raise his rifle, and then I realized what was going on. I think I must have turned to the left in an attempt to head for cover before I got hit." the NEWSPAPER! The slug tore through a slim "media" book in Hayden's left breast pocket as it entered his chest, passed through both lungs and his liver and then lodged in the right chest wall. "I didn't hear it, but I felt it hit.

I fell and realized immediately how difficult it was to breathe. I knew it was considerably more than a flesh wound. "The next thing I remembered was thinking 'He's not going to get another crack at me if I can help I got up and staggered behind some cars and stumbled. The next thing I knew, some lady had my head in her lap." The gunman, Harvey McLeod killed three persons there at noon on May 29 and wounded 7 others before taking his own life. A fifth person died later.

Hayden was on the critical list at Wake County Hospital, but his condition improved rapidly. A few days later he was sitting up in bed. In less than two weeks he was home in Alexandria, and a week after that sipping coffee with Bill Cochrane, Jordan's administrative assistant, on Capitol Hill. Maybe because he took his doctor's advice and quit smoking his pipe, Hayden's voice has lost much of its characteristic raspiness. He smiled broadly as he thought of one scene in the emergency room.

He had never lost consciousness. "They were putting a tube in my side and it kind of hurt, and one of the hospital attendants said 'We're sorry we haven't got a bullet for you to bite I thought, 'Hell, that's very funny'." Hayden, who served in the Army during World War II and Korea and then worked as a reporter for several years for the Winston-Salem Journal, has heard from people he hadn't seen in 30 years or more. There are tliree neat piles of mail on his desk, but he doesn't intend to get to them all right away. He and his wife, Hazel, have not disturbed their plans to spend a week in Nassau at the end of June. He still has some pain in his chest.

The small bullet is still there and won't be removed unless it causes him trouble. "I still get a spasm, a catch here in the chest occasionally, particularly when I yawn or breathe deeply, but nothing of a serious nature.".