The Shreveport Journal from Shreveport, Louisiana • 4

crib FOUR A FC TODAY'S NEWS TODAY-WITH TODAY'S PICTURES THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY LA MONDAY MAY 30 1966 Lest We Forget Inside Otyrentport Xofurtutt 4-111 IT 4 1 4- iie! 1 1' I ii Kennedy Is 'Camp' By Victor Riese! Published at 222 Lake St Shreveport La 71102 Founded January 7 1895 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday JOURNAL PUBLISHLNG COMPANY INC DOUGLAS ATTAWAY President and Publisher GRAFTON Vice President BERTON HEARD Treasurer GEORGE SHANNON Editor and Secretary JACK CLARK Managing Editor DOUGLAS ATTAWAY Publisher 1922-1957 Entered Shreveport Louisiana Post Office as Second Class Matter Under Act of March 3 1879 Member of the Associated Press Telephone 424-0373 No Shreveport Journal Stockholder Owns Stock in Any Other Shreveport Newspaper Found( GEOR( Entei Membe Four-Lane Bridge is Needed 7-rrtItit it-lt 1 Oen: It tr' l'v' 4 1:: :::3 'i t4- 4 7' fr r-' itE 4 s- 1 ''1' ''s I r-'4 Vr -0 I 7 AL 4 :::1 1 l' 4'' se' 1 It'L I "1 11 4Ao '4 4 i l'i 1 4 'I! 0 4:3 ot A 04' i i''' i 4 '0 ii a (') C'd 14 A 1r i4ty '4'04z0600 k''-6414: 140' 1 wkit glid' '4tr'' It 10 'IN' '''441404140 i' 0 cr 1 111 i f1 i 2 1 1 ko :1 0110lough xlidiaik 4fi 111 'i istook vIPP--lte- '-e--- ---7777 i ti :4 -----40 -7--- 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Louisiana State University is in that part of the city and the two-year institution serving as a commuter college surely will add to traffic The State Department of Highways deserves commendation for its efforts to relieve the inter-city traffic problem before it worsens still more Undoubtedly Shreveporters and Bossier City residents were pleased to learn that the State Department of Highways has a team of engineers studying the feasibility of making the Jimmie Davis Bridge a four-lane structure In announcing the study Joe Pernici of Shreveport highway commissioner for the Fourth Congressional District explained that the department is not contemplating construction which would require additional piers because that would be too expensive The engineers will determine whether it will be practical to modify and reinforce the existing piers so they could support a four-lane superstructure instead of the two-lane one for which they were designed Adding lanes is not just a question of engineering Availability of funds likewise will be a decisive factor according to Mr Pernici It was the matter of cost which pre vented the Highway Department from moving the abandoned Traffic Bridge to the site of the Jimmie Davis Bridge The latter was designed for only two lanes on the assumption that it would be feasible Ur sier that has a leasibi Bridge ing th port Fourtt that tt constr' tional expem Th it will force suppor of the design questic funds accord It vented moving the sit( latter the ass things first magnifies them later and spills them at cocktail society time Mr Rose suggested in turn i they meet at "The table" in the Ebony Room of the Vic- I torian style Hotel Prince' George where most people think most people don't go any more It's in last century's neighborhood 28th Street Manhattan "The table" is the power base It is alcoved There unseen by the public and even almost un-visual to the other diners the hat union leader and the daylight-burning Kennedy talked local and national politics THE LOCAL trivia are important only because they brought the hatter and the Kennedy together They agreed to fight the traditional Democratic Party now led by Harlem's Ray Jones the only New York delegate to the 1960 nominating convention to go down battling for Lyndon I Johnson for President At issue is a $37000-a-year 14-year surrogate job BUT THE NATIONAL cations of the conversation are vital to the state the nation and the world Reports have it that they discussed a coalition behind a mutual gubernatorial candidate This means that Mr Rose plans to abandon his coalition with the liberal which Mayor Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller fit It means that Mr Rose would have to cut loose from former Mayor Wagner IT MEANS THAT he would attempt to deliver 450000 Liberal Party votes to the forces now in cadence with Kennedy There should be no doubt that such a move giving Bob Kennedy the power to negotiate for the Liberal Party inside the Democratic Party ranks would make the senator one of the most powerful figures in the national Democratic Party itself Actually all that now is needed is a gubernatorial candidate IN THE OPEN lead is Franklin Roosevelt Jr But is he Bob Kennedy's candidate? Not too many insiders will say yes Rather they point to the distinguished but self-effacing Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan With Kennedy and Liberal Party support he might topple Mr Rockefeller this fall NEW Bob Kennedy's young staff it's go go go They're "camp" which means if you ask your teenagers they're "in" because they are "way out" Kennedy's people know mainstream of college sports today is "knibbling" and the big thing amongst those in their 20s is "trivia" THIS IS NO hallucinogenic politics It's shrewd to know what's happening among the young voters (the average vt'orker's age now is 29 and soon will be 25) But neither does the go go go staff fail to keep up with the elders Kennedy's peopse especially are interested in any political machinery which blends the young and the old Thus a few days ago the New York senator moved swiftly when he learned that a union chief the leader of just such a political New York State Liberal sat at the bedside of President Johnson shortly after lunch on Thursday May 12 AFTER A WHILE Mr Johnson had summoned into the bedroom new presidential special aide Robert Kintner and assigned him to be the labor leader's special liaison with the White House That Liberal Party sachem was and is the hatters' uinon's Alex Rose The party is important because it has swung as many as 450000 votes in the state and can be vital in the a president because New York still is the make-or-break state THOUGH the party has as its base the powerful pro-Johnson International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union largest in the state many of the Liberal clubhouses have suddenly found themselves frequented by anti-Johnson anti-Viet Nam policy young "peace-ists" Thus it was that almost exactly one week to the minute after Mr Rose left the White House he received a phone call from Bob Kennedy The senator suggested they get together and talk some politics MR ROSE WAS enthusiastic Now he was being wooed by "both sides" He and "Bob" had not had very many kind words for each other and had not hesitated to say so in that gray arena of the political milieu which always hears 1 1 Feels Writer From North Confused in Letters to The Journal Abusive Phone Calls Can Be Stopped The Journal welcomes readers' comments on matters of current interest Such letters should be courteous and more than 300 are subject to editing Each letter must be Editor Stresses Importance Of Daily Prayer Editor Shreveport Journal ample in order that we may "convert" unbelievers Mr Woodruff in my opinion is concerned about the wrong things How can prayer possibly debase anyone or anything? Prayer is man's outreach his means of communion with God and debasement does not come from communion with God but from contacts with evil and its sordid effects on life MANY YEARS AGO I found that is was impossible for me to live a righteous life under my own power they have led to arrests in Baton Rouge and in Plaquemines Parish These devices do not record telephone conversations They cannot be used to "bug" a residence Their sole purpose is to determine where calls originate Laws against abusive calls now can be enforced without a great deal of difficulty as was usually the case heretofore A bill drafted by Sen George Tessier of New Orleans with the help of the Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Co would give Louisiana suitable legislation to curb objectionable anonymous calls with the aid of line-identifiers The proposed measure carries a violation penalty of two years in prison or a $5000 fine or both A decline in these calls can be expected once it becomes general knowledge that there is a stiff law and that law enforcement agencies have the means of quickly ascertaining telephone numbers Anonymous telephone calls of an obscene or vituperative nature are on the increase in Louisiana as they are in other states The number has reached appalling proportions For instance just during this past March telephone companies over the United States received an estimated 46000 complaints about such calls Many teen-age girls young unmarried women and widows living alone have been subjected to vulgarities and insults by telephone In numerous instances unidentified callers have used the tzlephone to harass persons who have taken a prominent part in civil rights controversies and often the families of those persons have been included in the abuse and threats Fortunately a device to trace such calls at last has been invented Line-identifiers now are available in Louisiana The New Orleans States-Item reports that Anc scene increasl states proport past Ma United 46000 Man women subject( telephoi 'dentin( to hara5 inent and oft have threats Fort calls at tillers New 0 According to Mr Richard Woodruff's letter in Friday's Journal he is afraid prayer in schools may debase religion therefore he is against it RE ALSO STATES that we Christians should set a wise ex After much reading of my Bible and prayer I surrendered my life to Jesus and asked Him to take the control and guide to direct my life This He did the Holy Spirit is my daily guide Prayer is my means of communication with Him As such prayer helps me in work study in fact in all areas of life WHEN SUCH divine guidance is available through prayer how can we afford to exclude prayer from any area of life? As for conversion we as Christians can only witness as to what Jesus has done for us we cannot convert anyone Only God does this This is not criticism of Mr Woodruff but an effort to aid his thinking to the end of advancing truth HILBURN Cotton Valley La It It "4: "1 1 Peter Coming of Age By Jim Bishop oiNk Reds to Dominican Election By Irene Corbally Kuhn The Brighter Side Urges Citizens To Protest Bill Editor Shreveport Journal suring news that the people are not overextended Individuals in this country have assets of $22 trillion according to Harry Fuller president of the National Consumer Finance Association Subtracting the debt total of $284 billion from the assets leaves a net worth of $1921 trillion In case you run out of things to worry about just think of the astronomical $284 billion the American people owe in debts A real Gloomy Gus might conclude that the majority of citizens are on the verge of bankruptcy But on the brighter side comes a finance company president with the reas In a about ji billion Areal( the majl of bank' But nance ci Washington Officials Encourage Violence By Fulton Lewis Jr 1Jf MIAMI Fla Around 8:30 pm it began to get drunk out There had been a cocktail party earlier and the reporters had hit the booze pretty well and it had hit some of them back Now they sat blinking in the brilliant light of New York's Americana Hotel staring at steak and mashed potatoes as though it had an ugliness they had not noticed before This was the annual dinner of Sigma Delta Chi the news man's fraternity and comma hawks from radio television newspapers and magazines sat staring at each other as though they were the sole repositories of wisdom They handed out a few awards to each other and listened to Mike Wallace make a speech about "over-coverage" of the political conventions THE WAITERS PLACED a bottle of Scotch on each table and they went around twice he fore dying of dehydration Some one introduced Peter Jennings as the next speaker and the api plause could almost be heard over the clink of ice He stood up tall and slender and handsome a young man of 28 with brown hair and long lashes and he began to speak about N'iet Nam The writers tried to pay attention It was a serious speech about a complex matter Jennings an ABC commentator had spent time in Saigon and in the jungle mud and he had opinions and observations But this was a time for table jokes and sentimental reflections on dead comrades and newspapers The young man spoke for 10 minutes and explained more about Viet Nam than I learned in five years of reading: "IT'S AN ENDLESS WAR as it must be Most people think of it as a war of the north against the south For the most part Viet Cong are South Vietnamese In any case you cannot tell one from the other and neither can they" All his life Peter Jennings has been called "Charlie's son" That is because Mr Charles Jennings is a well-known man He is a vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Company lie lives in a big house outside Ottawa in French Village What he says goes Or stops ONCE WHEN he was away and Peter was nine the boy was offered an opportunity to do a radio show called "Peter's Progress" It was broadcast once a week and Peter gas $25 When his father returned he heard about it The show was successful but he ordered the radio station to reduce his son's salary to $5 "There is not enough enthusiasm for the war among the Americans or the Vietnamese to win The people are surging toward neutralism This may turn out to be the honorable leave-taking for us Of course Viet Nam will not remain neutral no matter what the agreement North Viet Nam will see to that" WHEN PETER got out of Trinity College School in Canada he looked for a job in broadcasting He didn't want to be known as Charlie's son" So he went to Brockville Ontario and got one with Jack Radford at CFJR The pay was $15 a week and Peter Jennings had to learn to do everything including engineering Radford was a great teacher After 11 months he said: "You now know everything I can teach Go out and do something with your life You're fired" On CBS-TV Peter did "Time Out" In Ottawa on CJOH he did a two-hour daily show called "Vue" "ALMOST ALL Vietnamese have more respect for Uncle Ho than for General Ky Ironically the Vietnamese hate the Chinese more than any other people in the world They don't like us much Meat is scarce and the Vietnamese say that this is so because the American soldiers eat it" Two years ago he and his announcer-friend Baden Langton got an offer to go to New York and work for ABC "Oh I can't" said Charlie's son "I hate America" He didn't but it was the smug thing to say Jennings loved the United States but didn't understand it "THE CONG hold the initia- tive all the time They fear our planes more than death itself So does Ho But they call the turn I found a leaflet in the jungle and it turned out to be a Viet Cong order to demonstrate in Saigon three days later It told what streets what placards and what to shout "I went there and it was as though the Communists had written a script for me Everything turned out exactly as the leaflet said The best thing you can say for our operations is to call them slash and dash" Charlie's son has come of age On his own he has been chosen the 6 pm news commentator for the ABC network In another year Charles Jennings will be known as "Peter's sionment as she is pilloried by the press Mr Carney told me his purpose in writing "The Paper Bullet" was to make the reader aware of a new war in the world use of the Communists of this psycho-political weapon to instigate mobs start "spontaneous" revolutions and plant their minions in democratic governments "I HAVE BEEN frightened in recent years by the ability of the 'liberal' camp to marshal such a tremendous amount of propaganda on any cause they wish" he said "This composite 'paper bullet' can either destroy or build For example it destroyed Chiang Kai-shek while it built the agrarian reformers and we got a Red China It did the same thing for Batista while it built Castro and we have a Red Cuba "I never thought much about Viet Nam until Madame Nhu came to this country and was so uniquely vilified here She could well have brought much of this upon herself but the volume of criticism seemed far out of proportion to her alleged sins So I became suspicious as indeed I suspected the vast amount of publicity the Buddhist burnings elicited PON I NVESTIGATION through various sources some of them government I began to realize that the whole destruction of the Diem govern ment was really a put-up job and that the climate for the destruction was skilfully created in the American press "What was behind this? Simply the fact I believe that the Diem government was winning the war on the battlefield Therefore the Communists began to employ another weapon and through the planting of lies and conflict management they managed to rid themselves of their enemy The United Nations Commission Report of Viet Nam and the book on the country and the war by the late correspondent Marguerite Higgins prove conclusively how the paper bullet tactic was used" It should be noted that when the war in Viet Nam began to turn in our favor recently the political uproar started again It is still going on with the Buddhists attempting to dislodge Premier Ky and we may lose this one too if we do not profit from past lessons The same is t-ue in the Dominican Republic uhich the United States and all Latin America now at last must surely see could become a second Cuba NEW YORK The elections scheduled for June 1 in the Dominican Republic can be expected to be the target of Communist sabotage We can only hope that the memories of the Communist-infiltrated revolt of April 24 1965 will stir the Dominicans to defeat subversion and vote in such a way as to insure the continuance of their country as a free republic A review of the immediate aftermath of the 1965 intervention by the United States which smashed the Communist plot and the subsequent collective intervention of the Inter-American Peace Force recall the bitter criticism of the speedy essential American action The critics including many Americans argued at the top of their voices that what was going on in the Dominican Republic was only a good "democratic revolution" similar to our own 1775 rebellion HOWEVER a couple of self-identified Dominican Communists subsequently exploded that nonsense The January-February issue of Communist Affairs published by the University of Southern California reprinted an article from Communism's World Marxist Review In it the Dominican Reds I and I Conde bragged that their 1965 coup would have succeeded except for the direct armed intervention of "US imperialism" and Conde discussed and analyzed their mistakes and it is to be supposed that they will have worked to correct them in the intervening 13 months There is no longer any excuse for misreading Red strategy and tactics And if there were not enough factual material on the subject there is also a growing body of fiction which carries the viarning in a dramatic way to the average person One doesn't have to be a scholar or an expert on communism to recognize the danger signs A NEW NOVEL by an expert on Communist infiltration who is also an exciting writer is "The Paper Bullet" (Morrow) by Princeton-educated Otis Carney Mr Carney's fascinating story concerns the battle of a good and decent man president of a Latin American republic to save his country from the combined forces of Communist agents and La powerful financial bloc It is also the story of Monica his half-American wife who goes to the United States confident of her ability to get the truth across to us and of her bitter disillu Binkley and Royhal are by no means the first federal officials to counsel civil disobedience or endorse the tactics of the radical left Under the Administration's anti-poverty program militant "direct action" has been encouraged from coast to coast Anti-poverty workers in New York City initiated rent strikes school boycotts and mass demonstrations against the "white power structure" PROTESTS generated by antipoverty officials were so explosive that Mayors John Shelley of San Francisco and Samuel Yorty last year accused the Office of Economic Opportunity of "fostering class struggle" In a joint statement they said the 0E0 was "trying to wreck local government by setting the poor against city hall" Mayor William Walsh of Syracuse NY has repeatedly charged that federal funds were used in his city to "train agitators" and teach "Marxist doctrines of class conflict" Antipoverty workers in Syracuse Ethic is included with race religion etc in the uncivil unconstitutional property bill which will take away the human rights of owners agents and tenants Therefore you are a guilty criminal fined $500 plus damages for "humiliation mental pain and suffering" if you refuse to rent or sell to Pagans active Communists Red fronters Black Muslins whom most whites justly fear Students for (violent) Non-violent Riots Vietniks Beatniks SNNC CORE and the King's NAACP Protest this bill IF THEY TURN your properties or apartments into meeting places don't complain Their "suffering and mental pain" allows them to riot burn loot snipe and kill The Great Society the King and so-called churchmen of all denominations have given their blessing AMENS and GO TO IT! ONE OF THE federal attorneys seeking more unconstitutional decrees said that Negro children had no right to choose their schools should be forced into white schools Civil rights agitators were warned that illegal decrees against white people would soon backfire and deny Negroes their rights Neva troublemakers have listened to and followed Communists too long They are creating fears and hatreds among tens of thousands who had no racist opinions Scores of New York Negroes protested bussing their children long distances Many lost needed jobs due to lack of time BOBBY KENNEDY is throwing fits about "snooping" on criminals Great Society planners do a more thorough job on school children They are asked what their parents call one or groups of Negroes how they treat Negroes in public or Negroes they bring home Bobby wants to gain Negro votes by stirring up trouble in Rhodesia Let us hope and pray he doesn't snoop in South Viet Nam and repeat his sponsorship of American blood and money for the VC and Buddhist political traitors The Go-Go planners have America going in the wrong directions Mr JOE VANCE 111 Main St Fort Worth Tex 1 I have organized demonstrations rent strikes and marches of city hall Federal funds were used to bail out anti-poverty workers arrested during a raucous protest in the County Office Building "The use of federal tax money to bail persons who have intentionally willfully and deliberately flouted the law is immoral and possibly illegal" Mayor Walsh said at the time "Teenagers read the papers and hear on news broadcasts that adults are deliberately violating the law This in part accounts for the fact that more than 70 per of the crimes of violence in Syracuse are committed by teen-agers" UNDER a "CONSUMER education" program financed by Washington anti-poverty workers in several cities are telling shoppers which products to buy and which to spurn organizing boycotts of local merchants and mapping plans for cooperatives that will compete with private enterprise Here in Washington the local anti-poverty agency helped organize a recent boycott of the DC Transit Co the city's major bus line MEN AND WOMEN employed by the federal-financed United Planning Organization distributed leaflets attacking the owner of DC Transit in scurrilous terms and drove privately-owned automobiles trucks and buses as free transportation in competition with the bus line The boycott was sponsored by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in protest against a proposed five-cent fare increase Handbills supporting the boycott were widely distributed by UPO workers WASHINGTON Sen Paul Fannin (R-Ariz) has called for the dismissal of a federal official who recently urged Mexican-Americans to "take to the streets" to secure their demands The official is John Hinkley deputy director of the US Civil Rights Commission Addressing a meeting of Mexican-American leaders in Phoenix Hinkley said the commission not only sanctions civil disobedience but encourages it A second federal official George Royhal of the Equal Employment Opportunity Office voiced similar views at the Phoenix conference "NOTHING ever came about in the civil rights movement by being nice" Roybal said "It takes direct and militant action I have little patience for diplomats Those who sit on the sidelines and don't want to put their jobs in jeopardy should remain on the sidelines for ever" Sen Fannin says that those who "preach the alien doctrine of civil disobedience are engaged in a vicious campaign to set class against class and race against race" It is inexcusable he says "that anybody la the employment of the federal government should be traveling around our nation trying to incite a riot" SEN JOHN TOWER (R-Tex) agrees with his GOP colleague He terms distressing the fact ''that bureaucrats paid by the taxes of all Americans have urged disobedience of federal state and local laws and have attempted to set Americans against America Is in a class confrontation" WASHI Fannin (I the dismi ficial who ican-Amer streets" mands The offi deputy dir Rights Co a meeting leaders in the comm tions civil courages i A seen George 11 Empinym( voiced si Phoenix "NOTHI in the civ: belog takes dire I have lit mats Th sidelines their jobs remain ever" Sen Fa who "pre of civil gaged in set class against ra he says employme ernment around ou cite a ric SEN agrees wil He terms "that burl taxes of urged dis state and attempted against A confrontati rti Views From Other Newspapers More Money The government would have more money to buy butter and pork for the boys overseas if they charged the (REA) co-ops regular interest on their loans instead of a measly 2 per cent Wis ADVERTISER I I i I MI01004ftaeM(EAM011C11AttilrnO41WWand116 40160101115AmoglooaPondifqw4--4-1 I.