The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 63

The KnawiBa Newi-Senlinel Sundiy June 22 1969 Pga F-9 First Lady Pat Nixon Is Changing Her Image Nixon can be positive At each stop on her of tour she told why she was there and she told it well: interested in what people can do for each other If each American would give only 20 minutes a day to lend a helping hand to be neighborly and kind the quality of life would be enriched my plea if we want to do this job we have to have thousands to Pat Nixon did appear shy on her husband's campaign trail She has always given this impression whim she is with the President but that is because those close to her say it is second nature for her to play the little woman" role Those who have said "Pat Nixon never seems to display any emotion except total admiration for her should have seen her as she knelt on the floor of the airplane returning from her trip west to tell seated reporter how much her first solo trip excited her Or when she trieJ to hush a baby's crying at a day-care center Or when she watched a musical performance by a group of Mind children and heard the blind leading man being complimented on his performance and Ms Those who have described Mrs Richard Nixon as shy unresponsive and wary of personal contacts are wrong or are thinking of the Pat Nixon During a four-day trip with the First Lady to visit volunteer projects in Oregon and California her first solo official trip reporters saw her embrace and kiss countless children in schools in deprived areas day care nurseries schools for the Mind They watched her greet volunteers warmly displaying obvious interest in what they had to tell her They watched her stand in endless receiving lines shaking hands patting shoulders mnping to listen to the 101 little pleasantries people always have to whisper in her ear During her visits to the 10 grassroots volunteer projects that receive little or no Government help she generated in the volunteer workers she saw a strong feeling that she cared that she was truly concerned CALLS FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS Though naturally reserved Pat Nixon's es sparkle and her smile is big and happy as he hears something that interests or delights her When she wants to get a point across Pat good looks Pat eyes brimmed over as he said of his blind leading lady isn't she just STOIC FRONT MELTING Over the long years as the wife of a nation- al politician who has known both victory and defeat she has learned to husband her reactions A woman who hears her husband vilified must learn for instance to maintain a stoic front But that stoic front evidently is melting and the real Pat Nixon is beginning to shine through Pat Nixon is no longer afraid of personal contact She asks for it She went fearlessly and with at least no outward trepidation to the Albina Negro section of Portland after several nights of disturbances and arrests in the area She went at night It was also nighttime when she visited a volunteer project on the fringe of the Watts section of Los Angeles True she is completely protected physically wherever she goes but she is not protected mentally from what might happen what she might hear or witness She has always taken her responsibilities both as the wife of a national figure and as the mother of two girls When her husband was vice president Pat Nixon rarely missed a Tuesday meeting of the Senate Wives Club and she worked hard at all the Red Cross projects of that group TRIP WAS NON-POLITICAL As the First Lady she has conscientiously entertained group after group of women at the White House and has been a gracious hostess at state dinners She was the first wife to ask hordes of guests upstairs to see the private quarters of the family a decision that surprised everybody She was determined to keep her first trip non politic aL In Los Angeles the local Federation of Republican Women was meeting in the hotel where she stayed Although she was invited to come to their luncheon she declined just felt I had a purpose on this trip and I wanted it to be that she said when she was asked about politics That's the new Pat Nixon Emerging is a lively person who isn't afraid today of saying what she thinks doing what she wants to do going where she wants to go Talking about her 29 years of marriage to the President she said: have mutual respect I don't question his decisions and he doesn't question News-Sentinel Forum Free Speech Is Welcome in a Free Press in a Free Country GRAFFITI by Laary must provide what they expect from a resort city Liquor by the drink Is a must if we expect to cater to a sophisticated clientele And nice respectable night clubs must cease being looked down upon by the citizenry as of iniquity" or of the devil Which ruin the lives of our young At the present time Knoxville purports to be a convention city To be seriously considered as a convention center without offering conventioneers appropriate sources of entertainment and liquor by tha drink is an absurdity Knoxville and East Tennessee has a history of resisting change The two things which have been most responsible for Knoxville's growth in the Twentieth Century were both resisted initially TVA was thought of as and Oak Ridge was merely more spreading bureaucracy" which could only tend to corrupt the honest people of this region But today both of these projects are sources of pride for East Tennesseans And we have the potential here to become a major if not the major tourist spot in the Southeastern Wake up Knoxville! What do you intend to do? JIM NORMAN Medicare Medicaid a we mmp tf vmtmmm sm SCflppt-NMMrt IlMMpon Senate Finance tee helping Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department run checks for possible tax delinquency on doctors and others collecting Urge sums from Medicare and Medicaid The committee will turn over to the two Federal agencies: 1 Names and addresses of more than 5000 doctors who collected more than 525000 each last year from Medicare alone 2 Names and addresses of another 5000 or more health doctors dentists optometrists paid $25000 or more each in IMS under Medicaid and other health programs for persons on welfare 3 Names of nursing homes it believes have hidden their true earnings from Medicare and and IRS 4 Kickback arrangements It has uncovered between doctors nursing homes and pharmacies When committee began demanding names of doctors earning large sums IRS asked it to pass on the information Members were startled to learn Social Security Administration has been helping doctors keep their earnings secret Social Security has permitted insurance carriers which write the Medicare and Medicaid checks to use private identification systems for medical practitioners instead of Social Security numbers All other payments to individuals are identified for IRS by Social Security numbers In addition nursing homes have been permitted to give a patient a different private code number each time he enters Without knowing how much Social Security pays for a patient IRS has no way of checking on what nursing home collects Committee in light of other abuses it has there's a chance doctors have not been paying taxes on all their earnings Internal Revenue thinks so too (One doctor offered to return $25000 he had collected when he found committee was investigating him) Committee plans public hearings soon after July 4 recess Chairman Russell Long (D-La) is determined to stop use of private identification codes which he compares with use of secret numbered accounts in Swiss banks Pointing to requirement that taxpayer with a $300 savings account reports the $12 interest he collects Long says: "Equity demands that a $100000 payment to a doctor be reported to Internal MAJOR BANKS EARNING 1210 PCT Major banks enjoy highest profit rate in history For 12 months ending March 31 25 major banks earned a record 1219 per cent return on their common capital funds Members of Congress outraged at recent Increase in prime lending from 75 per cent to 85 per are taking note MINUTEMAN TESTS MAY DRAW PROTESTS Air Force plans to test-fire Minuteman Intercontinental ballistic missiles over US to make sure they would work properly in a nuclear war may run into heavy opposition from states missiles will fly over Plans are hush-hush but apparently tests would start with firing nf a Minute-man from its underground silo in North Dakota across northwestern part of the country and into Pacific Missile will NOT carry a nuclear warhead But there's another problem: Minuteman's booster rocket will fall back to earth short of the Pacific Air Force sources say they can figure accurately where booster will fall can buy a tract of land to make sure it does not hit people or private property Earlier tests have been made from Van-denberg Air Force Base Calif into Pacific Ocean But a few years ago attempted "short tests from the silos turned up trch- Probers To Aid IRS nical difficulties Air Force thinks these have all been corrected: wants to make sure TOUGHER POLICY ON JOBS PUSHED Bipartisan drive is under way in the Senate to prevent ex-Federal employes who take jobs in industry from having business dealings with their old agencies for two years after they leave public service There's a law on the books now but it's loosely drawn Sen Med Harris (D-Okla) has drafted a tight substitute which would even keep former members of Congress from lobbying on The Hill for two years after end of their terms proposal is aimed primaily at ex-military officers who step from Pentagon onto payrolls of defense contractors COPE PUSHING FOR LIBERALS IN 79 COPE political arm of the AFL-CIO worried about apparent swing of voters to the right has started work on next year's elections COPE officials headed by Director Alexander Barkan have met In recent weeks with state and local union leaders in Philadelphia Boston Chicago New Orleans Denver and San Francisco been pointing out that 25 Democratic senators are up next year 21 of them liberal by COPE standards If swing to the right isn't checked they warn Senate could go Republican and this could mean passage of antilabor legislation Sessions have been private but insiders say COPE brass has found union members are just as worried as others over crime unrest and inflation labor officials warn also about composition of state legislatures Members elected in 1970 will redistrict Congress on the basis of next census There's strong sentiment among national labor leaders for supporting Mayor John Lindsay of New York now that Robert Wagner is out id the race but New York labor bosses can't forget Lindsay's handling of the 1966 transit strike and later sanitation and school tie-ups PORNOGRAPHY PROBE IN A MESS President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography at work since January still agree on scope of its study So far it has been looking at effects of pornography on the young hopes to have a preliminary report ready in July But it has made no progress toward writing a legal definition of pornography that will stand the constitutional test or toward recommending new laws on the subject Commission got $643000 for its task is asking another $12 million and extension of its deadline to July 1970 NIXON READY TO DEAL WITH VIOLENCE Commerce Secretary Stans told a group of editors last week that President Nixon is ready to deal swiftly with any summer outbreaks of violence in the cities would reveal no details Interior Department has persuaded Cities Service Co not to drill for oil in strait between Padre Island National Seashore and the Texas coast Instead company will slant-drill under the water to avoid disaster like that off Santa Barbara Pay nf policemen and firemen went up by 10 per cent last year Bureau of Labor Statistics reports is up 38 per cent since 1964 Brookings In-situation is forming special staff to scrutinize military spending our post-Vietnam security role in East Asia strategic armament policies and arms control Edgar Hoover has FBI technicians at work on a low-level electronic surveillance network he hopes will trap the latest addition to his list of most-wanted fugitives Suspect who has been making life unpleasant on Director Hoover's patio: A raccoon 1 4 HJV Theotis Robinson Jr WJBE Serves a Starts en Page F-8 the division of the Christian faith into Protestant Presbyterian Methodist and Baptist and Catholic is a prime example Therefore as it possible to quote passages (which seem) for capital punishment there are also instances in the Bible (wMch appear) against beloved avenge not yourselves but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written vengeance is mine I will repay said the Romans 12:19 Which brings us to a question do you follow? Admittedly I am not a Biblical scholar nor do I feel I have an absolute solution to the question Nevertheless as an interested and concerned citizen of the 20th Century I personally feel capital punishment solves nothing Since man-made laws are necessary to maintain order in a society it is man's duty and right to enforce these laws However since they are manmade it holds true that due to progress and enlightenment in a society sometimes laws become ineffective and therefore must be changed Fortunately in the last few years capital punishment has been and is being questioned as a deterrent to murder The actual of is only the final outcome What really needs to be understood analyzed and solved is the reason and the cause not the outcome It is Imperative that these questions be asked and studied In answer to the gentleman's letter I wish to say this: In order to understand the in case one must try to visualize living a refugee from your own home being used as a political pawn and living in a society completely alienated by culture These factors did not Sirhan's assassination of Robert Kennedy but they mav be possible answers to the in his case Man must get to the cause of the problem instead of brushing off the until the is understood and destroyed man will continue to be tangled in the vine PAT GOODMAN Rout! MorwHI As Army Man He Would Have Preferred Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast EDITOR The News-Sentinel: I donated five and one-half years of my life to my country during WW II and I ate SOS whenever I could get it and when I had to take it but I never ever saw or ate creamed chipped beef on toast during that time I really like creamed chipped beef on toast but I like SOS I ate a lot of it because it is better than ration and because one has to eat to stay alive Perhaps some theaters were fortunate enough to get chipped beef to cream and put on toast But the SOS I got was a form of low-grade frozen hamburger with a lot of emphasis on the suet stewed up in a greasy mess with a pasty white-sauce that was mostly flour And no salt at all or else much too much salt The toast was generally made two weeks before from bread that was three weeks old I think they painted the brown color on They could not have done it with heat because they were against heat The greasy white mess was always lukewarm It was never cold truly and it was never hot truly It was always at just the right temperature to make it the least palatable Army cooks had a genius in these things I also ate a lot nf what the Army called luncheon and which the general public persisted in calling Spam I never ate or even saw any Spam (The Hormel Company will value my testimony that there is all the difference in the world between the Army's pork luncheon meat and Spam) Ibis misnomer caused a lot of misunderstanding During a time when red points were hard to come by a lot of civilians wondered why soldiers griped so much about having to eat so much Spam As I explained they didn't really get any Spam The civilians were rationed and had to do without Spam while the Army had contractors hired to take the raw materials that would make Spam and turn them into pork luncheon meat a substance not fit for human consumption But all of this has little to do with my thesis: Then is all tha Hubert Humphrey Job Is Toughest RBHIBHHmBBBHBBnMBBi difference in the world between soldiers who are serving their country and prisoners in a jail or penitentiary who have harmed their country and are paying out their debt The country can never really pay its debt to the soldier and file prisoner can never really pay his debt to his country If I were warden of a penitentiary and a prisoner threw his breakfast on the floor then he would eat that breakfast off the floor before he got his next meal The food he threw on tha floor was bought and paid for by the public he injured He has no rights in the matter It is by the charity and sufferance of the public he harmed that he eats at Your editorial jollity and seeming sympathy leaves me unmoved Somewhere in the world there is a person who has never committed any crime who would eat that SOS gratefully WOODS 114 Tiber Hoed Qab Xldsb Knoxville I Urged To Capitalize on Its Hillbilly Reputation EDITOR The News-Sentinel Whether Knoxville knows it or not we have reached a point where we must make several decisions about our future As one of the radio editorials hai pointed out population has been essentially at a standstill since I960 And according to information released by tha Depart-ment of Commerce Knoxville population will increase only lightly by much less than that of Nashville or Memphis The reason for this must be apparent Knoxville must not be attracting new people Indeed it would seem that we are not even able to keep many who have been born and reared here Knoxville must decide whether we will combat this trend or if we will continue in our traditional ignorant complacency The idea of Knoxville as THE tourist city of the Southeast is not as as it may seem Die East Tennessee area has its own natural distinctive culture Besides possibly being known as the water wonderland of the South we should cease being ashamed of our reputation as hillMUies and exploit this image to become a sophisticated Local talent in homecrafts music art etc abound here and should be given a chance to become known How many entertainers who are now nationally known come from East Tennessee and got their start on some of the local radio and TV shows? Why should they have to leave Knoxville to become successful? Any number of things could be initiated here as tourist attractions Restaurants fashioned on the hillbilly theme and featuring regional dishes would be distinctively East Tennessee river-boats could be purchased or built to provide river excursions of Crockett historic landmarks could be more widely publicized and other locally famous sites and buildings restored particularly for tourism A museum of Knoxville and East Tennessee History should bring together quite a number of interesting and attractive artifacts These are only a few ideas which might bring into this area One thing is certain however Unless Knoxville ir willing to go all the way and to jump solidly into the present such a campaign to bring growth and prosperity into this area will not be totally successful In order fra us to attract tourists to a (or The) we Throughout the United States there are more than 400 Negro oriented radio stations These stations key their programs to reach the black population in their several localities They do this by utilizing Negro announcers and by broadcasting Negro music from spirituals to rhythm and blues But of these more than 400 stations only five are black owned One of the five is in Knoxville After a lengthy period of negotiations Negro entertainer James Brown bought the radio station now known as WJBE Die began operations Jan 15 1968 Anyone who has listened to the music nf James Brown knows that he does not merely mg to entertain but that he sings to deliver a menage Is My Black mid I'm Be A Dropout" and "I RJtJ Nobody Giving Me Nothing Open Up the Door Get It are examples or the rongs Brown sings which are aimed at young Mack people Brown attempts through his music to say to young people that America is their country and that they should be proud to be Americans He encourages the young to stay in school and get an education And he says or rather sings to America that if and when barriers to opportunities are removed Mack people can be counted on to lift themselves out of poverty WJBE HAS ITS The involvement of James Brown in the problems of today is reflected in the operation i station There have been editorials dealing with problems of the community such PHc housing the composition of the Knoxville Housing Authority and John Gunth-ers remarks concerning the lack of beauty in Knoxville Recently comments appeared in print describing John Carlos track star as "a big happy WJBE ran an editorial' deploring the tack of good taste in this description of a great athlete and gold medal winner for the United States Olympic team much to the gratification of many Knoxville Negroes When told of the editorial John Carlos who is in town for the NCAA track meet at U-T replied simply Not long after WJBE began operations Incidents occurred at Knoxville College campus which led to the death of A Boruff a Knoxville cab driver On behalf of James Brown WJBE presented a check for $1000 to the Boruff family A like amount was given to a defense fund for the persons arrested on charges stemming from the disorders on the KC campus During the past year $500 was given in scholarship funds to KC by James Brown and WJBE Hopefully this will be an annual event In an effort to involve more people in the functions of the community WJBE carries a program run by the Urban League which emphasizes jobs and the need to correct community problems and an Interview program conducted by Avon Rollins There is also a discussion program for teen-agers conducted by Sgt James Rowan of the Knoxville Police Department Probably the greatest disappointment as seen by the management has been its inability to get the black community to respond to the challenges of today For too many years Knoxville Negroes have allowed themselves to be split into factions one faction not trusting the other Operating alone the success of any one faction is necessarily limited This has led to apathy and complacency So in a greater sense the failure to motivate the Mack community is not one of WJBE alone but of all the Negroes in Knoxville PETITIONS FULLTIME STATUS For the future WJBE hopes to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to allow the station to become a full time operation It's now daytime only Possible programing changes may also be coming with a greater emphasis being placed cm jazz A change of this nature however will probably depend on listener response If there is an audience for jazx WJBE will (day it if there is not an audience it will not be played There are also plans to initiate an adult discussion program Such a program would bring together adults from all walks of life for the purpose of crystalizing certain problems The future looks bright for WJBE As the first of what is projected as a complement of seven stations the Knoxville station will possibly serve as a training ground for the staffs of other stations The program director of James Augusta Ga station formerly worked for WJBE With negotiations going on in Baltimore and Los Angeles for rfditVmal stations some of the disc Jockeys heard today may be station managers tomorrow- What Is Obscene? Writer Asks of Those Who Defend EDITOR The News-Sentinel: Having read last Sunday's letters on Catcher In The for public school reading I offer these observations: 1 Would those who feel that the Catcher and books with similar vocabularies are wholesome please tell us what is obscene? Are there any obscene books in the world today? 2 We have been told that those who want their children taught religion should provide this instruction at home and not expect the public schools to do it I suggest that those incensed parents who want their children to read spicy books should provide these materials at home and not expect the public schools to do it with tax monies 3 Several have stated that the Bible has naughty words like harlot and fornication therefore the Catcher is no worse than the Bible This is only a smoke screen to hide the real issue The Bible does mention these and many other sordid things The difference is the Bible condemns them as sin and wrong It warns against indulgence in them as detrimental to the ones involved and to society as a whole The Catcher and similar works glorify these immoral activities and hold them up as an accepted and acceptaMe way of conduct No Intelligent person would place the BiMe on the same plane with the Catcher 4 Perhaps some native people wonder why are so concerned about their children's reading materials It is because we tend to become like that which we constantly feed our minds upon So the ancient proverb he thinketh within himself so is he" Prov 23:7 Edgar Hoover has aptly said violence is increasing at an alarming pace Many parents are deeply concerned about conditions which involve young boys and girls in sex parties and Illicit relations Pornography in all its forms is one major cause of sex crimes sexual aberrations and I Law Enfonrement 1 1 i March 1968 5 The question about the Catcher is one of degree not of kind It is smutty Just how smutty is the question? Would The News-Sentinel print the objectionable paragraphs for public consumption? 6 Surely there is quality literature for our youngsters that does not reek of the gutter Wa have laws to Insure pure food for our stomachs Can we not expect as much for their minds? 7 Since some object to Bible principles in the training of youth I offer this quote: "Corrupt the young get them away from religion Get them interested in sex Make them superficial Destroy their ruggedness" "Rules For Bringing About pub by the Communist Party 1919 to them that call evil good and good Is 6:20 JOHN WADDEY Itfluto II Imvqt RMpfl blnndcd use of power and authority It is above all human relations We need to humanize law enforcement Instead of arguing about ROTC every major university should develop a school of law enforcement where young people could earn degrees and where policemen could receive in-service training We need a new generation of police officers who are paid good salaries trained in both community relations and crime fighting and provided with the most modern communications transportation la bora tory and data processing equipment Good law enforcement come cheap The Safe Streets Act passed in 1968 provides $62 million this year to improve local law enforcement I contend we must spend at least 10 times that amount to significantly improve our local police departments GOOD ENFORCEMENT COSTS We must take a hard look at the fact that almost the entire increase in the crime rate since 1960 has been caused by young people Most of the crimes against burglary larceny and car are committed bjr young people between the ages of 11 and Yet many juvenile courts remain understaffed and operate under laws passed 20 or 30 years ago Juvenile judges either return young criminals to the streets or send them to correctional institutions for what all too often is advanced study in crime We can lick the crime problem if we're willing to make the tough decisions Slogans and bumper stickers won't do 1L Criticizing the courts won't do it We have to make up our minds to pay for: -Well-paid well-trained well-equipped policemen who are respected by all citizens of file community crackdown on the traffic In dangerous narcotics court systems institutions that train and rehabilitate Today a frightened American puMic listens to the "law and candidate who cares little about the need to clean up our slums Improve the quality of education to rid our institutions of every vestige of racism But there will be little public support for improvement in the quality of life for those who have been denied and deprived until we have taken all possible steps to provide personal safety and protection for all our dfi- The toughest job in America today is that of the mayor He is beset at every turn by urgent demands and angry voices Mayor after mayor tells me that with all his concerns about housing education jobs and transportation the most serious problem of all has become public safety The first duty after all of an elected official Is the protection of life Only then can he go on to the enrichment of life In the meantime violence is disrupting our its chief victims are the poor and often the Mack Lawlessness is speeding the flight of talent and resources to the suburbs Concern over crime is reflected in city election after city election Crime is often said to be a symptom of underlying social proMems It is that But if Crime cannot be brought under control It will be difficult to make any improvement in social conditions Therefore the mayor who 'wants to improve the quality of life of his community is farad with the stark necessity of first providing security to all his citizens START WITH BEST CHIEF When I was elected mayor of Minneapolis 25 years ago my first job was to clean up the city to drive out the racketeers and improve local law enforcement I went to Washington and asked the advice of FBI Director Edgar Hoover He told me: Get the best man you can as chief of police and give him all the support he needs I followed his qdvice I also asked the city council to raise police salariee-which was idone and insisted on honest first-rate performance I backed the police and asked the community to back them We didn't finish the job overnight But we laid the foundation for a decent city I The modern-day policeman must be a better 'Sun his predecessors On the beat or dn a patrol car he is on the front line No other public servant is asked to make such ja-thfrspot life or death decisions i '-Yet most policemen are not well-trained nor weilequipped They are paid about two-thirds it a living wage for a family man-desplte Recent wage increases We must continue to increase salaries fill the thoMMds of openings that now exist and 'get our policemen out from behind desks and mto the streets Large numbers of veterans are being discharged from the military service Many of thane men have been trained as military police A special effort should be made to bring them into civilian law enforcement vLbw enforcement should not bo a cold-.