Move of Negroes Draws Reaction
By United Press International
JACKSON, Miss.—A bill permitting towns and counties to give tax money to the White Citizens Councils was en route to the Mississippi Senate today, having won passage in the house.
Opponents charged that it was unconstitutional, but Rep. Buddie Newman of Issaquena County countered that it was "drawn up by the president of the American Bar Association (ABA), one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the country."
He referred to John Satterfield of Yazoo City, Miss., presently the head of the ABA.
The bill ran into much stifter opposition than most segregation measures, gaining House passage by a 78 to 33 vote. Gov. Ross Barnett can be expected to approve it if the Senate passes it.
County boards of supervisors and municipal governing authorities would be permitted to spend as much as $100 a year for each $1 million of assessed valuation in their areas for advertising views popular in Mississippi.
The State Sovereignty Commission now gives $4,500 a month to the Citizens Council forum, which says it uses the state money for nationwide radio and television programs.
Rep. Joe Wroteen of Washington County protested that "the Citizens Councils have not been able to get the money they want from private sources, so they are seeking public money."
But Newman said "this will help save America from Communist destruction."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—David A. Cox, a candidate for governor of Arkansas went to see the president of the Capital (Little Rock) Citizens Council yesterday and angrily denounced sending Negroes to President Kennedy's summer home at Hyannis Port, Mass.
He banged his fist on a desk and shook his finger in the face of Amis Guthridge.
"It is a breach of the peace and the good will of the citizens of Arkansas," Cox said. "It reflects on the people of Arkansas, and makes them look inhuman."
Little Rock segregationists joined the "Freedom Rides North" movement earlier this month. Cox, an eastern Arkansas planter from Weiner, said he went to Guthridge's law office, after making an appointment, so he could learn of the background and the Council's "motives" for the trips.
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HYANNIS, Mass.—Two Negro women and their 20 children, given one-way bus tickets from Arkansas, were due to arrive here today amid warnings that they may face "a cold, grim New England winter."
The Negroes are the latest shipped north by white segregationist groups. Their arrival will bring to 34 the number of Negroes sent here in the past two weeks.
The shipment of Negroes north has been attacked by legislators, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and selectmen in this Cape Cod resort town.
Scheduled to arrive today were Mrs. Victoria Bell, 36, of Little Rock, Ark., and here 11 children, and Mrs. Lela Mae Williams, 36, of Hutting, Ark., and her nine children.
Their fares were paid by the Capital (white) Citizens Council of Little Rock.
Dr. Malcolm Taylor, chairman of the Freedom Rides North Committee of the Capital Citizens Council, yesterday sent a telegram to Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy asking protection for the two women and their children.
Taylor asked the attorney general to have his assistants board the buses carrying the Negroes at Washington and ride with them here.
Elsewhere yesterday, State Rep. Alan F. Jones, R-Barnstable, called the shipment of penniless Negroes north a "diabolical inhumane game of revenge."
Jones, in a speech on the floor of the Massachusetts house in Boston, called on Atty. Gen. Kennedy and southern officials to halt "this evil scheme before it erupts into a conflagration."
'Standard' to Expand Operations Next Fall
"The Standard." bi-monthly magazine published by the KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), will be expanded to a state-wide publication next fall.
To govern this larger scale of operation, the YAF appointed an editorial board at last Tuesday's meeting consisting of David Jackman, III, Wichita sophomore, editor; Gerald Sullins, Ottawa senior, business manager, and Thomas McGivern, Highland Park, Ill., freshman, YAF representative to the "Standard" board.
Two other vacancies on the board will be filled by representatives at large from some other area of the state.
JACKMAN, the Standard's special editor this year, said that the expansion plans were prompted by the
"Students of all political inclinations have told me that they think 'The Standard' is filling a real vacuum by presenting the conservative viewpoint," he said.
Marick Payton, Lawrence resident and former editor of "The Standard," said that the new magazine would contain news of any conservative organization in the state.
Unlike the publication which has operated under the name of "The Standard" this semester, next year's magazine will not be an official publication of the YAF.
"tremendous response 'The Standard' has received at KU."
"IN THIS MANNER," he said, "we hope to increase our circulation from the present figure of 1,000 to approximately 5,000, and still not charge anything for the magazine.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Kennedy Strikes Back At Medicare Critics
59th Year, No. 144
AMA Describes Medicare Plan As "Cruel Hoax"
NEW YORK — (UPI) — The
Annis, a surgeon and chairman of the AMA speakers bureau, claimed the King-Anderson bill would increase payroll tax deductions by as much as 17 per cent at the very start.
NEW YORK — (UPI) The American Medical Association (AMA) mounted an unprecedented assault on President Kennedy's medical care program last night, calling it a step toward nationalized medicine which still would not protect the neediest.
Tuesday, May 22, 1962
"IF OUR GOVERNMENT wants to move now toward welfare state medicine — then let them tell us so honestly," Annus declared. "Why sneak it in piece by piece on the backs of old people first?"
Using a paid television forum (NBC network), AMA speakers tagged the King-Anderson bill to finance hospital care for the aged through social security "a cruel hoax and a delusion."
"It will undercut and destroy the wholesome growth of private, voluntary insurance and pre-payment health programs for the aged which offer flexible benefits in the full range of individual needs."
"The King-Anderson crowd intends to take us all the way down the road to a new system of medicine for everybody — and don't mistake it. England's nationalized medical program is the kind of thing they have in mind for us eventually."
"It wastefully covers millions who do not need it," declared Dr. Edward R. Annis of Miami. "It heartlessly ignores millions who do need coverage. It is not true insurance. It will create an enormous and unpredictable burden on every working taxpayer. It offers sharply limited benefits."
Annis' declarations brought a swift reply from Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who issued a statement at 12:45 a.m. CST today calling the AMA presentation "just another staging of 'let's fool the American people again.'"
Ribicoff said that the 17 per cent hike in payroll taxes cited by the AMA would amount to only about $2 a month. He denied AMA charges that the American system of medicine would be destroyed, saying the only difference would be that hospital bills would be paid through the social security system.
Annis carried the bulk of the AMA's arguments. He was introduced by AMA president Dr, Leonard W. Larson of Bismarck, N.D., who contended the King-Anderson bill would turn patients from individuals into numbers.
THE NATIONWIDE association of doctors spent possibly as much as $100,000 to present the program — "Your Doctor Reports" — over a 190-station network just one day after President Kennedy took television to rally support for his program.
The AMA telecast was staged amid the litter left in Madison Square Garden by the 18,500 persons who cheered Kennedy — but without an audience. The program was taped shortly after the Kennedy rally.
Annis said that the emptiness of
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WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Kennedy struck out at critics of his medical care bill again today in the aftermath of the American Medical Association's charge that it is just "a cruel hoax and a delusion."
Taking every opportunity to drum up support for the bill, the President defended it today in an address to 3,000 Democratic women gathered on the White House lawn. He also discussed it with Democratic congressional leaders who reaffirmed their support.
He told the Democratic women there are those who say such a proposal involves the government too much in the private lives of
proposal involves the government Americans, But, he said, "the business of the people is the people's business."
He also said medical care for the aged was one of those questions which American society must solve.
THE PRESIDENT had no comment on the AMA's counterattack of last night, presented in a nationwide television broadcast. The White House said Kennedy did not watch the television presentation, but read about it in today's papers.
The formal administration reply to the AMA was left up to Abraham A. Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He issued a statement at 12:45 a.m. CST attacking the AMA stand and saying that it was "just another staging of 'let's fool the American people again.'"
Kennedy discussed the medical care plan with congressional party leaders at a White House breakfast.
SENATE. DEMOCRATIC LEADER Mike Mansfield told newsmen after the meeting that "we think it would be best if people throughout the country would read this bill to see what it really contains."
"It is not socialized medicine," Mansfield said. He contended the King-Anderson bill to finance hospital care for the aged through Social Security would be an effective measure and is one that is needed.
He said "It ought to be brought out that while 22 states are eligible" for benefits under the existing Kerr-Mills law "90 per cent of the funds go to four states and only 90,000 people are covered."
Mansfield said some of the legislative leaders had seen the AMA television presentation last night on the medical care bill. Others, including himself, he said, had read the text in the newspapers. He said he did not know whether Kennedy had seen the telecast.
"We thought this was a good time to discuss (the AMA stand) because it followed by one dav the President's appearance." Mansfield said.
House Democratic Whip Carl Albert told reporters he was "reasonably optimistic" that the Medicare bill would be reported to the house floor by the Ways & Means Committee. He said he was confident that if and when this happened it would be passed by the house.
On another matter, Albert said "the President expressed great satisfaction with the manner in which the committee handled "every phase of the administration's foreign trade proposals."
Albert said the Ways & Means Committee had completed all major action on the trade bill and its final form was quite close to the administration's recommendations.
Weather
KANSAS CITY. - (UPI) - A tornado forecast was issued today by the Kansas City weather bureau for portions of northwestern Missouri and eastern Kansas.
The text:
"Scattered severe thunderstorms with a tornado or two, large hail and locally damaging windstorms are expected in an area 60 miles either side of a line from Chanute to Kirksville, Mo., from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. today."
Pros and Cons Of Medicare
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The pros and cons of the President's plan for medical care for the aged under social security:
KENNEDY'S STAND
KENNEDY SAID when he outlined the plan that it was not all-encompassing, but was a "very modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs, and with sufficient 'deductible' requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals."
He said it would not destroy self-reliance, but increase it by helping the aged and their families to pay medical bills that sometimes cause extreme hardship.
Under the bill, a patient would have to pay $10 a day on the first nine days of hospitalization, with hospitalization for a single spell of illness limited to 90 days. There would be a $20 deductible provision for outpatient diagnostic services, such as x-rays and blood tests.
THERE IS NO provision for paying doctors, services or drugs not administered in a hospital.
Kennedy said this is the best way of insuring health care for the aged, because millions of them can't afford private insurance. The present Kerr-Mills act, a cooperative federal-state program, is unwieldy. Kennedy claims, and is unfair because it requires that recipients take out a virtual painter's path to qualify.
Social Security taxes would go up one quarter of 1 per cent to a total of $3 - \frac{1}{4}$ per cent for both employees and employers, effective Jan. 1. It would increase to 3-$\frac{3}{4}$ per cent in 1963.
The tax base for Social Security payments would be raised from $4,800 to $5,200, which would mean both employee and employer would pay $150 next year compared to $144 this year.
THE OPPOSITION
THE BASIC ARGUMENT of the American Medical Association and other groups fighting the plan is that it would be the beginning of socialized medicine.
Some of the other arguments advanced against the administration plan:
- The benefits would be too limited to be true insurance.
- It would reduce the quality and availability of hospital services and intervene between a doctor and his patient by destroying the "American system of medicine based upon the private doctor treating the private patient."
- It would place a great burden on every taxpayer by increasing his Social Security taxes, and would cover millions of persons well able to pay their own medical bills.
- "Millions who need coverage" would not qualify.
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