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Puerto Rico May Vote
To Become 51st State
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By WILBUR G. LANDREY
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
(UPI) —Puerto Rico is in the
final week of furious campaign
ing for a plebiscite this Sunday
which is expected to endorse
the island’s commonwealth link
with the United States.
Statehood is expected to be
the second choice, and its sup
porters are trying to increase
its percentage of votes over
past elections. Independence
has little chance.
With only a few days left, the
campaign has become bitter on
all sides. It developed into a de
bate between two powerful
men—former Gov. Luis Munoz
Marin for commonwealth and
industrialist Luis A. Ferre for
statewhood.
• For Puerto Ricans it is
drama. Munoz, at 69, is fight-
ing to preserve the "common
wealth” he fathered in 1952 as
the island’s first elected govern
or, and to leave it behind when
he retires, solidly established
for the future as Puerto Rico’s
form of government.
Ferre, 63, three times unsuc
cessful candidate for governor,
is trying to put the island’s feet
firmly on the path toward be
coming the 51st state of the
union within 10 years.
Ferre insists that statehood
can win or at leas substantial
ly increase its votes over the
34.7 per cent of the total he
polled in 1964. Private polls
conducted for him among sev
eral population groups have
shown statehood in the lead. -
But Munoz has been the dom
inant political figure on this
Caribbean island since 1940,
and the vote-getting machinery
of his Popular Democratic Par
ty extends into the smallest
hamlet. It controls every town
hall as well as the island gov
ernment.
Observers believe that Munoz
will bring victory for common
wealth. But if the victory falls
short of the 60 per cent the
party polled in the last elec-
tions, It is likely to be less than
complete.
Even if statehood should win,
the final decision on whether
Puerto Rico becomes a state
would be up to the U. S. Con
gress. i
There Is vociferous opposition
to the "false plebiscite” by In
dependents ranging to the pro-
Castro left which would like to
transform the island into anoth
er Cuba.
Both J. Edgar Hoover and the
U. S. Republican congressional
committee have warned against
violence by pro-leftist groups,
but island leaders have called
such fears "exaggerated.” Po
lice Supt. Salvador Rodriguez
Aponte says he is ready for
trouble if it starts.
The only Independentist as
participating n the pledisite
are led by Hector Alvarez Silva,
a 40-year-old professor of sta
tistics and economics. But
there have been few popular
meetings, and his major cam
paign appears to be on televi
: son. -*•’
Far from the pro-Castro left
ists, Silva argues that Puerto
Rico could be more prosperous
■ as a small independent state <
such as Jamaica, Luxembourg
and Israel.
The commonwealth argument
is that it is commonwealth
which has brought Puerto Rico
its prosperity by being able to
grant tax exemptions which at
tract outside industry. Munoz
has insisted that commonwealth
means "permanent union” with
the United States and "indiso
luble American citizenship.”
Ferre insists that statehood
would bring the island up
to $475 million more each year
in federal funds. He raises the
spectre that commonwealth
could some day lead to inde
pendence.
On the ballots, the symbol of
commonwealth is a mountain,
the symbol of statehood is a
palm tree and the symbol of in
dependence is a wheel. The
voter puts his X below his
choice.
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Wednesday, July 19, 1967 Griffin Daily News
CED Report:
State Governments
Overhauling
By ED ROGERS
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
small, private research organiz
ation attracted wide attention
last week with its proposals for
making states more efficient
and responsible partners of the
federal government.
Many who study the problem
quickly conclude states need
more money to meet their
growing needs, but the Commit
tee for Economic Development
said they should first overhaul
their "obsolete” governments.
The appearance of the CED
report coincided with a growing
concern in nongovernment cir
cles here over the diminished
stature of state governments
and the rapid expansion of fed
eral power.
Recent published discussions
of the subject have given more
attention to states’ responsibil
ities than reviving principles of
"sovereignty” long claimed by
defenders of the South’s J 3
rights” battle cry.
Still, some reflect a switch
from the theory that the feder
al government is always better
suited, regardless of revenue, to
meet society’s problems. In po
litical circles, however, the
story is different.
The Johnson administration,
saying it wants to build a new
"federal-state partnership,” is
restudying the bureaucratic
maze it built up to handle its
grants-in-aid to states.
But the administration has
hinted of no willingness to give
up any of its power to the
states or to yield its control
over any of the money. It has
been left to Congress to raise
that question and thi shas al
ready caused heated debates.
The CED has not gone into
such questions. It is interested
only in having "more efficient
partners at all levels of govern
ment.”
The recommendations include
such controversial and difficult
things as reducing sizes of state
legislatures, having more ap
pointive and fewer elective de
partment heads and overhaul
ing state constitutions.
As to the later point, Georgia
is the only one among eight
Southeastern States, and one of
only seven in the nation, to
have revised its Constitution
since World War 11.
Compared to the CED ideal
of small state legislatures with
100 or fewer members for effi
ciency’s sake, Tennessee comes
closest with 132 — 99 in the
House and 33 in the Senate. Vir
ginia has 140, Alabama, 141;
Florida, 165; North Carolina,
170; Mississippi and South Car
olina, 174, and Georgia, 259.
The CED thinks states should
seek to attract the highest cali
ber legislators by paying them
$15,000 to $25,000. Alabama
comes closest with a newly ap
proved $5,500 annual pay and
Tennessee is lowest at SI,BOO.
One recommendation was
that governors have four-year
terms and be eligible for a sec
ond term. None of the South
eastern states now permits re
election—a factor which led to
Mrs. George Wallace being
elected to succeed her husband
in Alabama.
The CED recommended
$30,000 salaries for governors, a
figure Virginia hits on the nose.
CED says Florida pays $27,500;
Alabama, Mississippi and North
Carolina, $25,000; South Caro
lina, $20,000; Georgia, SIB,BOO,
and Tennessee, $18,500. (Some
totals include extras as well as
base salaries).
One of the most controversial
recommendations was to fill top
departmenal positions with the
governor’s appointees instead of
electing them publicly. In fact,
the CED said, only the gover
nor and the lieutenant governor
should appear on the ballot.
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son of Prince Rainier and
Princess Grace. He did
manage to win a couple of
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