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Finch Starts Briefing
Successor In HEW Post
By CRAIG PALMER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -After
a three week leave caused by
‘extreme fatigue,” Robert H.
?'inch returns today to brief his
accessor at the problem
iddled Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Undersecretary of State Elliot
L. Richardson, the man ap
pointed unexpectedly by Pres
ident Nixon Saturday to take
over the job of running the
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sprawling bureaucracy with
more than 100,000 employes, is
no stranger to HEW. He served
as assistant secretary and then
acting secretary under Pres
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Richardson, known as a
tough-minded administrator, is
already aware of some of the
political, morale and personnel
problems which have reached
crisis proportions in the health
related sections of the depart
ment.
“The difficulties, whatever
they are, are no deterrent to
my interest in the job,” he told
newsmen Sunday irl>owell,Vlas.s
where he spoke at graduation
exercises of the Lowell Techni
cal Institute. “It’s part of the
challenge of the opportunity.”
Finch’s Work
But Finch, in addition to
some housekeeping chores be
fore moving to the White House
as a presidential counselor, still
will have his hands full
outlining the dimensions of that
challenge.
In addition to the health
crisis, Finch will have to brief
Richardson on such problems
as conservative Senate opposi
tion to the administration’s
welfare reform plan; the
reduction of HEW authority in
civil rights that led to the
resignation of Finch’s civil
rights chief, Leon E. Panetta;
and obstacles faced by Com
missioner of Education James
E. Allen Jr. in getting top
assistants cleared by the White
House.
Finch also may want to
explain a monumental morale
problem that led 1,800 depart
ment workers to sign petitions
questioning the quality of his
leadership and asking him to
meet with them. Because of
illness and fatigue, he called off
his meeting minutes before it
was scheduled and entered a
hospital.
But the biggest problem
facing the new HEW Chief is
centered in the department’s
health structure, which admi
nisters programs costing more
than sl4 billion.
Complaints
Open troubles date back to
last summer, when the White
House overruled Finch’s choice
of Dr. John H. Knowles, a
Boston hospital administrator,
for the government’s top health
job.
Some HEW health officers
complain that Deputy-Underse
cretary Frederick V. Malek, 33,
a millionaire appointed by
Finch a year ago, is reorganiz
ing the department “to get
control of it.” Malik, a friend of
Harry Dent, a White House
staffer and key Nixon political
lieutenant, maintains that man
agement in many areas was
loose, red tape was rampant
and too many key posts were
filled by inefficient workers.
Malek’s proponents say he
has trimmed government
paperwork, reduced the time it
takes to approve some grants
and put some top flight
administrators into HEW jobs.
The American Medical Asso
ciation, a frequent critic of
government health programs, is
remaining officially quiet about
the HEW situation. “We have
to work with them now more
than ever,” said a spokesman.
But Kenneth Williamson, an
executive of the American
Hospital Association, said that
while he is impressed with
Malek’s tightening up process,
“I think what we are hearing
from the field is great concern
about becoming involved in
federal programs. There is a
great uncertainty now about the
role of the federal government
and it’s ability to fulfill
commitments. ”
Maddox
Raps Tax
Structure
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Gov. Lester Maddox charged
Sunday Georgia is being crip
pled by a tax structure that
“has cheated our cities and
counties and restricted the
growth of our state.”
Speaking at dedications cere
monies for the Cartersville-Bar
tow County Chamber of Com
merce Building, Maddox called
the current Georgia tax system
“outmoded.” He said state gov
ernment is failing to provide lo
cal government with adequate
sources of revenue to meet the
needs at hand.
“State government has ne
glected its responsibility to the
people of this great state by
failing to provide tax revision,”
Maddox said. “The program of
tax revision which the Maddox
administration offered would
have done much toward helping
state government” meet its re
sponsibility to local government.
Earlier in the day, Maddox
told a Rossville audience he was
delighted that some people re
fer to him as an “extremist.”
Comparing himself to Nathan
Hale and Patrick Henry, the
governor said, “These men
were extremely committed to
‘one nation, under God, with
liberty and justice for all’,”
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ST. LOUIS ■ Mrs. William Hodell (r) sprays water on mar
chers in “Hard Hat” parade as they charge the Hodefl pro
perty. Mrs. HodeU’s son, William George Hodell Jr., 22, was
beaten in the face in an altercation which followed. Mrs.
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Boys State
ATLANTA (UPI)-More than
400 young men from across
Georgia are getting into the
swing of things today at the 31st
annual Boys State being held at
Woodward Academy.
Boys State, sponsored by the
Georgia American Legion, is de
signed to provide young men
from the ages of 14 through
high school seniors with prac
tical experience in government
al functions.
To give the participants a
taste of political campaigning,
two heated party primaries will
be held to select candidates for
a mid-week general election. At
that election, the young men
will pick their Boys State gov
ernor and other state officials.
After their election, the Boys
State officials will spend a day
in conference with Gov. Lester
Maddox and others to further
acquaint themselves with the
workings of state government.
Two of the young men will be
chosen later in the week as
“outstanding citizens” and will
continue on to represent Geor
gia Boys State at Boys Nation
in Washington later this year.
Talmadge View
ATLANTA (UPI)-Sen. Her
man Talmadge, D-Ga., theoriz
ed Sunday if he were president
he would try to have all Ameri
can troops out of Southeast Asia
by the end of the year.
In a special interview, Tal
madge said were the decision
his alone to make, he would do
all he could to step up “the
withdrawal of forces from
Southeast Asia at a faster
pace.”
Once a hawk on the war is
sue, Talmadge said it now is
clear America is “overcommit
ted militarily, economically and
politicallythroughoutthe world.’
He added the “burdens of try
ing to carry a war alone in
Southeast Asia were too great
on the country, too disruptive
and too costly.”
Talmadge made his break
with President Richard M. Nix
on over the Cambodian ques
tion. At the time Nixon an
nounced he was sending Ameri
can troops into Cambodia, Tal
madge said he sided with those
military commanders who had
warned against commiting
Americans to a land war in
Asia.
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MACON, Ga. (UPI) - The
president of Atlanta Newspapers
Inc., told the Mercer graduating
class Sunday that today’s era is
destined to become known as
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Jack Tarver of the Atlanta
newspapers, speaking to 403
graduates in the Macon Collisi
um, said “denunciation has re
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Tarver, who received an hon
orary doctor of laws degree
during the ceremonies, said in
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era...more minds are closed
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emphatically—than at any time
in the memory of modern man.’
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vive, rational men must find a
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without resort to vituperation
and-or violence.
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and the shouting must be stilled
if we are to reason together to
find the complex solutions to the
myriad problems which beset
us.”
Others receiving honorary de
grees were the Rev. Douglas
Jackson of the First Baptist
Church, East Point, and the
Rev. William Self, Wieuca Road
Baptist Church, Atlanta, both
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ern Recorder, the state Baptist
newspaper in Kentucky, doctor
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Hodell was knocked over in the melee, but not injured. The
incident was apparently touched off by a sign held by a friend
of the famfly which read: “Veteran against the war.” (UPI)
Help Peru
ATLANTA (UPI)—An Atlanta
ham radio operator forged an
alliance with an Atlanta radio
station Sunday in an effort to
aid earthquake victims in Peru."
Ed Lyda, who operates the
ham equipment as a hobby,
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