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Nixon says U.S.
needs its oldsters
CHICAGO (UPl)—President
Nixon, speaking to a convention
of retired persons, called today
for a “new attitude toward old
age’’ to bridge the nation’s
second generation gap.
“We need you,’’ the President
said in a speech to the
combined conventions of the
National Retired Teachers As
sociation and the American
Association of Retired Persons.
Nixon was ending a two-day,
campaign-style swing of mid-
America which began with an
emotional tribute to his late
mother at her birthplace in
Indiana Thursday and wound up
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Friday, June 25, 1971
with the assertion:
“The time has come to stop
regarding older America as a
burden and start regarding
them as a resource."
“Weneed you,” the President
said to his elderly audience in
the Pick-Congress Hotel. “We
need your experience and we
need your perspectives. Above
all, we need your sense of
values.
“I believe the time has come
to dose the gap between our
older dtizens and those who
are not yet old."
While assuring older persons
that they are needed, Nixon
also took note of their special
problems, particularly nursing
homes, which have been the
subject of recent newspaper
investigations in Chicago.
“If there is any single
institution that symbolized the
tragic isolation and shameful
neglect of older America, it is
the substandard nursing home
unsanitary and ID-equipped,
overcrowdedand understaffed,”
Nixon said.
“Many of our nursing homes
are outstanding institutions. But
altogether too many are not
and that is why so many are
described as little more than
warehouses for the unwanted.
“Too often it seems that
nursing homes serve mainly to
keep the old people out of sight
and out of mind—so that no one
will notice their degradation
and despair. I am confident
that our federal, state and local
government ... can do much to
transform the nursing home ...
into an inspiring symbol of
comfort and hope."
The President put in a strong
plug for his revenue sharing
proposal, which he said would
have a “tremendous impact on
Georgia juries
still impose death
ATLANTA! UPI )—Therehave
been no state executions in
Georgia since 1964 but juries
still impose the death sentence
from time to time.
A jury of eight men and four
women has returned such a ver
dict in the case of Otis Jerome
King, 19, of Atlanta.
King was found guilty of mur
der Wednesday night in the
Reidsville called
serious problem
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
State Corrections Director Ellis
MacDougall has described the
state prison at Reidsville as the
most serious problem in the
state prison system.
“The only way to exist there
is to be more violent than the
guy next to you,” MacDougall
told the 14th annual meeting of
the Georgia Probation and Pa
role Association.
MacDougall proposed a crim
inal justice reform program
the economic position of older
Americans.”
But his thrust today appeared
to be a wish to give a vital role
to the wisdom and experience
of senior Americans in the
latter half of the 20th Century.
“We have not been doing a
very good job of involving older
citizens in the life of society,”
he said.
“This is a great tragedy, for
it means that old age—which
should be a time of pride and
fulfillment—is too often a time
of isolation and withdrawal.
Rather than be a time of
dignity, it is too often a time of
disappointment.
“And the growing separation
of older Americans also means
that we are not taking full
advantage of a tremendous
reservoir of skill and wisdom
and moral strength that our
nation desperately needs.
“Discrimination based on age
—which some people call
ageism—can be as wrong as
discrimination based on race or
religion or other irrelevant
tests."
“For in all these cases, the
individual is judged by his
position in some arbitrary
category rather than by his
value as a unique human being.
“Old age should not be a time
of endings but a time of new
beginnings; not a time for
stopping, but a time for second
starts.”
“What we must build in this
country—among all of our
people—is a new attitude
toward old age: an attitude
which insists there can be no
retirement from living, no
retirement from responsibility
and no retirement from citizen
ship.”
death of Larry Melvin Stanford,
23, a motel security guard on
May 6.
The jury took 55 minutes to
find King guilty and another 45
minutes to set his sentence as
death in the electric chair.
Fulton Superior Court Judge
Sam P. McKenzie set Aug. 20
as the date of King’s execution.
which would include a five-week
training program for all new
prison employes, retraining of
present employes, learning lab
oratories to eliminate illiteracy
among inmates and training pro
grams for prisoners which
would enable them to obtain
jobs on the outside.
Biker
sought
AIKEN, S. C. (UPI)-A war
rent has been issued for an At
lanta, Ga., man in connection
with last week’s “execution
type” slayings of two members
of a local motorcycle club.
The suspect was identified by
the Aiken County sheriff’s of
fice as Danny Ward Robertson.
Five members of a Charles
ton motorcycle gang, the “Trib
ulators,” have been charged
with murder.
W aldorf-Astoria
must refund
sundry charges
NEW YORK (UPl)—The
State Supreme Court Thursday
ordered the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel to refund more than
SIOO,OOO in “sundry” charges
added to the bills of guests who
stayed at the hotel between
December, 1969 and May, 1970.
At the same time the court
permanently enjoined the hotel
from reverting to its former
practice of adding the 2 per
cent charge, ostensibly for
internal message and telephone
serivce.
Attorneys for the hotel said
they would appeal the decision.
Justice Harold Baer ruled
that “the charge for message
services delineated as sundries
was fraudulent and unconscion
able.”
Under the court’s decision,
some 64,3000 guests are entitled
to refunds of at least $113,202.
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Williams raps
Columbus mayor
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) -
Black leader Hosea Williams,
claiming the mayor has refused
to admit that grievances are
valid, has called for “an all
out nonviolent movement” in
this west Georgia city.
“Due to Mayor J.R. Alien’s
total refusal to admit that the
grievances of the Afro-American
Patrolman’s League are valid,
and due to the fact the mayor
and other city officials continue
to refuse to offer any relief for
seven fire patrolmen and their
grievances, black leaders of Co
lumbus have officially formed a
chapter of the statewide black
leadership coalition,” Williams
said.
“The chapter will immedi
ately apply for affiliate mem
bership in SCLC (Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence) for the purpose of waging
an all-out nonviolent movement
in Columbus.”
Williams’ statement Thursday
night came as racial tensions
appeared to be waning and af
ter negotiations had begun be
tween city officials and black
leaders to resolve their differ
cences.
Gov. Jimmy Carter said in
Atlanta that “substantive talks”
had begun between the two
groups and that the force of
state troopers sent here would
be reduced.
The city had experienced nine
firebombings on Wednesday
night.
Williams returned to the city
as blacks announced a boycott
of white merchants to press de
mands.
The sometime fiery civil
rights leader led a small group
of pickets through the downtown
area Thursday while a force of
about 100 state and local police
FIRST FUND OF VIRGINIA
NET ASSETS UP
SHARPLY
Net assets per share of
First Fund of Virginia rose
25.4 percent during the six
months period ended April 30
to $12.03 from $9.59,
according to president D. H.
Chris tian.
On April 30 total net assets
amounted to $15.6 million, he
said. A dividend of 14 cents
per share was paid on Dec.
10 and another dividend of 2
cents a share was paid
March 10.
Christian said that since
January 3, 1967,
when the fund first was sold,
performance has increased
36.4 percent, including
reinvestment of capital
gains distributions. The
Dow-Jones Industrial index
rose 20 percent during this
Registered Representatives in Griffin
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Wilbur (Chink) Chappell Roland Maddox
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watched. There were no indi
dents and the crowd later dis
persed.
Williams said the newly
formed black leadership coali
tion chapter adopted a five
point plan with the number one
item being to nationalize the
funeral of Willie Osborne, a rob
bery suspect killed by police—
the incident helping trigger vio
lence.
Williams said* the coalition
will call for a work stoppage at
2 p.m. next Monday during the
funeral.
He said that Allen will be
asked to withdraw all white law
enforcement officials from the
black community and allow the
coalition to organize and super
vise patrol of the area under
supervision of the Afro-Ameri
can Patrolmen’s Leagcs
Williams also said that the
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, bead
of SCLC, would be asked to
commit “the total national
force” of SCLC to Columbus in
support of the nonviolent move
ment.
Also in the plans was a move
to get 6,000 registered voters’
signatures on a recall petition
to force the mayor to call an
election within the next 30 days,
Williams said.
FUNDS FOR FBI
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
House, responding to J. Edgar
Hoover’s statements the FBI
does not have enough money to
keep track of violent organiza
tions, has voted a 140 million
increase in the agency’s operat
ing funds.
In a 225 to 147 vote Thursday,
the House approved all of the
$334.5 million Hoover had said
was needed to fight crime and
subversion during the new
fiscal year.
period, he said.
Dow-Jones Industrial index
rose 20 percent during this
period, he said.
On April 30,2.67 percent of
the total net assets was in
cash and net receivables,
Christian reported. The
remaining funds were
invested in common and
preferred stocks or
convertible securities.
The largest investment,
16.90 percent, was in
consumer goods stocks.
Financial institutions
followed with 15.80 percent,
and manufacturing
industries had 14.79 percent.
Total net assets stood at
$12.2 million at the beginning
of the six month period.
Philadelphia faces
huge financial crisis
By WILLIAM M. COOMBE
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) —A
3.5 per cent income tax which
lifted Pennsylvania out of
bankruptcy three months ago
has backfired, and today the
state is in a worse fiscal crisis
than before.
In a ruling which one state
official termed nothing short of
“catastrophic,” the Pennsylva
nia Supreme Court declared
Thursday that the graduated
state income tax is unconstitu
tional.
The decision meant the
nation’s third largest state will
have to bail itself out of
bankruptcy for the second time
this year, and in addition, must
figure out what to do with $135
million in income tax revenue
that already has been collected
and spent.
Gov. Milton J. Shapp, being
frankly pessimistic about chan
ces the court will reconsider
the case, summoned leaders of
the State House and Senate to
the Harrisburg Capitol on
Sunday to discuss stopgap
measures.
The Democratic governor
was in office less than three
months when the state treasury
ran dry and government
spending was more than the
revenue coming in. Within three
days, he enacted the tax into
law and Pennsylvania’s fiscal
problems appeared solved.
The tax was retroactive to
last Jan. 1, and when withhold
ing began May 1 it was at an
accelerated rate that helped
salvage new state education
and welfare programs and gave
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ces by $3,600 a year.
The ruling that the tax was
invalid was based on a state
constitutional requirement that
all taxes be uniform in
structure. The court found the
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income tax unconstitutional
because it was levied on a
graduated scale that—according
to its opponents—gave exemp
tion and deduction benefits to
the rich and poor and fixed an
unproportionate burden on mid
dle class taxpayers.