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Subcommittee Airs
Wiretapping Bill
Washington - (UPD - The
Senate Constitutional Rights
subcommittee today opened
hearings on a bill to clarify
conflicting laws and court
rulings on wiretapping. -
Sen. Sam J. Ervln Jr. (D-N.
C), chairman of the subcom
mittee, said federal laws
against the practice have
failed to wipe it out.
The subcommittee's first
witness, Brooklyn, N. Y., Dist.
Atty. Edward S. Silver, was
expected to argue that It is
necessary to use telephone
eavesdropping to fight organ
ized crime.
Subcommittee member Sen.
Thomas J. Dodd (O-Conn.) has
said that no American citizen
is safe from wiretapping.
One of the proposals up for
consideration is a bill by Dodd
' to impose stiff penalties for
wiretapping by federal and
local officials and by private
detectives. In some states, in
cluding New York, police can
tape wires under state laws.
Others permit tapping with
court order.
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By William S. White
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Washington - Meanwhile,
back at the home ranch . . .
Though one would hardly
know it because of the great
preoccupation with Cuba and
Laos and all
cant thing
have been go
ing on of late
d o mestlcally.
The store at
home is still
being kept by
Congress.
And, actual
ly, the work
there has Improved both in
quality and in quantity while
national attention has been
mixed in painful intensity on
foreign affairs.
The great, cumbersome con
gressional law-making ma
chine has been moving much
faster and much smoother
than before. Almost the situa
tion suggests that Congress is
better off at those rare times
when it is able to work under
the fewest spotlights - those
lights which tempt a fellow
to grandstand it rather than
to play It solid.
,
AT ANY rate, the legislative
program is moving for
ward soundly. This is not
necessarily "President Ken
nedys program, though in
the short-hand of custom it is
usually so described. Rather,
it is partly his, partly the cre
ation of "Kennedy Democrats"
in Congress, but also tt part
the creation of an informal
congressional consensus In
volving both parties.
In short, nearly every ma
jor bill being passed-and now
they are being passed in fairly
quick order-represents sim
ply a series of compromises.
The president gets something
and gives up something. So
do the congressional Demo
crats. So do the congressional
Republicans.
To i p e a k breathlessly,
therefore, of brilliant presi
dential "victories' and of
crushing presidential "de
feats" is only a rather lazy
and melodramatic oversimpli
fication. There have been, and
there will be, very few
clear-cut and absolute Ken
nedy "victories" or "defeats"
either.
TAKE the minimum wage
bill as an example. When,
In a preliminary test, the
House rejected substantial
parts of that measure as
wanted by President Ken
nedy, it was proclaimed that
a tremendous "coalition" of
conservative southerners and
Republicans had. surely done
him in.
But now that he has fin
ally got an in-the-mlddle bill,
having some things he want
ed and some he didn't, it is
announced that this "coali
tion" is dead and burled. Pre
mature is the word tor both
reports.
The "coalition" never was
quite so massive and quite so
powerful and determined as
advertised. And it ; is not
nearly so powerless-arid sure
ly not nearly so dead-as it Is
now pictured. The Kennedy
then prematurely declared to
be Just about finished In Con
gress Is now prematurely de
clared to be ready to run
right through Congress with
everything he may want here
after. There is no real prospect
that he will now get all, nor
even practically all, he wants.
Just to, there never was any
truth In the supposition that
Congress was about to tear
him to pieces.
IT IS a practical certainty
that ha will riA nmttv umll
with Congress all through
this session, and probably the
next one. But it is quite as
improbable that he will score
anything like a hundred per
Try and Stop Mo
-By BENNETT CERF-
VERMONT FARMER trusted his 20-ysar-oM son in
Boston alone for th first time. The lad arrived home
two days later with an empty wallet but a look of utter
you?" demanded thst
alarmed farmer. "Paw,"
replied the lad, 1 met a
red-headed girl just be
fore I was going to climb
on the bus for home two
days ago, and I don't
know what you call it,
Paw, but from now on
thatfs my hobby?'
This wssjjprize "over
heard" is ' submitted by
Polly Kahn. A visitor from
the South was showing his
jroung eon the sights of - .
mid-Manhattan, The boy pointed to St. Patrick's Cathedral and
asked, "What's that building, Pa?" The father unhesitatingly
teplied, "Son, that is New York City's Baptist churohl"
... - '
JCfce Connolly cites a. Hollywood star who Jmsw instlnetiveJy
how to behave when invited to the Flower Show, H got potted.
Mike has also discovered the one way to keep a couple of Jumps
ahead of his wife. He plays checker with her.
0 1M1 by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Vestures Syndicate
Millie
Buy a compact this week without looking at the '61 Lark.
Then, a month from now test-drive The Lark with her
along. Here's what she'll say about your recent "buy":
"This Isn't roomy like The lark!" She's right The Lark has far more room In less over
all length.
"Yen can't past that earl" Not a Lark, anyway-the "Skybolt" Six accelerates from
45 to 60 miles in 10 seconds, and the V-8 goes from
0to60inl0'2.
"Yoa tpint our money on this?" The Lark would have saved you up to $532 against
8 other compacts ... and kept right on saving more
for you every mile you drive! S!m2F2&
WHY HATE YOURSELF? . .
TEST-DRIVE THE LARK TODAY- W
MRK
STUDEBAKER
See it today at your Studebaker dealer's.
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cent as It It that he will de
mand and get some wild and
wonderful list of reformist
legislation.
This is going to be just
what lis composition plainly
forecast from the start; a
mildly liberal Congress mora
inclined to expand past so
cial legislation than to break
any vast new ground, except
possibly, and to some degree,
in federal aid to education.
For fundamentally nothing
has changed politically since
last November. The country
spoke then in a moderate,
middling tone, narrowly elect
ing moderately liberal
Democratic president over a
moderately conservative Re
publican. But it hedged a bit
by giving the Republicans a
fslfahf fnprafi fn niimhAn in
Congress. All this Is still the
central ton politically.
CITY EXPANDS
Albuquerque, N M. - This
city led the U.S. in territory
annexation during 1850.
Stroke Fails To Halt
Anniversary Party
San Rafael, Calif, - WPO -Even
a mild stroke failed to
interrupt a golden wedding
anniversary party for Mr. and
Mrs. Marlon Beeman, Vlnlta,
Okla.
Mrs. Beeman, 72, collapsed
during the party at the home
of her son in San Raphael.
The celebrants transferred the
party to San Rafael General
Hospital, and the hospital sup
plied an anniversary cake-
Cardinal Spellman
To Undergo Surgery
New York - (WO - Francis
Cardinal Spellman was to be
operated on today for de
tached retina.
Dr. Grama Clark was as
signed to perform the opera
tion on the 72-year-old pre
late's right eye at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center
Eye Institute. The cardinal en
tered the hospital Saturday.
Father, Children
Killed by Train
Sumner, Wash. - IUPD - A (
father and his two daughters
were killed Monday night
when the car in which they
were riding was siruclt by
passenger train at a crowing
about three miles north, of,
here. I
The victim were identified
as Theodore D. Couture, 29,
of Sumner, Roberta, 6, and
Pamela, 3.
A state patrol officer said
(he crossing was unmarked
"except for an 'X sign." The
official report said the cause
t$ the acilrienV was Gesture's
"failure to, yield the right ot
way."
An eyewitness, Gilbert Telt
zel, Sumner, said the train
was sounding its whistle as it
approached the crossing. He
said the force of the collision
knocked the car "about 100
yards."
Closing Out Complete
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