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THURSDAY, MAY 25. 1961
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"lAiling Health Bill Due for First Aid By Senior Citizens
MODIFIED BLIMP - The U.S. Navy has
unveiled at Lakehurst, N.J., a "Flying Wind
Tunnel" in the form of a modified blimp
which it is hoped will expand knowledge in
the field of low-speed aerodynamics. A limi
tation in the low-speed testing field has been
that conventional wind tunnels won't go
slow enough. . By suspending the test model
from the underside of the blimp, which is
capable of remarkable flight steadiness,
much more accurate information can be ob
tained. Circle shows model below the blimp
in flight; insets show, left, engineer with a
model before lowering in flight, and right,
after lowering. (UPI Telephoto)
China Art Display To Be Exhibited
Washington ftfPD Art
treasures from the Chinese
Palace Collection once owned
by the Manchu Emperors and
now stored in underground
vaults in Formosa will tour
the United States.
.'From this collection.' 293
pieces spanning 3,000 years of
Chinese culture will be at the
National Gallery of Art In
Washington, D. C; from May
28 to. Aug. 15. It reveals a
treasure of Chinese art un
matched by all U. S. museums
put together.
Under the patronage of
President Kennedy and Chi
ang Kai-Shek, President of
Nationalist China, the exhibi
tion will remain in this coun
try a year. It will goto New
York's Metropolitan museum,
to the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, to the Chicago Art
Institute and to the De Young
Museum in San Francisco.
Many of the treasures in the
exhibition have never been on
public display outside China.
They include a glittering ar
ray of paintings, porcelains,
jades, enamelware, bronzes,
and ivory. But this ia only a
fraction of the original collec
tion which consists of more
Washington-(CQ)-President
Kennedy's medical-aid-to-the-
aged bill, whose prospects
have appeared sickly of late,
may soon get a massive dose
of first aid.
The shot in the arm la to
Be administered by a new
organization, the National
Council of Senior Citizens'
Uubs, wmcn plana to hold a
founding convention In St.
Louis, Mo., some time before
June 15.
Representatives of SO or
ganlzatlons for the elderly
with well over 1,300,000 mem
bers, will meet to adopt a con
stltution and elect a board of
directors
The new group is being
organized by former leaders
of the Senior Citizens for
Attorney Urges
Sparing Eichmann
New York -WPD- An Amer
lean attorney who spent two
weeks as an observer at the
Jerusalem trial of Adolf Etch'
mann says he believes It
would be "more imaginative"
for the Israeli court to spare
the former Nazi's life. But he
expects it will take a "more
conventional"' approach and
sentence him to death.
Jacob D. Fuchsberg, who
has visited Israel frequently
both as an attorney and as an
amateur archaeologist, attend
ed the trial as an observer for
the National Association of
Claimants' Counsel of Ameri
ca, of which he is a governor,
and The World Counsel of
Synagogues.
Fuchsberg said he believes
the trial "provides the greatest
opportunity ever presented to
give a picture of the insidious
nature of antl-semitlsm," to
show how "small bigotries
may lead to an Auschwitz" by
making persons discriminated
against appear less than hu
man to their oppressors. It Is
providing the memory with
out which a conscience can
not function, Fuchsberg said.
Fuchsberg noted that He
braic tradition is opposed to
the death penalty and said he
believes a greater moral point
could be made by withholding
it from Eichmann.
than 60,000 . pieces carefully
guarded in temperature-con
trolled vaults near Taichung
in Formosa.
Kennedy movement that op
erated during the I860 Presi
dential campaign. Its organ
izers believe it has vast legis
lative potential. Elderly per
sons those 65 or older
numbered 16,559,580 in the
U.S. in 1960 and constituted
9.2 per cent of the national
population a substantial bloc
of the electorate.
If the new organization gets
off to a' good start and gets
into action fast, it could pro
vide the push necessary to
force the Administration's
medlcal-atd-to-the-aged bill
through Congress. This is one
of its objectives.
Helped Elect Kennedy
The Senior Citizens for
Kennedy movement was head
ed by ex-Rep. Aime J. Forand
(D-R.I. 1937-39, 1941-61), long
an advocate and sponsor of
bills to use the Social Secur
ity taxing power to provide
health benefits for the aged,
as is proposed in the 1961
Kennedy Administration bill.
Among rorand s chief as
sistants were Dr. Blue Cars
tenson, who has since been
appointed to a high job in the
Department of Health, Educa-
Spring Concert Set
At Mdoughlin
- Annual spring concert of
the instrumental music de
partment of McLoughlin Jun
ior High school will be con
ducted at 7:30 p.m. Friday,
May' 26, at the school gym
nasium. A varied program will be
presented by three bands and
one orchestra. Approximately
260 students will participate.
Presentation will be made
of the Kiwanls awards for
outstanding choir 'member,
outstanding band member and
outstanding .orchestra mem
ber. ,
Al'Huntemann will direct
the cadet band, Elmer Ay res
the orchestra and E. Ronald
Rice the varsity and junior
varsity bands.
The concert is open to the
public. . No charge will be
made for admission.
COMPLETES COURSE
Specialist 4 Bart B. Bixel
Jr., 22, whose parents live In
Grants Pass, recently complet
ed an eight-week field artil
lery repair course at the Or
dnance school, Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Md. He was
trained: to repair and rebuild
light, medium and heavy field
artillery equipment, gun
mounts and related material.
tlon and Welfare, James C.
O'Brien of the United Steel
workers Union, Michael Co
vert of the National Assn.
of Senior Citizens, and many
others.
O'Brien told Congressional
Quarterly that the tremend
ous political potential of the
aged was demonstrated by
response in the 1960 cam
paign. Senior Citizens for
Kennedy organized a network
of groups that sent literature
to millions of the nation's
elderly and held major ral
lies in a number of cities.
The movement keyed Its cam
paign efforts largely to the
health-care issue. ,
O'Brien said the experience
of the campaign showed that
many otherwise conservative
elderly persons could be
"reached" on the health-care
issue. He said statistics devel
oped after the election indi
cated there was no doubt sub
stantial blocs of voters shifted
from Vice President Nixon to
Kennedy when they learned
that Kennedy supported using
the Social Security mechan
ism to provide health benefits
for the aged, while Nixon
did not..
Following the election For
and, O'Brien, Covert and lead
ers of several other ' organ
izations for the elderly began
to discuss the possibility of
using contacts and channels
developed in the Senior Citi
zens for Kennedy effort to
create a national organization
for the elderly.
A(ter several meetings, the
group agreed that the pro
posed organization should be
a loose federation of senior
citizens groups of all types,
with provision for individual
memberships for people liv
ing in areas where there were
no local organizations.
It was agreed, however,
that the organization would
not restrict its interests to
medical care for the aged;
it should also be, in Forand's
words, "a permanent, organ
ization (that) could work for
other measures, not only in
the interest of a special group,
but also in programs for the
general welfare of all the
people."
Officers Unnamed
Michael Covert, who has
been acting as the group's
executive secretary pro tern,
April 25 said there was as
yet no central headquarters
for the new organization, and
that he and all the others
involved had been operating
from their homes or regular
offices and paying expenses
out of their own pockets.
"This Is a non-profit organ
ization," Covert said, "and
our dues will be very modest
maybe something between
a quarter a year and a dollar
a year per person. We hope
to put out a weekly news
letter to keep our member
ship informed, and a monthly
magazine. We are going to
cover our expenses only. No
body is going to get rich out
of this organization."
Covert said the largest of
the organizations planning to
meet at the St. Louis conven
tion to set up the new group
were (with estimated member
ship): Golden Age and Senior
Citizens' Clubs of the U.S.A.
(50,000); First Retirement
Foundation, Miami (60,000);
Alabama -Tennessee Federa
tion of Senior Citizens' Clubs
(75,000); Senior Steelworkers
(20,000); United Auto Workers
Retirees (110,000); National
Assn. of Retired and Veteran
Railway Employees (30,000);
Affiliated Senior Citizens
Cubs of New Jersey (over
300,000); Northern California
Senior Citizens' Groups and
Los Angeles County Senior
Citizens' Clubs (500,000); Illi
nois Senior Citizens and Gold
en Age Groups (350,000);
Minnesota Golden Age and
Senior Citizens Council (220,
000). Forand April 25 told CQ
he was "very much interested
in the formation of a national
organization" but he had
made no commitment yet to
head the organization. Forand
said he hoped the organiza
tion would avoid domination
by - any. particular interest
groups. "I don't want one per
son or organization to foot
the bill for this group, or it
will control it," he said.
Many Groups at Work
The new organization, once
it gets under way, will be
one of a number of groups
expected to exert terrific pres
sure on Congress, Dotn
through campaigns in local
Congressional districts and on
Capitol Hill itself, on the Ad
ministration medical care bill.
Already lined up in favor
of the Administration pro
posal are the AFL-CIO, Amer
ican Nurses' Assn., American
Public Welfare Assn., Amer
ican Veterans' Committee,
Americans for Democratic Ac
tion. National Council of
Churches of Christ, Council
of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, National Assn.
of Social Workers, National
Council of Jewish Women,
National Consumers' League
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But an equally formidable
array of organizations is lined
up against the Administration
bill. These include the Amer
ican Medical Assn., Chamber
of Commerce of the U.S.,
Health Insurance Assn. (rep
resenting companies that
stand to lose hundreds of mil
lions of dollars In premiums
on health Insurance sold to
the aged If the Administration
bill Is passed), American Den
tal Assn., American Nursing
Home Assn., National Assn.
of Manufacturers, American
Farm Bureau Federation and
numerous other groups of
medical specialists.
Whether the National Coun
cil of Senior Citizens' Clubs
will become a cohesive force,
and what action it will take
if it does, are still unanswered
questions. But with its large
potential membership and di
rect Interest in the medical
care proposal, the organiza
tion might well be able to
throw enough extra weight
into the scales to tip the leg
islative balance in favor of
the Administration bill. At
least, that is the hope of its
organizers.
(Copyright 1961 Congru
ional Quarterly Inc.)
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