afcIIECORIDsiJ XORTH^CAROUMA^Skr^ 5 ILEHED 1936 )ITOR G PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE EDITOR TICE MANAGER !HED EVERY THURSDAY BY EY PUBLISHING COMPANY PAID AT BURNS VILLE,N t C. >7O NUMBER THIRTY-TWO RIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR >F COUNTY $5.00/YEAR SENATOR ' r “\ 1 SAM ERVIN *|EL|fr WASHINGTON There has been increased public con cern over the wisdom and legality of some of the data banks which are being constructed by Federal departments G cgmcea On the basis of a study which the Constitutional Rights Sub committee has undertaken, I am convinced that this public concern is caused by the failure of some agencies to limit their information activities to those reasonably necessary for administration of the laws they are charged by Congress with administering. It is also caused by the failure of responsible officials to inform the public and Congress honestly and squus- Vjust why the information is needed and what will be done with it, and it is caused by their frequent failure to assure due process to individuals who might be involved with the program or placed in a data bank. Consequently, many worthwhile data programs which are necessary for good gov ernment come under criticism for lack of public informa - tion and for lack of government candor. One of the Federal departments which has recently been guilty of incursions into the constitutionally protected sanc tuaries of individual rights is the Department of Defense. A branch of this mammoth Department, the Army, has admit tedly engaged in the collection and data banking of personal information about civilians who are active in politics or who belong to organizations which are or might be active. In response to the public reaction to this program,the Army pleaded that it needed to do these things in the interest of being prepared to deal with civil disturbances. It finally agreed to cut back on its program. However, from the latest policy statement which I have received, it is clear that the Army has maintained its deterrent power over the individu a 1 rights of American citizens. When I first learned about these activities, I asked the Se cretary of the Army for a full report because I thought the Army has no business meddling in civilian politics, or con ducting surveillance of law-abiding American citizens or maintaining data banks on civilians who had no business with the Department of Defense. Moreover, the Army's data banks appear to be a part of a vast network of intelligence-oriented systems which are be ing developed willy-nilly throughout our land, by govern - ment and by private industries. I believe that in these sys - terns, where they contain the record of the individual's be - liefs, thoughts, habits, attitudes, and personal activities* there may well rest a potential for political control and for intimidation which is alien to a society of free men. In March 1970, I was informed that the Army had unplug ged one of its computerized data banks on civilians which it maintained at Fort Holabird and that it would discontinue a blacklist of citizens which it distributed widely. However,my concern about the Army's surveillance of civilian programs has been renewed following the publication of an article in the July issue of the Washington Monthly by Cliristopher Pyle, a lawyer and former Army intelligence officer. Mr. Pyle con cludes that the Army has resumed this surveillance program in some quarters and has continued it in others. Since the courts have not yet provided a remedy for citi - zen complaints about such surveillance programs and there are many questions about the constitutionality of such practi ces, I have invited the Secretary of the Army to appear as one of the witnesses before the Constitutional Rights Subcom mittee, of which I am Chairman, at its forthcoming hearings on Federal data banks and constitutional rights. lam hope ful that his testimony will answer the questions which have been raised in the Congress relativtrtb surveillance of our ci tizens and Federal data banks, and the needs of our Govern - ment for such information. ►: , «W», c> • Yt• Survey Wilt Begir Seen On Project (Cont'd from page 1) and that 2 narrow one-way bridges will be replaced. The project will cost in the vicinity of $2. 25 million. Hawkins gave much of the credit for the adoption of the project to State Representaties Ernest Messer and Liston Ram sey. The two legislators and Hawkins conducted Commis - sion Chairman Lauch Faircloth on a tour of the highway needs in Hawkins 3 comity area last month, and the 19E route was one of those pointed out to Faircloth as needing a major overhauling. It will be over a year before actual construe - tion can begin but survey crews will be in the area soon and a public hearing will be held be fore the contract is let. Crafts Fair Exhibitors (Cont'd from page 1) dulcimers and hooked rugs. Out standing craftsmen such as Ed Presnell and his wife of Beech Mountain with their woodwork ings and dulcimers; the Mc- Whirters of Celo and their pottery wheel; Mr. A. G. Edge of Burnsville with his woodcar vings; Mr. John Sipe, Char - lotte, violin maker; and Mis. Hassie Johnson making white oak split baskets will be among the 40 craftsmen exhibiting at the Fair. This, the 14th annual Fair, will be featuring, as usual, its barbequed chicken prepared on the Square on Saturday over a 60 foot pit and served with baked beans, slaw and rolls.. Drinks and ice cream will be available at Fair concession stand. Entertainment in the formcf dancing, singing, picking craft demonstrations, and games are scheduled both days of the Fair. The crowning event of this festive weekend will be the performance at the Park way Playhouse of "Never Too Late", curtain at 8:30 p. m. Deyton Wins Mayland Title tume in A Flat Minor" wiiich was enjoyed tremendously by the audience. Sally Byrd gave a skit using outfits she had made herself and Rose Marie delivov ed a monologue. The Jaycees and Jaycettes would like to express their ap preciation to Patsy Briggs and Joan Atkins for their participa tion in the Miss Mayland Pa - geant. A Banquet is being planned in honor of these three beautiful representatives from Yancey County at a date to be announced later. Read The Want Ads . •• •! \ Mi If l ! V.V .v.* Hawkins noted that actual construction will depend on adequate funding at the time. He said the project was approv- : jt I ,■ ’ , Y, ■ S'-?'mm I Jg.. WmmmKm (I. to r.) E.Messer, N. Hawkins, L. Ramsey IK] THEY ARE STILL BURYING WALLACE : - JOHN J. SYNON What do you suppose I found in today’s paper? I mean ’way back, deep in the second sec tion, on an eight-column page, seven columns of which were given over to a meat-market ad; buried deep, I mean? Give up? Well, sir, I found the latest Gallup poll on George Wallace. And why do you suppose it was larded over, so? Why? Well, we know the answer to that, don’t we? My boy George, among the voters of this land, is doing all right, is why, and it just wouldn’t do - would it? - to go trumpeting his popularity. So, the weasels just slip it in, ’way back there and hope, be cause of the casual way most of us read our fishwrappers, we won’t notice the item. But sly little we, we notice it, don’t we? We can read, can’t we, red necks though we be. I tell you, these buck-grub bing, hypocritical metropolitan newspaper owners are the pho niest poll cats extant, bar none. Here is Wallace, maintaining the loyalty of a steady 14 per cent, nationwide (28 percent in the South), despite the fact he has not held office in nearly four years and has been without a forum for nearly two years. And what does that get in the way of newspaper acknowledge ment. Type smaller than the price of hot dogs, is what. It mustgail ’em,'really. There is no other man in America, save Nixon - and he wields all the panoply of office— who has done so well. Hum phrey; McCarthy; McGovern; Rockefeller; Scranton; Goldwa ter and a clutch of other aspir ants, they have all washed down the presidential drain. ***** And there stands George Wal lace, the victim of incessant and vicious attack, rock steady with those who know what is . best. Do you wonder Nixon wor ries about this man? Or that Strom Thurmond, at long last, castigated Nixon and his broken promises, tore into his coterie of ultra-liberal policy makers , r .. ... ... . _ r ed using the present revenue sources as the basis for antici pating available money for the start of the project. Why did Thurmond do it at this particular time? I know the South Carolina gamecock and 1 tell you he blew because, finally, he got fed up. He could not a minute longer suffer Nixon’s fatuous two-way operation. That is the paramount rea son Thurmond spoke out, I am confident of it. But I am no fool. Strom Thurmond is up for re-election in 1972 and he isn’t about to make his own road any tougher trying to explain support of Tricky Dick, not while George Wallace is on the hustings - as he surely will be. Strom Thur mond is too smart for that. So, he is clearing his own path, now. ***** Bury Wallace will they! I can tell you this. There is going to be a new era, come 1972. Dick Nixbn is going to become more hated than any man in Southern history and I include in that pre diction both Lyndon B. John son and General Tucumseh Sher man. He is because Nixon, today, is embarked upon a campaign that has as its central aim the destruction, root and branch, of Southern attitudes, of Southern customs, Southern mores. His idea of making us “one nation” is the destruction of the South. That is why he will become hated, he and all others tainted by him. ‘ 1 would suggest Strom Thur mond has come awake to this potential and means to be no part of it. Before 1972, my crystal ball tells me, Thurmond will have broken completely with Nixon and will be praising George Wallace. Why wouldn’t he be? That is where his heart is and, above all, Strom Thur mond is a morally straight man. So, let the publishers bury the Little Judge, there next to the price of chitt’lins. They have been doing it for years, to no avail. Let ’em! George Wallace, today, has as a nucleus as much support as he had on election day, 1968. And that’s some nest egg. We are going to make it, yet. Just you wait arui see. • * ‘ ',iv ♦ ’ ,v ,UcJ

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