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ASSOCIATE EDITOR
TICE MANAGER
!HED EVERY THURSDAY BY
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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.
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Survey Wilt Begir Seen On Project
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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
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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.
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Hawkins noted that actual
construction will depend on
adequate funding at the time.
He said the project was approv-
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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
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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.
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