WHITE HOUSE October 19, l97l Alln Jackson. From President Nixon - a request today to Congress for a year's extension - on his Present authority to control wages and /)rices . This to include the power to lift controls ,electively - once inflation is stopped in a particular industry. 1 t wo u l d al s o inc l u de s I and by a u I ho r it y - to imp o s e con Ir o ls on dividend~ and interest rates. Administration officials stressed, however - tlais does not mean that controls will be automatically extended a,aotlaer year; but only "long enough" - we are told -"to break tlae bacl of inflationary ext,ertations - and make meanh1gful t,rogress toward bri,rging down the (. ost of .- living." CONNALLY Also from the Whi:te Hoz,se - more on the annor,ncement that Treasury Secretary John Connally will represent Presidnt Nixon - at the f orthcoming inauguration of South Vietnam's President Thieu . News Sec,·etary Ron Ziegler added that Connally also will vis:il Thailand, the Phili(JfJines and Japan. The White House f:u " rther ref,orted that p,,-e,-ident Nixon still plans to . tend to the Senate this week - two nominatio,aa to fill tire current Suprt?me Cor,rt vacancies. Senate Mh1oril y Leader Hugh Scott - pledging a drive for · speedy confirmatio,a. Said: "The court is in desperate need of new members." SUPREME COURT FOLLOW CONALLY speaking of I.he Sut,rem e Court - tlta t body agreed today to hear an appeal - from former St. Louis centerfielder Curt Flood. This a challenge to tlte Constitutionality - of baseball's "reser v e , clause;" wlliclJ raises anew tlte ques lion - of whetl,er organi . zed baseball should be subject to anti-trust laws. SAIGON Half-a-world away - the South Vietnamese Su~reme Co11rt took under advisem e nt toda y - a challenge to tlae Constit11tionality of President Tltieu's recent re-election. How e v er, the South Vietnamese Senate rejected by a margin of more titan two-to-011e - an attem/)f to set up an official election inqlliry. Tltis touched off" series of llit-and-run nttacks by small student groups - who . ,ucceeded t,rh,cit,ally in burning a number of , , ehicles. CAPITOL HILL Here on 01tr own shores - the House took ll/J today another version of that so-called "Mansfield Amendment;" tire 0 ,. e c • l l in g for co m P le t e with d r a w a l from Vietnam - s II b j e c t to the release of U.S. prisoners of war. In the end thougla - Ille House voted "No"; but not - "Positively." I BOUSE Elsewhere an Capitol Hill - the House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings today - on the subject of tire nation's Seventy-Billion-Dollar annual health bill. Lead-off NJitness - Secretary of Healtle. Education and Welfare Elliot Ricltardson; who pro . ,,aplly urged Federal regulation of tlee I> r I v a t e Ir e al t I, ins u ran c e I nd us t , y - In o rd e r to t n s u re t It e best possible coverage for all Americans. Rlcltardson sa1h1g 11,is would "effectively protect tlee consumer against unwarrunted cost inflation - insure maintenance of quallly In boll, llealtlr insura,r.ce and llealtl, care." What about Se,r.ator Kennedy's proposed - "cradle-to- l'l1e-grave" ltealtla plan? A laudable goal - Rlclrardso,r. said. Addi,r.g tlrat tire Nixon Admi11istration - also supports healtl, security /or rich and poor alite. "But"- Ire said - "we clealle 11 ge the wisdom of raisilag expectations - beyond all ltor,e of fulfillment in tlae near futllre." KYOTO California's Governor Reagan - a visitor today in Jat,an ; rohere he conferred with Governor Torazo Nirtagawa of Kyoto - a man who generally opposes Amer · ican policies; and tllis time - no exception. Governor Ni11agawa told Reagan flatly - tlaat Preside,at Nixon's new economic policy is a "mistake." <And #tow did Reagan ltandle it? Well, lte simply told ltis laowt - #tis 'bw,i'major in college was football, not economics. COLUMBIA In a country cemetery near Columbia, Mississippi the final rites today for a man long acclaimed as America's oldest citi~en. Sylvester Magee - born and raised a slave; ti II the fall o I Vicks burg during t It e Civil War - w It e,. Ire joined tlte U,sion Army ; and then - he was wounded t.,ice. But tl1e damage - was only temporary. Sylvester Ma,a - lived a long and Jul 1 .llf e. At Ir is dea tlr Ill is past .,eelle ,ad, according to tf,e best available i,sformatio,a - age one l11,r1dred aJtd tlrirty. SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "QUEEN ELIZABETBl4 . "\,. ... l 1 / And 110w - it's time again for Lowell Tllomas ; witll anotlaer special report - from tlle liner Quee,a Ellaabetlt. Lo•ell.. .. L . T . Ta fJ e In s e r I - unedited QUEEN ELIZABETH 14 Maybe _vou 're not interested in hearin . g me reminisce abolll ocean oyages. But, before the Queen Elizabeth d · ocks al Southamt,tu,i I'll make one or two more observations about previous journeys at sea which were decidedly in contrast to I h e e x fJ e r i e n c c y o" h a v e on b oa rd th ; s , fJ er h a fJ s t he m o s t magnificent of all the vessels on the Seven Seas of our day. In Nineteen Nineteen when my wife and I sailed from England, on our way to 1.ustralia, where I was booked to do a tour telling the stor)' of my experiences with Lawrence in Arabia and with Allenby in Palestine, we wer · e on boar · d for six weeks. It took that long to make the journey. Now of course you can do it in a day, by air. It took us two weeks from Tilberry in the · Thames to Suez; another two weeks to Ceylon: and two more to Australia. Our shit, was ;ammed with Anzaks returning home from World War I, and a few · ll thers who were emigr · ating to Australia ma.see aneotts o and New Zealand. QUEEN ELIZABETH 14 - page 2 On sucll a long voya,:e, in those days, the Captain, Purser a . ,rd other office , rs did everything they could to keep the cro,c d entertained . Each week there was a costume ball. B II t , t h e re a I s o w a s I r a g e d _\' m ix e d w i t h t h e g a }' e t } ' . on t w o oc ca s ions the s h i fJ s Io PP e d in m id - ocean w hi I e the .+ear ch e d for passengers who had ju.mpe-t overboard. One was a badly , ounded Aussie . Another was a solC.: .' er who was blind, and evidently he couldn't face the ordeal of retwrni,w- to the Land Down Under llnable to see it or see his family. J could reminisce for hours about ocean voyages. BMI, r,erhaf)s I already have done too much of it . The next time I come through. it will be with an observation or two concer,ai,ag wherever we happen to be at the moment. Solong . • • • SUGGESTED FOLL OW TO THOMAS TAPE("QUEEN ELIZABETH 14) Thank you, Lowell. . , - .... ' I ,. GAR GA GLIANOl For . Vice President Spiro Agnew - a return today to his father's birthplace; at Gargaglianoi, Greece - wlaere he was gree led warmly by a large crowd; and also received a flowery tribute - from th.e local mayor, Dyonyssious Par,agopoulos. Tlae Vice President - for his part - accepting all this "with gratitude" and "great humility." And theft lae unveiled a plaque - wlaich reads: "Placed at my great- graJtdfatlter's home - in commemoration of Greet origiJts lier• - and ,,. laonor of the Greek iJtheritance in which so ma11y A m . ericans proudly share. " And the t,laq"e is signed: "S#)iro T . Agnew, Vice President of the United States. " Now for Lowell Thomas, so · long.