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Annoyed at the service charges and deferred payment of national card plans, restaurants in some cities have banded together to form their own credit plans; in Seattle, 15 restaurants have thus managed to reduce costs and arrange for immediate payments from cooperating banks, have even got 94 other merchants to join them. The major transatlantic steamship lines are thinking of issuing a card, something like the air-travel card, that would cover passage and shipboard purchases. Oil companies, which have offered oil and gas on credit for years, are now offering a whole new line of credit possibilities. Mobil cards...
Richard E. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, has written the City Council that "a very large proportion of the payment markings...have been created without the knowledge or approval of the Department of Public Works and, in consequence, are without legal standing before the courts of the Commonwealth...
Under the existing system, Congress approves the payment each year. This year the payment is $43 million--12 per cent of the total District budget. But the Appropriations Committees review the entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children...
...this sort of personal control of city operations by men not responsible to the people whose lives they influence that backers of an automatic payment hoped to eliminate. But the opposition was too strong on this point and home rule strategists were forced to compromise. Byrd and Natcher will retain their power. The Capitol, and not the District Building, will continue to be Washington's city hall--and Congress will inevitably continue to spend valuable time on local matters...
...granted the citizens of the District, racial prejudice may serve as stickum for a series of future coalitions and ungentlemanly agreements to frustrate what will be a largely Negro city administration. Those in Congress who fought for home rule will have to continue to fight. Without the automatic payment the District is only half free...