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Administration Continues In Field of Welfare But Ventures Into Nothing New -uiwT . ii ii vr m nn (iir tnira in a ries on the record of the Elsenhower administration, based largely on a de tailed analysis made by the New York Times, an Independent newspaper. BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Fair Deal days of the Truman administration was what they called the drift toward a "wel fare state" so it is ironic that one of the first major ac t i o n s of the GOP Congress in 1953 after President E i senhower took office w a s to grant his re quest for crea A. KobL fcoutb tion of a new government depart ment to handle federal welfare programs. Congress had twice rejected limilar pleas from President Truman, but under Eisenhower a new cabinet office was created to head the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This first cabinet officer was Victor Miller Quits Oregon Senate Race alem U.R) Victor P. Mil ler, retired Portland army offi . ccr, conceded today that Wayne Morse and Douglas McKay will have to "go it alone" in the race for United States senator from Oregon. Miller resting near Redding, Calif., from his one-man cam paign for nomination as an in dependent, managed to garner only 11,000 of the 17,002 signa tures necessary to get his name on the November ballot. Dave O'Hara, state elections chief, said only two independ ent candidates filed prior to the deadline. They were Bill Bear, Bend, for state senator from Deschutes, Crook, Jefferson and Lake counties, and Heny Semon Klamath 'Falls, for state repre sentative from Klamath county. Semon had run as a Democrat tor 12 terms. Seven Still Missing In Alaska Bail-Out Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) Officials at the Elmendorf Air Force base here said today search planes still had not found any, signs of the remaining seven men who parachuted from a sputtering KC - 97 Stratotanker early Monday. One man, Lt. Robert Moore, the co-pilot, was found on the northwest shore of Fire island, five miles from here, 25 min utes after Capt. Alva L. Wilker son, 31, had given the bail-out command. Mechanical trouble had devel oped in two of the plane's four engines when the jump order was given at 1 a.m. Wilkerson later brought the plane in for a successful landing at Elmendorf. None of the seven was from the Pacific Northwest. Amended Motions Filed by Langley Portland U.R) William M. Langley, Multnomah county dis trict attorney, filed amended motions here yesterday to set aside the indictment returned against him by the recent vice probing grand jury. The lengthy document charg ed several irregularities in the conduct of the probe and labeled some of the proceedings "lynch law." An "incomprehensive hodge podge" was the result of the probe, according to Langley. TEMPTATION CranJ Rapids, Mich. (U.R) A S20 bill in an advertising display at an appliance store was too much of a temptation for a local thief. He broke into the building, smashed the glass pro tecting the display and took the bill, police reported. Nothing else was disturbed. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, who was later to bow out under fire for dragging her feet on federal aid to education proposals and the administration of govern ment supervision over Salk vac cine production and distribution for national polio innoculations. Mrs. Hobby wanted to call it the "Departme'ht of The General Welfare," referring to that phrase in the Constitution's pre amble which states that one pur pose of the nation's basic docu ment is to "promote the general welfare." The late Sen. Robert A. Taft quashed that idea, say ing, "That's just what I am try ing to get away from." President Eisenhower had no such anti-welfare state convic tions. On election eve in 1952, he told the American people: "I pledge that the social gains achieved by the people, whether enacted by a Republican or Dem ocrat administration, are not only here to stay but are here to be improved and extended." Budget Shows Pledge Kept If budget figures are taken as a criteria, that pledge has been kept. The Eisenhower admin- i istration today is spending more j money than the Truman admin-1 istration for the government's I various welfare programs. Also, social security benefits have been extended to 10,000,-1 000 more Americans, raising the i number covered today to more ! than 55,000,000. But one other program public housing has ! been cut back from 75,000 new i units annually to 35,000. , Shortly after Congress ad- j journed this summer, Eisen-1 hower signed a new social secu rity iill which he had not want- i ed but was handed him by the ! Democratic 84th Congress. Its i main feature was to drOp the age j of eligibility for women from ' 65 to 62. Other instances show that Congress insisted on ap- j propriating more welfare funds j than the administration asked for. Mrs. Hobby, for example, tried at first to cut back funds for welfare programs but was stung by angry outcries from profes- j sional welfare groups. Sub- j sequently her budget requests j were pared to the previous year's , amounts but no further. Almost invariably. Congress raised the i amounts substantially. So, in ef- j B feet. Congress implemented the ; president's campaign pledge de- j spite Mrs. Hobby. Earned Credit for Work On the other hand, Mrs. Hobby earned credit for advances in j work on vocational rehabilita- j MORE ! tion and for broadening the Hill- j Burton hospital construction act. Her proposal for federal re insurance of private insurance policies covering hospital and medical care was rejected by Congress in 1954. The only lady in the cabinet ran into trouble on federal aid for school construction, an issue raised by overcrowded public schools in many rapidly expand- j K nisi i.uiiiiiiu,iii.ic:a mi tuc na tion. Despite the president's urg ing for her to devise a program, she delayed for two years while studying the matter. Finally, ' she came fourth with a com-! plicated plan for federal pur-' chase of local school bonds plus limited grants to impoverished i school districts. It went over like a lead balloon. j Mrs. Hobby's worst trouble i came in the wake of medical ! pronouncements in 1955 that the I Salk polio vaccine was safe and effective, for she was blamed for having no advance plans to as sure effective federal testing and distribution procedures. She re signed July 14, 1955. Eisenhower named as her suc cessor Marion B. Folsom, who had been undersecretary of the i Treasury. He immediately went to work on a school aid program, which went to Congress last January. It was a five-year pro gram of $2 billion in loans and aid. The Democrats in Congress, however, came up with a more extensive aid program but the whole issue became ensnarled over the question of whether aid should be withheld from school districts which continue racially : segregated classes until they in tegrate the races in conformity with the Supreme Court's deci sion. So no bill passed. In the area of research, both the president and Congress have increased funds for a stepped up program. The budget of the Of fice of Education has been doubled, allowing for research into such questions as educa tional needs of low-income families, the causes and remedies for students dropping out of high school, and instruction of men tally retarded children. Party Brought Long Way By almost any standard, the Eisenhower administration has brought the Republican party a long way in a short time toward acceptance of the New Deal-Fair Deal welfare philosophy. The administration has led an often reluctant Republican party in carrying forward and expanding practically every major under taking in this field other than public housing. It has introduced innovations in providing federal aid for private housing develop ment, and augmenting slum clearance. At the same time,, the admin istration has not pushed ahead much into unexplored territory. More often than not, it has re sisted any major new concept of social welfare aid by the gov ernment. The main example was their opposition this year to re ducing the social security age for women and against benefits for disabled workers, which had to be forced on the administration by the Democratic Congress. This is pretty much in line with the Eisenhower campaign pledge to keep social 'gains of the past, possibily improving and extending them, but not ventur ing into new fields of social wel fare without great reluctance. . (Next What About Falling Farm Prices?) . . 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