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S A SUNDAY. MARCH 3. Hb3 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDfOHD, OREGON Adminstration Bumps into Civil Rights Ghost Haunting Congresses By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington (Special) On most social welfare legisla tion, the Kennedy administra tion seems to bump into the c i vli 1 rights ghost which haunts every Congress. It did so again last week when brother Robert Ken nedy testified Franklin on brother Jack Kennedy's Youth Con servation Corps bill before brother Ted Kennedy, along with other members of the Senate Labor subcommittee. Attorney General Kennedy, In panel with cabinet mem bers Willard Wirtz, Labor; Stewart Udall, Interior; Or- "OIL TO BURN" Mobilheat S & H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-2111 'ville Freeman, Agriculture and Anthony Celebrezze, Health, Education and Wel fare, sat before the Senators and deftly fielded questions on a YCC bill similar to one passed by the Senate last year. That will died in the House Rules Committee because anti-Negro chairman Howard Smith of Virginia did not like the fact that Negro and white boys would be "mixed", as he said, in the YCC camps. Southern power being what it is in Congress, the Kennedys chose not to fight for the bill; and this year it is before Con gress again without an anti discrimination clause. Not An Answer The two-part bill is not, as the cabinet officers explained, an "answer" to the problem of the idle, jobless youth; but is a small part of a many faceted program to meet what Wirtz called a "crisis in em ployment" for the postwar babies now coming into the job market as well as crowd ing the schools. Part one of the hill is a YCC which would take 15.000 boys the first year and 60,000 thereafter, aged 16-22, and put them to work on federal and state conservation proj ects in state and national for ests and parks for six months to two years. The second part calls for up to 50,000 boys and girls who would be trained for public service jobs in the cities. ihe Jone Republican pres ent, Sen. Winston Prouty of Vermont, had done his home work on the hill and asked some New England flinty questions on many aspects of the program. The five Demo crats, including young Ted but excepting chairman Joe Clark of Pcnn., had done lit tle preparation and asked few questions. Prouty had the field to himself, and he needled the Kennedys for not including an anti-discrimination clause in the bill. Wasn't Necessary Robert Kennedy, who has a buzz-saw voice, rasped back that he didn't think such was necessary, that it. would be a "hindrance." What he did not say was that southern Demo crats, sensitive to further threats to segregation, hold the key on so many bills that the, Administration refuses to offend them with civil-rights riders. Kennedy said he thought the civil rights issue should be met "head-on" and not "through the back door." He promised that before the ses sion ended that the Adminis tration would have civil rights legislation to present to Congress. When Prouty ac cused the Democrats of lack of action on civil rights bills, per se, Kennedy retorted that more had been done than in the previous eight years under Eisenhower. Prouty warned that the civil rights subject would rise to haunt the Democrats in the Senate again when the bill was voted on a forecast of noise to come by Republicans on civil rights as an embar rassment to the Administra tion whose neck is bowed low by the albatross of southern domination of committee chairmanships, which ham pers the movement of Ken nedy bills. Prouty quoting from the MIW L 11 (UFdME RECORD! m mm ma RECORD HIT OF THE YEAR! ASaYV - 's''l WIN bmrnWrn' this iW:, HIT ij 371 14 wv- STN -' ) NOT A CONTEST! NOTHING TO BUY! COME IN FOR DETAILS! everybody's singing the praises of 'WHITE LEVI'S!' 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Prouty reminded Kennedy that former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff had stated that he had no legislative authority to withhold funds from school districts which practice segregation. Then, after listing the discrimina tion toward Negroes in edu cation in the South, and pointing to discrimination against Negroes who cannot use hospitals in the South which are constructed by fed eral funds, under the Hill Burton Act, Prouty asked, "In view of these facts, don't you feel an anti-discrimination amendment is fully justi fied?" Kennedy said no. Notes Action Taken the action which the Adminis ' tration had taken to compel ! integration in the South. He said that a suit had been filed j to end discriminaion at a hos pital constructed of federal funds. He said that more ac tion is contemplated. The gov ernment has also filed suit to compel integration of schools receiving federal money for impacted schools which are overcrowded schools caused by military installations. Be cause of this, no one knows whether southern leaders in Congress will support social welfare measures that they have in the past. Sen. Lister Hill, a past sup porter of such legislation and the powerful chairman of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee, a past sponsor of school bills and the Hill-Burton Act, is incensed that the Kennedys are using the fed eral courts to try to force areas to desegregate schools receiving federal Impacted aid money. He has warned that other southerners, like himself, may withhold support from bills because of their fear of further federal interference with their segregated pattern of life using the lever of federal funds to obtain compliance. Honor Society To Initiate 53 Students Monday The 27th annual initiation of Torch Honor Society at Mcriford High school will be hold Monday, March 4, and 53 honor students will be taken into the organization. All are members of this year's Junior class. The initiates are Sharon Baize, Chris BarU-ls, Marilyn Bnchn. Steve Hlackhursl, Dick Brecdcn, Bonnie Bind ley. Chip Buffington. Arlrne Carter, Judy Chastain, Tom Clark, Dnvid Collins, Elaine Davenport, Gary Dawson, Angus Duncan, Carolyn Eaglrton, Barbara Edmonds, Dwight Ellis, Kathy Foley, Greg Gandcc, Bruce Hess, James Jewctt. Sandra Joyce, Sue Kagy, Wayne Kclsoe, Don Kcngla and Kay Kent. John Lampkin, Diane Lan dis, Sarah Madden, Richard Millhollin, James Moyer, Gayle Often bacher. Chris Rasmusscn, Nick Rasmus sen, John Sanderson. Lois Slrsslrr, Chester Smith, Ron Stcikrs. Mary Stons, Allan Taylor. Carl Voegt lv. Sally Wakefield, Mari lyn Watkins, Edward Welch, Linda Wilkes, Craig Wil Hums, Darlene Wilson, Judy Wilson, Ken Winkficld, Jim Wise and Jane Zier. 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