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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-
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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
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report of the Civil Rights
Commission on the progress
of desegregation, noted that
70 per cent of the federal
money for education in the
South went to segregated
schools: and in six states no
Negro institutions received
fellowships under the Nation
al Defense Education Act.
He said that of $18 million
spent by the Department of
Agriculture on education, not
one cent was allocated to Ne
gro schools; and that the
Atomic Energy Commission
spent S1.3 million in seven
southern states, but no Negro
institutions benefited. He list
ed many more instances of
discrimination to Negro in
stitutions in the South.
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.
Music on Program
The program for this year's
initiation will include music
by the high school string en
semble, talks hy Todd Jones,
president of this year's Torch
Honor group, Martha Graham,
Kay Ruck, Sherri Smets, all
Torch Honor society officers;
and David Warren and How
ard Haugen.
Otn Swisher, president of
the Mcdford classroom teach
ers, will give the lecture of
the evening. His subject is
"C is for Average."
Garner llaupert. student
body president, will award
pins to new members.
Mrs. Frances Ruck of the
Mcdford High school faculty,
is advisor to this year i Torch
Honor lociety.
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