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Brainchild of FDR's New Deal May Be Resurrected by JFK
Bv ROBERT BUCKHORN I I fraincH nersnnnpl ralhcr lhani i i
By ROBERT BUCKHORN
United Preii International
Washington -(UPD- I Prcsl
dent Kennedy has his way,
brainchild of Franklin D.
Roosevelt's New Deal will be
resurrected, given a new
name, and put to work again,
It is the depression - born
Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC), a program that took
more than 2 million young
Americans off the unemploy
ment rolls in the 1930's and
put them to work conserving
the nation s natural resources,
Kennedy has asked Con
gress for a CCC but in a new
dress. He calls it a Youtn ton-
servation Corps (YCC) but the
objective would be about tnc
same
The birth certificate for the
CCC was Roosevelt's execu
tive order 6101. The date was
April 5, 1933. The nation was
at an economic standstill. Fao
tories and farms were idle,
Banks were going broke and
closing, 13 million persons
were jobless and millions
more were in dire economic
straits.
Two-Pronged Weapon
Roosevelt, inaugurated with
the historic declaration that
"there was nothing to fear
but fear itself," said he saw
the CCC as a two-pronged
weapon against the depres
sion. It would, he said, "save
a generation of upright and
eager men . . . and restore our
threatened national re
sources."
In 1063, Kennedy's argu-
ment is much the same. In a
sDecial message to Congress,
he said many thousands of
young men and women are
among the nation's 5 million
unemployed.
"Unemployment among
young workers today is two
and one-half times the nation
al average," he said. He added
that out-of-school youth be-
ret
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PLANT TREES A group of Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC) youths are shown in this 1939 picture planting vari
ous kinds of trees in plowed furrows of flat lands. Presi
dent Kennedy's proposed Youth Conservation Corps (YCC)
would be similar to the CCC operation. (UPI)
tween 16 and 21 make up only
7 per cent of the labor force
but 18 per cent of the unem
ployed. In addition to this,
he said, is the growing juve
nil delinquency rate-doubled
in the last decade.
Roosevelt had his critics,
and Kennedy has his. Oppon
ents of the old CCC said the
program amounted to putting
the unemployed in the Army
under the guise of a conser
vation corps. Others were not
so subtle. They said the CCC
was nothing more than a con
centration camp for the un
employed. Today the YCC is being
criticized on grounds it is too
big a remedy for too small a
problem. In a report on a sim
ilar bill last year, conserva
tive Sens, Barry Goldwater
(R-Ariz.), John G. Tower (R
Tex.), and Winston L. Prouty
(R-Vt.) said the unemployment
situation among youth does
not warrant as big a program
as the President proposed.
They said the armed forces
were the obvious places for
unemployed youths in need of
training that would give them
useful civilian skills. They
conceded that conserving the
national resources was a ne
cessity but said it could be
done more effectively by ap
propriating more money for
trained personnel rather than
using youths drawn mostly
from industrial areas.
Leading Kennedy's Drive
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.) is leading the Pres
ident's drive for the corps. In
the first bill submitted to the
senate this year, he outlined
the type of program the White
House wants. It calls for 15,'
000 candidates the first year
and no more than 60,000 at
any one time during the next
four years.
Under the CCC, the first
quota was 25,000 men but in
its nearly 10 years of life it
trained 2,600,000 youths.
The age requirements for
both are the same-16 to 21,
but YCC candidates would do
better in the pay department.
Recruits would get $60 a
month. Veterans of the CCC
got $30.
Key Differences'
One of the key differences
between the two programs is
in organization. Under CCC,
the Army played a role. It has
no place in the YCC. Humph
rey's bill calls for the YCC to
be set up within the labor de
partment with a director ap
pointed by the President.
The CCC had a director but
it also had an advisory coun
cil consisting of a representa
tive each from the labor, war,
interior and agriculture de
partments. It was the old war depart
ment's role that drew most
criticism. It appointed reserve
officers to run the camps. It
paid the youths and dressed
them in army-issue khaki.
This led opponents of the CCC
to term it more military than
civilian.
The labor department ac
tually recruited the men and
the labor and agriculture de
partment supplied the work
projects.
The first CCC camp was
Mexicans in Growing Numbers Seeking Visas to United States
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Mexico City-tUPD - Outside
the U.S. consulate on this
city's broad Paseo de la Re
forma, throngs of straw-hatted,
shirt-sleeved, sun-tanned
farmhands stand patiently
waiting their turn.
"Operation Visa" is in lull
Formerly only seasonal, the
lines now are uuiBe -----
in an unprecedented exodus
to trie univKu
The 13 American consulates
In Mexico, consiliums
. . . . i ..iniccmnd no-
Sams Dlggesi vi-
.. ,u ..mrlH are haV-
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ing difficulty keeping abreast
of the 5,000 Visa applications
every niuui
Now On Waiting List
Already, there arc some
125,000 Mexicans on the wail
ing list, estimates Consul-Gen-cral
Torrance G. Laonhardy
hCLaonhardy attributes much
of the mushrooming demand
for visas to the big drop in
work contracts offered Mex
ican "Braceros" (laborers) on
agricultural projects and
farms In southwestern and
western United Slates.
The farmers want to go
back and setlie permanently,
Laonhardy explained.
Once an immigrant visa is
Issued, then all a Mexican
has to do is enter the United
States within four months,
keep working and register
with immigration authorities
every January as an alien. In
the "meantime, he can apply
for naturalization as a citizen.
Poor Living Conditions
Most observers feel one of
the m.i factors for the ex
odus Is poor living conditions
amonR large numbers of peas
ant families In this country.
In recent months, dissatis
faction with farm conditions
became clear when "squat
ters" moved right onto nomc
farm lands after wailing for
years to get their own tracts
unocr agrarian reiuun vnuv.-
IMC (;vivii ntiii in
pounced it will eliminate all
e esiairs Dciorc me cm
President Adnfo Lopez
cos' six-year term on Dec.
1, 19t4.
But agitation became Inten
sified recently with formation
of a new peasant confedera
tion as a challenge to the long
established, government-dominated
national peasants con
federation. No matter what the situa
tion now, officials iiere say,
Mexico prooaniy always win
lead the world in "Operation
Visa."
o Is a non-quotn
' explained Laon-
'Thcre is no actual
sions.
The
la i s
of
Maleos'
"Mexi
country,'
hardy
narciy. - mere is no actual
limitation on Mexicans getting
MEXICANS WORKING Itinerant Mexican enlly as they harvest a tomato crop. (UPI)
workers are shown In this picture taken rec-
visas to the U.S. the only
limitation that could ever
arise is Jus! how fast it Is
physically possible fur consu
lar officers to investigate ap
plications." Once Hie basic require
ments arc fulfilled, Laon
hardy said, a consular officer
processes and issues a visa
within two and one-half hours.
Laonhardy said the present
rising waiting list makes it
highly improbable new appli
cants will be called for inter
views or vi.sa action "for a
year or more. But the de
mand is bound to continue to
rise, he suid.
Every tune we issue one
visa, we calculate that means
three more. Once a Mexican
is working and settled in the
United States, he naturally
wants his family or some re
latives to join him."
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Crater Student Is
Finalist in Search
Michael R. Guss, senior at
l Crater High school, is one of
i the 13 finalists in the Oregon
State Talenl Search, accord
ing to Raymond E. Barrett,
director of education at the
Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry, which sponsors
the state competition.
diss's research involved an
investigation of the factors
relative to the rate of fatigue
In muscles.
The 13 finalists will present
their work orally before
judges at OMS1 as part of the
Science Youth Congress pro
gram May 3-5. Winners will
be Invited to the Science
Award Banquet May i!5 to
share n scholarships, summer
research jobs and bonds,
along with winners of the
Northwest Science Fair and
Future Scientists of America
competitions.
University To Offer
Evening Seminar
The University of Oregon
will offer an evening semi
nar in Cases and Concepts in
Educational A d m inistration
in Medford spring term
through Oregon's general ex
tension division.
The course. Ed 507, will be
offered for three hours of
credit. Classes will meet in
Medtord High school hruin.
mug April 3. The session will
oe on Wednesday night from
7 to 9 45 p in
Fees are at the rate of
$12 50 per credit hour.
Courses arc generally open to
anyone
About BOO evening classes
are being offered spring term
throughout Oregon by the
colleges and universities in
the stale system of higher
education. The classes are ad
ministered by continuation
centers of the general exten
sion division.
Additional information on
the course to be offered in
MeriforH is avaihthlp rmm
Charles Ivic, head of the Ash-'
land Continuation center at j
Southern Oregon college.
Surplus Property from
State Now in Siskiyou
Yreka-Sen. Randolph Col
lier said an estimated $1,253,
236.37 worth of surplus prop
erty, supplies, equipment, and
training has been allocated
to Siskiyou county through
the state disaster office pro
gram, including 1061-62 con
tributions of $183,317.97 in
surplus property.
Collier pointed out the sur
plus property was received
at a cost of $11,452.60 to the
local communities, and value
of the surplus property was
computed on the basis of
original purchase price by
the federal government.
An additional $345,432.84
in disaster relief has been re
ceived by Siskiyou county as
grants under Public Law 875.
Collier pointed out the $1.2
million received by Siskiyou
county was a portion of a
42 Measles Cases
Reported in CP
Central Point with 42 cases
of measles had the largest
number of communicable dis
eases in Jackson county last
week, Dr. A. Erwin Merkel,
director of the public health
department, reported.
Medford had 11 cases nf
measles, Gold Hill 5 and Sams
Valley 2.
Central Point also had more
cases of mumus than tho nth.
er communities with a total
oi lb. ihcre were two cases
reported in Gold Hill and one
in Ashland.
Influenza hit Shady Cove
harder than other county dis
tricts. There were 16 cases re
ported by Shady Cove, 15 by
Medford, 11 by Ashland, and
6 at Central Point.
total of $63.2 million dis
tributed in the entire state.
Collier said state owned or
controlled disaster equipment
assigned to Siskiyou county
includes 75 radiation detec
tion instruments, one radio
logical trailer, four emergency
hospitals with a 500 patient
capacity each; four first aid
stations equipped to provide
emergency care for 600 casu
alties each; two fire pumpers,
fully equipped and capable
of pumping 1,000 gallons per
minute.
opened in Virginia's George
Washington National forest 10
days after Roosevelt signed
his executive order. But when
the CCC was finally phased
out in 1942, camps had been
set up in every state.
On the basis of its work
record, the youth of the CCC
did a monumental job. In Mis
sissippi alone they planted 2
million trees. They built 38,
550 bridges throughout the
nation. They spent 6,450,403
man-days fighting fires, built
80 airfields and strung 88,883
miles of telephone wire.
In an estimate made to the
House Appropriations commit
tee in 1942, CCC officials put
the value of work on public
lands alone at $1.75 billion.
Proud of CCC
Roosevelt was proud of the
CCC. "All you have to do is
to look at the boys themselves
to see that the camps are a
success," he said.
Kennedy hopes for as much.
He termed the Youth Corp bill
"a measure of first priority."
An early vote on the meas
ure is expected in Congress.
Humphrey predicts it will be
approved. But it still faces the
same strong opposition that
killed similar bills in both the
86th and 87th Congress-es.
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