THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Truman Plans Cabinet Job For Social Welfare Head
Washington, Nov. 18—(UP)—President Truman is reliably reported to be planning a new cabinet post to direct a vastly expanded social welfare program aimed at making America healthier and happier.
Creation of such an executive department would require congressional approval. But capital observers believe the new democratic congress will go along. $ \textcircled{*} $
Administration sources told the United Press that Mr. Truman will ask congress to set up the new welfare department in his state of the union message. The message will be delivered to congress shortly after it convenes Jan. 3.
Closely allied to the welfare program are relatively shorter range projects in the field of housing. The President and his lieutenants want rent controls extended for at least another year, and government-backed construction of low-cost, low-rental housing.
Mr. Truman's welfare program in some respects is more far-reaching than anything of the kind proposed by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It embraces:
1. Extension of social security benefits to millions of persons not now covered, and higher payments to the needy and aged.
2. A long-range national health insurance, to provide adequate medical care for millions the government says can not now afford it.
3. Bigger federal grants to the nurses for construction of hospitals and other medical facilities and for
medical research.
4. Increased federal financial aid for education.
5. Possible government fellowships for medical students as a solution to the current shortage of doctors.
If Mr. Truman is successful in putting over the program, it would add millions of dollars to the government's annual welfare bill, which already tops one billion dollars. Most of the added cost, however, would be met by increased income from social security taxes. Congress appropriated over a billion and a quarter dollars this fiscal year for government welfare and education activities'.
Congress probably won't go as far as the administration would like in establishing the 10-year national health program. But it is believed at least a modified plan will be approved.
Oscar Ewing, federal security administrator, is plugging hard for the health plan. He has estimated that 68 million Americans cannot now afford adequate medical care.
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NROTC Names 10 For Rifle Team
Ten men have been named regular members of the Naval Reserve Officer's Training Corps Rifle team.
They are Harold R. B. Bailey, Kuel E. Rains, engineering junior; theodore W. Tober, pharmacy junior; William W. Meier, business junior; Edward K. Maxwalt, College sophomore; Harold J. Keeling, engineer; homecoming John C. Edgar, education freshman; Kenneth A. Harris, engineering freshman; and James P. Gillett, and Eddie R. Maag, college freshman.
The rifle team meets from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays. They have gained an average of 53 points each match this first month, Lt. L. E. Bolts, team coach said today.
Moreau Opens Drive For Burdick Fund
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, will attend a luncheon in Atchison today in an effort to interest lawyers there in the proposed William L. Burdick memorial.
Sunflower car owners wishing to join a car pool to bring students to night activities of the University are asked to see Mrs. Betty Lou Collins, 1 Douglas Road, Sunflower, not the Villager office as was stated in Wednesday's Daily Kansan.
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Members of the executive committee of the Burdick Memorial corporation. Richard Barber of Lawrence, F. C. Bannon of Leavenworth, and Henry W. Buck of Kansas City, Mo. met in Green hall Sunday to discuss solicitation methods for the fund. A plan of personal solicitation of alumni throughout the state was agreed upon by committee members.
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