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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1964
89th Congress Has Big Domestic Task
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The 89th Congress will probably spend a fair share of its time examining the unpleasant side of American life.
It will be asked to consider ways of drawing into the current wave of prosperity the millions of citizens who now are left out. Answers will be sought for the problem of the unemployed and underemployed, whether they be in the slums of Harlem or on the scarred slopes of the Appalachian Mountains.
The proposals President Johnson submits to congress will be part of the blueprint for "The Great Society" he promised voters during the recent election campaign.
It will be several weeks before specific plans are made public but it's a safe bet that many of them will be based on relief measures that the 88th Congress failed to act on. Among them:
THE APPALACHIAN PROGRAM—Probably the largest single slice of poverty in the country, the 11-state Eastern region known as Appalachia has been the subject of special study for many months. A legislative cure has yet to be enacted, however.
THE WAR ON POVERTY—Among the many achievements of the 88th Congress was its approval of President Johnson's general attack on the roots and causes of poverty. It enacted a one-year, $947.5 million dollar pilot program. Administration officials will go before congress to report on how it has worked so far and recommend which phases should be continued.
DEPRESSED AREAS—The first relief program of the Kennedy administration came with the creation in 1961 of the Area Re-development Administration. The agency administered the $451 million the federal government put up to help economically-worn downtrodden communities attract job producing industries.
EMERGENCY PUBLIC WORKS-In 1962 congress passed an $850 million version of Kennedy's accelerated Public Works program (APW). Purpose: to pump short spurts of federal dollars into areas of high unemployment. The money goes for needed projects such as the construction of sewerage, and water facilities, libraries hospitals-that are needed and that can be finished within a year. The funds were quickly spent and attempts were made in congress to provide additional funds but they did not materialize.
The administration had promised during the 1963 tax debate that it would travel the tax reduction "road" rather than the "federal spending" road to get out of the recession then plaguing the country.
A committee of the Associated Women Students is sponsoring a drive in all women's living groups for magazines to donate to Watkins Hospital.
Hospital to Get Magazines
The AWS Service Committee of the House of Representatives, headed by Cathryn Fones, Rogers, Ark., junior, has asked committee girls from each living group to collect magazines each week and give them to Watkins Hospital.
The weekly project, although only in effect for two weeks, has had good results.
MISS FONES SAID, "So far it's worked out well. I just hope the girls can keep it up for the rest of the year."
At the present time Watkins is badly in need of magazines.
The real need for the magazines is on the first floor where students wait for appointments with doctors. Because of the large number of people which come through each day the magazines become battered within a few days.
MRS. DONNA STENE, head nurse,
said, "With the wear and tear they
just don't last. We need a lot of magazines every week."
A smaller number of magazines are on the second floor, but here there is also a large collection of books. The hostesses also contribute magazines to the second floor.
Mrs. Stene said that the most popular magazines are Time, Life, Look, National Geographic, Saturday Review, and Playboy—something light which catches attention easily.
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