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The two summer bills are the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which embodies the first legislative steps in the President's "War on Poverty," and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Still awaiting final action is a series of expansion to the six-year-old National Defense Education Act.
THE ECONOMIC Opportunity Act contains provisions for a work-study financial aid program for needy college students, massive remedial education programs, and a domestic peace corps to be known as VISTA — Volunteers in Service to America.
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Specific remedial education programs are provided in the Job Corps programs for high school drop-outs and draft rejects and in the adult basic education program for illiterate adults. Salary subsidies will also be provided for 200,000 part-time or full-time 16 to 21 year-old workers to enable them to continue their education.
The 870-plus million work-study program provides federal subsidies of up to 90 per cent of the salaries of students working in newly created part-time jobs on or off campus. This program will aid an estimated 140,000 students a year.
Additional forms of remedial aid, such as tutoring, may be supported as part of a local "community action program," for which the Act provides federal financial and technical assistance.
IT IS EXPECTED that some VISTA volunteers will staff and administer some of the anti-poverty remedial education programs. In addition to those already mentioned, VISTA volunteers may aid in the education of children of Indians and migrant workers.
The education provisions of the new Civil Rights Act deal with desegregating public school facilities. The Act authorizes the U.S. Office of Education to provide technical and financial assistance to local school systems that are desegregating. It also mandates the Office of Education to conduct a survey on the progress of school desegregation.
In addition, the Civil Rights Act gives the Attorney General the power to bring suits for the desegregation of public schools, upon receipt of complaints from individual citizens. Finally, the Act authorizes any federal agency to withhold funds from segregated institutions and programs, educational and otherwise.
Douglas GOP's Open Office
The Douglas County Republican Central Committee held open house for the official opening of Republican Campaign Headquarters in the Eldridge Hotel from 9:30 to 11 a.m. yesterday.
Approximately two hundred persons attended the gathering.
Douglas County Central Committee Chairman J. D. King's challenge that Lawrence would get a greater per cent of registered Republican voters to the polls on November 3 than any other first class city in Kansas was accepted by C. Y. Thomas, Johnson County Republican chairman, on behalf of Overland Park and Prairie Village.
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IN AUGUST, the House and Senate passed differing versions of an NDEA extension bill. The House Rules Committee is currently delaying the conference needed to rectify the discrepancies in the bills, but is expected to act before Congress adjourns.
Both versions of the bill agree on increasing total funds for the college student loan program and the size of individual loans. They also agree on dropping the $800,000 ceiling on loans to single institutions, on increasing the number of graduate fellowships, and on extending public school teachers' "g forgiveness" of up to 50 per cent of their loans to teachers in private schools and all colleges.
The House bill, generally more conservative than the Senate bill, provides funds for remedial reading equipment, world maps, and globes. The Senate bill seeks, as did the original House bill, to extend the scope of NDEA to cover English, history, and geography.
DRIVE IN TO THE FIRST WHILE YOU'RE GETTING SETTLED
Before school starts, you can open a checking account quickly and easily at the First's handy Motor Bank, 9th and Tennessee, at the foot of Mount Oread. Drive-in banking is only one of the conveniences enjoyed by students who have local checking accounts at the First. Lawrence merchants readily accept First National checks and it's easier for you to check your current balance than with an out-of-town bank. You can make deposits by mail and at the drive-in or downtown banks. You don't have to run all over town to pay bills and your cancelled checks are a record of where your money is going. Economy checking accounts are tailor-made for students: no minimum balance is required; costs only ten cents per check paid; and you receive 50 personalized checks free. Drive or walk, but come to the First.
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