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University Bally Gaolan Wednesday, March 3, 1965
Domestic Peace Corps Plans Outlined to Conference Group
By Mary Dunlap
J. Glenn Blackburn, special consultant with the Vista program, told approximately 50 persons attending a 2-day Conference on Aging that "The American people are waking up and looking and admitting that we have poverty."
Speaking yesterday at a luncheon held in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, Prof. Blackburn outlined several of the programs in the Economic Opportunities Act, one of which is Vista (Volunteers in Service to America), also known as the "Domestic Peace Corps."
The tall, red-haired professor told the audience, predominantly made up of older persons, educators, and public officials, that "The poverty in most of our communities is hidden from view."
HE CITED examples of the extreme poverty that exists within our sight in every town, despite the claims that most citizens make that "it couldn't happen here." He further stated that Americans are now doing something about the people that are in extreme poverty.
"We have the beginning of an effective, long-range program," he said, referring to the Economic Opportunities Act, first proposed by President Kennedy and later carried out by President Johnson.
The emphasis upon rehabilitation is very great in the several programs now in effect, Prof. Blackburn said. "If we go on simply handing out relief, the burden of poverty will in-
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ALTHOUGH the relief programs do supply aid at the time, they do not do anything to change the problems that lead to a continuation of the poverty cycle, Prof. Blackburn said. "We want to lead them out of dependence upon aid and relief," he stressed, "we want to bring them to independence.
crease," he emphasized. The main role of the programs is to supply aid, but more importantly, it is "to structure the individual out of poverty."
"Twelve million children are in poverty today, and most of them will be on the relief rolls tomorrow if we do not help them out of it," he emphasized.
The method in which "Vista" aids the poor in a community begins with the community's realization that a problem does exist within the community's limits, Prof. Blackburn explained. Several steps must be taken by the community before it will receive volunteers and advisement from the "Domestic Peace Corps."
FIRST, THE community must define its poverty and the extent to which it exists. Secondly, the community decides which solution is the best one for the problem. The community then must organize and agree to co-operate within itself in an effort to accept the responsibility of taking on the problem, Prof. Blackburn said.
Speaking of the adult education aspect of the program, he said, "There are several million Americans who cannot write well enough to apply for a job." Prof. Blackburn said. The program also attempts to aid the uneducated to be able to hold a job. The adult who has had the opportunity to attend school, must be taught several means of holding simple tasks, such as working in a home
PROF. BLACKBURN then briefly outlined several of the programs that are now available such as the Job Corps, which trains the 16 to 21-year-old who has dropped out of high school. The trainees are taught such things as how to take orders and how to develop self-reliance.
He spoke of the Work-Study Program, which enables college students to work on university programs while they are attending school. The student works on the university property or in work that is related to the university, and is thus able to finance his way through college.
Prof. Blackburn said, "We have two choices: either we leave people there, and let them exist on monthly relief checks, or we can show the people a better way of life."
APPROXIMATELY 9,000 volunteers of vastly varying ages have signed up for Vista, he reported. One-half of them are young, and one-half are old. One of the members of Vista is an 81-year-old schoolteacher. "They are looking for something that will give them something to live for," he said.
Vista has often been compared with the Peace Corps, and they are similar in scope. However, while Peace Corps volunteers work abroad, Vista volunteers will work only in the under-developed communities within the United States or its territories. They will serve for one year, instead of two as in the Peace Corps, Prof. Blackburn said. No tests are given to volunteers, but a detailed application form and at least five references are needed.
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April 15 is fast approaching and Uncle Sam will soon be reaching into your pockets, but this year the government won't let him take as much as before.
New Tax Deductions Help Some Students
The Internal Revenue Act of 1964, retroactive from the first of the year, is designed to increase standard deductions.
According to Sherwood W. Newton, associate professor of business administration, the new act provides for a minimum $200 deduction with an additional $100 for each exemption.
"For example, if a person earned $900, formerly he would be allowed $10 in deductions," Newton said. "Now, the person earning $900 gets a $200 minimum deduction plus, in the case of a single person, an additional $100 exemption for himself.
Newton said that the $600 personal exemption still holds. "Some people are confused and say that the new law makes the personal exemption $700, but this is not true," he said. The "$600 was established by law as the personal exemption and has not been changed." This represents a
quantity that a person does not have to have a special qualification to get"
newton said that a person has to qualify for the $100 exemption.
THE CASE OF married persons filing a joint return is different.
"They are allowed a $200 minimum deduction like the single person, but they are then allowed $100 apiece for themselves. This makes $400, or their standard minimum deduction."
Newton said that if one spouse is a dependent of his parents, then a joint return cancels his $600 exemption on his parents' form.
"Before this act a person could earn up to $660 ($660 personal exemption plus 10% deduction) tax-free," he said. "But now a person can earn up to $900 ($600 plus $200 minimum deduction plus $100 exemption for himself) before being required to pay taxes."
Newton said that a married couple could earn $1320 ($600 for each plus 10% deduction) tax-free before the act, but now married couples can earn up to $1600 ($600 for each, plus $400 minimum deduction).
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