OEO jurisdiction reduced
Nixon pledges emphasis on poverty
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon told Congress yesterday he is giving "the blight of poverty" priority attention and announced a series of initial steps aimed at improving federal aid to the poor.
In his first formal message to Congress, Nixon declared his administration's intentions to fight poverty: "It cannot and will not be treated lightly or indifferently, or without the most searching examination of how best to marshal the resources available to the federal government for combatting it."
The President proposed administrative changes in four ongoing antipoverty efforts, including the well-known Job Corps and Head Start programs.
Extension asked
Although Nixon removed Job Corps and Head Start from Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) jurisdiction, he asked Congress to continue OEO's funding authority for another year of operations beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration.
KU prof testifies in Clay Shaw trial
Nixon made clear, however, requests were not his last word this year on the war on poverty.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - A KU pathologist, convinced by film study President Kennedy was killed from the front, was called by the state yesterday in the Clay L. Shaw conspiracy trial to further contradict the Warren Commission.
Dr. John Nichols, associate professor of pathology, was about to testify, when court adjourned Monday, that a motion picture of the assassination indicated former Texas Gov. John B. Connally was hit by a different bullet than an earlier, nonfatal one that struck Kennedy.
The Warren report said three shots were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald from behind the Kennedy limousine. It said one passed through Kennedy's neck and probably caused Connally's serious chest wound, one probably missed the car entirely and one exploded Kennedy's head.
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contends there was a crossfire born of a conspiracy, that the fatal head shot came from the front and that Shaw, using the alias Clem or Clay Bertrand, was a party to such a plot.
After Shaw testified 20 minutes, Dist. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr., said he did not believe Carr's testimony and refused to let the prosecution enter a fingerprint card listing Shaw as "Clay Bertrand."
The fingerprint card listing Shaw's alias as "Clay Bertrand" was made up March 1, 1967 shortly after Shaw's arrest.
The jury was out of the courtroom during Shaw's testimony and Haggerty's ruling because it involved legal arguments about the admissibility of the card into evidence.
Asst. Dist. Atty. James Alcock announced he was going to the Louisiana Supreme Court in an effort to make Haggerty admit the arrest card.
Sirhan practiced aim
Before July 1, he said, another message will be sent in the form of "a comprehensive proposal for the future of the poverty program."
The President embraced the concept of OEO as an experimental agency to try out new antipoverty programs and endorsed a number of its current
Hunger plagues South Carolina
WASHINGTON (UPI) Hunger is so prevalent in parts of South Carolina that they probably would qualify for U.S. foreign aid if located overseas, a nutrition expert testified yesterday.
Saccoman described the .22 as a "piece of junk" with "plastic
Sirhan told him he planned a hunting trip but Saccoman advised him it was illegal to hunt with a .22.
Dr. James T. Carter of Vanderbilt University told the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition that his studies of Beaufort County, S.C., showed the effects of malnutrition particularly among children-including infestation of intestinal worms.
"It could kill a dog," Sirhan told Michael Anthony Saccoman, a fellow target shooter on June 4 last year during a discussion of the defendant's .22-caliber revolver, the weapon that killed Kennedy.
"The most striking physical finds on these children were distended abdomens in 41 per cent ... secondary to the presence of intestinal round worms," Carter told the committee.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Sirhan B. Sirhan spent about five hours target practicing a short time before Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, firing more than 300 rounds witnesses said yesterday at the murder trial of the Palestinian Arab.
grips," and "very cheap" compared to his own more expensive pistol.
Other witnesses testified Sirhan was at the San Gabriel Valley Gun Club in suburban Duarte, practicing with his pistol, and did not leave until 5 p.m. closing time.
"As for starvation, none of the children appeared to be dying of acute starvation. As far as hunger is concerned, you can ask them, and they will tell you that they are hungry," Carter said.
Saccoman identified the pistol held in evidence as the one Sirhan used at the target range.
A later witness, police Sgt. Robert L. Calkins, said this was the gun given to him by Rafer Johnson who said he took it from the 24-year-old defendant after Kennedy was mortally wounded in a pantry of the Ambassador Hotel a few minutes after midnight June 5, 1968.
Carter, who has worked in nutrition among developing nations that have received U.S. aid, said some areas of Beaufort County "would probably have qualified for this type of assistance had they been overseas in a friendly nation."
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efforts. Special praise was given the pre-school function of Head Start.
Changes promised
He also declared his intention to straighten out poverty programs that have gone sour. "One of the principal aims of the administration's continuing study of the antipoverty effort will be to provide its management effectiveness," Nixon said.
"When poverty fund monies are stolen, those hurt most are the poor. When programs are inefficiently administered, those hurt most again are the poor. The public generally and the poor especially have the right to demand effective and efficient management. I intend to provide it."
Nixon explained that his immediate plans fell into two categories:
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Delegation of operating responsibility of antipoverty programs, which would not require special legislation.
Actual transfer of certain programs to departments, which will require congressional approval.
OEO to continue
The President promised, however, to continue OEO as an experimental agency of the government in the over-all war on poverty, with the expectation that when "incubator" programs proved to be successful, they then could be transferred to regular departments.
Actions included in the message:
He directed that preparations be made for delegation of the Head Start program to the department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), effective July 1.
Switch of the Job Corps from OEO to the Labor Department "as a first step toward better program management."
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