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Anti-Poverty Bill to Undergo Cuts
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WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President Johnson's anti-poverty bill went on the congressional operating table today. Democrats prescribed a light hand on the scalpel, but Republicans said major surgery was needed.
The House Education and Labor Committee, which started consideration of the $962 million measure nearly two months ago, scheduled closed sessions to write finished legislation for submission to the House. The job was expected to take a week or longer.
The bill, as it now stands, is a sweeping design to provide a job corps and work-study and work-training programs for poor youths, to finance local anti-poverty projects, to establish a corps of volunteers to help fight poverty, and to make new money available for marginal small business and farm operators.
They ended their discussions yesterday with apparent agreement on all disputed points except the roie that parochial and private schools should play in the local anti-poverty programs.
The Democrats described their agreed changes as "strengthening amendments." These included provision for women as well as young men in the job corps, allocation of some of the anti-poverty funds on a state-by-state basis, and imposition of some guidelines for the director to follow in operating the programs.
AFTER SIX WEEKS of public hearings, the 19 Democratic members of the committee held their own private caucus for two weeks to discuss proposed changes in the bill.
The Democratic changes would eliminate only one section of the bill—federal credit guarantees for new business enterprises—and retain all other sections of the Johnson bill. Specifically, it would centralize anti-poverty authority under Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, a proposal that is at the core of Republican opposition.
THE COMMITTEE'S 12 Republicans, chafing because they were left out of the closed discussions on changes, had their "day" yesterday with Shriver, Johnson's choice to head the "war on poverty."
Although one GOP member called the two-hour closed meeting a "draw," another told UPI that Shriver seemed to oppose many of the changes, including state-by-state allocations, reported being offered by the Democrats.
On the other hand, Shriver gave no indication of favor to a substitute bill offered by Rep. Peter
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H. B. Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., that would put primary responsibility for anti-poverty work in the hands of states and local units of government.
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Frelinghuyssen told newsmen after the meeting that "I have no indication that my bill is going to get the
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Frelinghuvsen said his main objection was to setting up a new federal agency to administer the program. Shriver and the Republicans clashed several times on this issue in the closed meeting, with neither side giving ground.
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Dr. John R. Willingham, associate professor and director of freshman-sophomore English, has been selected as one of 15 college and university teachers to attend a faculty seminar June 25-July 30 at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.
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