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War On Poverty May Get Poor
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UP!) -The
“War on Poverty” may find out
In 1966 how It feels to be poor.
The antipoverty program,
coming up for its third annual
congressional examination in
the* session starting Jan. 10,
suddenly appears to be a rather
frail bulwark of President
Johnson’s “Great Society."
Before the year is out, it may
be the antipoverty warriors,
along with the people they are
supposed to help, who are short
of money.
The reason, of course, Is the
ever-increasing cost of fighting
a shooting war in Viet Nam.
The President has at least
three ways to finance a bigger
U. S. military effort—raise
taxes to get more money, cut
back existing or planned
federal spending to get more
money, or do neither and risk
running up and even bigger
defidlt.
The few straws that have
been carried by the wind
Headline Hopping
Outposts Attacked Near
SAIGON —Hiree government
outposts south of Saigon came
under attack today by Commu
nist guerrillas. Early reports
indicated government troops
Not Certain
WASHINGTON —The report
of a recently completed Senate
study mission indicated that a
negotiated truce in Viet Nam is
far from a certainty. As the
Russia Hike Assistance
MOSCOW —A team of 8oviet
officials began a series of talks
today with leaders of the North
Vietnamese government, rais-
Plans Drive
CHICAGO — 1 The Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr„ has
announced the formulation of a
comprehensive civil rights plan
Students Protest
TUSKEGEE, Ala. -Despite
appeals from government, civic
and academic officials, students
at Tuskegee Institute here have
threatened to continue protest
marches in the downtown area.
Transit Strike Outlook Dim
NEW YORK —As weary New
Yorkers rested from a week of
walking, the prospect for an
immediate settlement of the
strike against the city’s sub
ways and buses did not appear
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fromTexas seem to Indicate
Johnson will try to hold down
expenses. And the “War on
Poverty,” although one of his
proudest achievements, is re
garded as a likely candidate for
the budget scalpel.
Reduce Spending
This is not to suggest that the
administration will drastically
reduce the present level of
antipoverty spending. That
probably would be too embar
rassing to the President and
infuriating to a large bloc of
congressional liberals whose
sweat went into its creation.
Instead, the President could
announce that he will "hold the
line” on antipoverty spending,
and paradoxically, send more
youngsters Into training at Job
Corps camps and in neighbor
hood youth corps projects.
He could do this by asking
Congress to authorize and
appropriate about the same |1.5
billion for the “War on
Poverty" in 1968-67 as it voted
for the current fiscal year.
Then more money could be
suffered light losses. In the
capital Itself, U.S. machine
gunners drove off a terrorist
attack on a government convoy.
report was filed, President
Johnson prepared to hear a
briefing on African reaction to
his recent efforts toward peace
in Southeast Asia.
ing the fear in the West that
Russian assistance will result
in an even further reluctance to
negotiate on the part of Hanoi
for Chicago—the archetype of
the Northern city beset by
racial problems.
The already perilous racial
balance was upset last week
when a student at the institute
was shot by a white gas station
attendant.
bright. The leaders of the
striking Transport Workers
Union vowed to stand fast
against alleged attempts by the
Transit Authority to “break”
the union through legal action.
allocated to the youth training
projects by cutting down on the
controversial community action
programs.
No Clear Idea
Congressional sources who
expect this to be the Pres
ident’s course admit they do
not yet have a clear idea of
how the antipoverty money pie
would be sliced. But they are
willing to bet it won’t be much
bigger, and probably not
smaller, than in 1965-66.
There is no question that
such a policy for the program
would amount to a serious
setback. The main parts of the
sweeping plan to uplift the
nation’s poor didn’t really get
started until this year, and the
outlook was for doubled, tripled
or even larger expenditures in
the years just ahead.
It was understood that the
antipoverty agency originally
wanted 63 billion for the 12
months starting next July 1.
The Budget Bureau, according
to reports, is seeking to hold
the request to $1.6 billion.
Weltner Sees
Klan Empire
6 Crumbling
ATLANTA (UPI) Rep.
Charles Weltner, D-Oa., pre
dicted Friday the "invisible em
pire” of the Ku Klux Klan
would soon crumble as a resutl
of House Un-American Activi
ties Committee hearings on the
Klan.
"Cracks are now visible In
the invisible empire,” Weltner
told the Atlanta Press Club.
“Those cracks will widen until
that empire will topple.”
Weltner said Klansmen must
realize they cannot, with Im
punity, flout the will of Con
gress by refusing to produce
their records and failing to an
swer questions posed by the
committee.
The congressman spoke in the
aftermath of hearings Thurs
day in which the committee
took steps to cite Klan members
for contempt of Congress.
Weltner said the Klan has
learned that “this Is no game
we are playing."
The congressman also said
that civil rights leaders who
support draft dodgers and draft
card burners are committing a
“grievous error.”
He said he believed this ac
tion would hamper the cause of
those who seek equal Justice.
Mrs. Caldwell
Will Be Buried
Funeral services for Mrs. Sero
nie Cole Caldwell of th e Mt. Car
mel community in Meriwether
County will be held Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock at Haisten
Chapel. The Rev. Carl H. Tho
mas will officiate and burial will
be in the Mt. Carmel Methodist
cemetery.
Mrs. Cole died Thursday night
in an Atlanta hospital. She was
the widow of Frank L. Cole and
was a long time member of the
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church.
She is survived by three dau
ghters, Mrs. Marietta C. Jordan
and Mrs. Charles H. Whitted,
both of Atlanta, and Mrs. Fran
ces C. Ellison, of California; two
sisters, Mrs. Idus Rowe of Roc
ky Mount, Oa. and Mrs. 8. A.
Garner of Alvaton; two broth
ers, B. A. Cole of Luthersville,
and Emmel Cole, Atlanta; nine
grandchildren.
Mrs. Watson Of
Barnesville Dies
Mrs. Carolyn Smith Watson
of 523 Thomaston street, Barnes
ville, widow of Col. Larkin Dou
glas Watson, died early today
after an extended illness.
She is survived by a daugh
the, Miss Elizabeth Godwin of
Barnesville, a son, Douglas Wat
son of New York City; a step
daughter, Mrs. Robert Edwards
of Jackson, Ga. and several
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 3 p.m. in Haisten’s
Chapel in Barnesville.
The Rev. James Griffin will
officiate and burtal will be in
Greenwood cemetery.
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If Johnson does decide to
expand the Job Corps and the
the expense of the community
action programs, he could be
solving several problems unre
lated to the search for military
money.
First, be could give a green
light to the youth programs
that have shown the most
promise of producing concrete
results. Although the Job Corps
camps have had soma well
publicized internal problems,
administration officials general
ly are proud of the program
and the youths who have
entered It.
The Neighborhood Youth
Cor; s, although not as glamor
ous as the Job Corps, is
credited by some officials for
having averted “long hot
summer” violence in several
big cities during 1966.
A second important gain that
might be realized by “starv
ing” the community action
programs would be to ease the
totally unexpected political
Menu
The master menu for the Grif
fln-Spaldlng County Schools dur.
ing the week of Jan. 10-14 is as
follows:
MONDAY — Weiner, catsup,
mustard, onion, baked beans,
cole slaw, bun, apple pie, milk
and butter.
TUESDAY — Meat loaf, rice
and gravy, green beans, toma
to wedge, com muffin, peach
half, milk and butter.
WEDNESDAY — Dried black
eye peas, stewed tomatoes, cab
bage and carrot salad, potato sa
lad, hot rolls, chocolate pudding,
milk and butter.
THURSDAY Beef vegetable
soup, peanut butter and jelly
sandwich, pineapple salad on let
tuce, saltines, stewed prunes,
milk and butter.
FRIDAY — Baked fish sticks,
tartar sauce, creamed potatoes,
tomato and lettuce salad, hot
biscuit, cherry pie, milk and but.
ter.
Elimination Of
Sales Tax On
Machinery Asked
ATLANTA (UPI) — A rec
ommendation to eliminate the
sales tax on the purchase of
manufacturing machinery was
made Friday by a Senate in
dustrial development commit
tee
The committee, headed by
Sen. Mike Padgett of Augusta,
said present laws In many ways
discriminate against existing in
dustries located in the state. It
proposed the elimination of the
sales tax on machinery used to
manufacture tangible personal
property to forestall complaints.
Another committee proposal
was a sales tax exemption on
facilities installed by industries
to control pollution. The com
mittee said pollution of Georgia
streams and the cost of con
trolling It is another drawback
to industrial development.
Taxpayers
Association
Gets Backing
ATLANTA (UPI)—State Sen.
Roscoe Dean of Alma has en
dorsed the idea of a statewide
taxpayers association to keep
people informed on "exactly
where their tax money is go
ing.”
Dean said Friday he would
support such an association if
the people desire one. The state
senator suggested something
similar to the President’s Coun
cil of Economic Advisors but a
group with closer touch with
the people through local units
in all counties.
He said a taxpayers associa
tion would keep people informed
of not only where the taxpay
ers’ money goes but also wheth
er it being used to best ad
vantage.
Mr. Williams Of
Barnesville Dies
BARNESVILLE — Mr. Mel
vin Eugene Williams, 42, of 373
Atlanta street, Barnesville, died
Thursday while being admitted
to the VA Hospital in Dublin.
Ga.
He was bom in Lamar Coun
ty. He was a member of the
First Baptist Church and retired
from the Navy after serving 22
years.
He is survived by a daughter,
Miss Donna Jean Williams; two
sons, Jeffrey Lee Williams and
Melvin E. Williams. Jr., all of
Ft. Walton Beach Fla.; a bro
ther Arthur B. Williams of
Smyrna, Ga.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 from
the Calvary Baptist Church. The
Rev. Clvland Scoggins will of
ficiate. Burial will be in Green
wood cemetery.
Full military honors will be
held at graveside.
His body will remain at Hub
bard Funeral Home until one
hour prior to the funeral when
It will be carried to the church
to He in state.
headaches they have caused.
Few Realize
It now is obvious that few
persons at either the White
House or the Capitol had any
idea what would happen when
the federal government offered
hundreds of millions of dollars
to local groups to try to solve
the proplems of poverty. This
was especially true in regard to
the congressional direction that
the programs be conceived and
operated to the maximum
extent practical by the poor
themselves.
In some cities, the poor
people saw the community
action money as a means to
“fight city hall.” This made
mayors angry at the adminis
tration and Congress. In others,
mayors saw the new source of
funds as a welcome supplement
to the largess available for
distributlen to the politically
faithful. This made the poor
people mad at the administra
tion and Congress.
Congress responded by trying
Highlights Of The Week
New York Battles
Strike
By H. J. HELLER
United Press International
Through gloomy tunnels far
below the concrete towers of
Manhattan the subways haul
their human cargo.
Far ahead of the train the
gleaming steel tracks appear to
converge.
But as It moves ahead the
Illusion Is dispelled and the
rails are as far apart as ever.
In a similar manner negotia
tions for a new trdhslt contract
streamed toward what many
thought was the usual agree
ment reached every two years
In the last generation almost
without interruption.
But as Jan. 1 looked It
became apparent that the
Transport Workers Union
(TWU) and the city Transit
Authority (TA) were traveling
paths that could not meet.
The union was asking for a
package that added up to 3680
million and the TA could only
offer $25 million.
The strike came on New
Year’s day.
On Monday of this week, the
first business day of the strike,
New York, the nation’s largest
city, was in the grip of the
worst transportation tie-up in
its history.
All subways and virtually all
bus lines were shut down
forcing some 3 million persons
who regularly use the facilities
to fight their way to the city’s
business areas by car. boat,
helicopter, bike, and roller
skates.
Newly elected Mayor John V.
Lindsay, placed by an accident
of the calendar, squarely in the
center of the crisis, fought
valiantly to unsnarl the knot.
His main antagonist was
TWU president Michael Quill,
fire-breathing labor leader who
defied a court injunction and
refused to call off the strike.
Cited for contempt of court
Quill and some other strike
leaders were sent to civil Jail.
Two hours after admission he
was seized with a possible
heart attack and rushed to a
hospital.
As the week waned Quill's
seizure subsided, traffic mount
ed, and more negotiators
entered the picture in stepped
up efforts to resolve the
impasse.
Around the world:
Washington: The U.S. pressed
on with its “peace offensive”
by continuing the bombing lull
in Viet Nam and keeping its
diplomats on the move to
foreign capitals in the search
for a solution to the Far East
conflict. U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations Arthur
Goldberg appealed to members
of the world organization to
make efforts to find a
settlement of the Viet Nam
crisis.
Santo Domingo: A govern
ment decision to exile leaders
of rival factions from the
Dominican Republic touched off
rioting and what appeared to be
a military attempt to take over
the country.
Tashkent: The leaders of
India and Pakistan, holding
talks in Tashkent sponsored by
the Soviet Union, appeared to
be close to agreement on ways
to discuss the problem of
Kashmir, their most pressing
problem.
Washington: Robert Baker,
controversial former secretary
of the Senate Democratic
majority, was indicated by a
Federal grand Jury for accept
ing money under false pre
tenses and for avoiding taxes
on the sum involved.
Washington: The gross na
tional product—the value of the
country's goods and services—
exceeded $675 billion last year,
according to the Commerce
Department.
New York: The first strike
ever against an American
Bat. and Sun. Jan. 3-9, 1966 Griffin Duly News
Right To - Work
Repeal Seems II
Out Of Reach
to “investigate” the antipoverty
programs. As could be expect
ed, the Investigations got hung
up on the very political reefs
that caused the trouble in the
first place.
No One Knew
It seemed clear after the
first big year of community
action activities that no one
really knew how to bring peace
to this part of the "War on
Poverty.” Shriver, in fact,
suggested to Congress that
controversy was built into any
program aimed at changing the
social and economic order.
This theory might appeal to
academic types interested in
the “rich ferment” of Ameri
can political evolution, but
congressmen who just wanted
to help poor people were not
overjoyed to hear It.
And many of them might be
more than willing to Impose an
election year truce on poverty
politics at home in the name of
victory over Communist ag
gression in Viet Nam.
By WILLIAM THEIS
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —La
bor’s most-wanted legislative
plum, federal repeal of state
“right-to-work” Liws, appears
as much out of reach in 1966 as
it was in the big congressional
year of 1965.
In the new session it may go
down as another casualty of the
Viet Nam war.
President Johnson told AFL
CIO convention delegates in
Deo-mber that “with your help,
it will pass.” Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey promised
that “we will fight hard and
win—I repeat, fight hard and
win.”
But it will take a legislative
near-miracle to win Senate
approval of labor’s cherished
objective in this election year.
Hie bill to repeal the Taft
Hartley law’s Section 14-B,
under which 19 states have
enacted so-called “rlght-to
work” laws, passed the House
last July. The vote was 221 to
203.
But when Senate Democratic
Leader MiV» Mansfield tried to
call up the measure in October
It ran Into a filibuster led by
GOP Leader Everett M.
Dirksen, Hi.
And when Mansfield asked
to end the talkathon, the effort
failed by the wide margin of 17
votes. The Democratic leader
then bowed to the inevitable
and put offf further action until
this year.
Now the expectation is for an
early Mansfield move in 1966.
If he delays action until late in
university by faculty members
was initiated this week by the
Federation of College
Teachers against St. John’s
University, one of the largest
Roman Catholic schools in the
world.
Pittsburgh: After U. S. Steel
posted a $2.75 a ton increase on
structural steel, Bethlehem and
Inland Steel cut back a
scheduled $5 boost to the same
figure. The Johnson administra
tion called the original increase
unwarranted.
Moscow: A Soviet delegation
led by Communist party leader
Leonid Brezhnev headed for the
Peoples Republic of Mongolia
on the Chinese border while
Kremlin trouble shooter Alex
ander N. Shelepin was in Hanoi,
North Viet Nam, with rocket
and armaments experts.
Hill Retires
From Dundee
Carver C. Hill, a long term
employee of Dundee Mills has
retired after more than 35 years
of service with the company.
Mr. Hill was born in LaGrange
in 1902 and moved to Griffin
with his family in 1909. He Join
ed the Dundee organization as
a spinning doffer in 1931, and
worked continuously in that cap
acity until his retirement.
Mr. Hill and his wife, the for
mer Lida Christmas, make their
home at 405 North 16th street.
Jordan Family
Featured At
Church Of God
Revival services will continue
each evening at the Palace St
reet Church of God next week
at 7:15 p.m., with the R. L. Jor
don Family in charge. The Jor
don Family is a nationally
known evangelistic team and
has recorded several gospel al
bums. They play several differ
ent instruments and feature a
variety in singing each night.
Their children are eleven, nine
and four and sing as a group
and play the piano and accor
dian.
The Sunday night service will
begin at 7:00 p.m. and will fea
ture a one hour musical pro
gram.
Sunday School begins at 10:00
a.m. and morning worship at
11:00 a.m. The Jordon Family
will be featured in both servic
es and Rev. Jordon will be
speaking at the morning wor
ship service.
Kelland K. Jeffords, pastor, in
vites the public to attend these
services.
Smith Will
Speak Here
George Smith, House speaker
in the General Assembly, will
speak at the layman’s program
of the East Griffin Baptist Chur
ch Jan. 23. The service will be
gin at 7:30.
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ANSWER, §
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Different
1 want to be different, bat how
can I go about it? p.p.
Deep within every heart (whi
ch has not yet been yielded to
Christ) is the cry, “I ought not
be the way I am.” There is a
divine unrest in everyone until
they find rest in Christ. Even the
Apostle Paul, a man who had
achieved learning, religious sta.
ture, as a member of the sect
of the Pharissees, and coveted
citizenship in the great Roman
Empire, wrote: “The good that
I would do, I do not, but the evil
which I would not, that I do.”
But Paul, like you, conscious
that his life needed to be “dif
ferent”, one day came Into con
tact with Jesus. Yielding his will
he said, “Lord, what wilt thou
have me to do?” Christ was
made Lord of his life, and he ex
perienced conversion — or, as
you say, his life was changed,
made different.
Every person has this con.
sciousness of inadequacy, of the
need of change.
Why?
We were made for God, and
when we are alienated from
Him, as we are because of sin,
we are like homesick children
who can only find rest by return
ing “home.” Accept Christ and
you will be “at home” spiritual
ly. This doesn’t mean that all
your problems will be over. Just
as children who are “at home”
have problems, so will you, but
your heavenly Father will be
present to bear the brunt of the
burden.
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the session, when a filibuster \
has its greatest impact, he and
the Democrats may wind up in
labor’s private political dog
house. Union leaders are
unhappy because the Montana
Democrat refused to bold the
Senate in around-the-clock ses
sions to kill Dirksen’s filibuster.
Privately discouraged, labor 4
leaders nevertheless will put on
fresh pressure for action. While
14-B repeal is their first goal,
they also want enactment of
improved minimum wage and
unemployment compensation .le
gislation, also carried over
from last year.
Not Very Hopeful
Mansfield still believes he
can produce the votes to pass ‘
the repeal bill if he can get the
measure to a Senate vote. But
he admits his chances are no
better than last year and that
the opposition is probably in
better shape than before.
Most observers predict a
token campaign for the bill by
AFL-CIO President George
Meany and other labor leaders,
and a token effort for passage
by the administration.
Organized labor believes
President Johnson has not
thrown more of his weight
behind the repealer because he
needs Dirksen’s support in
foreign affairs, particularly of
his handling of the Viet Nam
conflict.
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