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Dr. Burns Aim: Simplification
Cutting Waste In City, County Aid
By LOUIS CASSELS
, UFI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPD —Dr.
Arthur F. Burns, counselor to
the President, said today the
, Nixon administration plans to
reduce waste in government
spending by simplifying the
way in w'hich federal aid money
is made available to states and
’ cities.
He said in an interview there
is a great deal of overlapping,
duplication and waste now
* because the government chan
nels money to states and cities
through more than 600 different
programs.
• “The situation is out of
hand,” said the former Colum
bia University ec o nom ics
professor who is President
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Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University. The inside of the fiber
glass-reinforced plastic structure is arranged so that cows can move on their own
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Mayor-Elect
Os Milwaukee
Promises Order
By WILLIAM FOX
’ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI>
—Charles Stenvig, police detec
tive. political novice and
mayor-elect, today reaffirmed
• his pledge to bring law and
order to a city that has had
relatively little racial trouble.
Stenvig surprised the political
, experts by winning the race for
mayor Tuesday by a nearly 2-1
margin on the law and order
issue in the city that launched
the career of political liberal
’ Hubert H. Humphrey.
“I won't let you down,”
Stenvig, 41. said in a victory
, statement, promising to make
good his campaign pledge.
Running as an Independent,
he easily defeated Republican
Aiderman Dan Cohen who had
’ the backing of President Nixon
and Gov. Harold LeVander.
Gerald Hegstrom, city coun
cilman who ran on the
dominating Democratic-farmer
labor label, was defeated by
Stenvig and Cohen in the
primary.
> Most observers were sur
prised if not shocked by
Stenvig's big margin in this city
where liberal political leaders
have predominated since the
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"TOWNSPEOPLE DO NOT OBJECT—Miss Pearl Rhodes, fifth
and sixth grads teacher at the elementary school in Leyden,
Mw. reads the 100th Psalm to her students after the
school board in the mountain town of 345 residents voted
to reinstate a non-denominational prayer or reading of
passages from the Bible, and recitation of the Lord's
.» Prayer. There was no objection from the townspeople.
Nixon’s chief of staff for
domestic affairs.
“We have reached the point
1 where no one can keep track of
all that the government Is
1 trying to do—let alone evaluate
the effectiveness of the various
programs.”
Move To Simplify
The solution toward which the
new administration is moving is
to simplify government aid
procedures.
This can be done in two
steps, Dr. Burns said.
Step No. 1 is to make federal
i funds available in “block
j grants” for broad functional
i purposes. Thus a state or city
; would get a block of federal
I cash to be spent on health,
early 19305.
The final unofficial vote was
Stenvig 75,748, Cohen 46,739.
Except for a brief takeover of
the University of Minnesota
administration building by
black militants in January,
there have not been any serious
racial problems since the
summer of 1967, when the near
North Side, in the area where
most of the city’s Negroes live,
was struck by two nights of
I violence.
A possible indication Stenvig
was helped by a backlash vote
was the fact he drew heavily
from DFL wards on the North
Side where whites outnumber
Negroes. The university sit-in
also was a controversial issue
in the city.
During the campaign Stenvig
promised to “take the hand
cuffs off the police” while
Cohen charged his opponent
would “try to solve the city’s
problems with a nightstick.”
It was the first time in at
least 24 years an independent
candidate had captured the
mayor’s office. It also was
believed the first time a police
officer was elected mayor of a
major U.S. city.
education, urban problems or
whatever, and would decide for
itself how this money should be
used.
“This would give greater
flexibility and discretion to
officials at the levels of
government closest to the
problems and needs of the
people,” he explained. “We
can’t sit here in Washington
and dictate exactly what should
be done in each community. We
don’t know enough about local
situations—even if we were
wise enough to do all the
country’s thinking.”
Sharing Proposed
Step No. 2, which he
described as “an extreme form
of block grants,” is for the
Lt. Gov. Smith
Opposes Maddox
On New Taxes
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPI)—A hang up
j over the controversial ad va
i lorem taxes apparently helped
determine Lt. Gov. George T.
Smith’s decision Tuesday not to
back Gov. Lester Maddox’s call
for tax hikes in the special ses
• sion that begins June 12.
On a live radio interview,
Smith said a constitutional
1 amendment would be required
to guarantee the property tax
■ reductions, that most lawmak
! ers feel will be necessary to get
i Maddox’s slls million tax pack
age through the extraordinary
session.
If the session does pass the
■ Maddox program and ships
' some of the money back to
i local governments and school
■ systems, the lieutenant gover
i nor explained, the General As
sembly then could not, by it
self, guarantee a reduction In
■' the iocal property taxes.
Smith, who holds conslder
! able power as the Georgia sen
,' ate’s presiding officer, has not
i publicly commented on Mad
dox’s plans for the special ses
, sion, but he did show newsmen
. a copy of a letter to Savannah
■ businessman Morton Deutsch.
In a key passage of the let
( ter. Smith wrote that he had
, ■ been opposed to additional
taxes in the past and was “op
posed to them at this time
under the present conditions.”
At about the same time, how
ever, Smith’s near-namesake
House Speaker George L. Smith
produced copies of an amend
ment which seemingly contra
dicted the lieutenant governor’s
assertion about the property
taxes.
The speaker told newsmen
the regular session had passed
an amendment that would have
required local governments to
reduce their property taxes by
a percentage of the funds re
ceived under a local option
sales tax proposal.
Speaker Smith said he didn’t
see any reason why the special
session could not pass the same
amendment. Smith also noted
another of his favorite plans,
namely that the lawmakers
could get a reduction in the
soaring property taxes by chop
ping the required funds local
systems pay under the much
talked about Minimum Founda
tion Program for Education,
However, the House Speaker
failed to mention that Maddox
has strongly opposed any form
of local option taxes, although
he did say, when calling the
special session, he might be
willing to compromise on some
local option bills, after the re
turning legislators passed his
SIOO-mlllion increase in the
statewide sales tax.
federal government to pass :
along a certain percentage of i
its total tax revenues to states <
and localities, with no strings i
attached, to be used as they i
think best. This is called
"revenue sharing.” i
Dr. Burns said it would be i
necessary to attach one basic •
condition: Money received from
the federal government through
revenue sharing would not be
used to reduce state or local 1
taxes. To qualify for federal i
aid, a state or city would have i
to maintain or Increase its
efforts to finance its own needs,
using the federal money to do ■
things it otherwise would be :
unable to do, such as improve
its schools, increase welfare
payments or rebuild ghettos.
“Revenue sharing is a
practical way to ease the grave ;
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financial difficulties being en- i
countered by our states and i
cities, and at the same time :
achieve a radical decentralize- ;
tion of governmental power, so 1
that decisions are made by :
officials in the best position to 1
know what will work and what
won’t work in their communi- <
ties,” said Dr. Burns.
Piecemeal System
Under the present system,
which has grown up piecemeal
over many years, the federal
government dispenses largesse
through a multiplicity of
specific prant-in-aid programs,
each of which has its own
particular objective, its own
controls and requirements, and
its own reports to be filled out
and sent to Washington.
Defenders of the existing
system say it is necessary and
desirable to retain some federal
control over the uses to which
federal money is put. Block
grants or revenue sharing, they
contend, would make it possible
for some state and local
officials to waste federal aid
funds on frills or boondoggles,
distribute them unfairly, or
divert them to purely political
purposes.
It comes down to a basic
difference of opinion about who
is most likely to make wise
decisions—authorities in Wash
ington, or those at the state and
local level. The assumption that
federal decisions are more
likely to be in the public
interest has prevailed in
Washington for a long time,
under Republican as well as
Democratic rule.
Griffin Daily News
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Wednesday, June 11, 1969