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Don't Bet Against New Welfare Proposal
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Nixon is going to have
plenty of trouble getting the
public and Congress to accept
his new welfare plan. But don’t
bet against him.
The proposal is heavy with
controversy. First, it would
double the cost and more than
double the number of persons
eligible for public assistance.
Second, it would “nationalize
welfare—removing the tradi
tional power of states, counties
and cities to decide who needs
welfare and how much they
should get.
Finally and perhaps most
significantly, it would start
changing the entire basis of the
35-year-old U.S. public welfare
program. Up to now, welfare
has been restricted to people
who had some problem other
than just being poor — the
infirmities of age, physical
disability, the loss of parental
support.
Nixon’s plan would provide
money to all families simply
because they need it. The
president made a great point of
de-”’ - this would b a
“Gt \ nteed annual Ijncome”
beca it requires the jobless
to accept work or training if
they are available in order to
get assistance payments. A
“pure’’ guaranteed annual in
come plan would provide
payments even to those who
Georgia Mother Sends Her
Flag To President Nixon
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If you are under 65 and live in
Spalding, Pike, Henry, Lamar or Butts
County you can apply for one of our
“Individual Plans” that have no non
coordination clause and pay regardless
of any group plan you may be enrolled
in at the present time.
Our NEW $20.00 per day. Unlimited Hospi
tal Service Plan, with all Hospital charges
j paid in full so rthirty (30) days, each illness
or injury AND for each member of the fam
ly enrolled, is the answer to the high cost
of hospital care.
The $20.00 per day room allowance does not
apply if you end up in INTENSIVE CARE
UNIT. We pay the $50.00, $75.00 or $85.00
per day instead. The only cost to you would
be the $5.00 per day deductible for the first
ten (10) days. Suppose you were in INTEN
SIVE CARE for (10) days and $20.00 day
? room for (5) days, all hospital charges
I would be paid exxeept $50.00.
GRIFFIN HOSPITAL CARE
ASSOCIATION, INC.
N. Hill Street, Griffin, Georgia
WE ARE IN THE McLELLAN BUILDING AND AS NEAR AS YOUR PHONE
F. L. Bartholomew, Jr., Secty.
rfuse to go to work.
But with all the seemingly
potent arguments against the
Nixon plan, there are a number
• of reasons to believe that it or
something akin to it will
eventually become law.
The present public welfare
.
Analysis
system is a mess. Taxpayers,
lawmakers, welfare workers,
sociologists and poor people
agree on this, if for different
reasons. And the President and
his advisers have tried very
hard to answer the objections
of all these groups to the
existing arrangement.
Longßange Goals
For the taxpayers, Nixon
concedes the added buiden now
but offers the promise of a plan
tied to training and employing
the poor with the goal of
making them independent. The
administration is stressing the
, “work requirement” feature to
avoid the image that it wants
to give anyone “something for
nothing."
For congressmen and state
legislators, there is the pros
i pect of more money to attack
.the screaming problems at
home. Nixon’s proposal to begin
hartrg federal tax revenues
i with the states on a no-string-
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (UPI)
—A mother embittered by her
son’s death in Vietnam and
frustrated by the cold response
to her letters to Washington has
sent he American flag from
her son’s coffin to President
Nixon.
“I hate the flag for what it
stands for in Vietnam — the
murder of our young men”,
said Mrs. Miles Stewart, a
prominent businesswoman in
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attached basis, plus the guaran
tee of at least a 10 per cent cut
in present welfare costs is a
political "sweetener” of the
first magnitude.
For front-line welfare work
ers, the plan would relieve
them of odious and time
consuming eligibility checks
and investigations. Instead of
trying to find out if a welfare
mother has an able-bodied
boyfriend in residence, the
welfare professionals would be
counseling and other social
services.
For the sociologists and
others who look at the welfare
system from a more detached
viewpoint, the Nixon plan
solves two major shortcomings.
First, it no longer encourages
lathers to desert their families
so that they can qualify for aid
to dependent children. Second,
it no longer discourages reci
pients from taking jobs by
permitting them to keep part of
their wages without losing an
equal amount of welfare. And
finally, it pays a money bonus
for those who accept job
training in addition to threaten
ing those who refuse to
cooperate with loss of benefits.
For the poor, there is the
prospect of more money and
fewer indignities. The plan
would envision the poor apply
ing for benefits and receiving
payments from the federal
Social Security Administration,
this east Georgia town.
“But I love it for what i is
supposed to sand for,” she
said, adding she sent the flag
last month.
Pvt. Wayne Stewart, 22, was
killed in combat last April.
Mrs. Stewart said she has sent
letters to senators, congress
men and military authorities
asking “what this war is
about.” She said she’s written
the President but there was no
answer.
“I don’t think I could live
with myself if I didn’t try to
help stop this killing,” said
Mrs. Stewart, who says she is
not a pacifist.
Along with the flag, she sent
a photo of the young private
and a letter which said in part,
“I do not want a flag which
represents a country which is
sacrificing her young men as
this one is doing.”
She requested “everyone
down to line” to retract their
condolences. “I want no part of
such hypocrisy.”
She said her son was study
ing to be an attorney, and
would have been “an honest,
good one, an asset to his coun
!■ try.”
“Can you imagine the agony
of packing up his youthful
1 camping equipment, his clothes,
his toothbrush?” she wrote.
Mrs. Stewart, who runs a
welcome wagon service in
Warner Robins, said she would
have been proud to give her
eon for a good cause.
“As it now stands, the loss
of respect for my country is
surpassed only by the grief
over his murder," she said.
’ and for theif claims of
■ dependency to be accepted with
■ mn-o povernment snooping
! <but the same possibilities of
criminal penalties for fraud)
' than the average citizen suffers
in the process of paying Income
taxes.
! It may take two or more
congressional sessions, but with
the present system giving every
indication of continuing to
‘ skyrocket in both cost and
political controversy, Nixon’s
(Jan may make it.
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She started bowling at age 69.
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Briefs
Philippines
export rice
MANILA (UPI) - The
Philippines became a rice ex
porter for the first time in 1968,
selling 36,500 metric tons of
surplus cereal to India and
Indonesia worth $5,835,840.
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Piggy back mileage
NEW YORK (UPI) - Annual
railroad mileage logged by Trailer
Griffin Daily News
Train piggyback cars is equal to
4,500 round trips to the moon,
12 round trips to the sun and
87,000 trips around the earth.
The 51,000-car fleet of the com
pany, owned by major railroads,
accumulates 247.000 miles hour
ly.
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- Coal is big
in Kentucky
' FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) -
Although Kentucky’s largest in
dustry' is agriculture, the state’s
biggest individual industry is coal.
Kentucky ranks third in the
nation, producing about 100 mil
lion tons of coal per year.
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Sat. and Sun., August 9-10, 1969
Oil Equipment
Supplier Sales
TULSA, Okla. (UPI) - The
Petroleum Equipment Suppliers
Association reports 1969 sales
by members should total about
S9BO million, an increase of 5
per cent over 1968.
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Can Crusher
OSAKA, Japan (UPI) - A
Japanese firm has developed a
machine which could be install
■ ed in parks or fair grounds to
> crush tin cans into blocks for
easy disposal.
The Can Peko press will crush
140 empty drink cans into one
sixth their original volume in
three minutes, the manufactur
ers say. The machine weighs
1,760 pounds, occupies 21.4
square feet and sells for 650,000
, yen ($1,805).
Twenty of the can crushers
are scheduled to be installed
in the 1970 world exposition
at Osaka, Japan’s second largest
city.
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Dutch car sales
at a record
AMSTERDAM (UPI) - Sales
of new cars in Holland in 1968
were a record 334,675 units in
1968, a 27 per cent increase over
1967.