Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1962 — Page 8

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Many School Bills Are Being Studied

(EDITOR’S NOTE: A wide Variety of legislative proposals for strengthening America’s ed- , ucational system are before Congress. The following dis - patch reports on their present status and outlook. By LOVIS CASSELS United Press International WASHINGTON <UPI» — In his budget message to Congress early this year. President Kennedy said that more and better schools are indispensable to the preservation of America’s free society. He later submitted half a dozen legislative proposals for strengthening the educational system at every level from kindergarten through college, and in several special fields such as medical education, teacher training, and adult illiteracy. With the congressional session at the halfway mark, one education bill has been passed and seat to the White House. It authorizes $32 million in federal grants over the next five years to encourage development of educational television stations. The other bills are still in various stages of consideration. Some seem to have a good to excellent chance of enactment. The outlook for others ranges from dark to dismal. Here is an item-by-item report on the current status of the major proposals: COLLEGES It now appears probable that Congress will enact legislation providing about SSOO a year for the next three years to help public and private colleges build new classrooms, dormitories and laboratories. The big question is whether the bill also will provide scholarships for needy and talented students. Both the House and Senate have passed higher education aid bills. The Senate version, reflecting the administration’s requests, includes 212,500 four-year scholarships. The House did not vote any scholarships. A deal has now been made under which the bill will go to a conference committee soon. The House conferees will refuse to go along with the Senate scholarship provision, and will report back to the House for “instructions” on this issue. This will give the entire House to vote on the question of scholarships. On the basis of its past record, the House is likely to vote no. Another difference which will have to be ironed out in conference concerns the way in which the federal aid would be extended. The House has voted for S9OO, million in outright grants and S6OO million in loans: the Senate for $1.5 billion in loans only. MEDICAL EDUCATION The House Commerce Committee has approved legislation under which the f ederal government would expend about $1 billion over the next 10 years to expand facilities for training doctors and dentists. It also provides for lowinterest loans to students. This bill is before the House Rules Committee, and the word is that it will be cleared for floor action after the college aid bill is completed, perhaps in May. The expectation on Capitol Hill is that it will be passed by the House and Senate before adjournment. PUBLIC SCHOOLS President Kennedy keeps urging Congress to act on his proposal to pump $2.1 billion in federal aid into public school systems for classroom construction and teachers’ sal ari es. But his chances of getting it passed this year are pretty close to zero. To lawmakers who face an election this fall, the bill bears the fatal odor of religious controversy, growing out of Roman Catholic

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demands that parochial schools share in the federal aid funds. ! A House education subcommittee has been considering a sub- . stitute under which federal grants | totalling about SSOO million a year would be allocated among the : states, leaving each state to dei cide for itself whether t o pass 5 any of the aid along to parochial ’ schools. There is no likelihood of .. action this year on the substitute • i measure, introduced by Rep. • Cleveland Bailey, D-W.Va. TEACHER TRAINING j Pending in the House Education Committee, with uncertain prost pects, is a five-year, $748 million j bill to improve the quality of 1 teaching in public elementary and I high schools. Grants would be j provided to permit 2,500 teachers annually to go back to college for , a year’s advanced study. Other funds would set up summer t school institutes for teachers, and 5 1 underwrite ‘ special projects” for r improving teaching standards. ? For reasons which have not been 1 made clear, some southern conj gressmen suspect that this proi gram might somehow be used as -a lever to speed desegregation of - schools. t ADULT EDUCATION 1 The House Education Commit--5 tee has approved President Kennedy’s proposal to give the states t, SSO million over five years to ? ■ combat adult illiteracy. (There are about 8 million Americans ! over the age of 25 who have not t gone beyond the fifth grade in i school.) This bill is now in the r! House Rules Committee, awaiting t-1 a clearance for floor action which v i it may never get. -I MIGRANT CHILDREN s The Senate has passed, and the » administration has endorsed, a - $22 million program to help states provide better schooling for the » children of migrant farm workers i; who “follow the crops” from sea- - i son to season, rarely remaining ,I in one community long enough -for their children to obtain a • I minimum education. This bill 1 ; awaits action by the House Edu-1 • cation Committee. Its prospects' i are uncertain. • I HANDICAPPED CHILDREN > 1 A House education subcommit- >’ tee is working on legislation to > provide federal aid for the traini ing of special teachers for blind, - deaf, crippled, aphasic and other i handicapped children who cannot i ■ attend regular schools. This meas- : ure is expected to have a wide Protest Cutback In Indiana Guard - 4l INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — State ' 1 Adj. Gen. John Anderson Monday J prepared a requested plan for re-; 1 alignment of the 38th Infantry < Division of the Indiana National Guard. But he also prepared a strong 1 statement opposing the plan and < sent them both off to the National < Guard Bureau in Washington' 1 which had requested the plan as 1 part of a nation-wide proposal to cut ba ck National Guard units. * The plan could cause a loss of 1,200 men in the 38th. Anderson said, “The State of In- 1 diana strongly opposes these es- 1 forts to realign and reduce the 1 strength of the National Guard. “This plan is submitted at your request but should not be construed to be an agreement to the intent or feasibility of these actions.” , Governor Welsh, who must approve the cutback, still has not taken any stand on the matter. His office released the protest in the absence of Anderson who was in Washington at a meeting of National Guard officials. Four armories would be vacated under the proposed plan. They are lat Goshen, Wabash, Tipton and lAlexandria. Certain units at Kokomo and Lafayette would also be deleted. The 2nd Battle Group, 293rd Ini fantry, would be deleted and the 1 1st Battle Group, also of the 293rd, would be realigned affecting units at Frankfort, Kempton, Delphi, Monticello, Fort Wayne, Angola, Plymouth, Attica, Rensselaer and Logansport. The Ist Howitzer Battalion, 15Qth Artillery, would be deleted and the 2nd and 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron would be realigned affecting units at LebaDarlington, Elwood, Kokomo, Huntington and Peru. Seek Addresses Os 1955 Monmouth Grads This year is the class reunion year for the 1955 graduating class of die Monmouth high school. The committee in charge, Edward Blume, Mrs. Elaine Blakey Thieme and Mrs. Barbara Lewton Haynes, are completing plans for this t second reunion of the class. Current address of many memi bers of the class are needed by I the committee. Class members of | their parents are asked to mail the current addresses to Mrs. Barbara Lewton Haynes, rural route 1, Garrett, Ind., in care of Richard L Haynes. |

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TOTEM CARVER—Joe Hillaire of the Lummi Indian tribe, one of the few remaining totem carvers, gets an honorary pin from Nell Henley of People-to-People national headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. Hillaire was honored for carving a 32-foot totem pole as a People-to-People friendship gift from the people of Seattle to those of Kobe, Japan.

Gov. Welsh Is Speaker Today In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (UPl(—Governor Matthew Welsh of Indiana said today that Americans have “seriously we ake n e d through apathy or timidity" one of their major freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. Welsh’s reference was to the Fifth Amendment guarantee that a man would not be required to testify against himself. The Hoosier governor had been scheduled to attend a gridiron dinner at South Bend, Ind., Monday night and then fly here but he cancelled the press event and came directly to Philadelphia by train because of Midwest storms. I In an address prepared for “law day U.S.A.” sponsored by the I Philadelphia Bar Association, j Welsh discussed the impact of I organizations such as the John Birch Society but without naming them. “During the past decade we have been exposed to the activities of various groups and individuals whose fSith in freedom and the law is weak and who seek shortcuts to security by at* I tempting to suspend for some the basic rights of freedom to speak, write and think as they choose,” the governor said. “The fault lies more with those : who confined ther protests to the ; privacy of their homes when a free America is unjustly and pub- ; licly pilloried or who temper their ; views with unacknowledged fears t of sharing the same fate. s “Most of those who write the < hate’ letters, man the telephone j harassment and carry the slanderous charges are sincere but fright- s ened -people who do not know the c strength of freedom under the h law.” c Welsh maintained that fear of e such attack should not prevent f “responsible members of our com- c munity to speak, to write, and to hold any opinions. The law gives ti us these rights but we cannot per- “ mit it to become increasingly dis- j d

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ficult to exercise them for such reluctance can become as effective as if the law were changed. “There is probably no clearer example of this than that seeking the protection of the Fifth Amendment is no tantamount to a confession of guilt. Our forefathers in their wisdom and from their experiences with the excesses of the British Crown forces guaranteed their posterity freedom from forced self-accusation. For all practical purposes this protection has been seriously weakened.” Welsh told the Philadelphia lawyers that, “When we permit the threat of slanderous attack to make free speech unpopular we lose something of our heritage of freedom. When this happens it is more because of the apathy and timidity of the majority than the emotional and vocal frenzy of a tiny minority.” Dismisses Motion To Hah Election INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Marion County Superior Court Judge John Linder Monday dismissed a motion which would have prevented the Indiana Election Board from conducting the May 8 primary on the basis of present districts. The motion, for a restraining order, was one of two filed by State Sen. Nelson Grills in his battle to force reapportionment of the Indiana Legislature. Grills has contended that election of new legislators would be illegal without the reapportionment. Grills’s first motion still awaits a ruling. It was fil&F March 27 and would require the State Election Board to reapportion the state so urban area s would get the same representation as rural areas. Linder said he took the action so as not to cast a legal cloud over the primary. He expressed hope the main body of the Grills case, still pending in his court, eventually would be passed on to the Indiana and U.S. Supreme Courts. “Let them decide how reapportionment should be done," he said. “I don’t know how it should be done.”

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