The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 June 1968 — Page 3
Friday, June 28, 1968
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Page 3
The Negro soldier returns home
By THOMAS CORPORA NEW YORK (UPI)—To ease the Negro soldier’s return to civilian life, federal, state and local governments, civil rights groups and private agencies are operating numerous programs to help him find a job, a home or an education. New York City has a center where any veteran can get help in one office with housing, a job or school. Chicago has an employment center limited to Vietnam veterans. A Washington group known as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law is helping Negro veterans obtain jobs as policemen. The American Legion has a job program. So does the U.S. Department of Labor. Three Biggest The three biggest programs are the Veterans Administration’s “one stop” assistance centers recently set up in 20 cities for “disadvantaged” veterans; the Urban League’s veterans affairs coordinators in nine major cities, and the Defense Department’s “Project Transition.” “Project Transition” began as a pilot program at five military bases in June, 1967. It became optional at all U.S. military bases Jan. 1, 1968. Of the approximately 750,000 men who leave the services each year, all take part in “Project Transition” at least to the extent of filling out a questionnaire. More than half ask for some help in counseling, skill enhancement, education or job placement. The program has arranged with about 50 private companies to train men while they are still in uniform. In most cases, this results in quick jobs for the men when they are discharged. Since the men are trained in the service, the program also results in a saving of as much as $1,000 per man to the firm that employs him. The program offers vocational training in data processing, post office and police department work, automotive mechanics, drafting, electricity, radio and television, welding and service station management. In addition, the Defense Department offers early discharges to men who qualify as —Heloise stage which makes quite a clean-up job for mother. I found that wedging an old sock in the top of the drawer holds it fast enough so she can’t pull it open. She continued to try pulling, but when she didn’t have success, she gave up the sport to find other enjoyment. Mrs. N. Williams * • * DEAR HELOISE: Just how do you keep poached eggs from sticking in a skillet or pot ? Sticky * * * Honey, this may sound way out, but so help me it’s true. A few years ago, a chef told me that if I would put two tablespoons of vinegar in the water before dumping in the eggs to be poached, that they wouldn't stick. He cooks six eggs every morning in a big skillet with an Inch of water using NO salt. Do not cover. - He swore to me that I would not taste the vinegar. I’ve been poaching eggs in vinegar water ever since. Really, it doesn’t smell and doesn’t taste. And they sure don't stick. Heloise • * * DEAR HELOISE: I use my snow shovel in the yard the way I use a dust pan in the house. I brush small amounts of trash on the shovel and put it in the incinerator. Saves stooping and since it’s large, it holds a lot. Ruth Field
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policemen and win jobs on city law enforcement staffs. Since the program was inaugurated last fall, 536 servicemen, some of them Negroes, have gotten early discharges to become policemen. Sgt. Raymond Daly of Brooklyn, a Negro Vietnam veteran, earned a high school diploma through “Project Transition,” and says when he gets out of the service, “I feel my chances of getting a good job will be better.” Diesel Mechanic S. Sgt. John Earl Foley of Beaumont, Tex., an airman who served in Vietnam, was undecided about what he would do when he got out of the service. Through project counselors he decided to be a diesel mechanic. “Project Transition helped
me find a good school to attend to take up mechanics,” Foley said. The Veterans Administration’s “one-stop” assistance centers were created early this year to offer the “disadvantaged veteran,” primarily Negroes with little education and skilled only in the use of such weapons as the M16 rifle or M79 grenade launcher, one place where he can learn about benefits to which he is entitled and receive job and educational counseling. The assistance center gets the names of “disadvantaged veterans” from the VA’s data processing center at Austin, Tex., and VA personnel attempt to make direct contact with each one through telephone
State school $$ rise
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) — State aid to local schools could reach as high as $382 million annually by 1975, more than double the amount of state sup- ^ port paid in 1965. But the per centage increase would be well below that of the preceding decade. Statistics prepared by John S. Harris of the Fiscal and Management Analysis Division of the Indiana Legislative Council said the $382 million figure should be considered a maximum possibility, and the amount could be as low as $265 million. For the fiscal year ending in 1965, state aid amounted to $184.7 million, or 170 per cent more than the $58.5 million paid to local schools in 1955. Harris noted that the maximum projected figure for 1975 was 107 per cent more than the 1965 outlaw and the minimum estimate was 44 per cent more. “The most significant findings of the projection are that average daily attendance of primary and secondary Indiana public schools will remain almost level, at slightly over one million for the remainder of the 1965-75 decade,” Harris said. And “thus the percentage increase in state aid to public schools. . .should be substantially less than the 170 per cent increase.” The annual state aid cost per pupil in average daily attendance in 1965 was $456, compared with $356 in 1960 and $264 in 1955. Harris said this could climb as high as $633 in 1970 and $854 in 1975, although these figures could be lower. “State aid to local schools in Indiana was projected by assuming the state’s share of current operating cost of primary and secondary schools would be 43 per cent of total
projected current operating expenditures in both fiscal years 1970 and 1975,” Harris said. “The projected rate of participation by the state is 3 per cent above the 40 per cent which prevailed during the past two bienniums. The expected increase reflects the increased share of aid appropriated to local school corporations by the 1967 General Assembly,” he said. “The projection assumed this increased rate of participation by the state would continue throughout the decade.” Hartke fights WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., engaged in an oral argument Wednesday with Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler over U.S. economic policies. Hartke and Fowler tangled as the treasury chief urged the Senate Finance Committee to approve the Administration’s new and less-stringent travel tax on American tourists. According to Hartke, Fowler was wrong in pushing for the recently approved 10 per cent surtax and said the Administration was taking the wrong ap. proach in attempting to reduce the U.S. international payments deficit. “You believe in restricting the economy where I believe in freeing the economy,” Hartke said. “You believe in controls. You want to use all the things Britain has used with all those bad results.” “You and I disagree sharply,” Fowler replied coolly. “But I guess that’s what makes a horse race.” The finance committee put off until Thursday an initial test vote on the Administration’s travel curbs which Hartke opposes.
calls, personal visits to his home or by letters. Perhaps the most effective program is operated by the Urban League. It is financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Defense Department cooperates. Contact GIs Between 90 and 120 days before discharge, military officials contact each Negro GI, inform him of the Urban League’s program and, if he desires, give him a league questionnaire that asks about employment, education and housing and whether the serviceman needs assistance. Frank R. Steele, a retired major and head of the program, said the league gets about 1,600 requests for assistance each month—about 19,200 a year, or from one-third of the Negroes being discharged. The league has full-time veteran coordinators in nine cities—New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Washington and San Francisco. Modeled after New York City’s veterans center, the program offers job, educational, housing and other counseling services in one office. The Urban League has had considerable success. During the first three months of this year, 2,162 Negro veterans asked for assistance in finding a job and the league placed 805 of them; 150 wanted help with housing and the league helped 59, and 779 asked for vocational or educational guidance and the league assisted 662. Problems Exist Despite the numerous programs, there are still problems — jobs in Atlanta, for instance. In New Orleans, it is housing. Otilio Mighty, New York Urban League coordinator, said he gets many calls from wellmeaning employers who have a $65 a week janitorial or deliveryboy jobs to offer. Some Negro veterans find that the best way to get what they want is to avoid the various programs that have been created for them and use their own resources. Robert C. Kay ton, 24, of Detroit, discharged from the Marine Corps in January, was determined to become a photographer. He went to the Urban League for help. “The Urban League suggested maybe I’d better take another job for a while and they’d keep looking,” Kayton said. “I didn’t do that.” He finally found a job as an industrial photographer through a Negro employment agency. His boss, Scott Lewis, said he hired Kayton because he showed “goodpotential.” “I expected a lot of him when I got him, and he’s showing me more than I expected,” Lewis said.
Foreign news commentary
“If I am not capable of settling these questions then I should no longer be in this position.” — President Josef Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, June 9, 1968. It was not the first time the 77-year.old Tito had startled his fellow Communists, beginning with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who fired him from the Cominform for deviating from the Moscow line in 1948. His defense of Yugoslavia’s rebellious students, whose cause he made his own, was a far cry from the tough tactics employed to quell similar unrest in another Communist state, Poland, only a few weeks earlier.
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Of the student grievances, he declared; “I myself have often raised these questions and they still are not resolved.” His soft words turned away the wrath of the students who had protested harsh living conditions in the university and demanded a greater democratization within the Communist party, including press freedom. This week, Tito told 2,000 trade union delegates that reform directives issued by the party leadership at the end of the student demonstrations “are being carried into life too slowly.” Between the restless students, the trade unionists and within
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Woman’s View
By GAY PAULEY
By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI)-It used to be that a woman bought a winter coat, period. These days the coat alone is increasingly scarce. The “in” fashion is the costume. Rarely is a coat shown without coordinated dress
Bayh asks consumer protection EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPI)— Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., Thursday called for a “broad local and national effort” to protect both consumers and retailers in lowincome neighborhoods. Addressing a seminar for businessmen, Bayh said a major and “often overlooked source of frustration” among Americans with lower incomes is that while they earn less for their labor, they pay more for nearly every, thing they buy. “Significantly higher prices for goods at stores in low-income areas do not necessarily result from improper business practices but more often from a lack of competition combined with the generally limited mobility of consumers in low-in-come areas,” he said. He said what’s needed is a better understanding of why these conditions exist and then find ways to correct them. “If we turn our attention to this problem, I believe we can do much to reduce frustration and tension among Americans of lower income by enabling them to make their earnings go farther and enjoy the benefits of their labor,” he added.
or shirt-skirt or shirt-pants combination beneath. A New York ready-to-wear manufacturer summed up aptly the trend on the fashion scene when he remarked the other day, “We used to make nothing but coats. You could ask a manufacturer what his line was and he’d say, T’m in coats’ or ‘I’m in suits.’ Now most of them are making the major ingredients of a woman’s wardrobe.” The speaker was Richard Marks, whose wife, the designer Luba, works for his firm, Elite Juniors, and just picked up the fashion’s industry’s top annual award, the “Winnie.” The award, or sometimes more than one each year, is presented by a committee fashion editors and reporters. Marks went on to say, “we used to be strictly a coat house. Now we do dresses, suits, pants suits...” Some of the fall season’s coat costumes paired great wraparounds with pantsuits, these with the trousers cut widelegged like the movieland set was wearing back in the 1930’s. Typical are the combinations in Oscar de la Renta’s collection. De la Renta, who also just picked up his second “Winnie”, showed dozens of trouser costumes in casual wools worn under overcoats, many trimmed in fur. Outstanding was his bold, glen plaid pants and skinny top shown under a greatcoat brodered in fur around its big collar, down the front tuxedo style and around the hem. * * * Henry Laurens of Charlestown, S.C., president of the Continental Congress, was at one time confined in the Tower of London on suspicion of high treason.
his own party, Tito’s problems were manifold. After more than a year of radical overhaul of party policy and the national economy, unemployment continued to mount. Many of the victims of the unemployment were young university graduates who had been promised jobs in which they could see their new learning and then were unable to find any. Within the party and in management of industry were many who owed their jobs more to their activity as underground Communist partisans in World War II than to training or ability. They resisted both partydecentralization and the economic reform which suddenly exposed yugoslav industry to the harsh realities of international free competition. Tito has rejected charges from other Communist nations that his reform program “leads to capitalism.” Instead, he says, “it leads to socialism in a more humane way.”
LB.I wiints lower voting age WASHINGTON (UPI)- President Johnson, terming the ballot box “the great anvil of democracy,” asked Congress Thursday to approve a constitutional amendement granting 18-year-olds the right to vote in federal elections. Johnson, in a message to Congress, said “the time has come to grant oui youth what we ask of them but still deny to them— full and responsible participation in our American democracy.” The amendment would require two-third approval in both the Senate and the House and ratification by three-fourths of the fifty state legislatures. Joseph Califano, special assistant to the President, said it v/as the President s hope that the amendment could be ratified v/ithin a year. He said that in 1969, all but three state legislatures— Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia—will be in session. * * * The Date Line is a zig-zag line near the 180th meridian where the date must be advanced one day- when crossing in a westerly direction and set back one day when crossing the line in an easterly direction.
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1963 Ford
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1961 Dodge
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1959 Dodge
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