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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1965
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Tomorrow will be the last day
of regular school for the seniors.
On Monday they will begin their
last semester exams, followed by
graduation services on May 31.
The band presented its annual
spring concert last night in the
school auditorium. The chorus will
present its concert tomorrow dur
ing the chapel program.
The Oracle, high school year
book, was presented to the NHS
student body yesterday during a
special chapel program in the
auditorium. The presentation was
made by Pat Underwood, editor.
Since senior exams begin next
week, this will be the last column
to appear in this newspaper until
next fall because if the editors
don’t study, they may be doing
this for a living. Your campus re
porters for next year will be
Cathy Bennett and Katherine Mc
Cullough. We would like to take
this opportunity to thank Mr.
Armfield for allowing us to write
this column this year and we wish
next year’s reporters luck.
The juniors did a marvellous
job with the Junior-Senior banquet
and dance last weekend. The
theme, “The Touch of Midas” will
be impressed upon the minds of all
who attended for a long time to
come. Since the theme called for
a touch of mystery, the occasional
flashes of lightning during the
dance on Saturday night added
just the right touch of magic to
make this year’s prom a success.
Until next fall: “May the road
rise to meet you, may the wind be
always at your back and may God
bless each and every one of you
always.”
(The Sun wishes to extend its
sincere appreciation to Gail and
Barry for the excellent work they
have done on this column this
year. We thank them and wish
them the best of luck; we look
forward to having Cathy and
Katherine join our “staff” next
year.—Ed.)
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Seek increase
in compensation
Compensation payments to vet
erans disabled in service would be
increased about $130,000,000 an
nually under administration en
dorsed legislative proposals en
unciated by William J. Driver, Ad
ministrator of Veterans Affairs.
This was reported today by
Stanley Zuk, Manager of the Col
umbia Veterans Administration
Regional office, who said the pro
posals are now under considera
tion by Congress.
Declaring that totally disabled
veterans are “clearly under-com
pensated,” Driver says he supports
H R 171, a measure introduced by
Representative Olin E. Teague,
Chairman of the House Veterans
Affairs Committee, which would
increase compensation for totally
disabled veterans by $600 dollars
a year.
In a recent appearance before
the Compensation and Pension
Subcommittee of the House Vet
erans Committee, Driver also un
veiled two new compensatory pro
posals recommended by the Vet
erans Administration.
One proposal would equalize the
rates of disability compensation
paid to veterans disabled in war
time and peacetime service. Under
present law, payments to peace
time veterans are only 80 per cent
of those authorized for war-time
veterans.
In his testimony in support of
this proposal, which would pro
vide a first year increase of about
$28,000,000 to peacetime veterans,
and certain dependents, the VA
chief said: “It is apparent that a
veteran who has suffered a disab
ility as a result of peacetime ser
vice has the same loss of earning
capacity as a veteran with the id
entical disability suffered during
wartime service. Hence, we can
not justify a continuance of the
differential in the rates of dis
ability compensation on any basis
consistent with the nature and
purpose of this benefit.”
The other VA proposal recom
mends the extension to certain
veterans severely disabled by mil
itary service since the end of the
Korean conflict of the $1,600 as
sistance paid by the VA for the
purchase of specially equipped au
tomobile or other conveyance.
In addition to the sizeable in
crease for totally disabled veter
ans, H R 171, which Driver sup
ports, would provide modest in
creases to most veterans with dis
abilities rated less than total, and
would achieve a uniformity of in
tervals between disability levels.
The bill would also give a ten
per cent increase in the additional
allowance which is paid for de
pendents in the case of veterans
whose disabilities are rated at50
per cent or greater.
ANNOUNCE ADOPTION
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Slaton of 1807
Harper street announce the adop
tion of a baby boy* Lin Rosson
(Ross) on May 7, 1965. The baby
was born on March 14, 1965 and
weighed six. pounds, ten ounces at
birth.
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...by Dr. Georg* S. Benson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
S**rcy, Arkensat
POVERTY WAR EXPERIMENT
Last August the New York
Daily News, exercising only a
little reportorial initiative, discov
ered in Manhattan a multi-million
dollar slum project lavishly subsi
dized by federal, city and private
(Ford Foundation) money and
liberally infested with Communists
and Communist-fronters. Mobiliza
tion for Youth, Inc. built on the
latest social theory to be had from
the city’s universities, had neg
lected to safeguard itself against
Red infiltration and political scan
dal .
MFY was launched auspiciously
some two years ago by the late
President Kennedy, who described
it as “the most advanced program
yet devised to combat delinquency
on a broad scale.” The New York
Times, then, was calling it “part
of a program designed to strike
eventually at the roots of the
national juvenile delinquency prob
lem.” As late as last July, Presi
dent Johnson was announcing a
$1.5 million federal grant to MFY
for training school drop-outs and
declaring his “deep interest and
support.”
New Methods
Thus the panacea that was to
have ended poverty and delinquen
cy on Lower East Side was under
the aegis of Washington from its
beginning. But until recently nei
ther the federal government nor
the press, and therefore the pub
lic, knew anything about what was
taking place within this experi
mental war on poverty. After two
years and $8 millions of taxpayers’
money largely wasted, about all
that is left is investigations and
reports. An FBI report sustained
the charge that the project was
Communist-ridden, while a report
of sociologists to the White House
cited its “outstanding contribu
tions” in demonstrating “new and
effective methods.”
»v hat had this prototype for the
anti-poverty bill done, besides
squandering several millions of
what may have been a five year
budget of nearly $27 million? It
sponsored or made available facil
ities for radical political action
such as rent strikes led by Com
munists, promoted demonstrations
such as the Washington march, &
setup school boycots, all of which
were supposed to give slum kids
“participation” in community life.
Its executives had lavish expense
accounts, and its subversives had
refuge as well as financing. The
Times finally dutifully reported
that the FBI found in MFY two
Communists, three Chinese-type
President Johnson signed the
Reds, and 32 others with past
communist connections.
Next, Hie Poverty Bill
poverty bill a short time after
the explosion rocked New York
City. The investigations were
slowed down “until after the elec
tions,” but a city board eventually
Newberry County girls who took part in the thirtieth annual May Day program at Newberry Col
lege are, left to right, (bottom row) Carol Douglass, Whitmire; Marcia Kirkland, Elizabeth Norris,
both of Newberry; Anne Hentz, Newberry Route 2; Bootsie Reagin, Newberry; (second row) Brenda
Campbell, Whitmire; Karen Eader, Lisa Lorn mack, both of Newberry; (top row) Judy Halfacre, Pros
perity Route 3; Julia Richardson, Newberry Route 2. (Newberry College Photo)
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Keys were presented recently to
of outstanding service during the 1!
editor of “The Indian, campus new
Kelly, Newberry, business manager
Shumpert, Pelion, assistant editor c. —- _
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members on Newberry College publications in recognition
academic year. Left to right are Jo Anne Corley, Lexington,,
came up with a long list of grieve
ances such as “loose and shoddy
administrative practices,” “im
proper spending,” and hiring of
individuals of questionable back
ground and activities..” In the
meantime, those with such back
grounds fled the shelter of MFY,
like rats from a burning building.
As the scandal exploded MFY
officials were boasting of the dis
tinction they were achieving as
Mr. Johnson’s pioneers. They
bragged of staffing a similar Har
lem organization that proposes to
spend $118 million in three years,
and were sending personnel to
other organizations outside the
state. Scores of MFY staff mem
bers were fleeing the premises,
and the rush was on among poft^
ticians such as Javits, Johnson,
and Wagner to dissociate them
selves
Whose Ideas Behind It?
The liberals running the MFY
pilot plant did not believe in in
quiring into the background of
its employees’ political beliefs.
The truth very likely is that they
were ideologically unable to dis
tinguish Marxism from liberalism,
in those surroundings. The whole
basis of MFY’s approach was to
challenge the existing American
concepts, defying law and order
as well as traditional institutions,
in the style and manner of Marx
ist revolutionaries. The full ex
tent of its Communist penetration
may not be known unless Congress
investigates it.
The scandal of irresponsible
waste of public funds is bad
enough. Worse c,ertainly, was
tkp »4ea a|. devoting effort, energy,
and, treasure to such admirable
purposes in such an un-American
manner. Thomas could rub his
hands gleefully and praise the
windfall that socialism received
in the poverty bill. On the basis
of this evidence provided by MFY,
the newest theories of the socio
logists are impossible to imple
ment, even with assistance from
Marxists. Will it be the same else
where as in New York?
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