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PAGE 8— The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Oct. 12, 1967
SENATOR
STRO
HURMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
POVERTY PERSPECTIVE
It is time to put the poverty
program in the proper perspec
tive. It is obvious that the
program has not reduced pov
erty in the slightest. The truth
is that no government pro
gram can produce wealth
where none existed before.
The poverty program is
largely a series of education
projects intended to offer so
cial training to those who have
been unable or unwilling to
meet the demands of modern
civilization. The theory is that
an extra push will help chronic
low-income families to break
the so-called “poverty cycle.”
THE EFFECT
Too often, the effect of such
extra government assistance
has been to train the recipients
to expect even more govern
ment assistance. Instead of or
ganizing an individual’s assets
to do battle with the hard facts
of life, the programs organize
the recipients into pressure
groups prepared to blackmail
the government and society
itself.
One error lies in Federal
financing which is extended to
private action groups in the
various localities. Since these
non-profit groups are quasi-
private and often receive some
funds from non-Fcderal sources,
the Office of Economic Oppor
tunity claims to have no con
trol over the revolutionaries
who ride in on the back of
Federal money and prestige.
Thus newspaper reports indi
cate that the riots in Newark
early this summer began at a
meeting called by poverty
workers. According to the Po
lice Director in Newark, the
poverty warriors had been con
ducting a campaign against the
city government, using poverty
agency mimeograph machines,
and spending the agency’s funds
to hire sound trucks to whip
up hatred.
It is not surprising that the
Newark agency, the United
Community Corporation, was
involved in such violent action.
A high ranking official in the
Newark agency, Willie Wright,
was revealed to be a member
of the Community Black
Patrol, a group urging slum
dwellers to arm themselves.
Even though Wright was or
dered suspended temporarily,
the OEO in Washington said
that, as a board member, he
coudn’t be fired.
Still another Newark official,
Jesse Allen, a member of an
area liaison board, was also a
member of a radical socialist
organizing project in Newark
sponsored by the Students for
a Democratic Society. This
spring Allen traveled to Puerto
Rico to participate in Commu
nist-led agitation for Puerto
Rican independence. His trip
was paid for by the Tricon
tinental Information Center of
New York, a revolutionary
propaganda center sponsored by
many of the most notorious
U.S. Communists.
OTHER CITIES
So it went from city to city.
In Jersey City, the OEO said
it was unable to dismiss Roy
Kennix as head of a $145,000
project sponsored by the Jersey
City Council of Churches after
Kennix was fined $200 for con
tempt of court. Kennix also
called a, protest rally, with H.
Rap Brown as main speaker,
when two of his poverty work
ers w f ere arrested in a looting
incident.
One of the most notorious
examples was the revelation
that an OEO program in Nash
ville was sponsoring a "Hate
Whitey" school in a local
church. When the chairman of
the Nashville program denied
that Federal funds supported
the school, he was forced to
reverse his statements when
the truth came out.
Still another Incident oc
curred when a Harlem youth
group receiving poverty funds
came to the U.S. Capitol in
chartered buses, and created a
noisy and Illegal demonstration
in the gallery of the House of
Representatives. The leader of
this group was Jesse Gray, a
man identifled as a former
youth organizer for the Com
munist Party.
These incidents indicate
what happens when power and
money is given without respon
sibility. A government can
destroy itself by recklessly sub
sidizing agitation.
Coast Guard
exams be held
The 92nd annual competition
for admission to the United
States Coast Guard Academy,
located at New London, Conn.,
will commence with the Dec. 2,
1967 administration of the
College Entrance Examination
Board tests given in over 3000
test centers thruout the coun
try. Appointments to the Aca
demy are made solely on a
competitive basis with no con
gressional appointments or
geographical quotas. Applica
tions to participate in the
December CEEB tests must be
made to the Educational Test
ing Service prior to 28 October
1967.
To qualify an applicant must
be unmarried and must have
reached his 17th birthday but
not his 22nd birthday by July
1968. The minimum educational
requirement is a high school
diploma, however, high school
seniors assured of graduation
by June 30, 1968 are eligible
to compete provided they have
at least 15 credits by that time.
Applicants must have complet
ed three units in English, and
three in mathematics including
algebra and plane or coordin
ate geometry or their equiva-
ents. Applicants must be in ex
cellent physical condition, be
tween 64 and 78 inches in
height, with proportionate
weight, and have at least 20/30
vision in each eye, correctable
to 20/20.
Qualified young men are
urged to enter this nationwide
competition for appointment as
cadets in the nation’s oldest
seagoing service. Those ap
pointed will receive an excel
lent college education leading
to a Bachelor of Science degree
and a commission as an Ensign
in the Coast Guard.
Additional information and
application forms can be ob
tained from high school guid
ance counsellors or by writing
to the Director of Admissions,
U. S. Coast Guard Academy,
New London, Conn. 06320.
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“The South Carolina Trade
Schools’ enrollment figures
reached a new high with its
fall registration,” states M. B.
Robinson, Director. Total en
rollment for both the Columbia
and Denmark branches reached
a new all-time high of 1,454.
This is over a 19 per cent in
crease of last year’s 1,171 of
the same period. Each county
in the state has representation
in at least one of the two
branches.
This speaks well for the
Trade and Industrial Education
facilities as it shows that more
and more students are realizing
the immediate value of post
secondary education. Constant
communication is always kept
between the schools and in
dustrial leaders to ascertain
what is needed in the way of
courses to be taught and their
curriculum.
Four new courses have been
added to the Columbia branch
this year. They are: Welding
Technology, Civil Highway
Technology, Diesel Technology
and Electrical Technology.
These courses are designed for
the student who wants to sur
pass the trade and industrial
level and upon graduation will
be a qualified technician in his
chosen field of employment. He
will reach farther into the
more extensive particulars of
his field along with all prob
lems and engineering theories
that will be encountered.
With rapid industrialization
of South Carolina and its
growth as a major manufactur
ing center more and more
trained persons will be needed
by industry planning to locate
here. One of the areas main
assets will be a vast resource
of skilled tradesmen. A more
immediate problem is furnish
ing industry already located in
South Carolina the personnel
that must be obtained to enable
it to grow. Skilled man power
would almost be at the critical
stage if South Carolina’s Trade
and Industrial Education facil
ities did not have the extensive
program now being carried on.
Graduates of the South Car
olina Trade Schools add to the
State’s economy in two ways,
not only do they earn a higher
salary which usually goes back
in the economy as commerce
but they keep unemployment
figures down by having a skill
or trade that is constantly in
demand, thereby furnishing S.
C. with a higher caliber work
force. Over 99 per cent of the
Trade Schools’ graduates are
employed and over 95 per cent
are working in the occupational
field for which they were train
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