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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Urges Extension
OF Federal Share

When first enacted, the aid
to dependent children program
provided for Federal sharing in
assistance payments only to
the child. Since 1850 there has
been Federal sharing in any
assistance given to one adult
in the household as well as to
the child or children. mas
much as, under current law
there may be two parents in
homes covered by this program,
one incapacitated or unem-
ployed, I recommend in the in
terest of equity the extension
OF Federal sharing in assistance
payments both to the needy
relative and to his or her
spouse when both are living in
the home with the child.
Under present public assist
ance provisions, States may i'm
pose residence requirements up
to five Of the last nine years
for the aged, blind and dis
abled. Increased mobility, as
previously mentioned, is a hall
mark of our times. It should
not operate unfairly on either
an individual State. or an indi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Calls for Big Rise
In Preventive Help

But children need more than
aid when they are destitute.
We need to improve our pre-
ventive and protective services
for children as well as adults.
I recommend that the present
ceiling of $25 million authorized
for annual appropriations for
grants to the States for child
welfare services be gradually
raised, beginning with $50 mil
lion for 1868, up to $50 million
for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1869, and succeeding years,
Finally, many women now
on assistance rolls could obtain
jobs and become Self-Support-
ing if local day care programs
for their young children were
available. The need fer such
programs for the chi lren of
working mothers has been in
creasing rapidly. OF the % mil
lion women now working, about
3 million have children under
s, and another as million have
Sabotage children between
and II. Adequate care for these
children during their most
formative years is essential tc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Pro-Red Troops Shell j:
Vital Lootion Airstrip

ing Nam Tha or anywhere else
in the kingdom.
The control group so far has
taken the stand that it can not
send inspection teams to any
point without specific author
ization from all three of the
rival factions. Since the three
sides have never agreed on any
site at which a cease fire VIC
lation has been alleged, the
control group has never in
spected anywhere since it came
here last May.
Prince Souvanna is scheduled
to go to. Luang Prabang to-
morrow for an audience wesa
King Savang Vathana. West
ern diplomats in Vientiane hope
he will meet also with Prince
Boun Gum, the Premier of the
Vientiane government, and Gen.
Phoumi to discuss formation of
a coalition government, but the
military situation dimmed hopes
Of concrete political achieve
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
WELFARE MESSAGE
Congress Is Urged
To Updote Program

their proper growth and train
ing. Therefore, I recommend
that the child welfare provi-
sions of the Social Security
Act be changed to authorize
earmarking UP to IS million
of grants to the States in 1868
and $40 million a year there
after for aid in establishing
local programs for the day care
of young children of working
mothers. ...., .
We must find ways of return
ing far more of our dependent
people to independence. We
must find ways of returning
them to a participating and
productive role in the COM
munity. =.
For this reason, I am recon-
mending a change in the law
to permit States to maintain
With Federal financial help
community work and training
projects for, unem ploye d
people receiving welfare pay
ments. Under such a program,
unemployed people on welfare
would be helped to retain their
work skills or learn new ones;
and the local community would
obtain additional manpower on
public projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01

VIENTIANE, Laos, Feb. /
(AP).-Pro- Communist forces
half encircling government
held Nam Tha shelled a vital
airstrip of that northwest pro-
vincial capital today. military
reports said.
Bombardment Of the airstrip
by Communist mortars immedi-
ately prevented use Of the run
way for transport planes bring
ing reinforcements and supplies
for the defenders.
The attackers in an arc
stretching northeast to south
number about four battalions
of Pathet Lao and perhaps
some North Wet Namese troops.
The report of Smelling of the
airStrip meant the attackers
had moved their mortars up
closer to town in the last two
days.
The three members of the
international Control Commits
sion flew to Xieng Khouang to
seek permission from Prince
Souvanna Phouma and pro-
Communist Prince Souphanou-
wong for an inspection team to
visit Nam Tha-100 miles north
OF Luang Prabang-and other
places where cease-fire viola
lions have been charged.
Avtar Singh, Indian chairman
OF the control commission, SAID
before boarding the plane that
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, Vice
Premier of the Western-backed
government in Vientiane, had
approved a control team visit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01

4" FOLLOWING Is a partial tert
of President Kennedy'S apel-
fare message to Congress
today:
Our basic public welfare pro-
grams were enacted more than
d quarter century ago. E.
But the tmies, the conditions,
the problems have changed
and the nature and detectives
Of our public assistance and
child welfare programs must be
changed, also, If they are to
meet current needs.
Moreover, even the nature
and causes of poverty have
changed. At the, time the So
cial Security Act established
our present basic framework for
public aid, the major cause of
poverty was unemployment and
economic depression. Today, in
a year of relative prosperity and
high employment, we are more
concerned about the poverty
that persists in the midst of
abundance.
The reasons are often more
social than economic, more
often subtle than simple. Some
are in need because they are
unframed for work-some be-
cause they cannot work, because
they are too young or too old,
blind or crippled. Some are in
need because they are dis
eliminated against for reasons
they cannot help. Responding
to their ills with scorn or
suspicion is inconsistent with
our moral precepts and incon-
sistent with their nearly uni
versal preference to be indie
pendent.
Public welfare, in short, must
be more than a salvage opera
ton, picking up the debris from
the wreckage of human lives.
Its emphasis must be directed
increasingly toward prevention
and rehabilitation-on reducing
not only the long-range cost in
budgetary terms but the long
range cost in human terms as
well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Thompson Talks
To Gromyko on
Berlin Third Time

MOSCOW, Feb. (AP).-
Ambassador Llewellyn Thomp-
son and Soviet Forein Minister
Andrei Gromyko spent two
hours and forty minutes in con-
ference today trying to arrange
for negotiations on the diff
cult Berlin crisis.
On leaving the Foreign Of
flee after his third talk with
Mr.. Gromyko on this subject
Mr.. Thompson declined to give
any information.
Mr.. Thompson was in an
amiable mood, but told report
ers standing in below-freezing
temperatures he could give out
no information on his discus
Sions.
This was the procedure he
followed in his first two meet
ings. Western sources learned
however, that in the first two
meetings the Russian position
demanding a quick settlement
Of the Berlin crisis through g
treaty with East Germany hac
not been modified.
Today Mr.. Thompson wa.
asked whether he had giver
any documents to Mr.. Gromykc
but simply repeated, II can say
nothing"
With Mr.. Thompson was
Second Secretary Kemptor
Jenkins, Embassy specialist or
German affairs. With Mr.. Gro.
myko was Ivan Ilyichev, Ger.
man specialist in the Foreign
Office.
Mr.. Thompson said he woulc
promptly inform the Ambas-
sailors from Britain, France
and West Germany about the
talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Hoffu. Appeal
Is Dismissed

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. /
(AP). - The United States
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
has dismissed an appeal by
James r. Hoffa, president of
the Transfers Union, in con-
nection with his indictment in
Orlando. Fla.
The court acted yesterday on
a joint motion by attorneys for
Mr.. Hoffa and the Government.
Mr.. Hoffa is under a To-
count indictment for fraud. He
is charged along with Robert E.
Mccarthy, jr., a Detroit bank
ing official, with misusing
more than 100000 of union
funds in connection with a
Florida housing development.
They have pleaded not guilty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01

vidual family. I recommend
that the Social Security Act
be amended so as to provide
that States receiving Federal
funds not exclude any other
wise eligible persons who have
been residents Of the State fol
one year Immediately preceding
their application for assistance
I also recommend that the law
be amended to provide a small
increase in assistance funds tC
those States which simplify
their laws by removing all resi-
dence requirements in any Of
their federally aided programs
In view of the changing ma
ture of the economic and social
problems of the country. the
desirability of a periodic re-
view of our public welfare pro-
grams is obvious. For that pur-
pose I propose that the Secre-
tary of Health. Education and
Welfare be authorized to ap-
point an advisory council or
public welfare representing
broad community interests and
concerns, and such other ad-
visory committees as he deems
necessary to advise and con-
suit with him in the admin
istration of the Social Security
Act.
No study Of the public well
fare program can fail to note
the difficulty of the problems
faced or the need to be imagi-
native in dealing with them
Accordingly, I recommend that
amendments be made to en-
courage experimental, pilot OF
demonstration projects that
would promote the detectives
of the assistance titles and helr
make our welfare programs
more flexible and adaptable tc
local needs.
The simplification and CO.
ordination of administration
and operation would greatly
improve the adequacy and con-
sistency Of assistance and re-
lated services. AS a step ir
that direction, I recommend
that a new title to the Socia,
Security Act be enacted which
would give to States the option
of submitting a single, unified
State plan combining theil
assistance programs for thu
aged, blind and disabled, anc
their medical assistance pro-
grams for the aged, granting
to such States additional Fed
eral matching for medical pay
ments on behalf of the blinc
and disabled.
To strengthen our human re-
sources Ito demonstrate tn,
compassion Of free men-ant
in the light of our own con
structive self-interest-we mus
|, bring our welfare programs III
to date. I urge that the. Con
gress do so without delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
3 Indicted in Newark
Poyoff ConspirocyCose

payments to a union represent
alive.
Attorney General Robert F..
Kennedy announced the indict-
ment by a Federal grand jury
after two of the three men
were arrested by the FBI. The
third was still being sought, he
said.
Mr.. Kennedy said the ar
rested men are:
Phillip Weiss, 81, New York
salesman, arrested early today
at a Miami Beach (Fla.) hotel,
Herman Cohen, 81, operator
of the Supreme Beverage Co.,
a Newark beer distributing
firm, arrested at his home in
South Orange, N. j.
The third indicted official
arrested at his home in Newark
after Mr.. Kennedy's announce
ment, was identified as Joseph
Pecora, Sc, secretary treasurer
Of Transfers Local 1853 in
Newark.
Pecora is the 18th Teamsters
Union official indicted since
last September % on charges
involving illegal payments by
employers to union officials.
One count of the indictment
charged all three men with con-
spring to ask operators of the
new defunct G. Kruger Brew
ing Co. in Newark to make I'M
lawful payments to another
Transfers official, Joseph Quill
lin, president of Newark Local
843. The local membership in
cluded Kruger truck drivers
The second and third counts
Of the indictment charge
Cohen with asking for and re.
ceiving an unspecified amount
of money from the brewery ir
November, 1860. The money
was to be delivered to Quillin
the jury charged. -
Mr.. Kennedy said the indict-
ment did not state that Quillin
received the payment.
Executives Named
Named as co-conspirators but
not as defendants were three
Kruger executives, Harry Leb-
ensfeld of Brooklyn, N. Y, Jo-
seph Dancewicz of New Bed
ford, Mass, and Heinz Glaeske
of New York.
The indictment said part OF
the conspiracy called for a pay
off to influence Quillin to elm
mate Local 843s opposition
to a planned change in Krue-
. gers distribution system.
The change would have
meant the elimination of Is
, jobs held by Kruger drivers
with Cohen's Supreme Beverage
firm handling the distribution
previously done by the drivers
Kruger went out of business
May !. 1861, and another brew
cry leased its formula ano
, label.
=. Maximum penalties on the
charges in the indictment are
three years in prison and $780,
, 900 in fines for Cohen, and
one year and $4,000 each fol-
Weiss apd Pecora.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Eisenhower
Sees Drift 10
Lax Economy

LOS ANGELES, Feb. ! (AP)
Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower
has called on Americans to "re-
pudiate feather-bedding and to
glorify hard work at all levels.
The former President, ad-
dressing more than 1000 per-
sons at o Chamber Of Commerce
banquet last night, declared:
Wherever malingering ir
any group or class is condoned
whether in management
scientist or worker-progress Ii
destined to be slow.
IdIeness Condemned
Adequate leisure is not only
desirable, it is healthy for mint
as well as body, but unwar.
ranted idleness in any part Of
the population cannot fail, cor.
respondingly. to slow up the
rate Of growth"
Gen. Eisenhower said thu
public grew suspicious Of make.
work" projects-both public ant
private-during the depression
years Of the 1930s. He added
later on, in the 1940s, huge
demand for all varieties O.
goods and services led to in
efficiency and to neglect o.
true productivity in work per.
formed. Today we are not lack
ing in specific indications that
we are drifting toward {
feather-bed economy.
I'm saying this" he con.
tinued, II am not referring
I merely to the make-work rule.
adopted by some unions, rather
I think we should be concerned
with all the practices anc
trends in fields that may pu
present affluence above needed
accomplishment - that ma,
diminish incentive, stifle com,
petition and, in the name O
security, lessen opportunity"
Interrupts Vacation
: Gen. Eisenhower interrupted
a winter vacation at Palm
Desert, 100 miles southeast O
here, for a two-day visit to Lo
Angeles. He was scheduled tt
; meet with Republican worker
today and is to address a pri
vate $1,000-a-ticket dinner to-
night.
In his Chamber of Commerc,
address, the ex-Presiden
traced the development of TIA,
Republic over the years ant
warned that "our form of Gov
. eminent is still on test with it
long-term durability yet to b,
! proved"
Among weakening influences
Gen. Eisenhower mentione,
"monopolies of any kind, pres
sure groups seeking selfish ad
; vantage at the expense of tn
} whole, and lethargy, indiffer
l ence or ignorance on the par
: of the public"
He suggested the presen
might be the time for over
hauling laws and practices at
) fecting the Nations economy
He said laws now on tn
!, books were meant ito proven
, monopoly, to sustain an at
mosphere in which free enter
prise can flourish. and to foste
; and regulate labor unions.
! "But there are grave doubts,
he said, that the presen
: framework designed for thes
> purposes really fits the prob
/ lens of today"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Additional Funds
For States Urqed

New legislation is required il
our State-operated programs
are to be fully able to meet
modern needs.
I recommend that the States
be encouraged by the offer Of
additional Federal funds tc
strengthen and broaden the
rehabilitative and preventive
services they offer to persons
who are dependent or who
would otherwise become de-
pendent. :.
At the present time, the cost
of these essential services is
Jumped with all administrative
costs-routine clerical and office
functions - and the Federal
Government pays one-half OF
the total of all such costs in
Cured by the States. BY sepa-
rating out and identifying the
cost of these essential rehabili-
tation, social work and other
service costs, and paying the
States three -fourths of such
services-a step I earnestly
recommend for your considera-
tion-the Federal Government
will enable and encourage the
States to provide more compre-
hensive and effective services to
rehabilitate those on welfare.
The existing law should also be
amended to permit the use of
Federal funds for utilization by
the State welfare agency OF
specialists from other State
agencies who can help mount g
concerted attack on the prob
lens of dependency.
There are other steps we car
take which will have an i'm
portant effect on this effort
One of these is to expand ano
improve the Federal-State pro-
gram of vocational rehabilita.
ton for disabled people. Among
the $4,000 disabled men anc
women successfully rehabili.
tated into employment through
this program last year were
about $4,000 who had formerly
been receiving public assist.
ance. Much more of thi.
must be done-until we arr
restoring to employment every
disabled person who can bene.
fit from these rehabilitation
services.
The prevention of future
adult poverty and dependency
must begin with the care O.
dependent children-those whit
must receive public welfare BY
virtue Of a parents death, dis,
ability, desertion or unemploy.
ment.
The Congress last year ao
proved, on a temporary basis
aid for the dependent children
of the unemployed as a par
of the permanent aid to de
pendent children program. Thi
legislation also included tenn
porary provisions for foste
care where the child has beef
removed from his home, an,
an increase in Federal finan
cial assistance to the aged
blind and disabled. The nee,
for these temporary improve
ments has not abated, an,
their merit is clear. I recon-
mend that these temporar
provisions be made permanent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Death of Soldier
Probed in Germany
BY the Associated Press


The Army reported today
Pfc. Ronald v. Mazza of San
dusky. Ohio, died Sunday in
Germany from a gunshot
wound in the back. It said an
investigation is under way.
Pvt. Mazza was assigned to
the 9Th Missile Battalion at
Amberg, Germany. An Army
spokesman said that "circum-
stances are unknown" and that
the Army in Germany is in
vestigating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Entries Start April 2:
For Miss Wushinoton

Acceptance of entries in the
Miss Washington contest will
begin April 2, instead of May
1, as in the past, WWDC Radio,
the sponsor, has announced
The earlier date, the station
said, is to give additional re-
hearsal time for contestants in
their talent performances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
BY the Associated Press

A New Jersey beer distributor,
a New York salesman, and a
Newark IN j. Teamster Off
cial were indicted in Newark
today on charges of conspiring
to ask an employer for illegal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-01
Incentives Are Key
To u. S. Assistance


payment through required par
ticipation in a community work
or training project must be an
opportunity for the individual
on welfare, not a penalty. Fed
eral financial participation will
be conditioned upon proof that
the work will serve a useful
community or public purpose,
will not displace regular en-
ployes, will not impair prevail
ing wages and working condi-
lions, and. will be accompanied
by certain basic health and
safety projections. Provisions
must also be made to assure
appropriate arrangements for
for the care and protection of
children during the absence
from home of any parent per-
forming work or undergoing
training"
Moreover, systematic encour-
agement would be given all
welfare recipients to obtain
vocational counseling, testing,
and placement services from
the United States Employment
Service and to secure useful
training wherever new job skills
would be helpful. :.
Unfortunately, there is an
acute shortage Of trained per-
sonnet in all our welfare pro-
grams. The lack of experienced
social workers for programs
dealing with children and their
families is especially critical. .
I recommend, therefore. that
Federal assistance to the States
for training additional welfare
personnel be increased; and
that in addition, the Secretary
of Health, Education, and We'll
fare be authorized to make
special arrangements for the
training of family welfare per-
sonnet to work with those chill
dren whose parents have
deserted, whose parents are I'M
married, or who have other
serious problems.
In order to make certain that
welfare funds go only to. needy
people, the Social Security Act
requires the States to take all
Income and resources of the APP
'plicant into consideration in
determining need. Although
Federal law permits, it does not
require States to take into full
account the full expenses ir-
dividualS have in earning in
come . . In order to encourage
assistance recipients to find
and retain employment, I
therefore recommend that the
act be amended to require the
States to take into account the
expenses of earning income.
Among relatives caring for
dependent children are a few
who do not properly handle
their assistance payments
some to the extent that the
well-being of the child is ad-
versely affected. Where the
State determines that a rela.
tive's ability to manage money
is contrary to the welfare of
the child, Federal law presently
requires payments to be made
to a legal guardian or repre-
sentative, if Federal funds are
to be used. But this general re-
quirement may sometimes
block progress in particular
situations. In order to recognize
the necessity for each State tc
make exceptions to this rule ir
a very limited number of cases
I recommend that the law be
amended to permit Fedora,
sharing to continue ever
though protective payments il
behalf of children-Not to ex.
coed u of l per cent of ADO
recipients in each State--art
made to other persons con.
cerned with the welfare of the
family. The States would be re.
quired to re-examine these ex.
ceptions at intervals to deter.
mine whether a more perma.
nent ARRANGEMENT s,Iot a,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11

The Bill Lindsey family were
dinner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Haskell Lindsey, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Dunkum
we're Richmond visitors last
week.
Former Members Visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Caldwell, Of Pow
hatan, and mother, Mrs. Ed FL.
Garnett. and daughter. Miss
Garnet, of North Carolina. at
tended Sunday services at Smy-
ma Sunday. Their many frlerds
were delighted to have them. The
Garnetts were former members
of Smyrna. and have many rel
atives in and near F'arInvllle.
Mesdames Jane K U h u. Of
Charleston, w. Va, Mrs. Arthur
Smith, Of Richmond. and Mrs.
Cora Baldwin. of Farmville,
drove out to the Smyrna Gene
terry, Sunday afternoon, to visit
their loved ones graves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Dmkum
visited The john Putncy~- Sun
day afternoon.
The Hickory Grove Home
Dar,onstration Club n.at with
MIS-. Cleveland :. Elcan and
Miss Florence Jones, Tuesday aft
ern0on.
The WSCS Of the Bessie Finch
Circle. of SMYRNA ms WEDGES
dav afternoon il the home Of
MIS-. Yancey Bailey.
Mrs. c. Z. Harvey has re-
turned home improving fast. and
enjoying the good old Bucking-
ham sunshine. She had quite a
few OF the family to see her
Sunday afternoon. Mrs Bessie
DoWdy visited her last week.
The Herman DoWdy family
visited Mr.. and Mfs. Farrar Of
DillWyn last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Steele at
tended the Apple Blossom F'estl-
val in Winchester last week.