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ton. Lie hASO Soh
his request for expanded Joo
training and vocational eouca
ton for Negroes. These Wouid
add S4OO million to the ieoefdi
budget.
Another bill would provide
assistance to states for experl-
mental projects designed tt
take workers off relief and int
iiobs by offering opportunitie:
to learn new skills. 1t Woult
divert up to $50 million yea
from federal funds provided
states for public assistance.
A third bill would assist
states In providing adult edu-
cation for those mot proficient
IN basic educational skills."
Finally the President offered
amendments to the 1862 Man
power Development and Train
ing Act, an antirecession meas
ure, which would require an
additional $100 million in
funds.
These amendments would.
. Authorize programs to de-
yelop basic literacy and work
Skills.
| . Lower the age for train
ing allowances for youths from
l9 to 16.
. Permit the use of is per-
cent OF the programs training
allowances for youths instead
OF the present 5 percent.
e.Insure that mo youths
drop out Of school to take ad-
vantage of this program"
Senators are signing up as
cosponsors of the omnibus hill
and by weekend a majority was
expected.
More important, however
were those withholding their
names. for the threat of fill
buster is shaping events and
though it may never occur itS
possibility indicates a comnro-
mise to win the required two
thirds majority, or 81, to apply
lcloture.
II President Kennedy held the
| last or q series Of conferences
here directed at pushing racial
equality through voluntary &C
tivities of various groups. Herds
OF legal groups met the Presi-
| dent.
| Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy Will be the lead-off
witness in committee hearings
that may 60 on for months. He
VIII appear next Wednesday,
June rs. to testify for the COM
prehensiye administration pro-
gram before the House Judici-
ary Committee.
In the Senate, Of the first 43
cosponsorS only nine were
Republicans. This does not
mean that two-thirds of the 33
Republicans in the Senate will !
not ultimately support some
compromise measure.
Republican Senator Barry
GoldWater of Arizona an
nounced total opposition to the
Kennedy proposal for legisla-
ton to outlaw discrimination
in hotels, theaters, and retail
establishments.
While such discrimination
against Negroes was morally
wrong" he said, efforts to
eliminate it by legislation in
terfered with property rights.
On the other hand, Senator
Goldwater would 60 further
than the President in at least
one spot. He would make de-
nial of funds in federal prof.
ects where discrimination oc-
Cured mandatory instead OF
discretionary.
COP Sen. Leverett Salton-
stall (R) of Massachusetts.
chairman of caucus here,
indicated that they would.
But Senator Saltonstall said
most Republicans apparently
favor the modified Dirksen-
mansfield version of the Presi-
dents package: this omits a
kew fea;ure-the compulsory
equal accommodations section.
which would open ,heaters,
amusement places. retail stores.
hotels and motels TO serve
Negroes.
Under shadow pf fiIlbuster.
determined opposition by any
element Of the coalition re-
ouired to pass a civil rights
bill amounts to a veto. The ao-
ministration must get % TO .25
COP Senate votes 10 make up
for defections or Southern
Democrats fron1 rs own 6i-
member majority,
Congressman questioned each
other and watched reactions al
home.
At Easton, Md. county
seat of 5000 Mayor Sherwood
Hubbard announced the COM
plete and voluntary desegrega-
ton of all public facilities, eff
fectiye July 8. following the
lead of the city's new Biracial
Commission, in operation less
than a week.
Plenty OF tension continued
in other areas. however. and
the success of President Ken
nedy.s plea for peace till Con-
gress acts, seemed dubious.
Congress felt the world
watching. 1t noted the editorial
comment of The Times (Lon-
DOM that President Kennedy
was risking "chaos in Congress,
flibuster that could provide
massive Negro demonstrations
in Washington, humiliating de-
feat for his proposals, paralysis
over other LEGISLATION. and. Of
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