Senate Sets CBWVote .Nixon: Give the Poor For Monday Fixed Annual Income WASHINGTON 1m - The Senate WASHINGTON 1M - Pr...sident Nixon held world", fvllilme I. Intligibt. .... ',mlly If four .. m In lnother Itltt, agreed late Friday to vote Monday on a proposed Friday night to scrap the pre­ w.If..... the P.... ident 1I1d. Officlll' Iller IIId comprehensive proposal to limit the test­ sent welfare system and to replace it HIs proposals would more than double theM twe extremes .... In New "'.... y IlIg, shipment and storalt! of such \etbll with fixed federal incomes. present welfare recipients of 22 •• million tnd MlulSllppi respectively. chemical and biological warfare (CB W) The fixed federal incomes for the poor and add $4 billion to present federal out­ "So great an inequality is wrong," be agents as nerve gas. are the key part of the program, which lays of $4.7 billion a year. said. " No child is 'worth' more II Olle The proposal was developed in day­ would cost $4 biUion more a year than N"IXon said his family program Is not state than another." long conferences between sponsors of the present system. a guaranteed income in the widely under­ The present system also drives fathers eight different amendments and Sen . The President also called for a 'I-bil­ stood sense because it would require to desert their families so their children Thomas J. McIntyre (D·N .H.) chairman lion start on sharing federal tax revenues able-bodied adult recipients, except can receive aid, the President said . of the Armed Services Committee's spe­ with states, for a shift of manpower pro­ mothers with children under age six, "to The Presidenl described his new plan cial research subcommittee. grams from Washington to state and accept work or training provided suitable this way: local control and for reorganization of jobs are available either locally or at Introducing the combined propo.al, "For I flmlly of four now en weHI"', the antipoverty agency to almost total some distance if transportation Is pro­ with no out,lde Income, the basic fedor­ Mcintyre said it incorporales the es ..n­ emphaSis on experimentation. vided." ti.I. of Ihe other amendments. II payment would be 51,. I yetr_ "I propo .. thlt the feelerll government Work IncentivH would Include fret Stites could add 10 th.t lmeunt .nd Earlier, he told reporters the Pent­ build I foundltiOft under the Income of d'Y·Clro cenltr. for children, I $30-1- mosl would de ... agon had made clear during the negoti- .v.ry Amerlcln flmlly with dependent month bonvs for tho.. plrtic:lpltint hi "In no case would anyone's present " aUons that it opposes the proposals. chlldr.n thlt Clnnot clre for itself - lob·trlining progrlms ond the retention level of benefits be lowered . At the "They don't approve," he said, "but wIIerever In Amerlc. that f.mlly may of the fint $60 I month of tlminp wItIt­ same time, the foundation would be one they weren 't strenuously objecting." live," NhcOft said In I broadclst to the out welflre benefll reductions. Bey. on which the family itself would build." nltiOft lbout hi. comp ...henlive domestic the firsl $60, benefits would be reducetl I The most controversial part of the to 50 cents for oach $1 elrned. A family of four , for example, could , \ package deals with open air testing and policy outline . remain eligible for aid until Its over-all acts strict standards for such tests. He traced what is expected to be The President said the total welfare income reached $3 ,920 a year under the his domestic program's emphasis for the savings to the states under his program plan. For such lests to be legal, it would coming three years . Requests for specific would be $735.8 million a year, with all "By Ihe same token , 8 family head al­ require approval by Ihe secret.ry of legislation are to start nen week in three states benefiting. .fense under guidelines provided by ready employed at low wages could get messages to Congress. He said his program "aims at ending a family assistance supplement," thf the President, as being essenlial to na· The President wants the present de­ the unfairness in a system that has be­ President said. "A family of five In lion.1 security, as well as approval by pendent children's aid program absorbed come unfair to the welfare recipient, un­ whIch a father earns ~ , OOO a year - the surgeon general II not presenting I into a new system that would subsidize fair to the taxpayer." public health hazard. which is the hard fact of life for many President Richard Nixon look a ca .. poor families regardless of whetber the The President described the present The approval by the two officials houeshold head has a job. system as a colossal failure that "breakJ families - would get family assistance for reform of the welfare syslem to the payments of $1,260 for a total Income would have to be provided to six con­ A flmily of foul' Inywhere In the nilion up homes.. .often penalizes work... American public Friday night. Nixon of $3 ,260." gressional committees, at least 30 days said h. would send to Congress nut would receiv. I minimum feelerll ply­ and robs recipients o( dignity ." A President Speaks He added that I flmlly of ..ven ',rn· " in advance of the tests, Including the week messages discussing the change. m.nl of $1,600 • yllr. Und.r p... sent Benefit levels .re now grossly unequll, Ing S3.0OO I year would hive Its Incomt names of the agents to be tested, the - AP Wirephoto r.gulatlon., I family with the hou ..hold ranging from $163 In OM .1... for I time and place of the tests and the rea­ rllsed to $4,360 under his progrlm. sons. Nixon made a sharp distinction be­ tween a guaranteed income, which he Other provisions In the combined opposes, and his family assistance plan . amendment would: The PresIdent called for a small-scale • Bar procurement of CBW delivery systems; start in 1971 on sharing revenues with hard-pressed states and cities. He wants • Blr storlge of CBW Igenls outside Congress to provide $500 million in his the Uniled Stites without prior notice fiscal 1971 budget for revenue sharing, hi the country involved; ail with the payments to probably start In Serving the University of Iowa Iowan I and the People uf Iowa City • Require the surgeon general to ap- December, 1971. prove as safe any ~ransportation of Established in 1868 10 cents a copy Associated PreiS Lealed Wire and Wtrepho:o Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Saturday, August V, 1969 This Is to build to a rate of $5 billion CBW agents to or from military bases; annually over a five-year period . • Require the secretary of defense to H. Slid th.re would be I "mlnimum notify Congress and other federal offic­ .f feeler.' rtsfrlcflent en hew tfIt .. r ials of any plans to transport CBW dollir. would be used," but th.re would agents to or from military bases ; be I provilion Ih.t I percentage be • Direct detoxification of all lethal Grad Students Present Parking Plan ch.nneled 10 loc.1 governm,nl,. caw agents before transportation; and The PresIdent said he wants the $1- • Bar storage of CBW agents outside A group of graduate students who bers have had interviews with a cross­ papers, library books, etc , would provide a more equitable system billion-a-year federal Job Iralning pro­ the United States unle,s the secretary sent University parking officials letters section of meter-users and with John • "The option that any student be al­ and thus would considerably reduce the grams transferred to slate and local gov­ of state reports it won't violate interna­ detailing University parking problems Dooley of Parking Lot Operations, Sher­ lowed a written appeal to the traffic level of negative feelings toward the ernments. tional law. and specifying recommendations Aug. od said. Committee members also con­ court in a manner similar to faculty and parking authorities which exists now "What 1 propose Is not a sudden dump­ 2 have as yet received no response . from sulted the University Motor Vehicle and staff memb~rs ." among large numbers of meter-users." ing of these programs on unprepared the officials, according to one of the Bicycle Regulations Manual and the local authorities but a careful, phased • "No tickets be given in any park­ Sobin said, "W. have tv.ry conflde~. Grades to Be Ready students, David Sherod, G, Birmingham. University Financial Summary of Park­ transfer, wIth benchmarks of readiness ing area where more than 50 per cent that thu. proposel. will be vl.wed and incentives (or performance," he The letters were mailed to the 14 Uni­ ing Operations for statements to aid in of the parking spaces are vacant, since lairly." For Pickup Aug. 21 support of their grievances. said . versity Parking and Security Committee the stated purpose of meters Is parking Sherod said Friday evening that the members, John Dooley , director of In addition to a ~a·month incentive Grades for the current summer ses- Th. committee found thai rev.nue control and not the collection of re­ only response to their letters came lor welfare recipIents' lob training, he sion will be available for student pick- parking lot operations, Pres.-select Wil­ from parking and lab equipment bruk· venue. " from Student Body Pres. Jim Sutton . lard L. Boyd , Faculty Senate, Student proposed a computerized job bank to up in the Registrar's office, Room 1, age fines for Ihe 1967-68 school y.
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