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U.S. Surge for
Recreation Needs
“Money-Lots of It”
By Douglas Cornell
WASHINGTON UP> — A special
commission reported Wednesday
that a surging need for more out
door recretation in America must
be met by imagination, large
scale action and “money—lots of
it.”
But the Outdoor Recreation Re
sources and Review Committee
left it to President Kennedy and
Congress, and to state and local
governments to figure out price
tags and what specific areas
should be acquired or improved.
The 15-man commission, head
ed by Laurence Rockefeller, New
York, did say that “the first task
is to provide recreation for the
metropolitan regions, which have
the biggest population and de
mand for recreation and the least
space for it.”
In urging immediate acquisition
of ocean and lake shores, it said
that: “Highest priority should be
given to acquisition of areas lo
cated closer to major population
centers and other areas that are
immediately threatened. The need
is critical—opportunity to place
these areas in public ownership
is fading each year as other uses
encroach.”
Basically, the Commission said,'
there is plenty of land and water
acreage for recreation, but most!
of it, “is where the people are
not.”
Rockefeller told a news brief
ing that it was on puipose that
“we haven't come up with either
acres or dollars.” The Commis
sion’s idea, he said, was to discuss
the principles and tools and leave
it to others to determine how
they can be used best.
No plans have been developed,
^he told a questioner, for follow
ing through on the report in the
legislative field. Sen. Clinton An
derson (D-N.M.), a commission
member, said he was sure ibills
would be introduced to carry out
many of the recommendations.
Rockefeller said the report is
oriented toward people rather
than resources with the objective
of meeting the great demand for
outdoor recreation. He said
quantity isn’t enough and the
Commission attempted to stress
Just Rumors ... No
Cape Canaveral-Type
Facility Set for Alaska
WASHINGTON UP> — Rumors
that the military plans to con
struct a Cape Canaveral-type
facility in Alaska are as ground
less as they are persistent, Sen.,
E. L. Bartlett said yesterday.
Repeated inquiries during the
past year, Bartlett said, have met
the same response — nothing to
it.
The talk has been about a sort
! of “Cape Canaveral — North,” on
which the government would
spend anywhere from $358 mil
lion to around $1 billion.
Although Bartlett said he would
welcome such a facility the latest
word from the Defense Depart
ment and the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration
should put an end to the rumors.
In reply to Bartlett’s latest in
quiry, Thomas Morris, Assistant
Secretary of Defense wrote:
“This rumor has again been ex
plored within the Department of
Defense and we are unable to dis
cover any plans for a proposed
construction project in Alaska
even approaching the magnitude
you mentioned.”
Bartlett said further checks with
other federal agencies, such as
the Atomic Energy Commission,
that might be planning to spend
large sums of money also turned
up nothing.
The Alaskan said he also has
been assured that if some secret
project were in the works, he
would have been given a private
briefing.
what it calls effective acreage.
Access is important, he said, and
“it’s fantastic how important de
velopment is.” He said state parks
are used 14 times as intensively
as national parks because vast
sums have been spent to develop
their potential.
By direction of Congress, the
Commission has been spending
three years and $2.5 million peer
ing into the problem of outdoor
fun as it will develop over 40
years—-up to the year 2000.
It put more than 50 recom
mendations on paper. Some prob
ably will foe echoed in a vast con
servation program, stressing rec
reation which Kennedy is expect
ed to put before Congress in a
special message Feb. 21
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Kennedy Calls for
j 8193-Million In
i Welfare Outlays
I WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedv called Thursday for a
$193-million expansion of per
manent federal welfare outlays,
with a shift in emphasis for doling
out ‘‘relief checks” to the re
building of wrecked lives and
careers.
The remedies “will not come
cheaply but in the long run they j
will save money,” Kennedy said
in a special message to Congress.
He urged permanent extension
of the one-year program to aid
dependent children of the job
less, more spending on rehabili
tation work, increased grants for
child welfare, added funds for the
day care of children of working
mothers and removal or reduction
of residence requirements for re
lief.
'Die special message, said by
officials to be the first in history
devoted solely to welfare prob
lems, will be followed by two more
messages on programs adminis
tered by the department — health
care for the aged under social
security and federal aid to edu
cation.
The program outlined would
represent the most sweeping over
haul of federal relief techniques
since the aid program was started
in the depression of the 1930s.
Its recommendations included:
Extending permanently the
$100-million-a-year program for
aid to the dependent children of
the unemployed.
Increasing the federal share
from one-half to three-fourths of
the costs of rehabilitation and so
cial services, without changing
the dollar-for-dollar matching of
states’ outlays for routine clerical
and administrative work.
Boosting the $25-million ceil
ing on federal grants for child
welfare services to $30 million
in fiscal 3963 and then, gradually,
to $50 million by 1969.
Earmarking $5 million next
year and $10 million a year there
after for aid in starting local
programs of day care for the
children of working mothers.
Relieving an “acute shortage”
of trained welfare workers by in
creasing the federal support for
state training programs.
Forbidding any state which re
ceives federal funds to require
more than one year’s residence as
a condition of eligibility for wel
fare aid, and encouraging states
to remove all residence require
ments by offering a slight increase
in federal aid to those that do.
ONE-PAY SEASON . . .
TRENTON, N.J. UP) — For the
first time in 48 years, New Jersey
had a one-day hunting season,
confined to hunters who failed to
bag a deer last year.
In an effort to cut herds down
to size, the hunters were permit
ted to shoot any deer on sight,
regardless of sex.
Number of deer slain: Undeter
mined.
Number of hunters hospitalized:
Three.
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I Senate Will Investigate
| Surplus Stockpiles
WASHINGTON W — Senate
Republican Leader Everett Dirk
sen said yesterday he will ask
that a joint congressional com
mittee investigate the nation’s
mounting surplus of stockpiled
materials.
President Kennedy announced
at his news conference Wednes
day that such a study will be
made by a Senate Armed Services
Subcommittee headed by Sen.
Stuart Symington.
Describing the surplus stocks
as so excessive as to invite
profiteering and mismanagement,
Kennedy said:
“The cold facts on this matter
must be open to the public.”
Dirksen told reporters that Re
publicans “will be more than
happy to join a full-dress investi
gation of this whole stockpile
situation.”
But he said it should be under
taken by the joint Senate-House
committee on non-essential gov
ernment expenditures, headed by
Sen. Harry Byrd, OD-Va.), rather
than the three-member Armed
Services Subcommittee.
Dirksen is a member of the
Byrd committee. He said the com
mittee does not need any addi
tional authority from Congress to
handle the stockpiling inquiry.
FIBBER McGEE WEDS
HONOLULU <£> — Radio’s Fib
ber McGee and the widow of stage
comedian Yogi Yorgesson were
married here Wednesday at Our
Lady of Peace Catholic Cathedral.
Fibber McGee’s true name is
Jim Jordan, 64. His first wife,
Marian, who played the part of
Molly in their radio series, died
of cancer April 7, 1961.
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Ike Calls on U.S.
To Glorify Hard Work
LOS ANGELES 0P> — Former
President Eisenhower has called
on Americans to “repudiate
feather-bedding and to glorify
hard work at all levels.”
Addressing more than 2,000 per
sons at a Chamber of Commerce
banquet Wednesday night, he de
clared: “Wherever malingering in
any group or class is condoned—
whether in management, scientists
or worker—progress is destined
to be slow.
“Adequate leisure is not only
desirable, it is healthy for mind
as well as body, but unwarranted
idleness in any part of the popu
lation cannot fall, corresponding
ly, to slow up the rate of growth.”
Eisenhower said the public grew
suspicious of “make-work” proj
ects—both public and private—
during the depression years of
the 1030s.
He added: “Later on, in the
1940s, huge demand for all va
rieties of goods and services led
to inefficiency and to neglect of
true productivity in work per
formed. Today we are not lacking
in specific indications that we are
drifting toward a feather-bed
economy.
“In saying this,” he continuned,
‘“I am not referring merely to the
make-work rules adopted by some
unions; rather I think we should
be concerned with all the practices
and trends in fields that may put
present influence above needed
accomplishment — that may di
minish incentive, stifle competi
tion and, in the name of security,
lessen opportunity.”
Jet Service for Juneau Saturday
WASHINGTON Iff) — Alaska’s
congressional delegation expects
to be on hand for the inauguration
of jet air service between Seattle
and Juneau Saturday.
Sens. Ernest Gruening and E.
L. Bartlett and Rep. Ralph Rivers
and their wives plan to be on the
first flight from Seattle as Pan
American World Airways begins
jet service.
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