The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1969 Page: 4 of 10
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Page 4 — The Mercedes Enterprise
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, June 12, 1969
★ Washington Report ★
-by K1KA de la GARZA-
Twenty-five million per-
sons will receive benefits
this month under the social
security program. This
means that one out of eight
Americans is the recipient
of a monthly benefit. Re-
tired workers and their de-
pendents are the largest
group, but almost one-four-
th of the total are under age
60. Disabled workers and
their families and surviving
children make up most of
this group. Total monthly
benefits at the end of 1968
amounted to nearly $2.1 bil-
lion in old age, survivors’,
disability and health insur-
ance.
In Texas, 1,172,992 bene-
ficiaries received monthly
social security payments to-
taling $87,906,000. Number
of beneficiaries and total
payments per month for the
15th Congressional District,
county by county, are re-
ported as follows: Brooks,
942 beneficiaries, payments
$58,000; Cameron, 14,961
and $956,000; Hidalgo, 17,
470 and $1,066,000; Ken-
edy, 75 and $5,000; Kle-
berg, 2,178 and $145,000;
Starr, 1,655 and $81,000;
Willacy, 1,735 and $101,000;
Zapata, 632 and $35,000.
At the end of 1968, in the
country as a whole about 90
per cent of persons aged 65
and over were either receiv-
ing cash benefits under social
security or would have been
eligible for benefits if they
or their spouses had not
been working.
* * * *
REBELLIOUS YOUTH —
The desire of many people
that the Federal Govern-
ment “do something” about
the wave of violence that
has swept from one college
campus to another is cer-
tainly easy to understand.
But here is a serious ques-
tion about whether Feder-
al intervention as a routine
course of action would be the
proper course. The statute
books already contain cri-
minal laws regarding the
destruction of private pro-
perty, trespass, disturbing
the peace, and so on. These
are local laws, to be en-
forced by local authorities.
This country has no Federal
police, and I don’t believe
anybody wants such a force.
The people at the local
level—state, county, city—
have the basic responsibil-
ity for policing their own
areas of jurisdiction. The
Army and National Guard
are a last resort. If we
have to use them constantly,
then it is already too late
and the country cannot sur-
vive much longer—which I
do not believe is the case.
We have a law, which I
supported, to withhold Fed-
eral funds from students re-
ceiving government loans if
they participate in riots.
Legislation is now being
considered which would
withdraw Federal aid from
colleges failing to deal ade-
quately with student riots,
but there are no Federal
colleges, except of course,
the U. S. Service Acade-
mies.
The rest of the colleges
are run by the states or by
private or religious organi-
zations, so the primary re-
sponsibility is, of course,
of the governing boards, and
then of local law enforce-
ment, and it is only when
there is a breakdown here,
and the proper state agency
requests it, that the Federal
Government can intervene.
* * * #
CONSUMER INTERESTS
—The President’s Commit-
tee on Consumer Interests
has prepared a “Consumer
Education Bibliography”
which lists source materi-
als in consumer education.
The first major bibliogra-
phy dealing exclusively with
consumer education, it in-
cludes listings of more than
2,000 books, booklets,
pamphlets, films and film
strips relating to all aspects
of consumer interests. I
have available a limited
number of copies of this
publication and will be glad
to send them, on a first
come-first served basis, to
interested South Texans.
* * * *
31,000,000 NAMES — If
you are a veteran and some-
times have difficulty in your
correspondence with the
Veterans Administration,
you may be interested to
know that the VA has more
than 31 million names in its
master index and receives
more than 95 million pieces
of mail a year. So some-
times things get mixed up,
which is why the VA is so
insistent that veterans and
dependents writing in always
include the veteran’s full
name and file number.
The VA master index file
contains 310,000 Smiths, and
13,130 of them are John
Smiths. The Johnsons (202,
700) not only keep up with
the Joneses are far out in
front. In fact, even the Wil-
liamses—with 150,020—are
ahead of the fourth-place
Joneses who number 145,
180. In fifth place are the
Browns with 144,000. Even
unusual names may be dupli-
cated many times. While
there are only 10 vet-
erans with the name A.bra-
ham Lincoln, the VA file
contains 1,640 Robert E,
Lees. There are 44 Ulys-
ses S. Grant and 496
George Washingtons.
We now have put out an
inquiry to check the Garzas
—the Garcias—and other
prominent South Texas sur-
names.
* * * *
NON-RE BE LLIOUS YOU-
TH—Most college students
don’t riot and most aren’t
radical, A recent survey
showed that only 4 per cent
of seniors and freshmen at
96 colleges and universi-
ties support the troublemak-
ing Students for a Demo-
cratic Society. A great ma-
jority expressed the opinion
that campus “movements”
have gotten out of hand. And
a large majority also con-
sider U. S. business, higher
education, political and jud-
icial systems “basically
sound”.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1969, newspaper, June 12, 1969; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105712/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.