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visitor to The Dark Continent,
Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fla.,
has her arms full as she holds two
baby goats from the animal con-
tact area.
^American Viewpoints
from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK
DATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
March 31,1880—Wabash, ind., becomes first incorporated com-
munity to be completely illuminated by electricity.
April 1, 1953—Department of Health, Education and Welfare
created and given cabinet status.
April 2,1917—President Woodrow Wilson, asking Congress for a
declaration of war against Germany, declares, "The world
must be made safe for democracy. ”
April 3,1865—Richmond, Va., capital of the Confederate States
of America, falls to Union troops.
April 4,1932—Professor C.G. King isolates Vitamin C.
April 5,1951—Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for
conspiring to transmit atom bomb secrets to Soviet Agents.
April 6, 1909—Adm. Robert E. Peary claims to have reached
North Pole.
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Donovan Announces
Veteran Job Grants
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WASHINGTON - Secretary
of Labor Raymond J. Donovan
announced the allocation of an
additional $200,000 to provide
job training and placement
service for an estimated 5,000
unemproyed veterans through
pilot projects in four states.
Secretary Donovan made the
announcement at the first
meeting of his newly-reestab-
lished Secretary’s Committee
on Veterans’ Employment, con-
sisting of representatives of
federal agencies having service
to veterans and chartered
veterans’ organizations with
national employment pro-
grams.
In addition, Donovan an-
nounced the renaming of the
Office of the Assistant Secreta-
ry for Veterans’ Employment
to Veterans’ Employment and
Training Service (VETS). The
Labor Department agency is
headed by William C. Plowden
Jr., assistant secretary of labor
for veterans’ employment.
“With hundreds of thousands
of veterans out of work,"
Secretary Donovan said, “we
must do all we can to help them
find jobs. These funds bring to
nearly $2 million the total we
have made available for nation-
al veterans’ programs for the
1983 fiscal year."
Donovan said that the addi-
tional funds would provide both
skills training and help in
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By JOE CRUMP if
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(A T.'i.Ju:’n /or Readers Who Haven't Time to
R' vuw the Congressional Record Daily)
THERE GOES THE
NEIGHBORHOOD
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SENATOR LAWTON CHI-
LES (Fla.("...Today I am intro-
ducing the FORMER PRESI-
DENTS FACILITIES and
SERVICES REFORM ACT of
1983 <£.. 563). The bill’s
pui-pose is to stop, and then
reverse, the ever-increasing
costs of services and protection
currently provided former
Presidents.
“An examination of the for-
mer Presidents program re-
veals we have entered the era
of the imperial former Presi-
| dency, with lavish libraries,
special staffs, and benefits,
around-the-clock Secret Ser-
vice protection for life, and
other badges of privilege.
“The program has grown out
of control and shows no sign of
stopping. The cost of former
Presidents has leaped from
$64,000 in 1955 to $6.3 million
in fiscal 1983. That amounts to
I over a fourfold increase in just
I the last 10 years. “*
“Since 1981, the program has
cost more than the expense of
running the White House itself
I for our incumbent President.
“Now, by failing to place
| reasonable limits on Presiden-
! tial libraries, Secret Service
protection, office and staff
allowances, the Congress is
| permitting the former Presi-
dents program to go beyond its
original intent and character.
We are permitting our former
President to use tax dollars to
become wealthy...
“The bill I am introducing
today establishes controls for
each of these areas. It keeps
the current decentralized sys-
tem of Presidential libraries in
1 place, but established a limit on
the Government’s obligation to
maintain them.
Currently, Presidential libra-
r” ries are built with private
funds, but maintained and
operated with public money. In
practice,the Government has
no control over the size of the
building, it will be asked to
operate in perpetuity. This bill
limits the size of any new
Presidential library to 40,000
square feet- enough space for
archival records and a modest
museum...
“The bill also sets a $300,000
ceiling which will be reduced
over a 9-year period to $200,000
on the staff allowances for
former Presidents...
“A former President is allow-
ed to use Government funds to
prepare his memoirs, but only
if were to agree to have the
memoirs published by the Gov-
erment Printing Office, with
the proceeds to be paid into the
U. S. Treasury...
“The bill changes the current
provisions of law dealing with
Secret Service protection for
former Presidents, their spous-
es, and family. Each former
President is provided automa-
tic protection for first 8 years
he is out of office. Afterwards
protection is limited to periods
of actual threat. The perpetual
lifelong protection will no lon-
ger be automatic.
“Spouses and minor children
are given protection only to the
extent it is incidental to protec-
tion of the former President.
Widows of former Presidents
are given protection for 6
months after the President has
died.
The provisions of this bill will
enable each former President to
lead a dignified, retired life.
That is appropriate and fitting
for those individuals who are
the senior statesman or women
of our Nation...”
CRUMP'S GRASS
ROOTS COMMENT
Senate bill S. 563 is cospon-
sored by Senators Proxmire
(Wis.), Pryor (Ark.), Sasser
(Tenn.), Deconcini (Ariz.), Mrs.
Kassebaum (Kansas), Burdick
(N. Dak.), Cohen (Me.), and
Hollings (S. C. ).
Average Cost
A typical'family uses 64 gallons
of hot water a day. At 5 cents per
KWH, and at a 90 degree aver-
age temperature rise, a family
pays $300 a year for hot water.
Silsbee ARC To
Sponsor Benefits
In Month Of May
The Silsbee Association for
Retarded Citizens is asking
each civic organization and
church to sponsor one fundrais-
ing event during the month of
May.
According to Winnie Jones,
president of the ARC, the
proceeds of those activities will
be used for projects with assist
handicapped citizens in Hardin
County, and the organization
raising the most money will be
presented with a special award
and party.
The sheltered workshop is
sponsoring a flea market and
auction April 23 at the parking
lot of the Wal-Mart store, and
any church or organization
which wants to get involved in
the project may contact JoAnn
Fries at the Sheltered Work-
shop.
During the past year the
ARC has funded numerous
projects, Mrs. Jones said,
including the salary of a part-
time trainer, providing $6,000
in matching funds for two new
vans that are used to provide
transportation for sheltered
workshop and Halfway House
clients, and for the past two
years the ARC has sponsored
the resale shop.
Silsbee ARC plans for the
coming year, Mrs. Jones said,
include housing for handicap-
ped persons, salary for a
full-time trainer, as well as,
continuing the Resale Shop,
Summer Camp and Special
Olympics.
Better X-Rays
A computer that "subtracts”
irrelevant data from X-ray pic-
tures of the heart is enabling phy-
sicians at the University of Cali-
fornia, San Diego Medical Cen-
ter (University Hospital) to obtain
clearer, more precise images with
less risk to patients and at less
cost than the standard method of
X-ray heart imaging.
Courthouse Squares
finding jobs to some 5,000
presently-unemployed veter-
ans. The $200,000 supplements
$300,000 which previously had
been allocated to the agency,
boosting the total amount for
the stepped-up job training and
placement activities to
$500,000.
The funds will be used by two
state governments and two city
governments to establish pilot
projects to better prepare the
department for the coming full
implementation of a national
veterans’ program under the
new Job Training Partnership
Act (JTPA), Secretary Dono-
van said.
“This additional allocation
will greatly assist us in launch-
ing an effective attack against
veterans' unemployment
through JTPA for fiscal year
1984,” the Secretary added.
Funds announced will go to
the states of Alabama and
California and the cities of
Buffalo, N. Y., and Seattle,
Wash.
All four were chosen for the
pilot projects, Donovan said,
because they have high unem-
ployment and large numbers of
out-of-work veterans. The
federal funds will go to the two
states and two local govern-
ments in the form of grants.
In reconstituting the 13-
member veterans’ employment
advisory group, Secretary Don-
ovan said:
"The men and women of this
nation who have answered the
call to arms in times of great
need are indeed one of this
country’s most valuable re-
sources and are deserving of
the services which our agencies
provide.
“I sincerely feel that the
reestablishment of this commit-
tee will serve to coordinate the
efforts of its members and to
bring about an awareness with-
in the federal community of the
needs of our veteran clientele."
Donovan said he was parti-
cularly concerned with "refin-
ing our respective service de-
liveries to reach disabled and
Vietnam-era veterans, who
have been the hardest hit
during the current recession.”
Service Held For
John R. Bylsma
Funeral services for John
Raymond Bylsma, 36, of Texas
City, were held Wednesday at
10 a.m. in the chapel of James
Crowder Funeral home. Rev.
Leo Smith and Rev. Larry
Blackmon officiated. Graveside
rites were held Wednesday at 3
p.m. in Knupple Cemetery in
Silsbee.
He died Sunday from injuries
received in an automobile acci-
dent.
A native of Silsbee, he was
an operator for a Texas City
refinery, a member of Heights
Baptist Church, veteran of the
Vietnam War, served in the
U.S. Air Force and was active
in Little League in LaMarque.
Survivors include his wife,
Jo Ann Bylsma, Texas City;
father, John Bylsma, Wood-
ville; mother, Mrs. Sue Byls-
ma, Baytown; one daughter,
Carrie Ann Bylsma, Texas
City; one son, John Clayton
Bylsma, Texas City; sister,
Frances Wilkens, Houston, and
a brother, Daniel L. Bylsma,
Stafford.
WANT ADS GIT RESULTS
We thirst for approbation,
yet cannot forgive the ap-
prover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Complex Habits
Tropical rain forests—had they
been left undisturbed, they’d ring
the equator—are the world’s
most complex natural habitats.
At least a third of all earth's spe-
cies are thought to live within
these ecosystems, only a frac-
tion yet scientifically named.
The number of plant species in
South America’s Amazonia alone
has been put at more than 40,000.
Rites Are Held For
Rev. Arthur M. Allen
Rev. Arthur M. “Buddy”
Allen, 59, of Monroe, La. died
March 30 in the VA Hospital in
Houston.
Funeral services were held
Saturday in Mulhearnn Funeral
Home in Monroe, with burial in
Monroe Cemetery.
A native of Silsbee, he had
made his home in Monroe for
the past 20 years and was
pastor of the Litroe Baptist
Church in Marion, La.
Survivors include his wife,
Mary Allen, Monroe; a son
Tommy Allen, Alexandria, a
daughter, Jennie Liphan, At-
lanta, Ga.; six sisters; Ethel
Kirkendall, Rena Howell, Car-
rie Holland, Lois Hearn and
Elizabeth Harvill, all of Silsbee,
and Alene Neely, White Rock,
New Mexico.
Mrs. Neely Honored
Mrs. Pearl Neely was honor-
ed with a family get-together
celebrating her 76th birthday
March 30. There were 23
guests present, including her
four sisters, Mrs. Reba Harri-
son. Daisetta, Mrs. Gertie
Keown, Iola; Mrs. Cleo Canant,
Conroe, and Mrs. Verna Don-
naly of Huntsville.
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