August 13, 1964 (24 pages)

p= pub . Nevada County Nugget.. August 13, 1964. SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD WASHINGTON CALLING ITCHY POLITICAL FINGERS CAN NULLIFY POVERTY PROGRAM WASHINGTON ---Itchy political fingers are out to get a grip on a big chunk of the money to be appropriated under the poverty program, If the effort is successful the benefits of this limited program will be in considerable part nullified. Example No, 1 is Rep. Adam Clayton Powell and Harlem. Powell has turned on the heat to get his former assistant, Livingston L. Wingate, made executive director at $25, 000 a year ofthe present Associated Community Teams(ACT) program. ACT has had small grants out of the President's juvenile delinquency project. But until the question of who runs the show is determined the money has been held up, The recent explosion in Harlem, with many youths on a wild rampage, was a sign of what that pitiful ghetto can produce. The rumblings of the volcano were so long ignored that when it blew off it produced shock and surprise. If Powell should get control of the present program the precedent would be powerful when the much larger sums are allocated for the drive on poverty. Such a precedent would be cited in the 15 other cities coming under the community action phase of the poverty bill, In short, the politicos would be out to see that they were taken care of -even though the funds in terms of need are actually so small. Powell isa complex case study in race and power. To show all the nuances of his extraordinary career he deserves a full-length novel, Butno one could tell the story so well as the hero himself. By virtue of seniority Powell has become the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor. That committee has authority over a wide range of social legislation, including the poverty bill. The chairman, therefore, is in the driver's seat, and he has never been shy about exercising authority. Powell's Southern colleagues who hold powerful chairmanships -beneficiaries of the same seniority -could take lessons from him in arbitrary rule. His excursionsto Europe, complete with pretty secretaries, have made headlines and so have his vacations in his Puerto Rican hideaway. But none of this seemstotouch him, When under attack he wraps himself in the untouchability of race, And so deep are the antagonisms of the prisoners in the Harlem ghetto that this suffices as an answer. In his robes as minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church he castigates his political enemies. His own standard of living is as far above that of most of his constituents as though he were one of the favored ensconced in the towers of the Waldorf-Astoria. If the contrast with their lot concerns his flock they give no sign of it. In terms of Harlem's desperate needs --for that matter, the desperate need of New York and almost every other center of urban rot -the squabble over who runs the poverty program can only seem self-defeating. It reflects the power structure in which corruption, often of a subtle and scarcely identifiable kind, permeates every level from top to bottom. Under the most charitable interpretation the antipoverty program is a small beginning. A large chunk of the $945, 000,000 willgotoa youth job corps anda work training and study program that will enroll in one type of activity or another upward of 250,000 youths between 16 and 21. The amount presently allocated for these purposes is $412,000,000. PEOPLE SAY TO ME .. “@RUMP, HOW DID YOU GET ADDICTED TO Tv." RY WELL.. E WAS A BS CURIOUS CHILD . a Ps ODD BODKINS .. Forthe community action phase $315, 000,000 is earmarked. Using a formula covering all the states, New York would get for the whole state $15,324,000. Not more than half of that amount would go to New York City. It would be supple mented by funds from other agencies with a related interest in the poverty program. Measured against the great festering areas of poverty not only in the predominantly Negro sections of Harlem and Bedford -Stuyvesant but in the lower East Side, this is the proverbial drop in the bucket. It must be taken as a token of what can be done with a real desire to check the plague of human and physical rot afflicting the cig cities. The Urban League once proposed a dramatic Marshall Plan kind of approach to the Negro ghettos and the problem of second-class citizenship. By spending, say, $20 billion in a massive attack on poverty, ignorance, and disease, the cancer in the side of the body politic could be eliminated. This soundswildly visionary. But, as Harlem and Rochester have shown, perhaps at this late date nothing less than a wholesale cure will have any effect. (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs BIG GAME MANAGEMENT AND MULTIPLE USE CONFLICTS In the era of unfenced public domain, the public lands were virtually ruled by the huge herds of bison and deer and pronghorn antelope that roamed the West. Then camethe sweep of civilization, and with it a period of dangerto our wildlife heritage. As the white man began to developthe West, he put the land to new uses, altering much of the environment upon which the wild animals depended, Wildlife decreased and retreated. In less than 40 years, both bison and pronghorn had reached a point dangerously close to extinction. From that low point around the turn of the century, wildlife population onthe public lands have been on the upswing because of a growing recognition of their economic, esthetic and recreational values. Estimated numbers of big game animals using these lands have increased by 70 per cent over the last 15 years. The public lands today accommodate some three million of these animals during all or part of the year; they provide the base for more than 25 million days of hunting and fishing annually; they contain more than 13 million acres of lakes and reservoirs and thousands of miles of streams --an excellent sport fishery; they were visited by a total of 15 million recreationists last year, many of whom were attracted by the abundant fish and wildlife populations. This land has served wildlife well, It has provided a vartety-of-species with a habitat on which they can thrive. While wildlife has increased substantially, other uses have multiplied even more rapidly. As the land comes under more intensive and sometimes conflicting uses, AND LIKE OTHER CURIOUS CHILDREN , TL PUT THINGS (N MY HOUTH. £0 ONE DANN r PUT A TV. the job of wildlife management becomes increasingly P\ SET IN HY MouTH. e\ Na complex. Wildlife on public lands managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management is under the administration of the various state fish and game departments, but the habitat upon which the animals live is under BLM administration; accordingly, BLM must give full consideration in all of its management activities to wildlife needs. On some sections of the range there is not enough plant life to support both domestic livestock and competing big game animals. Decisions must be made.as to how much of the available forage should be reserved for livestock, how much for wildlife, and how best to improve the land to satisfy both demands . Similar decisions must be made. concerning the removal of sagebrush, w hich is an essential browse plant on some deer ranges, and range fencing, which can affect the free movement of antelope unless appropriately modified. Much range improvement activity is necessarily detrimentalto wildlife, but this does not mean that the wild animals can be benefited only at the expense of another land use. Many.BLM projects boost wildlife even though they are primarily meant for another use. Reservoir and spring developments, for example, make new waters available to both livestock and wildlife, Reservoirs have increased upland bird populations in some areas, and are also serving as new fishing ponds. Gully plugging, a” method of slowing the rush of gully waters with a series of small dams, can elevate the underlying water table, stop soil erosion andrebuild vegetative cover. The result is improved forage for livestock and better wildlife habitat. The construction of access roads helps hunters harvest game species each year, thereby keeping wildlife populations under control, within the land's carrying capacity; the long -range benefits are reaped by the wild species themselves. The key to wildlife production is the maintenance of proper habitat conditions, This is the responsibility of the Federal Government, and it will increase as the nation's resource needs grow, To meet this responsibility, the public land managers need clear policy direction from Congress for coordinated multiple-use manage~ment, of the public lands, ---Conservation News WILDLIFE PLEASURE ASSURED The pieasure obtained by the public from watching birds in flight and. deer sprinting through tne woods is largely made possible py $135 million spent by hunters each year, according to a new study made by National Shooting Sports Foundation, 1075 Post Road, Riverside, Conn. The total includes $68 million in hunting licenses, tags and permits; $14 million in federal excise taxes on sporting arms and ammunition; $3.5 million in duck stamp fee; and $50 million in developing private land for wildlife. With almost unanimous approval, the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs cleared H.R. 9070 on June 18. The bill to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System was introduced by Mr. John Saylor (Pa.) on November 7, 1963 and was recently reported favorably but with 32 amendments by the Public Lands Subcommittee. The historic vote came after seven years of consideration, hearings and debate on wilderness legislation. More ‘than 18 public hearings were conducted after the first bills were introduced in the Congress in 1957, not only in Washington but at various locations throughout the West. _---Conservation News WAND IVE BEEN LOOKED ON THE TASTY LITTLE DEVILS EVER SINCE.. A ' $ ;

p= pub . Nevada County Nugget... August 13, 1964.. SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD WASHINGTON CALLING ITCHY POLITICAL FINGERS CAN NULLIFY POVERTY PROGRAM WASHINGTON ---Itchy political fingers are out to get a grip on a big chunk of the money to be appropriated under the poverty program, If the effort is successful the benefits of this limited program will be in considerable part nullified. Example No, 1 is Rep. Adam Clayton Powell and Harlem. Powell has turned on the heat to get his former assistant, Livingston L. Wingate, made executive director at $25, 000 a year ofthe present Associated Community Teams(ACT) program. ACT has had small grants out of the President's juvenile delinquency project. But until the question of who runs the show is determined the money has been held up, The recent explosion in Harlem, with many youths on a wild rampage, was a sign of what that pitiful ghetto can produce. The rumblings of the volcano were so long ignored that when it blew off it produced shock and surprise. If Powell should get control of the present program the precedent would be powerful when the much larger sums are allocated for the drive on poverty. Such a precedent would be cited in the 15 other cities coming under the community action phase of the poverty bill, In short, the politicos would be out to see that they were taken care of -even though the funds in terms of need are actually so small. Powell isa complex case study in race and power. To show all the nuances of his extraordinary career he deserves a full-length novel, Butno one could tell the story so well as the hero himself. By virtue of seniority Powell has become the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor. That committee has authority over a wide range of social legislation, including the poverty bill. The chairman, therefore, is in the driver's seat, and he has never been shy about exercising authority. Powell's Southern colleagues who hold powerful chairmanships -beneficiaries of the same seniority -could take lessons from him in arbitrary rule. His excursionsto Europe, complete with pretty secretaries, have made headlines and so have his vacations in his Puerto Rican hideaway. But none of this seemstotouch him, When under attack he wraps himself in the untouchability of race, And so deep are the antagonisms of the prisoners in the Harlem ghetto that this suffices as an answer. In his robes as minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church he castigates his political enemies. His own standard of living is as far above that of most of his constituents as though he were one of the favored ensconced in the towers of the Waldorf-Astoria. If the contrast with their lot concerns his flock they give no sign of it. In terms of Harlem's desperate needs --for that matter, the desperate need of New York and almost every other center of urban rot -the squabble over who runs the poverty program can only seem self-defeating. It reflects the power structure in which corruption, often of a subtle and scarcely identifiable kind, permeates every level from top to bottom. Under the most charitable interpretation the antipoverty program is a small beginning. A large chunk of the $945, 000,000 willgotoa youth job corps anda work training and study program that will enroll in one type of activity or another upward of 250,000 youths between 16 and 21. The amount presently allocated for these purposes is $412,000,000. PEOPLE SAY TO ME ... “@RUMP, HOW DID YOU GET ADDICTED TO Tv." RY WELL... E WAS A BS CURIOUS CHILD .. a Ps ODD BODKINS ... Forthe community action phase $315, 000,000 is earmarked. Using a formula covering all the states, New York would get for the whole state $15,324,000. Not more than half of that amount would go to New York City. It would be supple mented by funds from other agencies with a related interest in the poverty program. Measured against the great festering areas of poverty not only in the predominantly Negro sections of Harlem and Bedford -Stuyvesant but in the lower East Side, this is the proverbial drop in the bucket. It must be taken as a token of what can be done with a real desire to check the plague of human and physical rot afflicting the cig cities. The Urban League once proposed a dramatic Marshall Plan kind of approach to the Negro ghettos and the problem of second-class citizenship. By spending, say, $20 billion in a massive attack on poverty, ignorance, and disease, the cancer in the side of the body politic could be eliminated. This soundswildly visionary. But, as Harlem and Rochester have shown, perhaps at this late date nothing less than a wholesale cure will have any effect. (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs BIG GAME MANAGEMENT AND MULTIPLE USE CONFLICTS In the era of unfenced public domain, the public lands were virtually ruled by the huge herds of bison and deer and pronghorn antelope that roamed the West. Then

camethe sweep of civilization, and with it a period of dangerto our wildlife heritage. As the white man began to developthe West, he put the land to new uses, altering much of the environment upon which the wild animals depended, Wildlife decreased and retreated. In less than 40 years, both bison and pronghorn had reached a point dangerously close to extinction. From that low point around the turn of the century, wildlife population onthe public lands have been on the upswing because of a growing recognition of their economic, esthetic and recreational values. Estimated numbers of big game animals using these lands have increased by 70 per cent over the last 15 years. The public lands today accommodate some three million of these animals during all or part of the year; they provide the base for more than 25 million days of hunting and fishing annually; they contain more than 13 million acres of lakes and reservoirs and thousands of miles of streams --an excellent sport fishery; they were visited by a total of 15 million recreationists last year, many of whom were attracted by the abundant fish and wildlife populations. This land has served wildlife well, It has provided a vartety-of-species with a habitat on which they can thrive. While wildlife has increased substantially, other uses have multiplied even more rapidly. As the land comes under more intensive and sometimes conflicting uses, AND LIKE OTHER CURIOUS CHILDREN , TL PUT THINGS (N MY HOUTH.. £0 ONE DANN r PUT A TV. the job of wildlife management becomes increasingly P\ SET IN HY MouTH.. e\ Na complex. Wildlife on public lands managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management is under the administration of the various state fish and game departments, but the habitat upon which the animals live is under BLM administration; accordingly, BLM must give full consideration in all of its management activities to wildlife needs. On some sections of the range there is not enough plant life to support both domestic livestock and competing big game animals. Decisions must be made.as to how much of the available forage should be reserved for livestock, how much for wildlife, and how best to improve the land to satisfy both demands . Similar decisions must be made. concerning the removal of sagebrush, w hich is an essential browse plant on some deer ranges, and range fencing, which can affect the free movement of antelope unless appropriately modified. Much range improvement activity is necessarily detrimentalto wildlife, but this does not mean that the wild animals can be benefited only at the expense of another land use. Many.BLM projects boost wildlife even though they are primarily meant for another use. Reservoir and spring developments, for example, make new waters available to both livestock and wildlife, Reservoirs have increased upland bird populations in some areas, and are also serving as new fishing ponds. Gully plugging, a” method of slowing the rush of gully waters with a series of small dams, can elevate the underlying water table, stop soil erosion andrebuild vegetative cover. The result is improved forage for livestock and better wildlife habitat. The construction of access roads helps hunters harvest game species each year, thereby keeping wildlife populations under control, within the land's carrying capacity; the long -range benefits are reaped by the wild species themselves. The key to wildlife production is the maintenance of proper habitat conditions, This is the responsibility of the Federal Government, and it will increase as the nation's resource needs grow, To meet this responsibility, the public land managers need clear policy direction from Congress for coordinated multiple-use manage~ment, of the public lands, ---Conservation News WILDLIFE PLEASURE ASSURED The pieasure obtained by the public from watching birds in flight and. deer sprinting through tne woods is largely made possible py $135 million spent by hunters each year, according to a new study made by National Shooting Sports Foundation, 1075 Post Road, Riverside, Conn. The total includes $68 million in hunting licenses, tags and permits; $14 million in federal excise taxes on sporting arms and ammunition; $3.5 million in duck stamp fee; and $50 million in developing private land for wildlife. With almost unanimous approval, the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs cleared H.R. 9070 on June 18. The bill to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System was introduced by Mr. John Saylor (Pa.) on November 7, 1963 and was recently reported favorably but with 32 amendments by the Public Lands Subcommittee. The historic vote came after seven years of consideration, hearings and debate on wilderness legislation. More ‘than 18 public hearings were conducted after the first bills were introduced in the Congress in 1957, not only in Washington but at various locations throughout the West. _---Conservation News WAND IVE BEEN LOOKED ON THE TASTY LITTLE DEVILS EVER SINCE... A ' $ ;