Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, in the House Appropriations Committee, the first money installment under the $1.1 billion Appalachia program-$344,328,000, more than half of which is for highways and access roads in the eleven-state region...
Without changing a comma, the House of Representatives last week passed the Administration's aid-to-Appalachia bill and sent it to President Johnson to be signed into the Great Society. The bill provides for $1.1 billion, mostly for highway construction, in the eleven Appalachian states...
...last week's instance, the Republican alternative offered $995 million not just to Appalachia but to all 50 states. That was defeated 152 to 65. which was demoralizing enough. Even more humiliating was the outcome of a Republican move to recommit the bill with instructions to substitute the G.O.P. plan. Of 136 Republicans voting on the motion, 44 opposed it-an astonishing defection rate of 33%. At the same time, the G.O.P. effort wrought a rare show of Democratic unity, with only eight out of 287 defecting...
...ghettos, and mental hospitals. Last week's graduates, including a 57-year-old divorcee from Columbia, Mo., a former personnel supervisor for the Chrysler Corp., and a 19-year-old California co-ed who had never before been away from home, will be stationed in such places as Appalachia, the Missouri Ozarks, a Negro slum in Las Vegas, and a migrant workers' camp in California...
Fancy Footwork. Delivering his maiden speech in the Senate, Bobby recalled that Republican Governor Rockefeller had been notably lukewarm toward the idea of having his state included in the aid-to-Appalachia program. This, Bobby said, was "a grievous error." He offered an amendment to the effect that the Appalachian Regional Commission, also to be set up under the Johnson bill, be directed to consider the inclusion of 13 southern New York counties under the program...