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...sent to the House, where speedy approval is expected, the bill provides $1.1 billion in federal aid over the next five years. Of this, $840 million would be used to help build some 3,350 miles of new highways and access roads. Not that Appalachia has a traffic jam; rather, the area would like to create one, with a road system that would bring in new industry and attract more tourists to its thousands of acres of lakes and forests. West Virginia, for example, estimates that 360 miles of new parkway in the state might bring...
...When the Appalachia bill reached the Senate floor, it included 355 counties in eleven states.* Predictably, many a Senator wanted to get into the act by amending the bill to include regional aid programs in his own home territory. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy had a plan for New England, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan one for the Ozarks, and Michigan Democrat Patrick McNamara one for the Upper Great Lakes area. Arguing that such additions would smother the original Appalachia plan and promising that President Johnson would soon send other regional programs to Congress, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to dissuade...
Thus, last week, the Senate took up consideration of Johnson's $1.1 billion bill for aid to Appalachia. The Senate passed much the same bill last year, by a 45-to-13 vote, but time ran out before the House got around to it. This year both branches are expected to whoop it through without much dissent...
...Appalachia Campaign. The popularity of voluntary sterilization was not generally suspected until 1959, when a study by the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center showed that in one out of every ten couples of childbearing age, either husband or wife had been sterilized. The survey sampling ranged through all social strata. The only population group showing markedly lower-than-average rate was the Roman Catholics, to whom sterilization is forbidden by papal encyclical and decree...
Proponents of voluntary sterilizatie" are not so much propagandizing for the operation as they are trying to break down prejudices against it. One area where there is an active campaign t. promote it is Appalachia, where men who have been unemployed for years continue to father unwanted children. The Voluntary Sterilization group has set up a pilot project for several countries,* with a $25,000 grant from Jesse Hartman, a Manhattan real estate man. In its first six months, this plan has signed up scores of men and women, with 115 operations already completed or approved at an average cost...