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Last week, in a show of strength that can only worsen Lyndon Johnson's al ready battered popularity in the South, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning to have its federal funds...
...segregated Southern school systems, eventually may end up denying funds to more than 400 districts serving a to tal of at least 1,000,000 children. At the same time, HEW is getting tough with segregated hospitals. It has scheduled hearings with an eye to ending all fed eral aid, including construction and research funds, to 17 or so Southern hospitals. Up to now, some 340 hospitals have been denied requests for new funds, notably Medicare payments, but none has been cut off from federal aid altogether...
Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...increase in aid has been dramatic. The College Scholarship Service, a private, Princeton-based coordinator of aid programs, estimated that $440 million was available three years aso in all types of aid; this year some $710 million is being offered. Much of the increase has come from fed eral funds in five main programs...
Overturning the Los Angeles decision, the Supreme Court ruled that franchise terms were not at issue. Gen eral Motors and its dealer associations, said Justice Abe Fortas, had removed a "class of traders from the market"-an antitrust violation per se. With that decision, discounters apparently won open season on the U.S.'s 29,000 franchised dealers...