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...Mississippi, a $7,000,000 Government-financed program for retraining unemployed poor, mostly Negroes, is being run through an agency organized by a Roman Catholic diocese. In New Mexico, the $1,261,000 appropriated to retrain migrant workers was granted by the Federal Government to an organization set up by the state Council of Churches. In city after U.S. city this summer, churches played a major role in launching Project Head Start, the preschool training program for underprivileged children. In all, more than 100 federal programs are providing vast amounts of Government money to church-related agencies-and uncounted millions...
...been shortened by acts of nature: drought in the Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced the availability of migrant workers to pick ripening crops. Federal economists predict that prices will hold high through August-but then relief will come. Already some downturns are noticeable. Last week wholesale vegetable prices dipped and more cattle began coming to market...
Wednesday, March 3 1 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).*"Thorn of Plenty," a report on the hard life of California's migrant farm workers and the crucial labor shortage faced by fruit and vegetable growers...
Unstructured Reading. More students than ever before are putting their vacation to such serious purpose. Out of sympathy for the migrant worker, 100 University of California students plan to pick crops in the North Central Valley and help unionize the workers. With increasing pressure on high school seniors to compete for college admissions many plan to stay home and study. At the college level, too, there are signs of growing preoccupation with studies. Students at Reed concentrate on "unstructured reading." "Let's face it-if you don't get working now, you don't get working," notes...
...VISTA officials expect to have 2,000 volunteers in training or on assignment around the U.S., with 5,000 at work a year later. So far, VISTA has announced 49 projects in 20 states, has promised a total of 239 volunteers to work in Job Corps training camps, migrant-worker camps, on Indian reservations, in big-city 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...