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Benefits and Bonuses. More than anything else, the plan illustrates what has been lacking up to now. The company will establish four permanent social-service centers and one mobile center, which will offer child care, preschool training and adult education. Austin promised better medical care and toilet-equipped buses to transport workers between home and the citrus groves. He said in addition that the company will have "modern and sanitary" dormitories and new homes for its seasonal workers, and will raise the wages for 300 full-time grove workers by 23%, to a top of $2 per hour. The roughly...
Schools and busing are Wichita's chief focus of racial strain, as they are for so many U.S. cities. Of 13,000 children who ride school buses, 3,000 do so for purposes of integration. Some 1,000 white mothers clutching preschool tots with I DON'T WANT TO BE BUSED placards recently marched on the board of education headquarters and dispersed only after reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison. The school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Morris, insists that "there is a national revolutionary group at work." "It's not a matter of racial prejudice," Mayor...
...problem, like many others, is most severe in ghetto areas of central cities. There, because of indifference or ignorance, only 46% of the preschool children have been vaccinated. As Dr. James O. Mason, deputy director of Atlanta's National Communicable Disease Center, explained: "We just have not learned how to communicate with parents in the ghetto...
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. Nixon challenged the $170 million added to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provides aid to schools serving children from poor families. Special services financed under Title I include remedial reading, teacher aides, school health care and preschool training. Congress added money to other programs funded under this act, including $50 million for libraries, $48 million for supplementary educational centers, $17 million for guidance counseling, $30 million for school equipment...
...portable stage is a 6-ft.-wide Fiberglas border containing sound-sensitive lights, which respond to the beat of the music, plus ten strobe lights. And, in the middle, a 24-ft. turntable. When all of this gets moving, the stage looks for all the world like a preschool psychedelic trip...