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A View From The Governor's Office
By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer
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In the next few days, 1,158 Youth Corps project. They have
youngsters bo\s and girls of gone to work all summer in the
low-income families all across Slate forests and parks and in
Pennsylvania—will be returning State health institutions, doing
to their high-school classrooms interesting woik. This has given
with a whole new outlook on them money in their pockets and
life, self-respect in their hearts.
These Id anrt 17 year old Penn- Four years ago, the Pennsyl
sylvanians will have had the op- vjnia Department of Public Wel .
portunity to he p their poverty- , looked over tho assistance
stricken families financially Mlls t 0 flnd 1200 young people
while finding out that someone £ rom the most poverty-stricken
rea “y J* oes care about their families in the Commonwealth,
promems. All boys for the first two years,
The young people are part of they worked under the Pennsyl
the 1968 summer Neighborhood vania Department of Forests and
Waters and the Historical and
Museum Commission in the
fields and forests, cleaning up
the countryside for ail Pennsyl
vanians.
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Last year the program was di
vided among boys and girls, with
the young ladies caring for pa
tients in State institutions. This
year both boys and girls, from
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
worked in the health institu
tions. Boys within daily busing
distance of wooded areas work
ed to improve picnic, hiking, and
nature areas.
Each year, more than 90 per
cent of the youngsters return to
school in the fall. We know this
because we follow up each young
person to see if our back -to -
school encouragement has work
ed.
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I think the program succeeds
because we take the most needy
youngsters. We help them get to
work. We provide their meats
and, sometimes their work
clothes. And there are three peo
ple always available to step in to
help each boy or girl if personal
or family problems come up dur
ing the summer. The group lead
er who shepherds the young
sters, the work supervisor, and
the social case woiker back in
the youth’s home neighborhood,
ail are available to talk over dif
ficulties. Every effort is made to
keep the youngsters from be
coming dropouts.
This N e i g h b o rh )od Youth
Corps summer plan is only part
of the Commonwealth’s effort to
encourage pride and self-respect
among those Pennsylvanians who
are temporarily down on their
luck.
We have a year 'round pro
gram for the 18 to 21 age group.
These youth work 36 hours a
week in State institutions Most
come away from the program
with a new self-respect and an
interest in trying new ways to
find work.
The State operates a 40 hour
work week career training pio
gram foi adults on the public
assistance rolls. And we’\e just
begun the Governor’s Common
wealth Career Program This
lets us place in State institution
jobs those who can’t qualify un
der Federal grant-in-aid pro
grams.
About 80 percent of the youth
and adult programs are paid for
with money returning to this
State from Wasnmgton, except
the Commonwealth Career Pro
gram which helps those unavail
able for Federal help.
All of these programs have
one common thread of purpose
They help us seek out the most
needy Pennsylvanians They let
ur help jobless people gam the
dignity of a job.
Self-respect is built, and with
it comes pride. And that is the
most important thing for every
human being to live a full and
fiuitful life.
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The county committee super
vises the $546,500 per year busi
ness of the county ASCS office
and is responsible for adminis
tering the price-support, acreage
diversion, agricultural conserva
tion, and other programs in the
county. The community commit
tees assist the county committee
and are particularly responsible
for keeping their neighbors in
formed about the programs.
Chairman Seldomndge urges
farmers to be sure to sign the
statement on the back of the out
side envelope containing the
plain envelope with the ballot
for the community committee
election. This statement is a cer
tification that the ballot was
marked by the farmer personal
ly without undue influence by
any person. The ballot will not
be counted unless the statement
is signed.
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ritus, bom 460 B C was the first
exponet of the atomic theory ac
coidmg to historical records
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