A View From The Governor's Office By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer This week, I sent to the Gen- school teachers who understand era! Assembly a proposed 1969- the importance of this budget to 70 State budget designed to ac- them That’s one-quarter of our complish two major objectives: population. And the families and teachers pay taxes. —To make certain that the people of Pennsylvania are not undei served, and —To make certain that they reflected in the fact that for are not overtaxed. the first time the State will Consider at the outset who it Pick up half the bill for public is that receives the services, education if Legislature ap how many lives will be influenc- proves the one billion, fifty ed by the proposals if adopted, three million dollars ($1,053 There are today some 2.3 mil- billion) I recommended. Also lion school childien, their fami- included is a crash education lies and the 100,000 public progiam for the ghetto and ROHRER’S UN SUPPLY THESE Top Recommended VARIETIES • Cert. 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From the school children we turn to the 239,000 students, their families and the 29.000 professors in our Common wealth System of Higher Edu cation Among them are some of the 145,000 in both public and private colleges and univer sities who are receiving scholar ship and loan assistance from us. Their families and profess ors pay taxes, and the students soon will, at a rate that will re flect higher incomes because we helped them get a higher education They know the importance of the $352 million foi higher edu cation recommended in this year’s budget Every taxpayer and citizen knows the need for making new and effective effoits to combat dime, pi event consumer fraud and providing for a modem system of criminal justice in our courts and in our correc tional institutions The $3O mil lion I am recommending in this area is absolutely essential if these progiams are to be effec tive I know there are few, if any, who do not recognize with com passion the needs of those citi zens afflicted with mental ill ness or the injury of retarda tion. But we feel the pain far less than the families of the 42.000 patients in our mental hospitals and institutions for the mentally retarded and the 41.000 who await the benefits of our new Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Program. That is why I have recom mended an increase of $33 mil lion for our mental hospitals and $l7 million for our com munity mental health and re tardation centers, which will bring our total effort in this most needed service to $2OO million I need not remind you that some citizens have asked that much more be spent in this area immediately Certainly, we should consider the pnonty of that lequest From the mentally ill and re taided, we tuin to those citizens who need medical and health caie and have nowhere to tuin Phone 717-354-9745 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1.1969 but to the State. There aie one million seeking this aid. and I recommended we provide $7O million foi this assistance a small inciease over this yeai’s expendiluie The $232 million lecommend ed for our public assistance pro gram will help 303,000 childi en, their parents or guaidans and 85,000 aged, blind and disabled citizens maintain a minimum level of decency recommended in the Woodbuiy Report There is not one taxpayer in this Commonwealth that doesn’t have a vital stake in our pro grams to improve our health and the envnonment pio grams which total $53 4 million This money will be spent to help us clean pollution fiom the water we dunk, the air we breathe and the land on which we live, woik and play Along with this expenditure I recommend we piovide $65 million to help oui uiban dwell ers—(who represent four out of every five Pennsylvanians)— solve the problems they face in deteriorating neighboi hoods, hard core unemployment, hous ing and code enfoi cement, ur ban planning and renewal Included also aie $l3 1 mil lion for the improvement of mass transportation and to de velop the high speed Keystone Corridor. This corridor will be the new backbone of Pennsyl vania’s economic growth a growth that is vital to all com munities no matter what size, or where they are located in the Commonwealth. This corridor, linked to our rapidly-expanding system of highways, will keep us in the key position as the hub State between the East Coast and the industrial Great Lakes Region. To assure the continuation of our record-breaking highway construction program, I am re commending, in the highway fund section of this budget, that we increase expenditures to one billion, six million dollars ($1,006 billion), including our proposed plan to eliminate safe ty hazards. 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