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Box 19, Folder 9, Document 29

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*THE WEEKLY SUMMARY OF Prone
COMMUNITY ACTION - Total ere al 1996 of $652,666,000
in federal funds. Total during Fiscal 1967 $77,166 "890.
Project Upward Bourid has awarded grants to 224 Saneate to
serve 20,418 students at a federal cost of $27,988,030.
The Foster Grandparents program now includes 37 projects
financed by $5,750,829 in federal funds. Under Project
Head Start 192,999 children have been enrolled in the year-
round and follow-through programs, financed by $97,044,165
in federal funds. For the summer '66 program 575,090
children have been enrolled at a cost of $97,000,000.
There are now 162 Legal Services programs at a federal
cost of $27,929,705. The Migrant projects are financed by
$26,350,856 in fadarals funds. There are 81 Indian programs
at a fodapall cost of $12,081,939.
JOB CORPS - 28,736 youths are enrolled in 106 centers
including 87 conservation centers, eight urban centers for
men, ten for women and one special center. The program,
including capital outlays and other costs, is financed by
$353,277,417 in obligated federal funds.
VISTA - There are now 3,388 Volunteers In Service To
America, including 1,077 in training, at a federal cost of
$15,955,803 in Fiscal 1956 and $1,754,455 in Fiscal 1967.
NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (Dept. of Labor) - In Fiscal
1956, 1,477 projects were approved for 528,296 participants
at a federal cost of $263,229,716. In FY '67, 293 projects
have been approved for 100,711 at a federal cost of
$74,615,566.
WORK EXPERIENCE (H.E.W.) - In Fiscal 1966, 147 projects
have been approved for 38,261 participants at a federal
cost of $52,487,000. Approved were 127 renewals of the
Fiscal 1965 projects for 46,559 participants at a federal
cost of $58,913,000. In Fiscal 1957, 14 projects have
been approved for 2,956 participants at a federal cost of
$4,846,544. Approved are 17 renewals of the Fiscal 1966
projects for 6,996 participants at a federal cost of
$8,664,587.
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION (H.E.W.) - 45 state plans have been
approved with nine states pending at a federal cost of.
$38, 31950635
LOANS =- Rural loans (Dept. of Agric.) total $31,972,727
for Fiscal 1966 and $3,754,962 for Fiscal 1957; Small
Business Loans (SBA) total $17,251,184 for Fiscal 1966
and $3,823,240 for Fiscal 1967.
*Statistics as of September 16, 1966. Telephone: 296-2980
OEO, Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. 20506






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A NEW JOB CORPS CENTER for men opened in Lincoln,
Nebraska on September 20 and two more urban training
centers for men will open on October 4 -- the McCoy Job
Corps Center at Sparta, Wisconsin, and the Clearfield
Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah. The centers are
operated under contract for Job Corps, with the Lincoln
center being operated by Management Systems Co., an
affiliate of Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha; the
McCoy center by the RCA Services Company, a division of
the Radio Corporation of America, and the Clearfield
Center by the Thiokol Chemical Corporation. The new
centers bring the total number of such centers for men
to 11. For women, there currently are ten centers in
operation and four more scheduled to open in the next
few months. Earlier this month a special center for
women was opened in Chicago to give intensive training
to 50 young women each three months in paramedical
subjects. This center is operated by the Brunswick

Corporation.
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DELEGATIONS FROM EIGHT STATES and the District of Columbia
are expected to join a protest march in Washington on
Tuesday, September 27 over, in the words of one of their
spokesmen, "the current lack of concern for effective
anti-poverty legislation". Several thousand persons are
scheduled to take part in the activities which will

include visits to Representatives and Seuators, a march
down the Mall to the Washington Monument, and a two and

a half hour rally at the Sylvan Theatre. The demonstration
has been organized by a number of anti-poverty groups and
coordinated by the Poverty/Rights Action Genter in the
District.

RECENT ARTICLES OF INTEREST:

Childhood Education, Sept., 1966, "Pupil-Teacher Ratio
in Head Start Centers,'' by James Doherty, OEO Public
Affates; (py /%

Post, Sept. 24, 1966, "The South's Revenge," by Steward
Alsop, p. 18.

The New Republic, Sept. 24, 1966, "Small Business Loans,"
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The New York Review of Books, Sept. 22, 1966, "What We
Want,'' by Stokeley Carmichael, p. 5.

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