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JSigm Btnt-Cl^riittrn The NEW BERN I PUBLIIHID WIIKLV IN THI HIAIIT OF NORTH [ NEW BERN, N. C. FRIDAY, AAARCH 28, 1969 NUMBER 1 Times have certainly changed since The Mirror, several years ago, went out on a limb to pioneer in condemnation of the way the antipoverty program was being mishandled. A very small voice, crying in the wilderness, this little weekly drew attack from var ious large dallies in Greens boro, Charlotte, Washington, D. C„ and way points. The Ralel^ News and Observer contented Itself with sending a staff writer to New Bern to do a story on “the program.*’ Her publishc'd report contained undeniable untruths in the very first paragraph. Incidentally, some of the sup posedly unbiased stories and photographs that appeared in the press under the guise of ob jective newspaper reporting was planted propaganda.Could you object anything but distort ed praise from a news gatherer who received a check from anti- poverty funds for his services? The Mirror's complaint, as Craven Operation Progress well knew, wasn’t that some thing was being done to help the poor and imderprivlleged. Our contention, then and now,is that most of the huge amount of money appropriated foi pov erty in Craven County, (even one of the directors admitted 80 percent in a television in terview) has been gobbled up by administration. And if you don’t know what that word administration means in this case, it applies for the most part to tho.se big salary checks that a selected few draw as top level employees of the program. Although you have a ri^t to such information as a citizen, who gets what remains a carefully guarded secret at 310 George street. Anyhow, the nation’s large newspapers, even the liberal ones, have finally arrived at the conclusion that the way anti- poverty has been handled is a disgrace, and the cruelest sort of injustice to the needy. “Aid to America’s poor,’’ writes StaffCorrespondent Pet er C. Stuart in the Christian Science Monitor, “is a multi- billion dollar business, but in too many localities it functions, as one administrator admits, like a corner candy store. “This hip-pocket style of management is beginning to tell. The legacy is revealed m«)sl vividly in the major cities, where the programs are most unwieldy. “In New York, federal, state and local investigators are probing charges that the city’s antipoverty program has cheat ed ^e poor of millions of dol lars. “Investigators from Wa.sh- ington also are checking into charges of irregularities in the wars on poverty in Los Angeles and Detroit, among other cities. The welfare program in the tur ban state of Massachusetts is wracked with accusations of corruption. Local antipoverty management troubles have sur faced even in Washington, in the very shadow of the parent Office of Economic Opportunity. “The significance of such charges is sharpened by the fact that American taxpayers today are channeling more money than ever before to thr (Continued on Page 8) TYPICAL SCENES AT MOREHEAD CITY'S PORT TERMINAL —Photos by Billy Benners
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