European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday Jne 8, almost 8 million number of americans on welfare sharim by William j. Conway associated press writer in this richest of nations where half the population has no firsthand knowledge of the big depression in the 1930s, the number of people receiving pub Lic Aid is  associated press Survey shows almost eight million men women and children7,908,51& Are on welfare  s a gain of 739188 in just one  annual Cost is close to $7 billion86,448.824.122. That includes $3,606,273,138 in Federal  i hotter says . In t i violent i san Francisco up Eric Hoffer the san Francisco Longshoreman philosopher appointed to a presidential com Mission to investigate violence in America said thursday americans were not violent at All. Basically we Are the most gentle generous Law abiding and cooperative people on Earth the Blunt talking Hoffer said. We Are not violent Hoffer said he had spent his life with people considered the most violent on Earth skid Row bums migrant workers longshoremen but had never seen a fight. These people and american generally Are gentle and orderly and kind. We must note Hasty. To accuse America because an Arab from Jerusa Lem committed this crime is the most slanderous thing in the world. These glib confessions of guilt Are  Hoffer a Strong admirer of president Johnson specifically criticized sen. Eugene Mccarthy for putting All the blame on the american people for the assassination of sen. Funds 12,060,038,804 in state Money and More than$600,000,000 in local funds. The number of recipient showed Little or no change in North Carolina Arizona mis Souri Kansas Utah Nebraska West Virginia Indiana an North Dakota. Elsewhere the number  to dependent children add takes the most Money Inmany states. One of these is Connecticut. It expects a $35 million state Wel fare deficit by the end of the current biennium june 30, 1969.welfare commissioner Bernard Shapiro said add will account for 20 million of the deficit. The add caseload he said has Bee expanding since september at the rate of 1,000 persons month. He estimated that 300,000 Resi dents one tenth of connect Cut s population Are within the Federal government s definition of poverty and Only 100,000 of them Are receiving Public Aid. But he noted that civil rights organizations social action groups and government programs Are letting More and More of the poor know they May be eligible for financial help. Welfare outlays for program controlled by California will to Tal a Little Over Al billion during the current fiscal year in an Over All budget of slightly More than $5 billion. Dependent Chil Dren there form the largest group of beneficiaries800,000 out of a total of 1,196,850.among the smaller states Delaware expected a 7 per Cen increase in people on its Aid lists. But the add caseload jumped 25 per cent and general assistance 30 per  unprecedented Rise in add in the state of Washington prompted gov. Dan Evans to Robert f. Kennedy and said violence was not committed by the masses but by the intelligentsia. We know that most violence is committed by the Young and the educated he said. Was Hitler an intellectual was t Trotsky their kind of violence is not committed by the masses but by an educated elite. We Don t know Why but thesis what we must  How often have you seen your neighbors fight he asked. How often have you seen a Street fight after an Auto Accident no. We Are under standing and cooperative. We Settle our differences through orderly  earlier Hoffer refused to comment on the subject of violence prior to the conclusion of his assignment. I m not going to shoot off my Mouth right now Hoffer said then. Kennedy tragedies with the death often. Robert f. Kennedy right the violent death toll among children of Joseph p. And Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy has reached four. Others were from left Joseph p. Kennedy jr., whose bomber exploded in world War ii Kathleen 1948 plane crash victim and president John , slain in november 1963.ap photos Mew probe wider than Warren s Washington a the Only member of president John son s commission on violence who also served on the Warren commission says the new investigation will be wholly Dif Ferent in scope and method from the inquiry into president John f. Kennedy s assassination. Rep. Hale Boggs d-la., said in an interview thursday the mandate is certainly broader for the study of violence which was launched after sen. Robertf. Kennedy was shot in los Angeles wednesday. Boggs said one major Dif Ference is that the new com Mission will hold open hear Ings. The Warren commission did not. The Warren commission s Job essentially was to conduct a criminal investigation after Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the assassination of presiden Kennedy was killed. The Over All question Johnson asked when he announced establishment of the new com Mission was what in the nature of our people and the environment of our society makes possible such murder and such violence Boggs said he thinks a highly professional staff including sociologists criminologists an psychologists will toe needed even to plan an inquiry of such scope. It threatened to exha Sable funds. This brought restrictions that Cut a distance Rolls in december the . Government an states Are digging growing  appointed a c Sion in january to look aspects of welfare program and to recommend ments. Its Leader is Heineman chairman of the ago and North Western Way. There Are major prot a addition to add. They the  with disabilities. Oldsters. Some Are no the social Security system some others Are but Don to chive enough to cover  not eligible for programs and thus Givens called general assistance. Comp Cating the financial Side of welfare is medicaid relatively new program to blends Federal and state fun for care of the medically Ini gent. Not All states have it. By in new York for example Cost soared Over estimates and the program was Cut Back. The time a person must Lin a state to be eligible diff Bat the most common period Ione year. The residency requirement Range from 1 to 3 years in Ore-1 gon and Indiana and fro months to 5 years in Oklahoma. It s 5 years for adults in Arizona and 1 year for add and up to 5 for old age assistance i California. Four Kennedy died violently Iowa requires 1 year for Arcand residence for 5 of the past 9 years for the aged and  similar formulas Are used in Arkansas Montana col Orado Kansas Ohio Louisiana and  is no residency require Washington a with Angeles june 6, 1968, a Day of � a vim ve7 j Wir Ofa a a we. Ort Lollee Harvey Oswald in Dallas Nedy Lawford born May Wisconsin Pensilva pc0taon nov. 22, 1963. The president 1924, and Jean Kennedy Smith Carolina Michigan a jul and mrs. Kennedy suffered the born feb. 20,1928.  it Arjuna. Deaths of two children a Daugh Ter stillborn and a son who died two Days after birth from lung. . Rosemary Kennedy born sept. 13, 1918. In an institution for the mentally retarded since 1941. Kathleen Kenned Cavendish born feb. 20, 1920, killed in a plane crash i France in May 1948. Her Hus band the marquess of Harting ton and a Captain in the cold european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa ned.,y it. 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