ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT

4 - SEP 13

A

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

OVERSIGHT INTO ADMINISTRATION OF THE
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964

AND

CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 40, H.R. 6360, H.R. 6394,
AND H.R. 8163

63-378

HEARING HELD IN NEW ORLEANS, LA., MAY 24, 1971

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
CARL D. PERKINS, Chairman

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1971

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

EDITH GREEN, Oregon

CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman A

FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey
JOHN H. DENT, Pennsylvania
ROMAN C. PUCINSKI, Illinois
DOMINICK V. DANIELS, New Jersey
JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana
JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan
AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California
WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan
PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii
JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York
LLOYD MEEDS, Washington
PHILLIP BURTON, California
JOSEPH M. GAYDOS, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, New York
MARIO BIAGGA, New York
ELLA T. GRASSO, Connecticut
LOUISE DAY HICKS, Massachusetts
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky
HERMAN BADILLO, New York

ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota
JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio
ALPHONZO BELL, California
OGDEN R. REID, New York
JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
JOHN R. DELLENBACK, Oregon
MARVIN L. ESCH, Michigan

EDWIN D. ESHELMAN, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM A. STEIGER, Wisconsin
EARL F. LANDGREBE, Indiana
ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho

EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina
EDWIN B. FORSYTHE, New Jersey
VICTOR V. VEYSEY, California
JACK F. KEMP, New York

PETER A. PEYSER, New York

SPECIAL HEARING SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 2
WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan, Chairman

PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii
LLOYD MEEDS, Washington
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, New York
ELLA T. GRASSO, Connecticut
LOUISE DAY HICKS, Massachusetts
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky

WILLIAM A. STEIGER, Wisconsin
ALPHONZO BELL, California
EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina
JACK F. KEMP, New York
PETER A. PEYSER, New York

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Baker, James G., member of the Missouri Legislature, member Kansas
City Bar and Missouri Bar..

165

Benson, Arthur A., II, staff attorney, regional director, ULEA, Kansas
City, Mo..‒‒‒

167

Kelly, Patrick D., dean, University of Missouri at Kansas City,

M.M.K.C. Law School..

161

Kelly, Timothy E., presidednt, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas, Tex--

Landrieu, Hon. Moon, mayor, city of New Orleans, La....

199

194

Miller, Paul, director, Legal Aid Defender for Greater Kansas City--

Myer, Joe, director, Legal Assistance Corp., New Orleans, La..

Shireman, William H., director, Legal Aid Society of Nueces County,

Corpus Christi, Tex____

85

199

179

Sutton, John F., Jr., professor, University of Texas Law School Aus-

tin, Tex..

1

Prepared statements and supplemental material :

Millen, Russel, lawyer, Kansas City, Mo., statement of

86

Miller, Paul, director, Legal Aid Defender for Greater Kansas City:
"Composite Evaluation of the Legal Aid and Defender Society
of Kansas City, Mo.," an article entitled____

"Day-to-Day Work in Poverty Law in a Metropolitan Area,"

a publication entitled_

108

139

"Legal Aid Helps People Who Have Problems," a list of seven

points of law...

127

"Legal Services Community Education," an article entitled_

Letter to Miss Shirley Snelson, Jefferson City, Mo., enclosing serv-

ice report for 1970, dated February 18, 1971_

"Proposed Work Program, Year F," a compilation entitled__

Shireman, William H., director, Legal Aid Society of Neuces County,

Corpus Christi, Tex., statement of.

87

179

Sutton, Prof. John F., Jr., University of Texas Law School, Austin,

Tex.:

"Code of Professional Responsibility and Canons of Judicial

Ethics," a publication entitled__

29

"Curriculum Vitae," a biography entitled..

27

"Formal Opinion 324," American Bar Association, a compilation

entitled

9

eLtter to Chairman Ford, dated June 3, 1971_

25

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