Juvenile Delinquency Control Act: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 7178, and Various Bills for Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 245 pages
Considers legislation to authorize Federal assistance to juvenile delinquency control programs.

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Page 201 - In cities of five hundred thousand inhabitants or over any person who, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned, commits any of the following acts shall be deemed to have committed the offense of disorderly conduct : 1.
Page 3 - Secretary but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 3 - Payments under grants made under this Act may be made in installments, and in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be determined by the Administrator. DEFINITIONS Sec. 302. When used in this Act— (a) The term 'Administrator' means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) The term 'air pollution control agency...
Page 172 - Congress hereby finds and declares that juvenile delinquency and youth offenses diminish the strength and vitality of the people of our Nation; that such delinquency and offenses are increasing in both urban and rural communities; that such delinquency and offenses occur disproportionately among school dropouts, unemployed youth faced with limited opportunities and with employment barriers, and youth in deprived family situations...
Page 3 - General, shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business...
Page 2 - States in matters relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals ; (2) provide short-term training and instruction in technical matters relating to vocational rehabilitation services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for...
Page 62 - I submit that in a heavily urbanized and industrialized free society the educational experiences of youth should fit his subsequent employment. There should be a smooth transition from full-time schooling to a full-time job, whether that transition be after grade 10 or after graduation from school, college, or university.
Page 3 - State, local, or other public or nonprofit agency, organization, or institution; and to the extent he deems it appropriate, the Secretary shall require the recipient of any grant to contribute money, facilities, or services for carrying out the project for which such grant was made.
Page 56 - An even worse state of affairs was found in another special study in a different city. In a slum area of 125,000 people, mostly Negro, a sampling of the youth population shows that roughly 70 percent of the boys and girls ages 1 6-2 1 are out of school and unemployed.
Page 56 - I do not have to remind this audience of the fact that the fate of freedom in the world hangs very much in balance. Our success against the spread of Communism in no small measure depends upon the successful operation of our own free society.

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