Library Services: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S.205, a Bill to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas, and H.R. 2840, an Act to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas. May 23, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 77 pages Considers legislation to authorize Federal aid to states for development and improvement of rural library systems. |
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... feel that the Federal Government should have great authority , great power . But on the other hand , we have resisted that very well up to date . I realize , too , that there are a few States in the Union that possess great wealth ...
... feel that the Federal Government should have great authority , great power . But on the other hand , we have resisted that very well up to date . I realize , too , that there are a few States in the Union that possess great wealth ...
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... feels are good fea- tures . First of all , of course , it is designed to aid the improvement and development of public library service to rural areas of the United States now without such service , or with completely inadequate serv ...
... feels are good fea- tures . First of all , of course , it is designed to aid the improvement and development of public library service to rural areas of the United States now without such service , or with completely inadequate serv ...
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... feel that is a very important point in this legislation . After the initial allotment of $ 40,000 each State's potential addi- tional allotment is determnned by the percentage of the total national rural population living in each State ...
... feel that is a very important point in this legislation . After the initial allotment of $ 40,000 each State's potential addi- tional allotment is determnned by the percentage of the total national rural population living in each State ...
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... feel that this limited Federal aid will in 5 years stimulate the State to solve more quickly many of the rural library problems . The American Library Association feels that the 5 - year termination date of this bill is a strong point ...
... feel that this limited Federal aid will in 5 years stimulate the State to solve more quickly many of the rural library problems . The American Library Association feels that the 5 - year termination date of this bill is a strong point ...
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... feel that is most important - to the Congress and to the public . We are reassured of this function since it is provided for in section 8 ( b ) . The Office of Education is the only central source for obtaining and reporting such ...
... feel that is most important - to the Congress and to the public . We are reassured of this function since it is provided for in section 8 ( b ) . The Office of Education is the only central source for obtaining and reporting such ...
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27 million adequate library service adults allotment American Library Association believe bookmobile capita income Chairman citizens Commissioner communities county libraries D. C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR MURRAY demonstration development of public Education Subcommittee established expenditure favorable Federal aid Federal funds Federal library services Federal share fiscal George Aiken Hancock County hearings improve inadequate services JAMES E Jersey June 30 Labor and Public legislation librarians library administrative agency Library Commission library facilities library services bill library systems LISTER HILL Massachusetts Library Association MCDONOUGH Nation opportunity passage percent president promote the further public library service Public Welfare Committee regional library rural areas rural library service Senate bill 205 Senate Labor Senator AIKEN Senator HILL Senator JAMES Senator SMITH SEPIN services to rural Sincerely South Dakota statement stimulate tion towns United States Senate urban urge Washington Wiscon
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Page 7 - ... shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
Page 4 - State for such period. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Commissioner, the amount so certified. (c) For the purposes of this Section the "Federal share...
Page 6 - State library administrative agency certifies will in its judgment assure use of such funds to maximum advantage in the further extension of public library services to rural areas without such services or with inadequate services...
Page 6 - Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the purposes of this title. (b) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a...
Page 75 - ... the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen. Education cannot give these, but it may cherish them and bring them to the front in whatever station of society they are to be found; and the universities ought to be, and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the nation.
Page 6 - State for any prior period under such section was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such prior period under such section.
Page 4 - Administrator may find necessary. "(2) The Administrator shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Administrator for any period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which he finds that his estimate for any, prior period was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State...
Page 4 - Federal share' for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the...
Page 6 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce.
Page 4 - State plan approved under subsection (a) , finds that— (1) the State plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of subsection (a), or (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision...