Anti-Poverty Program Director To Be Announced Next Week By CAC
Barnstable Patriot, September 01, 1966
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Appointment of an
executive director of
Cape Cod's newly organized Mili-uoverty group, the Community Action Committee of Barnstable County, inc.,
at a yearly salary of 411,500. probably will be made next week.
According to Roscoe McDowell of Hyannis Port, chairman of the new croup's personnel committee, there have been more than 20 applicants i far the executive position, He said I Ms committee is looking for a coll''Bo graduate with experience in ( business administration, writing ' Md speaking ability, and with creative nnd imaginative qualities. "Our director," said Mr. Mc-Dowell, "will be trail-Mazing hi unchartered territory and will ««ed to have pioneer attributes. Bemuse the Anti-Poverty program is « adventure into the new and the thalienging, the caliber of the director will be important." T «e Office of Economic Opportun-,ly ln Washington early In August sectioned a grant of 131,263 to the Cone Community Action Committo' It has received the necessary approval by Gov. Volpe. A break-Q wi) of the grant which was only MBo less than the local committee } guested shows the following bud-Ket: $25,886 for personnel, $600 for ""militants, $2,322 for travel. S2,100 'Ql «¦"!, $1,374 for supplies, 11,603 * rental equipment and $875 in ^i costs .
while the survey made last year y Cape cod Community Council as somewhat of a shock to resldw of an area long considered one ' «w most affluent in the north-«•¦ . it did reveal that approxlmatesaiwl!60 famllles have Incomes »f ™m a year. More than half of ,„ ' ^e survey indicated, earned Je * than $2,ooo. The Council's survey further showed that those families, classified by the OEO as "poor and living in a state of poverty," represent 11,589 individuals, or 16 and a half per cent of Cape Cod's population.
Reasons for "poverty pockets" throughout the Cape are cited by Louis Jacobucci. executive secretary of M.S.P.C.C.'s Cape branch, and a member of the Community Action Committee. They are illiteracy, und^r-employment (working at such low wages that a family cannot be supported) and poor health. Mr. Jacobucci added, "There Is great ne^d for year round, low income housing. Every May and June we hear from poor families who have been ousted from winter quarters to make room for the higher summer rentals. Heading the Community Action Committee as president is Edward C. Hempel, Barnstable County 4-H Clubs agent. The group, incorporated last fall, sprang from the Cape Community Council. Other officers are John A. Coe, Forestdalc, vice president; John L. Roche, East Harwich, secretary, and the Rev. Kenneth R. Warren, Barnstable, treasurer.
