Mr. President. an article published in last Thursdays Miami Herald describes an application by the Florida Bar Association and Gov. Claude Kirks office to the Office of Economic Opportunity for the legal services funds presently granted to South Florida Migrant Legal Services. Inc. Attorneys with the South Florida Migrant Legal Services were instrumental in calling the attention of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. of which I am a member. to malnutrition and hunger in the migrant camps in Florida. I have been impressed with the caliber of the attorneys in the program and with what they have tried to do to improve the lot of migrant farmworkers. Perhaps they were too successful. If the application of the Florida Bar Association to replace South Florida Migrant Legal Services is accepted by the Office of Economic Opportunity. legal assistance to farmworkers. although still present in name. will be greatly diminished in fact. We must not turn programs intended for the poor into a mere facade in order to obtain the support of a local power structure. The news story from the Miami Herald indicates to me that such may be the fate of the migrant legal services program in Florida. I ask unanimous consent that an article entitled "County Government Asks Funds to Replace Migrant Aid Unit." published in the Miami Herald of April 17. 1969. be printed in the RECORD.
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