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Table 130.-FEDERAL FUNDS OBLIGATED BY THE OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION FOR THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CONTRIBUTIONS PROGRAM: 1951-52 TO 1959-60

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

This agency, established pursuant to the Small Business Act of 1953, as amended, is devoted wholly to small-business problems. The purposes of the Small-Business Administration are to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small-business concerns; to insure that a fair proportion of the total Government purchases and contracts for supplies and services be placed with small-business enterprises; and to make loans to small-business concerns and to victims of floods and other catastrophes. Performance in relation to these responsibilities includes the management training program which provides technical and managerial aids to small business.

MANAGEMENT TRAINING

In accomplishing its purpose to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns, the Small Business Administration encourages educational institutions to provide short, practical courses in administrative management. These courses help the owners and managers of small businesses to become better administra

Courses embody two principles: (1) They are designed for owners and managers of small firms; and (2) subjects taught relate to administration including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling rather than day-to-day operations.

The educational institutions assume full educational and financial responsibility for all courses, while the Small Business Administration aids as a cosponsor by helping with promoting, suggesting and furnishing speakers, and acting as a clearinghouse for ideas concerning subject matter, teaching methods, and administrative techniques. Often the educational institution and the Small Business Administration are assisted by local organizations and groups, such as State and local distributive education people, chambers of commerce, and local or State business and industry associations. Financial requirements are met by tuition fees paid to the educational institutions by the businessmen who take the courses.

The program has expanded rapidly since the spring of 1954 when a sucessful experiment was made with two pilot courses. By the spring of 1960, approximately 800 courses had been given by 280 educational institutions, with over 24,000 executives of small businesses completing the courses. A typical course runs for 8 weeks, with classes scheduled for 2.5 hours, one evening each week. It is preferred that classes remain small and thus far they have averaged from 25 to 30 students.

Federal funds are not appropriated specifically for this educational activity. No tabulation showing the Federal funds expended is given since the expenditures are not listed separately from other portions of the budget for the Small Business Administration agency. Expenses for instruction are defrayed by the educational institutions through fees paid by the businessmen taking the courses. Information for this presentation was obtained from the Small Business Administration.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Natural resourses are important to the development of any nation. As a means of demonstrating the unified development and wise use of natural resources, the Tennessee Valley Authority was established in 1933. Its obligations have been discharged through two broad functions: engineering and education. It is through education, in the general sense of the term, that the people and groups who largely own and who use natural resources are encouraged to participate actively in programs for the development, conservation, and use of natural resources. This educational program is informal and noninstitutional except for research and demonstration activities arranged at the colleges and universities.

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH, TESTS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS Formal educational programs as such or activities involving a formal teacher-pupil relationship are not supported by TVA. The principal educational work of TVA includes research activities, tests, and demonstrations. To a large extent, the people for whom these activities are performed are their own teachers who gain information by using research data and by observing tests and demonstrations. Program success may be judged by the extent to which practical application of new knowledge is made.

The research and demonstration projects in which TVA participates are largely cooperative. They may involve other Federal agencies, colleges and universities, State and local agencies, and private firms and associations. In some cases, TVA contributes financial support to research projects conducted by colleges and universities, or pays part of the cost of supervising tests and demonstrations.

Projects supported by TVA include basic agronomic research and the economic interpretation of agronomic research findings, fertilizer marketing studies and demonstrations, supervision of farm tests and demonstrations of fertilizer, tributary watershed investigations and demonstrations, and general studies and demonstrations for agricultural resource development.

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Table 131.-FEDERAL FUNDS CONTRIBUTED BY THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY AND ALL PERSONNEL PARTICIPATING IN SUPPORT OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH, TESTS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS CONDUCTED OR SUPERVISED BY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: 1958-59 AND 1959-60

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As shown in table 131, TVA contributed $592,826 to the support of research, tests, and demonstrations which were conducted or supervised in 33 colleges and universities with a total of 355 personnel participating during 1958-59. Table 131 also shows that 33 colleges and universities are participating during the 1959-60 school year with estimated expenditures amounting to $606,075 and about 250 personnel participating. Contributions to institutions provide for salaries and wages; cost of supplies, materials, services, and transportation; and miscellaneous expenses. Because of differences in the nature and coverage of individual contracts, there is no direct comparison between amounts and personnel in total. The personnel figures

for 1958-59 and 1959-60 include all individuals engaged full time or part time on cooperative projects with TVA. Table 132 reports a 10-year summary of amounts expended by TVA in supporting cooperative research, tests, and demonstrations at colleges and universities in 36 States. Information for this presentation was obtained from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Table 132.-FEDERAL FUNDS CONTRIBUTED BY THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY IN SUPPORTING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH, TESTS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: 1950–51 TO 1959-60

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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

The desire of the public to compensate men and women of the military services for wartime interference with their educational and vocational training is evident in the congressional enactments with reference to programs for the welfare of veterans. Especially important among the programs are those pertaining to the further education and the vocational rehabilitation of the veterans and to educational assistance for war orphans.

Services in the field of education for veterans and orphans, surviving a parent who died of injuries or diseases resulting from military services, are reported in this bulletin on Federal funds for education. Other responsibilities of the Veterans Administration (VA) which involve programs of compensation, pensions, loan guarantees, life insurance, death benefits, and medical care are not discussed here but are described in the annual reports of the Veterans Administration.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

The vocational rehabilitation of disabled veterans, formerly authorized under Public Laws 16 and 894 and approved by the Seventyeighth and Eighty-first Congresses, respectively, is now specifically provided for in the United States Code (U.S.C.), title 38, chapter 31. Under this law the Veterans Administration prescribes, provides, and supervises programs of vocational rehabilitation for disabled veterans. The general purpose is to restore employability which has been lost by virtue of a handicap due to a service-incurred disability for which wartime rates of compensation are payable. Each step in

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