Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 19, 1969, Yuma, Arizona Editor's Notebook Hunger in America h Not a Myth By JONES OS BORN It was a television tary which first rubbed our noses in YUMA 107 24 Pages Per Copy lOc Yuma Arizona March 19 1969 Phone ARIZONA Vol No 7 Hunger in America was as I recall a CBS network show sometime last year It ed with tures to prove it that lions o A m c r i cans are starving Americans in idle coal fields of Appalachia tlie barrios of San Antonio he Indian res of northern Arizona the crop ot the South It was a shocker and lots ot people ran for cover Rut it is now being admitted that starvation is a real part ot the richest nation on earth I don't mean unbalanced diels or an occasional case of malnutrition A team of doctors who toured one area The boys and we saw were hungry weak in pain sick They are suffering from hunger and disease and directly or indirectly they are dying from them which is exactly what starvation means Last month another shocker U.S Senator Ernest F ings a former governor of South Carolina appeared before a Senate committee He said his state had had a public icy of covering up the problem of hunger a policy which he had followed when nor But now he admits to the There is hunger irf South Carolina Well there are seven million in families which earn less than a year If there are three or four dren or morel in such a ly you know there isn't much to eat Now I see where President Nixon's Urban Affairs Council has handed him a report calling for a federal attack on hunger The number of and mal- nourished Americans may run to 10 million SABOTAGE THREATS Security Tightened On War Supplies The remarkable part of it Is that the cruel disparity between rich and poor the inexcusable failure to take care of our own fellow Americans does not even embarrass most of us Historically the well-fed are contented BECKY A contestant entered in the Miss Yuma County contest at the Yuma County Fair is Becky Kline 17 Wellton She's a senior at Antelope Union High School and will present a classical ballet sored by the Yuma County Farm Bureau she's the daughter of Dr and Mrs N D Kline The fair opens next Wednesday Sun Staff WASHINGTON API The nation's railroads under threats of sabotage from war groups have placed the tightest security precautions in history on shipments ol tions and military supplies The safeguards drawn up by military and road representatives resulted from what Director J gar Hoover termed marked increase in acts of sabotage against government tions Government officials have in- rail shipments of material have been listed as prime targets by some antiwar groups who have threatened to use force to im- pede the war effort A railway said the along with reported isolated incidents OL ence with shipments led to the elaborate sieps The now mil security dures rains laden with munitions and supplies through areas anil at night routing so no tern can he in defense shipments In fact ninny are routed u much longer dis- tance slum necessary in order to avoid detection Triple sealing doors of cars containing explosives be- fore shipment inspections of way track anil Wilmington and Oakland embarkation points for plies Hoover snys terrorist ties against government lations primarily have involved attacks on Reserve Officers Training Corps and Selective Service facilities Vat there have born the FRl says it has no exact of against utility towers serving plants And a railway source reported that a cache ot small arms stolen recently from n boxcar at the Army's Aberdeen Mrt proving grounds Government officials in discussing suspected because of tears of triggering an alarmist reaction from the public say the out- break only a marked in- crease and is not a wave of terrorist activities Hoover traces the incidents to last June when the Students for a Democratic Society a tant leftist youth group held its national convention at Michigan Stale University Despite numerous cases in- only two indictments have been returned Vietnam Aid Reduction Not Yet Laird Press Club To Air Judicial Selection idea A discussion oi II le proposal to appoint rather than elect judges in higher Arizona courts will be heard at p.m tomorrow Thursday at Yuma Press Club Judge John A McGuire of Yuma County Superior Court will speak in favor of the tive method Nicholas Udall formerly a judge of Maricopa County Superior Court and now practicing law in Phoenix will speak for the proposed new tem Resolutions have been in both houses of the Arizona legislature on this matter They propose a change in the Arizona constitution would make judges by the governor from a list submitted by a special Appointments to the bench would be made in all Arizona courts of record Appeals and Supreme The discussion is open to all Press Club members both five and associate in Press Club AP tary of Defense Melvin R Laird told Congress today I see no indication that we presently have a program adequate to bring about a significant tion the U.S military bution in South Just hack from a personal in- the new Pentagon chief criticized U.S leaders in Vietnam for being oriented more toward military tions than on assisting the South Vietnamese to acquire the means to defend themselves Laird's somber-toned pre- pared report to a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee also amounted to a rap at the policies of his cratic predecessor Clark M Clifford U.S Troops Begin Heavy Modernization Laird asked for another million to speed modernization of South Vietnam's armed forces so it can sume a larger share of the com- quarters at The Charcoal charged Percy Foreman House Ray To Seek New Hearing MEMPHIS Term AP James Earl Kay has written Judge Preston the State Penitentiary that he in- tends in the near future to seek a new hearing over his guilty plea in the murder of Dr tin Luther King Jr Earlier today the Memphis said it had learned Ray would seek to have his guilty plea set aside and go to trial The newspaper quoted sources which it said were close to the case as saying that Ray had written Criminal Court Judge W Preston Battle Jr from the state penitentiary in Nashville asking a new hearing The newspaper said the letter advised Battle that he had dis- bat operations from American forces Laird was vague on when U.S military withdrawal might be- gin but implied that slowness in getting South Vietnam's troops into an advanced phase of im- provement may complicate an American pullout There are more than U.S men in Vietnam Frankly while it may he to carry out U.S force re- until South Vietnamese forces are capable of replacing the that we reduce or Laird said we must greatly increase our effort to improve capabilities and to work toward a situation in which U.S forces can in fact be withdrawn in substantial numbers The Pentagon chief offered a gloomy over-all appraisal ing the basic problem remains that of achieving permanent South Vietnamese governmental control over the country Although U.S Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker gave sive documentation of steady political growth by the Saigon government Laird said this AP The Viet Cong's spring offensive ripped into South Vietnam's northern sector today ap big enemy ets slammed into a Da Nang shantytown and ground troops made heavy attacks on U.S and South Vietnamese forces ing tha nation's second largest city The U.S Command re- ported that the massive counter- troops northwest of Saigon had killed 23 North Vietnamese soldiers Tuesday in ts first day of operations One American was killed and 23 the command said in- most the attacks on enemy were by planes and Yuma Wife Sues Husband as Negligent Driver A wife has filed a civil age suit in Superior Court here against her husband Plaintiff in the case is Norma Dougherty who is represented by Attorney Harlan Heilman Defendant is William erty 1200 East Place Yuma The case arises out of a motor vehicle accident before they were married The dent occurred near McLean Tex Jan 22nd 1968 Mrs Dougherty alleges tha negligently by more than rage on a U.S Marine night AP Rockets Correspondent John Wheeler reported from Da Nang that 13 Vietnamese civilians were killed and 21 wore ed when ten rockets exploded in slum hood around a Navy pier before dawn It was the highest civilian toll in the four times Da Nang has shelled since the my's spring offensive started Feb 23 A South Korean civilian ing for the U.S Navy also was killed and three U.S Marines were wounded Twenty miles south of D Nang 400 North Vietnamese troops laid down a mortar camp then stormed the camp flamethrowers machine guns rocket-propelled grenades and small arms The Marines fired their leiy point-blank into the ing enemy troops and reporter killing 72 of but the figh also took the lives nf 12 Ameri cans and 30 were wounded Wheeler that two of Vietnamese broke Marine lines and the through ran into n mess hall carrying flame throwers They killed two Marines but were cut down fore they could light their flamethrowers Military spokesmen said the enemy also made several other coordinated but unsuccessful ground attacks south ot Da Nang about 2 In one of them South Vietnamese ers and infantrymen threw back j an on Dion Bnn a key district 15 miles south of Da Nang Skirts Going Up And Out the Door Houston Tex lawyer Ray pleaded guilty to gree murder before Battle March 10 and was sentenced to in prison He began serving his sentence in ville the following day In Nashville Warden Lake Russell said he was unable to confirm whether Ray had sent a letter to Battle from his mum security cell THE WEATHER Weather report sw Highest yesterday Lowest this morning Temperature at 11 a-m Relative humidity at II Average high Hits data Average low this date FORECAST to Thursday Mostly clear through Thursday this and tonight vinds 10 to 15 mph this High this afternoon 82 Low 50 High Thursday 83 Sunset Sunrise progress is difficult to translate into nationwide security In an apparent prod to the she suffered injury and South Vietnamese the defense incurred medical bills She al leges also that the court action not discordant of and to which he said will be necessary her marital relationship She to bring government tration and political structures into the country's villages and SPRING ARRIVES the arrival of spring due tomorrow Jane Higgins of Branford Conn limbers up her hose to give the lawn a taste of things to come Temperatures rose to the mid 60s in Connecticut yesterday AP catch up her or her boy friend first No less than 38 mint-dresses valued at and eight suits stolen in a laiy at the Pink Petticoat 281 Street last night to the door amounted to Police suspect two who were in the store recently loitering around and admiring the Thoy disinterested in other clothing in the store They didn't any The male and female companions to be about 20 years of age Police found several plastic hangars broken and thrown around the store their method of entering the store during the night was a bit unique Police said they used a pipe wrench to t w i s t off the door knob That failed 0 allow them entry so some burly character smashes the door open using his feet detec jves said Peru Navy Reportedly Seizes Two U.S Boats STUDENTS DONATE AWC student Annette Lindsay teft donating blood this morning to the Southwest Blood Bank gets a preliminary check from Nurse Grace Amish of Phoenix The unit will be at the Eagles 1st Avenue until 7 p.m tonight and from 9 to on Thursday Sun Staff Welcome Winter At Desert Holiday Mr and Mrs McMinnville Ore Mr and Mrs N Kirkpat trick Paradise Calif LIMA Peru API navy seized one ly tuna boats today 23 miles off the ex- northern coast of Peru inofficial sources reported In Washington Rep Thomas M Polly said two una clippers had been seized jut there was immediate confirmation here of the nr Pelly identified them as the Cape Anne and the San Juan he same tuna boat which was Padres Giants Play for Ladies It's really for the Ed Caballero ladies Bay Chairman said morning men are come but we have advance word from both the Padres and the Giants that they will play for the he ued Bring your friend or neighbor as two ladies will bo admitted for the price of ono general admission he concluded Thursday's game kicks off at p.m with the San Francisco Giants appearing in the first of a series up VI by the Peruvian He Los Heroes Initial reselling Lima rom northern Peru through In- dependent channels said only the Juan had been cap- tured These reports said the captured boat was being taken to the northern port of Talara Peruvian Ministry in Limn said it had no of any kind on the incident except the news dispatch from Washington II said it was at- tempting to check wMh naval minorities in the north Announcement of row en- counter on what is regarded by the United States as al waters cast a snell of gloom over the U.S Embassy Peru claims a territorial wa- ter limit of miles and es the U.S boats are fishing in Peruvian waters said in 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