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PAGE 10 A I I I rKIUAF, '7OtJ BUT MORE HELP NEEDED Tucson's Needy Families Can Have Merry Christmas Military Pay Hike Proposed 'Sit, Wait' Is Indian School Curriculum By MARGARET KUEHLTHAU Citizen Staff Writer Unless more checks from Tuc- sonians are mailed soon to the Tucson Community Christmas Center, many of 900 indigent families with school children will have to be crossed off the center's Christmas basket list. Schools, women's clubs, Boy -and Girl Scouts, Campfire girls and countless other individuals organizations have respond- Jed generously to a plea for groceries and toys, a spokesman for the center said today. But it is not enough. Still needed is cash to buy "canned milk and meat for needy ''families with school children. Names of deprived families given to the Christmas cen- Jiter, a division of the Tucson 'Community Council, by school To prevent dupli- in giving, the TCC's holi- bureau screens and checks names and addresses.

Working closely with the center is the Salvation Army and Toys for C-oTots, a yearly project of the 12th U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. This year, for the first time, Christmas center is adding of pinto beans to each fKChristmas basket and has pur- 7,000 pounds of beans to distributed in three or eight- 'pound bags. T-;" Families receiving Christmas have one to 16 children most of them in the big- bracket. Adding parents grandparents, this means baskets need to contain food for one meal for as Kmany as 20 persons.

Typical of the recipients is the Clones family of northwest Tuc- son. (That's not their name but Kit will serve for this story.) Order First Tickets Rodeo This Is Mrs. John Rogers is a volunteer from the Catalina Woman's Club who is assisting at the Community Christmas Center. Volunteers say more cash is needed to purchase food and toys for the annual Christmas basket distribution to needy families with school children. (Citizen photo by Art Grasberger) First order for tickets to the Tucson Rodeo came from Sweden.

jx; That order for 60 tickets was olio wed by another for 40 from "the Swedish capital, where a feature story on the last La rFiesta de los Vaqueros here got circulation. Travel writer Allan Schuhnan the Stockholm Expressen was for the last rodeo, and his istory appeared in the news- i-paper's travel section. Formal ticket sales have not Started, but orders already have ,1 from several states. Af- I 4er the Christmas holidays, the Chamber of Commerce committee will mail appli- -cations for tickets to those who Bordered advance tickets in the past. The rodeo is scheduled for Feb.

27-March 2. 4" A -JHickel Hits Land I -Conservation WASHINGTON (AP) Presi- Nixon's secretary of the interior, Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel, says the federal gov- has been wrong in plac- -ing large amounts of public land "aside for strictly conservation use. "Just to withdraw an area for conservation purposes a vast area and lock it up for no rea- not make it available the public is wrong, in my Hickel told a news conference. For most people, the advent of a New Year means new hope, new plans, a new lease on life.

For Mrs. Jones, a diabetic whose married life has been made up of one dreary day after another, the holiday season only points up the deprivation of her family. The family seems unusually prone to accidents and illness, reports a school principal, and the Joneses are so deeply in debt they may never recover. Some months ago, Jones was injured in an accident not work- connected and all income stopped. A 20-year-old retarded son, anxious to do his part, found a job but was fired.

He tried to enlist in the armed forces but was rejected because of his mental disability. With his wife and baby, he now lives at home with his parents. Also at home in the Jones household are an unmarried daughter who is pregnant, six children in school, ranging in age from 15 to 7 years and two younger children. If you've been adding, here is a family of 14 who will have neither a Christinas dinner nor toys for the children, if the Community Christmas Center hasn't enough money to fill its baskets. "Every year," said one school principal, "I think I've seen every degree and kind of deprivation that could exist.

And every year, I say to myself, 'This can't go on and But it does. "For many children, their only complete hot meal a day is their school lunch. You can guess how hungry they get over the holiday vacation, with irregular meals and unbalanced diets. "People who have not worked with underprivileged children have no conception of the stark poverty under which they live." Tucsonians interested in doing their share to help fill baskets of food may mail their checks to the Community Christmas Center, P.O. Box 6111, Tucson.

The center is located in the city's green recreation building on Alvernon Way, just south of Broadway. Mrs. Jared M. Jackson is project chairman. WASHINGTON (UPI) Salaries of members of the U.S.

Joint Chiefs of Staff may be increased to a year if a proposal drafted at the Pentagon is approved by the executive branch and Congress. The chiefs now receive base pay of $24,093 a year and benefits that push their incomes above The new plan, eliminating some of the benefits, would hold them to around $35,000 a year unless the boost to $50,000 was also granted to cabinet members, who now receive $35,000 a year. The plan was drawn up by a committee headed by Rear Adm. Lester E. Hubbell under a congressional mandate requiring a study of military If approved, it would be offered as a substitute for a 12.5 per cent across-the-board military pay increase scheduled for July 1.

Behind the plan is the idea that the biggest increases should go to officers and enlisted men planning to make a career of the military. Recruits would get only a 9 per cent increase, going from $109.50 to $119.40 a month. But the top enlisted man in each service-chief master sergeant -would be raised to $15,525 a year. Officers in the ranks of colonel and lieutenant colonel, now drawing around $15,000 depending on years of service, would be advanced to $23,000 or $24,000 a year. In the lowest officer ranks pay would start at $8,144 a year.

Enlisted men with four years of service and three promotions to their credit making the corporal in the Army or Marine Corps, chief petty officers in the Navy or sergeants in the Air Force, would be considered career soldiers and would draw $6,583 a year. Housing and subsistence allowances would be eliminated, but combat pay, hazardous duty pay and fringe benefits such as free medical care would continue. A 6.5 per cent pay deduction toward retirement benefits, now noncontributory, would be imposed. According to the Air Force Times, an independent service journal, 88 per cent of the career men including officers would receive more take home pay than under the 12.5 per cent increase already approved by Congress. The Hubbell plan woud not contribute directly toward eliminating the draft, since it would not benefit recruits.

FORT WINGATE (AP) There aren't any books, magazines, coloring books, toys or even dolls in the sleeping quarters for some 125 girls at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Fort Wingate Elementary School boarding dormitory. The rooms appear spacious only because the girls are so small. They range in age from 6 to 10 and spend nine months of the year away from their families, while at the school on the Navajo reservation of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. Their only trips home are during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays. "Sit and wait.

This is what they are taught," the Gallup, N.M., Independent said today in a copyright story after sending a team of newsmen out to the bureau boarding schools on the reservation. "Stay put so the staff can find them when they want them, but stay out of the way until then." Language is a major problem for the youngsters who come at the age of from homes in remote areas of the reservation where they spoke only Navajo. "Children find they are not supposed to speak the only language they know," said Dr. Robert L. Bergman, chief of the U.S.

Public Health Service mental health division in the Navajo area. The school's staff emphasizes the importance of learning English and the Navajo language is pushed aside. "They find their way of life is not only vastly different from the but it is poorly thought of by the people who are now caring for them," Bergman said. When not in classes, eating or sleeping, the girls spend most of their time in the living room between two sleeping wings of the H-shaped dormitory building. There are no toys, dolls, coloring books or games in the living room, which has the appearance of a small airport waiting room with sofas and chairs set in formal geometric patterns.

Magazines in plastic covers are lined up along the walls. "An impersonal, functional institution," said one outsider. Another recent visitor found 50 young girls in their dormito ry, with their coats and mittens placed neatly beside them, singing Christmas carols while waiting an hour for supper. Other girls were chasing up and down the aisles between heir double-deck bunk beds. Some were just lying in the bunks, staring at the ceiling.

Nearly 21,000 Navajo children, from age up to high school seniors, attend the more than 40 boarding schools on the vast reservation. They are required to attend school. Those living close enough to paved or gravel roads attend public schools unless social workers say their home lives are such that they should attend a dormitory school with those who don't live close enough to schools or roads. They find an environment completely alien to them and, "for the most part, the schools have not made any great effort to lessen these problems of cultural conflict," Bergman said. "No one was your friend at the boarding school unless your mother visited you and brought some fried bread and mutton stew," one student said in remembering the first days.

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