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Even Rich Counties Have Poor Families June 21, 1969 3 SPRiNCFIELO (Ms.) LEADER-PRESS Sleeping Pills Killed Judy? 'Rubbish? Police Declare Tornado Hits V' Near Wichita Two Persons Hurt, 7 Farms Damaged HEAI4STIC LESSON' TiOLLAN.D. (AP) When members of the Kolla Kiwanis Club filed into their meeting room recently, they anticipated the usual hot luncheon. But they were surprised to receive one glass ofwater and one soda cracker for their meat sparse meal was ar- Kansas City Federal Court Hears Food Stamp Petition ranged by the club's program committee to bring home to the Rolla businessmen and farmers the plight of the world's hungry. TLa Ttiwanis memhers raid the Yard knows what she died from, nor will we until we know the results of the autopsy," a po throughout the nation. lice spokesman said.

Britain Shelves Hike In Teeth, Spectacles LONDON (AP) Prime Min-istcr Harold Wilson's Labor government, faced with strong pressure from backbench Laborites in Parliament, shelved plans today to hike the price of eyeglasses and false teeth. Government sources said a biU which would have permitted the state health service to raise fees by 25 per cent would be put off at least until fali Some 139 Labor members had demanded that the. government hack down on the issue. The Labor government, which has a majority of 66 in the House of Commons, "announced Doctors said following the au WICHITA, Kan. (AP)-Farm their usual luncheon tab.

The money was contributed to a religious selief organization for the in the African country of Biafra. Mrs. Francis Stockton, a nurse in the Head Start program in Clay and Platte counties, testified that many of the 3-to 6-year-old children she works topsy they were taking some of LONDON (AP) Reports speculating that Judy Garland may have died from an overdose of sleeping pills are "pure i a Scotland Yard spokesman says. A coroner has ordered an inquest Wednesday into the death of the 47-year-old star. Police said Monday there were a number of pills inthe singer's home when Miss Gar Miss Garland's organs to a Scot Buildings were shattered by a tornado west of Wichita Monday afternoon, but only two persons -were injured.

land Yard laboratory for further examination. The organs were with do not get proper food. They live mainly on a starch not identified. THIS IS Lebon said he had "read the riot act" to Miss Garland and had warned her not to drink. She was known as a heavy drinker and for years had consumed many kinds of pills.

One of Miss Garland's, repre-ably would be held Friday in New York "if all the formalities are completed in time." The spokesman said the singer's husband, Mickey Deans, diet and eat meat only once a -She had cirrhosis of theJiver and had been told by a London week; have poor skin color; are Bill Cramer was hospitalized with chest injuries- suffered when his pickup truck was tossed around while he was rounding up cattle. land was found dead in her bath surgeon that she was "living on apathetic); have constinual colds; wear poor clothing, "sim room Sunday. The pills were no borrowed time." where near the body but have Clarence Jflayschmeyer sus ply because their parents can't afford Mrs. Stockton KANSAS CITY (AP) There are many poor, undernourished persons living in Platte County, the fourth hlost "affluent county in Missouri, witnesses testified in U.S. District Court Mnday.

Children are subject to physical and mental retardation because their mothers don't have adequate diets while pregnant, the. witnesses- said. The hearing was on a petition to enjoin the U.S. Department of Agriculture from denying federal food benefits to low-income families. The department contends that county officials must ask for the food programs.

The plaintiffs say the government can distribute the food without county requests. Fifty Missouri counties do not have food stamp programs. The plaintiffs are six Missouri low income residents who seek the price increase plan May 5 on tained facial cuts and bruises. "EE KIND TO FURS" WEEK STORE YOURS AT 3teBaniel Furs 03 S. GLENSTONE The physician.

Dr. Phillip Le-bon, said he and another doctor had examined Miss Garland eight years ago and estimated then she had no more than five He and his 8-year-old daughter, said. "I just don't see how some of these families get along." tile eve of local elections in which Labor suffered severe setbacks. been taken to Scotland Yard for examination, officers said. Police doctors performed an autopsy Monday but did not disclose the results.

would fly to New York with the body. Her three children, entertainer Liza Minelli and teenagers Lorna and Joey Luft, are Ann, were running for shelter when the child was torn from his grasp. She was blown behind Alfred Brown, a deputy direc years to live. tor of the Human Development Be alert today, alive tomorrow. "As of this moment nobody in in the United States.

seutatives said the funeral prob- a shed and escaped injury. Corp. in Columbia, said the physical condition of many fam The twister caused some dam ilies in a nine-county area age at seven farms in a six-mile The funnel's full fury was ven around Columbia is very poor. He said Howard County ranked third in the nation in the in -t cidence of infant mortality, due malnutrition of expectant ted on the Clarence J. Thome farm where every building was flattened; 10 head of cattle and an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 out of to represent all other poor mothers.

Brown said a poor rural fami ly's starchy diet consists of po people in the state. The hearing was. one of 25 similar actions in courts 10,000 turkeys were killed. Thome and his wife were away from home, cutting wheat. Their daughters, Arlene, 21, Janie, 13, and Shirley.

10, fled to tatoes, beans, neckbones, pig tails, hog ears, chicken kidneys and livers. He said the families On Th Mov In Downtown Springfield seldom have bread and mule. a neighbor's storm shelter in G.E. Rittenhouse, a Human State Budget At $1.3 Billion time to avoid harm. SUN-sational Buys! Save up to 2.00 on these sturdy, attractive Jumbo Garment Bags -1 Resources Corp.

official in Platte County, told of one family that had no meat for 45 days. The four bedroom Thome home was picked cleanly off its foundation and was splintered Asked by an attorney if Platte into kindling 100 yards away, A nickup truck, parked in front County residents, want a program, Rittenhouse "The people in Platte County who need food want it. of the house, was hurled 300 yards and torn in two. Ripening wheat in the path of the storm was flattened. Hail Mrs.Xucille Harris of Trenton described undernourished children in Grundy County as "apa and heavy rain hit Wichita.

The funnel was sighted by thetic and lifeless, lacking ener 0 I 'I Prn. a e' i I Mr weather bureau employes in gy, and unable to keep ur with 175 'i I I Full length zipper 5" drop frame other kids even when playmg." Wichita as it approached Jfte city and they watched it until it 1 St Louis is the only area in the state with the federal food I 1 dissipated. Eighty miles east of Wichita stamp program. Source of FuriUs Still Undecided JEFFERSON CITY (AP) -With the question where the money will come from unresolved, House and Senate conferees compromised on a $1.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1969-70. The total approved by the committee was $6.2 million more'than voted earlier by the Senate and $10.9 -less than passed by the House.

One of the biggest cuts in the proposed budget was a $2 mil-lionreduction in the Division of Ware's Medicaid program. It sullleit the division with a 34 per cent increase over last year. Sen. J. F.

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Gunshots Kill 206 in Week 4 Kansas Prosecutor Pushes Movie Fight OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The 't I i I vW i fell Johnson County District Court will be asked to bar further showing of the movie "I am thersville, Senate Appropria enewyour supply of garment bags now and save! This assortment includes solids and prints. Full length zippers and 15" drop frames for strength. Generous Gold, pink and green. Notions, Main Floor Curious (Yellow)" until obscen There were 206 gunshot deaths in the United States during the week of June 15 to June 22 including 131 homicides, 59, suicides, and 16 accidental deaths, an Associated Press survey shows.

ity proceedings against xne Swedish film are completed, James W. Boushak, county at torney, said he would make th tions chairman, and Rep. E. J. (Lucky) Cantrell, D-Overland, his House counterpart, said they would approval by the respective houses.

The committee left out a request by the University of Missouri for a medical school in Kansas City. Patterson, however, said he didn't think the Legislature h.ad to approve the school before uni request today tne yiCKinson Operating Co. does not volun Limited time only save $2.00 on all Long Leg Panty styles of famous Playtex Lycra Girdles. Choose the regular Lycra style, the Double Diamonds or Firm 'n Flatter sure to find just the right control and comfort you want for stomach, waist, back, hips, and thighs. tarily suspend public showing of the film.

Judge Herbert W. Walton and attorneys for both sides saw the versity officials could decide to movie in a private showing at a theater Monday. 1 Judge Walton scheduled hearings for today and Wednesday. This represents an increase of seven deaths over the 'number counted during the same period in 1968, before a limited federal gun control law went into effect. In 1968, the one-week survey counted 199 gunshot deaths, of which 115 were homicides, 65 suicides, and 19 accidents.

The gun control law, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on Oct. 22, -1968; limits the inter-statemail order sale of firearms and ammunition. It also bans the over-the-counter sale of weapons to nonresidents of a state. Family fights, lovers' quarrels and barroom brawls led to many of the shootings in last week's survey.

Illinois had the most homicides, 12. California had 90 gunshot deaths, more than any pth-er state. go ahead with its plans. The university's budget is lump sum and does not stipulate specific programs. The Department of Agriculture got all but about $125,000 of its requested allotment back.

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