St. Joseph News-Press from St. Joseph, Missouri • 16

40 SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994 St. Joseph (Mo.) Wgiwt-Pres Hunger can be problem for seniors Satellites may bejused in homicide investigation killing. Tim Ault was at work in Kansas City, at the time of the slaying. Police found Diana Ault's car in the parking lot of a church less than a mile from her house. The engine was running and the gun was in the car.

West said that about every seven seconds a satellite orbiting the Earth some 870 miles overhead snaps a photograph of the terrain below. Law enforcement agencies nationwide have started buy-, ing the photographs, taken by at least 15 foreign and U.S. satellites, from one of several pri- vate companies that sell them. Those photos can be en-1 'Jarged to show amazing detail. Associated Press INDEPENDENCE.

Mo. Technology used to monitor Iraqi activities during Operation Desert Storm could help police in this suburban town solve the shooting death of a mother of two. Police have started a three-phase process to use satellite photos to find the person who killed Diana Ault on Jan. 31. "We want to let the pictures tell the story," Independence Police Detective Bob West said Friday.

"This is brand-news technology for us." Ault was killed in her home in front of her two young children. She and her husband Tim owned the gun used in the tU9 pho4o Of EMC KEITH Grace Fisher shows off the food pantry at the Calvin Center, 1412 N. Third where she distributes food to the needy. 2nd District race pairs activist, incumbent Points of Mo-Kan Regional Food Bank distribution Continued from page 1B who retired in 1990. "But they don't take into consideration our indebtedness and our bills." Senior citizens are not the only ones going hungry in America.

Nearly 70 percent of the families that qualify for food stamps are single women with children, according to a recent study by the Second Harvest food bank network. The study suggests the food stamp program is not filling the bellies even of those who qualify, much less people like the Johnsons. It shows that one in 10 people use food stamps and that nearly half of those who do also go to food kitchens, said Leanne Murray, director of the Mo-Kan Regional Food Bank. "When the food stamp program began, it was intended to supplement what a family already had to spend on food," Murray said. "What we've been guessing for years, however, is that food stamps are the primary source of food for people, and when they run out mid-month, people turn to iheir town's food pantries and food kitchens.

"This study proves that," she said. National leaders this week are encouraging people to fast Wednesday through Friday, to draw attention to the problem of hunger in America. Catholic Charities USA, Bread for the World and Tony Hall, a Democratic representative from Ohio, are leading the National Hunger Agenda and Fast. Local ecumenical social service groups are supporting the effort and will hold a blessing and prayer observance at 8 a.m. Friday at Civic Center Park.

Locally, the Food Bank, which is a part of the Second Harvest network, supplies 103 food pantries in 22 counties in Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas. Thirty-four of those pantries are in St. Joseph. When the Food Bank opened in 1981, it was supposed to be a temporary solution to what its founders saw as a short economic downturn. But it has continued to supply more and more food.

In 1992, the Food Bank distributed a record 1.9 million tons of food. Last year, it fell just short of that mark, but this year demand from area food pantries is running 65 percent ahead of last year, Murray said. In the first two months of this year, the Food Bank distributed 296,223 pounds of food. In the same period last year, it distributed 179,495 pounds. Predictably, much of the increase at local pantries has come from the new poor those thrown out of work in the after math of last summer's flooding, pantry directors said.

One of the largest pantries in town is at Calvin Center, where demand is running about 50 percent higher than last year. "A lot of Sherwood (Medical) workers still have not found jobs, and now Monfort (Pork) workers are out there," said Jeanne Archer, program director for energy assistance and counseling at Calvin Center. "And we anticipate seeing Food Barn workers in shortly." The impact of the flood aside, the demand for food at area pantries already was on the rise in many segments of society, hunger experts said. But experts fear society in general may not realize the extent of the problem. "It is obvious that we are feeding a huge number of people, and that more people are beginning to need help," Murray said.

"Now, do we as a nation want to stay as a feeding program, or do we move to eliminate hunger? That would take a lot of education efforts." A recent survey by the United Way of Greater St. Joseph showed local residents did not rate nutrition programs for seniors as a high need, Paxson said. "That worries us," she said. "It may be that people think the needs of the elderly are being met, but they may not realize just how much need there is." InterServ offers a group noon meal for people 60 and older each weekday, as well as a mobile meals program for shut-ins. Seniors can participate in the programs for minimal costs or donations of whatever they can afford.

Last month, InterServ surveyed about 150 of its clients in the two programs. To the phrase, "I do without meals to pay other bills," 17 percent of participants in the group meal answered often, almost always or always. Twenty percent of the mobile meals recipients gave the same answers. Dean and Dorothy Johnson both participate in the group meals at Calvin Center, and they occasionally accept food from the pantry. The couple, who met in St.

Joseph while working at a coin-operated laundry and married in 1949, also volunteer at Calvin Center, though that is not a requirement to eat at the center. "It's awful to see seniors pushed around. If they haven't got a caring family or somebody to look after them, they are bypassed," Dean Johnson said. "But this place is like a family, and they serve good, hot meals for whatever you can pay. "If it weren't for them, we would go hungry a lot." Continued from page 18 taking out the meters." She said she wants to be a more vocal district one who serves the community and works on Shea Sr.

solutions to problems. "I really intend to be a voice of the people," she said. "You've really got to concentrate your efforts on your district. To me, dis familv Here is a list of food pantries and organizations that belong to the Mo-Kan Regional Food Bank distribution network and provide food for people with low incomes. Much of the food provided by these organizations comes from the Food Bank, which receives both privately donated food and government commodities, temporarily stores it and distributes it to the agencies.

Food may be donated directly to the Food Bank or to member agencies. Mo-Kan Regional Food Bank, 200 Main 364-3663. AFL-CIO Northwest Missouri Community Services, 118 S. Fifth 364-1131. Ambassador of Faith Christian Center, 2136 S.

11th 233-8081. Area Ministers for Christ Community Center, 909 W. Valley, 238-1709. C.R.R. of St.

Joseph, 525 3. 10th 233-0430. Calvary Community Church, 8000 N. Belt Highway, 279-7568. Church of the Firstborn, 7210 S.

King Hill no telephone number available. East Side Human Resource Center, 2001 Messanie 233-8201. Economic Opportunity 817 Monterey 233-8281. Evangelistic Temple, 5401 King Hill 238-2516. Family Guidance Center, 910 EdmondSt.

364-1501. Family Worship Center, 2635 Olive 279-4635. Fellowship House, 2421 Francis 279-6767. First Assembly of God, 5401 trict representative means trict representative." dis- Shea wants to continue the work he started four years ago, when he began representing the district. "I want to try and Stan- bring into the new council that same feeling of togetherness and working together that helped make this council so successful he said.

WINDOW ill I fr kid's 4 i. Quv-ts m7 perms Plaza 8 Center 233-7320 westfake Center 364-3968 No appointment necessary Open late 7 days a week Must present coupon. Expires 4-3i Andersen Window Door Sale 2t Education Plus links north Missouri school districts Mitchell 279-6422. First Lutheran Church, 10th and Charles streets, 232-8378. Green Acres retirement home, 5215 Green Acres Road, 232-4540.

Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, 423 E. Hyde Park, 238-0417. InterServ's Calvin Center, 1412 N. Third 232-7779. King Hill Baptist Church, 5708 King Hill 238-1341.

New Life Full Gospel Church, 4803 St. Joseph 364-1093. Open Door Food Kitchen, 510 Edmond St. 364-1085. Patee Park Baptist Church, 1107 S.

10th 233-6446. The Rescue Shop, 619A Felix 279-3600. St. Francis Xavier Church House of Bread, 2618 Seneca 232-8449. St.

James Catholic Church, 5814 King Hill 238-9976. St. Joseph Co-Cathredral, 519 N. 10th 232-7763. St.

Mary's Church, 1600 N. Second 364-9186. St. Patrick Church, 1723 S. 12th 279-2594.

Salvation Army, 622 Messanie 279-2101. South Park Assembly of God, 4405 S. 22nd 232-7724. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 21st and Jule streets, 279-5691. The Window, 604 S.

20th 364-0130. Wyatt Park Baptist Church. 28th Street and Mitchell Avenue, 232-6706. YWCA, 304 N. Eighth 232-4481.

pathic Medicine had staffed the clinic. Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone is a cooperative that provides telephone service to about 3,700 customers. Wallace Stiles, superintendent of the Milan school district, said his district's experience with Education Plus proves that rural residents are ready to adopt new technology. About 100 students are using the network to take courses ranging from family living and child development to physics, Stiles said. At night, the districts offer college algebra, sociology and college Spanish for adults.

ernment's terrorist acts. "You can't walk anywhere in El Salvador where people did not die violently," Kipper said. "We're walking on sacred ground." Through the help of an interpreter, elections observer Pauline Dolan of Kansas City, Rost of the St. JosephKansas City delegation delivered the homily Saturday at an evening Mass in Jesus of Mercy Parish in Aguilares. After Grande's death in 1977, the church was partially destroyed by military tanks that crashed through its doors.

It reopened months later, but attendance was sporadic, due to fears for more persecution. Today, the congregation is large and active. on first visit. with the Public Service Commission, said the trial should improve rural health care by giving residents of far-flung towns easier access to specialists. Ray Ford, general manager of the Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Co.

in Green City, says the project could allow a clinic in Greencastle to reopen. Green City residents are nine miles from Milan and the closest doctor, but only four miles from Greencastle. Ford said the clinic had to close because of a new law requiring medical clinics to have a licensed doctor on the premises. Students from Kirksville College of Osteo Associated Press MILAN, Mo. A group of school districts in north Missouri has found the entrance ramp to the information superhighway.

Called Education Plus, a distance-learning project has been set up that provides interactive video links among three rural school districts. The network lets teachers and students hear and see one another even though their classrooms are up to 23 miles apart. The project includes Milan, Green City and the Putnam County school district in Union-ville. The districts range in size TRUCKLOAD SALE! El Salvador's rely on observers from Green City's 280 students to the 800 students in Putnam County's district. The school project is the jump-ing-off point for a new "tele-medicine" project that eventually will connect the schools and nearby hospitals with the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia.

Both projects are part of a state-sponsored effort to bring the benefits of new technology to rural areas. The Public Service Commission is coordinating the effort with help from the Missouri Rural Opportunities Council. Curt Huttsell, an economist and because of their work in solidarity with poor Salvadorans. The official observers include singersongwriter Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, and actor Raul Julia, who portrayed Oscar Romero, the beloved archbishop of the people of El Salvador, in the film "Romero." The archbishop was assassinated by military death squads on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass in the Divine Providence Convent in downtown San Salvador. One strong link between the Salvadorans and the Kansas City St.

Joseph delegation is relationships of sister parishes and communities. For example, Visitation Parish in Kansas City is "sistered" with Maria, Madre de los Pobres (Mary, Mother of the Poor) Parish in San Salvador. Margaret D'Huyvetter of St. Joseph and others in the local delegation are staying at San Francisco de Asis Parish in San Salvador, which was a refuge during the guerrilla offensive on the city in November 1989. Some are staying at Parroquia Senor de las Misericordias (Jesus of Mercy Parish) in Aguilares, which was forced to close temporarily after its pastor, Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest, was slain with two others by military death squads on March 12, 1977.

He was en route to neighboring El Pais-nul to baptize children when he was assassinated. Grande was the first of 16 priests martyred in El Salvador for speaking out against the gov- services include consultation with the exams and x-rays it indicated. Offer Expires 3-25-94 2315 N. Bel Continued from page 1 tion officials in the town of Ag-uilares, the presence of Kansas Citian Roberta Kipper and former Kansas Citian Richard Hobbs is believed to have prevented a political disturbance over a rival party's intrusion at the gathering. Kipper, a graphic artist with Hallmark Cards, is part of the MissouriKansas delegation that arrived Tuesday in El Salvador.

H' ibs, whose Spanish is impec-t. 'e, is an immigration attorney Catholic Charities of San Jose, Calii They are just two of 600 U.S. election observers here. They are joined by 4,000 other international observers. The large number is needed to monitor closely activities at the polls, to oversee the vote count and to report any incidents of fraud, intimidation or abuse of the system to the United Nations.

The U.N. has been shepherding El Salvador to this moment since before the end of the civil war. The observers will watch over 7,000 voting tables at 400 sites throughout El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts thai is home to 5 million people. More than half live in the capital, San Salvador. On Wednesday and Thursday, the 600 U.S.

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