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St. Joseph Gazette from St. Joseph, Missouri • 8

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St. Joseph, Missouri
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St. J.tpk, It, 6mtt, Tfcmfcf, July 1 IITj" "Will Name Woman Ralston Purina to AEC Position nkW primarily in the manufacturing and: marketing, of zen convenience products. During most, of the division's three year operation it has been involved in the test marketing and the market in-, traduction of frozen food products. You can place a low cost want ad by phoning 233-6181. One Third xf Blocks StillLive" Food Division If rif 1 Eie-V Urjttt (( )) W'-4a-tSi Fisosl PrhRif ((! 7DoyoWook I 24 Hour Day ri'il'ui llowost for 24 VV T.

LOUIS, Mo. (UPI) -Ralston Purina Co. Wednes-' day- announced plans to dissolve its Checkerboard Foods MaryWn'i Haw PAIWD ALE MANOR Bolpv Poverty Line WASHINGTON iAP pared with 14.6 per cent a vear -Division. ft Nwstof Conor The division of its consumer- SAN CLEMENTE. Calif.

(AP President Nixon announced" Wednesday he will nominate Dixy Lee-Ray, a West Coast zoologist, to become the first woman member of the' Atomic Energy Commission. Miss Ray is director-of-the-Pacific Science Center and associate professor of zoology at the University of Washington, Fox Island. The scientist, a 57-year-old 1 native of Tacoma, would serve a five-ytiar ternras successor to Wilfred Johnson, whose term has expired. I Haw. Call for Porter 116-647-5121 products group is engaged I About one-third bt the nation'' earlier, 23 million blacks lived below The dropout rate for whites is 7.4 per cent.

More young blacks 18 to 24 are going to college. The SIDING Aluminum, Vinyl, Steel or Asbastos the i official poverty level in 1971; marking little change from a vear earlier tha rMi. state uccezd bcaMo Nnhf Cora, PtBclow Nod, tooodry SMit-Privot Room 1140, Privoto Ioom 1440 VISITORS ALWAYS Mill Tomw ScUochtor, Kogtstvrto' Nmov Natte Director Mn. FrMo Adklalsrrator Pftoao: M24H1, Root mi Mom Aw, MorrWIW, Mo. i lit, ys.

i Bureau reported Wednesday centage rose to 18 oer cent in per- TRI COUNTY In an annual report on the so- 1971 compared with 10 per cent News-Press ond Gazette want ads get results. in 1965. 111 ciai ana economic status of the black population, the bureau said 7.4 million or 32 per cent of blacks lived below the offi-' cial poverty level of $4,137. This compared with 7 million or 34 Bed Cirpct Service Froa Our floor 16 Yoar Door Anojhar Truck Load per cent in 1970 "Hilt ttlA fim.M rati Herd Wood Wain Doclcccscs Factory Rojocts of A rw 40-3 h6uic was nigner than the 11 million blacks who lived below the poverty level in 1969f although the percentage, 32, in that year was the same. The bureau said that about million black families were below the poverty level last year, or about 29 per cent of all black families, change from the year earlier.

The figures showed that the number of whites living Jbelow the official poverty level actually Increased by 300,000 last to 17.8 million or 10 per Off While Stock Lasts! 3201 ccutu cf iereov ,23" and 30" iTV i Slioi I 1L OPEN All High BANXAmiCARH A mm i mm, hi 71 9 to 9 Doily Except Prko Start at mi K.VA 9 wv Tow Haul end Save t'C aly cent of the white population. however, from recent years. The number of white families living below the official poverty line was 3.8 millioncompared with 3 3 million a year earlier? Thistrepresented about eight perrtit of all white families, the same rate that has pre-vaifeflsince 1968. Pepite the figures showing a virtuil standstill on income, the bureau said black Americans are continuing to make sub-- stantiat social and-economic Eody Support nS' 111 Mattress and Foundation Exclusive Dura-Gard advances. For instance, it said the small segment of black families, young families living in the North and West in which bot )he husband and wife work', reported significant income strides.

Thebureau said that young blaclf wives in the North and West larried about 30 per cent noro 4hantheir- white-mnt- erpfirs. ihtimedian income level for 1 Kk increased slirfitr from $6,279 in 1970 to $6,440) last The bureau sai4diat on the for evejioo in income received by ja, white family in 1971, a black family received $60. findings, the report saithat the black population is essentially metropolitan, with lesj tQan one-half of the black perflation now living outside theSouth being natives of that regjoit Wood Bar Stools Your Choice WT e. r-xw J- mT Del netlrterranoan Black Vinyl Group Check Our Discount Prices! SOFA 73 no Outfit Includes: 66" Dresser Twin Mirrors 30" Height wjit 32 per cent of black families are headed by women, theeport said. Ojftejfourth of the black men who Vre heads of poverty level families worked full time the year round, the report said.

But, blacks are making impressive education advances, the report said, with the high school dropout rafe declining to 11.1 per cent last year com- Five Drawer Chest Queen or Full Size Headboard With Frame LOVE Ottoman $48 ND NO ND You Haul $218.50 no CHAIR First Chess 170 Rolls in Stock Buy Now Save Continuout Filomont Nylon. Shags oirj? nan imw V'ii e- i Game Goes to Spassky REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) With a hopeless postion on the ehess board, Bobby Fischer walked out for 30 minutes then, returned to loselhe first game oftheworld chess championship' Boris -Spassky, the -Russian title-holder. After the game was over Fischer told the man who taughj himhe moves nf the gaine whep he was a boy in Brooklyn, It Was a bad dav all around for the 29-year-old American" 3 Polar Boars by Wostingliouse 7-Pie 4 Ways to Buy! ND In addition to conceding SpasiAy a 1-0 lead in the score at th outset of ths 24-game match, Fischer developed some -more money Nes from London was that Jamfcs 'Slater, who sweetened the pot with 50,000 pounds-about be able to get his money out of England because of currency restrtc'tions. Slater's donation, which pushed the total prize money to $300,000, enticed Fischer to end his holdout at the scheduled i starts lhe match July 2. Asted about Slater's problem, Fischer "No comment." USE ITCH-ME-NOT TO STOP.

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509,610
Years Available:
1845-1988