The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

Fewer incumbents now opposed than in Registration deadline near Independents running in multi-county districts are required to register with the of state and records qualifying deadline Rep Fred ibbins of Leakesville has attracted the largest number of five Unless they are forced into by the failure to settle hold a By James Young Jackson Ml Bureau an extension major issues legislators 125-day inaugural session followed by three 90-day annual meetings They are paid $10000 a year and receive a $75 daily living allowance for each day they answer the roll call during a session They also receive a $500 monthly office allowance when they are not in session In North Mississippi a race for the Senate District 6 post being vacated by Perrin Purvis of Tupelo has generated the strongest candidate interest with six Democrats competing for a spot in secretary indicated yesterday that Ermon Bond of Harrison House District 114 is the only independent legislative candidate to file for the Nov 3 general election Party officials and circuit clerks around the state reported this week that 49 of the 103 House members seeking re-election have drawn opposition in the Aug 4 primaries or the general election Four years ago 60 representatives drew challengers and 19 were defeated With a week remaining before this opponents in the Democratic primary with a Republican contender waiting for the general election Rep Clifton Holmes of Foxworth and Rep Mike Eakes of Philadelphia have each picked up five Democratic primary foes but no Republicans have filed for the general election in their districts Mississippi legislators elected to four-year terms meet in limited annual sessions and in recent years have been called back to Jackson for brief special sessions usually to deal with funding problems mary or general election opponents and only 14 of the 41 Senate incumbents hoping to return have opposition In 1983 the House had a turnover rate of 34 percent including voluntary de- Krtures by legislators retiring or seek-g other posts The turnover rate in the Senate was 33 percent Under the 1986 Election Reform Act party candidates for legislative posts representing multicounty districts must file with political party headquarters in Jackson while candidates in single-county districts file with their local circuit clerks JACKSON Miss Unless there is a last-minute flood of candidates Mississippi legislators will be safer politically this year than they were four years ago With a week left for candidates to register a survey of the 122 House districts and 52 Senate districts shows that fewer incumbents have drawn opposition than in 1983 Fewer than half of the 103 House members seeking re-election have pri Please see FEWER Page B3 By Thomas Busier Look taken at problem of keeping needy fed Hearing spotlights distribution flaws By Patti Patterson Jonas boro Ark Buraau Marching against drugs Sheriff Jack Owens addresses members of the City-Wide Memphis Housing Authority Council Inc who marched to City Hall yesterday in an effort to gain city help in combating drugs in housing developments The march took on the air of a parade complete with a Junior high school marching band and numerous cars and trucks in addition to people carrying signs along the route from Adams to City Hall Mayor Dick Hackett met with march leaders but made no commitment to requests for police substations walking patrols and a drug treatment program In the public housing projects Detailed path paved to Sunset Symphony side will let cars carrying the handicapped down the hill on Riverside to a gravel drive on the south end Passengers may be dropped off there Drivers must park back at Georgia and Riverside then be taken down the hill by shuttle Jazz Influence takes the Tom Lee Park stage at 3 pm Another jazz group Topper formerly Eargasm will start at 4:45 The Memphis Symphony will follow at 7:30 with a snow starrir SKESTON Mo While American dairy farmers produce gallons of excess milk many needy Missouri families cannot obtain enough government-owned dry milk from local food banks The problem is not a lack of milk but a flaw in the system for distributing government commodities to the poor witnesses testified at a hearing yesterday Representatives of nonprofit food banks explained the problems at hearing of the House subcommittee on domestic marketing consumer relations and nutrition at the First Christian Church here Chairman Leon Panetta (DCalif) and rankii minority member Rep Bi Emerson (R-Mo) heard testimony from nine witnesses who suggested ways the UB Department of Agriculture could help more people with its surplus commodities program The representatives also toured Bootheel Food Bank which provides food to 125 agencies in a 16-county area think we really learned a lot here Emerson said after the hearing and tour think food banks provide an unusual apparatus for us to move some of the commodities in a more efficient Emerson said his committee will suggest a pilot program for increasing the use of private food banks to distribute government commodities The banks already give out some commodities but much of the surplus government food is given away elsewhere during quarterly distributions Panetta stressed the need for cooperation and commitment from the government businesses and charity groups are no panaceas to the burgeoning hunger problem facing this nation" Panetta said single sector of our economy can solve the problem alone Nevertheless working together governments charitable organizations and the private sector can make a substantial Several witnesses said yesterday that year-round food banks could help more people get food when they need it instead of just four times a year Emerson agreed that food banks have potential to handle more commodities because they operate constantly and do not need to reorganize for the quarterly food distributions But one witness emphasized the need to continue some quarterly commodity distributions particularly for elderly people Many older people do not want assistance from federal food stamps said Herb Herzog of the East Missouri Action Agency in Flat River The elderly also are reluctant to contact socalled emergency food banks because they do not consider their nutrition needs to be urgent Herzog said But when the government distributes surplus cheese or butter older people will accept help because they feel they are preventing waste Herzog said Witnesses also told the representatives they need a better variety of food particularly high protein items such as milk One witness was John Driggs of Phoenix a leader of Second Harvest National Food Bank Network The private agency solicits donations from national food manufacturers and retailers and distributes them to re-onal food banks throughout country Those items are then combined with locally collected food and given to the needy Driggs said the organization Is willing to participate In commodities distribution but that its board members are opposed to becoming part of a federal bureaucracy IT mantown Village Square Mall stopping at Clark Tower Boatmen's Bank at Raleigh Springs Mall and Leader Federal at 1250 East Shelby Drive near Southbrook Mall stopping at Peabody and Bellevue The fare is $1 each way Inbound buses will leave on the hour and the last bus from the suburbs will leave at 10 pm Outbound buses will depart on the half-hour Downtown shuttles starting at 2 pm will go north on Riverside east on Adams north on Front east on Exchange south on Second and west on Beale The fare is 25 cents and shuttles will run every 10 minutes The last downtown shuttle will leave Main and Beale at 11 pm Security guards at Georgia and River- before 6 am today in Tom Lee or on the bluff The concert broadcast picked up from radio on Mud Island will go out on loudspeakers on the south end Other perches include Ashbum-Coppock Park near the Rivermark Condominiums John Edgar Point the cobblestones and other downtown parks Riverside Drive will be closed from 8 am to 10:30 pm from Union Avenue to Beale Street today and from Beale to Georgia until 1:30 am tomorrow Beale from Wagner Place to Riverside Drive will be closed from 8 am to 10:30 pm today MATA shuttle service' on Suburban Express buses starts at 1 pm on three routes Coaches will depart from Ger Part of Riverside Drive will close and special shuttle buses will run from suburbs to downtown Memphis today as thousands make the trek toward Tom Lee Park for the annual Memphis in May International Festival Sunset Symphony The day of music begins with jazz performers at 3 pm The Memphis Symphony will take the stage at 7:30 pm A 22-minute fireworks display the longest Sunset Symphony fireworks show since 1983's 10-minute show will begin at 9 or 9:30 pm Police and private security guards will patrol Tom Lee Park and the adjacent ri-verbluff to enforce rules against staking out of large spaces for viewing of the concert Seating is first-come first-served but no one wil) be allowed to claim spaces ite James Hyter It wifi ends with fireworks synchronized to a musical proram on WRVR-FM 104 radio WREG-TV innel 3 will show a preconcert program at 7 pm In case of rain the symphony will be performed tomorrow Religious fervor Corps developing methods to ferret out Korean tunnels to discuss the possibility of allowing North Korea to host some Olympic events The experiment station became involved in South Korean tunnel detection in 1985 when the Belvoir Research Development and Engineering Project to improve safety at Olympics VICKSBURG Miss (AP) Equipment to allow South Korean officials to locate tunnels they believe the North Koreans are digging near the site of next summer Olympics is being developed by the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg The South Koreans claim 10 to 30 tunnels have been dug by their hostile neighbors really a Park Young-gil press attache at the South Korean Embassy in Washington said Thursday they make up their mind to attack they can come out and emerge behind the line We cannot exclude the possibility of them using the Sf ESTILLSPRINGS Tenn (AP) After dusk each night crowds of curious spectators gather around Lu- ther and Arlene Estill Springs mobile home to gaze at a General Electric freezer on the porch Many say they can see the likeness of a bearded man on the freezer's smooth white side The Gardners who believe the image is that of Jesus call the apparition a miracle the most beautiful thing rve ever seen It's a sign This has been revealed to me in a said Mrs Gardner a sign that Jesus is coming again 1'sooniiW1- Av f-! '-'V ji- -Estill Springs is about 50 miles west of Chattanooga on UB 41A 1 jgThe Image appears after dark when a neighbor's I porch light reflects off the freezer -ys In the past week 2000 people have traveled the nar- row country road to the Gardners' home tovlew lty Park said are trying to convince them the Olympics are a peaceful Three tunnels were found between 1974 and 1978 before Seoul was selected as the site for the 1988 Olympics Bob Condron UB Olympic Committee assistant director of media relations in Colorado Springs Colo said State Department officials have been keeping up with all security matters in South Korea Those officials and Gen George Miller executive director of the Olympic Committee said they were with security to be provided by South Korea Condron said had scares before the (1984) Olympics in Los he said Park said officials hope that negotiations will avert disruption of the games Negotiators from both countries are scheduled to meet in Lausanne Switzerland in July Center asked it to develop methods of finding the tunnels The tunnels in South Korea are difficult to find because they are as much as 100 meters beneath the surface of the earth and are dug through solid rock By adapting and modifying equipment used by the mining and oil industries the experiment station has developed several systems to accurately pin- 3int tunnels and tunneling ac-vity Waterways officials have estimated the equipment will be ready for use by the Army by September Since the Korean War ended in 1953 both sides have been on constant alert along the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries Mrs Gardner estimates The Olympic games are sched-for August 1988 at Seoul about 40 miles from the North i rn tiled JK Katherine Parton whose light it is that shines off the freezer said she saw the image in February but only recently told the Gardners about it Please see IMAGE Page B3 Korean border can disrupt (the Olympics) in many ways if they wish.