European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday , a hint of tampering is grits for the Mill by Dick West Washington up at this month s meeting of the Charleszo Gaulle appreciation society the other member and 1 sadly concluded that Franco american relations have taken a turn forthe worse. Again. The latest Fly in the ointment or if you prefer a More appetizing metaphor cockroach in the souffle is Hominy grits. When i reported last Mont that a French chef in Chicago had taken this Domestic dish an elevated it to gourmet status Little did i dream it would reinterpreted As a gaullist plot. Yet letters of protest have been coming in from grits lovers All across the grits free of foreign entanglements hands off our grits 1" american grits is French grits no these we rebut a few of the outcries. One irate grits fancier likened the chef Pierre Orsi to the Boll Weevil or a Hoard of locusts come to ravage an american in never realized before that grits eaters were so might think from their re action that America was on the grits Standard and the French were trying to Force the most telling Point was raised by a Man in upstate new York who wrote what the hell Are grits anyhow since the Charles de Gaulle appreciation society was founded specifically to Deal with situations of this sort the other member and i moved quickly to try to restore we adopted a Resolution pointing out that in creating such recipes As quenelle de grits and grits crepes ors was act ing on his own and not As an agent of the fifth we issued a statement de Claring that Orsi s motive was not to undermine grits but rather to broaden their Appeal by introducing them to uneducated pal finally since there seemed to be some confusion about the matter i proposed that the society underwrite a research pro Gram to determine the origin of grits and establish whether and Gantry had exclusive cl3mj All the data Aren t in yet a preliminary finding j Vii Cate grits actually were i szered by a Frenchman Macau to grits on the site of what 2now new Orleans. U it further appears that the was made before the i i Liana Purchase. A i Trust the. Grits traditionalists we accept this As sufficient Tidence to absolve de Vaulta Jinny charges of tampering free food to go to poor directly Washington up the agriculture department took action Friday to bypass local officials and distribute food directly to the needy in counties where authorities balk at administering the a precedent setting action the department announced that it will begin direct distribution monday in Elmore county a. Schnittker under Secre tary of agriculture said similar Steps would be taken in other areas if local governments fail to set up distribution programs. It was estimated that fewer than 150 counties most of them in the South have failed to take advantage of special Federal government efforts to provide local distribution of surplus food to the needy in1,000 of the nation s lowest income a special inducement the agriculture department offered to pay local administrative costs in More than 300 half of the counties accepted the Aid but Elmore was among those which did try in every Way to persuade local governments to establish and administer a program of food help Schnitt Ker said. If this procedure does not provide food assistance in these Low income counties we will establish and operate the program directly ourselves. Hungry people in these counties must be and will be the department said two thirds of the no program Low income counties Are in Virginia Missouri Texas and Florida. Class by himself Gary Goodale a 7th grader at Pajaro school in Watsonville calif., is impervious to pressure in winning the 70-Yard hurdles As the Lone entry. Up photo opposes military service disobedient girl Marine punished by c. Yates Mcdaniel Washington a apart Colorado girl who joined the marines instead of the peace corps but who now opposes All wars and military service was ordered punished Friday for disobeying orders other superiors. A summary court martial finding her guilty of wilful Dis obedience despite her plea that she was following her con science sentenced Mary Eliza Beth Burns of grand Junction colo., to 45 Days restriction to Barracks a Fine of $20 and reduction in rank from Corporal to private. The findings and the sentence by the one Man court Are subject to automatic review by the colonel commanding the Marine Headquarters battalion and the by the review Board of the Navy judge advocate miss Burns spent 23 Days in modified restriction to herbage in Arlington va., the sen Mccarthy sour on talks Boston up sen. Eugenej. Mccarthy declaring White House policy toward the Vietnam War has not changed said Fri Day he had Little Faith in Success Ful negotiations Between Washington and Hanoi. He said the american people have changed their views toward . Presence in Vietnam but that the Johnson administration has not changed its views. The democratic peace candidate said he did not have much Faith in the peace talks in the View of quibbling Over Warsaw and cambodians possible Sites for negotiations. Tence will be reduced by that period of Days. Higher authority May confirm the lower court sentence but cannot increase the punishment. Marine corps headquarter already has under consideration miss Burns application for a administrative discharge based upon conscientious objection which she first formally expressed in mid March. At that time she refused Tower her military uniform she a. 4 of a following her conscience Marine Mary Elizabeth Burns walks ahead of male marines during a recess in her court martial at Arlington a. Associated press photo appeared in court Friday in yellow sweater and a Pale skirt to signify her objection an also declined to Start a Leader ship course for noncommissioned officers prescribed for her by her Marine Legal officer who tried her serving As judge jury prosecutor and defender was assisted in his latter duties by two lawyers of the woman Marine s own choosing a Nav lawyer lieutenant and a civilian counsel. The trial officer Marine Jones refused to accept her plea of being technically guilty but morally right in Dis obeying her in her own behalf the 21-year-old Marine said she owes her first allegiance to the dictates of her conscience an to a supreme friends and a Catholic priest testified Toher Long standing religious de lawyers suggested to the court that the Best solution Fornall concerned would be for the Marine corps to give her an administrative discharge for the convenience of the govern-ment.". She could have been sentenced to 30 Days confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of two thirds of her $223.20 pay As a Joned the marines two years ago and had been a Corporal for 11 months. She testified that she enlisted voluntarily to learn to know people and to witnesses spoke of her earlier interest in the peace corps and said her twin brother Timothy now is facing Legal action because of refusal to accept military induction. Call up hits Hawaii hard irks politicos Washington up Hawaii which last year had the highest ratio of combat death sin Vietnam was called on thursday to Supply 17 per Centof the total number of reservists and National guards men called to Active duty. Sen. Daniel k. Inouye and rep. Spark m. Matsunaga both a Hawaii demanded to know Why such a Large number of reservists were being called from their state. Matsunaga also sent a Tele Gram to president Johnson asking him to reconsider the Call up of 4,416 men from Hawaii. Last May the defense department announced in its Vietnam death ratio that from january 1961 through february 1967, a total of 66 men from Hawaii were killed in the War the highest ratio of any was a 9.17 combat death ratio per 100,000 population. West Virginia followed with 8.82. New York with population of about 18 million sustained Only 2.9 combat the report was released Matsunaga wrote then defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara asking Why the Island states combat death toll was so Nign the response from the Penta gon Matsunaga said was Inouye s office also demanded to know Why such a Large number of reservists Ami guardsmen were being at de in Hawaii
