European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Is in Fine form monday april 29. 19m 2.5 Muon of them by Dick West Washington up two weeks or so ago there were 11,000troops on riot duty at the . National guard  week the entire armory was Given Over to an Industrial arts fair staged by Washington Public school  was told that if i paid a visit to the fair i would find something reassuring in the contrast. And i  one exhibit students were operating an offset printing machine capable of turning out 9,000 government forms every  made me feel better about the future in  is America s first line of defense. Without it thereat Republic probably would crumble  to sol Silverman director of the graphic arts pro Gram in the local school system about 4,000 students Are learning to operate High Speed duplicating machines which Are the Back Bone of the Federal government. Upon graduation from High school Many of them will be skilled enough to go right int government paperwork production. This is  i obtained from a duplicating machine manufacture show that the government buys about 2.65 billion sheets of papera year. Training school kids to operate the machines insures that the nation will never collapse because some of those 2.65 Diu on pages remained  that is a reassuring sociology Factor. Many of the students Are products of the ghetto whose inhabitant feel alienated from the american mainstream. If there is anything that represents the american mainstream it is paperwork. When of the ghetto Are engaged paperwork output they Are to to feel a part of the mainstream it gives them a senso of identification of belonging. This. I might add is More than Mere theory. Silverman said the dropout rate among students learning to run duplicating machines is very Low to be. A. Potent than nerve Gas if the plan worked it be necessary Ever to Call guard again. Instead the would Mobil inc living Cost jump highest in 8 months Washington up the nation s Cost of living increased four tenths of 1 per cent i March the biggest jump in eight months the labor depart ment reports. The department s monthly consumer Price Index Rose to 119.5 per cent of the 1957-59base period 3.9 per cent higher than a year  increase Means it now costs $11.95 to buy the Sam goods and services that Cost $10 during the base  Chase assistant com missioner of labor statistics forthe department said if the present rate of increase continues the Cost of living in 1968 could pass the 4 per Cen increase Mark last registered during the korean War year of1951. Inflation pressures Chase said businessmen were partly responsible for the increases in prices since octo Ber because of anticipated inflationary pressures in the  seems reasonable that if producers expect Price control sin the near future they would try to raise their present Price Levels to a higher base amount he  of food and beverages Rose by four tenths of 1 per Cen during poultry March with pork and fruit products and the services making the heaviest  costs were highest among the nondurable categories increasing by seven tenths of 1 per  consumer services Rose by six tenths of 1 per cent Cost of housekeeping and personal care such As Beauty shops both Rose by 1 per cent  for medical services boosted by Hospital Cost in creases and doctors and dentists fees Rose by nine tenths of 1 per cent. Rent utilities and insurance costs along with College tuition increases also increased during the month. Sex slave Dies at 112st. Louis up Sam Watts born a slave in Mississippi die Friday. His daughter mrs. Sarah Clark said he was 112 years old. Congressional talks Are first Aberathy opens Mareli phae Washington a the blackened Brick strewn scars left by this month s riots still lie raw and ugly half hidden by hastily nailed up scraps of ply Wood As or. Martin Luther King s poor. People s Campaign prepares to move into the National capital. King s close Friend and Suc Cessor the Rev. Ralph Aber Nathy will arrive monday to outline to congressional leaders what he thinks Congress should do for the nation s 35 million  will have about 100 negro Community residents an leaders with him and there May be a few sit ins. But the phase that has Washington uneasy won t begin until  Abernathy returns to Memphis tenn., to Lead the Van guard of the March on a four Day Riding and walking trip to the foot of Capitol Hill. Guaranteed income Abernathy claims 3,000 will March and vows that they Are prepared to stay All summer Ina tent new City of  this he Hopes will Force con Gress to pass a Bill of economic and social rights for the poor including some form of Guaran teed annual income and More Job and education opportunities. Members of Congress reminded of the 15,000-Man Bonus army of veterans that camped on the Capitol grounds in 1932 until driven off by army troops Aren t welcoming the Southern Christian leadership conference tactics. While i am sympathetic to people who Are in need. Legis lation under threat or compulsion and the like just does t come too often said rep. Wil Liam Mcculloch a Ohio a prime mover of the 1968 civil rights Bill passed this month. He voiced what congressional observers say is a common Atti  police Are preparing to handle any disturbance unto and including a full scale re peat of the rioting that erupted when King was killed. Order was restored then Only after 12,500troops moved into the City. In an attempt to guard against violence Sulc is holding a series of workshops in Washington and other cities to train each of the 3,000 who will stay in the tent City in nonviolent techniques. Tent for eight a demonstration team erects a Sample tent in Washington to be used during the planned poor people s  Model is designed for eight persons. Up or. King s Willow drawing si2.000 salary from Sulc Atlanta a mrs. Martin Luther King who was electe.1 to the Board of direct cars of he Southern Christian leadership conference after the sniper slaying of her husband is drawing a salary of $12,000 from the Organiza