European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 21, 196s the stars and stripes hew chief says poverty on Way out Minneapolis Minn. Up Wilbur j. Cohen newly appointed . Secretary of health education and welfare i predicted that by 1976 every per Jon in the United states will have Ian assured minimum income and Ibe free to choose his vocation the size of his family and theh lace where he wants to live. In a Sidney Hillman memorial lecture at the University of Minnesota Cohen said that when the United states Cele Brates the 200th anniversary of the declaration of Independence family planning will be the Choice of every  about 26 million americans still live in poverty Many go hungry Many live in rat and Roach infested dilapidated overcrowded housing he  though medical re search and new technology have made such suffering unnecessary Many mothers and children throughout the nation still go without needed medical care said Cohen a major architect of the medicare program. Gaps Widen the Gap Between the Rich and the poor Black and White the Young and the old and the City and the suburb widens he said. The alienated and the frustrated turn to violence  but he added we can and we must use our abundance to eliminate  said the United states i already has made a  j since the 1930 s we have reduced the extent of poverty from 40 per cent of thei population to about 15 per cent. In the past eight years about 13 j million people have moved out i of poverty. We should be Able Toi reduce the number living in poverty year by year and to j eliminate it  i education increase in t h e not too Distant future Cohen said adequate medical j care will be available to All the1 12 years of free Public education offered now will have i increased to at least 15 years i and adult illiteracy will have been eliminated. School segregation effected either by open discrimination i gerrymandered school districts or ghetto housing will have crumbled before the combined forces of Legal barriers in official segregation open hous i my policies Urban development metropolitan planning in i creased employment opportune ties and not the least of All the i moral Force of enlightened Public  Mojave desert resembles Moon i Palm Springs Calif. A " a team of engineers says a i pm on the Mojave desert re i Zembles the Moon s surface Indore ways than one. Inis is the rough floor of Cen tunes old a m b o y Crater 55miles Northeast of Here. Ane engineers from Ryan a Iona Auto Al co of san Diego i  Crater not Only looks he the Moon with its is d Crater he but it reflects Evoi Energy at the same a wer even As the Moon Sites recorded Surv Lancing radar Abo Reyor spacecraft. Crusan signals bounced off the s2 a floor Echo Back to sen Sra t a. Tsp Chauy instrumented that sir n i the same frequency n if als a ounce the moon1 by Veyo landings they said. Page 7 Frog jumping contest Calif. Entry tickled at Victory Angels Camp Calif. A a supple fingered real estate Man tickled his 4-year-old Frog to Victory sunday in the International Frog jumping contest inspired by a Mark Twain Short Story. Corrosion a six Inch Frog that once called a Bakersfield Cal if., swamp Home leaped 18 feet and one half Inch out distancing his closest rival by one foot 4 /4inches. The Victory was the fifth for owner Leonard Hall of Concord Calif., since the event was started 40 years ago. Its inspiration was Twain s yarn of or Dan iel the amphibian hero of the celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras  Hall s secret get yourself a Good wild Frog. We hunted  Hall trained corrosion in a private Pond learning if you tickle him hell pick up a  other Frog trainers jumped and stomped and yelled to get their frogs to jump. But not Hall. He confidently plunked corrosion on the starting spot and then scratched him with his in Dex Finger. Big Tom a Frog entered by Oregon gov. Tom Mccall jumped six feet 6 inches 2 4inches better than ski Reno owned by Roy b. Bankofier the mayor of Reno nov. Slavery s people i owned by Nevada gov. Paul Laxalt jumped 7 feet 7 inches and Slat Tery s people ii owned by Nevada sen. Jim Slattery posted an 11-2 jump. Entries from Nebraska also fared poorly. Admiral Nobby ii owned by Nebraska gov. Nor Bert t. Tiemann jumped 10-3. Sen. Terry Carpenter s terrible Terry jumped 8-7. Sen. Clifto Batchelder s Batchelder s bomber hit b-8y2.silverado, owned by mayor Jesse m. Davis of Buena Park Calif., leaped 11-4j4 inches. Met special entered by John Henchey City manager of con Cord n.h., reached 9-8ys. Mother on trial mrs. Alice Crimmins arrives with her husband Edmund at Queens n.y., criminal court where she is on trial for the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Up photo candidates Lack Luster poll says Princeton n. J. A the american Public is less enthusiastic about its leading presidential candidates than at any similar time in the past 16 years the Gallup poll reported sunday. In a nationwide Sample completed earlier this month Gal Lup found that none of the seven candidates. Listed was rated highly favourable by Over 30 per cent of those polled. And none of the seven did As Well As president Johnson in1964, Richard m. Nixon and John f. Kennedy in 1960, and Dwight d. Eisenhower and and i Lai Stevenson in 1956 and 1952. The democrats listed were vice president Hubert h. Humphrey and Sens. Robert f. Ken Nedy of new York and Eugene Mccarthy of Minnesota. The republicans were Nixon and goes. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York and Ronald Rea Gan of California. Former Ala Bama gov. George Wallace who is running on the american Independent party ticket was also included. Nixon has the largest highly favourable rating 28 per cent. He is followed by Humphrey with 26 per cent Kennedy with 24 per cent Rockefeller with 23,Mccarthy with 19, Wallace with 15 and Reagan with 11. Wallace is considered highly unfavourable by the most peo ple 32 per cent of those Sam pled. Kennedy s negative ratings 19 per cent Reagan s 15 per cent Nixon s 12 per cent Humphrey 10 per cent Rockefeller 8 per cent and Mccarthy 4 percent. In previous years according to Gallup Only Barry Gold water the 1964 Republican Candi stops welfare prescriptions druggist fights computer Des Moines to Yaap the Black bordered sign on the drug store Cash Register says we regret to announce that. We will no longer fill welfare  it heralds one Man s lonely Battle against a computerized welfare system where state pay ments for prescriptions filled for welfare recipients Are run Ning months behind. The store s owner ii. M. Eisentraut says this is a result of the reckless and irresponsible action of Blue Cross Blue shield who volunteered to be responsible for payment to pharmacies for prescriptions filled. Blue Cross blames the Board of social welfare. The Board cannot find who is eligible an who in to said Eisentraut who claims somebody owes him $6,000. The drug store located on the Edge of the ghetto is a Sec Ond generation family business. More than half his clients Are on welfare Eisentraut said. They receive prescribed drugs and medication through the medicaid provisions of the fed eral social Security act adopted by the state of Iowa last july1. State welfare officials hired Blue Cross Blue shield to handle the payments for doctors and flu hits 10-year Low Washington a the Public health service re ports that acute illness especially influenza like respiratory conditions and measles reached a 10-year Low in the 12 months ended last june. Druggists whose services were utilized in the program of medi Cal care for welfare recipients. Eisentraut bridles at the red tape involved in getting prescriptions to patients and the getting paid. I had to get myself this or Phan Annie decoder Book to fill out the forms he said. He introduces himself in Telephone conversations with state officials As no. 77807," by which he is known As a Vendor of drugs. I m not a Vendor he said. That s a machine in a filling station. I did t go to pharmacy school to be a Vendor. In the Navy i was t a Vendor s  state has a computer and Blue Cross has a computer but they Aren t playing the same song he said. And tha is the  Date did As poorly in polls taken at similar times. In the May 1964 poll Goldwater had a favourable rating of 15 per cent at the same time Johnson s was 59per cent. In May 1960, John Kennedy and Nixon each had ratings of 41 per cent. In 1956, Eisenhower had a 57 per cent rating and Ste Venson 34 per cent and in 1952, Eisenhower had 47 per cent and Stevenson 37 per cent. The 1952 and 1956 ratings were made after the general election. Liberals Back sen. Mccarthy Washington a the americans for democratic action reaffirmed sunday its endorsement of sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy for the democratic presidential  estimated 400 delegates to the Ada s National convention voted to Back up an endorse ment of the Minnesota senator last february by the Liberal group s National executive  a few hands were raised against a Resolution coming out solidly for Mccarthy while praising his democratic rivals sen. Robert f. Kennedy of new York and vice president Hubert h. Humphrey. Saying some Ada member individually would support Ken Nedy and Humphrey the Resolution urged the three candidates to avoid attacks on each other and save their fire for the conservatives in both  the Resolution written by the Ada political policy commis Sion s chairman Joseph  jr., of Washington said hat the Early endorsement of Mccarthy helped develop a political  Mccarthy Campaign has outdistanced our expectations and fulfilled our Hopes it said. Sen. Mccarthy s Success. Forced a change in the a Deninis ration s Vietnam policy and induced president Johnson s renunciation of further political a  Resolution said Kennedy has Long shared Ada s position on the War in Vietnam and has worked with us on Liberal causes with brilliance Energy and  motion to strike the word brilliance was Defeated by a show of hands at the final Plen Ary session of the three Day con  Resolution praised Humphrey for his Quarter Century of Liberal activity but said Ada dissents unequivocally from the Vietnam position taken by Humphrey a founder and former National chairman of i Ada