European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday May 28, a mss toil hunk non labor of poor by Dick West Washington up regardless of what else it May or May not accomplish the poor people s encamp ment Here has at least produced som interesting proposals for ending poverty in this plan i Admire was dreamed up by a Friend of mine who works for the agriculture department. His idea is to have the government set up a toil Bank program. The Basic cause of poverty is the Lack of enough Good jobs to go around he explained. People who have Low paying jobs want a shot at More re warding employment but people who have the Good jobs Aren t willing to give them tip the toil Bank would attack that problem in the same Way that the soil Bank created in the 1950s attacked the problem of surplus farm who signed up for the soil Bank were paid to take part of their land out of production. In other words they could derive some income fro not growing anything. Under the toil Bank workers who now have Good jobs would get paid for not doing anything. This would make their jobs available to those who Are underemployed or said Why not just let the people who Don t have jobs get paid for doing nothing?""because/1 he said the people who do have jobs would squawk about would protest the use of their taxes to subsidize idleness. But if the Jobholder were the beneficiaries of the program they would t have any kick coming. I certainly would be willing to let someone else have my Job if i continued to get paid and i m sure Many other workers feel the same i said i think i m beginning to catch on. Once the unemployed take Over the Good jobs then they would be to the taxes that support the pro. He said. But they would complain because their taxes \3u Ben fitting m be i said there must be a flaw in . It sounds Loo much l i r one of those Chain letter deals no he said i be considered Al the angles and it s foolproof. You in the first thing i m going to do afer join the toil Bank i m going to ask to a. A do ski by the Way i said How did the soil Bank program work out he said i or Fexas District attorney gunman each other in face to face shootout braves Milwaukee vice president Hubert Humphrey hashes head tickled and hair parted by a Chippewa boy s plumage As the two meet at Milwaukee Airport. A photo Kermit Tex. Apy police say a West Texas District attorney arid another Man shot each other to death saturday night in a face to face shootout after the second Man threatened officers with a gun. Chief of police Melvin Hartley said dist. Atty. Don Nugent about 40, joined police on a disturbance Call after they had i Een forced to leave a residence by the gun wielding Man. The first disturbance Cal came in about 10 . Saturday Hartley said when neighbor complained of a Man standing in his backyard and shooting at a officers when Julie Smith threatened the officers the chief related they backed off and Tele phoned the District attorney to see if they needed a warrant. He told them they did need a warrant and to come by for him and he d see if he could t help them Bartley said. Friends of the District at Torney said he often made Calls with the s the Way to see that the Law is enforced properly he was quoted by a Friend As explaining Why he made patrols with the local officers. Elected 1064, Nugent faced a Runoff election this weekend for the democratic nomination to a Sec Ond term. When he arrived at the House said Bartley he talked he Man into coming on out. After he talked the Man out he called police to come for Ward and when they did Smith shot him. Nugent resumed the ire and i think he hit Smithiv Nugent it later developed Abernathy thinks phone still tapped Washington up there. Ralph David Abernathy said sunday that it was common joke among or. Martin Luther King and his Southern Christian leadership conference staff that their phone conversations were said he believes his Telephone is still you pick up a Telephone and you get a strange sound and a noise then naturally you believe it is tapped he said. Columnist Drew Pearson wrote last week that when sen. Robert f. Kennedy d-n.y.,was attorney general he ordered a continuing wire tap on King Telephone conversations. Kennedy s press Secretary Pierre Salinger issued a statement denying was asked in a television interview whether he believed the Fri the Justice department or other la enforcement agencies kept a constant wire tap on King phone. Well i can t be sure about this but it was a common joke among me and or. King Ardour entire staff that our phones were tapped he replied. We laughed about it often times on the wages barely holding against rising prices Washington up the nation s wage earners have been barely holding their own against rising prices since Early 1967, the labor department reported sunday. The department s first Quarter statistics for wages prices and productivity show that while hourly earnings Rose by nearly 6 per cent from March,1967, to March 1968, they have barely kept ahead of rising prices. A breakdown of the first Quarter statistics showed the purchasing Power of the aver age worker s weekly salary Rose nine tenths of 1 per cent in the year ending last March. The department said this was the result of a 3.9 per cent increase in prices and a 1 per cent drop in hours worked. At the same time the department said consumer Pri Ces registered their biggest quarterly increase in 10 years consumer prices for the firs three months of 1968 Rose 1. Per cent. Prices had been rising at a rate of nine tenths of 1 be cent for the three previous quarters. Was struck at least three limes Friend said. Chief Bartley said Only one of this men joined Nugent in firing at Smith after the Man opened the gunplay. I think the offi cer might have hit him described Smith As a big fellow about 6-3 or so an weighing about 240 he said Nugent was around 6 Leet and weighed 195." Smith just backed off an started shooting Bartley said. Then Nugent and my office shot at senator asks probe Frk pays to list voters fac says Washington up Republican senator has asked the Justice department to investigate claim by los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty that sen. Robert spent $23,000 in recent Days to get negro voters registered for the California presiden tial primary. Sen. John j. Williams r-del.,a chief sponsor of legislation aimed at eliminating corruption in elections asked atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark to investigate the situation As reported by Colum nist Carl t. Rowan in an article published thursday in the Washington . Evening Star. In the column Rowan quote Yorty As saying that Kennedy has spent at least $23,000 in recent Days just to pay registrars 30 cents for every negro voter the put on the voting Yorty a a political foe Okennedy. According to Rowan it is Anold California custom to pay registrars for each constituent registered request. At the candidates but Williams said the practice would violate the provisions he sponsored in rights act. The 1965 voting an amendment of which iwas a sponsor specifically prohibited anyone from paying or offering to pay or accepting payment either for registration to vote or for voting and setting the penalty at a Fine not More than $10,000 and imprisonment of not More than five years or both Williams said in a letter to restriction is specifically applicable to registration for general special or primary elections held solely or in Par for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of purpose was specifically to prohibit anyone from paying or offering to pay people to Register to you please examine lip allegations contained i Rowan article and after talking to the parties quoted advise them on the action the ,9humiliated or angry Miami a Havana re said tips Are being Ehm Matej cuban restaurants because Waters and waitresses have Ukichi income in the to g o off Tom m05suh,
