European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes on hunger reveals millions Lack proper diet Washington a after three weeks of congressional investigation into the extent of hunger in the United states one fact emerges millions of americans Don t get enough to eat each Day. No one can say exactly How Many do not eat regularly. The figure most generally agreed upon is 10 million. And say the officials some 4million school children attend classes hungry each  hearings by the House education and labor commit tee will produce a voluminous report containing contradictory figures contrasting opinions by Federal and state officials an the poor on food programs. And there will be Many Many recommendations on How to solve the problem of seeing that the hungry actually Are fed. Chairman Carl d. Perkins d-ky., had planned to hold Only two weeks of hearings but has extended them to accommodate the flood of witnesses. The hear Ings have run late into the eve Ning. The Long Parade of witnesses ranged from the Secretary of agriculture Orville l. Freeman to representatives of the poor. The panel has heard from Doc tors who have treated and studied the poor state and Federal officials who feed the poor school officials who try to Edu Cate the poor social worker who work with the poor and priests and clergymen who Pray for the poor. There has been much confusion Over the semantics of the problem confusion Over whats meant by starvation hunger malnutrition and under nutrition. State and Federal officials who direct food and Wel fare programs say they have found few cases of death by starvation and have seen to i that those they find who Are hungry Are fed. But representatives of the poor say Groat numbers of peo ple living in Urban slums the Rural South and Southwest and on Indian reservations Are starving in the sense that Lack of sufficient and proper food make them actual or potential victims of killing or crippling  question raised by the hearings How much is it going to Cost to see that americans who have been going hungry Argive i enough food most concede that in the Longrun it will take billions of Dol Lars. Many believe that con Gress should attempt to cure some of he More extreme cases by appropriating millions immediately. An Early i Kontal As Sault on hunger most probably will come with proposals tha Congress divert More Money to the school lunch program to fee the some 4 million youngsters not now getting a daily Square meal. Perkins has indicated he will introduce legislation urging the Secretary of agriculture to us funds from a surplus commodities program for this  Secretary testified he is unauthorized to do so now an plans to turn Back to the treas Ury this year $227 million fro the program. Perkins is expected also to recommend that More Money be allocated to Day care centers so that preschool children from poor families can be Given inadequate diet. The primary purpose of the hearings was to hear testimony on a proposal to establish presidential commission on nutrition. The measure most Likely will be passed by Congress. Survival a vietnamese woman clutches her pig As she leaves an area in Western Saigon where the Viet Cong had opened fire on South vietnamese troops. The area had been the scene of fighting and the had returned for her possessions. Soil misused Fao says int tubes in Tiu not ouerpopueated9 terrorize City of Saig Iby John Kruege staff write Rome is More Strate Gic cultivation of India s surprisingly arable soil is literally being mapped by the United nations food and agriculture organization. Preliminary studies for a soil map of the world have shown that the vast subcontinent Scrop growing potential is considerably greater than past estimates have indicated Fao reports from its headquarter Shere. At the same time it has Bee stated that India is not Over populated if All its Fertile Landis used  Luis Bramao head of Fao s world soil resources office emphasizes that India has an abundance of that greatest re source for development of the land human  first draft of the world soil map will be presented to the International Congress of soil science to be held in Adelaide Australia on aug. 6 to 16. The map explained Bramao will Supply the Basic information to make progressively More accurate inventories of the world s land resources for Agri cultural  in the Case of India the map has brought out that Low Fertility tropical soils previously thought to be widespread malaria drug cuts lost time by Marc Huet is Washington is de sense officials believe they now have a drug that May drastically Cut Down on the Hospital time of troops suffering from Falci Parum malaria caught in Viet  the same time army Doc tors at the surgeon general office Here reported monday a considerable drop in the malaria incidence among troops in Vietnam according to latest available statistics. Even so they say the disease is still Amajor medical problem among . Forces in Southeast  malaria some times called Black water fever is considered to be the most dangerous of the four human types found in the tropics. Or. John s. Foster jr., director of defense research and engineering told the House armed services committee recently that More than 10,000cases of Falc Parum malaria were reported in South Vietnam last year. This resulted in More than a Quarter of a million Days of hospitalization. A new drug has been tested Washington Bureau on volunteers in the ., he said and if Field tests work out As Well As they have in theu.s., average hospitalization will be Cut from 30 Days to fou Days per patient. The new drug known As Tri meth Prim Kelf Izina was developed by or. John David Arnold director of the University of Missouri medical  doctors also report continued Progress in malaria prevention among combat troops through an improved training program and through the weekly use of chloroquine Prima Quine or up and the daily use of Dapson tablets. Dapson Isa relatively new drug that is being used in the War again Stone of Man s oldest diseases. Troops continue with Dapson for 28 Days and up once a week for eight weeks on their re turn to the United states. Latest reports from Vietnam show this dramatic drop in malaria per thousand men Peryear 1966 1967 1968march 18.3 21.8 11.26 april 54.5 27.1 17.88 Are in fact present in Only  according to the Fao experts India s soils have been found to have a comparatively High natural Fertility with about 35 per cent of the country com posed of potentially Good crop land. This compares with Esti mates of 20 per cent for All of Asia and South America. The dry climate is said to be partly responsible for the relatively High Fertility of certain areas since heavy rainfall car Ries away Plant nutrients. Another reason say Bramao is that unlike Many tropical countries India do snot suffer from soil with poor Parent material. The least Fertile of India soils Are found along the West coast where wind driven Rains each the land and in the North East where Mountain Waters carry away much of the topsoil. Largest areas of Good la dare found in the Northwest with 40 per cent suitable for crops North Central 50,-and Central 42. Only a marginal amount of unused land is left in Reserve for cultivation. That s Why Bramao stresses that agricultural improvement in India depends on increasing yields up to now among the lowest in the world i already cultivated  by Alvin b. Webb Saigon up with a filled with chemical powder Ai topped off with about 14 Poirot int you can terrorize of the world s biggest cities that is what the Viet care busily proving. The City they Are terrorize is Saigon. And they Are doing it Wila simple item known As a 1? my rocket built in the Sov Union and shipped to the i namese reds As part of communist War Effort the 122mm rocket first Maits appearance in the War Early 1967 in the Northern fringes of South Vietnam. No its explosions nightly Rock gon itself killing and Mainu essentially the 122mm Roc is nothing More than a a a two Inch Metal tube with pounds of int in its nose Ani weighing 102 pounds in All two men can carry it. 1T, result is a faster-than-sound-800 Miles an hour Weapu that can travel 6.8 Mies i a tear through 14 feet of Sand of it " Tough t defend ?aije7.i Flash at Blasjo the Only clue As to where came from lasts Only set tenths of a second of cabling your eyes and miss it ripes european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa Deputy editor in Oil it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., a of v manage nil Mert Proctor production Mami Elmer d. Frank circulation Henry 6. Epstein an unofficial newspaper of and for the u.8. . 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