European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and strikes sunday a Gulf Ujj food costs More in slums House committee reports Washington a shop pers in the Low income areas of the nation s cities generally pay higher prices at food Chain stores for items of usually Lowe Quality the House government operations committee reported saturday night. The committee said the Feder Al government should take stronger action to provide Protection for slum area customers even though it reported conditions have been improved As a result of publicity. The report is a result of study done by the special in Quiry on consumer representation in the Federal government an Arm of the House . Benjamin s. Rosenthal d n.y., headed the special inquiry group. Republican committee Mem Bers and the food Chain Industry disagreed with the report. On Republican said the report should not have been issued units present form. The National association of food chains acknowledged week before last that it had attempted to Block congressional approval of the report because its Public affairs counsel said its charges Are unsupported and it contains inflammatory material that May Well spark riot around the with the release of the report the association issued a state ment saying food chains Donot and never have discriminated against any group or class of customers and fully recognize their obligation to Deal fairyland honestly with everyone they report is based on hear All he did was stand up and they shot him Jacksonville Fla. Up Manney Fletcher put a padlock on his tiny grocery Friday after watching three robbers Shotgun a clerk to death. He does no plan to reopen the store. They killed a Good Man formless than $45," said Fletcher. All he did was stand up an they shot him. My business is too Small there s too Many criminals around and life s too Short Torisk it an longer he sighed. Three negro men entered the neighbourhood Market thursday afternoon one armed with Shotgun and gunned Down 59 year old Clifford Pollard As he stood up from a soft drink crate on which he had been sitting.5th robbery Fletcher a negro was trying to get the Money out of the Cash Register when Pollard was said he has been robbed four times in the Pas several years. Fletcher said he plans to Fin some other work to earn a Liv ing for his wife and four Chil Dren. He said he feels sorry for Small businessmen such As him self. No it s just not Worth s a sad Day in this country when we have to live in such fear of what dishonest people will do to those who try an make their own Way Fletcher try and support your self and then somebody walks into your business Points a gun at you and then takes what you be worked hard Ings held by Rosenthal s group i Chain stores and government of i in Washington d.c., new York \ facials testified. There was also City and St. Louis mo., during j an evaluation of studies and re which representatives of con ports from a number of major Sumer groups supermarket . Cities. 2 flights planned . Lifts secrecy from missile tests Cape Kennedy up the defense department lifted a screen of secrecy from the Maiden test flights of the nation s two new Long Range mis Siles saturday and said the rockets capable of carrying multiple warheads will be launched thursday and Friday. The Navy s new super Polaris submarine launched missile the Poseidon is to be fired at midday thursday from i a land pad at the Cape. The air Force s new minute i Man 3 instant icbms will be fired from an underground silo shortly after Sunset the follow ing Day. Space bus both missiles Are designed to carry the sophisticated new space bus multiple warhead Assembly that will be Able to Shower up to 10 nuclear weapons on individual targets hundreds of Miles apart. Although the air Force serving As defense department spokesman Here declined to give any further details on the missions it was believed that test version of the new multiple warhead package would be flown on the initial minuteman. Former defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara told con Gress earlier this year that the multiple warheads to be carried by the new missiles will enhance the survivability of the nation s strategic missile Force Sand greatly enhance the number of weapons that can be loosed by 1972. Until now launch dates for both rockets had been Classi fied. The air Force launched satellite in secrecy last tuesday and it was thought the next mis Sile firings would be carried out under similar dates for both mis Siles however were common knowledge among space Obser vers Only did the air Force remove the secrecy Label fro the scheduled firings but it said it planned to permit news Media to watch the shots from observation Points Little More than a mile away. The Poseidon is designed Tobe eight times More effective than the Polaris a3 rocket the latest of the Polaris missile versions and the rocket no carried by most of the Navy s 41 missile firing the Polaris the Poseidon is a two stage solid propellant rocket. It is s4 feet Long and six feet in diameter three fee longer and 1 1-2 feet wider than the a3. It also is twice As Hea Vyas the Polaris. The Poseidon s ability to lift double the payload of the newest Polaris gives it the ability to carry the new multiple warhead packages. It Range will be about the same As the Polaris a3, about 2,900miles. High sign Pat Schultz gives traffic signals As a an outsize inner tube toward a swimming spot ill Phoenix Ariz. What policeman could object a Phoil Mixon will reevaluate nation s foreign policy Miami Beach up Rich Ard m. Nixon will build the foreign policy phase of his Campaign around a total re evaluation of . Commit ments abroad sources close to the Republican presidential nominee said saturday. He also will press for a de americanization in Vietnam and for a negotiated settlement of the War there without further military for negotiation rather than confrontation with the soviet Union. I advocate containment of communist China until there is a moderation of its policy but believes .-peking negotiations eventually must take place. Place a High priority on re establishing close ties with i France and on strengthening the nato Alliance. Seek new initiatives i dealing with the Arab world possibly including a Call for renewal of . Relations with to halt the downward trend in . Aid to latin huh declares majority wants peaceful change san Antonio Tex. A vice president Hubert Humphrey citing the great silent majority in America who want peace and Unity called saturday for change through non violent vice president made a Campaign tour in san Antonio summer heat. He threw away a prepared speech to make a plea for National Unity to a gathering of hundreds outside the .Pavilion at the san Antonio world s is not a single prob Lem that confronts this nation that cannot be changed by peaceful processes Humphrey said. There is a great silent majority in America he said a majority that is prepared to do whatever needs to be the vice president Drew crowd of 150 persons for a morning speech at a dedication of a new recreation area. America and Africa. Before his nomination Vico Early thursday. Nixon said the views he held during his 151campaign had charged because the International situation changed. Nixon said that he would a pragmatist. A realist applying principles to a Nei he said for exam the communist world no Long is monolithic but a world schizophrenic with great diversity after his convention Victory Nixon told newsmen he though there would be interest in foreign policy us during the Campaign. He will be i a i in will advisory groups m California it month to draft specific a it Iofi on foreign and other sues. " sources close to the candidate said the theme the Broil strokes already on Caj he will for example claim the United states dered from Harrison Tor advised again u Thuv were old because they canisters then from Fay Elte i he they were Del lobbed them into and again arrested was kept in jail. Order the Buim Mailett v
