The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 December 1966 — Page 3

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Food Stamp Program By 1967, nineteen Indiana. ments of public welfare. All counties will be participating j welfare recipients are automain the food stamp program. The j tically eligible for food stamps.

program currently is in opera- Poor relief recipients are also called by their former name, Laotian and Chinese borders, tion in Floyd, Gibson, Harrison,, eligible for food stamps with- j the Siamese, a gentle, smiling Camouflaged U.S. helicopters, Knox, Lake. Marion, Perry. ; out further investigation. Other and hospitable people bountiful- j minus the white star standard

Foreign News Commentary

By PHIL NEWSOM I correspondent there, Kim WilIn the crowded floating mar-' lenson. has reported that Comket, in ornate new homes and munist guerrillas in Thailand in tall, glass-encased new office now number some 5,000 men. buildings overlooking ancient He said American advisers estiBuddhist temples, a wartime mated in the hundreds are workprosperity has hit Bangkok. ing with Royal Thai troops tryIt is a prosperity not entirely ing to root the Reds out of the welcomed even by the Thais, or, vulnerable northeast along the

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Tht Dally Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Friday, December 2, 1966

Putnam, Pike, Posey, Spencer. Vanderburg and Warrick Counties. The newly opened Putnam County office is located on the 4th floor of the County Court

House.

low income families may apply j ly supplied with the necessities; for the Air Force, carry the to the county Department of of rice and fish. troops into action. Public welfare for determina-1 In the new prosperity, older j When the United States first tion of their eligibility. ! Thais fear for the future of cus- took over direct military aid to

Eligibility standards are na- i tom and tradition

and of the! South Viet Nam, U.S. advisers

| tional and are set by the U. S. I young people who now some- there also were numbered in of Department of Agriculture, as times hold hands in public. , the hundreds — 685 to be exact, is the amount of extra stamp And beneath it also is the, And. in 1962, when American value per dollar that the fam- gnawing fear that the reasons advisers gradually w-ere taking

for this prosperity — a S200 over a shooting role. Communist

The food stamp program the U. S. Department of Agriculture was begun in 1964. It

is not a welfare oroeram but a I U y wiU receive. Income for per-

p s sons eligible mav range from million military construction: Viet Cong were numbered at

food assistance program, its |

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purpose being to provide a more * — ^ month for a <™-perhealthful diet for low-income 3on famllv to $400 P er month families. Since many of these for a ten P^ 5011 famil y- ^ families are welfare or poor re-! famil ~ v is als0 allowed a stated

amount of liquid assets (cash or items easily convertible to cash. e.g. U. S. Sayings Bonds), varying with the number of

lief recipients, food stamps do affect the welfare program and a small percentage of the cost of food stamp administration is borne by the county welfare

budget.

Food stamps are issued In denominations of 50 cents (in $2.00 or $3.00 books) and $2.00 (in $10.00 and $20.00 books). They are spent just as cash is spent in grocery stores which contract with the U. S. Department of Agriculture to receive them. The advantage to the low-income family is that for each dollar used to buy food stamps the family receives $1.25 or more in food stamps, (e.g., the average Marion County family received $1.55.) The stamps are not usable for nonfood purchase, and change is given in grocery store credit slips, not cash. The food stamp program is administered by county depart-

persons in the family. Tables prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture are used to determine the amount of money a participating family must spend per month for food stamps and the dollar value of extra stamps (sometimes called bonus stamps) that they will be given. E.g. an eight-person family with an “adjusted” income of $390 per month would be required to spend $114 per month for food stamps and would receive $162 in stamps, an effective increase in their monthly food budget of $48. (In cases where the family has unusually high necessary expenses, such as medical or rent and utilities, the amount to be spent on food stamps and the amount of bonus stamps given is adjusted accordingly.)

program plus the presence of j around 9,000.

33,000 American servicemen — are there only as harbingers of the day when the war for Southeast Asia also will engulf Thailand as it first did neighboring Laos and then swept with redoubled fury into South Viet

Nam.

The moment may be closer than we think.

Players Toss Hand Like Tennis Ball By Alfred Sheinwold Some hands are like tennis! matches, with the contract serv-1 ing as the ball. Declarer throws i the contract away, the oppon-; ents throw it back, and this process continues until the fate of the hand is steeled once for

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As the American effort escalated, the Communist forces also built up their own manpower almost man for man so that today, not counting the South Vietnamese, the two sides are almost equal at close to

400,000 apiece.

Aa the bulk of the fighting < moved from Laos into South Viet Nam there was a hope that the Vietnamese would be more strongly motivated and there-

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Instead South threw the contract away by repeating the club finesse. East took the king of clubs and returned a club. South discarded a heart, and West ruffed. West could defeat the contract by leading a low heart to the ace and ruffing another club. Instead, West tossed the contract back by leading the queen of hearts. NOT SURE East could defeat the contract by playing the ace of hearts even after South played a low heart from dummy, but East could not be sure of what was going on. He played a low heart and now South was home. South ruffed the heart continuation and could assure his

contract by leading out the king of trumps. At is happened. South did not know that the queen of trumps would fall. South assumed that East had the queen of spades because West had failed to lead a low heart after ruffing a club. South therefore got to dummy with a diamond to take a trump finesse. This play gave the contract to the defenders for the second | time, and they couldn’t hand it | back since they had already | taken four tricks. DAIL1 7 QUESTION Partner opens with 1 NT (16 to 18 points), and the next player passes. You hold: S-Q 8 2; H- QJ 7 3; D-Q J 10 4; C-5 2. What do you say? Answer: Bid two clubs, the

Stayman Convention. This asks partner to show a major suit if he can. If he shows hearts, you will raise to three hearts; otherwise your next bid will be 2 NT.

Volunteer Firebugs FORT WORTH UPI—Three volunteer firemen from suburban Sansom Park were indicted Tuesday on charges of arson. Firemen William C. Bolin, Antonio Reyes and James Riddle were charged with setting fire to a C&S Plastics Co. warehouse last month. Police said they set the fire to put into practice what they had learned at fire fighting school.

There are disturbing similarities in today’s events in Thailand to those just preceding the

swift escalation of the war in fore better fighters. The Viet-

South Viet Nam beginning in 1962. From Bangkok, UPI’a chief

Gal Disc Jockey Happy Gets The Air—To Talk

By ROBERTA ROESCH •■When opportunity knocks, I always believe in listening and opening the door. It might be something new for me,” said radio personality Margaret Draper. "My background of pioneer ancestry prepared me to expect the unknown and look ahead to a challenge. 1 * Challenging Job As a result of listening to opportunity, Margaret (often called Maggie) has a challenging job as one of the broadcasters in the all-girl format which runs from 10:00 a. m. to midnight every day on station WNEWFM in New York. Maggie, during her time on the air, spins records, interviews personalities, discusses current events and talks on a variety of subjects designed to appeal to a wide segment of adult listeners. “It’s a stimulating Job,” she said, “and one that Is somewhat different from the work I have done in the past "When I was 18.” Maggie said, “I came to New York from Utah to pursue a career as an actress. I worked in a wide variety of roles on and off Broadway, in stock and repertory productions. New Medium “From the theatre, I went into radio when the opportunity came to act in a new medium.” In the years Maggie has worked in radio (and later in television), she has had vast experience in dramatic shows, serials and commercials. An agent phoned her one day and asked if she would be interested in applying for "a strange new job.” The “strange new job” turned out to be her present post. The all-girl format is built upon the concept that today’s educational explosion has changed the face of female radio audiences and many of them are ready for the programming and music the station now offers. More than

their broadcasting stints last July. “And what do you think helped you get such an assignment when the competition was so stiff?” I asked. *T think an enthusiastic approach counts in getting any job,” Maggie answered. Visited Mexico “In my case, I had just come back from a wonderful visit to Mexico, when I was asked to talk on the spur of the moment about something an audience would enjoy listening to. I was so genuinely enthusiastic about Mexico, I began telling about my visit. “I also think that my habit of listening to opportunity’s knock and expecting something new and unknown would not let me pass up this chance.”

Happiness Is A Girl On Radio Or TV With Guest To Talk To 300 applicants were screened to select the five girls who began

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Teenager's View

By Janet Staub

The kinds of foods that people eat vary from country to country. They differ even from region to region within each country. In French West Africa, a family’s dinner might include cassava or taro root, ants cooked in fat, or small birds roasted in hot coals. In China, the main meal usually consists of rice or millet with soy sauce, soybean cheese, bean sprouts, and a little pork or perhaps some salted fish. A Latin-Amer-ican family might eat com bread, baked plantains (a kind of banana) dried peppers, and strips of dried beef. Eskimos dine on raw salmon or seal meat. African Pygmies get their meat from monkeys, baboons, wild boars, gazelles, and even snakes and caterpillars. People may cook food on mud hearths, over open fires, on heated stones, or in gas or electric ovens. The kinds of foods people eat depend on where they live, how much money they have, their religion, and their

customs and fads.

BY THE WAY: Clovers seem; to enjoy Pointers but I’m sure; the feeling isn’t mutual right :

now!

Moon Picture Is "Fantastic"

WASHINGTON UPI — nie photograph was fantastic. Its dimensions and clarity were of such proportions that many who saw it sought to reduce it to common terms. “It looks like my backyard,” said a New Yorker. A Virginian thought it more like “a crab’s eye view of a sandy beach.” But scientists were exultant and called it the “picture of the century” — a scrupulously detailed picture of the great moon crater Copernicus taken by Lunar Orbiter 2. "It Is the finest picture ever obtained by man of Copernicus,” said Dr. Martin J. Swetnick Wednesday when the space agency published the remarkable moon picture. fiwetnick, a Lunar Orbiter program scientist, said the photograph “provides new information to scientists which certainly will lead to better understanding of the processes and structure of the moon.” The picture was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2—launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Nov. 6—as it flew 28.4 miles above the moon on Nov. 23 at 7:05 p. m. EST. It shows details of rubblestrewn crater walls and interior peaks never before seen in a photograph. Copernicus is one of the moon’s famous "ray” craters. A person with a pair of binoculars on a good night can clearly see the crater—gouged at some time in the dim past by a gigantic meteorite—and the light-colored streaks of rubble spreading out from it. The crater is 60 miles across and about two miles deep. Hie effect produced by the photographs is that of a great wasteland, inexpressibly desolate and inexpressibly grand. “The word for it,” said a NASA official, “is fabulous.”

namese proved willing to die but they were badly led. The Thailanders sent troops to fight the Communists during the Korean War and a token force of Thailand’s air and naval services in South Viet Nam. But as a people they never have I been faced with disciplined and determined Communists and so their final reaction must remain in doubt. And in the neglected Northeast they regard themselves as more Lao than Thai. In Thailand the Red Chinese support a so-called “Free Thai” movement just as in South Viet Nam they support the so-called Liberation Front. For the Red Chinese this has been a cheap war. They hope to keep it so. One of their chief annoyances against the Russians has been Soviet refusal to create a diversion such as a new crisis over Berlin. For them, Thailand is a natural.

Declarer took the king of diamonds and the ace of trumps, j after which he led the queen • of clubs for a finesse. East ! played a low club without seem- ! ing to think (a very fine play),j j and South should have drawn; 1 another round of trumps with i the king.

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Scientific Method DUDLEY, England UPI—A computer will pick Worchester College’s beauty queen because some of the contestants said they were too shy to appear in skimpy swimsuits. Others said they thought some judges might be biased. So data on the 70 girls will go into the computer on Dec. 10, as will be compilations of 70 teachers on what they consider the ideal girl. The contestants who most closely matches the compilations will win. The data the computer will weigh includes the girls’ vital statistics.

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Adds To Itinerary WASHINGTON UPI—Secretary of State Dean Rusk has added Thailand and Iran to his itinerary for an overseas trip he begins Sunday. Rusk also plans to visit Japan. Formosa, and South Viet Nam on his way to NATO talks in Paris.

FORT WORTH UPI — Part of a Saturday fund-raising auction for charity will be the sale •of a card good for three days free in the charity jail. It was supposed to be a joke, but Sheriff Lon Evans said he has received an offer already. “He told me he planned to give it to his mother-in-law,”

Evans said.

Parts of China’s Yangtze Valley support 3,500 persons per (square mil*.

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Santa’s coming to Greencastle IGA Saturday & Sunday Dec. 34 2:00 to 4 P.M. Tell Santa what you want for Christmas in person. Treats for everyone. KIDS! DON ! MISS HIM!