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BE 0 HARBOR - City Treasurer
. cardo Johnson confirm d onday,
ugu 1, th t the city' investi ting
the disappearance of city fund .
According to Johnson, the sum is
, ery small," - 300 - and declined
to comment further.
ceording to Johnson, Public Safety
Director Sam tson i conducting the
inve . tion. The funds are m' , g from
the cemetery ccount, John n confirm­
ed.
John n declined to y whether the
fund ere missing before they arri d
at city MIl from th cemetery, or wheth­
er they turned up mi . g t city hall.
There are more poor people in Arner­
ic tod y than any time mce 1965,
ccording to Censu Bureau report
rei d this ee.
Some 15% of the country' people
faD belo the poverty le el, the report
id, 2.6 million more people ere
dded on the poverty rolls la year.
T fi ure ould be much higher
if only money income ere figured.
On the b . of money alone, there
ere � 1 million more people added
to the po rty rolls year.
There are no 34.4 million Ameri­
can co idered officially poor, the report
B k continue to oulder the
burden of poverty in di roportionate
number, the udy reve ed. For Blac ,
35.6 percent are poor 12 percent of the
bite pop tion i poor; and 29.9 per­
cent of Hi anic fall belo the po erty
level.
In re ted event, the fa ers at the
an City hilltop tent city continue
to ithstand the blisterin he t ave as
they prote the go ernment ockpiling
of rplu food while Am ricans 0 hun­
gry.
"It m de n to u to f: t that
other might e t," id Mitch Snyder,
a spo esman for the Community for
Creative on-Violence, hich consumed
"La Supper" and began f ing July 4.
e nted thi to be our birthday pre-
nt to America."
The group, hich I year served
ThaLDksgi'ving dinner to the poor in Lafay-
D CAL
ette Par ero the street from the White
Hou , has brought their recent prote to
the heart of America' bre dba et.
ansas City is the site of the natio '
large orehouse of urplus government
food. An e imated 340 million pounds
is stored in caverns beneath the city and
387 million pound in urface are­
hou .
Among the visitor to tent city h ve
been U.S. Rep. Alan Wheat, D- 0., and
Die Gregory. The activist comedian
told the fa ers that he will fa ith
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them in lidarity until the Re an d-
ministration rel the food for th
hungry.
Also rele d this ee ere t 0
udie by the Uni rsity of ichigan
hich 0 ed the gain mad by Blae
economically and in the are of civil
right during the 1960 ha eben
ened.
Some three-fourt of th 'Blac
inte ie d for the udi report that
th y felt B1 c 'had little or no po er"
in the U.S.
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