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Show j MIKE WHITNEY I ... spearheaded student collection Comedy exists in aid for migrants By MIKE WHITNEY While the drive to collect food lor the migrant farm workers was in full swing, the human comedy was also continuing at normal rapid speed. The Chronicle office was in- volved in the food drive by dis-j dis-j patching pickup crews to collect j food and other essentials for the j migrants. University students and ' other wnnlp ley came to the Chronicle office to volunteer to make pickups with i everything from a Volkswagen to 1950 Ford truck that had to be pushed to be started. Somebody in the valley, who felt tot after the migrants got the food they would need some way to bke care of it, called the office to wnate five refrigerators and a stove. We were at a loss as to Much vehicle to send to pick them up. One man who had made a large "nation to a Bountiful drop-off nation called the Chronicle the m day to say that he needed the W back. It seems that he is the manager of an apartment complex "hen one of his tenants didn't 5 rf'athe mMager COn" c.n',a a iarge quantity of sTh g00ds that the tenant had 1 ln one 01 the apartment's ITu rms- He had donated half of the food that he had seated to the food drive. The t aay the tenant paid his rent When n?anded his f00d back-hart back-hart manager told him he ke d 1 ? hlra he would sue if "t get his food back. The nyone of the apartment GwHnued on Page Three -"'-'-' 1 1 niMllf1illiiiHHi iii.ii in iimmm, j fleers unloading goods donated to help starving migrants in em Utah counties. Dried beans, flour, and other non-perishable ! still needed. Food may be taken to the Guadalupe Center 346 1st First South. i Volunteers display comedy while aiding migrants Continued from Page One anager he was dashing off to buy some food to replace what he had 'an away. I i lady who called the Chronicle to ask for someone to pick up her iiation had gone out and bought what she thought was just what the Intrant workers, most of whom are Mexican-Americans, needed: a Isiof canned chile. I On Sunday a man from the postoff ice, who had read about the drive j the paper, called to say that a lot of letters addressed to the idalupe Center, which was the central pickup and distribution point itie drive, had gone through the postoffice. He felt that someone in iarge should know that the letters contained checks and that they I Wild be delivered on Monday. How he knew that the letters con- jaed checks is anybody's guess. w laay, wno neara an announcement on uie rauio, caueu uie jadalupe Center and asked what the problem was. When she was jj 'a that the migrant workers were starving because they had been I able to pick crops, she responded, "Bread is the staff if life!", and i ial night 150 loaves of bread were delivered to the center. ; However, some people felt men, in general, and children, in particu- I it, do not live by bread alone. People donated children's books, board 1 pies and beach balls for the children of the migrant workers. But I aj- favorite was a man who came to the Guadalupe Center on Sunday , irtoon and said "You can give those children all the vegetables and ( iitgs like that you want too, but kids have to have some of this too," i ad he handed people at the center two boxes filled with packages of I SM candies. ' |
