Show lor-i- o " "44''‘Virt "- 6- my 1 1$ NM rfirl The Salt Lalie Tribune Sunday November 'Home Is a SidelvaLle 19 1967 111 ri i i 0 - ) i - Id dO p ' t I I I ) i 14 ilirl000l :i k4 ' 1 1 - - -- S:- I 'IF 1I r'"-i---'--"-: i ' t i TT $001 - ---- - : r I v ' 1 ' : ' -- - ' ': Aso° ' ''-'''''- '' ' sor ' 4 I -- ' ' 'k 't l ''?'iN' ' ' le 1 ? 4 t i ': 4 ' r -- - ' - : ' - 044'' ' ' " t '' — 4 '- ' ' ‘ k - '' '' ' It ' ' ' ) 1 k' k '1" 1 N: ' :' - '!t ' - ' ' - A A -i' - ''7 e' '''''''"-- a'' '''' ' ' ''' - Ifr' 40- - - - :' - ' "' A41$ 1 ' '-' t 10''''': 1 4i1 q 't' s4 et ' ' ' '' 4 '' ' - 'N — ' !r- o!'''' - 1' ' :‘ 'k i -'' i rt tc--- ''''t ' ' '''') -- - 4 0 f '''"'''4'' 1743' ) '0717a 1 44:' 1 1 kmit g - $0' : j - ' 1 ' vi- ' zl - 7 k '" -- - 1 ' q 1 44So4lu0 r-- if 5 - N s? qi111 ' — Press Pilot — i I :'? - 1!4 ! 1 i 1 I! 2 - On Streets of Salgoli er - ' ill-- 11 - 4- -- - ' In the capital city ot Saloon teeming with people there aro Opine 10403 who must live eat sleet and The law perhaps die en the sereet sevs They cannot live there end reither the Arrerican not Vietreemese governments maw other them may help This is how one mother and two deli family — dren — survive al street peopl I : By Kelly Smith Associated Press Writer SAIGON — Home is a rwarms - It home the only one Hung and 10000 ' others have known in a come try torn by 22 years of war : They are the street people They are the human gar bage driven to Saigon from the ravaged countryside to seek refuge and shelter in a strange lefty at a strange timeThey are the thousands who are born live love eat and die on the sidewalks of ' is ' Saigon At 6 am the street lamps and blinking blue and red storefront signs of shops are 'etiilbumlng Saigon a city of 21A million is beginning to b : rake 1 Good i Time of Day A slender woman pulls hen self up from a motionless heap on the sidewalk and smiles She likes this time of day Gia Long the street named for an emperor is all hers The woman 'rran Thi Ba sits up adjusting her eyes to the scene Many years ago 1 f i 1 firewood in :while collecting the jungle a tree branch slapped her in the face pier° Ing one eye She has had difficulty seeing clearly since The blur begins to focus Gla Long Is a narrow street broken side with a walk on one side and no side walk on the other At one end fence Is a taU wrought-iroenclosing a broad manicured lawn with a mansion and guards 'many Ba is not aware that others 'named this blinding Independher ence Palace home : 1 t I pot-hol- i n ' white-uniform- 1 I a 1 I 1 i 'emery's president She cans It "the big house" 1 - Etreet ) 4 i 1 4 1 ' i 4 of Stores her is a street of 'Innen stores selling leather ' shoes handicrafts goods clothes a pharmacy and fruit stands Vendors who peddle the 10 cent root beers 40 cent cigarettes and 20 cent sandwiches will come soon with their portable stalls to the day on the corner 14r In the complicated pecking order of the street people vendors are considered rather e Behind 1 - ' effluent La's son Hunt has been up long before her playing in the 7tt---1 S4 ' to nudge her other child a girl sleeping De day has begun It is lime to move the mat Ba 35 has lived on this con ner three years Near Quist mas Eve she expects another baby Moved South frayed straw rug on the side! walk matted with the street - stench of two winters Cock !roaches crawl up the edge the :rain seeps beneath the matting Flies and gnats buzz in ' the street then turns ' 'i st a " t' Ay x - ) Born in a small coastal vil lage on the South China Sea far north of Saigon she was the second—and the least attractive—of four daughters Her family was poor She had no schooling In her late 20s she met a man big and rugged by Vietnamese sten dards who was three years her junior 'They fell in love and lived together Two children were born the first named Han which means "flower" and the sec which end named Hung Means "valiant" Money was scarce They heard that in the big city of Saigon there was much prosperity so against the advice of their famifles they fled south Weary and disillus ioned they came upon the shady street called Gia Long their first week and decided to stay Has Never Moved Ea has never moved her husband a penniless pedicab driver was drafted into the South Vietnamese army more than a year ago She says that what he earns as a soldier he must spend for himself She saved 1000 plasters—about $850—and went to visit him once five months ago She is afraid to move for fear he would not be- able to find her again the morning is Today runny Ba is optimistic She and the chidren pull their straw mat from its nighttime location—at the cm ne under safety of the street light—back 20 yards to the middle of the block There on a ledge under the building canopy she keeps her kitchen utensils a dishpan for water one small cooking pot a spoon a blue and white procelain bowl she found in the trash and a tin can Room to ray The sidewalk is 12 feet wide here There's room for the Ten to play or nap roan to cook and still not Interfere with pedesillans Ba considers herself lucky By 9 am she Is off to the Central Market two blocks distant lioa and Hung long ago taught to stay on the sidewalk and watch the mat stay behind In a little while Ba returned Shopping bad been productive Her total bill was 75 pins-tor- s or about 65 cents for some Amer loan rice-- "Vietnamese rice Is better but cab! more pcpensive"--som- e will eat well - today" most ehe makes in a is $10 or $15 and most Is spent for necessities A shanty apartment would cost a minimum $100 Even the soft drinks are a lumuy A dozen eggs are $150 on the market She'e never had them When her third child is horn she will go to the hospitars midwifery clinic for two days while Hung and Hoe are sent to an orphanage for a week But going to a hospital is not easy She does not pay but they ask "What is your name? 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That Is the worst part—the address On paper the Vietnamese and American govenunents do not offer aid to refugees living in Saigon There are no refugees says the goverment and no street people Living on the street is pegboard desk set night approaches the cornea on again and the crickets begin their night song Ba gets ready for bed waShing the children with the rest of the water from the meal dishpan and tucking unused vegetables and rice in a can away from the rats big as house cats which cower in nearby doorways Rain Begins At 10 pm the rain whicii has hidden all day begins again Water lashes in under the protecting canopy of the building The street light The children whimswings per On a rainy night Ba cannot go out to collect papers and bottles Rainy nights she cannot pull the mat to the corner to sleep in the open under the street light which is safer She puts an arm around little Hung and Hoe anf to them moldy She will vlay awake an on guard against the rdght the Ei IP refractor telescopo 099 Y i1 599 Special It h pocket-siz- e telescope to be used Handy to a full 14Vala extends anywhere anytime case Just the leather with carrying complete huntthing for students climbers and even young 512-Inc- Tosco's study the stars mounted refractor telescope has enough viewing satisfy your most ingenuous young scien range list Not a toy but a trip into space! Scan of educational pegboard top folds for oasi skies to storage Easily cleaned green chalkboard encoura accessories included ages young artists 4 a er il ? 1 ' ' : t' ---- -4 t - I ' ‘ - : - ---i - : ' ' 1 0 ' ' aa E f 1 ' Ir ' fn : - ' 07-1- A- ::7:1-- '4( ' - ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' V41' hour As neon Tosco meteorito mounted er Special Their very own desk for hours fruitwood-finis- h 50-pow- refractor telescope with accessories A 99 Specie! illegaL Neighbor's Address Ba is used to this She gives a neighbor's address Her job is gathering papers and bottles She is a collector At dusk the venders begin to told their collapsible stalls Gia Long is jammed with Cara pedicars taxis and carts the and of the day rush Tosco ' i' '4 f1:'-)-'---i-- f 5 1 - — c''' 4''- - :-- 4 k1- t i ' — I i I '' L -- - :c-ik tii '' v ' ( ' '' 1i ' ii Yrv ' 1 '' : A '' ? - I — ' I -: iI 11 i ' ' ''' : ! 1 1 t ' i - '' f'' e ' '' 411pc ) i ' p 1 0 1y- Cst '1 fi ' 1' 1- ' P ‘' - ::''t :': - ' '''''''!— l'- Sk I -''''' L ' I 1 1 : r ' t t ff s ' d409 'i -- 410no0601444axoimiogmoxiw chromeplated lined deluxe doll carriage 1099 1493 Reg steel frame with super Shining upholstered rails pact polystyrene bully folding hood and hand brake for safety r — Tho Porh Toyittod - ii r r A : b' ' - 4: '' 0 ' i k 1! ' I' r em1tZe""""All 21Inch polished maple musical rocking chair 99 Special n 99 r) 1 111 444 ' 0 t7 13 Ill o t I! : I Rock to a happy tuneour sturdy 214nch must cal rocker of fine hardwood maple will delight any child and provide hours of fun and pleasure : 1 Downtown good Cottonwood k 41 ' ' '3 I I' 1 I 1el 1' - ' ' ' A :: "' ! 1:73! 1 s'4 g A' L-C4- 1 y i 1 ) ' ''' 6 1 qiLf 1 't t't144 - !ro-L- 1:o 4- - t -- f' - - 41nL474t74 ee1 4!kIt4&04xv t 1- r I 9 little lady could resist this mgromm-up- " d tubular steel table and chair set? 2040' vinyl top in wikdgrain or marble finish chairs plus upholstered ar -- 6 chrome-plate- im- d chrome-plate- 1 oPeAlidkogoaktAesobw What and perfect for her "baby Just like baby's aatZ14nel chromeplated vinyl top table ond padded chairs Special ‘ 0b " |