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Mi ookingh 1 the Hi! stranguij omen ^ ilantotj •y tried hi Paso ■es rewatt ‘formatid offered f inform -st of who the ram leenor, na Dyke h by some Fleenoii rom Hai- -mtley saii vho force; or’s fires. Ti the house nd Con injured overing spital. Thursday, Movember 1, 1984/The Battalion/Page 17 Texas committee findings: $20 million needed for poor United Press International AUSTIN —The chairman of a legislative committee studying hunger in Texas vowed Wednes day to push for $20 million in state funds to counter cuts in fed eral food subsidies. Sen. Hugh Parmer, chairman of the Senate Interim Committee on Hunger and Nutrition, said the policies of President Ronald Reagan’s administration are re sponsible for depriving thou sands of Texans of needed food. He said at least 250,000 women and children in Texas routinely miss meals because they have no money to pay for food. In addition, his committee’s re port states that another 100,000 elderly people go hungry, as do an undetermined number of “the new poor” — recently unem ployed Texans. “There is more hunger in Texas than meets the eye — more perhaps than most Texans would tolerate with an easy conscience,” the Fort Worth Democrat said. Parmer said $75 million would be needed to expand existing state and federal food assistance programs to assure that all Tex ans get enough to eat. But he said state budget re straints will make it unfeasible to ask for more than $20 million when the Legislature convenes in January. He said his committee staff would search for $20 million in budget cuts to offset proposed program expansions to provide more food assistance. “There are things we are doing (in state government) that are not as important as seeing that hun gry people get enough to eat,” Parmer said. “The $20 million will reach the people in most crit-. ical need, between one-quarter and one-third of the hungry peo ple in Texas.” The report said that the num ber of requests for emergency food assistance in Texas grew 210 percent since 1979. It also said that churches and private organi zations receive 70,000 requests for food each month, and that they must turn away 20,000 peo ple for lack of resources. Parmer blamed the increase on Reagan administration policies, which he said too tightly restrict eligibility for the federal food stamp and school lunch pro grams. “While their motives may have been the right ones, Reagan ad ministration policies... in fact have resulted in people who need help not getting it,” Parmer said. He said a commission ap pointed by Reagan to study hun ger in America, which concluded that hunger is not widespread, conducted “a very surface, cos metic effort to look at the prob lem.” The committee’s legislative rec ommendations included a $12 million state supplement to fed eral programs that provide food for women and children, a $3.5 million increase in a program that gives temporary food assistance to newly unemployed people, and a $2.4 million increase to allow 22,000 additional elderly Texans to receive home-delivered meals. Pictorial evidence permitted United Press International RICHMOND — A state district judge Wednesday refused to grant a defense motion seeking to prohibit the showing of photographs in the trial of a man accused of killing four people and wounding a fifth. Judge Charles Dickerson ruled prosecutors can show 7 photographs to the jury during the trial of Charles Edward Goosby. Goosby, 34, is charged with four counts of capital murder and one count of attempted capital murder in the Sept. 18 shootings in a south west Houston home. One of the vic tims was a 3-year-old girl. The surviving victim, Jesse James Lewis, 35, who has gunshot wounds to the head,has identified Goosby as the assailant. Dickerson did grant a defense motion asking that the jury be told of any prosecution testimony given as a result of a plea bargain with the district attorney’s of fice. No trial date has been set for Goosby, who has pleaded not guilty. -Tarz* (jo^ectai/es Q>ecvra/j&fw * •'WL L T- T * . sc. 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