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program made it a natural choice
last of August for a final month
viding instruction for some 60,000
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Some 40 young U.S. men and students.
women—average age 23—will ar-
Said Hernan Poblete, director of
rive here in October. Their job the radio school: "We wondered
“If it is to help people, we do
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want to be de-
A wealthy landowner. Larrain Western Allies flatfootedly unpre-
promises.
draws criticism for his staunch pared when over the weekend he
They’ll all cooperate with the
'The people are attached to
WISHFUL THINKING
said Nicolas Olaya.
"some sort of counter measures
tions should be taken.
Konrad Adenauer talked of can-
"The United States, Britain and
Delfin
Ramirez.
sawing the
completed less than three years Communist East Germany.
The Reds responded fast with
the West altogether. The two Ber-
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inside Communist East Germany.
The Peace Corpsmen should
formed sources said that Wash- have
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titude. They have been given in-
for the maintenance and support minute daily educational radio
to encounter hostility at his base
areas will be carefully selected.
tional program at the Denton city conducts beginner’s courses. With
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The Allies: Unprepared Again
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SANGER STORE
IS BURGLARIZED
DENTON HEAT
WAVE SERIOUS
This all-but-forgotten farm com-
munity of some 400 persons is typ-
Communists, who preach the won-
ders of their system, had to stop
with guns the hordes of East
Germans trying to get away from
On Tuesday the AP reported:
"A Western Big Four ambassa-
dorial meeting to work on coun-
Burglars broke into the .McNeil quired minimum education this
dry goods store at Sanger and year because of insufficient teach-
There has been little anti-Ameri-
can propaganda in rural areas.
Despite this, and the natural
beauty of the country and its re-
reading and writing — because
many are illiterate—the students
are exposed to handicrafts. Chile-
of the teacher. And in the south,
near Valdivia, a teacher wrote:
"We have no books, no tools, no
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property recently for a govern-
ment land redistribution project.
The Peace Corps’ big job will be
West Germany.
At first they agreed counter-
measures would have to be taken.
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"But we need someone to show
us how to work it better and get
a better yield. If the Americans
come, we’ll build them all houses,
and they can teach us sbetter
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stole a quantity of clothing. They
then stole a 1919 model car own-
ed by Gene Kirkland to use for
making their escape.
Gov. Pat Neff today called for a
second special session of the Tex-
as Legislature to consider funds
Axis shipping has been sunk, cap-
tured or scuttled.
MANY ATTEND
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of the state's educational institu-
tions.
otherwise risk the danger of
spending the night oatside the
walls.
Modern psychiatrists use this
leal of the Colombian hamlets
where 64 U.S. Peace Corps vol-
unteers will be sent this fall to
live and work with the campe-
ers, school facilities and family
income.
To fill this gap, the institute
steps forth with what it calls cen-
tral camps, periodicals with self-
teaching and self - construction
ideas and a highly successful 15-
everything. They do more harm
than good by stirring up every-
one.”
The reform-minded IER does
not find much verbal support
from the Chilean government, al-
though by law it receives finan-
cial aid. Because of unknown po-
litical and tangible results of the
Peace Corps projects, there were
sighs of relief from President
George Alessandri’s government
when the volunteers agreed to
work on a private-contract basis.
Both governments are legally on
the outside looking in, as advisors
on the two-year pact signed by
the IER and the 34 universities
making up the Indiana Conference
by stopping the flight of East
Germans to West Berlin.
This is indicated by Washington
tensive language training.
The Peace Corpsman is unlikely
dio and so we learn’.”
Of the 2,670 .students to com-
plete the institute, 125 have been
made leaders.
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)-SJowly
but steadily, a young organisation
is literally building new hope
among Chile’s uneducated rural
make up the rest.
CHURCH INTEREST
The Roman Catholic Church
does take an interest in the IER,
but has no control, said Jaime
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP)—Premier
biology. But there is carpentry,
and instruction on proper uses of
sprays and fertilizers, weeding
and pruning, health care, sanita-
tion. home nursing and the like.
Almost half of Chile’s 7,340,000
er supply remains perilously low.
The United States and the Phil-
lipines today announced a mut-
ual defense treaty pledging each
nation "to act to meet the com-
. mon dangers ” la event of an at-
tack on the other.
formal schooling.
FEW TEACHERS
Approximately 400.000 children
are not receiving the state-re-
LITTLE SCIENCE AT
Peace Corps volunteers working
the central camps will find no
courses in physics, chemistry or
Soviet bloc was under considers- have no language difficulties. All
tion. And the AP added: “But in- the Colombian volunteers either
of specialised training. But they'll
all be used in a program of com-
munity development assistance.
termeasures was reported to have methods of cultivation and raising
it make good propaganda for the encountered a rift over what ac-
And in West Germany Chancellor West.
titled exclusively to the use for publication of ell local news printed
in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches.
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Counties $1 per month, $9.50 per year, elsewhere in the United States
$1.30 per month, $15.60 per year.
five years.
Chile’s literacy rate is one of
the highest in Spanish-speaking
countries. But 20 per cent are un-
other estimated 20 per cent are
ly salary.
Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)
Yesteryear
has been slow in the case of “Tropic of Cancer.” I
But when information is needed, it should be avail-
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Jan. 13, 1921, according to Act of Congress, March 3, 1872.
Published every evening except Saturday and on Sunday morning by
DINTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
314 East Hickory
MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED PREU - The Associated Press is on-
The point is that as a university center, Denton
has an unusual role to play in providing an intel-
lectual climate for those seeking knowledge. The
book store management admits the sale of the book
program aimed at helping the
Colombian farmer help himself.
Project officials still haven’t de-
cided where the volunteers will
AUG. 18, 1941
About 600 persons a day have
taken part in the WPA recrea-
te have the very best time pos-
sible in their remaining years.
(Dors tomt word in uny language
fiuth rot? Put your quruion to
“Language in the News" in corral
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will be to pass on knowledge of how effective our programs were, "If it is to help people, we do ’
----------- -------. h. 1 so we took a poU. Look at this it," said Santos Rojas. 28. leader dei
housekeeping and nursing prac- from Choapa (a town in drought- of the Santiago district.
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able in Denton to the literary student And even
those who admit “Tropic of Cancer” is very, very
frank also say that its writing is very, very excel-
lent.
So a chief of police Is put in the unenviable posi-
tion of ruling on a matter over which his background
has furnished little knowledge.
We think it would have been far better to do
nothing But it is not too late to return the books
to the shelves to restore Denton to its place as a
unique center of learning, a place where academic
matters are taken seriously and a place where
decisions are not normally made after reading only
a few pages of a book.
The haste of the East German*
to get into West Berlin, before
the exit door is dammed, has put
the German word Tortchlutt-
never heard of the Peace Corps.
“But," he added, "we have to
sweat a lot to earn our living,
and if someone can show us
$150 MONTH
Corpsmen will get $150 a month
for living expenses in Colombia,
plus a $73 monthly allowance
which will be banked in the
United States and available only
on separation. They will get 30
paid leave days a year.
Cuatro Esquinas is under con-
sideration for a Peace Corps
project because the community,
which is building an elementary
school on its own, showed coop-
erative activity and willingness to
work with an outside agency, a
CARE official said. The outside
agency in this case was CARE
which is helping with the school
project.
Felix A. Soler, a young teacher
at Cuatro Esquinas’ new school,
summed up the general situation:
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over for muleskinners and today states,
one of several Colombian villages
A Hasty Decision
It is unfortunate that Denton police officials have
seen fit to ban a book.
But that’s the situation in the light of Henry Mil-
ler’s “Tropic of Cancer," the 17.50 book that would
not likely fall into the hands of a child who might
misunderstand it.
The Denton police chief borrowed a copy of the
book to inspect it for obscenity after the book was
banned for sale in Dallas and Boston. After read-
ing several pages, the Denton police chief decided
it was obscene. After conferring with the county
attorney, he asked the two Voertman’s book stores
to remove from the shelves the several books they
had on hand
is it possible that the action was taken too speed-
ily?
Although long banned for sale in the United
States, the book recently received a so-called clean
slate in a federal court and is now published by an
American firm, the Grove Press. Yet the Dallas and
Denton police departments have decided the book
is obscene. We have no idea whether the Dallas
police chief read the entire book. The Denton pol-
ice chief admittedly did not.
But the fact remains that a federal court has de-
cided the book is not obscene and has some literary
merit. We don't put ourselves up to judging liter-
ary merit, and we doubt whether a chief of police
would consider himself qualified to judge good lit-
erature from bad for other people.
But Denton has scores of scholars who could de-
termine the literary merit in their opinion, which
certainly would not be an unqualified opinion. That
is. they could offer an opinion if an opinion were
really needed.
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Reading
Sunday in A Book Den
The police finally moved in on five bookstores
• in Greenwich Village that were offering their wares
on Sunday. There must have been provocation.
Men, and women, too, who after 1 p.m. might have
been across the street drinking were no doubt
found in book stores reading themselves into the
blind staggers with Shirer or the New English Bible
or White’s “The Making of a President,” or “The
Winter of our Discontent,” or possibly with Mark
Twain, Voltaire, Longfellow, Plato or some other
heady concoction of this or a previous generation.
The raw green wine of today's realism, the blush-
ful Hippocrene of days gone by, the literary Napo-
leon brandy that stingeth like an adder—all these
were no doubt available. A
And on a Sunday, too.
That was what stirred up the authorities.
Why can’t people be content to drink, to attend
motion picture shows, to watch baseball games, to
go to night clubs, to shoot the chutes at Coney?
why do they have to read on Sunday? Or if read-
ing is not the crime—and it hardly can be—why do
they ge t» bookstores and throw their money
around?”—An editorial in The New York Times.
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of Higher Education. Notre Dame
is the controlling university.
Officially, the institute is non-
sectarian and nongovernmental in
operation. Besides receiving ap-
proximately 65 per cent of its
$500,000 annual budget from the
government, the IEB said 20 per
cent more comes from Roman
Catholic Church organizations.
more drastic action like the 1948-
49 blockade.”
And sure enough: the East
in various self-education pro-
grams. He has no expense ac-
program. .
At Malloco, a town of 2,000 only
16 cents and 26 minutes by bus
from Santiago, the IER has a
leader's training course. There,
Peace Corpsmen will receive final
briefings.
Also at Malloco, and at 10 other
camps throughout Chile, the IER
LANGUAGES
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By Charles F. Berlitz
and Robert Strumpen-Derrie
AP said. "The four Western Allies stant threat. Few rural communi.
continue to search for a common ties hero have adequately
ground on which to meet the Com- tected sources of pure
munist closing, of theborderbe- in this onvirnnmr-*,
with false
laxed way of life, the Peace
try to smash the blockade. He Corps volunteer will have his
couldn’t On Wednesday, the AP problems He'll be up against
reported him as saying the West disease, poverty, illiteracy, and
German government would take troubles resulting from maldistri-
— steps which could “worsen the bution of the land, misuse of the
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word to describe a frantic wish
on the part of aging individual* -arrain, president of the institute Khrushchev apparently caught the
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playgrounds this summer, an-
nounced Mrs. Loyise McCue, re-
creation supervisor for Denton
an backlands is rural Cuatro backgrounds. All have undergone
Esquinas—onetime bustling stop- intensive training in the United
.... , “The people here are good people
same representatives of the four | Khrushchev's threat of last June but easily led,” he said. “They
Western powers couldn't agree on to shake the Allies’ links with wil follow the first side—the
what to do besides sending a note West Berlin. But nothing shows Russians or the Americans -that
important move without clearing For another, the Colombian cam-
it with Khrushchev, threatened to pesiono is by nature friendly and
slam down a new blockade on all outgoing, courteous and generous.
Berlin. — „
. . , .. But it’s highly questionable that “The United States, Britain and Delfin Ramirez. Sawig Gm
classed as semi-illiterate, having cellation of trade agreements with what has happened strengthens France were described as leaning thick trunk of an eucalyptus tree
---leted le *h ------ Cemmunie the West one bit in the struggle toward only limited response for with a primitive saw, said he had
over Germany. The simple fact is the present. The West German "
a threat to shut off Berlin from that the Communists hold East
Home delivery bymail (must be paid in advance) Denton and adjoining County. i '
“" ** " “ ** * ** **“ * The British admiralty today well-being,
estimated that 4.007,000 tons of
health standards.
Generally, the Volunteers for
Peace — as they are called in
Chile—will help those with little,
if any, formal schooling to learn
to live better.
The Peace Corps will find some
supporters and many doubters.
They also will face additional ob-
stacles. for the institute is con-
troversial in Chile. Some U.S. of-
ficials at the embassy gave ex-
pressed misgivings on that score.
NEW SPIRIT
No one publicly objects to the
institute's goal: “To hold a new
spirit, encourage progress, edu-
cate people toward better living
standards and give them the op-
portunity to rise out of their mis-
ery.”
Nor does anyone protest at
length about the function of the
Peace Corps: "To make available
la pool of trained manpower to
help other countries meet urgent
needs.”
However, thre are complaints.
The major ones voiced here
against each organization are:
"They should mind their own
business and quit trying to change
book—the personal property others helped create more than under consideration for an exper-
400 youth clubs which specialize iment in American idealism.
views on the controversial subject suddenly sealed off East Berlin
of agrarian reform. He sold some
AUG. 18, 1961
The searing heat wave in Den-
ton entered its 30th day. The
drought is taking a heavy toll of
crops. Meanwhile, Denton’s wst-
NO STEPS
■ This must have chilled Aden-
auer. Or his Allies did since
they'd be the ones v:ho‘d have to
tween East and West Berlin . . .Corpsman is expacted to be a
Ns results were reported." {sort o rural jackof-all trades. ,
German Communist government, of operations. For one thing, the
which wouldn't make such an
laborers and peasants,
it is the Institute of Rural Ed- people are the target of the IER
ucation (IER), whose self-help and the Peace Corps. These live
program made it a natural choice inithe rural areas, where many crafts, no land, but we have a ra- count and lives on his $100 month- be sent when they arrive hero the
to be among the first to work with listen to the radio programs pro- - "
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panik (TOHR-shloos-pah-neek)
I in the news. Thia means literally
**rloains gale-psnie”and baa over-
tones of medieval life as well as
present-day psychiatry.
The gates of medieval cities
ington apd London fearecsuch a Spanish or a high language ap-
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. . stories these last few days on con- At the moment this looks like "sumne sori ui counier measur
is a’fieldrintwhicePsthennsttut ferenseg pmonsweprerentatiess - wishful thinking. The fact that the have to be taken” in retaliation,
has achieved a notable record for United States. Britain, France,
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East Berlin as a heavy Red de- On Monday The Associated Americans, but they don't want
feat strengthening the West in the Press reported out of Washington projects left half done.”
struggle over Germany. I that representatives of the Big
Four Western Allies agreed their land,’
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soil and intervillage feuds
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the AP reported on those Western has boosted Colombian infant
representatives who only two days mortality to about 100 per 1 000
before were saying some sort of live births. Dysentery, parasites,
countermeasure was needed. The and endemic disease are a con-
. . . Ranging in age from 19 to 27.
Tucked away in a corner of An- most of the volunteers have farm
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of protest to Moscow today, they were prepared to cope with cumes nere ano
Meanwhile, perhaps as a sub- the surprise Khrushchev pulled in But they don’t
stitute for action, top U.S. officials I refusing to let East Germans ceived
labeled the Communist seal-off of cross over into West Berlin. — -
used to elose at night. Therefore ministration provides about 10 per
anyone who wanted to get into cent, and private contributions
town by nightfall had to rush or
government said it would take its
Germany and East Berlin and the own countermeasures against the
Una— East and West—lie 110 miles West shows no sign of trying to Communist clampdown.”
stop that. On that same day—Tuesday —
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animals.”
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Allies have been planning the AP reported out of Berlin that modern implements, let them
showdown for months on Adenauer was saying a West Ger- come and welcome.”
man embargo against the entire The Peace Corpsmen should
U.S. Peace Corps workers beading for Chile this fall
will team up with a Chilean organizatlon already busily at
work among the nation’s peasants. Because the organization
to controversial, there have been some misgivings, though few
take issue with the aims of the corps. These are the last
two of four articles on pence corps missions.
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DRILL WELLS
Together with similarly trained
young Colombians, they will drill
wells, install water and sewage
pipe lines, help build schools, gar-
dens, roads, sanitary facilities, or-
ganize youth clubs, develop health
programs and introduce more ef-
ficient farm production methods.
Peace Corps officials point out
that while most U.S. foreign aid
has been given for projects tend-
ing to underwrite central govern-
ment operations, the Colombian
program will be directed “at the
bottom of the social, political and
economic pyramid where the need
is most immediate and desper-
ate.”
The Colombian project is under
the direction of the Cooperative
for American Relief Everywhere,
Inc., CARE, a private agency, in
collaboration with the Colombian
government's recently organized
Community Development Depart-
ment.
Care was picked to direct the
operation because it has been
working with the Colombian gov-
ernment for. seven years on simi-
lar programs of community de-
velopment.
The United States will invest
about $786,000 in the project, and
CARE will contribute $100,000.
After the two years CARE offi-
cials will evaluate the program
and make recommendations about
its future to both the Colombian
government and the U.S. Peace
Corps.
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