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should be kept locked up at home.

should be kept locked up at home.
Two weeks ago Pal, a seeing
eye dog. became Dartmouth's first
female graduate. She received a
certificate giving her all the privi-
leges OF a regular graduate.
The dog, owned by Edward [.
CHASER of Chicago, is a 6-year-
old German shepherd and marched
with her master as CHASER re-
ceived his degree. Then Dean
Lloyd X. Neidlinger turned and
placed certificate in Pals 'har-
ness.
Pals diploma bears the official
Dartmouth seal and President
Dickey'S, signature.
Joe Smith-which wasn't his
real name-rented a cottage near
my home. It was his first summer
In the country for many years. It
was the first time his 4-year-old
collie dog, Heather. had been away
from a city apartment.
During the first week, Heather
got into a Squabble with skunk,
upset a beehive and was almost
Istung to death. merrily chased
and killed 10 chickens, drove a
bunch of mich cows at a gallop
around a pasture. slew three
lambs and killed the cats belong
ling to two neighbors.
Damage suits poured in thick
and fast on John Smith, who
came to me for sympathy.
Hundreds Of you are taking
your dogs to the country for the
first time this summer. It is UP to
you to look out for their behavior
until they are acclimated to their
new world.
If you are raising one or more
dogs. especially puppies, place
their food in individual feeding
dishes rather than putting it all
in one large pan.
Each pup has distinct in
dividuality, and the DULLES of the
litter will often get most Of the
food If only one dish is used.
@. I saw greyhound race this
past winter in Florida. Am in
terested to know just how fast
these dogs run?-G. p.
A. The average racing grey
hound runs at a rate of speed Of
between 35 and 81 miles per hour.
@. just how many dogs are
there in this country at the pres
emit timers. w. B.
A. No one knows for sure but
1t has been estimated by authori-
ties on the subject that there are
about Is million CANNES alive in
this country today.
tReleased by McNaugh Syndicate. Incl
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26-6anne Cage Schedule
Announced by Notre Dame
By the Asseeiassd Press

pv IUG NSSVSI0tS1 tNNss
SOUTH BEND. June 30.-A 90
game schedule, possibly the most
difficult ever to be attempted by
d Notre Dame basketball team, has
been announced for the l951-52
season.
The season opens against st.
Thomas College, at st. Paul,
Mimi, December /, and closes
with DePaul University in the Chi
cago Stadium March /. In be-
tween, Coach Johnny Jordan and
his men will face Kentucky, st.
Louis, New York University. Penn
sylvania. Northwestern, Indiana,
Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan
State, Louisville. Canisius, Pitts
burgh and Navy.
Pittsburgh. Navy. Louisville,
Wabash and st. Thomas were not
on last years schedule. They re-
place Iowa. Xavier, Franklin and
Anderson.
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Legion Auxiliary
Plans Convention
For August 7, ;, 4

Mrs. Bertna w. F1chthorn, pres.
ident. Department of the District
|of Columbia, American Legion
Auxiliary, has issued a call for the
26th convention to be held August
II. 3. and 4, in the Department Of
Commerce Auditorium. Mrs
Edythe M. O'Connor is genera
chairman. Mrs. Margaret E
Carroll and Mrs. Gertrude s
Pierce have been named co-chair-
men.
Mrs. Merle Cerulla. chairman oil
pages, requests all units to send
names of their pages to the de-
partment secretary at auxiliary
headquarters in the Willard Hotel
Lists of delegates and alternates
should also be sent in as soon as
possible.
Copy for the printed convention
program must be in the hands of
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty or Mrs. Eva
Carrico by July S.
The department Rehabilitation
Committee will hold a coffee hour
at Mount Alto Hospital this eve
ming from 7 to 9 o'clock. Mrs.
Margaret E. Carroll is in charge of
arrangements.
Other auxiliary activities at
Mount Alto Hospital this week
are: Tuesday. Clark v. Polling
Unit, visit on Ward F-3 at 7 pm:
Thursday, Fort Stevens Unit.
party on Ward E-3 at 7 pm; Sat-
urday, Volunteer Hospital Work
ers' party on Ward E at 3 pm.
and Fort Du Pont Unit party on
Ward A at 7 pm.
Department and unit color
bearers are to report to the de-
partment sergeant at arms. Miss
Lucille Brady, at the Monument
Wednesday at Z pm. for the flag
procession.
Only 1870 more members are
needed between now and July IT,
the close of the books, in order
to reach 100 per cent Of this years
quota of 3,013 members.
Cooley-McCullough Unit has
elected these officers for 1872:
Mrs. Rae R. zaontz. president;
Mrs. Monte C. Painter. Mrs. Mil
dred Reiter and Mrs. Martha
Hopes, vice presidents: Mrs
Ethel Fowler, chaplain; Mrs. Ellen
Louise Warren, historian; Miss
Katherine T. Clarke. sergeant at
arms; Mrs. Ann Zaruba. property
custodian; Mrs. Ethel Lynch and
Mrs. Ethel Broughton, color-bear-
Iers. Mrs. Helen M. McCabe and
Mrs. Ann Zaruba were appointed
secretary and treasurer.
Department of Commerce Unit
has Endorsed Mrs. Sarah A. Deery
as a candidate for department
president. The unit elected Mrs
Lena Davis chairman, Mrs. Loretta
Reed and Miss Helen Harden
brook, delegates, and Mrs. Helen
G. Barry, Mrs. Carmen Bernard
and Mrs. Ellen Harlow, alternates
Miss Helen r. Bieda will serve
las convention page.
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Quick Wins in Cunudu

KITCHENER, Ont, June 80
R.-Smiley Quick. Los Angeles
professional. today won the On
tar.o Open golf championship
with 54-hole total score Of 209
Fred Hawkins. Ell Paso, Tex,
and AL Bresselink, Mount Glenn
.ents, Mich, tied for second at 210.
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Colt Wins Battle
With Bull and Gets
Name for Himself
By HE Assceioted Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md. June 80.
ID. Eldred Rinehart, prominent
Washington County stockman,
has been casting about for a name
for four month-old thoroughbred
colt. Now it's all picked out for
him-"Bull Killer"
Mr.. Rinehart reported today
the colt last Wednesday attacked
one of his purebred bulls grazing
in the same pasture. Mr.. Rinehart
didn't think much about 1t.
But next day, the colt and the
bull tangled again, this time the
colt kicked the bull to death.
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Harness Driver SUSPENDED

WESTBURY, N. Y, June 80 up.
Jack Beltz, owner, trainer and
driver from indianapolis, was sus-
pended indefinitely tonight by the
New York State Harness Racing
Commission for allegedly using an
electrical appliance on a horse
during the day-training period.
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Injury Forces Kramer
From Pro Net Tourney
BY the Associated Press

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, June 30.
Jack Kramer, second seeded
player, today withdrew from the
National Professional tennis
championships because of an in
jured back.
Kramer injured himself early
in the week while going for an
over-heated smash In a match
with Frank Parker. After treat
ment he continued play and won
in five sets.
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Schuefer Coaches oIympions

INDIANAPOLIS, June 30(P).-
Herman CHerm) Schaefer, a MEM
Der Of Indiana UniverSity's NCAA
championship basketball team Of
1910. tonight was named coach
of the indianapolis Olympians for
the 1951-52 National Basketball
Association season.
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|CapozzoIi Gets Place
I0n Track and Field
IAn-America Team
Special pispoteh 10 The Stur

CHICAGO, June 30.-Charles
Capozzoli. Georgetown University
miller, was named on the ALL
American track team announced
today by the National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
Selections were based mainly on
performances in the NCAA cham
'pionship track and field meet at
Seattle two weeks ago. Capoz-
zoli finished second three behind
Don McEwen of Michigan who
also was placed on the All-Ameri-
can team. Three men were named
for each event by the NCAA.
George Rhoden of Morgan
State, Jack Davis of Southern
California, and Charles Moore and
Meredith Gourdine of Cornell
were named for two events each
on the team. The 38-man team,
has nine sophomores and Is
juniors. NCAA officials said this
indicates that the colleges will
supply the bulk of the talent for
next years United States Olympic
team.
The complete 1851 NCAA ALL
American team:
Name. School Performsnee
1O0-yard dash:
Arthur Bragg. Morgan State College 8. IS.
Robert Work, UCLA- -S SIS,
22o1yard dash:
Walter McKibben. Occidental College 206s.
Andrew stanfieid. Seton Hail Ne.2o.ss'
440-yard dash:
Richard Miaocco, New York 47.3s.
Charles Moore. Cornell 472s.
George Rhoden, Morgan State - 1855.
Ss0-yard run:
Glen EilsS ;e washington State m. 81 IS.
One-mile run:
Warren Druetzler. Michigan State Am. SIS.
Robert McMillen. Occidental Am 99s.
William Parnell, Washington St., Am. 0. IS.
TTo-mile run;
Don McEwen, Michigan - ON. 8 Is.
Herb Semper, Kansas ON. &. Os.
120-yard high hurdles:
- L ,lS
John Davis, So California IA rs
John DeMedicis. Alabama poly.-l4. 0s'
220.yard low hurdles:
John Davis. So. California % es
Meredith Gourdine. Cornell 1880 % IS.
Charles Moore, Cornell 327s
High lump:
Walter Davis, Texas A. & M 1t, o In,
J. Lewis Hall. Univ. of Florida 6 it, 9 In,
Barney Dyer. University of Utah It. Z in
Broad jump:
George Brown, UCLA rs IT. q in
Frank Flores. So. California % IT. 10 in.
Meredith Gourdine, Cornell rs 1T. 924 in
Pole vault:
Don Cooper. Nebraska 15ft Va in,
Walter Jensen So. California IA it. s In
Don LaZ. Illinois 15 it. 1A in
Shot-put:
Robert Carey, Michigan State SO #. ga In.
barrow Hooper, Tex. A. g. NJ. 81 #. IN in
Parry O'Brten, So. California 55 IT. GA in.
Discus throw:
Clifton Anderson, Indiana. 1876 #. Az in
James Dillon, Alabama Poly. t67 IT. So in.
Robert Matthias. Stanford = 173 1T. 4 in.
Javelin throw.
Charles Missfeldt Oregon 22S it. 81 In,
Alan Reich. Dartmouth It. lss in
John White, California 224 IT. 5 in.
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BUGS Sell sehenz to Giants

PITTSBURGH, June 80 R.-
The Pirates today sold infielder
Hank Schenz to the New York
Giants for the $4,000 waiver
price. Schenz, 20. batted .213 in
IS games as a utility man for the
Pirates this year. s-
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Two Drivers Hurt in 5-Horse Laurel Spill
Laurel Rucewuy
Charts

(Copyright 1851 by the Trotting and
Pacing Record Publishing Coz
FIRST RACES classified; pace c.
owner j. ?. Kern. Clinton, ND Nd; br.ga e
by Red Ace-Hanover Lassie by Guy Nc
Kinney Time--2.I2as
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Sss5 odf and Kern sR G gn5ss s5SS9 mile
Kinney. Time-2:I2as.
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ssf S aE1 sena tGAAs r. SsJ J. ' 5SS
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pasRRPS5d 6s1A NE $50 s saos NEhrS e E.
SECOND RAcE--one. mile trot: Is cias-
500. Owner. Myers and she a ara t rails.
twilight Hanover 81 MI N M Pfa9 Ha TS.
Horse and Driver PP. z Fin. Odds
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Boyd eNo: ii seratehed ED il a ar s4q Race f'nsS
g. T sae q I HANOVER, SEA; 40, $1,000,
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THIRD RAcE-one mile; Is classified;
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Bennett entry.
LANCE HANOVER. SO. go, s54o, 81 40.
am n VOLo. $40, 50 40; LARRY DEE
FIFTH RACE-one mile; 1918 CLASH
ned: trot; purse, $500; 3-year Odds and M
OWner, Hunter M. Bennett; trainer, IS
smith. Chm. by Scamp Miss Hinzman
oy Fl Canto: Time-2:0S2s
Horse and Driver PIP. 2 Fin. Odds
g 4! Ss;s$ II 4,
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Horse and Driver PP: 2 Fin. Odds
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I Tommy D; tBrownI 5 81 6fi 1900
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STAKE; purse. $4,000, owner Parker
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tststet purse. $500 p oWnerl III , Pace
Mitchell; B:g. by Black Havk-Anna
Belle Mitchell By Calumet Chuck
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FOURTH RACE-One mile; 90 and 2.
year trot ,(stake); purse. $4,000. Owner
E. p and R; 3. Browne, jr. bh. by
S Spencer scott La9ghlin Brook by High
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q FIFTH RACE-one mile: 1919 CLASH.
nea; rot purse $500; 3-year olds and up
Ssits' Hunter M. Bennett; trainer, b.
Snisn. Chm. 8 by Scamp-MtS Hinzman
ny ~ Canto Time :O82s
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EgNIER DIRECT, $500, So. go. s2.40;
FRENCH. $40.
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Department and unit color
bearers are to report to the de-
partment sergeant at arms. Miss
Lucille Brady, at the Monument
Wednesday at pm. for the flag
procession.
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EIGHTH RACE-One mile; IA classified:
pace: purse, $500: 3-year -olds and IN,
owner, Reynolds Reed; trainer, T. Win
EzS hSs 5Siks' py Hunter-Sister Alice by
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SECOND RACE-one mile trot: Is elias.
neg; trot; 3..year-olds. and up; purse,
|, !, Thomas. brm, 4 BY Dean Hanover
T9lniiignt Hanover by Mr.. McElwyn. Time
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
Returning From Chicago

and Italy before RETURNING to the
states. which would be a long
time He added that he was broke
ana without employment
III, arrest was chiefly from
s,t;ne a telegram with John r.
t.arrand a representative OF Sen
,tor Mccarthy to John carter
Vincent. then United States MN
is,e IN Bern. in an attempt 10
prove that Vincent had Oo"'''U
mist associations. a.,
The prosecutor asked that 'ne
court tmake an example OF DAVIS
"a keep away from the country
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20

LAUSANNE. Switzerland
(SPECIAL)-CharleS DAVIS
23-yea~old American Ne
gro. was sentenced to eign'
months in jail and expulsion
from the country here Tues,
day by a Swiss Federal
Court after found guilty OF
gathering information about
United States diplomats Tor
Senator Mccarthy. Repuoil-
can from Wisconsin.
Davis was also found guilty.
of giving information on Sw's'
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20

and American lefi-wing ex
,ermisis in this country TO me
United States by the tive-ludse
court The information was sup
plicd to the U. S. consulate
general in Geneva and me
American Embassy IN fSiAs'
France.
since Davis had already beer
i, i,,l IN Geneva for II months
wb,le awaiting trial. he was IN, IN,
'',.,,sly - released on orders OF
nresid,ns judge Robertt Rais.
Davis stated that he probably :,
would visit Austria Germany
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
Vice Squad >'>>'zes $17 900
In Four Mutual bettinu Houses

Eight persons were arrest
ID and more than $1,000
WAS contiscated in four
raids Monday on suspected
Rambling dens. police said.
A seven man squad from
Woodward Station also seized
an expensive auto and four un-
Registered pistols. plus mufuel
| bet slips and adding machine
tapes. in breaking up the re-
'poriedly $1,000 day numbers
racket.
Police named as the main Of
bce Of tn Gambling ring an
|lleged cleaHng shop att 22l5
ohn r in which they confiscated
Il GIL and pistol. and seized
be automobile after arresting Jo-
eph and Frances Giles. of 938
ladstone
)Five persons were arrested in
home al 20 Mt Vernon where
hiding officers seized So and
bree pistols Arrested were Ruby,
prenzo and Myrtle Klnsey of
lat address; Abigail Kinsey. 1927
Lafayette. and Willie Kinsey.
u Livingston. all relatives.
In house at 322 F.. Forest.
Plce confiscated SIS and arrested
nory Tlmmons. while no ar
sts were made on another al
ged cleaning shop at 2732
astlngS but the raiders found
icence Of swift departure"
pon finding S5.545 and mutuel
record books.
fIYe wee released Tuesday on
fl'S and placed on $500 bond
tn by Recorders Judge John
Maher- They were Joseph
lies and his wife, Frances: Lo-
mo and Ruby Lee Kinsey and
piorv IlmmonS Hearings were
'lo0rned until Tuesday.
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
|tottsboro
10y Given
Pto IS Yrs.

haywood Patterson "last'
l. we Scottsboro Boys, was
'enced last Thursday by
fsOroer Judge Paul F..
suse to six to Is years in
Son = lor manslaughter.
passing sentence. JUDGE
ssse told the weary and fired
Ans defendant that he could
s, ,omplsin that his was n
M BASED % on racial prejudice.
4 o., o0'year-old former fugitive
4 SunG s,. guilty by jury in the
d ~ cysaoo'ng of Willie Mitchell.
:, "cne' enc during a fracas in a
ls T,ieans =, and Monroe last
ne pleaded self-defense.
Head His Book
- o..i Nrause told Patterson:
Orass ase was handled by a Ne
\ N1u'or, two OF the jurors
hes s'oeS and most of the
vo,s. We're Negroes. I have
know oooS 'Scottsboro Boy
Vsra o' your past in which
b Of - 'wronged but the Gov
% rs,,'s WIS state was big enough
i fi.'p fir,. YOU to prison.
tbe -, uial in May ended
sauvb,u ury deadlocked for a
tisI er a,s conviction. A sec
Ico,,,;;sSo ,;so before Judge John
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20

Dr.. Harrison Carlyle John
son, youthful Detroit dem
tist, and his wife, Lydia,
were killed Monday about
7 pm. when their 1851
Studebaker sedan crashed
head-on with a heavy steel
truck on M-60 two miles
south of Leonidas, Mich. Her
head was decapitated and
his facial features were
completely distorted. The
.ar was demolished.
Double funeral services are
slated for Thursday noon at
Bethel AME Church with the
pastor. DR.. John A. Alexander.
officiating.
State police of the White Pig
con Post stated that the car and
the truck collided head-on when
the johnson auto crossed the
center lane. The truck driver.
Norbert Kuprionas of Chicago,
was uninjured Kuprionas swerv-
ed his truck off the road in an
attempt to avoid the collision,
and his a tree, police said.
Returning From Chicago
Relatives said that the pair
was returning from Chicago
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
Meat Cleaver Wins

Arthur Carter, 35, of 205 Mel
bourne. intends TO get the best
of an argument even if he has
to employ meat cleaver, for
that is Just what he did to via
one with Moses Hunt, q, an up
stairs neighbor at the same ad-
dress.
Hunt was victim of multiple
laceratio1s of the scalp, of the
left shoulder and possible frac-
ture of the skull, when Carte,
attacked him after they had ar
gued Saturday night.
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
TOO MUCH CELEBRATION

Sometimes you can celebrate
your birthday too actively ~ at
leastt Clarence Stewart 4c 4Tos
St. Antoine. found out the pap-
ful way last Friday.
Stewart suffered possible
skull fracture in his home when
he drank too much while cele-
brating his birthday and slipped
to strike his head on a radiator.
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
(Ny'-zruck Collide
Death STRIKES
DENTIST, wife
Carlyle Johnsons
Collision Victims

where they had spent the week
end with friends. The pain were
the sole occupants OF the Stude-
baker.
Dr.. johnson, "a. 5l4S McClel-
Ian, maintained dental offices
with his father, Dr.. Ernest w. II
Johnson. at 4839 Beaubien He
graduated from Wayne University
De ntal College in 1913 after earn
ing degree at the University of
Detroit.
His wife, the former Lydia
Lightfoot, was born in Toronto.
Ontario. and was former and
the first Negro school teacher in
the public school system of Wind
sor. She was also "a years OF
age
Married in Detroit
The couple was married in De
troit about eight years ago
Survivors beside Dr. JohnSon's
father. include: two brothers, Ern-
est and Robert l., both of Detroit;
and a cousin Claude Cooper
Survivors of Mrs. Johnson in
cluded. two brothers, Arthur.
who is a physician in England.
and Thomas. who is a Chicago
dentist: and an uncle DR.. H. D.
Taylor. of Windsor. who is chair
man Of the city's Board of Edu-
cation.
The Detroit tribune., 1951-10-20
Senator Mccarthy 'Stooge
Found Guilty by Swiss Court

spies and stool pigeons in for
eign pay"
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1951-10-01

b Exchange Delegate to Greece
what can be accomplished by proper
cultivation and crop rotation.
After the staff had shown us their
school, they put us to work baling
and hauling straw for the next two
days.
The main crops in the Salonica
area are wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco,
tomatoes and grapes. Wheat, tobacco
and grapes are grown where the
land cannot be irrigated and the 9TH
er crops are grown where water is
available
Old and New
believe the contrast between the
old and the new is more noticeable
in the wheat fields than any place
else on the Greek farm. In one field
you may see a modern tractor pull
ing disc pillow, and in the next, a
one-horse plow.
The farmers who cannot afford
modern machinery will either do
what they can without it or hire the
government tractors to prepare the
seeded.
Bruce Sansdale, assistant director
of the American Farm school, tells
a story which illustrates the prob
lem quite well. Bruce had been trav-
cling along farm road when he
noticed a farmer burning his stub
BILE. He stopped and asked the farm
er why. The reply: my poor old
horse can't pull a pillow through this
stuff and I can't afford to buy an
other
On July Esd we separated, Jack
going north to the area of Series
and west to Verria.
The area of Verria is one of the
most fertile that have seen any
where. 1t has not been farmed as
long as most of Greece because it
was a lake bottom until about 200
years ago. A large part of it was not
completely drained until 1885. The
main crops of this area are wheat,
cotton, corn, beans and fruit saw
few vineyards and no tobacco.
saw a large number of pumps
and sprinkler systems which had
been set up with Marshall plan
funds. The director of the Verria
co-operatives estimated that 1900
acres of cotton were being irrigated
with sprinkler systems
The sheep and cattle are all herd
ed together in the village pastures
during the day. There is no shade
in these pastures and until pumps
and tanks were installed with Mar
shall plan funds the cattle have had
to drink from mudholes or swamps
Cattle for Power
The native cattle were developed