St. Paul recorder., 1961-07-21

Assistant Radio Officer Abadoo
Brew and Fifth Engineer Yeboa.
The "Tano River is named after
one of Ghana's important rivers.
The ship delivered cocoa and other
Ghanaian exports to the us. 1t
visited Philadelphia and Canada
before returning to Ghana E.
Twenty-nine trainees, including
the first IL women, have been
chosen to train for Peace Corps
teaching assignments in Ghana.
Eventually, the corps hopes to
have 70 teachers in Ghana. The
first group of volunteers, who
started training last week at the
University of California last week,
will teach mathematics, chemistry,
physics, biology, general science,
English and French.
GROWING PRESSURE from
Africans for land reforms added
to the controversy surrounding the
new constitution in Southern
Rhodesia, which if adopted, would
give the ballot to Africans for the
first time. The problem is that 48
per cent of the land is reserved
for the British colony's 100000
whites and AZ per cent is set aside
for the 100000 Africans. The
rest is forest, game reserves, parks
and unassigned land.
THE MALAWI Congress Party,
headed by DR.. Hastings K. Banda,
is expected to win a majority in
the forthcoming elections to be
held for the Nyasaland legislature.
Following nominations on July 20.
elections will be held August Is.
Banda has threatened to pull
Nyasaland out of the Central Af-
rican Federation, which includes
Southern and Northern Rhodesia,
and form a new nation called NAL
awi. The fiery African nationalist
leader will be opposed in the gen.
eral election by a 50-year-old Eng
lish white woman, Stella Lyster.
Delegates, most of them African,
selected her as the United Fed
eral party candidate for the Fort
Manning constituency seat in the
new parliament.
DIPLOMATIC INFORMANTS
in the Congo 0eopoldville) re-
ported that the central govern
ment has accused the Roman
Catholic church of interfering in
Congolese politics. The sources
said the charge came after a re-
cent sermon at Leopoldville's
Notre Dame cathedral. The pro-
test, a warning to the church to
stay out of politics, was contained
in a note from Foreign Minister
Justin Bomboke to the Apostolic
Delegate in Leopoldville, Msgr.
Mojeski Perrelli, the sources said.
A LARGE NUMBER of the Af-
rican students brought to the
United States in 1859 and 1860 in
controversial airiift will be trans
ferred to different colleges in Sep
tember, some because their present
colleges did not meet their edu-
cational needs"
The transfers came to light with
the announcement that 10 of the
students will enter Fairleigh Dick
inson university in Madison, New
Jersey, under a cooperative ar
rangement between the university,
the African : American Students
Foundation, Inc, which sponsored
the airlift, the us. government
ana local citizens. Most OF the
students are transferred from col
leges in southern states. The an
nouncement appeared to support
charges by top American educators
that the airlift was poorly con-
ceived crash program"
THE GHANA Timber Market
ing Board has taken over all trans
actions concerning the expectation
of all species of logs in the country
Dealings in gold and external
currency in Ghana are to be re-
structed only to banks, corporate
bodies and persons authorized by