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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
THE PEACE CORPS


The idea of a u. S. Peace Corps
apparently is disturbing the peace
in the KreNllin.
Soviet propagandists have shown
alarm about the Corps ever since the
idea was first suggested. In recent
weeks their frenzy has reached high
pitch. Breakfasts from Moscow and
other Communist centers have grown
increasingly fierce. The young men
and women in the Corps are not ideal
lists, but undercover spies. The whole
project is new cloak for Imperial
ISM. AS early as last spring there
were reports from Africa that the
Americans who came there would be
Summing.
1t is with this background in mind
that we should examine the furry of
excitement that has been the out
growth of Margery Michelmore's re-
cent vivid, perhaps too vivid, descrip-
ton of conditions in Nigeria.
Her indiscretion of course, was to
write on a postcard her impressions.
After all she was not in the United
States where personal privacy in the
mails is regarded as something sac
red. However, no one has denied the
accuracy of Miss Michelmore's report.
The Nigerian students who took
part in the demonstration" saw no
inconsistency in processing opposition
to colonial repression while insisting
that Miss Michelmore's evidently I'M
popular viewpoint should be sup
pressed. But it is too much to expect
democratic attitudes to develop over
night in any land that is just acquir-
ing an independent status. Look at
Ghana where Nkrumah processes a
faith in freedom and jails his politi-
cal opponents. Democratic, parlia- |
mentary government does not come |
about in "a hours and we would be
deceiving ourselves to think other
wise.
In the words of FiorelIo La
Guardia what we need is patience
and fortitude''.
When you have an aggressive oppo-
sition. as the Communists are in
Africa and other underdeveloped
continents, the deliberate distortion
of American intentions should come
as no surprise. They will seize upon
and render out of recognizable pro-
portions every episode no matter how
trivial and let it be noted that Miss
indiscretion was quite
rival.
After all the u. S. Peace Corps is
4 threat. There will be more demon
STATIONS against it, probably as
spontaneous as those Japanese stu
lent riots organized against Presi- {
lent Eisenhower's planned visit to {
Tokyo, or Khrushchev's Indignation"
1t discovery of the U-2 over Russia.
How is the Peace Corp a
threat?
The Peace Corps is a threat be-
ause it helps to destroy the Soviet
myth that the overseas American is
My Central Intelligence agent,
lotting to overthrow the local regime q
it is oriented in the direction of +
ocial reform.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
Murrow On A Major Roadblock To Peace
Luq I'm Communications
flinders Understanding

PHILADELPHIA - An inquiry
by the United Nation into the state
of world communications shows near
ly 70 per cent are lacking even the
barest means of being informed about
developments at home-let alone in
other countries-says Edward r.
Murrow.
Murrow, speaking at the Poor Rich
ard Club here, compared communica-
tions in some parts of the world as
being still in the signal fire on the
hill, drum beat in the forest, era.
Murrow is director of the u. S.
Information Agency.
The speaker even found the U.N.
discovery about 70 per cent of the
worlds lack of communication as be-
ing an optimistic statistic: Standards
set up by UNESCO for the inquiry
were minimal and rudimentary," he
said. Gwen many countries above
the 70 per cent line have communica-
tions systems far from adequate. The
distribution of facilities is highly I'M
balanced What facilities there are are
concentrated in urban areas. People
who live in rural regions-the domi-
nant condition of this globe-have
no communication contact
at all.''
In Africa, for example, with a
population of over 236 million
peoples, newspapers reach less than
3 million, Murrow said. mot a
single country on that continent
possesses the UNESCO minimum
nts-rudimentary as they
are-for communications and i'm
formation. Fifteen countries have
not a single daily newspaper.
SIN the Middle East, over so per
.ent of the newspaper circulation, 40 |
DER cent of the radio receivers, and
IL per cent of the cinema capacity
ire concentrated in one small country.
Of the ID other countries, of them
nave no daily press whatsoever he
added.
In the Far East, Murrow reported,
me out of every four persons on
,arth-a population of 767 million
newspapers reach but LIZ per cent
# the people. That leaves about 760
Million unaccounted for. Films have
ct to be seen for the first time by
nillions of Asians.
'These pose communications prob
ems of staggering dimensions" Muir
ow said. "And they resist ease of
olution. Literacy is limited. There
J no purchasing power to support
ne advertising or transmission rates
hitch would support communications.
here is no capital or communication
evelopment. Even with today's linn
ed coverage there is a shortage of
'ained and technical stating. There
inadequate identification. Even
resent frequencies seriously overlap
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
Senior Citizens
Council Formed

Former Rep. Anne j.. Forand has
announced the formation of "a Nation
al Council of Senior Citizens for
Health Care through Social Security.
According to Forand, the new or
ganization has been created to serve
as an effective voice for America S
millions of senior citizens. The lack
of such voice. he said, ''has per-
mitted the present Congress to play
political games with the health care
issue without seriously attempting to
enact legislation badly needed and
wanted by the vast majority of the
nations elderly"
In a letter to tower 1000" senior
citizen groups and individuals, Forand
reported that the new council has al
ready established headquarters on
Capitol Hill.
The letter said that while the coun-
ellis prime purpose will be to secure
health care legislation for the aged
through Social Security, 'it is our
hope that this new organization will
eventually provide the framework for
a nonpartisan progressive council rep
resenting the views of older persons
on major issues confronting the ma
ton. America badly needs such an
organization.-IUD BULLETIN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
How Old Is USDA?

If you guessed 80 years, you'd
be right. So next year, the Depart
ment of Agriculture celebrates its
centennial. July 2 is its birthday.
And what fine job it has done!-
CTA DIGEST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
WE ASK NOTHING IN RETURN

WE ASK NOTHING IN RETURN
But worst of all the Peace Corps
is threat because our craftsmen and
teachers hope to help Nigeria and the
other states to acquire the knowledge
and skills that will make them cap
able of enjoying the fruits of free
dom. We are asking nothing in return
no mineral rights as the Belgians
seek to preserve in Katanga, no white
supremacy as exists in South Africa,
and no special trade arrangements.
Nor do we insist that they must
establish an economic order that is
patterned after ours, nor demand
their allegiance if war should develop.
And the Peace Corps does not even
seek military bases.
This is a revolutionary develop
ment. Trying to explain away this
startling American idea is what dis
turbs the peace of the Kremlin.
After all what happens if the Peace
Corpsman does not resemble the
Ugly American? Suppose his slogan
is 'Have no gun. will traveP'? How
will such behavior square with the
picture the Soviets seek to paint of.
US?
Those who think the Peace Corps
idea must be discarded because of
the Nigerian affair are missing the
whole point. What it really demon
strates is that the Corpsman are MAX
ing such a good impression in Africa
that the opposition must seize upon
such trivia as Miss Michelmore's
postcard to try to make their point.
Those who have been upset by
this incident and say Yankee come
home" are not making any more of
a contribution to creating a better
world than those who say, cyan
kee, go home.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10
Peace Corps Pamphlet
Lists Opportunities

WASHINGTON, d. ca pamphlet
which describes opportunities in the
Peace Corps for members of the
American labor force is now avail
able from the Director of Recruit
ment, Peace Corps, Washington %,
D. C.
The pamphlet explains the need
for skilled manpower in the newly
developing nations of Asia, Africa
and Latin America. 1t also specifies
the skills needed in other countries.
Some skills listed in the pamphlet.
included industrial arts, mechanics,
farming, organizing, teaching. Also
skilled in carpentry, plumbing, and
many other vocations.
Don't tell me that worry doesn't
do any good. know better. The
things | worry about don't happen.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10

one another. There are no effective
distribution systems. Newsprint and
labor are in short supply. Languages
abound; the one country of India has
over 500 tongues and dialects. World
wide, the problem seems almost in
soluble, as some tongues are not
alphabetic but topographic, and some
have yet to be reduced to any writ
ten form.
'It would indeed be good to have
Improved Understanding. But some
times the dimensions of our Difficult
ties seem to conspire against US.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10

He who knows only his own side
of the case knows little of that
John Stuart Mill. @
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10

wide, the problem seems almost in
soluble, as some tongues are not
alphabetic but topographic, and some
have yet to be reduced to any writ
ten form.
'1t would indeed be good to have
Improved Understanding But some
times the dimensions of our Difficult
ties seem to conspire against us.
PREDICTS EXPANSION
OF COMMUNICATIONS
Murrow predicted an expansion of
communications and said that in the
end we shall deal with the basic ele-
ments of human communications
words and pictures. Space satellites
and wider world communications, he
said, will not make it any better. "On
basis of policy, politics, and content,
improved communications will not
solve the fundamental problem of
communication that has haunted man
since time immemorial what is he to
say, and how is he to say it,"
Murrow reminded that he has spent
most of his life in the public arena
of private broadcasting.
There are aspects of other media
that disturb me: / note with con-
Germ, for example, that in the last
30 years over a thousand news
papers have persisted in the United
States, that for the last half CEN
fury the number of newspapers in
this country has been contracting,
and that today almost 95 per cent
of American communities are one
paper towns with no competing
news view.
cit is further a pity that national
newspaper criticism is virtually nom
existent. make no pretense of inn
posing on the sanctity of the free
press.
Gin country of $50 million peo-
pie, there are now SO million tele-
vision sets. There are TV sets in
four out of five u. S. homes; the
range of TV covers 81
Der cent of Americas populated
lreas," he said.
Exposure to television will in
.rease. More and more people are
pending less and less time at work.
century ago the average work week
vas 70 hours. By 1860, it was below
10 hours. And since the American
worker for every hour on the job
low has two hours to spend at his
discretion, and labor-saving devices
make chores and tasks easier, more
eisure time will undoubtedly be spent
With television-
But this improved tool of COM
nunication' will not necessarily lead
o better understanding, Murrow said.
70 large segment of the public de-
hands more information, or better
of it. Public affairs, and
etter understanding that might come
f them, are not recreation. '1The
ublic wants its fun. By the time
lost people turn on the television
1T the work of the day is over. After
-orking hours, most people prefer
} be called away from reality, not
lade to face it.
"Television by itself does not
usher in the democratic millennium,
and its inability to do so is not its
own peculiar failure. 1t is due to
the unwillingness of men and wom-
en-, even in as highly developed
democracy as our own, to take more
trouble to govern themselves bet
:er.
"The real function of television--
deed, of modern communications
to operate a market place where
cas- may compete on equal footing.
"There is disheartening small indi-
tion that the great mass of the
lblic senses it's ability to influence
nat it is asked to see and hear. 1t
cepts what it is given. 1t does little
force change or Improvement" he
PUBLISHERS AUXILIARY.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-10

By ROBERT G. SPIvACK. Washington. D. c.

The Peace Corps is a threat be-
cause it denies that the Communists
have any copyright on the word
peace. Their fury is exceptional
now because Khrushchev has made
them look silly, with his nuclear test
ing and brandishing of super-megaton
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Visitor Center Urged
As Living Memorial

"In a city Of inanimate monu-
ments and memorials, is this
idea Of a living memorial i'm
practieal?" Mr.. Irons asks.
Would a Madison or a VIII
son or a Roosevelt think Of it
as an uniting memorial to
him? Would it gradually Gre
ate a better understanding OF
our American heritage? Would
it gradually make recruiting
for the Federal service easier?"
Under Mr.. Irons plan, dis
plays on Government programs
and the men and women who
carry them out would supple
ment the film. along with cal
endars Of coming cultural
events, and maps, diagrams and
models Of the city. The center
would be located in a park-like
setting.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Britain to Freeze
Civil Service Pay

LONDON, Aug. IL (AP.-
Britain's Treasury boss has in
formed $4,000 government
civil servants their wages are
to be frozen as part Of the
drive to bolster the nations
financial position.
This announcement was
made yesterday by Selwyn
Lloyd, Chancellor Of the Ex-
chequer, in a document handed
to representatives Of the Civil
Service Union. Later, some of
the union leaders complained
to newSmen that the Chan
cellor was interfering with
existing wage arbitration ma
chinery and making "a COM
plete break with tradition"
On July 26 Mr.. Lloyd an
nounced a sweeping austerity
program in Parliament, de-
signed to reduce Britain's bal
ance-of-trade deficit, protect
the pound and cut government
spending.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
JANITOR STUCK WITH LION
WHO EATS LIKE A LION

OAAK, Wash. (AF9.-Take It from Janitor Ernie
Moore, the lion market Is slow.
He can't even give away his 4-year-old African lion
Tammy who's eating him into bankruptcy at the rate
Of Is to 40 pounds Of raw meat daily.
few weeks ago. Ernie thought about shooting
his 4OOpound pet But word of Tammys plight got out
and newfound friends began lion" campaign
To tell the truth. it's not going very WELL
Tammy has been promised new home at JungleIand
in Thousand Oaks Calf. If the freight is prepaid
That $2275o. The campaign has raised only s25
How did Mr.. Moore acquire lion? He bought a
defnct zoo four years ago and planned to make it
tourist attraction. The tourists didn't come
There was no problem disposing of the other animals
Only Tammy
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Body Of Man
Who Fell From
Boot Is Found

The body of James Delmar
Leary, 20, of 923 Massachusetts
avenue NV, who fell over
board from a cabin cruiser on
the Potomac River near Oxon
Hill early Wednesday, was
found yesterday near the sew
age disposal plant at Shepards
Landing.
Clad in a bathing suit, the
body was discovered at LAS
pm. by Raymond Schmitz, a
plant employe who spotted the
body on the river bank.
Identification was made yes
terday by Francis M. Gutt, jr.,
of 1852 Neal street NV, and
James Crosby Of Norfolk, Va,
friends Of the dead man, police
said.
Mr.. Leary fell overheard at
$3.50 am. Wednesday, John H.
Green Of 1905 Fortieth place,
Hyattsville, told police, as he
was moving forward to the bow
Of the 21-foot cruiser.
Evening star., 1961-08-11

Tennyson, Darwin and wom-
ems suffrage may not be the
topics of lively interest they
were in 1884. but Gilbert's
spool Of these matters and
others in Princess Ida" has
lost little of its wit.
Last night the Lyric Theater
Company opened a run Of the
Gilbert and Sullivan show
their only one in three acts
at the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. Although this is
the Lyrics second mounting Of
It in recent years, Princess
Ida" is one of the less fire.
ouently heard Of the 'GSES ef-
forts, so dedicated Savoyards
will want another look at it
while 1t is in town.
Customary opening night
problems were compounded
somewhat last night by a hasty
change in musical direction.
Union regulations required
Washington conductor Stephen
Prussing to bow out, leaving
time only for a phone call to
Michael Greenebaum IN Chica-
90, who flew in soon enough
to keep things going. Mr..
Greenebaum had conducted the
company's last Princess Ida"
and, in spite Of some differ
ences in opinion between him
and his cast concerning tempt,
he held the show together quite
satisfactorily.
Many Of the points OF un-
eveness-some frayed ensembles
in the second act, some missed
cues in the third-will doubt
less be ironed out as Mr..
Greenebaum and his company
get better acquainted. There
probably won't be much I'M
provement in the orchestra, a
particularly in experie enced
sounding amatuer group, whose
problems of intonation, bar
counting and technique are
too basic to be solved in re-
hearsal. But the production still
manages to keep a lively pace
and leave q colorful effect.
In King Gama's too small
role, Peter Kline was predict
ably incompatible and Carroll
Mattoon's Lady Blanche was
not far away. Both Of these
Lyric veterans are singing
actors in the best Gilbert and
Sullivan tradition. Omar Pan
Evening star., 1961-08-11

A Washington visitors center
that would be a living memorial
to a national hero has been
proposed by the executive di-
rector Of the United States Civil
Service Commission.
In an editorial in Civil Serv-
ice journal, the official, War
ren B. Irons, urges a center
where visitors would be well
coined and shown a special
documentary film on Washing
ton which would cover the pur-
poses and processes of govern
ment as well as the history Of
the Capitol city.
Mr.. Irons said such a center
might help dispel the stereotype
that Government workers are
"an army Of clerks"
Evening star., 1961-08-11
No Aid to U. N
Seen in Satellites
By the Associated Press

Senators were told today
there Is practically no chance
communications space satellites
will be used to provide better
telephone, telegraph, television
or radio service inside the
United States.
T. A. M. Craven, Federal
Communications commissioner,
told q Senate subcommittee the
field for bouncing communica-
tions signals to satellites and
back to earth seems strictly for
country-to-country service.
In testimony prepared for the
Senate Small Business Commit
tees Monopoly Subcommittee,
Mr.. Craven stressed that the
FEC is devoted to preventing
unfair and monopolistic control
Of the developing communica-
tionS satellite system and to
assuring rates for the service
are reasonable.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
New Official
Named by NASA
By the Associated Press

The space agency yesterday
named Thomas F. Dixon, vice
president of the Rocketdyne
Division of North American
Aviation, Inc, to head its vast
program for the development
Of spacecraft launching We
hicles. s.
Mr.. Dixon, 45, will take office
with the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration Sep
tember 18.
He will succeed Maj. Gen.
Don r. Ostrander, who has
been director Of NASA's office
Of launching vehicle programs
since December, 1859. Gen.
Ostrander is returning to Air
Force duty as vice commander
Of the ballistics systems divi-
sion at Los Angeles.
At Rocketdyne's Canoga Park
(Calif.) headquarters, Mr..
Dixon has supervised the de-
yelopment of liquid propellant
rocket engines for the Atlas,
Thor, Redstone and Jupiter
missiles.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
NEWS OF MUSIC
GGS Princess Ido'
In Rore Return

coast was a wonderfully pom
derous Arae and Donna Cox
made Melissa's secondary part
a primary highlight.
Among the newcomers to the
Lyric Company, Rita Bailey
was a lovely Ida with particu-
larly admirable vocal promise
With better diction, she might
well have taken first singing
honors. William Fox'S vocal
work was, on the other hand,
found much wanting for
Hilarion's important role.
Princess Ida" will be re-
peated tomorrow night and
three more evenings next week.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Irun to Crown Shah, (,
Mark 2,500th Year

TETIERAN, Iran, Aug. II
(AP).-The Shah of Iran will
be crowned on May IA, 1868,
at the climax of celebrations
marking the 2,500th anniver-
sary Of Trans monarchy, it was
announced yesterday.
The Shah succeeded to the
throne in 1912 but postponed
his coronation until the birth
OF q male heir. Last October,
Crown Prince ReZa was born
and cleared the way for the
Shah to mount the peacock
throne.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
By DONALD L. LEAVITT
Contributing Critic

PRINCESS IDA or CASTLE
ADAMANT, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Company. At the washington He
brew Congregation Auditorium.
hA
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03
Jim Hartley Back from LA

Jim Hartley recently re turned from a flying trip to Ia coma, Seattle and Los Angeles. He spent five days in Los An geles during which he attend ed the Mobile Home Travel Trailer Convention and the trailer show at the Great Vest ern Exhibit Center. He spent a considerable amount of time studying in detail the construc- ton of the Spacemaster Mo- bile Homes. The remainder of his ten day trip was spent on business in Seattle and Tacoma.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03
Soldotna C of Names League

A movie concerning Title h. surance shown by Al Courtney of Anchorage was the main fea- ture of the Soldatna Chamber of Commerce luncheon meet ing last Saturday.
 Other subjects taken up were the approval of a new city sign to read City of Opportunity report on the States road program for the Peninsula that was forwarded by Rep. L co Rhode was read; and discus sion of the newly organized League of Kenai Peninsula Chambers of Commerce result ed in the appointing of Frank Mullen as the Chamber repre- sentative to that organization.
 In attendance besides those mentioned were Burton Car yer, Vera Franklin, George Dennison, Dick Hall, Chamber President Red Grange, Ralph Soberg, Red Olsen, Lou Mikk- leson, Beulah Grange, Floyd Frolich and Mrs. Al Courtney. Visitors included Dick and Bertha Midget from Anchor age and Mrs. Elsie Blue, Mrs. B. Davis and Mrs. Mary A m Anderson, Seward.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03
Cochron Calls From Indiono

Joe Cochran, Motieello, h. diana, who was in the Chee- chako News as against taxes is for babies (which can be more expensive Joe called clear from Montecillo via the Ed Holliers to congratulate Hank and Loretta Knackstedt on the birth of Hank, Jr. last month.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03

The March schedule for Ruth C. Tewes, itinerant nurse, is:
 Clam Gu1ch, Cohoe and Kasi- 1of at the Testumena school; March 31, from 12 to 1 pm. Free x-ray at 12 to 6 pm. Mar. 15.
 Cooper Landing at the school March 30. from 12 to pm.
 Kenai Health Center; March f5 and March 29 from 2..30 to 4:30 pm. and evenings by ap- pointment. Once-a-year x-rays from 10 to l and 2 to T pm. March 6 and ', and 12 to 5:30 and ' to g pm. March 8, 9 and 10.
 Nini1chik; from 12 to pm. March 28. x-rays at the school from 12 to 6 p.m., March 16.
 Soldotna.... From 12 to 1 pm. March IT. x-rays at the school from 12 to s pm. March 13 and IA.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03
Baby Girl For The Sterlinqs

Wayne and Sharon Sterling announced the arrival of new baby girl born February 23rd Born at the Providence Hospi- tai in Anchorage, she weighed in at 8 lbs. She" because at this writing Wayne, the new father, had not come up with a name yet.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-03-03
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