Monday. November 6, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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20th Century World Shocks Islanders
By Richard Longworth
LONDON — (UPI) — The mar from the 19th century stood in the center of London. Cars, neon lights, fur coats—all trappings of a brand-new world—whirled around him.
They were rescued from Tristan 24 days ago when the volcano erupted, and brought by ship to England to start a new life.
"I can hardly believe a place could exist," he whispered. "But why is everyone in such a hurry? And why doesn't anyone seem to smile?"
The man was Willy Repetto and he had just spanned 6,000 miles in space and a century in time from his home on Tristan Da Cunha, the "loneliest island in the world" which is slowly being destroyed by a volcano.
For most of them, it was their first glimpse of the outside world, or "houtside world," as they said in their island dialect. They were polite enough to say they liked it. But their remarks betrayed their trouble in facing up to a world far
Repette, 59, is the leader of 262 Tristanians who arrived in England last week on the long exodus from their South Atlantic Island home.
Tobacco Problem Subject of Course
NEW YORK —(UPI)— "Smoking and the Adolescent" is the subject of a two-week course at the New York University School of Education.
Public health workers, teachers and school administrators will meet representatives of health agencies, the medical profession and other groups and discuss teen-aged smoking.
Professor Roosec C. Brown, Jr., in charge of the course, said: "Medical studies have shown that the effects of tobacco are cumulative. The later one starts to smoke, or the less one smokes, the better—a fact that was recognized last winter by the Empire State Health Council when it announced a statewide campaign to educate teen-age smokers. This course will explore the most effective ways of impressing this information on teen-agers."
Phone Numbers
HAMILTON, Bermuda — (UPI)—Bermuda has the fifth most talkative population — per person — in the world.
It has 14,000 telephones, or 30 for every 160 persons, according to Leslie Harmer, general manager of the Bermuda Telephone Company.
The United States has 39 telephones per 100 persons, Sweden has 35, Monaco 34, and Canada 31. Harmer said. The world average is four phones per 100 persons, he said.
Shelter?
HOUSTON, Tex. — (UPI) — Refugees fleeing from hurricane Carla recently looked questionably at one emergency shelter set up here, but they figured any port in a storm. The shelter had been set up at the Deep Water Elementary School.
more modern than the one they left. Like Repetto, they weren't sure it was an improvement.
Most of them had never left the island. They had never seen a car, a horse, a locomotive, a telephone, a television set or money.
They had never seen high heels or nylon stockings—"All our women at home wear white ankle socks." Repetto said—or a pool table, or traffic lights, or police, or newspapers.
"It's very pretty," Caroline Swain, 16, said in the slangless, Dickensian Cockney of the island. "But I'd rather see Tristan again. I'm homesick."
Her fiance, 19-year-old Anthony Rodgers, summed up the difference—"Life on Tristan was so simple."
"It's very big," Repetto said, "But I would not like to live here."
At home, they were farmers or fishermen. They lived in a small and simple, inbred community. Most of them said they wanted to stay together.
And that brought up a new problem facing British authorities—where the islanders will live.
From Southampton, where they docked Friday, the refugees were taken to an old army camp in Surrey County. They will stay there until it is decided what to do with them.
Museum Fashion Show
NEW YORK — (UPI) The Brooklyn Museum of New York has the largest collection of fashion pictures in the world.
Its costume exhibits include several thousand examples of wearing apparel from America, Europe and Asia.
Repetto, who has warned his flock about being "corrupted by outsiders," admitted that "if the young men and ladies want to go, we will try to meet their wishes."
New Field
HOUSTON, Tex. — (UPI) — Publishers and magazine printers soon may be advertising for press room men under the heading, "Engineers Wanted," according to Hy Safran, a leading Detroit printer.
Safran told a meeting of the Magazine Publishers Association here recently that increasing automation of giant color presses will require supervision by graduate engineers.
"Engineers will be needed by 1970 because electronic controls will supply human judgment in quality control and high speed press production," he said.
Sewage Survey
CORVALLIS, Ore. - (UPI) Oregon State University is beginning a long-range study into the best means of disposing of sewage and industrial waste at sea without danger of coastal contamination.
A U.S. Public Health Service grant of $38,356 has been made to help support the project.
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