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University Daily Kansan Friday, October 27,196
Peace Corps Has Difficulties
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Peace Corps, which recently ran into criticism from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nigerian students, also is having recruiting troubles, officials said today.
Eisenhower criticized the Peace Corps as a "juvenile experiment." The Nigerian students criticized the Corps after Margery Michelmore, a member, wrote a post card saying she was shocked by primitive conditions in Nigeria.
Agriculture is supposed to be the second major overseas activity of the Corps — next to school-teaching. But it has proved the hardest field in which to find volunteers.
BUT NEITHER OF THESE pose the threat to the Corps that the recruiting troubles may. Officials said the agency particularly is having difficulty recruiting agricultural specialists.
BECAUSE OF RECRUTING difficulty agricultural projects in Malaysia and Thailand, which had been approved by the governments involved, have had to be temporarily shelved.
The Peace Corps wants 1,460 farm specialists by this time next year. It so far has only about 65 in training or on the job.
Officials said the Corps is conducting a major drive with the help of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, county agents in all states, farm journals, the Grange, the 4-H movement and other organizations to recruit talent from America's farms.
Agricultural projects have begun or are going ahead in Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and St. Lucia in the West Indies.
They are looking for these types of people;
- Holders of agricultural degrees to teach advanced courses, train local teachers or conduct agricultural research in foreign lands.
- People without degrees but with a 4-H type experience or even just a good farm background to work
British Author To Give Talk
Norman St. John-Stevas, British author, legal authority, and political correspondent of the Economist, will give a talk on Walter Bagehot, the nineteenth century political economist and man of letters, on Monday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. in Bailey Auditorium.
Mr. St. John-Stevas is the author of Obscenity and the Law, Women in Public Law, The English Censorship, Walter Bagehot, Birth Control and Public Policy, and Life, Death and the Law.
He has served as legal adviser to the Committee on Obscene Libel of the British Society of Authors and drafted the bill which went before the House of Commons to reform the obscenity law. During the recent London trial of Lady Chatterly's Lover he was a prominent witness on behalf of the novel.
Mr. St. John-Stevas is a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge, holds doctorates in philosophy from London University and in law from Yale University, and has studied at the Universities of Rome and Bologna.
His visit to the University is being sponsored by the departments of English and political science.
with local farmers helping them build farm structures and stock ponds and teaching them modern wavs of tending livestock and crops.
No one seems to know exactly why agriculture has lagged behind the rest of the volunteer recruitment program. One logical reason is the difficulty of competing with the vast field of paying jobs now open to agricultural college graduates.
The Peace Corps eventually hopes to have roughly 25 per cent of its overseas workers in the field of agriculture.
Commissioning of the Constellation was delayed seven months by a tragic and costly fire, described by the Navy as "the worst Naval shipyard fire on record."
NEW YORK—(UPI)The world's largest fighting ship officially joins the US Navy today.
The sleek super-carrier USS Constellation, a 75,000-ton giant capable of launching 100 warplanes from its four-acre flight deck, is scheduled for commissioning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
THE CONSTELLATION'S tradition is long and proud and its responsibility in a troubled world is great. Nearly a year ago, tragedy struck her. She was named for the Navy's first ship, the frigate Constellation, which went to sea in 1798 and served honorably for nearly 160 years before its decommissioning in 1955.
The modern Constellation is a showpiece of naval architecture with a warmaking potential that is fearsome. Its air group represents a powerful, nuclear-capable striking force and its all-missile anti-aircraft defense system is no less formidable.
The carrier was 85 per cent completed when it was swept last Dec. 19 by a blaze which took the lives of 50 men and caused extensive damage.
Biggest Carrier To Join Navy
BUT THE NAVY said it emerged a better ship. It was refitted with more modern radar, an extended flight deck and the latest type arresting gear for landing highspeed jet planes.
Today's commissioning, marking Navy Day and the 50th anniversary of Naval Aviation, came five years after the Bureau of Ships placed its order for the Constellation. The Navy said the cost of building the carrier was "more than $200 million."
The Constellation, 1,047 feet long and 25 stories high from keel to mast, eventually will have a crew of 4,100 officers and men, including its air group. The carrier is about 12 times as long as the post-revolutionary sailing ship for which it was named and its 1,000-foot flight deck, placed on an angle to its keel, would accommodate nearly four dozen copies of the original Constellation.
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI) — When a traffic officer stopped an exterminator for running a stop sign, Dallas Times Herald columnist Dick Hitt reported the event this way: "Police nab hired killer!"
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Prof. Quinn Reads Donne's Poetry
Donald Quinn, assistant professor of English, read poems by John Donne, 17th century English poet and preacher, at the poetry hour in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union yesterday.
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Fifty people listened to Prof. Quinn's interpretation of Donne's love poetry.
"Go, and catch a falling star, get with child a mandrake root . . .
Nowhere lives a woman true, and fair," Prof. Quinn read and the audience sighed in appreciation.
Concluding his reading Prof. Quinn read what is, perhaps, Donne's most famous poem. "No man is an island, entire of itself . . . therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."
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