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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1962
National Peace Corps Official Is Optimistic
By Trudy Meserve
The Washington, D. C., Peace Corps officer, Gregory Newton, who is overseeing the KU-Costa Rican project predicts the Corps has a bright future.
"The Corps has made a terrific impact in only two years," Newton said. "Its full influence with respect to international relations will be felt for years to come.
"However," he said, "the volunteers do not determine or interpret foreign policy. They merely work in the field with their counterparts."
NEWTON SAID he was referring to statements by Corps critics who accuse the organization of sending young people abroad to do the jobs of "seasoned" foreign service officials.
"Volunteers return to the U.S." he said, "and interpret attitudes and feelings of persons with whom they have worked on the ground level. They are living proof that we are all not Ugly Americans."
NEWTON RETURNED to Washington yesterday after spending the weekend with Corps trainees and the KU training staff.
Newton is also the Washington coordinator for a Venezuelan Corps project, in connection with the University of North Carolina. He said he will be visiting both campuses often to insure the training sessions are carried out "effectively" and "efficiently."
Newton said the Corps hopes to have about 40 projects and 5,000 volunteers abroad by the close of 1961.
"THESE 5,000 volunteers are not assigned to supplant others jobs," he said. "A Corps volunteer does not travel to another country to remove a native from his job."
Turning to the military service and the Peace Corps, Newton said Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey has declared that service in the Corps is classified as being "within the national interest."
"IN EACH case," he said, "deferment is a matter for determination by local draft boards. Volunteers can be deferred from military service, but they are not exempted from it."
Newton commended the trainees in the KU-Costa Rican project. He said trainees show a tremendous interest in learning at KU and in performing service in Costa Rica. He said most of the volunteers have an excellent command of Spanish."
NEWTON TERMED the All Student Council appropriation of $1,098 to the KU Peace Corps committee a "wise investment."
Newton said, "The ASC investment provides better opportunity for all KU students to be considered for service overseas.
"KU Corps members," he said, "can influence the futures of University students. Students can learn of Corps opportunities without extensive correspondence with the government."
African to Speak On Corps Project
Walter Bgyoa, Tanganyika, Africa, sophomore, will discuss the Tanganyika Peace Corps project at 4:15 today in the Kansas Union.
Bgoya's speech marks the second in a series of events during Peace Corps Week which began Sunday, Bgoya was in Tanganyika when the Corps volunteers arrived in July, 1961.
A 40-minute CBS film on the Tanganyika project will also be shown.
Young Republicans To Meet Candidates
The Young Republicans will sponsor a coffee for Republican candidates in the Kansas Union Wednesday at 4 p.m.
The Young Republicans and the Young Democrats will hold a debate at 7:30 p.m. in the Union. The regular meeting of the Young Republican's will follow the debate.
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- Inasmuch as the Cuban government is Communist, the Russians felt some kinship to it and came to its aid partly for ideological reasons.
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Considering what he called our "Berlin campaign," Brunn said that in an effort to "anchor our flank in Europe" — in preparation for action in Cuba — we called up reserves and made a number of public statements which declared our intention to defend Berlin.
our interaction to become Israel.
Brunn said whether or not we took more vigorous action in Cuba hinged on the Russians.
IF THE RUSSIANS honor their promise to dismantle and remove their missiles and United Nations' observer teams are allowed to affirm this, then all American objectives would be realized, Brunn said.
Brunn also mentioned Red China's border penetration of India, "the biggest news story of the decade."
Otherwise, Brum said, further action might be required.
"Beginning as it did it could have been a coincidence," Brunn said. "It could have been an intricately worked out, Machiavellian type move."
Musical Programs Scheduled for Week
Roumanian dancers and musicians and the "Vegh Quartet" will be here Thursday and Friday.
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The "Rapsodia Romina," a group of 50 dancers and musicians, will appear on the KU concert course Thursday at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
For rates, reservations or further information, get in touch with:
The Roumanian national folk ensemble and Barbu Lautraut orchestra are touring the U.S. from their headquarters in Bucharest.
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The KU chamber music series will present the "Vegh Quartet" on Friday at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. Members are Sandor Vegh and Sandor Zoldy, violins; Georges Janzer, viola; and Paul Szabo, cello.
Political Outlook -
Back in the southeastern corner on Kansas, the race predicted to be the closest in the state is going on between Joe Skubitz, Republican, and Wade Myers, Democrat. Dropping from the Flint Hills near Emporia to the abandoned zinc mines at the Missouri border, this District has doubled in size, with the nine new counties added predominately Republican.
District is more heavily populated than Dole's old Sixth.
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This area's problem is in attracting industry to it. When the lead and
Jury Chosen In Estes Case
TYLER, Tex.—(UPI)—A jury of 11 men and one woman was chosen today to hear the trial of Billie Sol Estes on charges he converted $94,500 in mortgages on nonexistant fertilizer equipment to his own use.
Each side disqualified 10 members of a 32-man jury panel to get the final 12 jurors who will hear the case.
Jury selection started a week ago. THE FIRST witnesses in the state's case against the Texas financier probably will be called today if the prosecution and defense can pare their list of 32 qualified veniremen to the 12 who will hear the testimony.
The complaining witness in the state's attempt to imprison Estes for theft, Pecos farmer T. J. Wilson, was reported to have arrived here yesterday by plane.
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zinc mines there closed, people turned to farming or left.
WADE MYERS, a young Emporia lawyer now serving in the Kansas Senate, says that the area needs a Democrat in Congress in order to get federal help such as that given in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Myers has also proposed "an entirely new farm program which requires a person to make at least half of his income from farming before being allowed to participate in the government farm programs."
In his public speeches, Myers has accused Pittsburg and Emporia of deliberately attempting to hold back industrial development for their own protection.
SKUBITZ, administrative assistant to the late Andrew F. Schoeppel and Sen. Clyde M. Reed, has campaigned against "overemphasis on a strong centralized federal government."
He has tried to convince the voters his experience in Washington will help him in obtaining legislation and in other negotiations.
It appears that the key county in this contest is Labette. A poll conducted by the Parsons Sun last week showed Myers ahead by only six votes in the heavily Democratic Parsons wards.
THE POLL IS SIGNIFICANT, the area believes, because Myers must carry the Parson Democratic wards heavily to win in the normally Republican district.
Skubitz is expected to do well in Democratic Crawford county where Skubitz is well known and popular with the voters.
Lyon county, however, Myer's home county, which has a traditional see-saw voting record, could go Democratic in his support.
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