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Mexico Eyes Leadership Of Northern Latin Americans
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MEXICO CITY—(UPI)—Do you walk barefoot, or do you wear huaraches, sandals or shoes?
(This is another "Latin American Report." part of a periodic feature designed to present a continuing picture of development in the nations south of the United States.)
What is the chief material used in the walls of your house — wood, brick, cement, mud, thatch, etc?
These are some of the questions asked in Mexico's 1960 census, final results of which are due later in the year. The last census, taken in 1950, showed a population of 25,715,350. The 1960 count is expected to be almost 35 million.
Like people anywhere, Mexicans have a sense of privacy, too, and the same nagging feeling that the less you tell the government, the better off you are.
So the government issued appeals through the press, radio, television and movie screens for citizens to "tell the truth" to the census takers without fear that the information would find its way to the tax collector's office. And President Lopez Mateos made an eight-minute appeal for co-operation over a national radio and television hookup the night before his entire cabinet joined more than a million census takers in gathering statistics.
Helicopters, navy warships and river barges helped carry some of the head-counters into tough mountain and jungle areas and to remote sections of the Yucatan Peninsula.
One standard question was: "Do you eat bread made of wheat daily?" Mexico has been predominately a corn eating nation and a switch to more expensive wheat would tend to indicate an improved economy.
The question "What language do you speak" probably brought more varied replies in Mexico than it would almost anywhere else in the world. An estimated 25 pre-Columbian tongues are still in use in remote areas of the country.
Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos closed his 23-day Latin American tour with a five-day visit in Mexico. Diplomatic observers here found the visit significant as a measure of Mexico's determination to become the leader of northern Latin America.
In terms of day to day events the visit was relatively uneventful. There were no demonstrations by anti-Castro partisans; Dorticos received an enthusiastic reception by some 7,500 university students, labor delegations and well-wishers on his arrival at the airport; and he was nowhere snubbed, as was the case during some of his earlier stops, at Caracas, for example.
Well before his arrival the government gradually revealed its pro-Cuba attitude. It was an open secret that federal agents were rounding up known anti-Castro Cubans here two weeks before the visit.
A joint statement issued by the two presidents spoke of achieving "larger proportions" of trade between the two countries and "methodical studies" to pinpoint the most advantageous areas of commerce. The present balance of trade is in Cuba's favor. Mexico's government oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, was not in a position to offer crude oil as a substitute for the controversial purchase which Cuba recently made from Soviet Russia. But it expects to be before long.
In short, the visit was another example of what the financial experts call Mexico's watch-and-wait attitude. Mexico, with a burgeoning industrial complex which in post World War II years has given it a yearly increase in gross national product exceeded only by Japan and West Germany, can afford to extend sympathy — with exports ready — toward the domestic problems of sister Latin American republics.
The five-nation South American tour of Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos last January was another effort to realize Mexico's often-stated wish to see more economic exchange and self sufficiency within Latin America. Cultural exchange treaties were signed with Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile (A similar treaty with Venezuela, first stop on the tour, already existed), while the government and private financial leaders on the tour talked about trade and the "Latin American Free Trade Association," which is a regional common market.
More trade with another hemisphere was also indicated by the first reports of a recent 25-member Mexican trade mission to the Far East. The group traveled on invitation of Japanese officials who would like to see the present balance of trade three to one in Mexico's favor brought more in line.
The most talked about deal which
emerged from the Mexican trade mission visit is a plan to produce "Datsun" vehicles entirely in this country, including motors. Mexico's auto industry consists at present of the assembly of U.S. and European cars, trucks and buses from parts turned out, for the most part, at the home factory. The Datsun plan would provide automobiles "made in Mexico" for Latin American export within the common market, as well as for domestic use.
Regular jet service on international flights is expected by August, according to officials of the first Mexican airline to purchase jet aircraft. The "Compania Mexicana De Aviacion" took delivery of its first British built Comet IV jet last January, only to face the pilots' refusal to take instruction in jet techniques until they won a contract.
Shortly after asking the De Havilland Company of England to take back its jet and cancel orders for three more, the company announced it had decided to recognize the national pilots union as bargaining agent. The contract was signed, pilots started their lessons, and the second jet was flown in from Chicago on a non-stop flight which took three hours, thirty minutes.
Overseas Expert Visits KU Today
On home leave from his duties as a foreign correspondent in Europe, a former University faculty member is visiting on campus today.
Nino Lo Bello, who taught sociology for 10 semesters, went overseas several years ago to serve as a reporter for McGraw-Hill World News and 49 daily newspapers.
During his University stay Lo Bello served as founder and faculty adviser of the campus' CCUN, a club that staged several mock Security Councils and General Assembles. He was also a member of the Faculty Fossils softball team which won several trophies now on permanent exhibit at the Faculty Club.
Lo Bello said he is selling his large professional collection of sociology, psychology and anthropology books. They are on exhibit at his home address, 1741 Vermont Street, and are for sale as individual books at a dollar a volume, he said.
"Aeronaves De Mexico." Mexico's other large carrier which flies abroad, then announced its agents have been talking with U.S. manufacturers to decide which jetliners the company will buy before the end of the year.
Newton Senior Given Cerebral Palsy Grant
Viola J. Klassen, Newton senior, has received a scholarship from United Cerebral Palsy's research and educational foundation to partially cover tuition for the 1960-61 school year. Miss Klassen is among students in various parts of the country receiving such grants in a program designed to alleviate the shortage of occupational therapists.
Braniff International Airways was founded June 20, 1928.
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Institute Receives Additional Funds
The National Science Foundation has awarded an additional $950 to the University of Kansas for support of the Summer Institute for High School and College Teachers of Mathematics, now in session.
Russell N. Bradt, associate professor of mathematics and director of the Institute, said the additional funds will cover expenses of a South American participant in the Institute, Osvaldo Sangtiori of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Foundation's original grant for support of the Institute was $100,925.
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Stiles Receives Art Fellowship
Joseph E. Stiles, professor of drawing and painting, has received a fellowship for next winter from the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
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As an award to artists having a record of achievement in their field, the fellowships give the artists the opportunity to devote themselves exclusively to their creative activity. Stiles is a 1953 graduate of the University and has studied painting at the Art Students League in New York. He later received his M.A. from the University of New Mexico. His work has been shown in regional, national and international exhibitions.
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MONTPELIER, Vt., — (UPI) — Though this is the only New England state without a sea coast, the lure of the sea proved strong for some 65 youths. They were sworn into the Navy on the steps of the State Capitol by Gov. Robert T. Stafford, a commander in the Naval Reserve.
Professors' Text Published in Asia
It is the only business text named to be printed and distributed by the Kogakusha Co. Lt., of Tokyo, Japan, for exclusive sale in 18 eastern countries.
An Eye for an Eye
The book is "Cost Accounting" by John G. Blocker, professor of business administration, and W. Keith Weltmer, professor of business and director of executive development;
The first printing in May was completely sold in India. A second printing now is being distributed.
McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc. has selected a book written by two KU professors as one of 14 texts to be published in a special Asian students edition.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(UPI)—Bobby Davis was mowing the lawn when the blade hit a rock which went crashing through the back window of a neighbor's automobile.
The following week, the neighbor was mowing his yard. The neighbor's mower threw a rock through the back window of Davis' car.
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