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First Stop - Tanganyika Peace Corps Defined
(Editor's Note: Following is a release from the Peace Corps headquarters designed to clear up misconceptions about the program.)
College graduates will not dig ditches in the Peace Corps. Nor will they explain Locke to the Bantus.
Volunteers will not try to "Americanize" the world, nor will they be selected from the ranks of the "draft dodgers."
These and other misconceptions about the Peace Corps have taken root and blossomed on some college campuses.
Let's look at the truth of the matter.
FIRST, THE Peace Corps Volunteer will go only where he is asked. He will be asked only where there is a specific job to do. The job will be one the host nation can't do itself.
Tanganyika has an abundance of unskilled labor but the country can only produce two Tanganyikans trained in land survey work in the next five years. Their government has asked the Peace Corps to supply the surveyors, civil engineers and geologists to meet their shortage. President Kennedy has agreed to help and a joint plan has been mapped out.
Volunteers with these skills have applied and are now applying to the Peace Corps. In late May the Volunteers will be called for interviews. In June the task force will be selected and intensive training started.
The first Peace Corps Volunteers will go to Tanganyika. There, to improve the lot of the nation's many farmers, roads must be built to get their produce to market centers.
training started.
At a university the Volunteer will learn about Tanganyika, about its culture, mores, tradition and history. He will study our heritage and democratic institutions. He will begin a physical conditioning program and brush up on his skills in terrain similar to Tanganyika's.
NEXT, ACCORDING to present plans, the Volunteer will participate in another exhaustive training period at a camp site in a mountain rain forest abroad.
Physical and mental conditioning for the rigors of Africa will be stepped up. Lectures on tropical living will be given. Programs designed to develop and test the stamina, self-reliance, adaptability and endurance of the Volunteers are planned.
In most Peace Corps projects, the local language will be taught in a stateside university. For this project, however, the Tanganyikan government asked that it be permitted to use its techniques to teach Volunteers Swahili.
The first seven weeks in Tanganyika will be spent at a camp on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro where the Volunteer will study Swahili and learn about his work there.
After this course, Volunteers, in groups of two and three, will be assigned to provincial capitals which will serve as home base for the safaris into the jungle to plan the needed roads from the isolated native villages to the main highwavs.
In Tanganyika, the Volunteer will receive enough money to live
Virus Study Grant
Albert A. Benedict, associate professor of bacteriology, has been awarded a total of $12,880 by the U.S. Public Health Service to continue his study of virus immunity.
Prof. Benedict was granted a two-month extension fund of $2,530 and a one-year renewal of $10,350 for his research in "Cellular Immunity in Psittacosis and Virus Infections."
The goal of the research, which began in 1957, is to determine the characteristics of antibodies contained by certain cells and the role these antibodies play in resistance to virus infections.
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young—Henry Louis Mencken
a simple existence, but not exactly at the level of the local populace. The Volunteer will have all his needs — food, housing, clothing and transportation — provided for. The Volunteer will need no money of his own. He need not fear that his subsistence will provoke hunger or poverty. Provision will be made for recreation, some travel during relief periods, and medical care.
THE WORK WILL be hard. It may be frustrating. It could be dangerous. It certainly will be lonely. But it will also be exciting and rewarding.
The Volunteer's work will test his patriotism, his courage, his endurance. He will learn from another culture, he will do a needed job, he will help his country in time of need and help the cause of world peace. The Volunteer will be answering the call of what he can do for his country, not what his country can do for him.
When he returns after two years service, the Volunteer will receive $75 for every month spent overseas. He will have the services of a Career Planning Board to help continue his career.
During his Volunteer service, the Volunteer will be deferred from the draft. If he returns home to a socially useful job, his deferment will continue.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Leaders of Orthodox Jews in the United States and Canada have denounced a proposal that they intermarry to spread their religion and combat anti-semitism.
British historian Arnold Teynbee made the proposal last Saturday at the annual conference of the American Council of Judaism in Philadelphia.
YESTERDAY, leaders purporting to represent the majority of north American Jews said intermarriage would mean the end of Judaism as a religious force.
"The Jewish prohibition against intermarriage is the basic guaranty of Jewish survival in the world and the only guarantor of the survival of that Judaism which Jews are perpetuating for the benefit of all mankind," they said.
Jews Denounce Marriage Plan
THE STATEMENT was issued by Rabbi Charles Weinberg, President of the Rabbinical Council of America, and Moses Feuerstein, President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations.
They said because Toynbee was "the darling of the intelligentia" they could not let his statement go. They said he was "short-sighted, inconsistent and narrowly partisan" in his treatment of Judaism.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — One child of every 20 born in the United States is illegitimate, according to the government.
One Out of 20 Babies Illegitimate
And one out of every five born in the District of Columbia is illegitimate, the Health, Education and Welfare Department told Congress in testimony released yesterday.
The number of children born out of wedlock is highest in the South and lowest in the Rocky Mountains, the department said.
The department said Mississippi led the states in illegitimacy with 126
out of every 1,000 babies born. It was followed by South Carolina, with 119.4 of every 1,000; Alabama, 105.8, Georgia, 101.7, Florida, 92.1, and North Carolina, 89.8. North Dakota, with 17.9, and Wyoming, with 18.9, had the lowest figures.
All figures were for 1958.
The department also said the black market baby racket was flourishing. An investigation in California, it said, showed babies were selling for as much as $6,000 to $7,000.
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