Living, Working Conditions
Of Translators Are Outlined
Thur., June 14, 1962 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. 3
EDITORS NOTE: "Sam"
Lambart Huffman, a, publiih.r
from Wine M Laka, Indiana, r.
cantly raturned from Maxico
whera ha visited American
tranilatori working with isolat
ed Indian tribes to bring them
a written language. In a series
of dispatches, he tells of the
dedicated linguists and their
work.
By "SAM" Lambert Huffman
Written For UPI
"Guess next time he comes,
we'll just shoot him and eat
him," said Elizabeth Murane as
she cooked biscuits on a mud
stove in the Mexican jungles near
the Guatemalan border. Her
S-month old daughter played hap
pily nearby.
She was talking about her face-to-face
meeting with a boa con
strictor, large, calf-swallowing
snakes that abound in the rain
forests near La Victoria, Mexico,
in Chiapas state.
She explained that when . she
and her husband, John, first ar
rived they had to build their own
"champa," a hut made of cane
poles. Before it was finished they
slept outside.
Noise Heard
"I had to feed the baby so she
and I slept in the sleeping bag
on the ground. I think it was
about the second night," she said.
"I heard a faint noise like a
freight train off in the distance.
I knew there was no train here,
so I listened and finally decided
it was some animal moving
through the dry underbrush.
"I wriggled my flashlight out
of the sleeping bag and flashed
it on. There, about 10 feet from
us, was a boa constrictor in an
attitude of watchful wailing, sort
of trying to decide whether he
should retreat or coil up for the
night."
"What did you do?"
"I called John. When the snake
heard John stirring in the ham
mock, it just disappeared in the
underbrush."
"What will you do if he comes
back again?" I asked.
Both Elizabeth and John
laughed.
"Guess next time he comes,"
Elizabeth smiled, "We'll just
shoot him and eat him."
Church
Activities
Reason Told
As the 28-year-old brunette
Elizabeth, 'vho- couldn't weigh
more than 110 pounds, finished
breakfast and tidied up the mud
floored champa, I asked her why
she had come to the jungle.
She has advanced nursing de
grees from Columbia University
and religious education training
at Biblical Seminary in New
York. Her husband also studied
at Bible Seminary after getting a
degree from Stanford.
"It's the challenge the chal
lenge to help others, to do God's
work," she said. ,
"Life back there seemed empty
and purposeless," John broke in.
"I now have a calling, a purpose,
a goal, and I'm able to measure
my progress here mentally, phys
ically and spiritually day by i
day."
Camas Bible Class
Gets Certificates
The Camas Valley Methodist
Church held the Daily Vacation
Bible School the past week in the
church and Friday at 12:30 p.m.
closing exercises were staged be
fore an adult audience. Certificates
of completion were awarded to 60
pupils.
The average daily attendance
was 59 with the peak attendance
of 61 Tuesday. Average attend
ance by classes was beginners, 20;
primary, 12; juniors, 16; and teen
agers 11.
Through a drawing, grand at
tendance prize winners were Kath
leen Nuzum and Glenn Wifer, Jr.
During the week, "lucky seat"
awards were won by Jeffery
Church, Terri Rentz, Michael Nuz
um, Pat Church, David Milton and
Dianne Dancer. Gospel "mystery
sack" winners were Tom Thrush,
Peggy Rentz, Bruce Lamm, Steve
Looney, Ramona Wilson and Gail
Eddy, Serving as judges were
Bruce Lamm, Gail Eddy, Larry
Carter, Karen Nuzum, Bobby Cum
tnings and Debby Webber.
Those presenting vocal solos
were Bruce Lamm, Ramona Wil
son and Narda Looney. Linda Cum
mings played several accordion se
lections. Director of the school was Mrs.
Russel Harwood and song leader
was Mrs. John Looney. Teaching
staff members were Mrs. Kenneth
Bright, Mrs, Glenn Wafer, Mrs.
Gail Carnine, Mrs. Doris Lamm
and Lyle Ice, with their assist
ants. W.S.C.S. women heading the
kitchen staff were Mrs. Louis
Papst and Mrs. Robert Wheeler
who served mid-morning light re
freshments. A full picnic lunch
was served Friday.
The school theme was "My Bi
ble and I." Mrs. Guy Moore of
fered baby sitting to teachers and
helpers having small children.
John and Elizabeth are Wy
cliffe translators, non-denominational
missionary-linguists who
live with remote tribes around
the world while they study the
spoken language and reduce it to
writing. Then, they teach the
tribe to read their own language.
rounded in 1935 by a mission
ary named Cameron Townsent.
Wycliffe translators, named after i
the late famed English Bible
translator, are working in 266
languages now. Of these, 200 have
been reduced to writing and the
New Testament translated into
six of them.
Languages Many
There are about 5,000 known
languages in the world today, and
only 1,170 of them have been re
duced to writing.
After Wycliffe finishes the job.
denominational church missionar
ies are encouraged to come in
and take over the tribal church
and use the native language New
Testament.
John and Elizabeth Murane
were at the Wycliffe jungle sub
sistance camp where new trans
lators are given final training be
fore going to live with the tribe
whose language they hope to de
cipher. Translators stay with their
tribe for five years at a time and
get a monthly salary of $115 for
each adult and $50 for each of
their children.
Also at the jungle camp were
Lee and Lynne Henriksen. He
had been a construction worker
in Philadelphia. She was a nurse.
Married just 10 months, they con
sidered the jungle training a hon
eymoon. Down the path from their cane
hut lived 23-year-old blue-eyed
blonde Donna Hetteck of Lucerne,
Calif., and brunette Marjorie
Crouch, 22, Northridgc, Calif.
Alone, the girls had built their
champa and had killed a possum
for Sunday dinner. But before
they could get it cooked, army
ants ran them out and ate the
possum. Undaunted, they re
turned. When I went by they were fry
ing bananas in lemon-flavored tcl
imon weed.
Lutheran Women
Vote Mission Gift
Members of St. Paul's Lutheran
Women s Guild at a recent meet
ing at the church voted to send
a $50 gift to the Rev. and Airs,
Richard Bode, Lutheran mission
ary workers at Tacloban in the
Philippines. The group corresponds
(luring me year witn we Bode am
Uy.
Mrs. Roy Hcbard reported that
337 has been donated for Concordia
College in Portland. Co-chairman
for this project is Mrs. John
Leonard.
Daily treats for students at the
Daily Vacation Bible School are
being furnished by the guild.
Reports on the annual church
cleaning project and the Gold Bond
Stamp project were given and Mrs.
Herman Hasbargen made a re
quest for coupons for the Good
Shepherd Lutheran Home of the
West in Terra Bella, Calif.
Pictures taken at the recent dis
trict Lutheran Women's Missionary
League convention were shown. Or
egon District LW.ML history statis
tics will be on file with the guild's
permanent records.
Twenty seven members and
guests participated in a song fest
following the business portion of
the meeting. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Herman, Hasbar
gen, Mrs. Gary Nichols and Mrs.
Vernon Teater, hostesses.
COOL PARADE
PORTLAND AP The Weather
Bureau issued a special forecast
today for the Portland Rose Festi
val parade to be held Saturday
morning: "No rain. Temperatures
seasonally cool."
Education High
Nearly all Wycliffe translators
are college graduates, many with
masters' degrees and 20 or more
with Ph.D.'s. Before being sent
out, they attend a summer insti
tute of linguistics where they
learn how to break down the un
written language, form an alpha
bet, and finally, teach Indians
how to read in their own tongue.
They also study at the jungle
subsistance camp, the advance
camp, main camp and at Wy
cliffe's translation center in Mex
ico City before being assigned to
a tribe where they will work.
This is what they're working
for to live with, help, study,
understand, and instruct the In
dian tribes.
(Tomorrow How to learn to
write a 5,000-year-old unwritten
tongue.)
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