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MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1962 Opening Home to Foreign will Gesture Travelers Good By RALPH VILLEHS United Press International New York - (UPD - Armchair travelers can do the next best thing to jaunting overseas they can invite foreign visit ors to this country into their homes. Surprisingly, it's very easily dor, especially for someone living in gateway cities such as New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But possibilities exist elsewhere now that for eign visitors are traveling all over the United States. Opening your home to a traveler from abroad would be an expression of the grow ing People-to-People program. Basically, it's goodwill at the grass-roots. Family Visits When foreign tourists ore in your area, it's not difficult finding one, two or even a family really eager to visit an American home. They are curious as to what is behind the walls of all the homes and apartment houses they pass and how Americans live. Neither is any special prep aration necessary on the part of (he American host, nothing Water Will Be Pumped Uphi till for 100 Miles By ROBERT L. HAUGHT Oklahoma City -(UNI- Some day next year a thirsty child may turn the tap here and en joy a drink of water from a lake in the hills of southeast ern Oklahoma. The water will be brought 100 miles, uphill, through what is believed will be the world's longest enclosed pipe line. This unique project is Ok lahoma City's answer to a problem facing many cities-a growing need for more water. A harsh drought in the early U)50's pointed up the need here and forced city of ficials and civic leaders to seek a long-range solution. It was painfully apparent that the city's two reservoirs could not provide an adequate water supply. Even with ad ditional storage, upstream on tho( North Canadian river, there would not be enough water for a population ex pected to reach a million bv J 1)75. After much study, a plan was born - startling at first glance. U called for construc tion of a lake near Atoka 1UU miles to the southeast, where water is plentiful and a 60 inch pipeline with a series of dams and pumping stations to transport the water to a new resej voir near Oklahoma City. Cost of the far-reaching project was set at $li2.7 mil lion with a 40-year financing plan calling for an increase in water rates. Construction bean in lOt'il. The Atoka lake was com pleted several months ago and the Klin creek reservoir near STATE REPRESENTATIVE Sluts Forcit Industrial Bjchbonc of Our Economy PJ. Pol. Aitv S. V. Mc. Ouren, 2M6 H, Merest. McJ-K.rd s : ' For more than for entertaining neighborhood friends. For example, when the liner Canberra recently brought more than 1,600 Bri tons to New York on a cruise, it took only one inquiry at the ship to quickly produce a husband, wife and their two young daughters from War wickshire who wanted to spend the day with an Ameri can family. What was it like? What do you do? A barbecue In a near by park opened their knowl edge to some thing truly American. Cooking out over the . charcoal was something just not done in the woods at home. They eagerly took movies and still pictures to show the folks at home how they dug into American ham burgers and hot dogs. Even the boxed plastic spoons for the potato salad were an experience "You Americans have everything." It worked both ways, too. My kids learned that ketchup to some people is "tomato sauce (pronounced toe-mah-toc." These were people who came 3,000 miles to see and learn, and eagerly they ques- Oklahoma City is almost fin ished. The pipeline is 75 per cent complete. Still to be built are three more major dams and lakes and a water treatment plant. Engineers estimate water will be flowing through the pipeline by next May, but only for testing until autumn. Morrison Cunningham, con sulting engineer for the city's water authority, said the wa ter plant will be far enough along by that time for at least partial use. Hesidents already are en joying some benefits from the project. The Elm Creek reser voir is the only lake in the Oklahoma City area where water skiing is permitted. New Insfrumenf Now Induces Anesthesia Memphis - UTI) - A new in strument to electronically in duce anesthesia has been de veloped by Dr. William II. L, Dornette, chairman of the di vision of anesthesiology of the University of Tennessee Col lege of Medicine here. The idea dates back to 1910, but was first successfully test ed only about a year ago. The compact model, the first com m e r c 1 a 1 1 y manufactured equipment of its kind, will be placed on the market in about a mouth. Co mm 41 iii T4 . : tioned about all facets of American life. Before the day was over, the children were fast friends. Now a frequent query is, "When can we go to England to see my friend, Mary?" But this is only one phase of People-to-People. "There are thousands of ways you can make contact," pointed out Joyce C. Hall of Kansas City, chairman of the Executive committee of People-to-People. He cited class room exchanges between schools in this country and abroad, college campus pro grams to help and meet for eign students, or even indi vidual people-to-people letters. UNFINISHED FURNITURE Many, Many Different Pieces and Sizes 765 .i.i rries trie A Tire for every Truck Making Progress with Forest Products No worries about getting there when you ride on a GATES TRUCK TIRE Men in the lumber industry know and believe in GATES TIRES. 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