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
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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.
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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.
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People-to-People was born
in 1956 under the sponsorship
of former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower and run as a
government project. Last No
vember it was reorganized as
a non-government, non-political,
non-profit organization.
Hall has channeled the
drive which made him the
nation's largest greeting card
maker into his People-to-People
post. One of the projects
of which he is most proud is
the spread of People-to-People
on Campus from the Univer
sity of Kansas to more than
600 schools.
Once campus leaders at
Kansas realized foreign stu
dents were absorbing a none-
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ica, they set about establish
ing lasting permanent con
tacts, forums for joint dis
cussions and helping foreign
students find jobs and hous
ing. "It has changed the think
ing of these students," Hall
said. "The best byproduct is
that it is as effective on the
American students as on the
foreign students.
"The reason the American
students weren't doing some
thing about the foreign stu
dents was that it hadn't oc
curred to them. It was an
oversight. I think it is the
same way with foreign tourists."
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