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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. Non-Beatnik Coffee Houses Said Successful By EDWARD FLATTAU Albany, N. Y. - (UPD - In the very non-Bohemian atmos phere of Saratoga Springs and Schenectady, N. Y., the pro prietors of two local cafes have embarked on a very Bo hemian, if not bold, project: "To stimulate contemporary culture through the continen tal mood of the coffee house." Quick to assert that their establishments are not "Beat nik" places but rather "fac similes" of what one might find in Paris or Greenwich Village, N. Y., are the owners of the Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs and the San Remo Coffee house in Schenectady. There is usually resistance to the introduction of new things, the owners point out, and coffee houses though not uncommon are no ex ception. Their cafes have been lowly labeled as Beatnik "joint s" and unattractive "slum spots." Success But after two years of try ing to prove that the coffee house can become a success In "the provinces," the owners have succeeded where others before them have failed. They have in fact succeeded to such an extent that the towns' in fluential citizens have been won over and local news papers have found space for praise. . . , : Lena Spencer, whose cafe is situated above a laundry near the center of Saratoga Springs, has a stage in her place where dramas have been presented that were Written especially for her by several playwrights from a nearby summer artists' col ony. She and her husband, a professional sculptor, profess to furnish a haven for experi mental theater and profes sional folk singers, and for those who just like to "sit, relax and exchange ideas." Bob Massaro's San Remo coffee house is located on the fringe of Schenectady's oldest district in a neighborhood of rich historical tradition. Earn Motives ; The owners of the two busi nesses had the same basic mo tives for opening their places. They had traveled in Europe, admired and partaken of the informal "home away from home" atmosphere of the cof fee houses there and wanted to give their American neigh bors a reasonable likeness. Lena and Massaro describe the majority of their clientele as students or professional persons living in a 30 mile radius. But surprisingly, middle-age patrons usually out number the youngsters. Lena disclosed that Individ uals occasionally enter her place to go "slumming" but usually leave disappointed or change their opinion and stay on. Massaro said some local teenagers bedecked in bizarre getups visited his premises "to be cool" but rarely return when they find it is a coffee house and not a beatnik hang out. Lena and Massaro agree an upstate coffee house owner must love what he is trying to popularize. In addition, he must possess the patience and determination to outlast In difference and even hostility while facing economic un certainty. Infant Mortality Rate Shows Decline Chicago -IDPP- Over 300.000 babies born last year are alive today as a result of advnnccs in medical care since the turn of the century. The Health In formation foundation, making this point noted that these In fsnts represent the number of additional lives saved In a single year because the Infant mortality rate has declined so sharply. "Measured by any yard stick, this is wonderful prog ress," the foundation said. "Yet no matter how satisfy ing, an analysis of Infant deaths shows that much re mains to be accomplished. If the level of survival attained In Utah the state with the best record had been achieved throughout the country last year, for In stance, some 27,000 more In fants would have lived." KEEP SENATOR LYNN IIEWBRY WORKING for YOU Pd. Pol. Adv., Newbry for St. Sen. Comm., Chet Hubbsrd Chm. 2451 lymtn it, M,1 d d, OrlQOn i OCTOBER 25, 1962 Peace Corps Trainees Work With Social By FREDERICK H. TREESH and GERALD SNYDER United Press International New York IUPD A young man blond, good-1 ooking and six-feet plus sat on the edge of a tiny nursery school cot, reading to a group of attentive five-year-olds gath ered about his feet. Henry Hot III, 25, had just resigned from a promising ad ministrative job with a New York bank. Now he was read. ing "The Brave Firemen and the Firehouse Cat" to chil dren at a Harlem day care center. "Gay is a big fluffy cat that lives in a firehouse, began Hot, a neatly-tailored Dart mouth man, "Gay loves the firehouse. Gay is a cat who loves excitement . t ." Reads To Another Group In a nearby hallway, pretty, platinum blond Marl anna Osborne, 20, sat on a bench reading to another group of children. "This is George," she read. turning the book so the chil dren, Negro and Puerto Rl can, could see the picture of a funny, little brown monkey. "He lives in Africa. He is very hnppy. "But George has one fault. He's too curious . . ." Down the hall In another classroom, crewcut Carl Ste phani. a slender 20-year-old Southern Callfornlan, squat ted on a six-inch high chair, helping a group of three-year-olds spoon down the last of their applesauce and prepare for their afternoon naps. Peace Corps Trainees Henry, Marianna and Carl are Peace Corps trainees, among 8o who are working this October with social agen cies in New York's slum neighborhoods during the fi nal stages of their training. It is the first time the Peace Corps has used the dingy side of America to train Its mem- Oceanographer Says Coastlines Of Continents Fit College Station, Tex. -ItlPII-Countlcss school teachers have told their pupils that the coast lines of North and South America match the coastlines of Africa and they might fit together like pieces of a giant Jigsaw puzzle. Navy oceanographer Robert S. Dictz now believes the coastlines definitely do fit, and bases his theory of the formation of continents on tliis fact. Speaking before student in Ihc National Science Founda tion program at Texas A&M college, Diclz opposed conven tional geological theory and said the earth's continents arc the true crust of the earth and the continents are drifting apart. Convention theory holds that the ocean bottom Is the crust of the earth and the continents are only outcron pings of this crust. The steady cooling and shrinking of the earlh caused the crust to buckle, forming these outcrop pings. Move Away Dletz believes the North and South Amerlran continents were moved awny from each other along with the ocean floor by forces in the earth's mantle. He predicted that be- cause the sea floor is therefore relatively young, drillers in J "Project Mohole" will not I find much in the way of fossil j history of the earth in ie drill cores from the ocean bot-1 torn. In Project Mohole. the U.S. plans to drill three miles Into the ocean bottom and take core samples from In-low the earth's crust. Dietz said there is scien tific evidence that the earth's conlini-nts have not always been fixed in their present po sitions. Part of this evidence he said is that the African coastline fits that of North and South America. Further, he said, research ers have discovered that the magnetic orientation of rocks in Australia, Antarctica and the southern regions of South America and Africa indicate these land masses were once much closer together. (j t, ) r " r -. " 1 iiu&rs.. Xj, : VI i . 'j LEARN BY DOING Henry Hot III, 23, of Forest Hills, N.Y., teaches Robert Coltoff and Gabrlella Holmes, both five, how to use a hammer and nails. Hof, one of 80 bers to combat the dingy ele ments of society overseas. On Nov. 13, the 80 Peace Corpsmen will fly to Colum bia where they will serve among low-income, city- dwelling families whose flight is not dissimilar to in- hablnents of this city's dis advantaged areas. At the University of New Mexico the personnel of Peace Corps "Project Colum bia III" the oldest 54, the youngest 18, the average 23 learned constructions skills, techniques of dealing with the poorly educated and poverty stricken, how to handle pub lic health, housing, education and recreation problems, the Columbian culture and his tory and practiced communi cating in Spanish. - Later their training at the Peace Corps' Puerto Rican camp (long swims fully clothed, army-type confidence courses, long runs, calenthen tics.) made them physically tough and used to working under strain. Now, In New York's tough neighborhood and under the guidance of Columbia Univer sity's New York school of so cial work, they are relating Foremen Found to Have Frequent Peptic Ulcers Pittsburgh, Pa. - IUPD - Fore men ranked well ahead of ex ecutives and craftsmen in the relative frequency and sever ity of peptic ulcer, according to a study by Drs. James P. Dunn and Sidney Cobb, of Pittsburgh. There was no evidence to support the notion that ex ecutives have an unusual prevalence of ulcer disease. Included In the study were 377 men. classified as middle management; 34 foremen and 273 craftsmen. CHRYSTAL MEATS The House of Personal Service 4th and Fir Phone 772-7315 CI-U D.-M Midway'. Hickory 4Q OI3D D 3 C O II Smoked, In Piece., lb. 07 Beef Hearts ung m ....,. 25 Side Porkr..h b 43 Tongues IT Beef Livers .39 Cube Steaks- 20' Special - Thurs., Klamath Fed LOCKER CUT - WRAPPED - QUICK FROZEN - FREE BIG FAMILY ORDER 25 ib, BEEF only SH298 their previous experiences and training to people . Carl Stephani, three years at the University of Califor nia behind him but not cer tain where his life was head ing, stood in the fenced-in playyard of the Grant day care center, rolling a red ball back and forth with an ex cited Negro boy, aged 3. "In school we worked so many years with theoretical, academic problems. I also had done some youth work School Uniforms Favored by Girls New York - IUPD - Girls enrolled in Roman Catholic high schools overwhelmingly favor the wearing of school uniforms Instead of attire of their own choosing, accord ing to a survey made by a nun. Sister Marie William, writ ing in the January issue of The Catholic Educator, report ed on a survey of student expenditures in diocesan high schools In Indianapolis and Vincennes, Ind.l Chicago and Joliet, 111.; Chelsea and Mai den, Mass., and Washington, D.C. In the article, entitled "Ask the Lass Who Wears One," Sister Marie William said the girls found that uniforms were more economical, saved the time and trouble of de ciding what to wear each day. lessened the Inequalities of family economics, provided apparel both attractive and easy to maintain and made both the individual and the group appear well groomed. The minority who did not like uniforms were bored with wearing the same thing every day and felt they were prevented from self-expression through clothes. ' Fri., & Sat. Only beef::: MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Peace Corps trainees leaving next month to work In urban area in Colombia, is learning how to work with children at Grant Day Care Center in New York City. (UPI) gram ("technical help on the intermediate level along with social work"), himself ("I can fix cars; I'm a mediocre plum ber and a halfway carpenter") and previous U. S. overseas aid programs ("We on the out side decided what they need ed and sent it. It was hard to accept . . . dignity-destroying."). Hof, son of a real estate man from Forest Hills, N.Y., spent part of the morning teaching a couple five-year-with the YMCA with fairly good results," Carl said. "I thought working with people might be my field." Stephani of El Cajon, Calif., talked the Peace Corps pro olds some technical skills, I.E. how to nail two small boards together. Two-Car Families To Reach Million New York -IUPD- The num ber of two-car familiies in the United States grows steadily. A report from one automo bile financing corporation says that since 1054, the num ber of families owning two or more cars has increased from 4.15 million to well over 7.5 million - a gain of more than 75 per cent. By years end, the total is expected to pass the mil lion mark, said the C. I. T. Credit corporation. The firm says working wives and the "captive" wives who dislike being left without cars when their husbands drive to work are a major factor in the in crease. Studies of the effects of unpleasant noise on human behavior conducted at Eng land's National Physical Lab oratory disclose that the most irritating sound is heard in the kitchen - the scraping of a knife against a saucepan. "This beats working in a bank," he laid as he advised Gabby and Robert, both 5, which nail to use and where to pound it. Cares for Guinea Pig Marianna, a 20-year-old for mer student at Scripps col lege who lives in Fresno, Calif., helped another group of five-year-olds care for their pet guinea pig. The young sters, 88 pre-tchool and 30 pri mary graders, spend their days at the child care center because their mothers are working, incapacitated or overburdened. Clarence Lawrence, direc tor of the center, said the Peace Corps trainees are en thusiastic about their work with the children. "You might say they're like sponges soaking up as much sa they can for deposit some where else," she sxid. Carl, Marianna and Henry spent the afternoon helping a staff member of Neighbor hood Conservation, a social agency which Inspects hous ing conditions in rundown neighborhoods and tries to improve them. En route to the Neighborhood Conserva tion office, the three talked about their fellow Peace Corpsmen. Genuine Adventurers "A large percentage of us are genuine adventurers. We are hard-headed but looking for ideas," Carl said. "We are idealistic but stable," Marianna said. "We have no delusions of saving nations. In our work, you might say we're jacks and jacqueiines of all trades." Henry added: "We are anxious to present a good image of our country. As one Peace Corps official put it, 'we're not official rep resentees of America, but representative Americans.' " With Linda Busken, 24, a social worker not long gradu ated from Denison university, Granville, Ohio, the three Peace Corps trainees visited apartment buildings in a two square block area along Am sterdam ave. About 2.000 peo ple live in the five and six- story buildings. Back to Grant Houses Henry, Carl and Marianna went from Neighborhood Conservation back to Grant Houses, a towering housing project with 1,900 multi-room units for low-income families, to help staff an after-school community center. When the day s field work was done, Carl, Henry and Mariana along with the 77 other participants in Project WIN ftlash ENTER NOW! ENTER OFTEN! NOTHING TO WRITE, GUESS OR FIGURE OUT Extra cash may be yours to make a happier Christ mas for your family! It's easy to enter Sego Milk's "CASH FOR CHRISTMAS" SWEEP STAKES. All you need to do is print your name and address on an entry blank or plain piece of paper, along with fiuvn yiiiu uiav aiau wiu a pu&c 1UI 11 1 111 anu mail it with a Sego Milk label. The official rules, printed below, give you all details. Pick up a convenient entry blank in your store at the Sego Milk display. 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Across town and a hundred blocks to the south on Man - hattan's lower East Side, two Peace Corps trainees and a young Colombian social worker (one of 30 training with the Peace Corpsmen who will be co-workers In Co lombia) watched quietly as a hundred or more derelict men shuffled through a free food line. Escapers from Society Alcoholics, the mentally de ficient, the neurotic, the so c 1 a 1 outcasts all escapers from society p i c k e d up plates of chicken and dressing and gloomily ate with spoons. "This is a distasteful and unpleasant place, but these trainees can learn a lot here. And they can help: They have a zest for life, a fresh ap proach . . . they have no use for the notion that these men are washed up," according to Isadore Reiter, assistant su pervisor of the shelter, just east of the Bowery. One trainee walked over to a balding-red-faced man In a khaki shirt. The man, in his mld-50s was an alcoholic. A graduate of a fine university, he had been through two marriages, numerous jobs and finally "flunked out" of several insti tutions which tried to help him onto the wagon. Asks Him to Write The trainee was asking him to write another such institu tion in upstate New York, asking for re-admittance. "He's a nice guy," the 22-year-old prospective Peace Corpsmen said. "I think he'll write the letter." Nearby, trainee Ernesto Orona of Los Lunas, N.M., and the Colombian social worker, Amparo Alverez, 24, tried to get a group of dis heveled men to take some small white pills, prescribed for persons with arrested tu berculosis. A number of the tablets were scattered on the floor. Some of the men think the pills will make them sick, to turn them from the bottle, Reiter said. Others don't want to get well, they want to suf fer, he said. "I didn't think a shelter like this even existed," Orona, 22, said. "I'm glad someone takes care of them." 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