THURSDAY.
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."
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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.
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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.
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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. '
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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
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Colombia III returned to the
university's Inter national
House for a two-hour night
lecture on Colombian econo
mics. Then to bed. Tomorrow
would begin at 6:30 a.m. with
an hour of physical training.
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.
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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."
Dark-eyed Ampara, who
speaks no English, glanced
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