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. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OHEGOM THURSDAY. APRIL 11. IMS j Peace Corps Volunteers Destined for Brazilian Duty Rv Tim TAU WIT CAU I t .1 I., l ! ni,, m-..- l-hi-iiaJ dm dm nmr. t- -, f,i .- latin m i t . holiuArn uoaHnmin tunrb . MaI fur OA mini it arte uiltk i Irginino innlnn s-.d.l ..if.,.-. i ti .. . . T. Br CARLTON WILSON Unittd Prtti Inlernalional Albuquerque, N.M. OJPD A steady stream of versatile volunteers in the Peace Corps will "hit the field" this year fter an intensive 12 -week training program for South American work at the Uni versity of New Mexico. volunteers already have vaded the adobe-style campus of Albuquerque, which has been designated as the first I year-round training center for ' the Peace Corps. They are i destined for duty in Colombia and Brazil. The man in charge of the SI. 5 million program is Dr. guist who has served on the I the program for Latin Amcr The first two groups of 130 Marshall R. Nason, 46, a lin- Corps staff in Washington and directed field activities in Chile and Argentina. Peace Corps Director Sargcant Shriver, the President's brother-in-law, calls Nason an "am bassador extraordinary" for the Corps. Nason said his center at UNM "forms the backbone of ica . . . which is the priority area for the Peace Corps." Inltnsirt Study Each of about 880 gradu ates will receive a dozen weeks of training, nearly half devoted to intensive study of cither Spanish or Portuguese. The other half of the pro gram is about equally divid ed between academic work. cific skills in areas such as public health, first aid or community development work. Included in the program are 16 hours of "drawn proofing." A final examination requires volunteers to bob up and down in the school swimming PIGGLY WIGGLY PIGGLY WIGGLY BONEL IBrWuBWtiSiitf jjM1. 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"The physical education de partment is so impressed with the 'drown proofing' program that they are considering add ing it to their regular swim ming training," Nason said. On Campus Eight of the 12 weeks of the center's program are spent on the campus of the state university and the other four in field training in the moun tainous area near Taos, N.M. Volunteers will live on a ranch and in a big adobe dormitory and classroom building in the city at the edge of the Kit Carson Na tional Forest. Field exercises in the type of "community development" programs to be undertaken In South America will be con ducted among the Spanish speaking populations of Taos, Chama and Dickson, N.M. Field work in New Mexico will include slaughtering ani mals, drilling water wells, building bridges and build ings, riding horses and raising chickens and rabbits. Nason added that horseman ship was a skill vital to Peace Corpsmen in South America's rugged terrain where there are no roads. He said volun teers are being trained to care for their horses as well as ride. Work in Sluma Not all the trainees are de stined for assignments in the wilderness. A group of 65 volunteers arriving in May, for example, is to work in the slums of Rio de Janicro. Nason said about 16 per cent of the volunteers are ex pected to be "selected out" and eliminated during the 12 weeks of training. Of 92 trainees who took part in a one-shot program of eight weeks last summer, he said "70 hit the field" in Colombia. Success of that program led to the choice of the Albu querque campus as a perma nent training site. Of the group of 65 who came to the campus in Febru ary to train to serve in Co lombia, 61 are still In the pro gram. Those who complete the 12-week course will re place the first Peace Corps contingent now finishing their two years of aervice in that country. Seek 13.000 When the Peace Corps ob served its second birthday March 1, it had 3,965 volun teers serving In 41 countries. The program at the Univer sity of New Mexico is design ed to help the Corps put .(,- 000 workers in the field by late 1964. A group of 65 trainees lo arrive in April, for example, will go to Colombia for agri culture extension work. In June, three classes of 50 vol unteers will begin training for health and rural develop ment projects in Colombia and a rural community devel opment assignment in Peru. In July, another 155 train ees in the stepped-up summer program will begin prepara tion for a school construction project in Ecuador, a rural electrification job in Brazil and a rural community devel opment program in Colombia. Two fall classes of 65 train ees will go to Brazil and two classes of 65 will go to Co lombia. Study Language So much intensive study Is spent on language in the Peace Corps training pro gram that its graduates re ceive credit from the univer sity for six academic hours of work. Tile graduates also get six credit hours in social science and two hours credit in public recreation. Academic subjects In the training include world affairs and Communism, 36 class room hours; area studies, 56 hours, and United States in stitutions, 21 hours. The latter course, for ex ample, is designed to equip the volunteer with a ready answer to questions about "the Negro problem" and and other topics of contro versy. Nason said although the ra tio of trainees is heavily male, women volunteers are slightly better because "they arc made compassionate and sensitive to human needs." 'In the whole, the most suc cessful are mixed groups," he added. "And some projects call for married couples." Nationally, the peace corps reports 11 per cent of its vol unteers arc married, nearly all to volunteers. While in training the peace corpsmen receive token allow ances of $14 per week for in cidentals, live in their own areas of campus dormitories, and eat in a university cafe teria. Most trainees ere kept so busy with their own study program that they have little contact with other students. Many of the men grow beards. Its one way to save time shav ins. They spend three after noons a week working on uni versity projects, such as dig ging ditches for new pipe, working in the machine ahop, or helping string telephone line. Nason said the work is highly practical. Weekends may be spent in study or on "outward bound" training Including hikes, mountain climbs, map reed ing, or camping. Mason said that phase of the program, similar to Boy Scout activ ities, "is a series of psycholog ical and physical situations wnicn allow the trainee to take the measure of his own capacity for facing new jnd sometimes menacing situa tions." One such situation Is en countered in repelling, using; a rope to get down a moun tain. The trainees first prac tice going down the aide of the university stadium and then move to the nearby Sandia mountains for mora repelling as well as mountain climbing. Mason said the overall pro gram conducted by a staff of 70 persons at the first perm anent training center for the peace corps is designed "to prepare the volunteer for el bow to elbow work with peo ple of his host country." "There's no point in send ing anyone abroad who can't react to the stress and get the job done," he added. "gttgakl gflBaj 'tcKgggj gggggg .gggggge Bare Bal WM BBBBBV WL Will kW M BaaaaXam .tt I lisatfaBaaBaBaffl bw ' Bar Ban gar RkeBaaaarUaaal bbbbbbV bE5 gggBa 1 BBBBBaRt' '-fal I DEMONSTRATE BLOCKS Professor Chester Brown (R), head of Industrial arts department at the University of New Mex ico, shows Roy Ruderman X) of Millwood, N.Y., and Bill Beaver of Pott Royal, Pa how to make adobe blocks in Peace Corps training at Albuquerque, NiM. flJPl) The Family Council Editor'! note: The Family Council consists of a iudsa. hrcaiatrlit. three rleri-vmen. three editors and a women's edlte Keen ertiele If a summary or a family dfssireement presented to tat council. ins council aegis wnn proniems, mejor ana raiaiir, encountered hv guidance counselor and social workers. Edited fejr jnra. yiima usnar. ici'pjnim my aaeswrei veaiurea iorp.j Floyd S. - I'd like to fight the retirement rule in our company. David S. - It's the only fair way to make room for new blood, e Floyd S. - It's strange and unfair. One Thursday in June I'll be considered hale and hearty, fully employable, a fine worker. Then overnight, on Friday, I become useless to my firm. Why? Only because I'll be 65 years old and auto matically retired. Its so inim ical that I'm ready to get a lawyer and try lo fight the silly rule. David S. - It's not silly. It may seem cruel in my broth er's case because he's still so full o'beans on the job and enjoys it so. Working in the same plant, I'm slated for the same treatment and I'm ready for it. The old-timers like us muBt make room for the bright young fellows who want to work their way up. Floyd can't be maintenance supervisor forever. That's life, e e The Council: Instead of lighting the "City Hall" of his firm, Floyd should try lo look squarely at the erray of al ternatlvcs which loom ahead, from that fateful Friday on. Though technically "u'cicsa' to an employer with a manda tory retirement set-up, he'll find lie's not only useful but needed desperately in a half- dozen oilier enterprises. Why be so one-track?. . .Most men welcome the chance for a Chapter II in their lives. As their own boss, the timing is optional-if not decreed by their doctors. In the case of Floyd and David, it's required at age 65. . .Shall this chapter read A New Job? (State Em ployment Offices have special bureaus ior retirees), or Trav el or Study or Volunteer work'.'. . .The Peace Corps, that body of friend-winners for the U.S.A., welcomes the skilled 66-year-old who can afford to turn his patriotism into action. . .Having worked under pressure all your life, Floyd, here comes the magic wand which overnight per mits you to work, still, but at your own pace. A gentleman of leisure, you need not be a gentleman at leisure If work is your joy. Perkins Transferred To Portland Post Randall F. Perkins, district ranger at Butte Falls on the Rogue River National forest. will transfer April 14 to the division of recreation in the Pacific Northwest Regional office of the forest service in Portland. Perkins has been Butte Falls district ranger since 1960. He worked in other posi tions on that district from 1954 to 1380. Before that he worked on the Mt. Hood and Rogue River National forests as a forestry aid. Perkins is a 1952 Oregon State university graduate in forest engineering. He and his wife have two sons and two daughters. Sheriff's Deputies Chock Two Burglaries Jackson county sheriff's deputies are Investigating two burglaries which occurred Tuesday night. Entered through the root was Westgate Market, 2370 Jacksonville highway. Also entered was the office for Pace Setter Homes, Tol man Creek rd., Ashland. En try was made by removing the hinges from a door. Noth ing was reported missing. 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