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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
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their hands taped behind
their backs and their knees
against their chests, simula
ting cramp.-.
"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.
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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
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The Family Council
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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,
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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.
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Entered through the root
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Also entered was the office
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try was made by removing
the hinges from a door. Noth
ing was reported missing.
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