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2 B THURSDAY, AUGUST IS. 1113 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Comic Strip Aid To Peace Corps Holed in Bogota Br THOMAS BRYAN United F-rett International Albuquerque, N.M. - IOTII Ferhapt the youngest person working (or the Peace Corps in South America It "Copelin,'' n urchin of about seven who it the title character in comic strip published in Co lombia by "El Tiempo" of Bogota. Artist Ernesto Franco, 34, works on his daily strip in a dormitory room at the Uni varsity of New Mexico, where ha is a member of a "counter part" group of 16 Colombians training with the Peace Corps. He compared the newspap er feature to the "Peanuts comic strip familiar to read' era in the United States, and . said the life of young "Cope' ; lln" typifies the poverty and illiteracy facing Colombia Franco, who earns about $3 per installment of the comic, will return to his country to work in educational television as part of the Peace Corps community development pro- ' gram. Trains for Corps Franco is one of about 400 persons training for Peace Corps work at the University of New Mexico this summer The school is the first year round center tor training vol unteera. The television project is the first of its kind under taken by the organization, and is giving advanced training to volunteers who will go to Latin America to improve the - educational television estab- . llshed there. Most of the trainees, both Colombian and American, have worked in the field of educational television. Much - of their seven week program at the university is being spent at Albuquerque s edu cations) television station, KNME-TV, on the campus of the University of New Mexl co. TV Studies The course alto includes one month on the campus of the university of Nebraska, In Lincoln, for advanced stu dies in television' production. In charge of the group is Miss Ligia de Guerrero, di rector of educational televi sion in Colombia, where the educational network supple ments primary school educa tion. She said the government- owned Radiotelevizora Nac clonal de Colombia, Is the largest television network in Sou'h America. Franco will return to Co lombia along with his country-1 men ana iv American reace Corps volunteers at the end of the training program, to work side by side on develop ing the educational televlsiun system there. Presbyterian Magazine Reviews First Church for Dodge City ! TOUTS f T T H TWm. r"l. 1- (knu .!. e i.: . i . i . .l . n. . . . M By LOIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent One hot summer day In 1877, the train from the east pulled into Dodge City, Kan., bearing a small, dignified man in top hat and tailcoat. He attracted curious looks and a few snickers as he climbed down from the dusty railroad coach, claimed his valise, and made his way through a crowd of roughly dressed cowpokes to the hotel on Front st. If the onlookers had known who he was, and why he came to Dodge City, they wouldn't have snickered. They'd have , laughed out loud. Dodge City in those days was proud of its reputation at "the wickedest town in the West." And it fully deserved the title. Front tt. was about as wide open as a street can get. The saloons stayed open all night, and the houses of prostitution did a booming business. Any cattleman who got tired of liquor and sex could find a high-stakes poker gsme to keep him amused. Gun fights and wanton kil lings were almost as common, in actual fact, as TV West erns would have you believe. The one thing that Dodge City didn't have - and didn't want - was a church. Several itinerant preachers had ventured into the "Bab ylon of the West" but all of them had left precipitately, at the invitation of the town folk. The little man in the top hat may have thought of all this when he boldly signed his name in the hotel regis ter: "The Reverend Ormond W. Wright." The Rev. Mr. Wright was a field representative of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in New York. He had not come to Dodge City to conduct a few preaching serv ices and flee for his life. His audacious purpose was to plant the cross of Christ firmly and conspicuously in this citadel of Satan. He had come, in short, to build a church. The incredible fact is that he did it. He even managed, in time, to make deacons out of Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. . "Why this man succeeded where others had failed re mains a historical mystery," said Presbyterian Life maga zine this week, in an article paying overdue tribute to the little - known preacher. Actually, it's not such a mystery. Old histories of Dodge City record an inci dent which took place short ly after the Rev. Mr. Wright's arrival, which made a tre mendous impression on the gun - toting cowboys and the women who entertained them. A prostitute had been kil led by a stray bullet during a saloon brawl. A delegation of dismayed and drunken cowboys went to the preach er's hotel room and awakened him with loud knocking on the door. They told him what had happened, and asked him to give the luckless girl "Christian burial." In those strait - laced days, most ministers would have huffily rejected such a re quest. But the Rev. Mr. Wright did not. He perform ed the funeral service, read ing over the girl's grave the Gospel account of Christ's tenderness toward a woman taken in adultery. This act of compassion seems to have established a rapport between the prim looking little preacher and the rough men and women whom he had come to serve. The Rev. Mr. Wright soon began to hold religious services in whatever quarters were available to h 1 m usually a saloon or dance hall. He was able to tell the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, in his first official report, that he had 13 regu lar members of his congrega tion. The board sent word that it would contribute J450 a whopping sum in those days for the construction of a church building, provided the local residents would raise a matching sum. It was taken for granted in New York that it would take the Rev. Mr. Wright a year or two to ob tain his half of the building fund. But the word got around Front st. that Preacher Wright needed $450 to build a church. The hat was passed in the saloons and bawdy houses, and on one roaring Saturday night, the whole sum was contributed, with a few dollars to spare. And that's how Dodge City got its first church. Jerusalem, Israel - (DM -Arch aeologists reported to day they uncovered near the Dead Sea a model home built of clay about 5,000 years ago. A number of Egyptian, made abydos jars of the same period also were found there. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW MwrfcM St. PORTLAND, OREGON All transiaat auasts- AH Hmh oka coma, ratum. Ratu iwr hif h, not lew. Frta fra, M tocahMi V Liuk kMl. Aim until 10 a.m. TV's and radios. Rtputlo for eleinlinl. CHILDREN UNDER SEVEN MO CHARGI a FANCY CHUNK Bumble Bee. Makes the best salads ... . sandwiches, tool No. 12 Can I (0) 0 e emms Salad ill NU MADE Finest for frying. Best for baking. Brings out natural flavor. 38 oz. btl. I I I I f i rara DEL MONTE Delicious cream style or whole kernel corn. Serve it often! No. 303 Can L (0J C Underground Test Hsld in Nevada Washington - (UPD - The United States today conducted an underground nuclear test in Nevada, the second an nounced thot in tour days. ' Such tests are permitted under the limited nuclear test ban treaty which forbids oth er types of experiments. Today's thot wat the second to be held since the agreement wet reached in Moscow and the 70th underground test to be conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission. Announcement of the test waa made by the AGC which said It waa of low yield. This meant that the power of the test waa under the equivalent Of 20,000 tont of TNT. The brief AEC announce ment tald: "A nucletr test of low yield wat conducted underground today by the Atomic Energy Commission at itt Nevada test titc." Sirloin Steak Rump Roast Fancy Bacon Cute Steak Fillet of Sole Halibut Steak Ukiih Publisher Dies at Age 68 Uklah, Calif. -MB- Bernice rotter Cober, 68, copubltther of the Uklah Dally Journal waa found dead In hr hnm. here Wednesday by her hut- Dana, Mrs. Cober had been In re tirement for a number of years since suffering a stroke, he wat found on the floor of her kitchen when her hut bend, B. A. Cober, Daily Journal copublither, returned heme for lunch. he waa pronounced dead by her physician and taken to Uklah General Hospital, where she had donated her eyes to the University of Cali fornia medical center eye bank. Funeral services will be held at 11 t.m. Saturday. Mrs. Cober, who wat born In Lottlne, Ore., bought the Uklah paper along with her husband In 1811 and in the early years wat a linotype op erator for the swwspaper. fllDAVS SHOP SAFETOV FOR THE FINEST MEATS Safeway sails only U.S.D.A. Choice Grade Beef and Lamb Bone-In. Choice aged beef. Check the trim. Flavorful bone-in even roatt. Choice Safeway Sliced Mb. Pkg. Boneless, watte-free beef steaks. rash Captains' Choice. Mb. Pkg. ib 89c ib 79c u 69c ib 98c u 59c Ea. 69C tedk U.S.D.A. Choke, aged beef. Full cuts of round. Per Pound I THOUSANDS I I IS I OF EXTRA L "R.dMm S I rnutrirrn (SS'.. s ITAUrS US I Mm CapM h K-I August J CfflptR BOOk art I rVjlc t K tUtSaKAlEIS LbmJ? 1 GUARANTEED 100. 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