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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
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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.
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HOTEL
1217 SW MwrfcM St.
PORTLAND, OREGON
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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
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"A nucletr test of low yield
wat conducted underground
today by the Atomic Energy
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Fillet of Sole
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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.
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