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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE TEN IFYE Student Gordon Cook Tells Of Visits in South Korean Homes (Editor's Note: This is a report from Gordon Cook of Canby, who is currently in South Korea under the International Farm Youth Exchange program. In this letter he tells about visiting the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Upon his re turn, Cook is scheduled to tell of his experiences to groups in Polk, Clackamas, Marion, Klamath. Lake, Harney, Malheur, Baker, Union. Wallowa and Umatilla counties.) -♦ I am now with my second family at Chunchan in Parents of Exchange host Kangwon So Province. Be Student Write Letter cause it is about 70 percent (Continued From Page 1) mountains, the people’s favor- ite hobbies are mountain climbing and hiking. In the northeast part of South Korea about 53 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture. Although this pretty well fol lows the pattern of the rest of South Korea, the province does have some big and small indus try. Coal and other minerals are found here, along with electricity Describes Kragero Climate production. Two new water dams This great summer traffic brings are now under construction to with it good opportunities for add to the output. trade in the town center. We have a typical coastal climate with the Farmers Live in Villages Provinces are the same as mean summer temperatures be tween 12 and 20 centigrades and states. There are guns (pronounc in winters from 3 to 8 below zero. ed goons) which are the same as Seldom—and then for short per a county and then villages. I am iods only—we may have 15 cen- living about six kilometers from Chunchan. Here, everyone lives trigrades below freezing point. In our inland district there are in the village and goes out to the rich cultivated valleys surround farm land. The father of my host family ed by large areas of productive woods of pine and fir. In winter was taken to North Korea by the we have excellent skiing possibi Communists when they invaded. lities, 25 to 30 miles from town. I have four host brothers, two of Kragero has a relatively large whom have graduated from col protestantic “Stat Church” (as it lege and work in the county ex is called in Norway since it is run tension office. There are also by the government) and a num three girls, two of whom are still ber of smaller churches belonging in high school. I helped the family plant cab to other communities. Besides elementary school there is a high bage. The process is the same as at home, but it is all done by hu school and a trade school. man beings, instead of by ma Housing Shortage Exists chine. First, the soil was worked Most of the buildings in Kra by a Korean plow pulled by a gero are small one or two-story Korean ox cow. The plow turns wooden houses, the major part the soil one way and then comes ( with a little garden of flowers back so that it looks like furrows and a few fruit trees. During and the length of the field when it is ( after the war, housing has been finished. a problem and even now it is Commercial Fertilizer Used | very difficult to find a place to Someone then goes down the f live in. furrows removing grass from the 1 We live on the first floor of a two-flat house built in 1954. The top of them. Commercial fertili- j situation is very nice on a high zer is then sprinkled on top, after ] which someone walks along the | plateau in the outskirts of town top of the rows with bare feet ] and the house is surrounded by to make a firm seed bed. | fir trees. Our flat consists of a Seed is then dropped on top. ] large living-eating room, two bed Someone then comes along to I rooms, kitchen, hall and bath cover and firm the seed bed, again ] room with W.C. plus a balcony. with their feet. | In the cellar we dispose of rooms I recently went to Pan Mun Jon J for fuel, winter supplies of pota Col. Anderson, founder of I toes, vegetables, etc., and have a with 4-H in Korea, and the other Am- ] so-called hobby room. erican IFYE. We saw the 4000- I Rolf Has Married Sister meter wide strip separating North ] My wife and I have lived in and South Korea. Just being I Kragero since we were married there, made one realize how J in 1942. I am office manager of much he takes for granted in a I 1 Brodrene Mylius A/S, a silver free country like ours. ware and pewterware factory Always on the Alert 1 with approximately 100 employ It is just an armistice and not fl ees. We have a daughter, Liv a peace treaty and so one never 1 Ragnhild, who is 21 years of age, knows when they might start fl married and has a daughter, fighting again. How touchy the I Trude, 2 ¥2 years, and a son, Join, situation is was illustrated by the fl who is just over one year old. United Nations military police- J They live in a town called Sande- man who took us to Pan Mun I fjord about 50 miles from Kra Jon. He was always on the alert, J gero. because, as he said, “You never fl We hope these lines have given know when someone may jump fl you a little picture of the town out of the bushes and start shoot- fl in which we live and of our fam ing.” fl ily. Surely Rolf will furnish you There are 50,000 American ser- fl the detailed information which is vicemen in Korea to help enforce fl impossible to give in a short let the armistice and to be here in fl ter. case the North Koreans decide fl We will end this by expressing to attack again. fl the hope that you and Rolf are It is interesting to see South fl now beginning a happy year— Korea, a country that is doing fl and wish all the best to all of well to feed its people, trying to fl you. grow. They have many problems fl Sincerely yours, and many things vet to solve, but fl there is much being done. 1 Rolf and Ester Lier A lot of construction is still fl done by hand labor, although fl CALIFORNIANS VISIT Mr. and Mrs, Von Schroeder I more and more equipment is be- I fl and children of Apple Valley, ing used. They have many people fl fl Calif., are visiting this week with and not enough jobs. his father, Adolph Schroeder and friends in this area. Classified* Bring Results! habitants and in 1966 this coastal I town of Kragero will be celebrat ing its 300th anniversary. The i economy of our town is based on industry, timber, shipping and fishing, but Kragero is mostly known for its wonderful “fjord” which in summer is visited by thousands of tourists, Norwegians as well as foreigners. Nyssa Theatre PHONE 372-3932 Admission , . . 30c — 65c — 90c Friday and Saturday — Aug. 28-29 CESAR ROMERO and FRANKIE AVALON in // THE CASTILIAN" With Broderick Crawford, Spartico Santony, Alida Valli and Teresa Velasquez Sunday and Monday — Aug. 30-31 IT'S A WOW OF A WEEKEND! // PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND" Tuesday, Sept. 1—SPANISH SHOW Wednesday, Sept. 2 — NO SHOW Thursday, Sept. 3 — SPANISH SHOW Local Team Competes In Softball Tourney FORMER PENNSYLVANIANS SCHEDULE BOISE PICNIC A potluck dinner will be served at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Aug. 30, in Boise municipal park for all former Pennsylvanians and their friends. Members of the group report that former resi dents of New York and New Jer sey are also welcome to attend. Nyssa LDS First ward softball team emerged as area champion ship winners and are now com peting in the all-church tourna ment at Salt Lake City. The Nyssans defeated the Albuquer que, N.M.. squad on Tuesday and are scheduled to play again to-1 ATTEND KANSAS PICNIC day. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Weeks, Mr. Kent Ashby is coach for the and Mrs. Earl Farr attended the local boys. Kansas picnic Sunday in a Cald well park. PLAYS IN GOLF TOURNEY Mr. and Mrs. Dale Garrison spent Sunday in Nampa where VISIT GRANDSON Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Kalhar of he played in the second annual Broadmore Country Club medal Forest Grove visited last week tourney. The local golfer scored with their grandson, Mr. and Mrs. third low net in the second flight. Jim Jefferies. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964 WEATHER. Dale Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. 19 ........ 20 21 _____ 22 __ 23 24 . ......... 25 Aug. 26 Max. 73 79 87 90 94 93 94 Min. 48 45 53 52 53 57 52 AA MONOGRAM LP HEATING SYSTEMS Sizes, Types for Any Need I .08 rain was recorded early Wednesday morning, Aug. 26. Owyhee Reservoir Storage Aug. 26, 1964 532,460 Acre Ft. Aug. 26, 1963 287,770 Acre Ft. Nothing Down . . .No Payment Until Fall VISITS FROM SALT LAKE Mrs. Mamie Baker of Salt Lake is visiting her daughters, Mrs. Howard Myrick, Mrs. Lyle Miner, their families and other relatives. IDEAL GAS &APPLIANCE CO. (ON APPROVED CREDIT) Nyssa — Weiser — Homedale — Meridian
