THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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