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February 12, 1950Lieutenant Colonel Delk M Oden, son of Mrs. S. B. Oden of Elgin, is a member of the sixth graduating claim of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va.Secretary of the Navy Francis P, Matthews was graduation speaker for the class of 181 student officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey.Oden will report for duty in Ankara, Turkey.* Second Battalion, 357th Regimen 90th Infantry Division.I Wednesday — 415 West Fourt j Street, 338th Quartermaster Bat Jtalion; 501 Barton Springs Road. | all Military Intelligence units.i Thursday—501 Barton SpringsI Road. Transportation Corps Truck | Companies and the Research and I Development Group.Friday — 40m Barton Springs Road, Engineers and Logisticai DivisionTexas Organized Reservists may ttend a Logistical Map Maneuver, ! “Logax 50, ’ at the Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va., May 22-28, Colonel Oscar B Abbott, Texas Military District chief, said Saturday.I Purpose is to furnish Reservists with experience under simulated I combat conditions. Applications 1 must be in the Texas Military District headquarters by March 3,I Colonel Abbott said.SUNDAY AMERICAN STATESMAN AUSTIN, TEXASPage 58ARAB REFUGEES SHIVER THROUGH BUTH \ I R» II J /« H\CAIRO - -Some 202,000 Arab refugees lit the Gaza strip of Southwest Palestine are shivering through the winter with a minimum of fuel and shelter.Despite such conditions. F, Kellogg Peckham. Cairo representative of the American Friends Service Committee tQuakers) in charge of relief wsork in the area, said in a report that health conditions are holding up well.Refugees who crowded into the sandy coastal area in May, 1948. are without wood for fuel. They used up all the few trees in the area last winter. They get a small allotment of fuel oil for cooking purposes only.For housing they are a little better off this winter. Some 6,000 tentsbadly crowded. Last winter there were no tents and the refugees lived in holes in the ground, under trees and wherever some kind of shelter could be found.The Friends, like the Red Cross groups doing relief work in other refugee centers in the north and east, are turning over their relief jobs to the United Nations at the end of March,The UN will have the problem of providing some kind of work relief for the refugees Chairman Gordon Clapp of the UN million which studied the refugee problem last year conceded that development of a work relief program in the Gaza area would be extremely difficult. The Gaza strip is small and thereare few' projects available In his report Clapp recommended 4 000 man-years of work in thestrip, chiefly sand dune fixat and limited development of si low1 subsoil wells Until recently, the generalrnand of the refugees was to permitted to move back to tt homes in Palestine. Peckham ports now. however, many refug have recognized the political t flenities involved m any such turn. In the last few months, said, many refugees” have pressed willingness to be tra f err id to Jordan. Such a step wo make work relief an easier pr left! to solve !Meantime Peckham is p re par a list of generalized work proic for the Gaza area which could utilized when the UN takes o\ Among them are:1. A reforestation program;t nd »i ' e dai
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Austin Sunday American Statesman
Austin, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 12, 1950
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