New Hope For Chile
A Chilean literacy effort led by the Institute of Rural Education partners with the U.S. Peace Corps to teach agriculture, housekeeping, nursing, engineering, and health to rural workers. About 40 U.S. volunteers arrive in October to assist previously underserved peasants and families amid political and funding debates.
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Santiago, Chile
Chile
Institute of Rural Education
IER
U.S. Peace Corps
U.S
Volunteers For Peace
IEA
Indiana Conference of Higher Education
Notre Dame
International Cooperative Administration
TER
Jaime Larrain
Peace Corps
Army Tank Ends Revolt At Prison
Eight convicts surrendered after an eight hour prison uprising in Nashville Tennessee as state officials threatened a tank assault. Prisoners armed with a toy pistol knives and ice picks held guards clerks and fellow inmates hostage before the M48 Patton tank halted 12 feet from the door. Ringleaders Raymond Farra and Robert Rivera led the rebellion and faced maximum security placement.
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Nashville, Tenn
Raymond Farra
Robert Rivera
Tennessee
Nashville
Radio Education and Work Skills for Peace Corps Camps
The piece describes a 15 minute daily educational radio program and self construction ideas. Peace Corps volunteers at central camps will lack academic courses in physics chemistry or biology but will access carpentry guidance and instruction on spraying fertilizers weeding pruning health care sanitation home nursing and related topics.
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Peace Corps
Navy Plans 42 New Ships and Expanded Fleet
The Navy will add 42 ships to its operating fleet by next summer, boosting total ships from 819 to 861 by June 30, 1962. Of the added tonnage, 382 are war ships and 479 are transport and support vessels. The plan uses three methods: retain aging ships, reactivate mothballed vessels, and deliver new ships during the year. It follows an earlier announcement to maintain manpower at 26,800 officers and sailors.
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Washington
Navy
Cheney Lake Facilities Plan for Reservoir Park Areas
Local state and federal officials meet in Wichita for a two day conference on planning recreational facilities at the proposed Cheney Reservoir. Tentative plans call for extensive park areas on the north and south banks near the dam managed by the Kansas Parks and Resources Authority and the Kansas Fishing Game Commission.
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Wichita
Cheney Reservoir
Kansas Parks and Resources Authority
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
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Fish and Wildlife Preserve Expands Along River Reach
A 2,500 acre fish and wildlife preserve will extend upstream, with boat docks and access roads planned at multiple points around the reservoir to improve public recreation opportunities for nicking, camping, boating, swimming, and fishing.
Satisfaction Guaranteed Upholstering Service Ad
Robert Barnes offers upholstery for truck seats tarps and combine canvas repairs. Canvas awnings available. Located at 826 Ash, contact CH 2-3243 for service.
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Robert Barnes
Teen Drowns While Swimming in Kaw River
Lawrence Kansas Walter Fonzo Lewellen 16 drowned while swimming in the Kansas River Wednesday night. His father Everett Lewellen of Lawrence provided details as the incident was reported by AP.
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Lawrence, Kas
Walter Fonzo Lewellen
Kansas River
Everett Lewellen
Lawrence
Peasants Learn In Radio School in Colombia
In Sutatenza, Colombia a priest launched Radio Sutatenza School of the Air to combat illiteracy and Communist influence. Fourteen years later the program covers rural Colombia and mirrors efforts in 15 other Latin American nations. Over 40,000 households receive specially made radios to access lessons in reading, agriculture, hygiene, geography, history, civics, and religion.
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Bogota
Colombia
Sutatenza
Jose Joaquin Salcedo
Radio
Radio Sutatena Instruction Reaches Over Half Million
Father Salcedo estimates that about 530600 persons are receiving Radio Sutatena instruction today as schoolroom implements are provided free to students across the program.
Met Cancels 1961 62 Season After Talks Break
The Metropolitan Opera Association says the 1961 62 season is no longer a possibility and has sent layoff notices to more than 600 employees after breaking off negotiations with the musicians union. The union and New York labor officials questioned the Met's good faith in resuming talks following an August 7 cancelation over “exorbitant demands.”
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Association
Met
Musicians Union
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