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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1972
Page
8
In Tijuanas river bottom a poverty stricken Cardolandia grows amid kerosene lamps and cardboard houses. The community sits beside the border wall and the bridge to downtown, cut off from the world by economic and social barriers as cars line up at the gates and the sea lies beyond.
The University of Texas at Austin geology department received a 68900 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve science teaching at two year colleges. Project co directed by Donald H Lokke will update junior college teachers knowledge of geology and earth sciences with emphasis on environmental applications and new instructional materials.
In Cartolandia, over 700 families inhabit cardboard houses under a bridge near Tijuana. Water is scarce and water-haul, while plastics and cans fuel crafts, makeshift schools, and tiny churches. Children sell trinkets as mothers scrub shacks, while disease and dehydration haunt the riverbed community.
The Dr J George H Thompson Award honors a young engineer aged 35 or younger with outstanding service to the South Texas Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award is named after a Texas A&M University mechanical engineering professor.
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