THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 6, 1961
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“ .. . I was glad when I made 65 on my first theme because
I heard it was best to start low and show improvement—
but I can’t show improvement!”
Story of
(Editor’s Note: The following
is one of several stories written
for the Houston Post. The stories
reported on a study of Ecuador as
a representative Latin American
country.)
By W. I). BEDELL
Assistant Executive Editor
The Houston Post
TUMBACO, Pichincha Province,
Ecuador—Segundo Manuel Car
denas is 14. He is a slender boy
of much Indian and a little Span
ish blood. He is very courteous
and talks in the musical Spanish
of Ecuadorans.
Segundo lives in the warm and
eye-pleasing Valle de Tumbaco,
about an hour’s drive over steep
mountain roads east of Quito.
Tumbaco is only 8,000 feet high,
and in the valley grow lemons,
oranges, grapefruit, guavas and
chirimoyas. The valley also grows
corn and wheat and alfalfa. The
corn is now in the milk stage and
is called choclo. In another month
or two it will be dry and be called
maiz.
It takes longer to grow corn in
Ecuador than in Texas, because,
despite the warmth and the sun
shine, the day at the equator is
only 12 hours long, whether it be
TEXANS IN WASHINGTON
Texas Companies Can Thank
Foreign Aid For Prosperity
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON—Scores of Tex
as companies can thank the For
eign Aid program for nearly a half
billion dollars in business between
January 1954 and June 1960.
The director of the International
Cooperation Administration, Henry
R. Labouisse, disclosed the extent
of the program at a luncheon meet
ing of the Texas Congressional
delegation.
In an apparent attempt to win
support of the Texans for the
world wide operations that come
under his supervision, Labouisse
presented figures to offset a com
mon belief that funds appropriated
for foreign aid represents so much
money dumped overseas.
In the period covered by his re
port, Congress appropriated ap
proximately $20 billion for foreign
aid. This included the value of sur
plus farm commodities shipped
overseas and payments to compa
nies for transportation'as well as
the actual cost for commodities
bought for shipment abroad.
The total amount of the Texas
payments in the period was $450,-
875,686. The list includes names
indicating not only farm products
but chemicals and various manu
factured items.
By far the bulk of the sales
went to firms located in Dallas and
Houston. He listed 127 Dallas
firms which received payments
totaling $144,054,757, and 73 in
Houston which received $160,388,-
117.
The money paid to Texas com
panies for commodities and serv
ices in the fiscal year ended June
30, 1960, amounted to $36,655,131.
Accompanying Labouisse to the
luncheon was Craig Raupe, one
time Weatherford College profes
sor and later top secretary to Rep.
Jim Wright. He is now a legisla
tive liaison officer for the ICA.
Raupe served with the ICA in In
donesia for a while before taking
the headquarters post here a few
months ago.
★★★
Two Texans were key figures at
cei’emonies here marking the 100th
anniversary of the Government
Printing Office, the world’s largest
publishing establishment.
Special hondree at the banquet
and ceremonies was the GPO’s old
est living retired employee, Nat
G. Watts, 92, who came from Na
ples, Tex., for the occasion.
Rep. Omar Burleson, D., of An
son, who as chairman of the House
Administration Committee is large
ly responsible for the GPO’s fiscal
planning, made the principal ad
dress. He drew laughter when he
told his audience:
“In this highly scientific era,
with the harnessing of nuclear
power and the ability to utilize it,
we still have - speakers for occa
sions such as this.
“I suppose we could use a robot
of some kind, simply select the
theme, push a button here, pull a
lever there, and out comes an aft
er-dinner speech. It would prob
ably be better than some we have
all heal'd and better than the one
near at hand.”
Here are a few statistics about
the GPO that Burleson recited:
It represents an investment of
$25 million and does a $100 million
dollar a year business. It covers
32% acres of floor space, places
$30 million worth of business an
nually with private printing com
panies and employs 6,500 men and
women.
Rep. Wright Patman, D-Tex., in
whose district Watts lives, noted
that in the 25 years since the old
printer retired from government
services he has served “two or
three times as mayor of Naples
and is an outstanding citizen.”
Second Session Housing
Procedure Announced
The Department of Student Affairs announced this
week the procedure students should follow in connection
with housing for the second semester of summer school.
Fees should be paid and rooms may be reserved be
ginning 8 a. m., July 10.
Korean Veterans who have not signed enrollment
papers for the second six weeks should report to the
Veteran’s Advisor’s office and sign.
Students who wish to reserve the rooms they now
occupy may reserve their rooms between 8 a. m., July 10
and 5 p. m.
Anyone wishing to reserve any room other than the
one they now occupy may do so between the same times,
but must present a signed room change slip from the
Housemaster of the new dormitory concerned.
All students may register for rooms on a first-come
first-serve basis from 8 a. m., July 13, until noon, July 15.
Students, including those living in college apart
ments, who don’t plan to live in dormitories during the
second term of summer school must secure or renew their
permits at the housing before paying fees.
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JOE CALLICOATTE
Be well groomed
for success
That “like new” look we give
your clothes is sure to make the
right impressions whether
you’re on the job or on the
town.
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Ecuador Reveals Interesing Facts
December or June. Corn likes
longer hours of sunlight than that.
Segundo Cardenas is a member
of Los Chagres de Tumbaco. This
is a club of the Quatro F‘s, the
Four F’s of Ecuador. The F’s
stand for Fe, faith; Fecundidad,
fertility; Fortaleza, strength; and
Felicidad, happiness.
Segundo is apparently a happy
boy. He carries himself with a
quiet pride. The Indians and the
mestizos around him in the village
of Tumbaco seem to be happy.
They smile readily and are most
hospitable. But when they go by
foot or by ramshackle bus to
Quito they put on a mantle of
coldness.
Village of Tumbaco Has Brave Air
There are few rocks and no
high hills in the Valley, of Tum
baco. It is fine, volcanic dust,
and the people of the town and the
valley live with dirt 12 months a
year.
The village of Tumbaco puts on
a brave air. It has a plaza with
a fountain which spurts a thin
stream. There are flowers in the
plaza, but there are also weeds
and thick dust.
Most of the houses and shops
around the plaza are dun or white-
wished adobe, but some are painted
the sky blue or lemon yellow of
Latin America.
Despite the brave air, most of
the houses in the Tumbaco Valley
are hovels. The valley people sit
on the floor in the dirt. There
are corn shucks and filth all
around.
This is not true of one house
in Tumbaco. This girls’ demon
stration club has remodeled a room
in one of the houses. This room
has a board floor. It has curtains
at the windows and pictures on
the walls.
But, most significantly, it has
beds, real beds with springs and
mattresses. The springs and
mattresses must be very old, be
cause the beds sag in the middle.
The counterpanes must be very
old and probably donated, because
they are faded.
But these are beds. The Indian
in Latin America sleeps on the
floor, with only a mat under him
and a blanket over him. The next
step is to a bunk of corn shucks
or hard boards. The “European”
Ecuadoran sleeps on a bed. It is
a tremendous leap to go from a
mat in the dirt to a bed in a room
with curtains in one step.
The girls are also learning to
sew. They have two old North
American sewing machines to prac
tice on. They learn amid a great
deal of talk and laughing. Some
of the girls are truly beautiful.
At 14 their skins have the bloom
of an Indian peach; their hair is
alive and shining black.
If they go the Indian way, they
will be ugly at 35. Their hair
will be stringy, their skin dead,
their feet broken from hauling
loads of maiz or babies over end
less miles.
If they go the European way,
at least some of them will still be
beautiful at 35, possibly more
beautiful than they are at 14.
The girls are raising chickens
too, genuine New Hampshire Reds
from North ^.merica. They don’t
eat the eggs. Eggs are caro, dear.
They sell them. An egg brings
sucre, a day’s pay in rural Ecua
dor.
Segundo Cardenas also hopes to
have eggs to sell soon.
He has about 50 New Hamp
shire Red pullets. The pullets are
in an adobe shack built into a low
side hill overlooking’ the valley.
Segundo has a bunk on one side
of the chicken house. He sleeps
there every night to keep los la-
drones, the thieves, from stealing
his chickens.
The chicken house is an evil
smelling place, but it looks out
across pleasant fields of wheat and
alfalfa, and orchards of guava and
chirimoya trees.
Segundo’s neighbor, Foila Ana
Silva, who is 35 and has gone the
Indian way, says Segundo’s pullets
have a beautiful view. She speaks
truly.
Segundo also has a Corriedale
ewe named Pancha. She has been
bred to a fine ram and he hopes
to start a herd of pure bred sheep.
Segundo is one of about 30 boys
in the Tumbaco Valley who are
learning modern farm and ranch
methods in the 4-F.
The 4-F and the girls’ demon
stration clubs are now completely
in Ecuadoran hands. The Min
istry of Fomento (development)
supervises them without financial
help from the North Americans.
But the North Americans start
ed the work and continue to advise
the Ecuadorans.
The progress the Tumbaco Val
ley is making is the result of one
of many projects initiated by
United States agencies in Ecuador
and all over Latin America.
The U. S. Operating Mission,
which is known in the United
States as the International Coop
eration Administration or Point
Four, is at present spending about
$2 million a year in Ecuador alone.
This money is being used for train
ing and improvement in four rr.y
fields, agriculture, industry,
cation and public health. I:
money is matched by the Ecu
dorans. North Americans andh
uadorans work side by side inti
programs.
Ecuadorans are being taught
drive farm tractors. They
being taught to be labor leaie
to develop sound unions.
There is an industry devel*.
ment center to sponsor new;,
dustries in Ecuador. This g-
slowly, for the republic is stills
per cent agricultural.
Teachers are being trained::)
schools are being' built. Scht
are going up now in Guayaqij
Manabi, Loja and Cuenca, |
Ecuadorans go 50-50 with is
North Americans ig paying:'):
the buildings.
Drinking water is at present'.:
chief public health project, h
is immensely important in El
dor and almost every Latin Ac-
ican country. Almost all of Lad
America’s water is contaminate
from centuries of filth. Exk:
in a few places, such as Bnet:
not drink water from tap, lest k
Aires and Panama City, one das
catch dysentery or someth.::
worse. But the Latins conti®
to drink from c o n tapiinattl
streams, lakes and irrijat;::
ditches.
USOM is instaling, or teach;:.;
Ecuadorans to install, safe wale
systems as fast as time and iai
money available will allow,
Perhaps this better life ml
come. Perhaps it will be adequati
return for the frustration Norft
Americans undergo there and tk
new, unaccustomed work the &■
uadorans do.
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