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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, January 5, 1968 Investigate Before ing Insurance Buy | •y. Rusk Doubts Sincerity Of Hanoi Peace Feeler Christmas Wreck Kills A&M Junk DR. JAMES TURPIN examines a Montagnard tribes man at a Project Concern clinic in Vietnam. U. S. Doctor Running Private Peace Corps By ROBERT M. BURNETT Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO, Calif. <A>>_Frbm the slums of Tijuana and Hong Kong to the villages of Vietnam, a private peace corps called Proj ect Concern is bringing health and new hope to the sick, the hungry and the homeless. Founded six years ago by Dr. James Turpin of nearby Coronado, the San Diego-based relief organ ization helps people by teaching them to help themselves. “Self help, that’s the answer,” says Turpin as he envisions ex panding Project Concern into a world-wide private aid program for developing nations. Progress has been impressive. In Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego, Proj ect Concern operates a clinic, School, maternity ward and social Service center for thousands of iriijpoverished residents of a sub- t » urban slum. In Hong Kong, four clinics and a school serve refugees and needy residents in some of the city’s most squalid areas. And in South Vietnam, the Project Concern hospital at Da- Mpao is the only medical facility available to the Montagnard tribesmen and Vietnamese of the area’s villages. Turpin got the inspiration for Project Concern while practicing medicine in Coronado. “We were doing all that might be expected of a successful young couple, perhaps more than most. We had in fact, a perfect life in a perfect community,” Turpin re calls. “Yet, something was lacking. A vague but disturbing disen chantment set in.” Then, through his adult class at the Methodist Church, Turpin learned of Casa de Todos in Ti juana, a struggling clinic and school operated by a Mexican woman. “For the first time since the beginning of my restlessness in the plush life of Coronado, I saw a way to justify my existence by giving a little of myself to some thing which truly needed me,” Turpin said. But even dedication to work among the poor in Tijuana did not satisfy Turpin for long. “Other doctors could do the work at Casa de Todos. I had to be where the need was greater,” he explains. Turpin resigned from the Coro nado City Council, gave up his medical practice and devoted him self to raising money to finance a Project Concern program in Hong Kong. Help came from across the country. Pharmaceutical houses provided sample drugs. The first clinic opened in 1962 in the Walled City section of Hong Kong, across the street from a brothel and beneath an opium den. Other clinics now serve the Jordan Valley area and a fishing village called Lei Yue Mun on the outskirts of Hong Kong. A float ing clinic cares for the boat people of Kowloon Bay. From Hong Kong, Turpin went to South Vietnam in 1964 to open a 42-bed hospital at DaMpao, about 150 miles northeast of Saigon. There in the central highlands, Project Concern administers to the health needs of a people whose only previous source of medical care was the village sor cerer. Training programs are con ducted at the hospital for Viet namese, who are taught the fun damentals of sanitation, health, first aid, hospital procedure and diagnosis. Graduates of the program re turn to their homes to serve as village medical assistants. Still restless, still planning, the 40-year-old Turpin has extensive goals for Project Concern. “During the next five years we hope to build a refugee hospital in Hong Kong. In South Vietnam, we plan to enlarge our hospital at DaMpao and establish another rural medical center at Lien Khoung. “In Mexico, the plans call for expansion of Casa de Todos and establishment of a maternal child care center and a nursing and medical school,” Turpin says. Other areas being considered for Project Concern facilities in clude Chicago, Tennessee, Ken tucky, Texas, India, Peru, Africa, the Middle East and the Gaza Strip. “The thing that excites me more and more as Project Concern grows is the tremendous power in the so-called ‘private sector’,” Turpin says. Turpin envisions the private sponsorship of a corps of what he calls “nation soldiers”—young technicians recruited from around the world to teach medicine, sani tation, engineering, agriculture, animal husbandry and cottage in dustry. “There are other people in near and distant parts of the world who are very sick and very weary. Their need is our oppor tunity to share with them our relative abundance. “But for those of us in the pro gram, the sense of accomplish ment comes not so much from the number of hospitals we build or the number of village medical assistants we graduate, but from a sense of being involved in life as it really is, realizing that we need these people as much as they need us,” Turpin said. For most seniors, 1968 means the beginning- of the end of their collegre careers. The realities of life are becoming- more acute, including- employment, marriag-e, armed service and—insurance. Insurance salesmen have zeroed in on seniors, most of whom have turned 21, will be graduates and good in surance risks, and generally ignorant about what they want or need, or what they’re getting for a lifetime of protection. We believe the type of insurance you get should be tailored to your needs and not to the agent’s desire for a bigger commission. Every agent has a pitch. For most, they’re experts at persuasion. Sometimes they tell you the whole story, sometimes they don’t. We believe all A&M seniors or anyone in the market for insurance should watch for and consider these things. A need for life insurance is created when one or more persons MUST depend on a family member for money on which to live. Don’t be talked into unneeded coverage. Some companies have special deferred payments for the first year in which the policy owner does not have to pay until later. But remember, you’ll have a note or debt hanging over your head for the next four or five years, and at 5 per cent interest. Companies say they’ll give you a bonus at the end of the period with which to pay back the note, but they don't tell you the money is subtracted from the cash value of your policy. Be aware that an agent’s commission is greater for dividend or participating “whole life” insurance, and they’ll try to sell it to you whether you need it or not. Protection plus savings looks enticing, especially when the agent whips out impressive charts which show a $10,000 policy worth $14,000 at age 65. They’re saving for you, and making a profit which you could have if you had the discipline to save yourself, and buy less expensive non-participating or term insurance. You won’t have that bundle waiting for you at 65 but for the next 44 years, you’ll be covered for a much larger amount for the same money. Insurance should be for pro tection, not for savings. Invest and save for retirement yourself, and don’t let insurance salesmen sell you. It’s profit for the agent and for the company. If you have $10,000 worth of insurance, you might as well not have anything. That amount doesn’t go anywhere today and in the future its relative value will be less. Get the most insurance for your money. It’s protection you want and for the same price you could get $25,000 of term insurance. It’s your decision what type of insurance you need and want, but be sure it is YOUR decision. You’ll be paying for it the rest of your life. Don’t be talked into insurance with the first agent who smooth-talks you, Shop around with many companies. Read everything you can on insurance and compare prices. Don’t buy options because they look good. Think. Do you really need them ? Read your copy of the policy thoroughly before signing and understand every line. Once you’re dead, the fine print won’t pay for your family. - Insurance is a necessity. To buy young means lower premiums but to buy unnecessarily and to be under-insured because of the higher cost of “savings” policies is unwise and unsafe. By LEWIS GULICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (A*)—Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Thurs day the United States is trying to determine whether the n e w talk from North Vietnam raises possibilities for a peaceful settle ment of the war. “I CANNOT TELL you today whether there is a change or not” in Hanoi’s previously tough line against peace negotiations, Rusk told a news conference. But he refused to rule out the possibility of a genuine peace feeler from the Reds, saying: “It would be premature for me to brush this aside as purely a prop aganda play.” The U.S. foreign service chief suggested too that Hanoi could make its interest in peace a lot clearer by accompanying its words with deeds to scale down the fighting. The North Vietnamese talk be gan with their foreign minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh, who said on Dec. 80 that Hanoi “will hold talks” if the United States stops bombing the North and halts other acts of war. PREVIOUSLY North Vietnam had been saying only that dis cussions “could” follow a cessa tion of the U.S. air raids. Rusk declared the U.S. posi tion remains as President John son put it in a San Antonio speech last Sept. 29: "The United States is willing to stop all aerial and naval bom bardment of North Vietnam when this will lead promptly to productive discussions. We, of course, assume that while discus sions proceed, North Vietnam | would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation.” SECRETARY RUSK said Am bassador Chester Bowles, whom Johnson is sending to Phnom Penh to repair U.S. relations with Cambodia, is not expected to meet with Viet Cong or North Vietna mese representatives there. The United States has no pres ent intention of sending its forces from South Vietnam across the Cambodian border in hot pursuit of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units. Rusk said. Billy Fred Buth, junior anin science major at Texas A&M,ili(; Dec. 26 of injuries received inu auto accident Christmas Daj £ Gatesville, university officii; learned Thursday. Buth, 23, was the son of fij H. Buth of Valley Mills, brother, Carl Eugene Buth, is! civil engineering graduate st dent at A&M. Funeral services were «* ducted Dec. 27 in Gateville. ‘Smokey’ Blasts Ag Trophy Hopes Job Search Opens For HemisFair ’68 Interviews for a wide range of jobs at HemisFair ’68 will be con ducted in Houston, Monday, Tues day and Wednesday (Jan. 8-10). HemisFair personnel officers will conduct the interview at the Texas Employment Commission offices at 2918 San Jacinto from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. More than 1,500 young Texans are being sought for seven months of work at the April 6-Oct. 6 World’s Fair. Interviews also are scheduled in other parts of the State. Interviews will be conducted for accountants, ticket sellers and takers, security guards, mainten ance personnel, secretaries, gen eral clerical help, writers, guides, hostesses, parking lot attendants and ushers. Employment will be from March 15-Oct. 6. Plans are still incom plete concerning summer jobs for college students. The jobs generally are open to persons at least 18 years of age with high school education or the equivalent, with good character and a pleasant personality. They must be bondable, neat and physi cally fit. The Student Senate heard a re port Thursday night by Vice- President Bill Carter on the ac tions of the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee. Carter told the Senate that Aggies should not be discouraged about not receiving the trophy that went to the University of Arkansas. “We have come a long way in the last three years,” Carter said. “The schools respect us a lot more than they did then. 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