Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1954 — Page 11

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Army Attempting To Educate Unschooled Six Percent Os Men In Korea Uneducated SEOUL, UP — In a chilly quonset hut near the Korean front, a U.S. sergeant stood up and asked: “Okay, Rodrlguez, how much Is 4 times 2?" “I don’t know," was the answer. A few miles away, in a dark mess tent, another sergeant held up cards bearing the words “cows” “pigs," and "today." Slowly, fumbllngly, a private first class tried to read them. Almost six percent of the American soldiers in the Eighth Army are like these two. The army calls them ‘*basics"—men who could not make the fourth grade. They become the special charges of the army's troop information and education program. Some of them are illiterate. IGWeek Course Officers are embarrassed that these men are overseas. An Eighth Army education officer said “it is a waste of time, money, and en-

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ergy to have these men In the Far East,' 'and added: “These men should be trained in the States—ls they should be in the Army at all. But since we have them here in Korea, they must get first priority in the education program." Bo front-line units are now putting great stress on education. In many units, the “basics” must go to school every day until they pass fourth grade. The army works on them 10 weeks before giving up. Most of the time it is successful, where the public schools were not. Last fall, more than 20,000 Eighth Army soldiers graduated out of the “basic” class. Doesn’t Know How Today, one-fourth of the rest are taking dally instructions. One of those classes is taught by Pfc. Bert Gividen. Mapleton, Utah, just a few hundred yards behind the front in a greasy tent with no lights—the generator is off in the daytime. There are 14 students in his class. Gividen, who went to Brigham Young university, 'Spelled “finish” and turned to class. “Is that okay, Proctor?” “I don’t know,” Proctor replied. “Can’t you spell finish?" "I can’t spell finish.” Alone

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among the 14 the class bores him. "Can you try?” “No. I don’t know how.” Tries Again After class, Sgt. Basil Presti, Great Neck, Long Island, who runs the education program tn the battalion, talked to the soldier: “Proctor, wouldn’t you like to write your wife? Suppose you finish reserve and go back to the line—wouldn’t you like to tell her that?” “Sure I would,” replied Proctor. “Only I don’t know how to spell. What do I do?” "Put it this way. There's lots of words I don't know how to spell. So I try, and I learn it. You don’t even try. What’s your job back home?” “I’m a bricklayer.” “Okay, you’re a bricklayer now. What’ll you do whep you’re 45 yqars old and too old to lay bricks?" Proctor had no answer. "Education is not part of life,” Presti concluded. “It is life. The Army gives you a chance to learn what you don’t know. If you try, you can do it-" The soldier back to class. “He’ll come around,” Presti said. “We had 40 guys like that last time, and 30 of them passed.” He Forgot ALTON, N. H„ VP — State Rep. Llewellyn K Fernaid bl Rochester was fined $25 in municipal court on a charge of taking more than one wood duck during a day of hunting. Fernaid was chairman of the legislature's fish and game committee in 1949.

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SYNOPSIS Dr. Stephen Carr and hi* wife, Shelly, are on their way to a family dinner party honoring his vene.able mother's birthday. Though polite to her always. Shelly well knew that the very social Carrs had never really accepted her. She was a stranger to them and to the little mid-west city of Norfolk, where the Carrs resided, a night club singer of uncerta.r oa-k---ground whom the whole Carr family believe'd Stephen had married impulsively. Aware of their subtle snubs. Shelly determines to prove her metal. As she and Stephen drive to the fashionable home of the senior Carrs. Shelly pities the Itinerant workers who have come here on new projects, many of them living in pathetically squalid quarters. CHAPTER THREE NOT BE lonely! Shelly said nothing. She got out of the car, shook out her skirts, felt her hair and thought swiftly of Stephen’s family. Probably she had done wrong in not pointing out to him just how the Carrs regarded the girl he had married. “Married impulsively,” they always said, even in her presence. Well, he had done just that, but the family made it seem as if he had come to regret that impulse. They made so many truthful things sound—odd. Even when Mrs. Carr spoke of Shelly as beautiful, it was as if vivid beauty were a little —well, a little ill-bred. Ostentatious. They’d been shocked at the marriage of their younger son to the lovely, golden-haired girl. For eighteen months, they’d continued to be shocked. And Shelly understood why. The Carrs were rich, and they were conservative. Pillars of so* ciety, of church and of industry. It was a shock when Stephen married a case ———— Olad that she had changed her frock, Shelly now could enter the gracious house with no feeling of being on the defensive. Perhaps this time she could come into the family circle, instead of settling on its rim like a—like a barnacle’ In the big drawing room a dozen well-dressed people sat and stood about This was a family party, T>ut there were always certain friends included in such intimate gatherings, the honor nicely rotated by the Carrs. Tonight it had been accorded to the newspaper publisher and his wife. The Walshes were there, of course. The bank's president was Everett’s crony; his wife and May Anna Carr had been schoolmates. Eleanor was like a child of the family. A beautiful girl, dark, exquisitely groomed, beautifully dressed—always. Tonight, there was one

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Girl Pilot Flies Over Tough Course Flying Course In New Guinea Wilds GIRL PILOT FLIES MELBOURNE, Australia UP — Patricia Graham Toole, a 24-year-old blonde Australian, sets neither speed nor height records in her flying. But she takes 'em up and she sets ’em down, and when you’re flying off New Guinea Attfields as a commercial pilQt,that is good going. / Mrs. Toole, small Arid attractive, is a former beauty shop manager, and the pet of Gibbes’ Sepik Airways, founded by World War II ace Bobby Gibbes to fly anything anywhere in almost roadless Papua and New Guinea. She is the first woman commercial pilot in New Guinea, and her territory js some 20,000 square miles of jungle, rivers and mountains. Flying Auster monoplanes and Norsemen, Mrs. Toole and her fellow pilots have what they term “some of the world’s hairiest strips” over country still occupied by natives who don’t hesitate to throw a spear when their dander’s up. Trouble? Not Too Much Mrs:TooTe,Wllb files by sight and not by instruments, has had little flight trouble — and that’s enough, thank you. : One beautiful THorning she took off from Tadji airstrip near Aitape with a cargo of trade goods for a

other guest, a young man in a clerical collar, the rector of the Episcopal Church. He was a bachelor, newly come to town, and Shelly was somewhat put to it to explain his presence. Os course, to balance the table, a man would be needed for Eleanor, but the Carrs belonged to the Methodist Church, by far the largest and richest congregation in Norfolk. While she was still saying her birthday good wishes to Stephen’s mother, the Reverend Prewett came across to Shelly, and said how happy he was to be her dinner partner. She nodded. Os course! And Stephen had been allotted to Eleanor, It did seem a little foolish, in a family group, to arrange things so formally, but, in Norfolk, the Carrs set tn example of formality in every detail of daily living. Any -dinner party above ... a potluck supper would have its thick, white, gold-edged place cards —and even a single maid must be in a uniform proper to the standards set by the Carrs. As she went in to dinner, Shelly studied her mother-in-law. Mrs. Carr Would like to be the woman she looked — motherly, a little dowdy and kind. Had Everett cast the mold into which this faded, plump woman had grown ? Or perhaps Everett’s mother? - The pictures of Stephen's grandmother indicated the latter explanation. A rigidly handsome woman in choker and high-bust corset. “Aren't you with us tonight,Mrs. Carr ?’’ asked the rector’s .voice in her ear; there was a smile within the tone. = Shelly jumped and colored. “I'm sorry,” she murmured. “These family parties are apt to set me to exploring among the branches of the tree.” “I’d think so!” he agreed heartily. “They are an interesting group, aren’t they ?” , . Shelly looked around the big table, with its fine appointments. The interesting Carrs. Stephen sat diagonally across from her, with Eleanor to one side of him, his sister to the other. He had said he would tell them tonight, but he waited until the beautiful birthday cake was brought in. The cake was cut, and Verndn took the plates around. Everett proposed a toast to his wife —but when everyone sat down again, Stephen remained on his feet. Shelly felt the skin prickle on her forearms. '

mission station an hour’s flying time away. In a pattern familiar to aviators in mountainous New Guinea, great banks of cumulus clouds appeared from nowhere. Her plane was closed in, and she was flying blind on a course which she hoped might bring her er the air strip at Maprik, some lOff miles'east. There were no breaks to dive through, and all she could do was fly on, hoping that when fuel ran out. her plane would be somewhere near a landing strip. Two and one-half hours after take-off, the Auster’s tanks had paly a few miiiutes fuel left. Now What To Do? Mrs. Toole says she nosed down through stifling cloud, praying that she would come down over grassy country. Instead, she was over razorback jungle—split by a winding river and a narrow strip of fairly level land. “There was no room for error," she recalled. She eased the plane onto that narrow strip, and it bounced to a halt, hardly damaged. She caught a glimpse of a native village down the river a few miles but decided to stay with the plane and its cargo. She spread out a sheet of canvas and using dark stones, spelled out "food.” Then shq sat down to wait. “In a few minutes,” she recalled “I Wished I had spelled out ‘mosquito lotion’ instead. The hungry jungle mosquitoes descended in hordes. ( Natives Take Hand Gi hbes mean time had other-fly-ers searching for her and next

“The only reason I’m doing this tonight,” he answered the lifted eyes which questioned him, “is that we’re all together —and I don’t think we will be for another few days—and, well, my orders are for a week, Monday, so—” It was Eleanor who made the first sound. “Stevie!” she moaned. Stephen looked at his father, then down the table to his mother. 'Tve decided to go into the Army for a year of active duty." He sat down, as if that were all there was to say. Ruth looked angry. E. J. watched his father to see how he would feel and act. “You didn’t have to—or if you did—l mean if you were called up —I could have got you out Tout service to the plant . . “Yes, Father, but —” *1 suppose it’s this Korean thing. You consider it a war.” “I’ll bet the men being shot at think so, too." “It’s not going well —whole thing will have to be abandoned.” Arthur Prewett made a soft sound of protest, and E. J, looked ■ at him in affron** - “l’m sorry,” | said the young cleric. “It’s just I that America has never lost a war —I don’t think the project will i be abandoned.” "Well, maybe not,” blustered Everett, pushing his ice cream j plate violently away from him. "I spoke without thought. This fool thing Stephen has in mind!” “It seems to me, Dad,” said Stephen thoughtfully, “that you're harnessing the horse backward.' If this war—or whatever you want to call it—is. .going badly, the need i for trained young doctors is much ' greater than if we were sure of r victory and a quick end to the matter." “But you were not called!” “No, sir. I asked for active duty. Three months ago. I’ve known when I would be leaving—oh, since Wednesday, wasn’t it, Shelly ?” Shelly nodded, and tried to smile. “And all this time you didn't say a thing tome!” Everett was seething, and, watching him, E. J. felt it was safe to glare, too. Mrs. Carr began to weep, and Willard, her son-in-law, put his hand- comfortingly upon her shoulder. “I knew you’d be upset," Stephen was explaining. “And I thought it best to keep still about it until the last possible moment."' (To Be Continued)

morning, one spotted her, read the sign, and dropped food and fresh water. A second dropped more supplies. Things were looking bright, she said, until the bushes parted and a 100 near naked savages with bbws and arrows leaped down the banks straight toward her. “I was more relieved when they grinned at die? ’she said, “than I was earlier when the plane came to a stop without falling apart.” Next morning, she Was borne out of the valley in regal style, in a sedan chair shouldered by four natives. The plane was dismantled, taken to the nearest airstrip for repair, and now is back in service. Mrs. Toole, w'ho is married to Colin Toole, manager of Qibbes Airways at Wewak, says she fell in love with flying when she was a teen-ager. Paying her own way, she earned her commercial license in three years. Gibbes said he hired her because he needs pilots who ’’can fly by the seat of their pants — even if the pants are lace-edged.” Trade in a good Town — Decatur

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