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...second great contribution of the corps, according to Boone, would be as a "catalyst" for local volunteer groups and private agencies. He said that most projects would eventually be taken over completely by local groups and corpsmen freed for new work...
Frank B. Freidel, professor of History, praised the work of Peace Corpsmen and other Americans in India, who are making a "splendid impression" on the Indian people. The Peace Corps is achieving "spectacular results" in helping farmers increase production, according to Smithies, but he added that it is an "enormous pity that the operation is so tiny. If it were spread throughout the country many Indian agricultural problems would be on the way to solution...
...years with 3,000 to 5,000 members. It will cost then about $10 million a year (one-sixth of this year's Peace Corps budget). For recruits, it will rely heavily on students and retired people, demanding slightly lower physical standards than the overseas Peace Corps. Domestic corpsmen need not be college graduates, but will have to be U.S. citizens aged at least 18 (no top limit), with warm, steady characters and almost any useful skill. They will get four to six weeks' training at colleges and universities, serve for one year without pay, get mustering...
Recruiting of volunteers will begin in early summer, with a force of 200 to 500 corpsmen anticipated by August. The recruits will be used in migratory labor camps, Indian reservations, mental hospitals, urban and rural slum schools, prisons, recreation centers and the like...
Domestic peace corpsmen will work in a U.S. city only after the city issues an invitation and agrees to share in the cost of service projects. Like members of the Peace Corps serving overseas, the domestic corps workers will be expected to live at a similar economic standard with the low-income people they are trying to help...