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Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
...ETHIOPIA Volunteers will work in the community centers of seven large Ethiopian cities. They will aid in the development of effective social welfare programs, such as health education, adult literacy, recreation and handicraft instruction...
...shelter, of course, are not enough. "Above all," says Colonel Sam Wilson, 41, the onetime Merrill's Marauders officer who is on loan from the Army to head the USOM refugee relief program, "the refugees must be kept busy." They elect their own councils to run the camps. Handicraft programs have begun in some places. If land is available, they are encouraged to plant short-term crops. The government is considering training some of them as social welfare workers. Some may end up as teachers to provide elementary education to other refugees' children...
...Quito, Vaughn insisted that handicraft workers witness the ceremony when he signed a $3,000,000 loan for artisan credits...
...only prison art show in Massachusetts opens today in Holyoke Center under the sponsorship of Phillips Brooks House and the State Department of Correction. The display, consisting of inmates' oil paintings, sketches, and handicraft, will be at the information center on Dunster St. for the rest of the week...