Word: heifers
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...Newest trainees are 18 men and women who started work late last week at Iowa State University. Directed by an organization called Heifer Project Inc. (which since 1944 has shipped more than 800,000 farm animals and chicks to 60 countries), Iowa State's farm-wise corpsmen will spend a month boning up for a tour of improving soil and livestock production on the West Indian island of Santa Lucia. One of Iowa State's volunteers is Madge Shipp, a Negro schoolteacher from Detroit whose age, 55, almost matches Penn State's Kennedys. She quit...
...have already been announced--to Tanganyika, Colombia, the Philippines, St. Lucia, Chile, and Ghana. The Ghana and Philippine projects call mainly for teachers; St. Lucia, Chile, and Colombia for agricultural experts and community developers; and Tanganyika for highly-skilled surveyors and geologists. Three of the projects--St. Lucia with Heifer, Inc., Chile with the Indiana Conference for higher education, and Colombia with CARE--will be run jointly by private organizations and the government. The Corpsmen bound for Colombia, Tanganyika, and Ghama are already in training at college campuses around the country; the Chile group will begin soon...