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Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...
...eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...
Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood...
...decided to see what the union thought, discovered that many another carpenter was wondering the same thing. The 940 union carpenters in northwestern Washington's Skagit, Whatcom and San Juan counties took a vote. Last week the returns were in: 60% had decided to refuse the raise and bet their 13? an hour on the future...
...gorges of the Skagit River, high in the mountains above Seattle, is a grove of palms and banana plants. They were grown there by James Delmage Ross, superintendent of Seattle's power system, after someone told him it couldn't be done. Almost as surprising as a banana plant in the State of Washington is a Republican in the high councils of the New Deal, but such is Mr. Ross. A utility expert who expressed hearty "disapproval of Franklin Roosevelt's early ideas on power distribution, he nonetheless became Franklin Roosevelt's firm friend, was appointed...