Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between Tsinan, an industrial city in the Chinese province of Shantung, and the Mississippi valley of the U.S.A. lie 8,000 miles, an ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...
...Curiosity. I wanted to take a look at China. I was just an adventuristic young kid." Why, after three years, had he changed his mind? His family needed him, he was homesick. And there were other reasons: while working in a Chinese People's Republic paper plant at Tsinan, he had met Cho, a coworker, and they enjoyed each other-until Cho uncommunistically began to hint of marriage. "If I had married her," said Arlie. "I might not have been able to get home." Then there were those headaches. Said Arlie: "Thinking all the time gives a man headaches...
...graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, young Presbyterian Torrey asked to be sent out to Korea, but the Korea quota was full and he drew China instead. With his bride of four months, he arrived there in 1913, for the next 28 years worked out of the Presbyterian mission in Tsinan. Shantung Province. After World War II he served as a civilian liaison man between the U.S. forces and Chiang Kai-shek's army. It was on this tour of duty that he lost...
Died. Cyril Rudolph Jarre, 74, Roman Catholic Archbishop (since 1929) of Tsi-nan, Shantung Province, China; of pleurisy and bronchial complications; in Tsinan four weeks ago. The Communists jailed German-born Archbishop Jarre nine months ago "for sabotaging the church-reform movement," refused his request for the church's last rites...