The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 322, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 14, 1954 Page: 4 of 16
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Choice of "WHITS SAND” or
"BRONZE GOLD” Finishes
Pour
El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Sunday, March 14,
Uneducated American Soldiers
Sent Back to School in Korea
SEOUL. March 13—(U.R)— In a
chilly quonset hut near the Korean
front, a U. S. sergeant stood up and
asked:
"Okay, Rodriguez, how much is
4 times 2?”
"I don’t know,” was the answer.
A few miles away, in a dark mess
tent, another sergeant held up
cards bearing the words “cows,”
••pigs.” and “today.”
Slowly, fumblingly, a private first
class tried to read them.
Almost six percent of the Ameri-
can soldiers in the Eighth Army
are like these two. The Army calls
them "basics”—men who could not
make the fourth grade. They be-
come the special charges of the
Army’s Troop Information and
Education program. Some of them
are illiterate.
10-Week Course
Officers are embarrassed that
these men are overseas. An Eighth
Army education officer said "it is
a waste of time, money, and energy
to have these men in the Far
East." and added:
"These men should be trained in
the States if they should be in the
Army at all But since we have them
here in Korea, they must get first
priority in the education program.”
So front-line units are now put-
ting great stress on education. In
many units, the "basics” must go
to school every day until they pass
fourth grade.
The Army works on them 10
weeks before giving up. Most of the
time it is successful, where the
public schools were not. Last fall,
more than 20,000 Eighth Army sol-
diers graduated out of the "basic"
class.
Doesn’t Know How
Today, one-fourth of the rest are
taking daily instructions. One of
those classes is taught by Pfc. Bert
Gividen, Mapelton, Utah, just a few
hundred yards behind the front in
a greasy tent with no lights—the
generator is off in the daytime.
There are 14 students in his class.
Gividen, who went to Brigham
Young University, spelled "finish”
and turned to the class.
"Is that okay, Proctor?”
"I don’t know," Proctor replied.
"Can’t you spell finish?"
Irish Grind Peat
In Fuel Program
"I can’t spell finish.” Alone
among the 14, the class bores him.
"Can you try?”
"No. I don't know how.”
Tries Again
After class, Sgt. Basil Presti.
Great Neck, Long Island, who runs
the education program in the bat-
talion. talked to the soldier:
"Proctor, wouldn’t you like to
write your wife? Suppose you fin-
ish reserve and go back to the line
—wouldn’t you like to tell her
that?”
"Sure I would,” replied Proctor.
"Only I don’t know how to spell.
What do I do?”
"Put it this way. There's ldts of
words I don't know how to spell.
So I try, and I learn it. You don’t
even try. What’s your job back
home?”
"I’m a bricklayer.”
"Okay, you’re a bricklayer now.
WlmtH you do when you're 45 years
old and too old to lay bricks?”
Proctor had no answer.
"Education is not part of life,”
Presti concluded. "It is life. The
Army gives you a chance to leorn
what you don’t know. If you try,
you can do it.”
The soldier went back to class.
"He’ll come around.” Presti said.
“We had 40 guys like that last, time,
and 30 of them passed.”
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Irish peat board Is working on a
five-year program to make milled
peat to power electricity supply sta-
tions.
At present Irish power stations
use coal, water and stxl peat. The
government is building three pow-
er stations, which should be in
operation by 1059, which will be
run with milled peat.
One official indicated that the
government would like to use only
milled peat In all electricity power
stations and so cut out imports oi
coal.
The board produced 720.000
tons of peat last year of which
80,000 tons was milled pent. All
milled peat at present is being
pressed into buckets which are
useable for home fires.
Peat experts says that although
peat is about half as efficient as
coal there is so much peat in Ire-
land that when transportation
costs are considered it is cheaper
for the country to produce peat
for electricity than to import coal.
Milled peat is a pulverized coarse
brown powder which Irish experts
claim has two outstanding advan-
tages over chunky sod peat.
1. It is cheaper to produce be-
cause it can be taken out of the
ground through an operation that
is fully mechanized. This means
greater production and less human
labor.
2. Its powdered form makes it
more suitable for industrial use.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 322, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 14, 1954, newspaper, March 14, 1954; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc922765/m1/4/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.