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Page SIX THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958 Lewis Pate, Former From Field Trip In It’s a long distance from North Carolina to North Laos, and the changes have been , almost as gfeat as the distance for Lewis W. Pate of Southern Pines. Pate, whose official job is that of a IT. S. information officer, just returned from a field trip with Dr. Has Johnson, of the U. S. technical assistance missioa A former North Carolina high school teacher, Pate gave first aid to hundreds of people, inclu ding a group of refugees jiust out of Communist China. The two Americans slogged through jungle, during almost continual rain, to reach outlying villages within 200 miles of Com munist China. Dr. Johnson tells how at one place Pate picked his way through an area where they had been warned of land mines and suddenly jumped almost as high as a mine would have blown him, because he had stepped on a small snake. Bom In Tenn. Dr. Johnson, who was born “just over the hill” from North Carolina, in Tennessee, is head of the education division of the Resident, Back North Laos Bush International Cooperation Ad ministration’s technical assist ance mission in Laos. During the past summer, he worked with Ministry of Educa tion officials to train a number of rural school teachers for the Province of Phongsaly, which up until last year was in Commum- ist hands. When the equipment arrived. Dr. Johnson was faced with the problem of delivering it, since the teachers had gone back to their remote village homes. There are almost no roads in Phongsaly Province, so the ICA Mission de cided to fly the materials into the province in a light plane that could land in cow pastures. The U. S. Information Agency also wanted to get some materials into the area as a part of its work in the Mutual Seciu-ity Program, and Pate was selected to go along since he had taken courses in first aid. The two Americans and two representatives of the Laotian Ministry of Education were flown north by an American pilot. PYom the cow pasture landing fields, they distributed their edu cational materials and first aid kits on foot, except at two places where they found Jeepsi which could be used to get to some vil lages. There just were no roads leading to most villages. Pate set up hi^ make-shift clinic at place after place and dispensed pills, ointments and other medicines. He did a brisk “practice” at a village of Boun Neua . while waiting for a soldier to procure a Jeep so they could move nearer to villages back in the hills by the China border. One man who approached Pate was suffering great pain from an infected finger with the swelling spreading through his entire hand. Pate, who speaks both Thai and Lao, called for boiling water for sterilization so he could lance the finger. A boy returned with hot tea, and Pate had to call in a shopkeeper to interpret from the local half-Chinese dialect in to Lao, to get the boiling water. He lanced the finger and when he returned through the village the man was relieved of pain and his finger greatly improved. While Pate was busy giving first aid. Dr. Johnson and the two Lao education officials dis tributed their materials and also handled some of the distribution of Pate’s U. S. Information kits to the two or three literate adults in each village. The literates read to the illiterates. Dr. Johnson and the Lao offi cials also made a survey of pos sible short and longterm aid that might be given to education in this remote area, where the Gov ernment of Laos is anxious to get an educational program in operation and eliminate the re maining vestiges of communist teachings which were planted during the communist occupation of the area. The Laos have asked U. S. aid in helping to create a desire for freedom in the people of this for mer Communist area, and the In- IN GALLERY AT LIBRARY Exhibit Of Sketches, Finished Work By Local Artist On Display An exhibit of drawings by best books on conservation of Glen Rounds, his first in the past five or six years, is on display in the art gallery at the library in connection with Children’s Book Week, observed last week. The exhibit contains prelimin ary drawings from many of the books written over the past 20 years by Mr. Rounds, dating all the way back to “Old Paul,” one of his first books and considered one of his best. One wall, the one to the left of the entrance door, displays eight original drawings for “Swamp Life, An Almanac,” widely ac claimed last year as one of the temational Cooperation Admin istration is supplying agricultural experts to help the people im prove their standards of living as well as education and health technicians. Pate, a native of Raeford, was graduated from Southern Pines High School, and attended Wake Forest College and the Universi ty of North Carolina. He served in the U. S. Army during World War 2. He left his job as North Caro lina high school teacher in 1953 to go to Thailand as a Fulbright scholar and liked Southeast Asia so well that he went back to Thailand for two years as a U. S. information officer before being transferred to’Laos late in 1956. wildlife. On another wall Mr. Rounds has tacked up proof sheets of lithographs from “Wild Horse” which show the different stages the artist must take to producp a book cover. Of interest also is a set of five drawings showing the various steps in niaking color separations. This particular technique is one that has been used seldom in the publishing trade and Mr. Rounds used it to great advan tage in “Buffalo Harvest,” which was published about eight years ago. For those interested in the printing inside the book, the local writer and artist has included manuscript pages, some galley sheets, with his marked correc tions, and page proofs. The whole make-up of a book is there. Viewers will get a chuckle from one drawing of what the ar tist calls a horse thief. His editor, however, referred to the man pictured/as a ‘‘reprobate” and had grave doubts about its appear ance in the book. Comments from the editor and the artist are interesting and we won’t reveal here what they are, blit suggest you go and see the picture for yourself. There are, unfortunately, many drawings missing from the exhib it which admirers of Mr. Rounds will undoubtedly wish were in cluded. This being Children’s Week, however, a number of li braries elsewhere in the country had requested an exhibit and, though he doesn’t do it often, Mr. Rounds packed up sketches and sent them off. What’s there are pleasing, though, an4 children and their ililiiiiiiii elders, will get^ lot of entertain ment just looking. For those who are curious as, to just how draw ings for a book are made, the ex hibit is educational. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PILOT— MOORE COUNTY'S LEADING NEWS WEEKUl. YEARS OLD Business Directory KfAenc *7-tf 'pjUttt ^Ae SAttdAiit DfllRV QUEEN S&twce $ Open Daily Regular Season — 10 ajn. to 11 p,m. US 1 between So. Pines St Aberdeen JOHNNY BURNS OIL CO. Phillips 66 Products FUEL OIL U.S. 1 South Southern PineiC N. C. Phone OX 5-6601 or 03^ 5-7711 SHEET METAL WORK JAMES A. TEW Lennox Heating Equipment Ph. OX 5-4012 Southern Pines MIMSIS Phone CY 4-4122 Pinehurst, Nj C. AIR & STEAMER TICKETS AMBULANCE SERVICE POWELL FUNERAL HOME Phone 2-6161 Southern Pines, N. C. CRUISES — TOURS Southern Pines Pharmacy N. W. Broad Ph. 5-5321 Prescription Specialists McNEILL Sc COMPANY N W. 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