77 RE Br BTR VRB or oh 4 or TT fn. 5 Vol. 77 No. 46 November 30, 1977 ; Odd-Even game Odds battle Evens: the alumni basketball game. Story on page 2. No word yet on whether PSEA will back Siberski As the Susquehanna Times goes to press, there is still no word on whether or not the PSEA, the Pennsylvania state tea- chers’ union, will back Joe Siberski on his dismissal by the school board. Kermit Norris, Donegal High teacher and vice president of the DEA (the local district union organi- zation) told us last week that he expected to have word shortly on the legal question. When we contact- ed him Monday night, he still had no word on any PSEA action regarding Siberski. Mr. Norris informed us that he expected a lawyer from the PSEA to visit the Superintendent’s office on Tuesday morning. How- ever, Mr. Hallgren said he had seen no lawyers when we spoke to him at mid-morning on Tuesday. We asked him to call if any lawyers showed up, but got no call by the time we packed up the paste-up sheets. After speaking to Mr. Hallgren, we called Harris- RAL PIT M ReDoe Moun JOY, SUSOUEHANNA TIMES Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. burg’s PSEA legal office, where a secretary told us that we would have to speak to the chief legal counsel of PSEA. He was in a meeting, she said, and would call us back at noon. However, when we called back at 1:00, he was still in the meeting. He had not returned our call as of 2:00 o’clock. The Times will inform its readers of this matter as soon as information be- comes available. r GSNY! IR ) BOX 3040 PA. | ‘ Ed Murphy loads Christmas presents for shipment to orphans Honduras while FIFTEEN CENTS A Sadie Brooks looks on. Glossbrenner Church spearheaded the effort. Story on p.5 Sadie Brooks is back She talks about her work in South America The typical worker in Honduras earns about $1.50 a day. The staple food for the people there is tortillas, made of corn meal costing 10%2 cents a pound. The average adult person requires about 2 pounds of food per day. Figures like these give some idea of what life is like for Honduran peasants. Malnutrition is widespread among the people there. For the last four months, former DHS school nurse Sadie Brooks has been working as a volunteer in an orphanage/hospital in the mountains of Hondur- as. She returned to her house in Mount Joy on November 14th. There are many orphans in Honduras, because a large segment of the poverty-stricken population doesn’t bother to get married or maintain a family. The children wan- der and beg and often starve. The orphanage where Sadie worked, run by a Dr. Youngberg, an American, takes charge of orphans who are brought by police or by peasants who are concerned about the home- less children. They arrive at the orphanage covered with filth and suffering from malnutrition. Sadie told the Times that the lack of sanitation in Honduras is one cf the hardest things for Ameri- can: volunteers to cope with. The average volun- teer nurse lasts about three weeks there. Sadie: ‘*“When you see pictures of things like that you think, ‘How horrible.’ But when you hold in your arms a child whose body is so weak from malnutrition that he can’t take any food, well... it affects you.”’ Besides caring for orphans and treating dis- ease, Dr. Youngberg’s group is trying to educate the peasants of Honduras to eat properly. Ironically, they would have an adequate diet if they grew different foods. The devas- tating deficiency diseases could be cured by eating less corn and more soy- beans (the malnutrition is caused by a lack of protein, which soybeans are very high in). Children at the orphanage, Sadie told us, clamor for tortillas even after eating nutritious homemade bread baked by the volunteers. Because of the tortilla tradition, Hondurans pass up nuigition bargains: a pineapple for $.10, S000 bananas for $3.00. Dr. Youngberg and the volunteers are hoping to change this needless misery; partly by educa- tion, and partly by ex- ample. The 280 acre farm on which the hospital sits supports hundreds of peo- ple, whose density on the land is the same as that of the couniry as a whole. Dr. Youngberg is training the 130 orphans to grow a balanced diet in the hope that when they grow up, they can teach others. Each child-cultivates a 4 by 8 foot plot of ground in various crops. Many of the orphans brought to Dr. Youngberg don’t know who their parents are, and have no name. The doctor, who has worked in Honduras these last 17 years, has official authority to name the children and have the names registered (the kids pick their own names). Sadie says, ‘‘For those of us who have had some sta- bility in our family life, it’s hard to imagine what it means not to have a name. When the children get one, they become very excited and proud: ‘I am Ernesto Moreno!’ ”’ Volunteers at the orphan- age live much as the natives do, without the amenities common here. Although sanitary stan- dards are maintained on the orphange grounds, the jungle can’t be kept out. Sadie told us that the mos- quitoes are very bad, and joked that the roaches are so big that she put a saddle on one and rode it. Rats are also a problem. One type of animal the orphanage workers don’t have to cope with. is pigs. In most peasant homes [continued on page 5]
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