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Show New highway brings change to town in Peru ing development on the south eastern side of town attracts PUCALLPA, PERU This some of Pucallpa's wealthier boom town of about 65,000 residents. which residents hugs an Amazon Luis Escalante on May 1, 1968 River tributary called the started up the city's only daily Ucayali River, is at least one "La Razon. ' Editor can of newspaper, what example happen when a road connects it to the and Publisher Escalante said the tabloid's first month profit was "outside world. " It also spota whopping $25. (that's twenty lights a clearcut discrimination five U.S. dollars!) this which through problem Escalante is concerned about nation's Indians have suffered the failure of the Peruvian for decades. Government to complete the Once a sleepy jungle outpost 100 miles of a transfinal 368 inhabitants in a bare of 2, continental highway which 1955, people from all over starts in Lima, passes through 5 13. million this country of here and is to go on to the some and from inhabitants Brazilian border. Completion abroad began to flock here in of the road would permit overthe last five years as the first was road land highway travel from Rio overland completed 525 road miles from the capital de Janeiro through Brasilia and on to Lima. of Lima on the Pacific coast. Since the Peruvian Highway Pucallpa is about 3 SO airline miles northeast of Lima which Department did a survey of the is now giving the United States remaining 100 -- mile stretch of a tough time over its expropri- the road several years ago, Escalante complained the ation of the International Petroleum Company and the government had done "nothing" country's demands for control to get under construction the over waters for fishing out to final link of the potentially 200 miles from the coast. rich trade route. Former President Fernando "Our government just doesn't Belaunde Terry succeeded in have the money," he lamented. getting a fairly good road built Brazil has built most of its across the Andes Mountains part of the road from Brasilia from Lima to here. The to Cruzeiro do Sul which is highway sparked the about 75 miles east, northeast construction and opening of a of the Peruvian border. Some jet airport and modem airport 26. 6 miles of the road from terminal building, the conCruzeiro do Sul to the Peruvian struction of several plywood border have been built, but mills, the opening of a big work has stopped at that point, paper factory partly owned by reportedly because of lack of the brother-in-la- w of former money and machinery. The Panamanian Foreign Minister final 400 miles from Rio Fernando Eleta (Eleta left Branco, Brazil, to Cruzeiro do office when now deposed PresSul, Brazil, is not all weather. ident Arnulfo Arias took over It is little more than a trail in Panama for 13 days last Septsome spots. Although finishing ember. ) the road is the only way to open Also Sinclair International up mineral, forest and agrihas modernized its oil refinery cultural development of the here to handle a capacity of 175-mi- le area from this city to 2, 5000 barrels per day. A Cruzeiro do Sul, United States 46 -- mile long, ch pipeline A.I.D. and U.S. Public Roads from crude the officials told me they are not oil to it brings The Field. Caliente Agua giving priority to this link to the Brazilian border. U.S. Pucallpa refinery in 1967 proA. I.D. funds have been cut. cessed 1, 512 barrels a day, What money remains goes into according to a Sinclair spokesseveral projects of Belaunde's man. Marginal Road system which Truck farming by Japanese to open up the imigrants has sprung up east of he pushed areas (one Mountains Andes here and is helping the econoMt. Huas-car- an of snow-cla- d peak my. Various small industries is 22, 205 feet high. ) are popping up. At Pucallpa a bridge must be Examples of Europeans combuilt across the massive Ucaying here to cash in on the ali River which at this point is business boom include the German couple who opened the from one quarter to one halfis mile wide, depending if it Berlin Hotel and Berlin Restaurant. at flood stage during the rainy "We used the name Berlin season or not. because we thought internationBut, of all things, the new al travellers would know from military regime in power in it that we had a clean restaurPeru apparently is cranking up ant and clean hotel, " it was the rusted survey for the 100-mi- le explained. link, and may order the built. road Pucallpa itself has few hard surface, black tar roads. Quite a few people live in real squalor. Yet a modem hous- By Clayton Willis all-weat- her 4-in- from the Atlantic. Then it must allocate the Located in the jungle northand have it built, money which is something else ! Such east of Lima, Pucallpa is a road projects in this part of the sort of "capital" for much of this country's huge indigenous world are not usually done population which lives in the very quickly. But as American missionary jungle in the eastern part of Jim Davidson of the South this nation. Many other million American Indian Mission group Indians scrape an existence off here said, "With the military the land in the Andes Mounbehind it, the road just might tains areas. " some action. Three times as large as get In Rio Branco, Brazil, recentCalifornia, Peru's population General Maldonado is : 46 breakdown ly, Yanez, Indians; 11 Peruvian minister of developwhite and 43 mestizo ment, discussed the project (a mixture of both). with officials of the Bolivian For the most part, the people and Brazilian Governments. of Spanish descent living in There is talk about starting Peru have deliberately and work on the road this year. ruthlessly squeezed the Indians Who knows, perhaps the out of the Peruvian economy Indians of this land will get a except as sellers of beads, rugs, break yet from the new govern- spears, jewelry and other such items. By excluding them ment just as they benefitted from the Peruvian economy, somewhat from Belaunde's the Spanish --Peruvians have 1964 land reform law which called for distribution of large essentially economically controlled the Indians. They have land tracts to peasants. simply been left out of a sizMeanwhile, the Indians reable piece of the economic main primarily a mass of action of the country. people whom the Spanish -Peruvians choose to "forget" Although former President just as the Spanish -- Columbians Belaude put up a magnificently equipped jungle hospital here "forget" the Indians who are mostly isolated in the Amazon in this river city with dust filled streets, many of the River region of Columbia beIndians who go there are turned tween Leticia and Miraflores. Miraflores is 250 miles southaway for one predominant east of Bogota, and 400 miles reason: they are Indians. As northwest of Leticia. A road as possible are treated at many from Miraflores to Leticia on the Albert Schweitzer Amazon the Amazon River could give Hospital. It is a small privately Columbia another trade outrun hospital located about 6 let to the Altantic Ocean, miles from here near the open up vast areas of potential- Summer Institute of Linguistics ly mineral-ric- h jungle, and regional headquarters at help include the Indians of Yarinacocha. The Columbia in that neighboring nstitute of Linguistics has done country's economy. much to bring the Indians at Leticia is a trade center a little closer to the mainleast usually visited on a boat trip stream of the economy by to the Atlantic Ocean from them to read and Pucallpa on the Ucayali River teaching write in incredibly remote to Iquitos, Peru, on the areas of the jungle. Although Amazon River, to Manaus, the Spanish population in Brazil. On the Negro River a 5eru boasts of what most few miles from the Amazon, specialists consider to be the Manaus is about 900 miles 'greatest archaeological ruins in South American (the stone city of Machu Pucchu 70 miles from Cusco), these same Spanish --Peruvians have always rated themselves better than the Indians. I Extension Services plan swine tour Word has been received by County Agent Blaine Jones, from Dr. Clair R. Acord, Extension Livestock Specialist , that a swine tour will be conducted by the Extension Services in Utah County. The ten-ti- ve program for the tour is as follows; 10:00 A. M. - Assemble, Spring Lake, Utah County at Junior Lundell's place. See conversion of breeding to farrowing . building. Observe their Chester Whites and Hampshires. 10:30 A. M. - Lorin Phillips at Springville. See breeding and feeding units. 12:00- - Arnold Hog Farm-Leh- iSee new facilities. 1:00 P.M.- - B.Y.U. Farm at Provo. Lunch- - cost about $1. 25 Have a discussion on swine problems. 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