Folder 13

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(1901-1994)

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      1959 Aug 09, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “I had a fearful and wonderful party Saturday night,” had over a widowed mother of the girls she works with and one of the daughters as an interpreter; discusses the suit Mary is trying to get for them
      1959 Aug 11, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks For the first time C.A.R.E. has entered Turkey, “I have given to C.A.R.E. for years and I think they once did a good job. I think I shall not give to them again, Their policy here seems to be just to ship in stuff and dump it and expect I.C.A. or some one else to see that it is properly used;” is trying to finance so she can perhaps afford a personal washing machine; is trying to find a Turkish librarian to speak on the value of reading; “We have a young Turk on the Am. staff who told me in confidence that all the dumb people are in the Govt. and the smart ones in business. Maybe he is right;” Neighbors stopped by and woke her because her front door was wide open; had a student from the University of Michigan over for supper
      1959 Aug 12, 1 envelope without letter
      1959 Aug 16, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Is unable to access her car since they have dug out the street in front of her apartment, “They have dug the Grand Canyon in front of my house;” mentions the April 1959 issue of “Presbyterian Life” has a story on one of Mary’s good missionary friends; discusses some workers trying to avoid paying American income tax
      1959 Aug 18, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “Our mail is being held up. I heard that Pan Am. refused to carry it--That a A.P.O. has been taken away Istanbul and may be taken away here, that will be very bad for us;” had to drive around “madams” in the I.C.A. car and they all complained about the lack of night life; “My little dumb counterpart who could have at least run the errands has been gone now 1 ½ weeks supposedly collecting her salary down in Southern Turkey but the men hauled her up north. They can not travel on the job unless I haul them but they go south by going north, figure it out;” boss found out no Turks were going with Mary to Konya and he blew a fuse and made her counterpart cry, “but the fact still remains, I take the madams to Konya while the Turks sit on their ‘arses.’”
      1959 Aug 22, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Is having a hard time with the “madams” and in her hurry to leave the hotel, she inadvertently took a couple of American passports that weren’t theirs and had to scramble to get things figured out by the time she realized it; had to pick up a Time magazine at the P.X. for an article about Americans at Izmir; troubles at the P.X.; saving gas not using a car and isn’t entertaining as much; commander upstairs says the time article was untrue and that “these Americans were fabulous black market operators”
      1959, Aug. 28. 4 p. w/ env. Letter to C. A. Border from the Tulsa Farm Club Attached biographical sketches

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