European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              By Walter Sis new York Bureau Killiam Presl i founder of project a about getting the use of d Hospital ship from the i and still Tell you i just Auk for he quest was says answer was even More i i a 44yonrold Wash i specialist who had once medical off Ivr aboard a i look his request Ivy Secretary Thomas g explained his plan to outfit a gleaming while hos men would bring american fledge to any country which liked for d the and the Navy filing the Hospital lion from its Mothball Fleet d for its new Mission of Are had Hern no precedent  launching a time program on u people do and using u government met the complications before Walsh was or indirect with ind of the Kov in houses of and of the executive id been we Given says an certainly one  of i the full of is of reality As the loudly in letters Mil of san Francisco i a staff it Volunteer Doc and technicians to Indonesia the Hope has completed compiling in amazing i doctors have performed major operations patients who had no other org local h have been treated for a opting and debilitating Dos of thousands of children examined and immunized at i of medical books and Jour Een catalogued and left with onal communities of under Mait immeasurable i native nurses and Del have been trained to and perpetuate hip Torgun programs in vict and 1cial Side effect of All this irl nning of friends for Amer ill called Walsh published by do hit that it astonishes and e people of other nations me and understand the crazy me Rosty of As reach out to other people t to help them when we have King in gain from Odon Slan Farmer who Hud a from his Chest by Hope i a similar thought when he is the lint time in the Mcm id St Man in my Village that Lave come and not taken Rice Uon of project Hopes grow by has been the efforts of mists to discredit says they Cir Lory that we Cut off patients rafted them to the Liodis of ship was anchored in Saigon urst of red machine Kun built in an attack Walsh culls Terling than anything the local communist parly in ant Hope Campaign that even confused in islands 38 to the the half the people we id the i claimed that real Hospital 1964 i ship was on the Way from red China Anu Wise they said would wait for incited by some local Aries plotted to blow up the ship nut we arrested by inc onesian army offi they were Given a Stem to Stern tour of the were greeted by the staff and allowed to poke through the labs and overcome with name and they offered the use of the communist meeting Hall is a wherever the Hope the Atti tude of the local population seems the same initial rapid accept Ance and finally the White ship dropped Anchor in be Lifbor of in May bearded Procsal roles welcomed it with posters proclaiming Cuba Yanqui no but 10 months As it came time to sail for Ecuador after the staff had reached patients and trained 600 native doctors and medical the signs and the beards were Somr peruvians jammed the local fool Hall stadium to pay tribute to the holes a name which seems in attach itself to the ships personnel wherever they another crowded the Dock in a tearful Many had walked Barefoot from ill Miles Inland where they had been treated b roving sums from the they carried kills of Luigi Cal fruit Ami Flowers Over Ilii ships decks mid Manx the As Long As 1 Wii never forget thai said Walsh in new York while thu ship was Bini uni Mcd for current they came in Lin Early remained on the Dock for hours when the Hope finally they slope a vast sea of keeping a respectful silence until we were just about out of As a result of his Devotion to project has had to limit his personal practice in where he lives with his wife and three he travels the making As Many As 90 speeches a visits the ship often in foreign ports and serves us an Advance Man making preparations for future he Cults the opera Tion both my vocation and my of the doctors and nurses who staff the ship obviously feel the same Many have been on All four of the Hoik s voyages including its present mercy visit to they have taken time from lucrative practices and positions As medical and xray technicians and medical secretaries to serve at a fraction of their civilian in rotating teams of physicians and in lists in Stimus special who serve without Are flown to the ship for hours rom iwo in four president Eisenhower initially endorsed the idea of launching project Hope health Opportunity for people everywhere in 1058 when Walsh suggested it As Colliu irinus of the com Mittee on Medicine and part of the presidents  pro since presidents Kennedy und Johnson have been equally enthuse to More than 900 private Ameri can companies have furnished the Hope with medical supplies and equipment commercial outfits run the ves Sel at individuals and labor fraternal organizations and others Send lax Rii contributions to project new York a non profit private run by the health foundation Petroleum Industry donates the shins fuel and the coun cil Lovs ils to raise the 15 Iii limn necessary i support each the ship aim receives some Odiern Leomil from the one of the Iio iks is isl Challenge has been to win the Confidence of local Hope with peruvian soft pict and Cai Roifes Youn patient gelt braces in Saigon rehabilitation the stars and stripes Post 13