Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 3 part 1

now the crowd starting to gather around signifying the arrival of mr. Khrushchev the security officials mr. Cruz chávez here coming up the walk out in front of the Home Economics building the Secret Service trying to get the crowd back of a giant walkway in which to bring the premier the chairman toward the Home Economics building a great cluster of photographers around the car Nick Pearce is out in that group with the microphone let's see if we can switch down to Nick Pearce and get some commentary German Christophe Madame Khrushchev is he who just comin up how are you mrs. all members of your family are they popular you're fine truly a computer mr. and mrs. large and other distinguished guests we bid you a cordial welcome to our state university this is the oldest official land-grant college or land-grant university in America during most of the first century we were known as Iowa State College of Agriculture and engineering last July our name was changed to our state university there are six major colleges in the university agriculture engineering home economics science and humanities veterinary medicine and the graduate college we offer undergraduate and graduate training in 55 different departments we have about knife back attack here four thousand during the summer a total of about 13,000 of our students come from Iowa but we have students from every state in the Union and from 250 for foreign country since you will be here such a short time we can give you own a very brief picture of the university we wish you to see just a few classrooms and laboratories and research laboratories in this building here what they say today during the week we thought mrs. keshava and your daughter's might like to see the work in this building because of your particular interest in agriculture we will make a brief stop at our swine nutrition laboratory to observe some of our research work designed to assist Iowa farmers in improving the efficiency of hog production on our farms because your visit is so limited and we will not have time to explain all of the work of the University we wish to present to you this history of the University which has in it an explanation of the work of the institution when mr. miscavige and I hope I say that right was here a few years ago he was kind enough to give us a copy of a Russian cookbook now we wish to reciprocate by giving having one of our students miss Diane rest on a major in home economics present to Madame keshava a cook book written by one of our people and published by the university also to the ladies of the group we wish to request to present a little tile metal which will be in a little basket here so that you might remember iowa state university it's just a little tile tea time then we'll go on the tour listen thank you very much Oh what I really don't know where to find out of the front what and there you saw the president of the Iowa State University great mr. Khrushchev madam Chris java at the steps of the Home Economics building now the crowd moving inside will move down a quarter will move down a long reception line inside the home economics building you see the dignitaries the guests moving in and move down the reception line in the reception line will be the provost at Iowa State University dr. Jenson mrs. Jensen mrs. Hilton there in the front of the pictures you see also in the reception line Boing plat the vice president in charge of Business and Finance at Iowa State University mrs. Platt of course we said that the Dean of agriculture Floyd Andre road with mr. Khrushchev on his trip from Coon Rapids the reception line Richard their dean college of science and humanities right in the front of the picture is a good example of the security leading the way mr. crews job still on the reception line the crowd milling around him at the front entrance of this new home economics wing I was the University cap Bentley was with me in the broadcast booth cap would look as if the students that I was the university gave mr. Khrushchev quite a rousing welcome yes indeed then that was what you might expect that an institution of higher learning such as we have here at Iowa State University over in the USSR we found the students very much interested in America in our educational system and our people in the universe of the area course kept Bentley just returned about a month ago from USSR extended trip its second year in a row of course with mr. Eisenhower going back to Russia next month or so we would imagine that the president is nor will be interested in seeing the USSR and also the University of Moscow yes and it is a beautiful institution dick in fact it's the largest institution in Moscow at the present time houses about 12,000 students where they have all of their facilities for working living and their educational facilities here you see chairman Khrushchev greeting Dean LeBaron Dean LeBaron of the Home Economics division will take mr. Khrushchev waving to our cameras looks a bit tired from a rough trip that he said today madam Chris Java mrs. Hilton following behind they will go downstairs to one of the classrooms we say only say one one of many classrooms in the lower wing of the Home Economics building not a lot of specimen being allowed to accompany them on the tour because of the limited facilities they will actually see students at work classes continuing on at Iowa State University mr. Khrushchev and his traveling dignitaries will have a full chance to see the home economics division in floor glory as the Khrushchev party travels down the quarters of this expensive home economics building they will be seeing just one of nine departments in the College of Home Economics this will be the household equipment Department mr. Khrushchev and Madame Chris Java will see students in the basic equipment course taught by Marjorie Martin the girls in this class are studying name plates of appliances such information may be used to enable one to compare the power ratings of different appliances determine what combination of appliances can be used effectively on house circuits to gain understanding of how to use appliances safely and to guide in estimating the cost of operation of appliances German Chris Java madam Chris Java we should say in the Chairman now taking a look at these rooms kappa since you were in Russia I'm curious as to how the homes of say aims or des moines and the Coon Rapids compared with those of Russia well dick it's quite a different setup in Russia in the cities primarily they're building huge apartment houses 8 and 10 story apartment houses that will cover a half a block their house from four to six hundred families these apartments range from 2 to 3 room apartments while out in the rural areas you will find that on these collective and state farms their family units the homes are cottages so to speak to room cottages with a lean-to on the side but they endeavor very much to make them homie with the limited facilities and equipment that they have to furnish these homes there are no private homes being built in the big cities such as Moscow Kiev and so on at the present time in Russia there all these large apartment homes you