-6employed come from the 1.
2.
Zach woman on her cwn initiative ay share her
profic with her alab, and he may pass some of thie on to ais suverior, but
he is under no obligation to do so.
(5)
A commnity store, esteblished in 1953 as part of a community de-
velopment project, had by 1957 amassed a working capital of almost $5,000.
It is now practically bankrupt, due in part to losses over which the coumunity.
had no control, but also because the limited store funds have been used at
times as a Council treasui1?.
§The Council is supposed to supervise the store
operation, but in fact the Magistrate cr the Policeman tell the storekeeper
what to do.
In 1957 several small groups and individuals sought to establish
retail operations, buying their inventories at wholesale rate from the Count]
store.
This appeared at the time to be the start of small business enterprise |
divorced from comminity .ithority, but it has turned out to be a loosely .
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organized ration system utilized by the Council when a distribution of scarce
trade imports is required.
All of the villagers are assigned to one or enother
of eleven retails; when food is scarce the pecple buy only from their assigned
retail.
The Magistrate makes this decision in times of scarcity, and the
Council storekeeper helps to enforce it.
Only one retailer has held out for
an independent cperation, and has been so aggressive that he has got away with
it thus far, although he and the Magistrate are reported to have come close
to physical conflict in the past year.
(6)
The Kili cherch lies outside the jurisdiction of the Council or
Magistrate.
For years it has been organized slong lines laid down by the
Association of Marshalle-2 Churches (Protestant) with a pastor, three deacons,
a Committee of Seven, and auxiliary groups according to sex or degree of church
comaitment.
In matters of smoking, drinking, dancing, and extramarital sex
relations, the congregation and its officers enforce the church tabus rigorously