PAGINA SEIS LA PRENSA LIBRE Jueves, 26 de Julio de 1958 Costa Rica: Created for Seekers of Contentment Red China Underpricing US in SE Asia (8th of Series by Prominent Foreign Residents) with Chinese Santa Claus Trademark ess Plight of Red Poland Coal Diggers Described by Newspaperwoman from US ENGLISH MOVIES TEATRAL URBINI Following is the 8th article in like to pretend they are regulars By MARVIN STONE some other Chinese items that matic pencils are plenty of propa series by, or about, Costa Rica More Monkey Bus who belong to the show. INS Eastern Director) you can find in just about every aganda items that are practically foreign residents whose faith in At Theo Kop Court, at some city and village in the country: given away: Chinese picture.
the future of the Republic, and time or other, everyone, every BANGKOK, 26. INS. Yes, Men belts for 40 cents: stand books, magazines loaded with an.
its people, have inspired extenwhere, sooner or later, gets taken Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ard size toothpaste for 25 cents;ti US themes, children games sive investments in the little naapart. Sometimes they are put But you would never recognize a really dandy looking thermos. like Monopoly only you know tion natural resources, and the back together again, and some this one.
jug for (but said to explode who gets the beating.
development of enterprises furntimes they are not You wouldn know him be easily. and fountain pens for 20 There is certain consumer re ishing commercial goods and servOne of the things that gets cause he has distinctive Asian cents.
sistance to shabby goods everyices.
hemmed and hawed over at Kop features and coloring. He looks No other country in the world, where, and Thailand is no excepA native of Texas, the author court is the Tourists Institute like Chinese Communist Party not even Free Japan, can start tion. But the 3, 000, 000 Overseas of this article was raised in the and whether it worth its salt. Boss Mao Tse tung behind a to compete against this new in Chinese who live here or onecattle business but broke into the Some of those opposed to it seem white beard.
vasion of the rich SE Asian mar sixth of the population seeing capturing of wild animals industo be against it only because the But the face, the merry red cosket for prices.
Chinese mainland goods is a pres.
try at an early age. This latter Institute crowd doesn do things tume and the brand name Santa By comparison, Japanese goods tige thing, and they snap them activity has bene his occupation which the person speaking against Claus is on the wrapper of thou are much superior. But even they up.
for the past seven years in Cos.
them thinks should be done. Oth sands of boxes of rolled oats all are out of range for most people. Most of the goods have English La Rica.
ers seem to rant against the outover Thailand, a country that is of SE Asia, US goods, noted for lettering on them as well as Chi.
fit from some selfish standpoint, the home base of the SE Asia quality, are usually but dreams nese, possibly to entice Thai shopBy CLYDE LOW Personally, think we need Treaty Organization.
for people who earn s10 a week pers. Pres. Wild Life Export Co. someone to advertise Costa Rica These are rolled oats that are at a good job.
One of the fanciest Chinese COSTA RICA was first called to the rest of the world. Costa made, distributed and sold by The Communist goods are products is a stimulant that some to my attention by a cantina keepRica with its wonderful climate, Communist China. They sell for brought into Thaliand by Chinese people in SE Asia like very much, er in Panama who said it was a it great opportunities in agricul21 cents in Bangkok against 50 overseas trading firms, usuallyIt is made in the Dragon Mounland with lots and lots of monture and industry. needs some cents for rolled oats imported through Hongkong. They are sold tuin Distilleries in China and it keys the relatively rare whiteballyhoo! The Tourists Institute from the US.
so cheaply to dealers and the is read Spotted Lizzard Wine. It faced monkey. That was back in Clyde Low is best equipped to do this job. Santa is being used for mer profit is so high that these Chi is simply a bottle of wine with the 30s when was living in Co the most delightful months of our But we also need roads where chandising purposes, along with nese goods are the first to be mer a whole small lizard pickled in it.
lon, Panama, and occupied with life together without even going there have been no roads before other Western gimmicks, in a tre. chandised. Dealers push them. It isn very appetizing to look filling orders for sloth, capabara, to San José during that time. to make accessible vast fine mendous Chinese Communist hard.
at, but, after all, it is merely a ocelot, iguana and various species The way the people of Punta fertile agricultural lands which trade drive in this part of Asia. Along with the slippers and matter of tastes, and it appears of reptiles. What monkeys were renas made us feel at home, the must be available to the new. To give you an idea, here are steel sewing needles and auto that in Thailand the taste is needed in those days were whole time we were there, more comers who are looking for a swinging toward products made coming out of Colombia the cin than once reminded us of our new home with a waiting to bein Communist China.
namon, marmoset and spider. Inown Texas hospitality.
developed farm or ranch.
those days we had to keep quite When our months visa ex About the wild animal collecta menagerie on hand until we pired it was necessary to go up ling industry especially the monhad a shipload to haul away, Air Ito San José to see about a renew! key business lately some ama.
planes were not used as they are al for another 30 days. However. Iteurs at the game have tried to today.
the Immigration official said if move into it here in Costa Rica EMPRESA IDDIN The day my wife and finally we really liked the country as and through their lack of exKatharine Clark, Chief INS Cor. the lines. After 11 years Poles got started for Costa Rica was much as we sounded like we liked perience have almost ruined it. respondent in East Europe, was have become very good at read PER CARTELERA CINEMATOGRAFICA PARA HOY, that morning in mid December of the country, then, we also were They not only lose their shirts the first US reporter in Poznaning between the lines.
MODERNO 1948 when we awoke to a frigid, the kind of people they liked to but throw the whole system of after the Bread and Freedom These conditions breed restless.
WAR of the WORLDS 16 below zero, Farenheit, at Car have around and would we like checks and balances out of kil. riots in June. Later she toured ness. In addition, the norm or son City, Nevada, and decided to a permanent residencia. We said ter. This system of checks and Potana oy car. Here, she reports expected production from this LIBANO seek a little warmth south of the yes. That was in 1949. And here balances evolved by the old from a city which was renamed part of Silesia is 97 million tons QUENTIN DURWARD border. My wife suggested Mex we are.
hands with monkeys considers when it was fashionable for com of coal.
ico where we had had many pleas Bearing in mind that we had the country economy, the ex munists to be Stalinists, too. It is officially admitted that 25 COLISEO ant times several years before not come to Costa Rica to con port requirements, the risk of loss million tons of Poland coal is SOMBRERO By KATHARINE CLARK when had shipped jaguar, oce tinue in my old business of wild enroute, and the good old ratio exported each year to Russia. The lot kinkajou, and various reptil animal collecting but for a vaca. of supply and demand.
ARANJUEZ ACopyright, 1956, by INS) miners suspect the figure is hightion in a warmer climate which. As in other industries and proes.
BENNY GOODMAN STORY er.
No. told her, not Mexico, al we both were accustomed to it fessions here in Costa Rica, when STALINOGROD. Katowice. We do a lot of work, said one gain. Let try that Costa Rica was an advertisement in a local the amateurs, and other would Poland, 26. INS. The 250 thou miner, for the USSR and Polish SUBMARINE COMMAND we heard so much about while newspaper which stirred the old be do gooders are kept out of the sand coal miners of Silesia are miners do not like that. was living in Panama.
fires of going back to the bush wild animal collecting occupation, restive but not rebellious. They Costa Rica? Where is It? She again, there ll be better and more mon are the best paid of Poland wanted to know. Somewhere. This advertisement was Insert. key business.
workers.
north of Panama in that sectioned by Litwin who wanted Recently, the Gov granted coal they call Central America, told to buy some wild animals. Nat.
miners a 15 pay increase so now urally, answered the ad. And they earn as much as 2, 000 zlotys So we hled ourselves to San after a conversation we formed a month 500 on the legal rate, Francisco, California, where we a partnership which lasted about (Yesterday Temperatures) 25 on the real rate. This is almet Costa Rica Consul Hernán a year. It was a mutually profmost three times the pay of an dex who told us of the wonderful itable partnership.
average Polish worker, year round spring like climate in Central Plateau (San José)
In addition, coal miners belong his country, and helped us to obSince that time, working only HIGH 78. F. at 10:00 with my wife and son has entain a couple of berths on the to one of the few groups per LOW 57. T. at 2:30 mitted to own automobiles and abled me to get more out of life.
Grace Line Santa Adelia.
Precipitation inch Because when one lives in Costa Fourteen days later each day the Gov will help them buy their Rica, one does not want to work own homes. After one year and swift Super Convair 340 warmer than the one before itwork they get three weeks vacalanded us in Puntarenas back all the time, or even almost all tion at a Gov rest house. After in the tropics which always have of the time, Costa Rica is the kind of a place where one can enjoy been home to us. There we of a pla 10 years they get a full month annual vacation.
fished and swam, and cruised up his nose to the grindstone. Life But despite all these induceand down the Barranca River, NEW YORK, 26. is easier here. little work goes hunting and fishing for three of The crack ments, the coal miners here are a long way especially in the wild French liner Ile de France with not satisfied. There is a constant animal collecting business where more than 1, 500 rescued passen shortage of labor and a high rate gers and crew members from the of absenteeism. The truth is that six months in the bush is worth a six month vacatian, particular Italian MV Doria which collided no matter how high a miner pay ly in the rainy season.
with the SS Stockholm off Cape it is still too low to live on. One And during those vacations, Cod at 11:22 last night was ex miner said: there is no pleasanter place to pected to dock her about p. We don think any worker in stay than at the Pan American today. The Doria, in a sinking this country whether he is here Hotel where Theo Kop, the procondition, was ordered abandoned in the mines or in a factory at prietor, holds court for wanderby its owners.
Warsaw is paid enough to exist ing minstrels (Tico style. solEarly reports said there were much less to live decently. Our no casualties among the 1, 134 pas standards are 1, 000 lower than diers of fortune, adventurers, bush pilots, foreign newspapersengers aboard the Doria. Cause the miners of France.
of the collision was not made In addition there is always the men and other tall taletellers who known. In addition to the Ile de difference between Communist France, 11 other vessels answered plans and Communist reality.
Valid to remain in Miami 17 days, the sos calls.
Stalinogrod (or Katowice, as it Effective up to September 15, 1956.
used to be called) is a smokefilled, gloomy city. All the big Rapid conections to New York, Washington, talk about the future does not Chicago and other cities of the hide the drabness of the present.
Book shops filled with Communist literature do not offer enLACSA Direct Service to: tertainment. Consumer goods are promised but do not always arMiami. Havana. Grand Cayman rive. Building projects stop for lack of raw materials.
Panamá. El Salvador Every miner here has heard about Poznan. What his Gov does and Mexico.
not tell him he reads between LA PRENSA LIBRE Only 00 Monthly her.
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PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM STORM BATTERED. SHIP SAILING from New York for London, Joan Crawford, a film star for 30 years, leaves behind some words of wisdom for all Hollywood hopefuls, and provides illustrations. At top, Joan is saying: You can put glamor on like makeup. Mentality is also required. In center, she adds. Any girl who thinks a beautiful face and figure are enough to survive is mistaken. Final advice (bottom) is: Put your mind and energy into your ambition and you can get anything that you want. Internationay. SNOW blinkers are used by actress Rhonda Fleming on a Hollywood set as she develops old fashioned Klieg eyes. This ailment became almost extinct when sound pictures replaced silent films. It so happens that a sequence in a new movie caused Klieg lamps to be resurrected after 30 years. International) FOOT TALL Annabella Gra.
nados, Miss Costa Rica, lifts 5foot Mercy Flores, Miss Ecuador, at Long Beach where both, competed in the recent Miss UniIverse contest. International. THREE WOMEN and two boy passengers of the Norwegian ship Douglas are placed safely on a rescue craft as the storm battered vessel is grounded on The Maidens, oft County Antrim in Northern Ireland.
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