THE ATLANTIC TH ALL THE WEEK IN ONE DAY EDITOR: JOS. THOMAS Number 74 May 26, 1951 LIMON, COSTA RICA POST BOX 199 Year Railroad Transportation to be resumed within two weeks Sweet potato OUR TASK FROM OUR DESK BY THE EDITOR THE GROANS OF LIMON The Northern Railway Company This gigantic task is being effected in spite of abnormal weather con to avoid further interption in that The groans of our city are coming to us from far and near. It is ditions has promised to resume tran sector.
piercing to listen to them and so are they diversified. The citizens sportation within two weeks.
Anticipatingly we are congratulatbave pointed out many of the things which have caused them to utter Construction of a bridge on the ing the chiefs for this new project bed of the former river course is the groans; for instance the glaring profitering in the city market on and are looking forward to a speedy underway some items of necessity. The retail seller is ready to say she bought resumption of traffic.
the goods at a high price from the producer. On questioning the producer he reels off his film on the cost of production and transporNEWSPAPERS: tation whether by launch or train to this city.
We quote below the retail prices of some ground provisions Jamaica Gleaner. Jamaica Times Chicago Defender cultivated nearby: Trinidad Guardian, etc. For Sale at Dixon Barber Shop.
West of the Limon Market.
Coco, papaya, yam and yampie 50 cents lb.
40 cents Ib.
Pumpkin 35 cents Ib.
DIED Cassava 25 cents, Ib.
Plantain 20 or 25 cents each Tomato, small for 25 cents Oscar Stanton De Priest, 80, first Negro Tom Heflin calculated that to punch.
Lime, green, juiceless for 25 cents te serve on Chicago city council (1915 De Priest in the nose would be worth Green orange at least 50, 000 votes when Heflin ran for 15 cents each 17. first of his race ever sent by Nort hern voters to the House of Represen re election.
Okras or green banana for 10 cents tatives (three term Congressman from This picture might be screened satisfactorily for those foodstuffs Chicago Black Belt) 1929 35; of a Beginning with the 41st. Congres which need great attention from time of planting to time of reaping, kidney ailment; in Chicago (1869 71) the South sent 20 Negroes In Washington he worked unceasingly to the House purchasing of tools, etc. but we must comment strongly against the for a national anti lynching law. His The last to serve: Republican Repreprice of green banana at five for ten cents. The rejected fruit is given wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized sentative George White of North freely by the exporters and the men who shoulder them from the dock the South when the First Lady received Carolina, twice elected (1897 1901) by and sell in the market, we learn the price is reasonable for the retail her at a White House tea; shortly a Populist Republican fusion of Negros dealers to sell much more than five for ten cents. man versed in thereafter Alabama late Senator Town and Whites.
the industry told us that the retailers are earning from six to seven colones a bunch after buying at 50 each. Mutual Defense Assistance Program The price of twenty and twenty five cents each for plantain is too high, but the most alarming are the prices of green orange for fifteen cents each and three green limes for twenty five cents. The farmer does nothing to enhance the bearing of these. Our heavenly Father blesses mother earth and one orange tree or lime tree will yield thousands at each season, and if it is true that the farmers are selling them at a price which forces the retail dealers to sell at such exhorbitant prices, then these owners of the trees should bear in mind that the day of reckoning is sure to come and he that is unjust will be unjust still. On the other hand the Government has practically given them lands on which these plants are grown by nature and they in turn should be a bit generous.
JOGOO TIENDA LA BARATA. DE. MOISES KADER GRAN LIQUIDACION Tres Semanas. Faltan. Tres Semanas Nos estamos trasladando a San José.
SIGUEN LAS GRANDES REBAJAS. APROVECHENSE AHORA. THE CHEAP STORE Three Weeks. Remaining. Three Weeks WE ARE TRANSFERRING TO SAN JOSE THE BIG CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES Greatest Reduction in Prices. Approach this. Opportunity Now Military officers who will lead the forces defending world freedom are studying battle tactics and the use of modern weapons in the United States at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Through the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, the United States is helping other free nations to strengthen their defenses against aggression.
These combat officers, from more than 20 nations, will return to their own countries to instruct their units in the use and maintenance of new weapons.
The photograph, made at Fort Benning, shows the weapons used by United States infantrymen. Clockwise from bottom left are: 75 millimeter recoilless rifle, fuur mortars of different sizss, flame thrower, anti tank weapon (bazooka. water coolcu machine gun, air cooled machine gun, automatic rifle, standard semi automatic rile, semi automatic carbine, pistol, and 37 millimeter recoilless rifle. In the background dol. Bisa Nilo dico de Cultura y luyendos Rica.