THE ATLANTIC sooral oo Bilo ALL THE WEEK IN ONE DAY cie EDITOR: JOS. THOMAS Number 77 June 16, 1951 Year LIMON, COSTA RICA POST BOX 199 owners.
OUR TASK MANY ARE IN PRECARIOUS POSITION FROM OUR DESK By The EDITOR Limon petitioned and yearned for to the people whose houses are on DO NOT THROW US OUTDOORS: the construction of the dwellings pro the land, ofcourse, to be placed later mised by the Habitation Department on rental for a given number of years of the Social Security Board, to at with the possibility of becoming We have been informed of a new cunning plan placed in operation least, lighten the burden of con owners. The buildings found in reby some of our rent collectors and house owners. Occupants of rooms gestion in living accommodations and pairable conditions, we understand, for a lengthened period of years and where no repairs are needy to the perhaps to be a shield for the extor will be reconditioned by the Board tionate rental rate on rooms.
and the unfit will be demolished at rooms, quite naturally, there is no provisions by law to increase the All hearts were made glad when the monthly rental rate.
expense of the Board and the the parts for the setting up of the These smart collectors and house owners in order to get their houses were unloaded in the railroad These offers appear reasonable on pound or Flesh at the shedding of the blood of the poor, are known yard and were hauled by trucks to one hand, but on the other it means to neglect to collect the rent when due, as customary, thus allowing the site, but we learn, with much that these poor people, most of them to pass the given date of payment, then seek the process of law to regret, that several of our fellowmen in the setting of their days will be are now placed in a precarious po placed in a new start of life. that displace the occupants under the guise of arrearage. The occupants sition to give way to the construction which is impossible for them.
of tenement houses, we admit should stir themselves to effect payment of someters the prepared bailding in Whatever might be the dilapidation The have of these houses, they belonged to them.
calls at irregular dates for the money, the tennant feels secure not houses on the land and have been payThe rent collectors did not have ing rental for a period of years to the knock at their doors. In those realizing the absence of the collector is a trap set. The legal notice former owners of the land. The So humble dwellings they made themto vacate is served to the occupant and if displaced the rental of the cial Security Board bought the land selves homely. The fruit trees, herbs same accommodation is immediately increased from thirty or thirty with the houses owned by the people and other vegetation around, were five colones per month to one hundred and twenty five or more. This quite naturally, that which is bought mediums of support to many of the high jump from thirty five to the hundred serie, in our opinion should belongs to the purchaser, and in con people.
not be justly approved.
sequence the owners of these houses have been given notices to vacate If a new extension was made for There are other cases where forced repairs are made in rooms the spots occupied. The Board, we the construction of these Cheap occupied by the same persons for a considerable number of years are told, have assigned accommo Houses it would be a boon to Liand up goes the rent in the one hundred and more class.
dations free of cost in the new houses mon, in many ways.
We do not claim to be authorities on the legal side of the matter, but morally we are firm that such proceedings need investigation FOR: and justice be established in behalf of the less fortunates of our great Ebony Color African Opinion Tan Confessions human family World Ring The Crisis Opportunity and Other Magazines Go FIRST to Dixon Barber Shop SOUL RETURNETH TO THE GIVER: West of the Limon Market.
to Dogs and more dogs EXPRESSIONS OF APPRECIATION Mrs. Caroline Anglin de Clarke Her Christian Faith was founded former resident of Cahuita, after hav on Seventh Day Adventism and very ing bome with Christian fortitude her comforting was the scene associated illness for a few months, her soul re with her burial, with the service in turneth to the Giver while being car the city Church and concluded at the ed for at the residence of her loving grave by Elder John Rogers.
son, Mr. Ernest Richards of this city, concourse of mourners and symon Tuesday, June 5, 1951. pathizers accompanied the body to Sickness overpowered her and which the grave.
necessitated her hospitalization and The deceased is mourned by Mr.
finally she was transferred to the re Timothy Clarke, her widower, Mr.
sidence of her son where she breathed Ernest Richards, her son his wife and her last.
children, Mrs. Adelaide Stewart, a Persons in the different walks of sister, Mrs. Alice Gooden, cousin life have spoken very commendably and other relatives.
on her life career; charitable, loving THE ATLANTIC expresses proand pious she had been in all her foundly its condolence to the sordealing with her brethren.
rowing survivors.
We have listened to expressions of appreciation and gratitude which have been extended to our Governor, Mayor Pacheco and his subofficers for the exercise of vigilance on those musical Cows which were accustomed to bellow at all and all hours of day and night at certain public places, By this strict action on the part of the authorities, owners of this musical apparatus are confined to the regulated hours to turn on the Cow In our issue of May 19, 1951 we published the new Regulation regarding the keeping of dogs in conformity with the Law.
We were hopeful to see this requirement put in effect to rid the public places and the city in general of the teeming number of shabby looking and undesireable canines, but to the contrary it appears that a great quantity of dogs have immigrated; thus escaping from the cities where the regulation is sure to be in effect.
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