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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
Tourists Pour
Dollars Into
Mexican Cities
By Rohi-rt Preseott
(United Pri-cn Stuff CorrfM-onJenl)
Mexico City tlPi Mexico has
hit the tourist Jackpot.
So mnny sightseers h a v p
streamed into the country that
on downtown Rtreeta and in night
clubs more Knglish can be heard
than In some sections of New
York or Los Angeles.
Hotels have been jammed.
Night life has been flourishing.
And shops have been selling sil
ver, woolens, baskets and souve
nir articles at the fastest and
most profitable rate in history.
One Mexican newspaper wryly
commented on the tourist influx:
"Our shops should place signs
outside Spanish spoken here."
But most Mexicans are highly
pleased at the new popularity
their land has reached with va
cationing foreigners, mostly
Americans, and the increased
prosperity they bring to the coun
try. More than 10,000 foreign visi
tors a week have been pouring
into the south of-the-border vaca
tion land during the summer and
fall months this year, in the big
gest tourist season in Mexican
history.
Dollars Flow
They will leave more than
$200,000,000 behind to swell the
nation's skimpy dollar reserves
and a good many peso bank ac
counts. The tourist trade long ago has
been big business for Mexico, but
never on the scale it has reached
in the past two vears. During
194S, more than 300,000 tourists
from the United States visited
Mexico, and spent about $185,
000,000. This year, with the added
attraction of low prices and a
favorable rate of money ex
change, an increase of at least
50 per cent is expected.
Mexico makes it easy for the
tourist. A $2.60 tourist card pro
vides quick entry, special air and
rail rates give cheap transporta
tionand that attractive rate of
exchange of nearly nine pesos
to the dollar keeps costs down.
Flock by Auto
In contrast to pre-war years
when the majority of tourists
were limited to short trips across
the border to such spas or customs-free
"ports" as Tijuana,
Mexicali, Juarez, Nuevo Laredo
and Matamoros, most Americans
now drive to Mexico City, estab
lishing a base for trips to such
attractions as Taxco, Acapulco,
Cuernavaca or Vera Cruz. Ex
tension of the Pan American
highway and Mcxicb's $40,000,000-a-year
road-building program
have made this possible.
In 1940 only 36.000 automobiles
entered Mexico but during the
first six months of 1949 more
than 50,000 cars brought tourists,
with double that amount expect
ed by the end of the year.
To take care of the upsurge in
Mexico's third largest industry
the tourist business some 1,000
new hotels have been built in the
last two years.
The tourist guides, however,
probably have made the biggest
"killing" from the sightseeing
trade. Tourists in Mexico are
keeping 750 tourist agencies alive.
Campus Operator
Registers Dates
Tuscaloosa, Ala. IP Some
"wolf" on the University of Ala
bama campus has the best pros
pective date list, all pretty co
eds handplcked.
The girls realized what was
happening only after they got to
gether after registration this
month. The fellow with the date
list was helping out in registra
tion. .
He would stop the prettiest
girls and ask to look at their reg
istration form, containing their
name, local address and tele
phone number. He copied that in
formation, letting the lasses think
It was the usual registration rig-amarole.
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"O-MI-COSH . . . THAT LITTLE?"-One-year-old Mary Ruth
DeVor stares in disbeliel at a four-pound incubator baby In St
John's Hospital, Cleveland, O. What Mary Ruth doesn't realize
is that just a year ago she checked in at St. John's, slightly pre
mature, and weighing only one pound, 14 ounces. Now she's a
husky 17 pounds, eight ounces. Sister Agnes Therese, who cared
for Mary Ruth as a tiny tot, showed her around the baby ward on
her birthday visit to the hospital.
Bolivian Pilot
Now Able to Talk
Washington, Nov. 8 HP1 Boli
vian pilot Erick Rios Bi idoux has
told friends he reported engine
trouble and was cleared for an
emergency landing when his P-38
collided with an Eastern airliner
here last week, it was learned to
day. Rios, who is hosptialized from
injuries suffered in the crash
that claimed 55 lives, said he told
the control tower at National air
port that his plane was losing
power.
He got instructions, he said, to
come in for a landing as soon as
another plane touched ground. He
began his approach after seeing
what he identified as a "twin
tailed Cessna" hit the runway. He
said he took it for granted that
that was the plane he was order-
ed.to follow in.
Rios said he did not see the
Eastern airliner until a split-second
before the collision.
Though he did not completely
News of Grange Hall Community
Cranee Hall. Nov. 8 Ul'i Mr.
and Mrs. Hud llumliert and fam
ily have moved from their home
lii Six Corners to the l;in Muiirh
ranch on the Hear creek roatl.
The Ihimlxrls have leased the
Muricli place for several years
and it fanning It as present.
Muricli recently completed reno
vat Urn of the farm home on his
property, so the Humbert family
could move.
Mrs. FhhI Davis was a caller at
the E. C Rowley home Thursday
att noon.
The achievement program for
the -I II clubs will he held Friday.
Nov. IS, at the Eastern Star
grange hall for Alfalfa. Six Cor
ners, Richardson. Young school,
Bend, and Boyd Acres. Members
of the extension units in these
communities will furnish the re
freshments for the evening. All
p; tents and friends of the 411
program are being urged to at
tend. All the awards will be pre
sented to the members of the I II,
which have been, earned during
the past year.
James Ellings, county agent of
Redmond, called at tiie Walter
Pilchard home on Monday.
A meeting for all girls and boys
who will have their ninth birth
days befit e January 1 and all
others who are older and inter
ested in a home economics club
such as 4-H cooking, sewing,
homemaking or canning will be
hold Wednesday after school at
the home of Mrs. E. G. Rowley.
Several clubs will bo organized at
this meeting.
The 4-H agricultural clubs of
the Richardson community will
be organized on Friday evening
at 7:30 at the Richardson school.
All children interested In joining
anv of these clubs is being 1 1 god
to "attend. Projects to be Included
are chickens, garden crops, flow-
rule out radio failure as a cause
of the accident worst in civil
aviation history he said he re-;
membered being in radio contact ;
with the control tower shortly be-j
fore the crash. i
Airport control tower operators I
have said they warned Rios by i
radio to circle the field before try-!
ing to land, but that he failed to
comply and came right in on top
of the landing airliner. ,
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