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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1954)
Monday, February 15, 1954 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregon Paw. 13 ENCHANTED LPenney'sJ TED I ... av to Shop Beauty and Mystery of Mexico Intrigue Observer from Salem Free Parking! By ADDY SE LANE MfcXILO CITY From Cape San Lucas, at the tip of Baja, where we anchored overnight and visited the villaee on the beach, we cross to the channel to Banderas Bay and Puerto Vallerle. Puerto Vallerte is the most en chanting of the Mexican towns we have visited. We immigrated there. Customs officials rowed to the boat and cleared us for en trance into Mexico. There are 17 American families n town, 7000 Mexicans in the vil lage. The streets are covered with cobblestones and are narrow, little uphill twists, like a 'miniature Mexican San Francisco. The town curves around Banderas Bav and from our vantage point oil the water looks more picturesque than any place I have ever seen. It is only a pity that the thousands of people who live there, manv in dire poverty, will never be able to see from the outside the beauty of the picture-postcard in which they live. On the left as we beached are countless thatched huts, canoes covered from the salt spray by large cocoanut palm leaves, and lean-tos covered with rough palms for roofs. Then the Hotel Rosita, 1 a modern pink structure built 'nrniinri A nnlin anA a cotirl,, ni.,.ni. . ru"v u auuuj pi i an shore with crude hammocks and palm trees, coral gardens and gardenia bushes, bouganvillas and pink hibiscus. The owner of the hotel picked a gardenia from his bush and saluted me with a flash of a smile, a bow and "Para Ud., mi bonita!" The sun zegan to set upon the water. There was never a sunset like this. Gorgeous pyramids of fiery oranges and greens, purples and pinks all across the horizon, with a sailboat silhouetted against the brilliance of it. Slow plodding burros saddled withb ricks or bunches of wood crossed between us and the sunset as they made their way along the promenade. On the far side of the village is the poorest section. There the women pounded clothes white against the rocks of the river. Children played around them, nak ed. Bent old men approached through the waves from their long canoes with blocks of chickle on their backs. They had been gather ing the gumbase up the bay and were bringing it to market for export from the port. This is what we buy from the Wrigley company. Went to the Plaza, where crum pled old men and women sell strips of coconut and a red-brown sugar substance, chewing gum and tickets to the "teatro." This lat ter is an open-air cinema in the patio behind a small dress shop. Hard kitchen chairs there they can move around when they can't see. It costs 13 cents in American money to see the picture. The night we were there the big fea ture was "The Room Before Hell" . . . 'only we saw Kirk Douglas in it as "Detective Story" in the States. In the rainy seasons at Puerto Vallarte, the children slide down the cobblestone hills in big turtle shells. We left Puerto Vallarte early in the morning. The hills were smokey and tipped with a floating fog. The sun doesn't come upon Tucrto Vallarte until 8:30 in the mornings because of the interven ing hills. It became terrifically hot during the day. And at noon we anchored for a swim. By night we were near Chamela Bay. Lightning flashed beyord the low bills that circled the bay. And the stars sent back an echoing staccato answer. We were guided by the North Star and entered the bay in black night. The bay is considered one of the most treacherous spots on the western coast. Most sailing men would not enter in there dur ing the day. We approached it and anchored at night. It is un predictable and filled with un chartered rocks. It took the whole crew to stnno guard on the bow and side decks, and the silence of the night and of our tightened breathing seemed like the taut stretch of the drum-top. (We were wondering if that swim and the delay was worth entering here at night.) On the 27th of the month, we ar rived at Manzanilla, to refuel and take on water. For several hours we had followed a white speck on the horizon ahead of us . . . and met the boat in person in Manzan illa, as we anchored alongside of her. It was a large working fish ing boat, manned by a crew of men headed by Marco Collini, who is supposed to be the best fisher man on the coasts. What a day! I boarded their boat with camera I and pencil, up and down the detck. below and into the bait tanks. Had : dinner with them in their galley. Almost had a catastrophe as Marco wanted to prove Jon Hall had nothing on him. He leaped over the side into water that was filled with sharks and insisted upon swimming beside our skiff as we rowed back to our boat. Perhaps he is better than Jon Hall. He is a living example cf something, at any rate . . . and a very fine skipper, too, judging from the respect his crew holds for him. And . . . intb Boco Chica Har bor and Acapulco. I was en chanted. A myriad of lights flash ed, and suddenly the Vagabunda, another escort vessel, blazed us with its vivid blue searchlight. It ! picked up the steep craggy cliffs on each side of the narrow channel entrance. Small pin points of buoys on either side of us. We came nearer. The lights were more clustered together until we were directly under the cliffs. And h'gh above the bay, a brilliant maze of colored lights and nponle on the top of Acapulco's brightly- ' lit world came to the railings of j tiie large hotels and dining rooms i to look at us sailing in. There was a softness in the air. and a sweet balmy breeze blew my hair around my forehead. 1 stood motionless for a minute. I felt something was the end of an era. What it was I didn't know. Soon we were cleared in the bay and became part of the blaze of lights and music from high above us at the Flamingos Hotel. The stars above us in the sky and the manstars from the masts in the bay blended and we were once again on land. WOODBURN JAYCEES WOODBURN A special meeting of the Woodburn Jay cees will be held Tuesday night, Feb. 16. at 7:30 p.m. and the group will attend the basketball game at the high school between Woodburn and Dallas in a body. The Dallas Jaycces also will be present for the game and a con test in rooting for their team ; will be held between the two groups of Jaycees. At the time of Cleopatra, rich women made up their eyes by painting the lower lids green and the upper lids black. 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