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Monday, March 1, 1954 THE CAPITA Ti JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon Page 9 IN MAN AN A LAND Colorful, Friendly Acapulco Described by Salem Traveler By ADDYSE LANE ACAPULCO BAY. GUERRERO, Mexico The mornng after we an chored in Acapulco Bay, I got up early and hurried through break fast. We gave, three long blasts on our fog horn, and a small dinghy speeded out from shore to carry our crew to the mainland. The sun was bright, and Acapulco rose in its vivid contrasts of rich and poor before our eyes. High on one slope, surrounded by blue swimming pools and smooth white rock patios, lush bou-gainvilla-covercd hammocks lounge the tourists from America and the chic, cultured and beauti ful Mcxicnn women on vacation or married to the aristocrary of the land. ' Ten feet below, in thatch-covered huts, are the pobres, pounding tor tillas or carrying hot, dirty loads of sticks or liny crying babies, often both. The city of snd con trasts. I left the others and walk ed throush the Market. I was the only American there that morn ing was a good prospect. The ven ders besoiged me with "Senorita, one peso para csto!" . . "Beauti ful baskets here!" "Senorita!" Buy this . . . buy that. It is a typical old Mexican vil lage market with men selling re bozos; old women and their stands o( pins and ribbons, coconut, col ored beads, earrings; and the con stant trail of little children with their boxes of chicklets. Anything and everything. The air was tight and hot and I walked all over Aca pulco. Had lunch at the Club de Pcsca, facing the diamond waters of thet Bay. In Mexico it is the custom to enjoy luncheon around 2:30 or 3. The siiops close at 1 and open their heavy doors somewhere be tween 3:30 and 4 or 5, depending upon the responsibility of the own er. If you're there and he's not . . . then you can just come back "manana" if you like. Appoint ments mean very little here. Made one with a photographer for 4 in the afternoon. Waited a couple of hours: then, he showed up around H that nighf. No explanation. This is Mexico. It was slowly turning to dusk when I returned to the boat. Went for a swim at the stern. The water was cool and refreshing. Night comes, and Acapulco heat to enchantment. Soft, balmy breezes and stars . . every star that God ever made is in this sky, it seems. The boat sways at an chor, with a gentle rolling every row and then. And the water is black and shiny. All around the Bay, in a curving span of tiny lights are the homes and hotels perched on the craggy rocks of the Bay, and the lights from the avenue circling on three sides. The music drifts across from the shore, and little cries of dogs . . . the voices across the water . . . from all kinds of peo ple that we will never know. The night is filled with every noise, every smell and every shadow poured into the Bay. spotted with land stars and sky stars and blended in the shimmering, vel vety blackness. I took the bus the next morning to the Cathedral, a massive Byzan ' tine structure of grey stone and blue tile, bulbous domes and gold encrusted statuary inside and out. It was hot, and there must have been 45 or 50 of us squeezed into the old bUie bus, galloping through the streets. I had forgotten the word for "Out!" I henr,d someone yell "Baca! Baca!" So I gasped the same thing. We stopped with a mighty lurch. I pushed my way past the armloads of baskets and children and coconuts the women were carrying to market and leaped over the boxes of fruits and vegetables piled by the door. All nf this for 20 ccntavos, which is about 3 cents in exchange cur rency. A luxury ride in Mexico is in one of the many "librcs," or cabs, that come at once to an American in the streets. To slop one, all a person must do is raise an eye brow. They don't expect an American to walk here or ride the . hus. And for speed, a imre can not be beat. Traffic rules mean Pertussin does more for coughs of colds because... It works tjtttmlcillj stimulate Nature's oirn rough-easing action. It not onl rtlit it loosens sticky Ma nt thni "hreaks-UD" couch- ine spells. That's why so many doe to have prescribed PERTUSSIN little. A cruising speed of 50 or 60 miles an hour is customary along the roads of Acapulco. A pedestrian learns he comes sec ond. If his liming is good, he lives a long life. And it is reas suring to see the many old people in Mexico. A fabulous party was given that afternoon high above the Bay. by the harbor commissioner, Enrique Shondube. Mandolins, singing cab alleros, swimming in the kidney shaped pool lined with gardenias and pink camelias. The boatmen had fought their salt spray and winds and were now being enter tained royally by all of Acapulco. This party was one of many. The next day I went to lunch with the Admiral, who unveiled the ornate silver cup to be presented that night to the winning skipper and crew of the Acapulco Boat Race. It was a picture of silver grandeur and presented by the Secretary of the United States Navy to the Fairweather, a 62-foot, 10-inch yawl owned by Fred J. Allen of Los Angeles. A tropical rain came ud sud- denly the night of the Presenta tion dinner. It was midnight, and we were back at the boat. The quick shower was warm and rat-a-tatted on the deck like the sound of the Cuban drumbeats across the bay. Our skipper came out and began to swab the deck by moonlight. "No better time," he said. "It's good way to save water!" We are still on the boat, al though anchored. And our water supply was dwindling. Two days later, we circled the Bay and an chored by the dock to take on water. We had arranged with the Harbor Control to be there at 8. They came with the water around 11:30. (That wasn't bad.) We took on 150 bottles of five gallons each. A small assembly line of native boys walked the narrow plank from the dock to the deck of the boat, for five hours, carry the large bottles on their heads. The 6th of February was the edding day of our skipper, whose bride flew from Glendale, Calif., to be married in Acapulco. All the crew helped to arrange the weddng, and I went to the Mar ket Place for flowers. It seems that "corsages" are an. unknown commodity in the market. I was directed to three places where they sold wedding gowns; got closer to the article when an old man pointed out a tiny green col ored tent where artificial flowers were being sold. As the hours grew on, and the wedding was arranged not for P.M. ("Punctuality of Mexico ' . . . meaning "anytime") ... but day light standard time, American standard, I had to act quickly and bartered for large flame-colored and white gladiolas. I found a lit tle dusty table where the scnora had laid out rows of large safety pins and another place where the girls had colored ribbons. Half an hour later, I pinned on the bride the most primitive (but the only) corsage in Acapulco. And the huge safety pins held our flame-colored corsages in place all during the gay festival of a wedding in the judge's office, where the crecmony was inerprct ted to the couple, where all the court cases in Acapulco, the sleep ing dngs, the little staring chil dren at the doorway, offered their arictics of congratulations. The boats are ringing their sails for a small race to Zihuatencjo, 20 hours north of Acapulco. And the lights nf Acapulco will be a mem ory, but a brillian many-faceted experience in one of the most beautiful harbors in the world. Thousands With Insomnia stump Sound All Night-Awoke Fresh Ifwi of nf w ! Dormin Slffpint rpulf hnvp found vnu can Hmed unund ilffp. Dormin has tv rn rlinimlly trtH for ffty and l suarsnteo! non-hnnit formins. Thf vi-orld of mfdicinr rirosrwn to hv tolerate a lf fplcsi msM that maltM vou 'irtd and worn out thf nut day. Now for only 6'.c per tapsule you can find the rest you want. Dormin cojU hut S1.35 for 36 captulo ao safe no prescription Is needed and Dormin mutt help you or your money back I Accept po substitute. Thert Ji No Substitute For LIKES MEXICO Birthday Can't Come on Thanksgiving Every Year By J. HUGH PRUETT 1 Astronomer, Extension Division Orezon Hither Education Srstera Miss Adyse Lane of Salem, whose letter from Acapulco Bay in this edition of the Cap ital Journal expresses her ap preciation of the Mexican scene as she has seen it. BPA Rates May Goto $22.50 kw WASHINGTON!! - Undersec rctary of Interior Tialph Tudor has predicted a $5 per kilowatt-year increase in power rates of the Bonneville Power Administration. Tudor told a House interior ap propriations subcommittee the de partment is reviewing rate sched ules, as .required once every five years, and has about decided on an increase from the present $17.50 per kilowatt-year to $22.50. "Frankly, I do not believe it (Bonneville) is going to show a greater rate increase than was predicted in the past administra tion," Tudor testified. "I think that $22.50 will take care of the situation there." Tudor's testimony was made public Sunday. Recently I was taking dinner with young, friends who had had only a few weeks earlier a new arrival in their family. Little Bobby had come to them on Thanksgiving day, November 26, 1QS3. The parents were sure that his birthday would not come on Thanksgiving day every year. Calculating ahead, we were able to determine that he will cele brate his birthday and Thanks jiving together when he is six and 11 years old, but not in the years between. .1 According to the world calen dar, which many are trying to have adopted in all civilized countries, a certain day of any month would every year fall on the same day of the week. But this system is not in effect. If we eliminate leap years, our present year has 365 days. With 364 days to a year, we would have an even 52 weeks annually. But the 365 days divided by seven leaves a remainder of one day. This means that since Jen uary.l, 1953 (an ordinary year), came" on Thursday, December 30, 1953, the end of 52 weeks, was Wednesday. Then December 31, 1953, was Thursday and New Year's day, 1954, fell on Friday. If all our years were ordinary years of 365 days then on any I date of one year, the day of the j week would be advanced just one day over the year before. Thus, January 1, 1953, is Thursday: 1954, Friday; 1955, Saturday, etc. But there are those vexing leap years when "unattached" men have to go into hiding for fear of being roped into "the holy bonds." These have two extra days over 52 weeks, (thus prolonging the agony of the timid males.) June 15, 1955, will fall on Wednesday; in 1956, a leap year, on Friday, or a jump of two days. It is not difficult to calculate backwards or forwards for many years for the day of the week for any date between March 1 and December 31, But since the extra day comes at the end of February, we must remember to treat January and February of leap years as ordinary years in our calculations and these months the next year as being in leap years. (In calculating hack wards, remember that 1900, al though divisible by four, was not a leap year). For those who want to try their skill, let us suggest that they show from a 1954 calendar and the rules given above that June 1, 1953, came on Monday; April 15, 1951, on Sunday; February 3, 1948, on Tuesday; and March 10,1943, on Wednesday, The writer hat a small mag net gadget (with full instruc tions) for calculating in about 20 seconds the day of the week for any year from 100 B.C. to A.D. 2300. A self-addressed post al for reply sent to him at Eu gene, Ore., will bring the name of the Chicago manufacturer, WEST GERMANY HOLDS OUT BRUSSELS, Belgium I So cialist leaders from all Western Europe except West Germany have endorsed the proposed European srmy as the means to insure Europe's security." A delegation of the German Socialist Party ab stained Sunday when the repre sentatives of 11 other nations at the European conference of the Socialist International adopted a ' resolution in favor of the EDC. Sunnyside . SUNNYSIDE Mr. and Mrs. John Neuenschwand e r were hosts Tuesday evening at their home to the Friendly Hour Club for their annual "Family Night." After a no-host dinner the group was entertained with a white elephant sale. . Present were Mrs. Chittendon, Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and son, all honor guests; Mr. snd Mrs. Fred Mor tor, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and children, Mr. and Mrs. Stills worth, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Heck art, Larry Heckart; Mrs. Irving Banse, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dutoit and children; Mr. and Mrs. Elton Coon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Lolls, Mrs. Langford, Air. and Mrs. Paul Swope, Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Neuenschwander, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and son, and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. John Neuen schwander and sons. ARMY MAN KILLED IN RIOT JAKARTA, Indonesia un The government held a number of per sons for questioning Monday fol lowing a mammoth religious-polit ical riot in which an army captain - was killed, many persons injured, and two army, barracks burned down. The violence broke out as 250,000 Moslems gathered to pro test "insults" to the Islamic re ligion in recent political speeches. New Spinet Pianos Full Keyboard First Line $495.00 ' The Music Center In the Capitol Shopping Center HELP WANTED Experienced Drapery Saleswoman wanted. Salary & Comr ssion. 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