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U.S. Firms Doing Booming
Business in Columbia
Cali. Colombia (U.R) The
Conquistadores came to Colom
bia in search of gold, but U.S
business in the past few years
has discovered pay-dirt undream
ed of by the early Spaniards.
Throughout this land of health
ful uplands and rich valleys
many of the" best-known U.S.
Corporations have established
factories and are doing a boom
ing business. Some, like Colgate
and Goodyear Rubber company,
already have overrun initial pro
duction estimates and are ex
panding or building new plants.
In Call alone, more than 50
US. companies are now operat
ing, and some 250 Americans and
their families have become a
part of the city's industrial and
social life.
But It is not only big busi
ness that is profiting from Co
lombia's expanding markets.
Men with only a few thousand
dollars, to investbut with sound
technical know-how have been
rewarded beyond their dreams.
Take Bernard Rosenberg, for
example. Bernard hails from
Brooklyn. Four years ago, with
$50,000 in capital and a master
electrician's degree, he started
manufacturing fluorescent lamps
in Cali. Today, he sells S350.000
worth of lamps a year and has
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a million.
Al Schaeffer, now prominent
in Bogota's construction indus
try, has done equally well.
Modtllin Also Attracts
According to" Richard Lanke
nau, who handles business in
vestments for the Banco Popular,
Schaeffer arrived in Bogota just
after World War II with around
$10,000 to discover that nobody
in Colombia was making a good
building block. He knew the an
swer, started manufacturing
blocks with cement bought from
a local cement firm and now has
a $500,000 business.
John Miller, another Bogota
resident, has blossomed into a
building contractor on the basis
of his knowledge of how to dry
wood properly. He is now com
housing project for the Banco
Popular and building lumber
yards in Bogota in addition to
managing his firm, Colombia En
Eineering Enterprises. He owns
both woodlands and sawmills
Two Miami, Fla., boys, Al
Turner and William Hart, recent
ly joined Miller to expand his
building business.
According to Lankenau, Miller
had "eight or ten thousand dol
lars" when he came to Bogota
from the States.
Medellin, one of the oldest set
tled parts of Colombia and
home of the country's largest
textile mills is also attracting
Americans. Like Cali, Medellin
is about 3,000 feet above sea
level and enjoys a mild year-
round climate.
The 250-odd Americans in Me
dellin are in everything from
hea,vy construction to engineer
ing consultation. Many are in
business for themselves.
Tony Keil from Seattle, Wash.,
now owns Medellin's smartest
furniture store. His goods, well
made and in excellent taste, are
being gobbled up by rich Me
dellianos as fast as his -workmen
can turn them out. He is also
selling to Sears Roebuck stores
in Bogota and Barranquula.
Two other Stateside boys will
move down from Indiana soon
to start a modern chicken farm
at Medellin. They'll bring their
own breeding experts. Up to
now, Medellin's poultry demands
have been uncertainly supplied
by small farms.
"Capital is useful," said Jorge
E. Quesada, director of the Co
lombia Association of Small In
dustries in Cali, but most of all
we need skills and know-how.
There is ample Colombian Jap
ital available for any sound en
terprise to serve our expanding
markets."
New enterprises needed, ac
cording to Quesada, are in the
fields of plastics, electronics, ma
chine trades, pharmaceuticals,
food processing, furniture for of
fice and home, leather industries,
office supplies, bakeries and confections.
The largest aluminum marine
structure is in the upper decks
of the liner United States. The
weight of the aluminum alloys
involved is 2,000 tons, producing
a direct weight saving of 2,500
tons and a fuel saving estimated
at 8 or 9 per cent.
Citizen Groups
Help to Improve
Urban Living
Chicago U.R) Citizen groups
across the nation have been
helping city officials improve
urban living, according to the
National Association of Housing
and Redevelopment officials.
The Association listed seven
recent examples of how such
groups have provided advice and
support on urban renewal.
The association said that a
special committee of more than
100 persons studied housing
Ixonditions in New York City.
and its report was credited with
throwing new light on housing
and redevelopment problems.
Eleven Philadelphian prepared
and submitted to the mayor a
statement with recommenda
tions for housing and urban re
newal activities in the Quaker
City.
In Pittsburg, a 200-man Coun
cil on Neighborhood Improve
ment was set up to arouse local
interest in neighborhood con
servation.
The Citizens Planning and
Housing Association of Balti
more is working to organize
neighborhood groups to help
stop neighborhood deterioration.
The Community Council of
Stamford, Conn., working with
the local housing authority, is
providing a recreation program
at a housing project where there
had been vandalism and juve
nile delinquency.
Campaigning to improve hous
ing conditions in Albany, N. Y
the Federation of Churches of
Christ compiled for the mayor
a list of all unsafe structures in
the city department's scattered
records concerned with housing.
The association said Detroit's
Gratiot re-development project
has taken an upward swing
since a mayor-appointed citizens
committee began work to make
the project more attractive to
private developers.
Great Bend, Kan. U.R The
response has improved since the
Rev. Raymond Knowles replaced
Reserved ' and "No Parking
signs in the East Methodist
church lot with signs reading
"Thou Shalt Not Park."
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Yankees Started Australia
On Good Stagecoach Service
Washington A century ago were paid as much as 1,000
and 10.000 miles from home,
Yankee-built stagecoaches with
American drivers rumbled into
Australian gold-rush camps and
broke open the "outback" fron
tier. On their sides appeared the
words "Cobb and Company."
Thus was founded the most fa
mous name in Australian over
land transport, as legendary to
day as Wells Fargo and the But
terfield Stage are in American
pioneer history.
For 70 years Cobb and Co.
coaches carried passengers, mail
and freight in jouncing, free
wheeling flamboyance. Through
the bush, over rutted dust-choking
roads and muddy river fords,
they cut indelible tracks across
a young continent. .
Founded by Yankee Adrenrurert
The stage line's founders were
four Yankee adventurers, Free
man Cobb, John Lamber, John
Peck, and James Swanton, who
arrived in the 1853 rush to the
Ballarat gold field. They real
ized their opportunity when they
saw the crude, slow stagecoach
service out of Sydney.
Cobb and his partners import
ed "Concord" coaches built in
Connecticut. Slung from leather
braces, they were light, speedy,
and practical over rough-country
and cost a staggering $3,000
each.
Crack drivers, veterans of
American stagecoach companies,
were recruited. Eventually they
(S5,000) a year. Cobb and Co.
provided them with the best
horses that money could buy.
The partners made a fortune
in a few short years, sold out,
and returned to America. Cobb
later owned a stagecoach line in
the South African diamond
fields. Peck went back to Aus
tralia with a fleet of 40-passen-ger
"Jack" coaches that he sold
to Cobb and Co., by then being
run by another shrewd Ameri
can, James Rutherford.
Under Rutherford the firm
grew to dominate the 'stage
coach industry of Australia. His
coaches, rarely failing to meet
schedules, won the right to carry
the words "Royal Mail" on their
doors. By 1870 Cobb and Co. was
harnessipg 6,000 horses a day
and galloping 28,000 miles a
week.
'Cabbage Tree' on th. Box
Many of the drivers became
famous in their own right. The
best known was "Cabbage Tree
Ned" Devine, so dubbed for his
wide-brimmed hat woven of cabbage-palm
fronds. "Cabbage
Tree" thought nothing of driv
ing a 12-horse team down a hill
"steep as a side of a house," or
of outrunning bushrangers who
set an ambush for a cargo of gold.
Cobb and Co.'s most spectac
ular stage was the Great Levia
than Coach from Castlemaine to
Kyneton on the Victoria gold
fields. It carried 75 passengers
and required a team of 22 horses,
Driver Has Trouble
Explaining Auto Dent
Lansing, Mich. (U.R) John
Soet had a dent in the right rear
fender of his car, which was
rather hard to explain.
Seems that a dog driving a
car ran into Soet's car on the
western outskirts of Grand
Rapids.
"I glanced up the street and
to my right and saw a big red
car bearing down on me," Soet
said. "I laid on the horn and
then did a double-take.
"There was a dog just a dog
bouncing around behind the
wheel of the car.
"I couldn't go ahead, and I
couldn't back up, so I did the
only thing left to do. I just sat
there frantically blowing the
splendid in polished harness with
silver mountings, and guided by
a single strong-armed driver.
With the coming of railroads,
Cobb and Co. pushed its lines
farther west into the outback
country and continued success
fully to compete with fcuses and
motor cars. Its last stagecoach
was still running in 1924 in
Queensland. When retired, it
went into the Queensland Mu
seum. Five years later, Cobb and
Co. closed its doors.
Australia, fondly remember
ing the famous line, last year
commemorated Cobb ' and Co.
with two special postage stamps.
Annual pageants bring out the
old coaches that rolled on Amer
ican wheels across the Common
wealth's frontiers.
horn while this dog-driven ear
came at me, finally hitting my
rear fender.-" .
The owner of the car was
found shopping in a nearbv drue-
store. . t
Soet Said the driver vnw.il
after this, he'd set the brake, and
not trust the transmission gears
to hold the car on a hill espe
cially with a shift-minded pooch
lert in tne car.
Washington (U.R) The House
Un-American Activities commit
tee has voted to cite playwright
Arthur Miller for contempt of
v-ongress.
The original Social Security
Act became law Aug. 14, 1935.
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