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Cuban taietfsity
Many Affile
Wifhoift Legal
Entry Paper?
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of Ihrre dlspatrWs on the Cuban
refugee problem in Miami.
By RICHARD W. HATCH
Miami - (DPI - Two swarthy
men, one tall the other short,
stood in the dirty, rugless ho
tel roojn and wolfed down
canned ham and scrambled
eggs as they talked.
The smell of the meal and
eggs, fried on a hot plate, was
stifling in the unventilated,
nine-by-12 room.
The "chef" was Dr. Vhi
centc Hernandez, former
mathematics instructor at San
ta Clara university in Santa
Clara, Cuba. Sharing the meal
was Philipe Lastres, a certi
fied public accountant and
former vice president of San
ta Clara university.
"We eat eggs because that
is all I can cook, said HQ
nandez. "If the egg is broken,
it is scrambled. If it is not,
it is fri!."
The two men are Cuban
exiles - among the 45,000 in
Miami. They are among what
Federal Aid Administrator
Tracy Voorhccs called "a few
extreme hardship cases."
Fled In Small Boat .
They, and Dr. Pedro Oliver,
who was president of Santa
Clara university, fled to Flor
ida Nov. 17 In a small boat.
Like 1,700 of the 44,000 Cu
bans who arrived In Miami
from Cuba in 1960 up to Dec.
5, they came without legal
entry papers. Some of the
1,700 managed to slip in on
airliners, a few hundred came
in small boats, and a very few
in stolen airplanes.
Of the 44,000, U. S. (mi
gration said, 32,400 arrived
on tourist visas. Roughly 12,
000 arrived in other categor-
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ies of admission, ' Including)
those who formally asked pr
litical asylum. qI
Almost all arrived by senea-
iQ'd airliner. O
The three Santa Clara uni
versity faculty members es
caiftd Cuba on the pretext of
"going fishing.
They had protested the fir
ing squad execution of Por
firio Ramirez, president of the
student body at (Santa Clara.
Ramirez was one of five Cu
bans executed Oct. 13 after
being captured with a coun
ter - revolutionary invasion
band in the Cuban hills.
Wore Shirts, Shorts
They reached Miami with
the shirts and shorts they
wore. Each has been given
$125 by the Cuban Democrat
ic Revolutionary Front (FRD).
All this money has been ex
hausted on clothing, toilet and
cooking supplies, the hot plate
and food.
Anthony de Varona, head
of the anti-Castro FRD, said
his organization puts out $8,-
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CUBAN IN MIAMI - Pedro Oliver, former room where ho lives In Miami, Fla. He Is
rector of Central University of Las Villas . one of the many Cuban leaders who are
Province In Cuba, is shown in a small hotel "political refugees. (UPI Telcplioto)
Capitol Memo
Huge Legislature
Housekeeping Job
Said Under Control
By DOUGLAS GRIPP
Salem- IUP1I -Getting ready
for the Oregon Legislature is
a mammoth housekeeping Job
and all Is In
readiness for
the 1001 ses
sion which
convene Mon
day. Bulk of the
physical prep
aration falls
on the secre
tary of state
noueiai Gripp and Secretary
Howell Appling Jr. announces
these new wrinkles in the
Capitol:
1. Fiva more committee
conference rooms, three on
the first floor and two in the
basement.
2. A Legislative mail room
In the basement, newly done
over.
3. A car parking system In
front of the capltol.
4. Press facilities for week
ly newspapers off the house
gallery.
' Lack of space has always
been a problem during the
legislature. To make room for
the new conference and com
mittce rooms, three state ag
enclcs were moved to other
buildings in the capitol group,
They are the Governor's Na
tural Resources committee,
Welfare Recovery division
and Marine board.
Appling said cur parking
near the capital last session
amounted to "organized
chaos." Legislators were given
windshield stickers but other
wise It was a free for all.
This vear each legislator,
key legislative employees and
members of the working press
will have personally-assigned
parking slots. Because of this
Annlina intends to cut the po-
Ilcina lob in half-from six
parking attendants to three.
The two conference rooms
provide for the first time an
exclusive space In the capltol
where legislators can meet
privately with their consti
tuents. All committee rooms have
been repainted green and the
house lounge has been moved
from the fourth to the third
iloor.
Appling Bid the main rca
son for the latter Is that the
private elevators for legisla
tors only go to the third
floor and each session there
are a few elderly lawmakers
or some with heart conditions.
,
By legislative resolution
each legislator will start the
session with a miantily of
state-furnished supplies in
cluding 100 sheets of letter
head stationery plus enve
lopes, three pencils, a ruler,
box of rubber bands, paper
clips, pair of scissors, cello
phane tape, 50 four-cent
stamps, copy of the Oregon
revised statutes and 1050
laws, a wastepaper basket and
a dictionary.
Other supplies Include a
clip board, filing cabinet, cal
endar pad, scrap books, desk
pad, scrap book, desk pen,
six blotters and a letter
opener.
Also by resolution, each
legislator is entitled to sub
scribe to five newspapers of
his own choosing during the
session.
Ninety spittoons are in
readiness-one for each legis
lator, a holdover from Ihe old
days. But one will be put
beside a legislator's desk only
on request.
As late as 11)51 it was rou
tine to have a spittoon by
each desk in both houses but
several sessions ago the "by
request only" policy went into
effect.
In 11)511 there was only one
request.
If a senator orders a spit-
loon, it will be black with a
chrome top. To avoid a mlx-
up, spittoons tor House mem
bers are painted green.
4-K NEWS
Slilch-in-Time
The Stileh-in-Timc 4-H club
met recently at the home of
Margaret Carnegie.
Mothers of club members
were invited to the meeting.
The members told plans for
the coming year. Refresh
ments were served and the
members sang Christinas
carols.
Another meeting was held
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president at the business meet
ing. Members worked on gar
ment protectors and should
be finished by the next meet
ing.
During the Christmas holi
days the club had a skating
party at the new skating rink.
Margaret Carnegie,
Reporter. 1
Busy Bsei
The Busy Bees 4-H Sewing
club met Dec. 10.
'Ihe meeting was held at
Sandra Iluftellng's house,
141)7 Beall lane. The club
lender, Mrs. John Truly, said
it would be nice if the club
members could sell mistletoe
to gel some money in the club
treasury. But it was raining
Hie Saturday we planned to
sell mistletoe.
Jeanne Ann Johnson,
Secretary
Swim Club
The Central Point 4-H
Swine club had a skating part
at the Guess What skating
rink recently.
Over 20 members partici
pated. Late in December club
members were Invited to Ihe
Midway Meat company hog
feeding lot where they were
instructed on their feeding
program.
Donald llerzog,
Reporter
'Lights' Program Tonight at Jr. High
A "Lights on For Educa
tion" program will be held at
7:30 o'clock tonight In the
McLnughlln Junior High
school cafeteria.
Topics to be discussed will
be extending the legal driving
age from 10 to 18. by Mrs.
Richard Melum, MdLnughlin
PTA president; youtrremploy
ment, by J. V. McGondwin
of the Medford legal firm of
Van Dyke, Dellenbaek and
McGoodwIn; school tinnn,e.s,
by F. C. Bash; need for voca
tional education in Oregon,
by Mrs. Louise Davis, Mr
Loughlin Junior High school
t
teacher; lowering of compul
sory education age from 18 to
IB. by Alex McDonald, dean
of boys, Medford High school;
understanding t h e ideology
and Democratic process of the
United Slates, human rights
and responsibilities, by Dr. D.
Klrkland West, pastor, Med
ford First Presbyterian
church.
Each of the speakers wil
talk five or six minutes, then
a general discussion will be
held.
000 to $ni,000 a -month in
this kind of emergency aid to
refugees. The mony is con
tributed by AmeHcans and
by Latins here and in Mexico,
Colombia, Peru and Argen
tina, he said.
'Vie wives of FRD mcn-30
'or 40 women - have organized
what they call the Anti-Communist
Foundation to help
refugees. They collect money,
food and clothes for the des
perate refugees - like a refu
gee barber who needed $57
for a license to work in Flor
ida. Exiles lucky enough to have
jobs, and members of the per
manent Cuban population
hOe, give the hardshQi cases
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SEDAN CRUSHED - A 1961 sedan is crush
ed by the tank of a trailer-truck near Para
mus, N.J. The tank broke loose from its cab
while traveling along a highway and wound
up in a parking lot atop the sedan which
was traveling in the same direction. The
driver of the car, Martin Levine, 44, of Long
Island, N. Y., was killed. (UPI Telephoto)
some canned food here, a few
dollars there.
Live in Crowded Hold
The three university men
sleep in adjacent rooms on
the top floor of O.e twotory
Monroe ootel - one or five
or six near downtown Miami
where refugees are put up by
various welfare agencies.
There are 52 Cuban refugees
in the 40-room Monroe hotel.
The International Rescue
Commission pays the $4 week
ly room rgnt fcr 49 of them.
Thj FRD pays the rent for
three others.
There are no rugs on the
floors and no pictures on the
windows, i- The lights are
naked electric bulbs. There
are two bathrooms - one for
men and one for women.
Professor Hernandez sleeps
on a single bed with sheets
and a pillow, but no spread
or blankets. In his room is a
straight wooden chair, a wick
er rocking chair, a bedside
table, a stand for the hot
plate, and a bureau. There is
a tiny lavatory - with cold
water only - and a mirror.
Looking for Jobs
All three spend the day
walking the streets looking for
jobs, a nearly hopeless task
since none siiks English
well.
Of the first 2,875 Cubans to
register at the Emergency
Cuban Refugee Center set up
here by the U.S. government,
56 per cent could not speak
English. And like the three
university men at Monroe, 36
per cent of the 2,875 were
membc of profession
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handoul9 from other Cul
sigfe their FRD money ran
out. O O
The meat and eggs they
were eating at 2 o'clocfl in
the afternoon was a gift from
a nearby automobile firm
which distributed food bS
kets in the hotel. .
It was their first meat tmcqp
the previous day.
Irish potatoes are grown in
every state of the Union.
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