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o o o 0 0 0 0 o o o o o o 0 o o 00 oo (jgjDEd8i gegi SiiSMMte i5bCR0i f eqon) LaGlv oKJorkr Low Pay Scales Hampering Cu " ,;'.,:' 3 Q A J ban Refugees In Florida Thousands Trod iSidewalks in Search of Jobs Editor'j note: This ii the last ot .three dispatches on the Cuban ,iciuficc iiruuiem in Miami. By RICHARD W. HATCH I Miami - OJPU - Blonde, well dressed Georgina fumbled "with dark glasses to hide her Itear-rimmed eyes. She whis--pered as she told how her husband "walks and walks all May to see if he can get a job." : The odds are against him. ; Her husband, Carlos, is a Cuban refugee who doesn't .speak English. Like other .thousands of the 45,000 refu gees in Miami, he shuffles the "sidewalks looking for work. " Georgina and Carlos, who fear to have their full names published lost first their auto mobile agency and then their Restaurant in Camaguey to the government of Fidel Castro. They gave up an 11-room house with servants, j They are among the second wave of Cuban refugees wash ing into Florida since Castro seized power Jan. 1, 1959. The first to flee were officials and friends of the fallen gov ernment of Fulgencio Batista. Many of them arrived here rich, most of them hated. As Castro's political revolu tion veered left into a social revolution, professional men, management personnel, busi nessmen, military defectors, white collar workers and fi nally some plain laborers fled. Sister Sends Fare Georgina and her three chil dren, ages 11, 10 and 7, flew to Miami a month ago. A sis .ter here sent them airplane tickets. "I came with $67 hidden in a toothpaste tube," she said. Carlos came Nov. 29 with the S5 allowed legally by Castro. " Georgina said her sister gave her $75 toward her first month's apartment rent of $100. She still owes $25 on the month. - She said several welfare agencies refused to advance the money unless she moved Into a cheaper apartment. "This is not what we were used to," she said. Georgina's sister and brother-in-law both work, and make S80 a week together. The sis ter doesn't think she will be able to continue giving Geor gina $25 a week. Like Georgina, most of the refugees are cared for by friends and family among Miami's permanent Latin col ony. And like Georgina's sis .tcr, many are reaching the end of their ability to help. "We have reached the satu ration point," said Anthony "de Varona, head of the anti ;Castro Cuban Democratic "Revolutionary Front. "I cannot say how many of the refugees have got jobs. A 'great number have jobs, but that's reaching the point of saturation, too." : Sister Miriam, administra tor of the Spanish Center at Gesu Church, said the center lias succeeded in finding only 500 jobs for 3,200 Cubans families registered there in a year. Cesar Lancis, second vice president of an exile Cuban labor federation here, sadly admitted his organization has found only "150 or 200 jobs" since it began late in 1960. Some Are Exploited Lancis said a few American employers are exploiting Cu ban labor. He said he knew of Cubans hired as dressmakers for 75 cents an hour beside Americans doing the same work for $1.15 and $1.25. There are 300 refugee Cu ban doctors in Miami, none of them able to practice medi cine. Professional men and form er government officials have taken jobs as waiters, dish washers and handymen. 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Juana is in the 8th grade, one of 125 refugee children at Ada Merrit Jr. Elementary school. Josephina, pretty with dark hair and a bright smile, also works as a domestic - two days a week cleaning house for 80 cents an hour. She sends $30 a month to her father in Havana, an out-of-work coffee salesman. "It doesn't leave much for me," she said. Tighter Laws Asked On Debris Burning Salem - ItlPD - The Oregon board of forestry is asking the 1961 legislature to tighten laws on burning of debris. The proposed restrictions would primarily affect garbage dumps which in the past sev eral years have been charged with starting a number of bad forest fires. The board also suggests that the state department of for estry s name be officially designated "state forestry de partment. The department actually has no official name and such designation would prevent confusion, the board said, A third proposal would raise the fee for rehabilitation of private timber lands with out proper reseeding pro visions to $25 per acre. The fee now is $16 an acre. Woolworlh Workers Receive 'W Cards Three retiring F. W. Wool worth company employees were presented with "Dia mond W" cards recently at a surprise farewell party held for them in the downtown Medford store. Receiving the cards were Mrs. Letlia Clark, Mrs. Carrie Hooker and Mrs. Madge Now lin. The cards entitle them to shop in any Woolworth store and receive a 10 per cent dis count on merchandise. All three women had spent a number of years with the Medford store. They said that they have no immediate plans for the future except to "sit back and enjoy the retire ment years." Machines Priced $ i 5GO50 from MM up ELECTRICS, (ram $129.50 plus t WE RENT Adders Typewriters Cilcalstett Aey tMhe 1 "01 IK STHWV, W Ape $. & HW r0uifl Illlllllllll llj;l lIlMlllllllllStmWBtWi 4 Air Research and Development Command, slung underneath mockup of a B52 wing segment. The Skybolt, when operational, will be the nation's most mobile nuclear missile. (UPI Telepholo) OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (c) 1960 Tlmcs-Mlrror Syndicate Sometimes the human eye prys into secrets it was never meant to see. Ever since Christmas, when the microscope entered our house, I've had the feeling of having gone too far. We seem to have sunk into the twilight zone. The place is a laboratory. The mechanical eye has illu minated the subliminal world we live in. Our placid sanc tuary is in reality a jungle in which the most primitive blobs of organic matter are waging a cannibalistic strug gle for survival. Even our supposedly anti septic kitchen has been ex posed as a primeval swamp. I have seen things I wish I hadn't. The other evening, for ex ample, Doug called me over to his work table to have a look at something he had in focus. He has given up major league baseball for pure sci ence. I squinted into the eye piece. What I saw squirming in the light looked like a transparent fountain pen with a plastic gizzard and two tails. It was thrashing about like a belly dancer. "Good Lord!" I whispered. "What's that?" "I'm not sure," said young Pasteur. "Its either a rotifer or a rhizopod, unless it's an amoeba." "Where did you find him?" I demanded. "In the flower bowl on the cocktail table," he said. "There are millions in there. They divide like crazy." I summoned my wife. "Do you know," I asked her, "that your flower bowl is a dividing place for millions of foul mi crobes?" She threw out the chrysan themums and the infested wa ter and washed the bowl. "It won't do any good, Pa." said Doug. "They'll be back. They drop down in the dust. Like paratroopers." Later on I came across a damp heel of bread in a sau cer on the sink. 20 Students from Area at Utah College Twelve students from Med ford and eight from Ashland arc among the 303 students from the state of Oregon at tending Brigham Young uni versity in Provo, Utah, this semester. Brigham Young, which is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an enrollment of 10,305 students and is one of the largest universities in the inter-mountain area. Attending from Medford arc Dorothy Irene Bean, Rita Mildred Benson, Betty Louise M. Bross, Ralph Gerald Bross, I Cheryl Dunn, Connie Sue I Orr Ciavinn UppH Pptnrsnn. Edison Denney Pugmire, Sha ree Lue Skipworth, Raymond L. Smith, Wade Cody Starks and Douglas F. Wasden. Attending from Ashland are Michael Myles Cluff, An nette L. Drager, Robert Clay Elder, Emma L. Hakes, Gary E. Hassell, Beverly Ann Hakes, Carolyn Smith nd Barbara C. Stoddard. ) JAZZ UP ATTENDANCE Hollywood, cam urn Thy Hollywood Chun-h of Re ligious Science, in announcing today a jazz accompaninQnt to church services Jan. 15, noted that attendant S uji e?S$Tfc9 'This bread," I told my wife, "appears to be moldy." I detest a moldy kitchen. 'I know," she said. "The mad scientist is growing some thing." 'Growing some thing!" I said. "What are we' running around here - a hothouse for microbes?" 'It's an experiment. Pa." Doug said. "I'm on the trail of a wonder drug.' Now he keeps a bowl of tap water in a pitcher on the bookcase. He says it's agine. It seems tap water is no good because it's full of chlor ine. Everything alive in it is dead. He has to age it until the chlorine wears out. Then he can grow microbes in it, Now I'm afraid he has a compulsion to venture into more challenging fields, such as tne mysteries of human tissue. A kit of instruments came with the microscope. iney appear to be autopsy tools. Last night he came un to me wiin a scalpel in his hand Pa, he said, "could I have some of your blood?" Are you out of your mind! I cried. "Not on your life.' 'It won't hurt," he said. "I only have to nick your thumb." 'Why don't you nick a grasshopper?" I suggested. I let him nick my thumb. This is a scientific age. He found something interesting in my blood, too. He says I am the parent of an unclassified microbe. HI SAVINGS ' I W t I f ACCOUNT V - Ml . 1 Make your dream vacation come true ! Nearly everyone looks forward to a glorious vacation -sometime! And by saving with us regularly, your money will earn excellent re turns and you can be ready for that trip before you know it ! This emblem assures you that your savings with us are insured by the FSLIC, a United States Government agency. Investments made by Ihi the ninth earn as of CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 PER ANNUM FIRST FEDERAL Chief of Marines Frowns on Yellow Socks, Fat Marines Washington ffi The Ma rine Corps commandant, who already has frowned on swag ger sticks and close-order drill, now has come out against yellow socks, fat Ma rines, yes men, and unbelted coats. n a 17-page annual mes sage, which read more like a down-to-earth pep talk than the usual military document, Gen. David M. Slump also said that Marines somctimei "fall below our usual high standards." He mentioned, as an ex ample, the sort of officer whose uniform "looks like it belonged to some one who re tired in 1940." "A few of these people are still around," Shoup said. "We must do something about : them. , The commandant said slop- pincss can "chip away at Ma rine Corps stature. He said if the day ever came when a Marine looked upon his role as only a job "we are headed ' for the Smithsonion Institute as another relic." On the subject of unbelted coats, Shoup said a proposal for an unbelted uniform is before him but he has decided to reject it. He hasn't made up j his mind as yet about a pro-, posal for a "year - a r o u n d green uniform," he added. On yes men, the command-, ant said that a Marine who would give up his own ideas I "to align with me, before my decision, is useless to me. Shoup did not explain his, remark about "yellow socks," j but presumably his aversion would apply to any unduly loud attire. His other aversions includ Hatfield Requests Civil War Relics Salem - IUP1I - Gov. Mark Hatfield has called on Ore gon residents to help recall the meaning of the Civil War for Oregon - by digging out old diaries, maps, century-old firearms and other relics for the Oregon Civil War Cen tennial commission. Hatfield said the commis sion now is meeting regularly "to draw a program with meaning and worth for our state." In a message noting that President Eisenhower Sunday will ask the country to re dedicate itself to the ideals behind the Civil War, Hatfield commented: "Oregon made a great con tribution to the union in . wealth and leadership. Our Oregon senator, Edward! Baker, was killed at Ball's Bluff. Many soldiers and fam ilies . . . journeyed to Oregon . . . after the war. Their fami lies and descendents have en riched our stale and region for three generations." tenth of the first. ed officers who preach "take your leave, even it if means sitting at home" so as "not to lose it," those who "spend more time preparing for a ci vilian pursuit than on the Marine Corps assignment." and officers with a "bay window." MANUFACTURER DIES Winnetka, 111 (Uril Charles A. Liddle, 83, president of Pullman-Standard Car Manu facturing Co. from 1930 to 1945, died Wednesday. It's not a washer with a lot of gadgets at a high price. 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Johnson, 25, Los Angeles, who shattered the Olympic decathlon record in Rome last year with 8,392 points in the gruelling 10 event list. John H. Nelson, 31, Deca tur, Ga., Pulitzer Prize win ning reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, whose reporting has won him many awards. Navy Lt. Don Walsh, 29, San Diego, who explored tho earth's last geographic fron- tier last January when ho plunged nearly seven miles into the ocean's depths south west of Guam in the bathy- scape Trieste. 95 & (!)
