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Biggest Share of Tourists in Mexico Come From North of Border
By HARRY FERGUSON
Acapulco, Mexico - (UPD -When
a Mexican talks about
tourists, he almost always
means Americans, About
850,000 persons travel to
Mexico each year in search
of surcease and sun and 95
per cent of them come from
the United States,
Precise figures are impos
sible to come by, but it is
likely that each of tliem
spends an average of $400 in
cluding transportation down
and back. That makes tourism
big business, Mexico knows it
and the hospitality is lavish.
There is almost no place
where a tourist would want
to go that he can't find per
sons speaking English and de
lighted to accept American
currency at the rate of 12.50
pesos to- the dollar.
Climate is what Mexico has
to sell, and it almost lives up
to the proud claims made for
it by the national tourist
bureau. Mexico is a land of
sunshine most of the year
with warm days and cool
nights. There are periods
when it is not supposed to
rain, but mother nature is a
fickle lady and sometimes she
doable-crosses the tourist bu
reau. Recently this corres
pondent wandered out into
th? streets of Mexico City, un
equipped with umbrella or
rajneoat, but having been
firmly assured he would
need neither. It was too late
for the morning mist and too
early for the twilight dew,
and the inescapable conclu
sion is that the moisture that
soaked into his suit was rain.
Acapulco Best Known
There are many notable re
sorts in Mexico, but this an
cient fishing village of Aca
pulco on the Pacific Coast is
the best known. Its breath
taking scenery, pleasant cli
mate and a mushroom growth
of hotels have made it one of
the great playgrounds of the
world. The mountains march
bojdiy down to the edge of
the sea, stopping just soon
enough to provide excellent
sand beaches.
On the crags and slopes of
the mountains that surround
Acapulco's harbor hotels and
cottages have been built and
from a distance they seem to
be' suspended in air. June
through September is the
rainy season, but the rest of
the year is arid. Daytime tem
perature usually is in the 80s
with an occasional rise up to
close to 100. Night tempera
lure is Jn the 60s. .
Acapulco offers anything
you" and your pocketbook
command in the way of ac
commodations from boarding
houses at $2 per person per
day to penthouse suites. For
about S14 a day you can get
a comfortable double room in
almost any hotel. The people
who travel the farthest to get
to Acapulco are the fishing
enthusiasts. They have a
choice of going for marlin,
sailfish, yellow tail, tuna, red
snapper, amberjack and a
half dozen other varieties.
Temblors Shake City
Even the Garden of Eden
had its snake and it would be
misleading to give the im
pression that Acapulco is a
paradise without flaw. About
15 miles offshore there is a
geological fault in the floor
of the Pacific Ocean that
causes earth temblors. There
was a heavy one in 1957, con
siderable damage was done,
and the tourist must be pre
pared to awaken to the shak
ing of his hotel room.
To enter Mexico an Ameri
can needs proof of his citizen
ship and a certificate showing
lie has been vaccinated for
smallpox within the last three
years. He can obtain three
types of tourist cards: for $3,
permission to go in and stay
six months; for $5, permission
to go in for six months and
depart and return as often as
he chooses; for 50 cents, per
mission to go in for a five-day
stay. When he leaves, he can
take back into the United
States $100 worth of mer
chandise duty free.
The Pan-American highway
nersuades many persons to
travel by automobile to Mexi
co. If you are going into re
mote parts of the country, fill
up the gas tank at every op
portunity. Slow down when
you approach a village, be
cause you might find goats
disputing the right of way on
the main street. Once in Mexi
co, you will find the railroad
service good and the air serv
ice excellent. There are about
20 airlines operating out of
Mexico City to all parts of
the world, and a flight on a
Mexican air liner from the
capital to Acapulco takes only
40 minutes. Buses run fre
quently to centers of tourist
interest.
Dollars Always Accepted
Travelers checks, of
course, are acceptable every
where, but the American dol
lar bill is just as good in the
large cities. You can pay a
hotel bill, a restaurant check
or a department store pur
chase in dollars. At the Mex
ico City airport and other
points of tourist arrival there
are bank branches which will
change dollars into pesos.
Women will need a stole or
a light coat for the cool eve
nings. Men should take light
weight suits and a light top
coat. Here in Acapulco and
other resorts the dress is in
formal and the dining rooms
are filled with men wearing
slacks, sports shirts, no coat
and no necktie. Women wear
slacks and toreador pants, but
apparently shorts are not fav
ored in dining rooms. A bath
ing suit is common attire until
sundown,
Mexican food is not all
highly spiced with chili pep
pers, but some of the best of
it is made that way. Beef is
plentiful and you can get any
quality you want depending
on how much you want to
pay. Chicken and turkey are
available everywhere and the
menu almost always has at
least three choices of fresh
fish.
Beer 'First Rate'
This correspondent recalls
a memorable meal in which
the main course was shell fish
soup. Almost every shell in
habitant of the ocean was
cooked into a stew and sea
soned slightly with pepper
and chili.
Mexican beer is first rate.
Tequila, the native spirits, is
something that had better be
left to the individual taste. It
bears a distant kinship in
flavor to vodka and with a
dash of lemon juice makes a
palatable martini.
But, to one visitor at least,
the culinary triumph of Mexi
co is the tortilla. It is a thin
corn cake, the dough of which
has been soaked in lime wa
ter. The corn taste comes
through so strong that after
eating it you never will be
entirely happy again with
American - corn bread. The
tortilla can be wrapped
around chicken, shrimp, beef
or fish and heated in an oven
with a result that you will
carry memories through the
years.
Court Studies Heat
Control System
The Jackson county court
is studying the possibility of
changing the temperature con
trol arrangement in the court
house offices.
Judge Earl Miller explain
ed that each year the oil fuel
costs to heat the structure
have increased. All offices are
now at the same temperature.
Costs of converting to Indi
vidual thermostate controls in
each office is now being dis
cussed with heating engineers
to see if it will be more eco
nomical, Miller pointed out.
Heating costs for 1882 to
taled $6,900, the judge said,
but noted that extremely cold
temperatures were recorded
during the winter.
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