Prisoner Tells Of Jail Routine
Editor's Note; Hollow.
' cheeked Cuban invasion pris
oner, Edgardo Bultarl Jr., 26-year-old
ton of a former Cuban
secretary of labor, detailed tor
United Press International what
a day was like In Fidel Castro's
maximum security prison on the
Isle of Pines where he spent
more than seven months with
213 other captured Invaders.
Here Is the story In his own
words.)
By EDGARDO BITTARI
As Told To UPI
MIAMI (UPI) - For more than
-; (even months, the day began
.; about 6:30 a.m. with a push,
'. ; ihove, a loud noise. Each day was
" - like another. And always the
glaring light the sun in the
daytime and the electric bulbs
when it was dark outside.
About 300 of us some were
political prisoners were crushed
in a cell maybe large enough to
hold 50 beds.
For bedding we had the floor.
For covers, we had whatever
clothes we had on, on that par
ticular day.
After our rude awakening by
the guards, we waited for break'
fast. Sometimes it came, some
times it didn't.
We had to warm it up when it
did come. Normally we were
served coffee and bread, some
times coffee and plantain.
Sit And Walt
The rest of the morning we just
sat and waited to be mustered,
Sometimes, Inr as long as a
month, we would be given our
breakfast at 11 a.m., our lunch
at 12:30 p.m. and our supper at
2 p.m. Normally, however, we
would get our lunch usually
cornmeal with nothing to drink
at about 1 p.m.
After long hours of waiting we
would be permitted to take turns
at the two shower baths provided
for us. Then we would be served
supper.
It was macaroni. Always maca
roni. For as long as I can re-
member.
It was terrible, just terrible.
Then the waiting again, always
with a warning we must be very
quiet.
Makes Chess Board
Once we managed to make a
chess board out of cigar boxes
and we played chess.
Very little body harm was done
to us shoves mostly although
But nobody will ever, ever be
lieve things that happened to us
happened to humans. Vie weren't
just worms, as Fidel Castro
called us. We had to be pigs to
exist in that. It's a wonder only
one of us died.
Filthy Conditirms
Enrique Borras, who was 41,
died from a stomach pain in July
i of 96I. It may have looked like
a natural death, but he would
have lived if they had taken him
to a hospital.
Instead, they just let him lie on
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the floor and get worse until he
died.
Conditions were filthy. There
was no soap, no toilet paper, lit
tie water and everybody stunk.
Despite the hardships, I do not
remember that arty of us ever
lost our faith we would be res
cued some day from that horri
ble cell.
Now that we are here, thank
God. we would be willing to go
back again to try to liberate our
country from that oppressor.
ISltOFoQ
PINES
PRISONER RETURN ROUTE A delay developed in the
return of Cuban prisoners after about one-third had been
returned to Miami by air. This view shows the route the
prisoners are traveling, beinq taken from the Isle of Pines
where they were imprisoned to Havana and then by air
to Homestead AFB. Meantime the freighter African Pilot
carried ransom supplies from Port Everglades to Cube.
UPI Telephoto
on one occasion or two we saw
some of our companions in prison
being beaten up by guards.
The Communists don't try to
break you by force. They just
bother you to death..
They give you something one
day and take it away from you
for the next two months.
We never received mail. Some
how, though, we managed to keep
informed generally of what went
on in the outside world, no
learned with glee about the Cu
ban blockade.
Holiday Eve
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ACROSS
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hope for his
visit tonight
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happiness
11 Up a woody
pianc
31 Number
32 Follower
33 Observe
34 Christmas gift
spot
38 Station
42 Brew
43 Sight organ
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Christmas toy
14 Motorists'
slumber spots
16 Roof flnlal
17 Pry bar
10 Be sick
20 Measures of
cloth
21 Let nothing
your
holiday
enjoyment
22 Social event
23 Restrain
2(1 Smallest
20 Hussian
coinmuniry
47 Pitchers
40 Stripling
50 Mouth roof
52 Coral Islands
fi4 Mexican title
tri Indian homo
66 Sir Anthony
and family
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Santa Doesn'i Stand
Chance In Home Town
BARI. Italy tUPH - Santa
Claus does not stand a chance in
his own town.
To millions of children all over
the world. Santa Claus is the jol
ly, bearded type who brings pres
ents by reindeer-express in time
for Christmas morning.
NEW AT THE
WILLARD
COWBOY'S
BREAKFAST
Served daily from
7 A.M. till 11 A.M.
For example- try our Cat
tleman's Choice . . , Pen
cotes, 2 egcji, Hocon, tooit
and coffee, jutt $1.00
Willard Hotel
205 Main
Paris child play with
a doll-sued skyscraper? Ap
parcntly not. Store counters are
tilled instead with castles from
the middle ages that are replicas
of those a French child sees in
his own countryside.
For 14 new francs ($2,901 he
can have a two-foot high card
board castle with a little moat
and a drawbridge tli.it pulls up
when you press a button. Another
castle at 27.50 new francs i$5.50
is defended by eight toy knights
in shining armor tossing spears
at the invading Moors.
Indian toys from America's Wild
West are on display and every
store has outfits called "Le Cow-:
boy" for 55 francs '$11). But fof
325 francs 1 565 1 a child can dress
like a real Fiench knight
armor, shield, be-plumed helmet
and lacepiece that opens. Or he
can be a gendarme t policeman i
tor 39.50 francs.
Sports car races, called "Lo
Mans" and "Monte Carlo" and
just like the grownup variety, can
be set up on a floor or long table.
They are nutdrawing the electric
trains with crowd of erown-un
toy-watchers. Tiny Little French
girls can have kitchens in their
doll houses just like Mom's wee
refrigerators holding inch-high
wine bottles. Tiny European-stylel
string shopping bags are crammed
with plastic miniatures of pate.
pastry- and other French delicacies.
Toyi shops also show such stan
dard items as roller skates, space
snips, science and art sets and
Le Garage with a multi-level
parking and a car wash gadget.
American soldier sets are on
sale, next to miniature French
historic figures, such as Louis
XVII.
But here in Bari. where (lie
bones of good Saint Nicholas lie.
the Feast of I he Smut has noth
ing to do with Christmas.
St. .Nicholas "Santa Claus'
from a corruption of the Latin
"Sanctus Nicolaus." is revered in
his last resting place as the pa
tron of children, penniless brides
to-be, seamen and prisoners.
Christmas Day. al least in Ita
ly, is just another day or the
followers of Hood St. Nick. His
(cast-day is Dec. 6 and the event
is celebrated with solemn cere
monies by the children and adults
in Bari.
By tradition Italian children get j
'i i-si-uis imi iu'iu .-Mma tun H um
"La Bef.ma." an old witch who
can be nice when she wants to.
And not on Christmas but in Jan- j
tiary .
On Jan, 6, "Brian" sunops in
on her broomstick to le.-ue gills
lor the good children and coal for
the bad children.
Nicholas Is revered as a good
and saintly man who died in Asia
Minor in ilie fourth cenlury. His
bones were brought hero laler on
and placed in a vault under a sil
ver altar in lire church that bears
Ins name.
Father, Son
Found Safe
PORTLAND HIPl'-A research
engineer and his 3-year-old son
were led salelv from Forest Park
early today alter being lost (or
ihoul 11 hours in subfrewing
weather.
Daniel (IiIimmi Jr., and his son.
Daniel, became lust in the park
made treacherous by Common
Dav wintltall.
Portland iHilicc had combed the
area's trails since dark Sunday
(or the pair. Mrs. tlibson had
called police when the two failed
to appear al a remuvvous.
A lire was spotted about 1 a m
lodav and members o( the Moun
tain Rescue Council wont through
the dark underbrush to guide the
lost pair to safety.
Mine than 30 persons were
searching when wold of the res
cue came. RloxHiounds were be
ing used, also.
Gibson said ho had Iwen in the
park alHiut tour hours when it he
came dark He .Marled a c.impfiic
and waited rather than try lo get
out through Ihe dene (alien tim
ber lett Irom the Oct 12 storm
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French Toys
Are Castles,
Sport Cars
PAHIS i UPI i - French chil
dren will find under their Christ
mas trees toys much like the
grownup world in France
knights' armor: miniature sports
car races, medieval castles and
loy kitchens with tiny wine
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HERALD AND NEWS. KlalfiM-)tfV&
Monday. December 24, 1S62
SPRAGUE HONORED Former Governor Charles Spraque, center, receive! first pres
entation of E. B. MaeNaughton Civil Liberties award from Charles Davis, chairman
of American Civil Liberties union of Oregon. Mrs. Sprague watches ceremony honor
ing her husband held in Portland last Tuesday. UPI Telephoto,
Dockworker Strike Halts
East Coast, Gulf Shipping
NEW YORK (L'PP - A strike
by 73.000 dockworkcrs brought
shipping to a near halt today at
East Coast and Gulf of Mexico
ports.
Leaders of the International
Longshoremen's Association ULAi
confident of a quick victory.
turned down President Kennedy's
clevenlh-hour appeal for a 90-day
truce he had urged "in the na
tional interest."
The dockworkers helped ship
pers load and unload cargoes in
the feverish last hours of port ac
tivity, then walked off the piers
from Maine to Texas at the ap
pointed hour of 5 p.m. EST. An
BO-day "cooling off" period or
dered under the Taft-Hartley Act
expired at that time.
In answer lo Kennedy's warn
ing that the strike would "choke
the economy and cut the nation's
lifelines with the rest of the
world." the ILA replied it would
he "fruitless" to delav a walkout
for three months of talks. The un
ion promised to continue handling
all military cargo.
The main issue in the dead
locked dispute was over the size
of work gangs. The New Yolk
Shipping Association 'NYSA
wants the gangs reduced Irom 20
to 17. The ILA claims such a re
duction would result in 5,000
longshoremen losing their jobs.
Predict Short Strike
Thomas W. (Tctldyl Cleason,
vice president of the ILA, pre
dicted the strike would be short.
"They're very weak, we'll lick
em fast," he declared.
Similar views were expressed
bv ILA officials in other cities
In New Orleans. ILA Local 1-1 IH
President Alfred Chittenden esti
mated the strike will last only 8
to 10 days because "the country
can't lake it" any longer.
A Virginia dock foreman said
a settlement will come "after the
holidays when everybody will be
mre suitable to concentrate."
The speeded-up Sunday work
schedule made it possible for
many freighters to complete car
go handling before the strike
deadline, and move out to sea or
drydock.
Other vessels were left with
cargoes only partially loaded or
put ashore, and slill more ships
arrived in ports after Ihe deadline
with goods that will remain
holds for an indefinite period.
The Coast Guard announced in
New York that boarding parties
will examine the contents of all
ships reported carrying "danger
ous or hazardous" commodities
The inspection will be made to
assure that proper safety precau
tions are observed, Coast Guard
spokesmen said.
One vessel under close watch
was the Feruvian freighter Ama-7-onas,
anchored off Savannah,
Ga. The Amazonas was carrying
a cargo of highly combustible
tish meal which could ignite spon
taneously if stored for a long pe
riod. Token Pickets Appear
The Coast Guard said thai be
tween 50 and 60 ships remained
in berths or at anchor in the New
York port area as of 6 a.m. to
day. About 70 others departed
Sunday and during the pie-dawn
hours this morning.
I oken platoons of pickets ap
peared at some docks in the New
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ESKIMOS SEE SANTA Children watch a
village at St. Lawrence Island. Alaska.
Wit
Santa autributes "goodies" in Eskimo
UPI Telephoto
Mj.VUJ Starts Christmas Day!
Explodes with ExqifQiHcnti
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Kennedy Settles Down
For Relaxed Cliristmss
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD
President Kennedy settled down
today to the relaxed routine of a
seaside Christmas holiday far
merrier than the one he spent
here a year ago.
Kennedy, who arrived here Fri
day from his meeting in the Ba
hamas with British Prime Minis
ter Harold Macmillan. hoped for
an easy-going two weeks or so in
the Florida sun.
The President and his fam
ily were in a cheerful yuletide
mood that contrasted with their
somber feelings of a year
ago when they converged on
Palm Beach because t h e Chief
Executives father. Joseph P.
Kennedy, had suffered a paralyt
ic stroke.
The President began his stay
here on a working basis by con
ferring Friday night with Charles
E. ( Chip i Bohlcn, U. S. ambassa
dor to France, on the Nassau
meeting with Macmillan so that
the envoy could discuss the is
sues in detail with French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle.
The bleak domains of nuclear
warfare. Cuba, Berlin and other
issues that were covered at Nas
sau last week, seemed, for a
brief while at least, to fade into
the background when Kennedy
arrived here Friday.
Slightly fatigued after his inten
sive three-day get-together with
Macmillan, Kennedy boarded a
black limousine neai the ramp of
his plane and drove away. But
within about 150 yards, he halted
his car and hopped out to greet
his wife, Jacqueline, and their
two children who were waiting
beside a white convertible they
had driven to the airport.
The First Lady waited with
5 - year - old Caroline and 2-year-old
John Jr. at a secluded
area of the airport to avoid cam
eramen and reporters.
Kennedy then switched to the
convertible and sat behind the
wheel to drive the family home.
CONSIDERS OFFICE
WASHINGTON UPH - Peace
Corps Director Sargent Shriver
said Sunday he would consider
running for governor of Illinois if
the opportunity arose at some
suitable time in the future.
York-New Jersey waterfront area
and along Ihe Texas coast. But
most ILA locals indicated they
will not organize picket lines on
a regular basis until Wednesday.
Tugboat crews helped move
several freighters in and out of
New York harbor berths follow
ing the walkout deadline. They
reported that since no picket
boats were observed there was
no reason to refuse service, ac
cording to the Moran Towing and
Transportation Co.
Federation
Fights Cut
EUGENE (UPI' The president
of the Oregon Federation of Col
legiate Leaders said Sunday that
his organization will fight a pro
posed cut in the 1963-65 budget
request of the State Board of
Higher Education.
Gov. Mark Hatfield suggested
the cut.
Phil Sherburne, a student at the
University of Oregon, said "stu
dents at the slate-supported col
leges and universities will not
stand idle to see their futures
jeopardized by decreasing stand
ards and limited facilities."
He said information committees
were formed at four schools to
prepare reports on higher educa
tion conditions.
"Students are closer to the prob
lems of higher education than
anyone else and we will make
our voices heard this year," Sher.
burne added.
First well drilled specifically for
oil was put down in Titusville.
Pa., in 185'.). according to the En.
cyclopedia Britannica.
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