Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 57

Minimum Of Red Tope Encountered American Tourists Find Mexican Trip Simple If Few Precautions Observed Dollars Trickling, Not Pouring, Into The Coffers Of Labor's Major Political Arms Bv LAURANCE F. STUNTZ of Guadelajara MEXICO CITY, July 9 (fv-It Smith dug deeper into his papaya and said maybe it cost too much You get 12.40 pesos for the dollar Droodles By ROGER PRICE was to be their first trip to Mexico, and the John Smiths planned their vacation as if they were beginning a world tour. Then the travel agent told them to relax. said the agent, Americans go to Mexico every year You have to get passports and just about everybody meet will speak The agent wired ahead for reservations at a Mexico City hotel. He told Smith that at the border he and his wife would need smallpox vaccination certificates and proof of American citizenship.

Procedure Is Simple And. just about as simply as that, the Smiths were on their way. After the first day on the road, they checked into a Laredo, Tex. hotel for the night. The first step the next morning; was to go to ihe Mexican consulate for their tourist cards.

That took' 10 minutes ano cost them S3 each. "Thrse arc eood for one trip HOUSEWIFE REACHING FOR into said the agent, BOX OF SELF-RISING FLOUR you can stay up to six months. If you ask me, Housewives today You cannot work for pay and it too easy. They have auto- you do you may be arrested and matic machines to wash dishes, deported. You must havp these cook food, vacuum floors and to get out of the country, their henna rinses.

They if vou lose them make a reoort have pre-cooked Hams, frozen to police and got a copy of the meals, and Instant Everything, report to show immigration au- This leaves them with too much thorities when you leave. jtime to think, which makes them Get Special insurance sullen and this is the reason that The next stoD was an insurance Husbands like to go home agency recommended by the hotel (there must be some reason). I manager. Their U.S. car insurance think someone should manufac- was not valid ir Mexico, but for ture Labor-Lengthening Devices around 510 thev got three weekslfor Housewives: Brooms with coverage in a Mexican company.

only 3 whisks. Mops with They drove across the bridge ber handles. Flour with mucilage between Laredo and Nuevo in it tQ make it harder to blend, do. rolled up the bank to the Mexi- c0 hoxes that can only be can customs house put foot frostecj with a blow torch. Large on foreign soil for the first time box0s InsUnt Dust.

And a TV you carry your bags in here, please- a customs inspector set mat won 1 Turn on. asked in English. 1 The bags were opened on the infl flWVPT counter and another uniformed liVC UJVYyUI man stuck his hand casually down Don't break this seal until you Iowa Man Resigns man stuck his hand casually aown re in 1 AX 1 the sides. He closed the bags and J-nr AM Ppct Attpf sealed them with a long, yellow I VM I U3I rAllVl sticker get past the next inspection he instructed. By FRANK B.

ALLEN Another inspector glanced at WASHINGTON. July 9 INS their tourist cards, tore off one President is believed perforated section and gave them today to be looking for another the stubs to replace Allen Whit- Bank Is Available field, a Des Moines. Iowa, attor- A small modernistic building ney, as a nominee for the Atomic near the customs house proved to Energy Commission, be a special bank for tourists. Here Mr. Eisenhow er is expected to a clerk accepted a $20 bill and in grant return gave the Smiths a couple his name be of 100 -peso notes, some smaller withdrawn.

White House news Mexican bills and a handful of secretary Murray Snyder said the change. President will take is 20 centavos he said, next week, holding up a cooper coin, "and Whitfield said that questions this is 5 centavos. Our money prepared bv Sen. Clinton P. Ander- works like yours.

The pesos are sor (D) chairman of the divided into centavos instead 0 jnf congressional Atomic Ener- cents. A peso is worth 8 cents in gy Committee, would have com- your money pelled him to reveal the affairs Fifteen miles on dowTi the good 0f but narrow' black asphalt Whitfield, a Republican, was there was a small house with a nominated March 16 to fill an un- sign English saving Customs expired term and on April 1 he way. campaign for voluntary PAC received $32,142 in con- contributions to the LLPE and tributions between Jan. 1 and May PAC. Some AFL and CIO unions, 31, according to its report, com- as well as independent unions, pared to $69,239 in the same per- also campaign for their own sep iod of last vear.

tarate political funds. Only money WASHINGTON, July sparingly during the first half of Ahead Of 1953 1 contributed for use in federal elee The dollars have been trickling a non-election year. The contributions are running tions is reported to the House. But his wife had hardly heard Are Shown well ahead, however of the rate him. labors two biggest pollti According to its reports to the in 1953, the last non-election year.

really need an alligator hand- aFms in preparation ior tne iyoo cjerk 0f tbe House of Reoresenta- The reports showed the LLPE col- MOVING POST OFFICE WIC ucultaciaa.lillt DETROIT marine she said, wonder how tives, the LLPE received in lected only $14,042 in the corres- post office is on the move again, lone it would take to have those! officials of the CIO Political individual contributions from Jan. ponding period of and the The 45-foot launch, J. W. Westcott lizard skin shoes made. And I Action Committee and of 1 through June 7, This compares PAC, $22.947.

II, delivers mail and emergency want some tin trays and League for Political Education to $133.897 in the same Deriod The Taft-Hartley Labor Law' pro- supplies to freighters in the De- For ler vacation was just AFL) say they worried, last year, when congressional elec- hibits use of union dues in federal troit River. Most of the big boats beginnirg. say" union members give tion campaigns wrere getting under-elections. AFL and CIO unions, stop in Detroit. Radar Clocks Her Speed Into Wor PEORIA.

HI. UP Police radar clocked a 59-mile-per- hour automobile in downtown Peoria, but failed to detect the stork flying with it Tennyson Burtsfield, speeding to the hospital with his wife, Elsie lost the race just as the police clocked him Police escorted mother and daughter a hospital. The inspector simptv saw wag named to a five-year term the seals were not broken and Jhc Senatc has no( acfed on either waved them on. nomination. Fine Modern Court To m'thc vacancy and climbed gradually into The 8 AEC tains and then went down again I as thev started across the plains Eisenhower is expected to for Monterrev.

appoint a lawyer, or possibly a They checked into a modern mo- business administrator or train- tor court at Monterrey, had an ed accountant, earlv lunch and decided to see Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, a something of the city. banker, has a law degree, but The motor court charged the he has never practiced. Two Smiths 55 pesos, or about 54.50 members, Drs. John Von Neu- for their big double room.

The mann and Willard Libby, are sci- manazer also gave them some ad- entists. Thomas Murray is vice. an engineer and industrialist. up your gas tank before selection touched off you leave he said, a political row. The committee never let it get more than half wanted to know' particularly about empty if you can help it.

Some- his role as trustee of the estate times there are gas shortages in of R. A. Crawford, who died in the little towns along the road. I 1937 owning a major interest in can fix you a couple of box a Des Moines bank, lunches if you want to stop Violations Denied along the Committee aides w-ent to Des want to get aw'ay from the Thursday to question tounst places and eat in a real Mexican Mrs. Smith said the manager ad vised.

of the places Whitfield and he was invited to appear at a hearing in Washington on July 18. HH HP In his letter to Mr. Eisenhower, look very clean, even if they are. Whitfield said their questions and you wouldn like them. "of a most extraordinary have awfully hot food and it nature" and added could easily make you sick.

I know confidential mat- They drove allday through ters inquired about do not involve ange groves and he big fields violation of law or improper which produce winter vegetables.conduct on thp part of sold in the Lmted States. A huge prit5 myself. Nevertheless, range of mountains marched par allel with them on their right. Stopping at a hotel for th? night. ents or am forbidden to answer questions concerning Anderson said, however, that Rare Blood Donated they swam in a flower-banked pool.

However, rnai leisurely and started to put and "6ub6tantiaf Drive in' Mountains the Crawford estate mansactions. The manager advised against it. 1 are going to Mexico 1 and he said, don't start too early.1. om mat ion will require less You have to climb up to 7.500 feet incv'es igation and there is a lot of cloud in the Sterling Cole N. mountains early in the morning.

If committee chairman, you start from here at 10 a.m., uas at Whit- you will make better action hut, he added, At the outskirts of Mexico City circumstances I do not they found a small buildings blame him. marked Tourist Bureau-Official They got a map and an official marked the route to their hotel. Then another man offered to guide them, driving their car if lUl LllliU 1(1 UfllO Smith wished to avoid the strange traffic. He showed his license as COLUMBUS, Ohio up The a guide and as a driver. Smith heart operation needed made a deal: the man wras to take 2 -year-old Craig Price appar- them to the hotel and come back fn uas assured and guide them the next day cooperation of donors with 100 pesos.

rara negative blood. Warning Is Heeded Little Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. On the advice, the Smiths Price of Columbus, was spent most of the first day in i0 undergone surgery yester- the car. try to do too much fhcre enough type in the altitude at the guide blood available, advised.

So they drove around the Newspapers and radio stations residential districts and then the, hut a plea for donors, and guide walked with them through 1 he Price telephone rang all day the National Palace, explaining, WM. the Diego Rivera murals. The boy needs only two pints They ate dinner at a the blood, and the operation has recommended by a friend back in heen rescheduled for next Thurs- Texas and paid $2 each for filet day at Children's Hospital here, mignon with mushrooms. The Prices said the boy was Over breakfast the next morn- horn with an obstruction in the ing they made plans for the day. right pumping chamber of the want to look around at the heari.

The obstruction prevents the flow of sufficient blood to the lungs. silver said Mrs. Smith, I have to get some of those big baskets. I want some little ---------------------silver pins for the girls in the An acre of sugar beets pro- garden club and some of those duces 1,700.000 calories, almost cocktail napkins with sequins. times more energy than must take back some of produced by an acre of any other that green glassw are and a sett food.

GOOD PDODAmeans GOOD FUN I and everyone likes enriched buns, so when you pack your picnic basket, don't forget this 1 familiar package.