The Brandon Sun from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada • Page 9

SEtitl I ii-S. SECTIIN 1 Now In hs 81st Yw BRANDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1962 Freed Cuban Lost 60 Pounds During Prison Ordeal -MlAl. F1. AP)-A11 I can think df right at lhi)t-moment my beautiful wile, heaullrul cooking and beautiful, beautiful Christmas said MarctalKacid. Facio, om of the Cuban war prisoners woo returned-to the U.S.

Sunday, said he lesi. pounds -during bit confine- beauty, and their four chudm, two boy and two girls. Facio said be did not want to go into details about bis imprisonment. be said, want io ht I at all my friends, ray dear friend's, ire; free." Enthusiastic that freedom came at Christmas was an-. "Other Bay of Pigf veteran, Ed-gardo Buttarf 26.

Buttari praised the reception Air Force Base and sometime a little a leader of the Cuban Committee. "mess hall size cell with only three bathrooms, three toilets, and three drinking fountains." "We were kept incommunicado," he said, "for these last seven months. Before that we had a patio in which to exercise." Close confinement under harsh conditions was the complaint also of GuiUermo Her-nahder Cardaya, 30. "We were kept in a barracks on the Isle of Pines for nearly seven months without being allowed to go outside," he said. Hernandez added that be was not allowed out of the barracks until the last two or.

three days of his seven-month stay. Hernandez-said that the barracks ic which they were kept on the Isle of Pines lacked furniture, even beds. "Let's just say we're lucky to be alive," he said. the young man's father, Mat-celo Hernandez, is viceresfii dent of the Cuban 'FarailkSp Committee, orgaataiia- which negotiated release' fPife; iiU3 prisoners in exchange fir medical supplies and food. A chaplain with the forces, Rev.

Isinael Luge, si he and two other Reman CWjRT olic priests were not allowed say mass, in the prison, f. Buttari's father was ambassador to Belgium from 19H to lM, Germany in 1HJ He also served as minister ef commerce" and minuter of labor. father, mother two sisters, met him here. The' last sU inontiui "Conditions, became bad," said Rodriguez, "shortly after a guard stuck his rifle into the jail and fired, hitting four persons. we demonstrated, making as much noise as possible." rWriguet, once an employee of a Havana gambling casino.

ceased and fed be Toe rout beef and mi potatoes "a change from Hee and that we had he said. "It was mostly rice and bad rke aad asm spaghetti for lunch and supper, which came at Irregular hours. "For breakfast we had cof- worst; said another prisoner, Rene Rodriguez Dlai, said that after that incident husband of Virginia Bet an- 9u prisoners were kept SECttl stent Boy Stowaway Escapes Reds bans Airlines plane in Prague. He was discovered by the plane's crew at Shannon, Ire-land, after spending three days in the aircraft and was carried on to Gander. The plane landed al the Newfoundland airport, a refuelling stop its -flight to Havana, at -11 p.m.

local time Friday night. SANTA GOOF? OTTAWA (CP)-A 15-yeav-old boy, who fled his native Communist Chechoslovakian homeland as a stowaway aboard a Cuban airliner, is being held in custody by Canadian immigration authorities at a officials said here Sunday night. lad was identified as Milos Navratil and was reported to have boarded a Cu Tough On teeth PEN1ST0N, England (CP) T. L. BURNETT Ladies hockey bas its v-lent moments.

Members of this GENERAL, INSURANCE Yorkshire town's team have taken out insurance policies after a string of injuries. ALLIED LINES girl had five front teeth FilTMnm srrwt Phona PArkwor knocked out in a recent match. IF IT'S THE WRONG SIZE, COLOR OR JUST A PLAIN GOOF BRING! IT IN BEFORE JAN. 15 AND EX CHANGE IT HOME FROM PRISON MRrV Yuletide are our warmest rood wishes for a joyous season. 908 ROSSER AVE.

BRANDON CITT OF BRANDON SODA ASH TENDER Sealed tenders marked "Soda Ash Tender" will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall. Brandon. Manitoba, up to and opened publicly at 2.00 P.M., C.S.T., Wednesday; Januarv 2, 1963, for the supply and delivery as and when required F.O.B. rail car or truck at the Water Treatment Plant, 26th Street and-McDonald Avenue, of approximately 400 tons (2,000 lbs. each) of Soda Ash (Sodium Carbonite NA2C03).

Tender forms may be obtained at the Office of the City Manager, City Hall, Brandon, Manitoba. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. A former invasion prisoner is embraced after his return from Cuba earlier this week as Premier Castro relented and exchanged 1,113 invasion prisoners for food and medical The' freed men arrived at Homestead Air, Force "Base in Florida to a riotous welcome by. friends and relatives. The prisoners were captured at the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco.

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