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At Canal
REPUBLIC FORBIDS
USE OF
US COMMISSARY
By P. R. MORTIMER
Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, Feb. 5.
Something like 16,000 persons in this area have recently abruptly ceased to enjoy the privileges which the United States has been in the habit of extending to all its employees here, even if they were not American nationals,
Mon and women who had stores and post offices, and not grown to took on the United even allowed to gather in the States Clovernment as an em- | commlasaries to chat with their ployer and provider, to be fellow old-timers, and friends relied upon for years to come, who are still working. have suddenly felt the grounds for this faith slip from under them.
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Mostly descendants the workers imported from the British West Indies to help build the Panama Canal in the curly years of this century, they are dismayed and disillusioned.
so long
foot in To sci
the com- missaries, which for have been a feature of their life, will render the old-timers subject to arrest for trespassing.
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It was suggested that perhaps would be more humane leave such old-timers Rs were enjoying commissary privileges Ironically, the United States, to carry on us before, but to against whom their reproaches grant such privileges to no one are largely directed, played only in future. The sum involved a pastive part in these develop-In this arrangement was not
The active ments
role was large. played by the Government of the Republie of Panama, during which protracted negotiations led up to the signature of a treaty between the two
New countries,
INSISTENCE
AL Panama's insistence, written into this treaty was a provision denying non-United Staley citizen employees in the Panama Canal Zone the right to buy at the low price Panama Canal Company commissaries in the Canal Zone.
Instead, their annust spend- ing power, estimated at present at some 13,000,000 dollars, wað to be diverted to the stores and merchants of the Republie of Panema, contiguous to the Canal Zone, but distinct from It in financial practice.
The
favourable calculations put the cost foodstuffs and other household goods in Panama City about 30 знот cent above the prices prevailing in the Canal Zone.
must
of
Those losing their right purchase in the commissaries Also slate darkly that Panamanian products, protected by prohibitive turiffa ngainst imported competitive lines, are nofry substilules for the United States name brand products
featured by the commissarles,
The United States nakca great efforts to accede to Panama's requests and avold any appearance of bullying the small Republic.
for
the
are
Spokesmen Panamanian eltizens who employees of the Canai who are losing Company and commercial
their commissary privileges (and, in the case of 900 of them, their jobs) suggest that the United States should pay more attention to the mally In- dividuals whose cost of living is now suffering 卦 sharp upswing, and less attention to the tow merchants whose atores will handle the 13.000.000 dollars' worth of extra trade,
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The Panama Canal Company has slightly raised the wages of is locally-engaged employees to provide some compensation for the change. But many workers still feel that "Great White Father" Washington has delivered them either willingly or_by_trickery into the hands of Panama's merchants.
While Panamanian ment spokesmen make persuasive
for
the in
Govern- out a thels Country's right to diminish commercial competition from Zone, the non-profit Canal whose purpose is really only to put ships through the Panama Canal
expeditiously B posalble,
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A-Shelters Proposed In America
Washington, Feb. 5. Navy atomic experts today construction proposed
of a nationwide underground atomic shelter system. They estimated the cost might be 20,000 milion
bul dollars.
aald the system would offer survival for, a high perceninge of
the people in event of muclear attack.
The
De George Ham, German- born physicist, at Fort Belvoir, USA, makes a final inspection of the vacuum tank which the first earth satellite will receive a special test coating to protect its delicate instru- ments from extreme tempera- turen sad provide a reflective surface, which will enable the satellite to be observed clearly. --Express Photo
Refugee Debate Postponed
ggested shelters, of bate three types, would range from structures designed to protect only agamist radioactive fallout 30
thickly walled affairs designed
New York, Feb. 5. The scheduled opening of de- on the Palestine refuge question by the Special Poll- lend Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
at the request postponed today of Egypt, it was officially
both against fa-out and heavy The latier type of
nounced. shelters would be designed for bedensely populated areas.
But, according
United States sources, Panana refused blast.
grant tile Whether or not this once again legalistic rigidity won over kin
kindness of heart.
Now, those 16,000 workers or old-timers are wondering what happened 10 Uncle Sam's avowed preoccupation with the lot of the little fellow. China Mail Special.
was
an-
Mr Henri Labouisse, director of the United Nations Rellet and Shelters would be designed Works Agency for Palestine re
equipped so that people fugees had been due to present could stay inside them for a his report to the Committee and period of two weeks until the to review the condition of the immediate radioactive con-refugees, tamination of the area hod A new date for the debate subsided.-China Mail, Special. was not announced-Heuter.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
A MOUNTAIN-- RIGHT IN FRONT OF US--WHERE DID. THAT COME FROM--?.
LOOK OUT!
FERDINAND
BONG!!!!
BONG
BONG
NANCY
BOY--- THESE TV SHOWS ARE AWFUL TODAY
THEY CRASH
TEN FEET-- AND HIT THE SAND--
UH--NO-- [MOUNTAIN--{
ĮTS--GONE]
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47 REBELS
KILLED
IN ALGERIA
Algiers, Feb, 5.
کافر
Inn To Put On Floor Show
Prague, Feb. 5.
A 15th century inn here, which Czechs claim is the oldest inn in the world, is to put on a floor show.
The inn, called "U Flek"?, has | pumped through the floor in a its own brewery on tho pro- maze of rubber hose mises and has been serving its The whole of U Flek's pro- own brew of black beer ever duction of 2,040 gallons a week since 1409.
பீச drunk by the soldiers, Extended and modernised at students, workers, policemen, various times through the ages, housewives and other Czechs it is
at present undergoing its who pack the inn each night. biggest renovation yet.
The Introduction of the floor show
MEETING PLACE in which dancers and singers will perform regularly before the beer-drinkers, is part of this renovation.
U Flek was nationalised six years ago, Thirty-one private owners, seven of them women,
preceded the Lake-over, All have their names written In golden letters In the inn.
On an oak door The street outside is named after the first owner, Vitz Kremenc.
Before World War II, U Flek was Prague's favourite meeting place for artists, poeta and writem, who gathered in ✡ special back room called the "Akademie." Here, each had his seal, with his name and portrait
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above 11. Now the. Akademie is often hired by government ministries for conferences at which elvil servants
ponder policy over huge mugs of black
beer,
The brewery has not changed Its recipe since 1489. The pre- sent manager of the brewery, One former frequenter of the Jaroslav Pacina.
says that he Akademie
is still a legendary refused to disclose it several | Baure in Prague today an old weeks ago to a delegation of begitar who died in 1989. Each Weat German brewers who night, the beggar usod to aing
fremst
arxl sell matches in the smoke- beer-drinking Bavaria to usk for H.
to the roars nilet room, drunken artists. When beggar died, 00,000 crowns,
In those days, large fortune were found beneath the match- boxes on his tray.
came
13 DECREES
A total uf 47 rebels were killed in two operullons in the] At 13 degrees alcoholle con- Alglers district
Centrullent, the beer 1s one degree Algerio, It was disclosed here stronger than the world-famous
Pilsener
another Czechoslovak tonight.
brew. Its strength. It is sald, comes from mixing, 111 Air-supported French Foreign proportions, four kinds of malt, secret Legionnaires
rebel caramel cream, il
masted
sugar chieftain anu 35 of his men and 250 grammes of white hops during unt operation
for each hectolitre, เค Uha
Pacina,
Jovial. a tall. Djebel Tsegna mountain region year-old grandfather,
employs One prisoner was taken and three brewers rebels were killed in an opera- tion near Tablal.
killed
50-
U Flek cannot sell its beer outside the in, or export it, because it is not pasteurised and will not keep in tempera- Eurtier tonight, IL WIS Ntures of over 18,2 degrees ported from Constantine that 30 Fahrenheit. rebels had been killed, nine put
Alter seven
brewing out of action aud one taken and fermenting, the barrels are prisoner in several operations rolled into giant underground In the Constantine Department, cellars below the inn's 'four -France-Presse,
drinking halls. The beer
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THEY'LL REMAIN UNTIL THE POLICE COME--WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END OF OUR MISSION -MAYBE WE CAN STILL
CATCH MISS XI
BONG
BONG VOLUNTEER FIRE BONG
BONG
EVERY CHANNEL
HAS A PUNK SHOW --- PHOOEY
FRNIE BUSHMILLRIKL
an
JOHNNY HAZARD
on the
still emotional issig turna commissary privileges of about 4,000 retired Canal Zone Cm- ployees, including some 300 United States citizens, who now live in the Republic of Panama. The great majority of these 4,000 live on marginal pensions, Arid undoubtedly counted shipping at commissary prices for the rest of their days.
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Particularly, embittered ilo United States citizen penalonors who, having spent their working years in govern- mont strviet, now suddenly find themselvom · azaludod, from United States Government
JOHNNY AND THE UN, DELEGATE, MR, JARAK, TELL THEIR STORY TO THE POLICE - FI
AND IF WE'RE OKAY TWO OF THE BOYS GOING TO SAVE WILL GIVE MR.JARAK SAFE SNAPS LIFE WED) ESCORT TO THE UN. WHILE
BETTER MOVE WE ALERT THE RADIO SQUAD
CARSI YOU'LL SHOW US THE
FAST!
**** HOUSE, HAZARDI
WHOLE AT THE HOUSE..
NO GOOD AT ALL
WHY NOT
TURN
IT OFF
HOT WITH RAẢIL. BUT HOW CAN WE STOP ERSMAS PLAKI ZVÉ JARAK ON THE FLOOR OF THE | DEEN SAVING THIS FUN. # THEY'LL MON US DOWN FRIAL ALTERNATIVE...
BEFORE WE CAN TRIGOERA JA DEVICE WHICH WILL
OUN!
SILENCE JARAKSI VOICE FOREVERÍ
TOMORROW: END OF MISSION
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
I CAN'T WHERE STAYS' WARM
--- THAT'S MY CAT
ttr · 11 -
By Frank Robbins
THIS MIKE IS DENTICAL TO THOSE:
| IN THE UN. EXCEPTA. THE ON-OFF BUTTON
HAS A POISONED NEEDLE IN ITZ WHÊN
IT IS PRESSED TO TALK...INSTANT
DEATH!
weeks
There's More than Magic in
CADBURY'S
Cicturf
DAIRY MISSE
THERE'S A GLASS AND A HALF
OF FULL CREAM IN EVERYЯIьBAR
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
AER
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
Is
the
a
One hall, the Melnie, where ops, and barley used to be stored in the early years of the inn, is decorated with paintings room is called of Bohemian castles. Another "The Saurago" because of its long and naITOW shape,
the
In the Knights' Hall, largest drinking room, revellers alt round u 230-year-old grand- father clock on chairs which
a bear the arms of the 82 leading breweries of Bohemia and Slovakia-the two states which made up modern Czechoslovakia - the turn of the century. This hall was used for con- ferences of brewery OWIECTW. Each brewer sat on the chatr which bore his arms,
ORIENTAL AIR
are
As part of the latest removile. Mon, most of the floors being relaid, three of the halls are to be linked by new pass- and many of the walls Ages, will bo repainted, In
the
cess too, several cartelabras, which bear a
a fommer and sickle design. аге to be removed. These were put up in 1950 by
Arst manager of the im
the
ihe
after nationalisation, a fervent Communist removal of these
Parado
the
was ordered by the Communist Party
itself on the ground it
was inappropriate that the party emblem should look down nightly on often wild drinking
secher.
The exterior of the Inn has a strange Oriental air, with red and green tiled sloping roofs and A small minaret Over looking the courtyard.
In ornate cloisters, old stone sculptures deplet customers. of former times, Including monks,
of drunken stages
in various
ness. Ono shows an irate woman
trying to prevent her drunipen
husband from
entering her
bedroom through the windows
Another shows a smiling St
Peter welcoming a brower with extended arms to illustrate the
old Czech saying that those who make good beer must go to heaven
U Flek claims that it has never closed in the dive.com- turice of ita existence, not even in the noisiest moments of the various wars which it has survived.-
The inn was also the scene of an all-time Czech drinking re- cord. In 1908, a Progue butch- er, in a marathon bout, swallow- eet 127 half-Hire (Just less than one pint) mugfulls of beer 24 hours for a bet.
50 MUGS DAILY
in
M. Pacina says some of his gucats can still easily drink : 50 muge
day, though, he lamenta, more and more Crechs are turn- ing away from Beer to drink wine or hard liquor. One womati customer regularly drinks soven litres of beer, he
ndids.
The Inn's golden bodié bekes the signature of famous people of many nationalities. One re cent guest, if reveals, was the Mayor of Peking. Poems in German, Spanish, English, Rus alan, Serbo-Croat, and oven Japanese testify the approval of many a foreign guest after evening's scalon it the fnni- China Mali Spectat,
an
Nuremberg, Fob. Di The number of unemployed in West Germany jumped by about 388,000 to, a total of 470.410 in January, the Labour Office announced here today,
This was 229,100 more than
at the same time last year ahd the highest level of unemploy ment since the winter of 1908 1054, when the total fosched 1,624,000. The Labour Office sold the nuetudUGI, WIE A MAS gonal one,China Mail Special,
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