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Uban blood service. Bottom photo shows John Tanche left, his wife Rita, be-

ind QUestioned by a Cuban nurse.
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views Cuba’s progress

By JOHN TANCHE

Before the revolution the peas-
ants had no medical attention,
Only in the cities was there any
medical attention, Now Cuba has
medicare, Cuba can afford it, but
we cannot! But Cuba has no doc-
tor plutocracy who see in the
grinding of the sick the medium
or rich financial harvests, Thus
you see a first year doctor earn-
ing $205 a month, second year
$225, third year $275, fourth
$500, a faculty professor $753.

Remember that when we are
being brainwashed into believing
that M,P,’s must get $18,000 a
year to “attract the best men”
that Fidel gets only $400 amonth,
Values differ under socialism; it
is no longer what can I grab but
what can I give?

Since the literacy campaign
that taught people to read, health
suggestions are widespread, and
in such places as Oriente Prov-
ince, where 90 percent of the
children had parasitic worms in
pre-revolutionary days, now this
horror is being eradicated,

We saw some X-ray ma-
chines in disuse, of American
make, On enquiry, we were told
that the American firms advised
the Cuban authorities thatit was
not in the best American inter-

_ ests that repairs be sold to Cuba,”

In a psychiatric institution in
Havana, where 20 patients died
per day for lack of food or care
in Batista’s days, now work is
the keynote of cure, The insti-
tution has been humanized, pa-
tients are producing their own

Cuba pen-pals

Do you know anyone who
wants a pen-pal in Cuba? Rita
and John Tanche brought back
the names of two young Cubans
who would like to correspond
with young people inB,C, They
are: Guillermo Padron, Calle
194 No, 1109, G, 13, Y77,
Siboney Marionaa, Cuba; and
Escuda Secundaria, Basica,
Ruben M Vellina, Cuba,

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information!

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What is the PT Gift Service? It’s a serv-

food, discuss collectively their
own work activities for the day,
and work out saving plans. There
was only one old housing struc-
ture left; the rest was all of
modern design, including beau-
tiful Cuban architecture, marble
floors, plate glass, harmonious
decor throughout, and no ration-
ing for the inmates, >

* * *

Have you had malaria? A doc-
tor takes your pulse, your tem-
perature, blood pressure (there
wasn’t anything that raised our
blood pressure except the ‘Ox-
ford,” the U.S, warship, three
miles offshore), So dressed in a
white gown, cap, mask cloth
overshoes, the operation was
painless, Who would mind for such
an inspiring nation?

Surprisingly enough, I did not

see anyone working overly hard, e

In East Havana I saw housing
developments in which every
structure was different from the
other; beautiful decor; higher
apartments equipped with eleva-
tors; marbled floors, All this
since the revolution, where
people pay 10 percent of their
wages for rent which would not

- even pay our taxes, let alone the

payments, and the upkeep, for a
house we call our own here,

For the farm worker housing
is free. We saw a whole village
of newly built homes on a State
farm all with different archi-
tecture and different finish, The
most needy get priority, What a
change from those lamentable
bohios of earthen floors and
palm-leaf roofs, Atrocities which
were a relic of the United Fruit
Co.

* * *

While Cuba has some six hun-
dred species of fish insurround-
ing waters, in pre-revolutionary

days it imported fish from the’

U.S.A, Consequently many could
not afford to eat fish. Today
Cuba is creating a fishing fleet
of its own, We saw 25 boats
almost ready to sail with echo
sounders, refrigerators, tele-
phones and very modern, A 26-
year-old Negro foreman was in

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charge of the works in we dry
dock.

And there are chicken and egg-"
producing units everywhere —
batteries of them, 200-foot-long
buildings. Eggs are now off the
ration list, Cuba also boasts some
six million head of cattle which
they are upgrading through ar-
tificial insemination flown from
Canada, (Sixty-six percent of the
cattle are still privately owned.)

We also saw two thermo-elec-
tric plants built by the Soviet
Union and Cubans which will
double the electric capacity with-
in a very short time, Tractors
and cane loaders by the mile from
the U.S,S,R,, and cane harvesters
from the same country which will
do the work of 40 workers per
unit,

They are damming rivers mak-
ing reservoirs to irrigate a mil-
lion acres by 1970, and feed the
hungry cities, In spite of the US,
embargo foreign trade has
doubled since the previous year,
A boat-load of buses was being
unloaded from England, Gas
stoves and refrigerator plants
were Starting production, These
were purchased from Czecho-
slovakia, The plants were paid
for from the deduction of four
percent from the workers’ wages
and now are in the clear,

Everywhere the Cubans are
bursting with enthusiasm, Never
have I seen a country so dedi-
cated to its welfare, “Patria O
Muerta,” they work, they study,
they protect with force of arms,

There is much more that could
be said of Cuba but space re-
stricts, One may mention, how-
ever, that there is a dangerous
undertone, Like a killer shark,.
the U.S, is toppling all govern-
ments in South America that
show friendliness to the Cuban
regime, Liberated Cuba is a
thorn in their side and they are
out to destroy them if they can,
There is a strong possibility
that they will try to manoeuvre
some new attacks from South or
Central America, But they will
have to kill and drown in blood
90 percent of the Cuban people
to succeed, é

In future issues we will be informing you

ice through which we hope to achieve two more precisely as to just what we have to

aims: saving some money for our readers
and helping to meet the expenses involved

in publishing our paper. We know that most
aeopte spend money for birthday, annivers-

offer, exact prices of given items, terms of
payment, and so on.

ary, Christmas and other presents. We hope
to be able to supply our readers with a wide
variety of articles, high in quality and reas-
onably priced.

It’s as simple as that.

But for now, we want you to know we'll

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