The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-10-16

me in that they are more ex-
perienced in grabbing" food.
BY the time I have my napkin
spread out, they have emptied
the dishes. But T will fool them
one of these days by not taking
a napkin and start intercepting
some of their passes.
1.-The big trouble with the liv-
ing conditions now for me is
that the mess hall is better than
l " miles away from where I
sleep, and I have to walk. I eat
breakfast at 6:15, but have to
leave here at 5:45, which mans
that I must get up at 5:31, and
you know how I like to get up
in the morning. We go to work
at 7 am, eat lunch from 11:30
to 1890 and finish work at $3.50
pm. Saturdays we work from
7 to 11:30.
1.-The only furniture in my
room is one canvas army cot.
No dresser, table or chair. I
would like to buy a few articles
for my room, but everything IS
so high. I phoned about and
ad in regard to two dreSSers
for sale, that were supposed to
be in good condition, one they
wanted $3.50 for and the other
$4,000. Needless to say, I wasn't
interested.
II had a chance to get a swell
room once. but they wanted too
much money for it. It was in the
private home of the President
of Panama. He is of course, now
living in the Panamanian White
house. He rented his private
home to an American family
completely furnished for $4,000
per month, and they wanted
$500 per month for this room.
It surely was a nice place. A lit
tie pent house on top of the
house with a private tiled Sho-
wer and tub, a nice little sitting
room and small bed room. There
was a private swimming pool
and tennis court on the estate.
But SIS a month is still a lot
of money, especially for just a
place to sleep, so I chose to
sleep on an army cot and walk
one and a half miles to my
meals.
II am trying to get my car
down here. It will cost about
$4,000 to get it here. If I could
get it, it might not be so bad.
It has not happened yet, but
I expect every day to get caught
in one of these sudden showers
when I am about half way up
to eat. When it rains here it
really comes down. One shower
we had since I came, it rained
81 inches in a half hour. So
you see one should carry a pair
Of water wings instead of an
umbrella.
Nov for a resume of my trip.
I left Oakland, Calf, Friday
Aug. 29-took the flyer to Los
Angeles. Arrived there about 7
| o'clock and took at the Glen
dale airport at $3.50 am. Sat-
urday. We made a short stop
at a small town near the Dor
der in Mexico. Our next stop
was Bazatlan, which is a good
sized town on a very pretty bay.
Our next stop after this was
Mexico City. We arrived there
Saturday afternoon and did not
leave until Sunday afternoon. I
surely enjoyed Mexico City very
much and would like to spend
a month there. Living there
seems to be very cheap. Twenty
cents there will buy as much as
a dollar in the states.
II believe one OF the incest
and g%randeSt sights on the en-
tire trip was Mt. Momotombo,
which is very large and very
active volcano in Nicaragua. We
flew very close to it and could
see the smoke, fire and lava
very clearly. Central America is
surely a beautiful country. We
! were in Mexico, Guatemala, Sal
vador, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica and Panama.
I'VE flew over a most beau
tiful lake, called Lake Nicarag-
ia. 1t is over 80 miles long and
has over 1000 islands in it. Two
of these islands are VOLCANOES
and are very pretty. One of the
islands was about S miles long
and l mile wide. It is heavily
wooded and mountainous with
very nice beaches and a beau
tiful lake that was at least a
mile long and half a mile wide,
A person would miss a lot OF
splendid and interesting scenery
if he were not going by air.
I'VE were supposed to stay at
Guatemala City over night, but
were forced down due to bad
weather, at Tapachula, Mexico
This is a town of about 1000
people. 1t is about five miles
from the Mexican Guatemala
line. The town is about five
miles from the airport and VIZ
had to ride over very poor road!
through banana and coffee
plantations to get there. Ths
native girls would turn theil
, backs and cover up their face!
when we drove past. After see
ing some of them in town tina
night I could hardly blame
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