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"Neither my wife, nor I, nor the majority of the 95 other tourists who took the Tmitour trip with us, could even be remotely classified as being communist. As a matter Of fact,by far the majority cti the tock* were " staunch capita - lista, said Mr, Hecker. Unitodrs was the first tour company to come to. an wee- •' Meat with the Cuban government regarding organized tours from Canada: ' " "One of the conditions: of the agreement demanded by th1J'ni. tours company was tha the vacation be totally apolitical and that no attempt would be made by the Cuban government to deluge the Canadian tourists with Communist panda," said Mr. Hecker. Mr. Hecker said that immedi- aelyupon; arriving in Havana, the touring party was rushed t4 thorelattirely remote tourist.area. called Varadero each where they spent the t five Oils at. a* ",e, nice resort" where, _ with the exception. of ` one storm, they .found the climatee and the beach gaunt - j i suffer. inconveniences idero, 'For example, we Prelltted three seals a v�th nothing to eat between ". Said W. Hecker.. "We the. week progressed Cubans were, short or many s-- food. being one. mineral merchandise, clothes, and other comforts of life were short supply. "We . found very few restaurants in the towns, pri niarily. because there was rela- aaiveI Attle fo ►d. to. distribute to ..the people, The food' that was available was rationed and, be- suss "'we : ida't •have Cuban ►ooks, we could 'not pur- anything from. ''the local, stores4s occasions we did : sn relat velyloug`1tnes: tv buy eta restaurant. when we got beginning of :the line we ;the food was ;being our to the people who •.e 'r laic that as- a re- shdekre- s ed fit° the.a er• - counters iu the store contained merchandise and very little mer- ehandise at that. The ret of the space was filled with stps of a political nature. , "I found it very frustrating in that the ma for .nhlem I harp with my . Canadian Tire store is the lack of adequate space to dis- play all the merchandise I have in stock. It's certainly frustrating to walk through enormous stores in Havana where there's unlimit- ed amounts of space but very little merchandise." Mr. Hecker said that members of the staff at Varadero had been carefully selected by the Cuban. government and all were staunch Communists with such titles as Hero or Martyr of the Revolution, "For that reason, I feel we re- ceiv a tinted view of Cuban life durifig our stay at Varadero." Many of the things the Commu- nist staff members told them, said Mr. Hecker, turned out to be untrue. "We were told that any- one wishing to leave Cuba could with no difficulty and that Castro was very happy to be rid of people who were insurgents. "However, one day in Havana " we joined a 100 -foot long line in a store to buy some pizza and dis- covered the Woman standing behind us was ai'i American'who had been trying to get out of Cuba for the last three years. "Apparently, she had been born in the United States but had ntoved to Cuba and married a Cuban. She was on a `list' of people wanting' to travel to the United States but she had little hope of taking the trip, "We were apparently watched, while we were talking to this woman in the lineup because several of the local leaders of the Communist party, approached us in the line, ,moved us rapidly to the trentof the line, thereby sep- arating ep- ara ' us from; the woman;, and then watched as we left the store." • Mr. Hecker added that when they had reached the head of the , line ' they were each, given one piece of pizza, and althoughhe had offered to buy a second piece, he couldn't" because even the pizza was rationed, ' "We were in a completely con- trolled environment during our entire stay in Cuba." Mr. Hecker ex ilained; that as Varadero was relatively remote y met;verylew outsiders with +I nearby Hotel e-steying, alt a ned` the Interna - o ►'-;S t. pie: ? a • "in general Varadero was lot fun. There was a beautiful 11 - mile long, white sandbeach. The `water was great and the staff lworth's to; °tile fevo� nationnlized.: cent of the were very friendly, The food lacked soneting and there wa sployee of the government 3 cause the government owns all the businesses. "Everybody re, of eeives a salary set by the govern no hot water during otir entire stay there' because of a lack fuel. Other than that we had good time and it was certainly re lazing." They were provided with enter tainment every nigh' by "excel lent Cuban hands,and most of the Canadians danced to the w. hours," said Mr. Hecker. "One of our group became very friendly with some of the Russians who were stayingday : nearby and one was challenged to a vodka -drink- ing contest, "He and one of the' Russians started drinking vodka and, of course, the Russian drank , the Canadian right into the ground. The Canadian was sick for 48 hours. "The Russians were unbelie- vably impressed with a Polaroid camera one of the Canadians had. The Canadian had taken a picture of a Russian and then shown them the picture. When they saw the picture instanta- neously developed by the Pola- roid camera .they were fasci- nated.,They had never seen or heard of anything like that. "One of the Russians tried des- perately to trade his camera for the Polaroid camera. The Cana- dian tried to explain to him that the Polaroid camera wouldn't do him much gnnri without the special Polaroid film but the Rus- sian didn't quite understand and, at the end of Linn session, the Canadfan left a very frustrated and. unhappy Russian." The Heckers found the atmos- phere of the. tour changed be- tween Varadero, and Havana. ``When we returned to Havana the environment changed. Vara- dero vias totally relaxed because it was remote and the Canadians were controlled in that there was very little they could do at Vara- dero that would. cause anyone harm. "However, as soon as we ar- rived in: Havana, we were wat- ched. One girl was arrested°• for taking pictures in the street. I found Havana very depressing and certainly bleak, probably, be- cause of the total lack of signs. The main street of Havana had none of the color of main streets in. any of the North American cities, although, prior to the'revo- lution, I understand it had as !'Pd: ' s:.ri ;aha neon srgrrr east °spy stree in the Unitedi a toric. se 04Y -c e a nurs care of Dud visited a Via; cigar', faotos'y. "At rntr u d t 'the' mit .and both of the visited were, *Meat Sho, oans� standards. a anent. They: on vacation to goy. eminent controlled resorts. They buy their food frofromgovernor t controlled stores with govern. • ment controlled ration Woke. "Money is not particularly a: wee problem of the Boal men peoplee in Cuba in that the majority of them earn more money than they can possibly spend became of the rationing. They have the menet' to buy things but are .Ilnuted to,. for example, meat once eve nine days and a certain amount of clothing every year. "The Communist party, to .a major extent, controls the ration ing of luxuries. For example, the Communist party decides When' someone should go on vacation and then makes available the means to go on vacation. The Communist party owns all' the resorts in Cuba. If soecitie n a W is to go on vacation he either achieve his desire by working hard and being in, the good graces of the local C41rirnu- nist chief or he can pay for the vacation out of his own pocket. which is fairly expensive. "The message in Cuba is if you. want to live a comfortable life,. relative to the Cuban standard: of living, you have to' be a member of the Communist party." Mr. Hecker was very lin pressed with the number of schools and nurseries in Cuba. "It seemed we could hardly go a block without passing a school or a playground and the 'play- grounds were certainly far better equipped than any I've seen in • Canada, and far larger. "Apparently, the Cuban gov- ernment has put a real emphasis on the young in Cuba and :I'm sure it's paying dividends to the Cuban government in terms of support from the youth. "I 'think the large -number' ,of Cuban nurseries. can be .sex- plained, in part, by the fact that there are very few Cuban house wives. The majority of ;;the women with children work in fac- States. . "The only signs on the street now were political signs exclaim- ing the virtues of the Communist regime." • , Everybody in Cuba is an em- SCHtOLS ABOUND—One of the aspects of Cuban life that impressed Mr. Hecker during his recent trip to Cuba was the high concentration of schools in Cuba. He remarked that you couldn't rrmve a block without running into one of the government controlled schools. • (Photo by Jack Hecker) N^ WATER WELL DRILLING BY DAVIOSON FOR 73 YEARS, GUARANTEED WELLS AT:THE LOWEST COST. Free Estimates Anywhere in On - tar. Past service. our Wells . 'Exceed., Provincial Government Standards,. Modern Rotary and Percussion Drilling. Sit Adherence to Environtnental Regilations. DAVIDSON WELL DRILLING LTD. Wingham t� 357-1960 Box 486. "W :a Avited' that were nal Cuban: government.«` w44 mansion ,owned by Dupont w had beenbuilt ie° 1920's at a, coat of one % dollars and had been convey ed into a nate*. • rant, It was situated on an enor., mous plot of land With . a golf course and a moo -made etreatn on it. "Rem ngway's, house was located in a s`ubur ► of Havana and the lball guide emphasised that the einway Wim, had not been nationalised ° but had been ` donated' by ft n way's widow immediately after the revolution to the Cuban govern' ment, 4, • "lie said that , H e1'ni- . rXgway had been*:,,given the right by Castro to return, thereat any, time - andotay in the guest house beside the Hain' Wilding. ng, For some ,, reason, she never returned,", One evening they were taken to the Tropicana nightclub in Havana which is an • out -door nigbtclwith a show that "put to shame any extravaganza I've seen in las Vegas," said Mr. Hecker. r ",The ,Canadian group was placed,at the back of the night club. The front was reserved Nor the `workers. ` Iia retrospect, I found the trip fascinating. The meals they pro- vided tis with were lousy, (cheese and jam for breakfast main course) but I think excellent by Cuban: standards, "Theyprnvided,us with meat at, leastevery other day whereas the average Cuban is allowed meat. once every nine dais: "We ;missed hot water at Vara- dero;but spent a lot of time in the ocean. The entertainment and a ;fit hta ;' on all refer to the selves: aa' ' mpanlero-art name', . a Cuban eqttlyslent of . Comrade.• °, • `f 'e there, particularly in the city, is bleak, . Cubans Jive A meagre. existence relative, .to Cadia. ftrnded Me Very much of Vast lin, city I visited several years ,ago when f 'was on a :Wolof* trip to 'esti Berlin." Mr. Ifecker COnclUdedconcluded by may.: ing he would never want to live in Cuba. "yob manly 'develop a respect, dot^ . Canal and apple- ci what you have, when you vizi tries like Cuba.", � roltor " ; '3 3036 . �e►e��� see grains Sees.A. COOK: I' • You, as an Aries, cook tkrom recipes mostly and -pioneer tha you are at heart -nothing please you more than to be th first in your crowd to discover a new goodie. You don't care much for spices, which is quaint because you rule most of them with your sign. But you use them very carefully—and that. makes sense. - A pertinent item in your astro- logical makeup is that you love making pastry and "today I thought, we might talk about a dessert recipe that you would en- joy making for yourself and your Aries friends. Peaches -Flambee ripe peaches, one per person water, as necessary sugar, as necessary Kirsch, as necessary red food coloring arrowroot, or cornstarch. 1. Peel the peaches by dropping them into boiling water for a few minutes and then plunge them into cold water. The skin will slip off very easily. 2, Make a syrup with the water and sugar—or you might try using a commercial corn syrup if you don't want to go to the trouble. Add some Kirsch to the syrup, to your own taste. 3. Heat the syrup to almost boil- ing and ,then pop in the peaches t and .poach gently until they are '. will tender but Still firma.. e .e. 4. Place each . pea m an indi- viduallish or glass, and set aside to cool 5. Reduce`the. syrup—or, if there is too nuteh liquid, ,pour some off. s Ad±sh:a few drops ofthe food .coloring to make it an attractive pink. You might also Want to add . a little'more Kirsch to flavor°it•to • your own taste. - '7: Now add the arrowroot (or •co�rnsterch, which •I' don;t like as well) to thicken. the syrup. • 8. flake one teaspoonful of arrow- root and mix it with a very little water (or fruit' juice of your choice) to make aopaste. Add this to the 'boiling syrup, stirring it in +carefully. Do NOT dump it in or it will become lumpy, 9.. Stir and boil to thicken. 10. Cool a little and spoon it over the peaches to make a glaze. When you are ready to serve, warm a spoon and pour in some Kirsch. ` Light the Kirsch and ° pour the flaming liqueur over the peaches. 1 have seem some of my friends set the peaches on a • puree of ' fresh strawberries—and'' this is rather attractive. This recipe obviously serves as many people as you need to --1 peach per person. Satisfied Lustomers Since 1900 Through Four Generations NEVER DIES—In a Country where all connections to the revolution clays were so severely erased upon Castro's rise td power,Mr. Hecker t1 businesses of found it strangetduring his recent trip to Cuba that a sign promoting Atnericancign etfes could still prevail upon an oldstone wall 14 years after the revolution« (Photo by Jack Hecker)