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No.
Fae
257
Tel. 3-8400
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, September 1, 1960
‘Rushed PRIDCO
Backing
To Mi dea st
Questioned
_
Yellen Theater Venture Raises Eyebrows \By
AL
DINHOFER
(First By
agreeing
to Rue
the
of one man, the Puerto has
outraged
fessionally
some
of a Series) future
Rico
gf
insular
theater
Industtial Development
theater-goers
in theater
and
arts.
many
in
the
Co.
others
hands
j
(PRIDCO,
involved
f
pro-
.:
Last week préducer Barry B. Yellen, 24, announc ed that the Theater Development Corp. was established with the good wishes and financial support—verbally committed—of PRIDCO, Fomento’s financial arm. The new firm will absorb Yellen’s San Juan Drama
Festival
Corp.,
comedies, programs.
While
it
auspicious there are
$35,000
and
drama
in
is
present
English
theatrical some who
in
an
and
generally
eight-month
Spanish,
agreed
schedule
opera
that
the
and
of is
ing
dance
the
stock
plus
a line
of
credit
government, through PRIDCO, may be ‘creat ing polism. One man, or firm, could control the type comedy, opera or dance programs we will see.
the
ter
musical
Stars ing
BARRY YELLEN --- backed by PRIDCO
in the forthcoming
for
experimental
Maxwell
Anderson,
drama
drama,
and
(See
or
Arthur
festival—too the
Miller
ALEGRIA,
tragedies
of
Eugene
with
calm
crisis
the
grow. .
out of the bomb
killing
King
Hussein
were
“responsible
charged
linked people”
the
up in
with Presi-
dent Nasser’s United Arab Republic. The U. N. representative went
into and
Puerto
Newmar— likely commercially impos-
to compete
Page
of
Mideast
assassins
Commercial Vs. Artistic Interests During the past week the a 8e-old contr oversy— the cultural vs. the commercial—has again arisen. Will the commercial necessities of this $500,000 venture stifle the artistic aspects Rican theater?. Are Gypsy Rose Lee and Julie
here ye
to
Spinelli rushed here from Ge eva on orders from Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold af-
a theatrical monoof drama,
try
of Premier Hazza Majali.
most
of $75,000,
to
latest.
musical
zarzuela
project
Middle Bast, flew
terday
undertaking in the island’s cultural history, contend that by pledging an investment of
preferred
Hussein Links
chief has
O’Neill,
them?.
RICARDO ALEGRIA -.. advice not sought
19)
conferences with Hussein Bahjat el Talhouni, the
of
the
assumed
royal
the
cabinet
who
premiership.
The two prime suspects in Monday’s bombing, which killed (See JORDAN, Page 24)
CAP Leaders Draw House Okays Sugar Movers Fear Plans For Campaign Ike's Latin Traffic Law Effects Aid Program HAROLD
J. LIDIN
was
to
come
the
strategy for the general election.
party’s upcoming
With Davila on the pilgrimage to Ponce were Jorge Luis Cordova Diaz, CAP candidate for resident commissioner, and Jose L. Feliu Pesquera, the candidate
for
representative
Feliu, Bislature
gious
at
large.
whose drive in the lefor time off for reli-
education
in
schools
trig-
gered creation of the CAP, is under fire from his former Puer-., to Rican Independence Party col-
leagues, for retaining his legislative seat. Tuesday, PIP wheelhorse Luis A.
Archilla
Laugier
charged
that
Feliu had no right to retain his Independence Party seat because of his new affiliation with the CAP.
Feliu the
would
charge
not
comment
yesterday.
He
on said
what he planned to say between now and election time would be on
the
subject
of
taxation.
Cordova, a former Supreme Court judge, objected to remarks attributed to Popular Democra-
fieation
of
the
party
on
the
is-
land-wide ballot. This charge was
based on the report that betwe en 80,000 and 84,000 persons had signed petitions supporting the
CAP
This
on
the
was (See
ballot.
accomplished. CAP,
Page
in
less
WASHINGTON House
day
of
izing
(AP)—The
Representatives
approved
By A. W. MALDONADO {\ An owner of a Ponce trailer company charged yesterday at La Fortaleza that unless a provision in the new transit law is amended, there will be “serious conse-
legislation
President
yester-
author-
quences”
Eisenhower's
Senate,
which
has
approved
a
similar bill and which is expected to aceept the House version. The bill provides for future
appropriations
24)
(See
AID
in the
sugar
transportation
of up to $500 BILL, Page 24)
West Germans Cut Off From Berlin; New Trouble Feared By CARL HARTMAN BERLIN (®—Communists manding entry to isloated Berlin turned back many
comWest West
Germany visitors seeking to reach the city by road and rail yester-
to
corners where this is normally permitted. West Berliners and foreigners
A bus load of Bavarians en route the West Berlin meeting was
stopped East
and
at
the West
border Germany.
industry.
Julio Canales, owner of a+*yesterday, fleet of 40 trailers, accom- Mufioz They panied by Jose A. Pomar, sought to urge amendment from the Economic Develop- to the transit law provision dealing with the size of ment Administration, and a trailers. civil engineer from a large Hiram Torres Rigual, aide te | island sugar mill, attempt- the Governor, said yesterday he ed but failed the see Gov. has requested a meeting of Serc-
$600 million Latin American aid program. The measure next goes to the
between
were
allowed
through
to
East
retary of Public Works Francisco Lizardi, Police Superintendent Ramon Torres Braschi and Secretary of Agriculture Luis) Rivera Santos with himself and Canales, to discuss the proposed amendment which, he said, seemed reasonable. ; The complaint is, Torres said,
that
the
law
prohibits
trailers
from being wider than eight feet. Canales, owner of Indus trial Freight Services s Inc., ur
Fifteen car loads of delegates Berlin. West Germans living outto a Baptist church convention side West Berlin could go by subday. They contend they are try- were halted and sent home wheg ay or elevated train but they to trans-| ing to keep potential tried to cross Comgz agitators they arrest by communist police port industrial ipment in the away from East Berlin during territory. ‘ it on communist territory. sugar industry. West Berlin meetings of former East German police put at Jeast residents of red-ruled East GerFor this reason, Canales said, The. commandants in Ber- most of his trueks are eight and many. jin fired a protest of the city’s one half and nine feet wide. Besides those stopped, thousands In Berlin itself, dezens. of West Torres said that the law auof West Germans are believed to Germans were turned back when thorizes the secretary of public have stayed away from Berlin. beworks to amend this provision ahah, ena, , cause of Communist threats. munist sector at the many street
Soot a
Fe Bakhacoy. They, is
they tried to cross inte the Com-| 4
g
By
The high: command of the Chris tian Action Party, headed by party chairman Mari o Davila, flew to Ponce yesterday to confer with Salvador Perea Rosello, CAP ++ candidate for governor. Out of the conference, to tic Party leaders suggesting that be held at the Hotel Melia, fraud was involved in the certi-
{See
PROTEST,
Page
24)