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Weekly
Every
Sunday
10c
Haili
Sun
PORT-AUPRINCE, HAITI - Avenue Marie-Jeanne - CITE DUMARSAIS ESTIME Phone 2061 l Vol XIV = SUNDAY MAY Tth, 1961 - No. 26
Plebiscite And Unicameral
Vote ExplainedBy PauP
Attorney General
MEMORANDUM OF Tit will be easy for us to underATTOENEY GENERAL stand that the electorate of Port
MAX DUPLESSIS
au Prince Arrondissment has
a
Mr. the Dean,
acted within its full sovereign
Mr. Notable:
power by designating Doctor
It is essential that immediate- Fancois Duvalier for a new
ly before even counting the vo- term under the title of Presidtes obtained by the candidates entof the Republic. wve insist upon a principle which We have said that the princifar from being new constitutes ple we have evoked constitutes
the very essence of National the very essence of National
ATDAMIENS celebration of Labor and Agriculture Day
Sovereignty. This principle can Sovereignty. It is indeed that
President Dr Francois Duvaller surrounded by his Cabinet"
be defined: the aptitude of the by which the people exercises
(phioto Dietz) members of the electorate when effectively and fully its rights,
presented with an electorate de- manifests totally its will. Nocree or law which looks to them thing could prevail against that
incomplete to fully manifest undeniable mark
InLabor
Day Presidential
of power. their will to complete the law deed when the electorate
Messoge
is proItual facts. The changes brought or decree and to designate a voked to the exercise of its sovMy fellow citizens,
times it resisted to the opposing by the labor laws to the rela- civil servant or a group DE civil ereignty by a delegated power
forces with arms and watchful tions between management and servants whose election was one can say that that exercise
Haiti was born under the sign nationalism. Then the people labor favored the advance of not foreseen. The intangibility of of sovereignty is only fragmentOf effort and collaboration, and would awaken to its rights, more Haitian democracy without alt- the principle once established, ary because after all it has not
all its accomplishments have or less politically, but persist- ering the established system of
depended on the electorate to
been a direct manifestation of antly, truly and deliberately. production and property. These Episcopal Centennial take the initiative. that sign. If, during difficult and The interest of professionals essential conquests for democra-
(Continued on page 8)
dangerous times the Nation al- were not attained until 1946 tic Drogress were to be quest- Observed This Month
ways came out the winner, it is when the workers gained the ioned; and this important sociall Preparations are underway Col. On
because each time it
Neptune
would find right of association and the de- movement, with a goal towards for the centennial observance
the spirit of great traditions and mocratic constitution of 1946 social equilibrium, was stopped. of the Episcopal Church i Haiti. U.S. Course
the noble causes of struggle. In fully backed it up: Haitian syn- It has been almost 15 years now Highlight of the celebrations Colonel Harry Neptune, direcfront of an external enemy it dicalism expressed a series of that the new Haitian conscience will be a solemn unusual mass tor of the Military Academy,
always presented a national claims both personal and insti- had risen, with political senst in the presence of the presiding left Friday for Washington D.C. front, and during humiliating tutional, but always based on ac- tiveness and Farmed for the de Bishop the Right Reverend Ar where he will attend a ten day
cisive struggle offlife. It has thur C. Lichtenberger. The mu-l orientation course for officers. been almost 15. years that the sical setting is a Haitian folll Colonel Neptume who graduatDepartment of Labor, ignored, Mass written by the Rev. Fath- ed with honors from the U. S. Highlight Of Damiens Festival Was
unknown, misunderstood before; er N. Caryle Spitz, dean of the Army Infantry School Fort Benwas entering Administration Seminar.
tiveness and Farmed for the de Bishop the Right Reverend Ar where he will attend a ten day
cisive struggle offlife. It has thur C. Lichtenberger. The mu-l orientation course for officers. been almost 15. years that the sical setting is a Haitian folll Colonel Neptume who graduatDepartment of Labor, ignored, Mass written by the Rev. Fath- ed with honors from the U. S. Highlight Of Damiens Festival Was
unknown, misunderstood before; er N. Caryle Spitz, dean of the Army Infantry School Fort Benwas entering Administration Seminar. ning has been sent to Washingformally pointing out the exist- Other commemorative eventst ton by the U.S. Naval Mission
Progress Of 4-C Club
(Continued on page 20)1
(Continued on page 20)t0 Haiti. Juan Vasquez-One Of City's Largest Primary
Schools Is Run By Bolosse Good Samaritan
One of the largest primary
schools In the City is a ramb:
ing squat redish color bullding
ACTIVITES
that covers a corner of parched
4C
earth in the poor district of
Fifth Avenue, Bolosse. 54 CLUBS 3IOCLUBS
Mushrooming from an open air
1954 648 MEMBRES 3020MEMBRES 1961 clinic established over a decade
352 LEADERS
and a half ago, the school Juan
Vasquez reflects the unusual
character and history of its
founder director, rotund Juan
Vasquez y Sanchez da Gama. As his name might indicate,
CONSERVATION eete
Mr Vasquez is not a native of
DUSOL ACTION Haiti. He was born in Puerto
CULTURES ELEVAGE ETIRRIGATION SOCIALF Rico in 1911 on May 17, while
his- mother and father were visit40 CLUB MEMBDES from throughout Haiti gathered at the Da- ing there. He thus was by chance an American citizen, although
miens Agricultural Fair held to mark labor Day May 1st, These his parents were Dominican. His
clubs made up of youngsters who are interested in the land and full name is Juan Vasuuez y BOLOSSE SCHOOL CHILDREN enjoy regular hot noontime meal
especially the replacing of antiquated farming and livestock Sanchez da Gama -his ancest at Juan Vasquez school. The schools director,founder "Pere' Vasbreeding methods with modern accepted methods, have sprung ors were Portuguese aristocracy, Qquez (center) showing CARE director
who
up throughout the Republic and the 40 Clubs growth can be noted descendants of Vasco da Gama- plies the food, through canteen Jaoques Lauriac, supand his father had been a soldduring meal hour. Children must
on the above diagram,
(photo Dictz)
(Continued on page 4) recite three minute grace before meal. (photo Dietz) --- Page 2 ---
PAGE 2
"HAITI SUN
SUNDAY MAY YTYS,
15 Busy Minutes Hurtling Off the Telediol
MARIO Doogeode
BOY ADVISES GIRL... In Space
PETIONVILLE dwellers feared fire last Saturday nite when the
street electric wires burned and sizzled for three hours before the
ASTRONAUT CHECKS IN STEADILY current was shut oft-JOHN SHELDON'S boat is for sale (it
used to be Cichowsky's). He's getting a larger one--ON TUESDAY
3R a
What were the 15 historic mi- Tensed for the moment, he morning, while the streets were empty, the wheel-less chassis of
nutes like for the man in the can feel the ballistic missile
capsule? Space Expert Jean shaking into life and hear the a car was being pulled across Grand'Rue on a bourette with a
Pearson of The Detroit F'ree rumbling, thundering liquid oxy- uan strapped and tied to the front shafts and two others nushing:
Press tells what Space-man gen fuel bursting into churning HAMI P CO is going to start making "Tassot" otherwise
Alan B.
historic mi- Tensed for the moment, he morning, while the streets were empty, the wheel-less chassis of
nutes like for the man in the can feel the ballistic missile
capsule? Space Expert Jean shaking into life and hear the a car was being pulled across Grand'Rue on a bourette with a
Pearson of The Detroit F'ree rumbling, thundering liquid oxy- uan strapped and tied to the front shafts and two others nushing:
Press tells what Space-man gen fuel bursting into churning HAMI P CO is going to start making "Tassot" otherwise
Alan B. Shepard had to. do be- fire and power below him. known as dried beef.-THAT painting given to Paul
fore and during the flight <Lift-off."
Hoffman is one by
Dupoux, called Dedication the
More than 50
when, and why. Shepard is on his way to the
Roger
of Drums. Fate leads them p.e. to thin
By JEAN PEARSON fringe of space. WHY are the gendarmes showing forearms all ol a suaden? man. thei
Miami Herald Special Writer
Summer weather, or for better wielding of the baton?-WHAT
Cape Canaveral-"Fire onet "Lift-off and the clock is ever happened to Miss Clara Roy of Jeremie? Is she still around,
the voice crackled back from started" are the first words of or has she gone to a well-earned rest2-R. C. BORDE claims he
the edge of space. the astronaut in his space flight
Girl Might Lose Out
"Fire two! Fire threet" and They're given in a quick, cheery, has a $140. bill to present to Everett Shrewsbury for meat spoil
Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr was singsong manner like a mar ige due to current failure.A LOT of people are anxiously await If She Keeps Talking
on the way home. The three ching command. ing the next news of Maj. Redalen's 2201 goats.-A NEAR tragedy
retro-rockets didn't help this uT PLUS 45 SECONDS." sccurred Tuesday when a car attempting to pass a truck went Of Marriage
-
Before
fime but Shepard fired them "A OK," comes from She off the road into the bushes where the Butler 5-year-old boy, was
calmly, precisely, properly. pard, indicating "all OK" or playing. Fractured his skull and he is in
Vert
Boy Is
Gravity took his
Ready
lean, test-pi- everything operating perfectly. Canape Hospitallot's body and clutched it with He makes a rapid voice check OLLOWING inventory at Le Perchoir, and the return of Al Nousa force few people ever set a through of all vital information son Friday, Millie White took off today for a 3 or 4 week vacahint of. registering on his Mercury ins in the U.S.-THAT gendarme who patrols Rond Point goes Dear Mario,
Moments before, the United trument panel. duty just as the lunch crowd begins to come, followed by the
States' frst astronaut had float
avament snipes.DIGBY SOLOMON is the
arrived
I am 22 and am
ed in Weightiesshess 100-plus G-forces are beginning to
newly
resid
a who very friendly
miles over the Atlantic Ocean. build. up as the Redstone mo ver t representative in Haiti of the Interamerican Development 20. withi We have boy has just in turned
And only minutes before, he the spacecraft faster and faster. k-VICTOR ST. LOUIS just returned from 2 weeks in Sar mon. I like many him a things comwas strapped into space capsule On the ground, Shepard weigh uan at the Warner-Lambert office where he was fully indoctrinat- in fact, I'm in great deal;
Freedom VII for the first rocket ed 160 pounds which is one 1 in skin care a la the DuBarry products and methods.
stone mo ver t representative in Haiti of the Interamerican Development 20. withi We have boy has just in turned
And only minutes before, he the spacecraft faster and faster. k-VICTOR ST. LOUIS just returned from 2 weeks in Sar mon. I like many him a things comwas strapped into space capsule On the ground, Shepard weigh uan at the Warner-Lambert office where he was fully indoctrinat- in fact, I'm in great deal;
Freedom VII for the first rocket ed 160 pounds which is one 1 in skin care a la the DuBarry products and methods. His wife would like to: love with him
rides by a man who lives in the G. for him,
presented him with their second child, a while
and <I know he get engaged. free world. sop PLUS ONE MINUTE? boy, he was away. has great atfection
Many times in the last two: The G-forces now read-out at JANINE CLESCA, Jolicoeur and Beauvoir are the first three for me, too, but he is not keen
weeks, Astronaut Shepard dres- two which -means he now artists whose works will be shown in the Vanleigh Gallery in on discussing the question of
sed in his 20-pound, silver-color weighs twice 160. Montrcal,-PIERRE D'ADESKY leaves today for a blow-out in] marriage. I
ed space suit, squeezed through
News Xork-LATEST word is that the Talamas Boys (hereafter to the Whenever try to bring up
the Mercury Capsule's hatch
subject he always changes
and wriggled down into fiber- He feels pushed into the couch. be known as the T-Men), are headed for Hollywood to become ACT- it:
glass and foam contour couch. The G-forces continue to in: ORS. Well, they've both had plenty of training and come to think 4I know I can't drive him
This time was different. When crease, his eyeballs are flatten- of it Dave might well become a second Harold Lloyd.-AUBIE into a corner and make him, for
they shut the hatch secnrely ing They- a bit. continue to build and JOLICOEUR didn't exactly break the bank at the Casino in San he might take offence, and I
and. tightened 80 bolts securely,
could lose him, and that I don't
he knew his moment in history he continues to report them. Juan on his recent trip.-THE OLD Ace Corbin dock js being want to do. But I would ike to
had come. "Four, he announces. dleaned out of freeludes-HENNICE RUDELL's birthday cele know where T really do stand
There's no, time to worry. Only It feels as though he's beings ration on Wednesday nite wound up at Fregate with champagne with him. I wouldn't like to cartime for following the" countdown shoved into the couch. He can and a near battle.-NANCY ROBERTS Pat
ry,on for long without gettinga
check-out through and reporting move his hands but would have
and Wiener make a definite answer. What should
to Ground Control. difficulty lifting an arm
nice couple of teen-agers. Pat forget his Grandma's birthday, he do?" "Desire. When the so-called "red butspos PLUS TWO
was having SO much fun-SHANNON YARBOROUGH just recov:
ton" of blast-off is pushed. a Greater accelerations-- great- ered from la grippe-KYONA BEACH is scheduled for a
I think you are rather
er
numbe
premat
squib or small pyrotechnic de- "Five," GS. he reports. of new improvements before the end of the summer, in time for ure. You want to hustle the boy
vice fires the ignition in the
the fishing season to open. Some of the ideas should bring in the into committing himself before
rocket. 20 SECONDS LATER big money boys from the Keys. There is more than one kind he is certain he knows what he
Shepard hears the ignition and
fish that bites.-THAT's it. of wants. I'm: not surprised he
combustion- bang way up. to the "Six", he
shies away. from the topic of
capsule, despite: the insulation
reports. marriage. He's only 20, and finand his cushioned helmet.
ignition in the
the fishing season to open. Some of the ideas should bring in the into committing himself before
rocket. 20 SECONDS LATER big money boys from the Keys. There is more than one kind he is certain he knows what he
Shepard hears the ignition and
fish that bites.-THAT's it. of wants. I'm: not surprised he
combustion- bang way up. to the "Six", he
shies away. from the topic of
capsule, despite: the insulation
reports. marriage. He's only 20, and finand his cushioned helmet. The G-forces are now a crushancially probably isn't in
As the 78,000 pounds of thrust ing Six times his weight: It is
sition to think seriously of apo- ma-)
in the Redstone engine starts as though he suddenly weighed The crushing forces of decel- per hour). trimony. He might not even- be
building up, he feels the shud- nearly Air one thousand pounds. eration begin to build up as he Ready for landing."
thinking of you in that way. dering vibration. is being forced from his re-enters the atmosphere,
At 9:44 a.m. Mereury Astro- But you're hardly: in the sere
lungs. "Six G's."
naut Shepard splashed into the and the
In another
Haiti Sun Honored "Cloud cover over Florida," "Eight."
Atlantic, completing America's or so, if you yellow. are still
yean
he réports. Then he begins
of the
By Association Des "Three-tenths to six-tenths
to grunt the first and fully successful mind about the boy, and he
numbers as
the
-
Chauffeurs-Guides (cloud cover) up to Hatteras words out "Nine-UNH." he fights to get manned space flight. self hasn't broached the matter
d'Haiti
(Cape Hatteras, over 500 miles "Ten--UNH!"
FORMER
you could then diseuss the fut
north)."
With the' capsule slowed down
MEXICAN ure. During the May Day official
to about the speed of sound the ENVOY HERE
But at the moment he just
opening of the headquarters of Then he turns to practice fir- G-forces start slackening
COMMITTS
I wants to enjoy himself - and
the Association des Chauffeurs ing the retro-rockets which will nine - six - - three.. SUICIDE
can't say that I blame him.It
Guides d'Haiti on the Harry not be needed in this flight but He reads out the altitude Mexican
you want him, then it's over to
Truman Boulevard Bernard Die- will be vital to returning from sixty-thousand, fifty, forty. Ambassador Cesar you to make the best of it. Don't
derich, editor of the HAITI SUN, orbital flight in Mercury Atlas
crT PLUS TEN"
Garizurieta who served in Haiti try to tie him down. He might
received the association's "Di- capsules. "Thirty thousand."
during 1957-58 and was in char- resent it later on, and jn the
plome d'Honneur". The diploma "In retro-attitude."
"Drogue chute deployed." ge of the embassy here when end walk out on you. stated the honor was in recogni- "Fire one
T PLUS 10 AND FOUR SEC." ex-candidate Louis Dejoie tool When he-is in a position and
tion for the services rendered *Very smooth," he reports sa- "Twenty thousand feet."
asylum, Mexico committed suicide in old enough to talk seriously he
the Association,
tistied, after the third firing. Then Shepard. feels a as
last month. will, if he is keen to have vort
The speech: pronounced at the Now Shepard is traveling down the main, 63-foot chute opens, tug Recently Mexico's envoy to If he is not, then your own gocd
opening of the Association's the ballistic trajectory arch. He Main chute out."
Honduras, he was reported to sense will tell you that the relabullding will appear in the next retmens the capsule's flight to "Rate of descent 30 feet." (30 have made a strongly pro.Castro tionship has no future.
Shepard. feels a as
last month. will, if he is keen to have vort
The speech: pronounced at the Now Shepard is traveling down the main, 63-foot chute opens, tug Recently Mexico's envoy to If he is not, then your own gocd
opening of the Association's the ballistic trajectory arch. He Main chute out."
Honduras, he was reported to sense will tell you that the relabullding will appear in the next retmens the capsule's flight to "Rate of descent 30 feet." (30 have made a strongly pro.Castro tionship has no future. Don't be
edition. the automatic controls. feet per second L about 20 miles country speech which resulted in that over possessive. That's a worsel
asking for his recail fault in a woman than in a man. --- Page 3 ---
BUNDAY MAY 7Tii, 1961
"HATII SUN>
PAGE S
H 3
M ADE
IT
Washington. President Ken- In saluting Shepard's achieve- 115 mile-high manned space On re-entry the e
nedy led the nation today in ment, Kennedy said "All Ameri- flight was the culmination of easily withstood the space tremendous craft,
hailing U.S. Navy Commander ca rejoices." Aboard the Air- 2 and a half years of intensive shock of the atmosphere, SheAlan B. Shepard, America's craft Carrier "Lake Champlain" work and training on Project pard was squeezed back into his
first man-in-space.
Shepard thanked' the President Mercury the name given to padded couch. by a Iorce more
a Mr Kennedy personally con- over radio-telephone, stating the first stage of America's than nine times his own weight.
Shepard by telephone that "it was a very rewarding man-in-space program.
an
of
E after the flight and in- experience for me and the peo- Though the manned space a At small altitude 21,000 feet
vited him to the White House on ple who made it possible.
flight lasted 16 minutes from the downward parachute flight, and stabilized, 10,000 his
Monday.
Termed a "total success" the time of launching to that of lan- feet the main parachute at blosding, Shepard was aloft above somed slowing the vehicle down
the earth's atmosphere only five SO that it gently plopped into the
minutes. During this period he water.
experienced complete weightless- The 37-year-old astronaut was
ness.
then taken to the Aircraft CarFor these few minutes She- rier Lake Champlain and later
pard was the first man to total- to Grand Bahama Island for
pard was the first man to actu- special medical and other tests,
ally control a vehicle in space. Powered by a Redstone rockAlthough some operations were et the space-craft was launched
automatic, Shepard operated at 9:34 a.m., .S.T., amid cheers
small jets causing the craft to at 9:34 a.m., E. S. T. amid
roll, pitch and yaw. He also pre- cheers from several thousand
pared the space craft for re- people watching the firing
entry into the earth's atmosph- from Cape Canaveral and
ere.
the surrounding area, In a few
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PAGE 4
*HAITISUN*
SUNDAY MAY 7IH,
Juan Vasquez Ha One Of The Largest Primary receives only $100 per monthi quez was obliged to bu
from the government to cover large concrete barrier an
Schools In City Run By
its operating expenses of $300. version channel to tun
(the cantine costs an additional the stream that rushed GoN
The Good Samaritan Of Bolosse
$200.) Although each of the stud- road when it rained and
ents is expected to buy nis cwn had washed away the side
(Continued from page 11 man's injuries. From that day ill and had to return home He books, many are unable and re- road until it was oniy Sft
ier in Brazil before settling in on, he spent as much time as says he found England's foggy ceive them from Mr Vasquez.A subsidiary advantage
Santo Domingo. possible in the company of doc- weather a far cry from the sun- Although the school grews] project was that with
"I was taken to the Dominican tors. ny Santo Domingo climate. steadily from its begining, Mr drainage, malaria has bed
Republic as a baby, where I
Vasquez was obliged by the li- siderably reduced in thel
was brought up by an English At about the same time he In 1934, after the death of bis mitation of his resources to Moreover, built into the 1
governess, Miss May Lake of began his teaching career after father, Vasquez took his inherit- maintain the cantine at 60. Inis a frame for a movie S
Brighton, England," Mr Vasquez seeing the embarassment of an ance and came to Haiti. Here: be December 1959, however, CARE on which the govemment
recalls. At the age of ten hel was overseer on his father's ulanta- started an insecticide manufac- began to contribute food; so times shows films, as
admitted to the Central Romana tion who, was unable to sign his turing company ando after this that now 500 children, who 1000 people watch irom thy
Sugar Refining Co's American name to an accident report on a cigar factory, (Pan American would otherwise receive no hot side. School, although the schools was a man who had fallen from a Cigar Co.) in which ne institut- meal, are fed each school day. The road itself had been
limited to employees childrer. coconut tree. ed a night school for. the em: Currently powdered milk, flour structed through Mr Vad
He was attracted to a medical Although he entered the uni- ployees. He made education a (which Mr Vasquez bakes into efforts in 1948. Prior to
vocation as a boy of 10 when, versity of Santo Domingo in 1929 compulsory part of the workers bread in his own bakery) beans, time only a donkey trail
returning from the beach with to study law to satisfy his fath- program from 6pm to 9pm.
childrer. coconut tree. ed a night school for. the em: Currently powdered milk, flour structed through Mr Vad
He was attracted to a medical Although he entered the uni- ployees. He made education a (which Mr Vasquez bakes into efforts in 1948. Prior to
vocation as a boy of 10 when, versity of Santo Domingo in 1929 compulsory part of the workers bread in his own bakery) beans, time only a donkey trail
returning from the beach with to study law to satisfy his fath- program from 6pm to 9pm. lard, rice, cornmeal, and canned tedi the area with thel
friends, he came upon a man er's wishes, he soon left because
pork, as well as cooking ves- which was only a little Om
who had fallen under the wheel the university seemed more cun- In 1946 while visiting Bolosse, sels made from half oil drms mile away and yetnean
of a sugar cane cart. Airhough cerned with politics than edu- a poor suburb of Port Eu Prince are supplied. accessible. The area wase
one of his comrades fainted at cation. He then went to Oxford high on the mountainside ahove In order to enable the CARE ed even less rural 4 yeain
the sight, young Juan tended thel to study medicine but became the city, to have a drink with a trucks to reach his school, and' when Mr Vasquez had wate
writer friend, Magloire St. Aude, make their deliveries, Mr Vas-
(Continued on pad
he was appalled by the living
conditions, he made up his mind
to move there and do something
AT THE
to relieve them. "The picifull
"Soaping" dulls hair- sight of naked little children
with more sores on their skin
than clothing leading stone and
Halo glorifies it? white lime laden mules and Bacoulo
donkeys, plus encouragement,
from Magloire, was all I needed
to send me into Bolosse," Vasquez explains. Club
Utilizing his interest and experience in medicine, he began sO EXUITINGLY DIFFERENT" FOUR WOR
with a clinie, which was held in
THE
the open air under a tree next
to the mud and twig house in HAMOUS BACOULOU
which he has lived ever since. VOODOO DANCE
Later a primitive shelter was
constructed, and a few years
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS
ago the dispensary was moved
into a substantial two-room building. Last year Mr Vasquez was
given an award by President Duvalier, who personally visited AEE
the dispensary, for this contriC
bution to the health of the Haitian people. At about the same
time the Haitian government asfmntes
sumed the responsibility for the
ahes apreaio Qualyo
it
bgadond
dispensary, providing with
is
a conac,
three nurses, waho treat 250 paCnaci
which
tients per day, and a
of
it
quaity
supply
ith a
drugs. Nevertheless, Mr Vas
Ererineg
quez still personally attends to
empl
21€
about 60
GNeene
patients per day, who
have a di
sni
arrive after the nurses leave or
your ecardl
whom he visits on foot in their
has
piece entrand
the
mountain homes. as much as
hours if thes alass
a
a
Not soap, not
25 miles away. Just Jast year he
J
cream- Halo cannot
Gives frogrant S
obtained a Volkswagen automo-
:
ereiuly
REN
leave
dirt-
"soft-vater" lather
which is used
a
dulling,
bile,
exclusively
needs no
wilsos
special rinse!
the nurses leave or
your ecardl
whom he visits on foot in their
has
piece entrand
the
mountain homes. as much as
hours if thes alass
a
a
Not soap, not
25 miles away. Just Jast year he
J
cream- Halo cannot
Gives frogrant S
obtained a Volkswagen automo-
:
ereiuly
REN
leave
dirt-
"soft-vater" lather
which is used
a
dulling,
bile,
exclusively
needs no
wilsos
special rinse! conemell
catching soap film! to transport critically il parients
VOL
the
méan. to hospital down in the city. Orhoc.) We
whan
Removes embarrassing
Halo leaves hair soft,
A year after the establishrent
dandruff from both hair
manageable- shining with
of his dispensary, MIr Vassuez a
and scalp! colorful natural hnighlights! founded a school in his name. It at first had but ten students, -
Yes, "soaping" your hair with
whom he taught himself. At the
even finest liquid or oily cream
same time a cantine was openshampoos leaves dulling,
The
ed to feed these 10 plus 50 other
dirt-catching film. Halo, made
largest
hungry children of the neighborwith a new ingredient. contains
hood. The school and rantine fol
soap, no sticky oils. selling
lowed the dispensary in moving
Thus FEe glorifies your hair
first to mud and stick and in a
the
it. shampoo
first time you use
1957 to permanent
for Halo-4 America's
in
The school now has 1263 huildings. studfasorites shumpoo-today. Amerien Halo ents in 8 grades who are taught
in two sessions morning and! afternoon. In addition 500 adutts
HENNESS)
Halo reveals the hidden beauty of the hair! attend these students a night school. For all of
there are
Momacont tewd
but 12
Sholapaiditolye
H-61-I-EL. Iteachers. None of the students
pays tuition, although the school --- Page 5 ---
SUNDAY MAY YTH, 1961
KHAITI SUN? PAGE 5
me, Stamps are to me like can-1this fine newspaper for making
HAIT I SUN
dy toa baby, and stamps helps it possible for me to reach all
THE HAITIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER
LETTERS me to pass So many happy of your good people, thanks a
Community Weekly Published Sunday Morning
to thci hours fixing them to my book, Million from the Bottom of my
Editor- Publisher
BERNARD DIED DERICH
and also it gives me so much heart, and God Bless you All,
Gerant Responsable
MAU UC LAIR LABISSIERE
EDITOR knowledge of your country,. Deo- Iam
MEMBER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PRESS ASSN. ple, History, products. etc. Respectfully Yours,
I want to thank the Editor ofl Leo Boffa
ESTABLISHED IN 1950
Editor Haiti Sun
Dear Sir,
OUR MOUNTAINS EALMY HOLIDAYLAND
In view: of the lack of murders in Haiti I dug up some UniModern haitian
ted Nations statistics that should
Offering 2 pleasant vacationland during the hot sum- be of interest to the readers. mer months are our mountains, where U.S. tourists Whereas Protestants kill themPaintings
can find the balmy climate of tropical highlands. selves (sucide), Roman CathMany potential American tourist would not think olic kill each other. The highest
PINCHINAT
homicide rate in the world is
GALERIE
of visiting Haiti during the summer as they visualize i Roman Catholic Chile, 10.2
a tropical country in the summer as even more unbear- per 100,000; next icomes HonduOn Show Now At
able than their scorching conerete jungle. ras, 9.5; followed by Puerto Ri
Tourist Advertising should now stress that a Haiti co, 8.0; Costa Rica, 4.2; NicaMAX PINCHINAT
vacation can be refreshingly cool,
ragua andi Finland, 33: Italy,
By
2,2; Denmark, 1.3; Spain and
Tell them that in the aboriginal language, Haiti means Scotland, 0.8; the United King106, BOIS VERNA
"mountainous,".
Show Now At
able than their scorching conerete jungle. ras, 9.5; followed by Puerto Ri
Tourist Advertising should now stress that a Haiti co, 8.0; Costa Rica, 4.2; NicaMAX PINCHINAT
vacation can be refreshingly cool,
ragua andi Finland, 33: Italy,
By
2,2; Denmark, 1.3; Spain and
Tell them that in the aboriginal language, Haiti means Scotland, 0.8; the United King106, BOIS VERNA
"mountainous,". and over two-thirds of the country dom and North Treland, 0.7;
fts the name. The purple mountains, the easy pace of Sweden, 0.6; and Norway, 0.4
just before you reach the -PONT MORIN" bridge
lite, a teeming populace, and the visible signs of prim- This is all very interesting but
itive methods of tilling the soil all lend charm to Haiti. just what it proves is quite be- This is an ART GALLERY, not a picture shop, exEl Rancho, Villa Creole and Ibo Lele are skilfully yond me. hibiting over 100 of the most attractive FRAMED
Signed: A READER
merged into the rolling terrain. Other attractive hotels
PAINTINGS made both in Port au Prince and Paris: by
include the Majestic, Choucoune, Montana, and Dam- Bernard Diederich,
FAMOUS HAITIAN PAINTER MAX PINGHINAT
bala. Haiti Sun. IOW in France. At Kenscoff, seven miles up the mountains from: Dear Sir: would
The artist WHO HAS EXHIBITED BOTH HERE
Fetionville, the Chatelet des Fleurs is set deep in the to Iwish stop the you trend of do your buy now, best AND ABROAD for the past 15 years, comes back to
surrounding fields of flowers grown for United Statestravel now, pay later plans in Haiti every five years and for 15 to 18 months renews
markets. At least two pensions and a new Kenscoff Haiti, The claim is often madel the contact with his people and his source of inspira
enterprise offer facilities for horse-back riding to ex- that the people in the United tion. plore the nearby mountain trails. States are amongst the foremost In the GALLERY PINCHINAT are
On market days the trip to Kenscoff may take an biles, in the TV world sets for and owning general automo- house- some paintings of the 15 years of work by MAX grouped PINhour against the Port au Prince bound tide of march- hould labori savers: This is utt- CHINAT, from 1945 to 1960. Prices have not been arands in voluminous Mother Hubbards balancing prod- erly false for the finance com- bitrarily based on beauty of the painting, but on its
uce-filled baskets on their heads. panies own not only these items size, just like Paris Fashion for MAX PINCHINAT
The road above Kenscoff nolonger requires a jeep but the people themselves. and OTHER WELL KNOWN ARTISTS. Visitors can
to traverse the steep, hairpin turns, and the climb on It is So: easy to buy anything, consult the paintings price list if they wish to. the narrow, dirt road offers a wealth of new vistas. even if not needed, if there is All the taxi
On the upper slopes of Furcy, at 6,000 feet, is a breath- no' need to pay ready cash and
drivers know GALLERY PINCHINAT
taking view of range on range of mountains. now: the airlines are getting into AND don't let anybody tell you that the GALLERY is
the deal. When the average man closed. It is not. in the U.S. comes home with the The GALLERY PINCHINAT sole represenGERMAN GIFI TO THE HAITIANS
pay check, it is already spent tative and sales agent of PINOHINAT's paintings, has
paying off a dozen different it- exhibited a few samples only at "Foyer des Arts Plasems.
drivers know GALLERY PINCHINAT
taking view of range on range of mountains. now: the airlines are getting into AND don't let anybody tell you that the GALLERY is
the deal. When the average man closed. It is not. in the U.S. comes home with the The GALLERY PINCHINAT sole represenGERMAN GIFI TO THE HAITIANS
pay check, it is already spent tative and sales agent of PINOHINAT's paintings, has
paying off a dozen different it- exhibited a few samples only at "Foyer des Arts Plasems. The tiny remainder that tiques", "Galerie Brochette"
The Federal German Republic is making a gift of a is left will now go towards that
and Galerie Suisse". fleet of Volkswagen ambulances and autobuses to the delayed honeymoon or vacation Open from 10 AM to 5 PM, and on appointment in
Haitian people. - for Tt isn't as if we have the evening. ADMISSION FREE. to pay cash, will be the com=
This is the first time that a Nation other than the mon greeting to this plan. U.S. has made such ai fine gesture Le Jour editorialized last week.
Do your best to keep the Hai &
Carrying in French and German on their bodies: a tian people from joining the $
"gift of the German people to the Haitian people" the "Tound the world for $40 down a SAVE UP TO 70 per cent ON
trim Volks are destined to serve the
Ambul- and $35.75 a month for the rest à
people as
of your lives." Club.
ances and free public school buses.
Let us keep the finance com= a
Free
This is another
that
from
quart (
Duty
gesture
illustrates the
panies getting their
a
Liquor
sympathetic attitude of the German people towards their of blood peri person in Haiti. a
a
Haitian brothers with whom they have had ties that Signed:
à VISITORS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF S
date back more than two centuries,
A Fugitive from the Finance à
Companies.
&
Aa
LEO BOFFA
> Cranston Street
Paquin's
Providence 7, Rhode Island a
U.S.A.
FAST DELIVERY TO 16 STATES
a
iumbent
May 2, 1961
Dear Sir:
&
PORT AU PRINCE'S IDENTITY PHOTOS
Since I was sick in the Hos- A PASSPORT PHOTOS
> pitalI started collecting Stamps, a > now I wonder Sir, if you would
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PAGA
HAITI SUN"
SUNDAY MAY YTH, 1961
Tele- Haiti
MONDAY MAY 8, 1961: *Loisirs du Lundi Soir"
6:38-Children's
Program
program
6:00-Test Pattern L- Music (Records)
7:15-"The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason
6:30-Evening general program Schedule
45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of the day's events
Juan Vasquez On
6:33-Children's program: Cartoons
8:00-"Have Gun Will Travel" sponsored by the M & S Construc- The Largest Primary
7:10-Weather report
tion Co., S.A.
1961: *Loisirs du Lundi Soir"
6:38-Children's
Program
program
6:00-Test Pattern L- Music (Records)
7:15-"The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason
6:30-Evening general program Schedule
45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of the day's events
Juan Vasquez On
6:33-Children's program: Cartoons
8:00-"Have Gun Will Travel" sponsored by the M & S Construc- The Largest Primary
7:10-Weather report
tion Co., S.A. Schools In City
7:15-"I Love Lucy"
8:30--Telecinema
7:45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of: the day's events
9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present (Continued from page 4)
8:00-"The Frankie Laine Show", sponsored by. -Banque Comed by the Esso Reporter. the electricity city. They lines were extended primarily from
merciale d'Haiti"
9:05--Telecinema (Cont'd)
to serve the school, hut at the
8:30-The United Shoe Association, S.A., the most modern shoe 10:00-Close of program National Anthem
same time a public fountain
factory in the Caribbean presents its program: "Highway
and free shower baths were proPatrol", starring Broderick Crawford. FRIDAY MAY 12, 1961: "Joyeux Week End! vided for general use. 9:00--Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present- 6:00-Test pattern L Music (Records)
More
two addirional
ed by the Esso Reporter. 6:30-Evening general program schedule
projects recently have been accomplish9:05-The Voice of Firestone presents "TV Concert Hall", pro- 8.33-Children's program
ed: Scouting was inttoditced two
gram sponsored by the Firestone Interamerican Co. 7:10-Weather report
years ago and now there are
9:35-Haitian History, with Ernst Trouillot
7:15-Our Miss Brooks
450 scouts, including 250 "cubs". 10:00-Close of program National Anthem
T: 45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of the day's events
They are under the leadership since
of a
man who,
MAY
young
he
TUESDAY
9, 1961: "Tele-Journal" Derniere Edition
£:00-Women among us" "Dignity"
was three years old, has known
6:00-Test pattern i- Music (Records)
8:30-Pour vous Mesdames Cooking Show, presented by Miche- Mr Vasquez, from whom he. re6:30-Evening general program schedule
line and her hosts
ceived his first clothes and
6:33--Children's program a) A Children's story b) Cartoons 9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present shoes. This same manis direcc) A Western
ed by the Esso Reporter. tor of the school and gives lectures on art and literature at a
7:10-Weather Report
9:05-Paris Precinct, sponsored by "La Maison Emmanuel Alexis" Saturday literary club founded
7:15-Science Fiction
9:35-Musical Show with Florian Zabach
by Mr Vasquez. 0:00-Close of program National Anthem
7-45-Telenews (lst edition) Review of the day's events
In addition to these institu8:00-Raymond Massey presents MI Spy"
SATURDAY MAY 13, 1961: "Les Petites Fantaisies"
tionalized undertakings Mr Vas8:30-Telecinema
6:00-Presentation of evening program
quez daily renders countless
9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present- 6:05-Children's
kindnesses to "his people".
0:00-Close of program National Anthem
7-45-Telenews (lst edition) Review of the day's events
In addition to these institu8:00-Raymond Massey presents MI Spy"
SATURDAY MAY 13, 1961: "Les Petites Fantaisies"
tionalized undertakings Mr Vas8:30-Telecinema
6:00-Presentation of evening program
quez daily renders countless
9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present- 6:05-Children's
kindnesses to "his people". For
ed by the Esso Reporter. program
example, he often provides funds
7:00--Weather report
for. funerals, and he had adopt9:05--Teleinema (Cont'd)
7:06-Education Nationale
ed ten
boys. One is
LE
orphaned
10:00-Close of program National Anthem
Program-Presented by Ludovic Madet
7:45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of
not surprised to learn that this
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 1961: "Voulez- vous Jouer avec Nous?" 8:00-Ford Show
the day's events
extraordinary man is known
6:00-Test pattern - Music (Records)
8:15-Tele-Sport (1st part)
throughout the region as "Pere". 6:30-Evening general program schedule
9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late Lews,
"Today I have lots of other
6:3-Documentary
presented by the Esso Reporter.:
projects in
Juan Vas6:50-Children's
mind,"
program
9:30-Jazz U. S. A. quez said this week. CT have
7:15-Tele-Sport
10:00-Sign off National Anthem
in mind the building of an or7:45-Telenews (1st edition) Review of the day's events
phanage and a handicraft school
8:00-"Harbor Command" (Ep. No. 7) sponsored by La Maison SUNDAY MAY 14, 1961: "Il Etait
which Care has promised to help
Victor Saliba
Une Fois"
me out on. A day nursery for
12:00-Test pattern Music
the children who
8:30-Man of the Week
alone poor
arc left
1:00-Program Schedule
for more than a day by
9:00-Telenews (2nd edition) Summary of the late news, present 1:05-Views of our World
their mothers when they go out
ed by the Esso Reporter. to work. Many-of these chilaren
1-44-Improve your knowledge
9:05-Quiz Program
2:03-Children
(Documentary)
tumble into the fire and suffer
Hour
9:35-Confidential File
burns and other accidents when
10:00-Close of program National Anthem
2-30--Adyentures of Robinhood Presented by La Belle Crecie nobody is around to care for
3:00-Ping-Pong Tournament
them."
THURSDAY MAY 11, 1961: "Le Pavillion des Varietes"
3:30-Adventures Or
Presented by Nobbe & Bondsl The school is still inadequate,
6:00-Test pattern Music (Records)
4:00-Telecinema Champion (French series)
[it should be extended to accom6:30-Presentation of evening program
5: 45-Telenews
odate the more than 3,000 chil6:33-Weather report
6:00-Sign off
dren of school age in tne regNational Anthem
ion. The present school was
TN J TPERRE
built to accomodate only 800 SO
some 600 must sit. in the yard
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SUNDAY MA Y 7TH, 1961
the only juridical exact ade-1 That untransferability is an
Memorandum of
quate interpretation of an un- essential character of the Natcontestable social fact that im- ional Sovereignty. That is why
poses itself." So one understands the people may at all times and
Antoney General Max Duplessis
that it is a key principal that in all circumstances exercise
the national sovereignty is un- its sovereignty.
transferable.
(Continued on page 9)
(Continued from page 1) transcends the constitution andi to anihilate the rights of the
But when spontaneously the all constitutions because it is universality of the citizens to
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dial applause to the President cois Duvalier tO say, they are
ot the Republic and has renew- valid and that they show the uned its contidence
Memorandum
in him by pos- equivocal will of the electorate
of...
itive words should suffiee if of Port au Prince to prolong
need be to establish that the from next
a
(Continued from page 8) will do through Ministers or Ma- tial elections to qualify them to votes in favor of Dr Francois length of May and for
It
can do it so much more gistrates chosen by itself be- emit that vote. Why should it Duvalier must be consecrated Dr Francois six Duvalier years the term of
SO as that the National Sover- cause that choice it can do it be necessary to authorize the by this Census, bureau.
dent of
as Presieignty of which it contides the well. Let us cite a passage: disposition of a right which in So the Attorney General asks them and the proclaim Republic: them To will count
exercise to three powers returns the people is al dmirable to no circumstance cannot and for the census burean to
justice.
be
entirely to him when tlie man- choose those to whom it must should not be forbidden? The crate the. votes emitted conse- MAX
date of one of those powers ex- contide part of its authority; it manifestation. of power that de- members of the Port au by Prince the
DUPLESSIS
pires: It is only logienl to ad- chooses only by facts it cannot rives from National Sovereignty electorate in favor of Dr Fran- Attorney General,
mit that. at the expiration of the ignore and by. facts that fall un- takes the place of any decree
Parquet May 4 1961.
terms of the members of the old der its senses." So it is uncon- any law and even any dispostlegislature the National Sover- testable that that part of Na- tion of the constitution. It was
eignty could be, under certain tional Sovereignty eannot sutfer neither necessary that thie preaspecits directly exercised by the any restriction. No matter whatrsidential term arrive to maturpeople.
prescribed form no matter whatity for the electorate of Port au
SUNHIIIHNIINUWNATLO
legal or constitutional disposi- Prince to confide a new term
In his "spirit of law" Montes- tion.
to the actual president of the
MEN's SHIRTS
quieu treating of the democratic The members of Port au Prin- Republic: To base oneself on a
SCARVES
republie emits that ucontestab- ce electorate by omitting a vote disposition of the constitution
le opinion: "the will ot the sov- in favor of Doctor Francois Du- prescribing any limit or any
ereign is the sovereign itself." valier as President of the Repu- form of designation of the preHANDKERCHIEFS
What he calls the sovereign is blic have done nothing else than sident of the Republic which
the people, is the universality exercise the sovereign and un- restricts the exercise of the part
of citizens. He affirms that the transferable power that resides of the people of the National
people, being sovereign, must do in each and every member of Sovereignty is to contest the
By JARD
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universality of the citizens.
LIBERTY:
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and 2 in the course of which the]
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irms that the transferable power that resides of the people of the National
people, being sovereign, must do in each and every member of Sovereignty is to contest the
By JARD
by itselt all that it can do well the Nation. It was not necessary basic principal of the democratand, what it cannot do well itt that a decree forsaw presiden: ie system which is that the national sovereignty resides in the
FABRICS
universality of the citizens.
LIBERTY:
The Manifestation of May 1
gCondon
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PAGE 10
"HAITI SUN
A History Of
no matter how dedicated, can dun established its modus vivenaccomplish nothing without the di with a religion having its own
emotional stimulus of a recept- iconography. The only graphic
ive flock. The achievement of art that did survive - the deHaiti's
a
Painters
state of possession, Vodun's coration of drums, temple posts
SELDEN RODMAN
it was: the underground surviv- climatic rite, is impossible with- and altars with stippled color
by
al of Vodun that provided the out effective music and dancing, and occasional symbolic drawA
the author recounts his conspiratorial machinery for the The crescendo of insistent drum- ings seems to have been inpoet among painters,
slave insurrection. in 1791, which beats invites the psyche to em- dulged in rarely, and in an amaexperiences at the Centre d'Art in Haiti and notes in turn set off the ultimately erge from the pit of the literal, teur spirit quite opposed to the
the influence of Vodun on artistic renaissance successful revolution against the earth-bound self and ascend the rigid tenacity with whichi the
French. And it was Vodun that ladder of ecstasy. In the aban- other ritual arts were practiced. How nearly can a group of self-taught painters in a primitive or preserved, in the dark isolation donment of the dance the body's The establishment, under U.S.
, and in an amaexperiences at the Centre d'Art in Haiti and notes in turn set off the ultimately erge from the pit of the literal, teur spirit quite opposed to the
the influence of Vodun on artistic renaissance successful revolution against the earth-bound self and ascend the rigid tenacity with whichi the
French. And it was Vodun that ladder of ecstasy. In the aban- other ritual arts were practiced. How nearly can a group of self-taught painters in a primitive or preserved, in the dark isolation donment of the dance the body's The establishment, under U.S. provincial milieu succeed in re-creating a monumental and uni- of the century that followed, that inhibitions dissolve," permitting sponsorship, of the Centre d'Art
versally comprehensible religious art? To what extent can an purity Of folklore and ritual such preparatory feats as the in Port au Prince in 1944 was
which is
in the West In- handling of live coals, and fin- not, in its initial
an
urban
unique
phase, atmiddle-class community derive spiritual comfort or esthetie dies today. ally the "mounting" of the par- tempt to mobilize the latent visitifaction out of a debased tradition? How successfully can an It is true, of course, that Vo- ticipant by the appropriate spi- sual talents of the Vodun-worindividual painter of genius draw on the resources of the past dun, in its African origin a pro- rit. shippers. On the contrary, the
and present, to re-interpret the Christian legend meaningfully for pitiation of evil spirits and in- But discipline rather than Centre's director, DeWitt Peters,
a modern public? What have each of these efforts to teach us in vocation of benevolent ones, be- abandonment is Vodun's final himself a painter, stated that
came involved
aim,
afflic- his
our search for a new art capable of re-establishing lines of comwith Catholicism discipline over the,
only intention had been to
in Haiti at least to the extent tions of the body as well as set up classes at which educated
munication between artist and audience? of giving some of its loa altern those of the soul; and it was the Haitians might learn the fundaate names of saints. Neverthe- carrying over of this disciplin- mentals of traditional draftsWhen I visited Haiti for the labra; some were ideograms. less the basic features of Vodun, ary spirit which, as we shall manship and oil technique. In
first time in the winter of 1941 But almost all were on huts in- which remains the religion of see; provided Haitian art with so far as Peters had any stylisI saw nothing that would have habited by priests of Vodun or the Haitian peasant to this day, one of its characteristic ele- tic pre-conceptions, these may
led me to suppose that a popular adjacent to the local hunfor. have been unaffected. These ments precision, even when be deduced from his invitations,
graphic art was being practiced From this I was able to theo- features are: the calling. of the dealing with the most impre- as late as 1947, to contemporary
in any part of the island. Of rize that the great tradition of loa through the drawing of geo: cise of fantasies. Cubans practicing a neo-Parisian
course, I wasn't looking for such African ceremonial art went metrical symbols with flour on The fact that the French, in cubistic simplification, to give
signs; one sees what one is pre- underground" in Haiti as soon the floor of the temple; the pro- their effort to stamp out Vodun demonstrations and teach gifted
pared to see. When I returned as the slaves imported in the pitiation of the loa by means of as a potentially subversive students at the Centre. By this
to Haiti after World War II, an seventeenth and eighteenth cen- the blood-sacrifice of animals; tice, destroyed whatever sculp- prac- time, however, the primitives
art movement had begun to turies came in contact with the and lastly, the identification of tures the
West Africans were well established, and Pethere
original
flourish; I knew must be repressive measures of the the communicant with the loa as brought with ther or subse- ters was encouraging them to
signs and I found them.
subversive students at the Centre. By this
to Haiti after World War II, an seventeenth and eighteenth cen- the blood-sacrifice of animals; tice, destroyed whatever sculp- prac- time, however, the primitives
art movement had begun to turies came in contact with the and lastly, the identification of tures the
West Africans were well established, and Pethere
original
flourish; I knew must be repressive measures of the the communicant with the loa as brought with ther or subse- ters was encouraging them to
signs and I found them. French colonial gendarmerie, a means of self-release and pur- quently made, does not wholly ework in their own homes. but that it was never wholly ification through traumatic seiz- account for the loss of this tra- It had been the fortuitous disSome of the Dainted decora- lost. ures (crises de possession). dition. It is possible that the covery Philome of Hector Hyppolite and
tions. on the whitewashed walls
The significant thing about all slaves themselves outlawed fore, that Obin, had several years beof African-type thatched cailles What lent force to this theory these rituals of Vodun, from image-making as a too-obvious to
opened of Peters' a
in remote districts were pure was: that the African reiiglous our point of view; is that their introduction to their secrets. eyes pular" the movement, possibilities "poabstractions -concentric circles cult itself not only went under- successful practice requires a Perhaps sculptors happened to same time turned and at the
filled with dabs of yellow and ground, but survived almost in- high degree of esthetic skill. Vo- be scarce among the captive a
the Centre
blue; some were formal designs tact with its accompanying arts dun is a religion of participa tribesmen. Or possibly the tra- into of rallying point for a variederived from flowers or cande of music and dancing. In fact tion. The priest and his helpers, dition died out gradually, as Vo- and ty talented part-time native who artists would
youths
probably otherwise have "died
on the vine" for lack of a markTet. The discovery of Hyppolite
came first. Hyppolite was a Vodun priest who appears to have
practiced his duties with only a
perfunctory attention. This in unjet
like Vodun priests; but it was
the measure of Hyppolite's genius. So completely, in fact, was
the expressive artist enthroned
in Hyppolite's feeble body that
his vevers (the formalistic flour
Hattian
drawings already mentioned)
were notable for their uninspired rote and imprecision. It -was his decoration of the
doors at a
raft
roadside bar in the
village of Mont Rouis that led
H
to Hyppolite's discovery. Intricate floral patterns and
u
gaily
69.RUE DU QUAI
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there with a brush of chickenWHAT TO BUY :
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porch announced grandilogently
"Ici La Renaissance."
e SISAL BAGS and BELTS
By the time Peters and PhiFRENCH PERFUMES and LIQUORS
lippe Thoby-Marcelin (the Haitian novelist whom Hyppolite
CARVINGS
thereafter identified with John
.WOOD
. MAHOGANY
the Baptist, his patron saint)
had located the artist, the Cen-
.TORTOISE SHELL
tre d'Art was in business. Wifredo Lam and Andre Breton
.STRAW GO05. PAINTINGS
bought his first pictures, and it
was the theoretician of French
surrealism who introduced Hyppolite's work to Paris where it
pa
caused a sensation in the great
rivierc & riviere
international exhibit staged by
UNESCO in 1947. In 1948, the last year of his
life and only the third' of his --- Page 11 ---
SUNDAY MAY YTH, 1961
PAGE 11
fame, Hyppolite remarked: "T pictures of imaginary gods and) tail and his documentary apphaven't practiced Vodun for a demons whose relation to the roach to subject matter remainwhile.
surrealism who introduced Hyppolite's work to Paris where it
pa
caused a sensation in the great
rivierc & riviere
international exhibit staged by
UNESCO in 1947. In 1948, the last year of his
life and only the third' of his --- Page 11 ---
SUNDAY MAY YTH, 1961
PAGE 11
fame, Hyppolite remarked: "T pictures of imaginary gods and) tail and his documentary apphaven't practiced Vodun for a demons whose relation to the roach to subject matter remainwhile. I asked the- spirits' per- Vodun pantheon was almost as ed the same. mission to suspend my work as remote as their relation to the Obin had some academic art
NEW
a
because of
visual world. BEAUTY
hungan,
my paintSome of these pic- training in his youth and asserts
ing. Also, you know, there are tures are extraordinary in their that his pictures are no more FOR YOUR WALLS, WOODWORK, FURNITURE! SO many false priests around poetic suggestiveness and daringthan the most accurate record
today that it saddens me. The in their distortions, but the ex- of what he has seen, transcribspirits agreed that I should stop pressive content which charged ed "according to the classical
Mor a while. I've always been a such pictures of his middle per- laws of perspective." Neither
priest, just like my father and iod as the Crucifixion with a painter was aware that the
grandfather, but now I'm more Grecoesque conviction of spirit charm of his work was precisely
an artist than a priest. When triumphing over flesh had be- in the extent to which both failpeople ask me now what I am, come diffused in painterly pre- led to understand and carry out
Isay that I am an artist... Both occupations. "the rules." The subtle distor24
La Sirene (Vodun goddess of
tions that result from this failCopmalaa
the sea) and St. John help me. The more restrained and dis- ure are what give their painting
La Sirene helps me to earn mon- ciplined genius of Philome Obin its resemblance to the work of
ey and St. John gives me the never encountered this particul-such *true primitives" as Sa
SHERWIN-WILLIANS
ideas for my painting."
ar distraction. Obin has been setta and Angelico and also,
ERVIREWILUAN
fortunate, from the point of view in frequent instances, to the dewas
ENAMELOID
It: probably this artificial of his art, in his habitat. His is liberate distortions of those modivision of his life into the pri- the art, par excellence, of the derns who seek to recapture a EXTERIOR-INOR-INTERIOR GLOSS ENAMEL ENAMELOID N
est who occasionally painted and provincial master: Cap Haitien, lost innocence, a more "direct"
the painter who occasionally where he was born and where graphic shorthand. conducted religious rites that he still lives, is less than 200 Obin's masterpiece, The Fugave Hyppolite's work its un- miles from the capital Port au
(Continued on page 12)
TOSEPH NADAL. AGENTS
even quality. His technique was Prince with its art center and
never wholly adequate to trans- visiting celebrities, but it might
lating his vision into effective be a thousand. In Cap Haitien
plastic images, and as his life "nothing happens". as a priest gave way to his life
as an artist, he tended delibera- Before Obin, no one had ever
tely to forsake the central cont- given the city's life and appear
ent of Vodun for the peripheral ance artistic expression. Years
subject-matter of folklore, zom- before he sent a picture, to Pè
bies and black magic which ters in 1944, Obin had regarded
offer
beans
for a
erlia
seemed to
material
himself as a professional paint
fo
freer exercise of his fantastic er, accepting his neglect philoimagination.
life
as an artist, he tended delibera- Before Obin, no one had ever
tely to forsake the central cont- given the city's life and appear
ent of Vodun for the peripheral ance artistic expression. Years
subject-matter of folklore, zom- before he sent a picture, to Pè
bies and black magic which ters in 1944, Obin had regarded
offer
beans
for a
erlia
seemed to
material
himself as a professional paint
fo
freer exercise of his fantastic er, accepting his neglect philoimagination. sophically, so that fame when
it did come to him changed
do0
erlia
One is almost tempted to say neither his of life
goodhes
way
nor his
that Hyppolite, influenced in style. He painted many more
part by his background and sud- pictures, since he was released
"den fame, in part by his sophis- by their sale from the necessity
ticated admirers, would have of making a living by other
become a kind of primitive for- means, and he painted with inmalist had he lived another ten creasing freedom and skill, but
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PAGE 12
"HAITI SUN
SUNDAY MAY 7111, 1961
[cism or Vodun, is more orderly expressionistically, Bazile
Haiti's Painters
than Bigaud's. He has none oflikely to lavish the workmanHyppolite's flamboyant visions. ship of a jeweler. He would not dream of suspending a bed two feet from the
from
(Continued
page 11) Jare but a frame. The size of thej sumably expressing DuFaut's in- floor, or of juxtaposing a man He "believes" It is with a certain
neral of Charlemagne Peralte," marchers is depicted in terms debtedness to a spiritual protec- spanking his wife with a tame detachment, practices two not that he
is a picture: of medium size con- of their actual importance rather tress, represents Maitresse Er lioness. His distortions are never the three religions: million almost
taining no less than 750 indivi- than in the usual diminishing zulie standing in a shrine or on violent. His orange or green peasants all
within
Haitian a
dual figures, He worked on it, scale that a true academic art- the pinnacle of a temple. doors, suspended by long black church
range of
he says, six hours, a day for ist would consider important. hinges, are always
in
are Catholic communi-p
forty-five days. The emotional Still a third type of Haitian DuFaut cannot explain what!
the three religions: million almost
taining no less than 750 indivi- than in the usual diminishing zulie standing in a shrine or on violent. His orange or green peasants all
within
Haitian a
dual figures, He worked on it, scale that a true academic art- the pinnacle of a temple. doors, suspended by long black church
range of
he says, six hours, a day for ist would consider important. hinges, are always
in
are Catholic communi-p
forty-five days. The emotional Still a third type of Haitian DuFaut cannot explain what! the center of his well-thatched precisely Vaudouistes; cants, and most there of is them are
content of the subject matter is painter is manifested in the per conscious meaning (if any) these cailles. His peasant women
there. It is ratheri little con
rare in Obin's work. Peralte was son of Prefet DuFaut, a peasant subjects have for him. But the
in full face are flict
that Casa leader of the guerilla resistr living near provincial Jacmel third, especially, is often invest- invariably and when they are in or profile the tera Bazile Jacmel grew up: in cities,
ance to the American Marine who decorated the walls of his ed with a wealth of subcons- head and nose for some profile first in
and later in
occupation and after he had been. hut with pietograms of a some- cious, (and possibly racial sub- become enlarged fantastically. reason Port au Prince, where, as Petambushed his naked corpse was what geometrical. design. This conscious) symbolism. In one Even the flames which ers' received house-boy, he asked for and
crucified toa door as a war- style he lavishes on three and version, for example, the god- from the loins and spurt enamel. some the cans of furniture
ing to other would-be native only three subjects. The first is dess is profiled against the black
armpits of
At same time, it
trouble-makers; Obin has paint a maplike vision of the streets doorway of a shrine, With her his loup-garous, or werewolves, seems, he took a certain worlded that scene too. of Jacmel zigzaging from upper sword she touches ,one of the are meticulously incidentals painted. Upon ly, or perhaps painterly, view
left to lower right across a land two flanking trees, each of which such
as baskets, of things, I once asked him, for
In the "Funeral" the impact scape of cone-like mountains or contains a serpent. These ser- fruit, used casava, which Hyppolitel example, why in a picture callof the central scene is conveyed waves: every building, street pents emerge from holes in the to treat rather freely and
(Continued on page 13)
by the fact that the street fails lamp and power line is exposed trunks, circling their way to the
to recede to an expected. vanish- frontally without any. attempt to roots; there they reenter the
ing-point. It stops abruptly a simulate depth: The second, trees, emerging in an underlike a man's life. The eyeis not equally. flat in pattern, shows a ground chamber where their DISCOVER THE FASCINATION
carried into the irrelevant back huge spider-web with a golden heads face each other over an
ground but returns perforce to spider ati its center hung be- offering of food. The back wall
the massed mourners for whom twecn. trees or buildings. The Of the grotto consists dt thirtyOF HAITI
the roWs of tiny Haitian houses) third, lessi formalistic and pre- six niches each with a jar, carefully: numbered. To one side the
-artist has written wTreasures of Through Its Postage Stamps
the Queen Titane" and on the
other "Serpents, Guardians of
the Treasure.' : The Queen her- For complete information in Haiti
self is surrounded by a strange
assortment of pulleys and dang- Stamps and other details which wili be
ling light-bulbs. Her: left hand
rests on a long pole wound with
ribbons. A drum and a broom furnished you frce of charge, write to
stand in a corner. As in the early. Renaissance inj
P.O.
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the Queen Titane" and on the
other "Serpents, Guardians of
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Italy, the intense religious life
of Haiti provides an atmosphere
and a symbolism that is helpful
even to painters without strong
religious convictions of their
own: Thus- Wilson Bigaud; now
the most brilliant and technically advanced of the self-taught
felrs
artists, elects to paint realistic
dramatizations of native life
dice games, cockfights, murders,
wakes and
Ticke
thefts,
the like. Rollei
No
But when called upon to paint
such a subject as his great Marriage at Cana mural in St. Tritouahe
nite Cathedral in Port au PrinÇe he was able to do so with
sincere reverence and conviction
of the
OBokeas
realify of miracles. andl
without sacrificing any of the
illustrative flavor Fof native life
for which he is justly celebrated.1
LIFA
fzu
for
I asked Bigaud at the time whethose
ther he believed in the divinity
of Christ. TE
MELA6
who insist
WITH A
"They: say, he replied, rthat
Voiot
on the best
He was divine. Who knows? I
-lander
believe in Him. The priests of
Votgliainder
Vodun perform miracles. too;
T've seen them; but that's diaHASSELBLAD
bolic. Christ's miracles were to
BESSAMATIC
teach lessons, not to arouse
fear: (Bigaud, of course, was
BRAUN Hobby
here echoing the Church's position on Vodun.) Yes, I still go 3 CAMERAS AT FRER POBT PBICES
to Vodun ceremonies - more
often than to church, perhaps,
EBEL
Walz
because the ceremonies are
HUREDGERIE-DE PRECISION
more interesting and intimate eamens Cenler
EACMAUXRE-FONDEEANASAUSNE
and certainly more colorful -
ofdfaitisa Exakla
Exclusive Agent
but I don't believe in the loas
any more. RUE BONNE FOI
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Castera Bazile's world, whe- ager SKAHN
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ther he is dealing. with Catholi- --- Page 13 ---
SUNDAY MAY 7TH, 1961
"HAITI SUN"
PAGE 13
large python. Attendant devils effectively and give the over-alll It was fascinating to watch the
in a door-way to the right carry mural at least a devotional spi- difference in approach upstairs
Haiti's Painters (by one foot) a tiny naked man rit. and downstairs. One of the "adwith blood spurting from his' The creation of these Cathe- vanced painters, as they are
heart; this blood conveniently, dral murals presents in itself called, worked with the help of
(Continued from page 12) works - personal aggrandize- is being caught by another ser a fascinating insight into the va- a projection machine. Another
ed "The Graveyard," Baron ment or gain, securing the af pent. The properties resemble rying tempers and methods of erased his initial drawing five
Samedi, Vodun god of cemeter- fections of another man's wife, something out of Dali, yet the) the Centre d'Art painters.
, as they are
heart; this blood conveniently, dral murals presents in itself called, worked with the help of
(Continued from page 12) works - personal aggrandize- is being caught by another ser a fascinating insight into the va- a projection machine. Another
ed "The Graveyard," Baron ment or gain, securing the af pent. The properties resemble rying tempers and methods of erased his initial drawing five
Samedi, Vodun god of cemeter- fections of another man's wife, something out of Dali, yet the) the Centre d'Art painters. times; finally gave up. Another
ies, was driving his charges into putting an enemy out of the over-all effect is rather like thel During the winter of 1949, in would descend from the ladder
achurch. way, or the like. Every hungan Picasso of the Guernica - two my capacity as co-director of to view and ascend to correct
"Because," he answered - me knows how to make black mag- painters that Gourgue, of course, the Centre, I invited William with dizzying regularity. And all
quite seriously, "they are dead ic but no reputable one will had never heard of. Calfee, then head of the art dep- of the advanced group though
and have nothing better to do.." practice it. artment at American University three of them finally turned out
"Than what?" I persisted Gourgue, of course, has never Rigaud Benoit and Toussaint in Washington, D.C., to come to creditable performances LE lean-
"Than go. to church," he conti- had traffic with black magic Auguste communicate an expres- Port au Prince to give the pain- ed heavily on Calfee for techninued, you know, like the old either; but like most Haitians he sive content to their pictures ters instruction in tempera tech- cal advice and moral support. reople who are always going to knows all about it, and unlike with an even greater personal niques. Downstairs, in contrast, the
churchs. so itis with the dead... most he has visualized its cos- detachment than Bazile and Bi- Five of the leading "sophisti- primitives, once cajoled into an
what else is there for them to mos down to the smallest clov- gaud. Benoit began by painting cated" painters of Haiti were initial effort, attacked their wall
do?"
en hoof. As an infernal cosmos, market scenes; their haphazard given an upstairs chamber oi space with abandon. The briefit bears striking resemblance to but always visually satisfying the Centre for their experiments est of charcoal sketches -then
Yet Bazile is far from being a a psychoanalyst's well-equipped arrangement was reminiscent otin this technique new to them. lon with the paint. Talent. not
cynic. He paints and repaints dream house: It is complete the similarly crowded pageant- The "primitives" took over the trial and error, separated the
the Virgin, he says, because her with all the properties and ac- pictures of Benozzo Gozzoli and stair-well and basement for the sheep from the goats. The unpresence among mankind is the cessories of the racial subcon- Gentile Bellini. His portraits of same purpose. Obin, in solitary talented produced some real
most enduring and encouraging scious. Yet withal too. evenly Maitresse La Sirene, the Vodun grandeur, barricaded himself in horrors. But Benoit, Gabriel Lewonder. And he surrounds her lighted and gaily colored and or goddess of the sea, were notable the library. veque, Bigaud, Bazile and Obin
vith SO many beautifully robed derly to be exactly frightening. for the strangely Byzantine forsimply translated to the dimenangels because they express the One has the feeling, though, that mula he had developed for con- For a while, chaos reigned sions of the wall space the imaadoration that is in his own one has been in a room like this veying a meticulous beauty and The gesso for preparation of the ge of the easel picture that had
heart.
and or goddess of the sea, were notable the library. veque, Bigaud, Bazile and Obin
vith SO many beautifully robed derly to be exactly frightening. for the strangely Byzantine forsimply translated to the dimenangels because they express the One has the feeling, though, that mula he had developed for con- For a while, chaos reigned sions of the wall space the imaadoration that is in his own one has been in a room like this veying a meticulous beauty and The gesso for preparation of the ge of the easel picture that had
heart. before perhaps in a night- sensitive expression with the wall surfaces failed to dry. The always been mopumental in its
Still another step removed mare. most complete disregard of pro- glue refused to dissolve. The eggs simplicity. That month there apfrom direct mystical experience, In a picture that Gourgue portion, measurement, modeling for the egg tempera would be peared On the door of the Cenvet capable of existing, nowhere painted when he was only seven- or perspective. broken or would be eatend be- tre di Art privy a derisive penbut in' a natmosphere of belief, teen (it is now in the permanore the basket got to the reri- cil scrawl in a primitive hand:
are the pictures of Euguerrand ent collection of the Museum When in 1950 the Centre d'Art gerator. The brushes would mys- "Les artistes de l'etage qui se
Gourgue. Gourgue paints for the of Modern Art in New York) a painters were commissioned to teriosuly disappear. A painter disent des avances ne sont pas
most part not Vodun but magie small table with a tablecloth do the murals in the new (Pro- would vanish into the hills for meme des preliminaires primitinoire. The difference is funda- supports a gigantic testant Episcopal) Trinite Cath- a whole week. Another, who ves."
mental. Vodun, as we have not- bull's head; wI hite light edral in Port au Prince, I assi- much preferred driving to paint
ed,isa religion, but black mag- fans out from the eye-sockets gned to Benoit the Nativity in ing, would have to be forcibly Hardly had the fixitive been
icis sorcery: the evocation ofand between the bull's horns re- the apse with certainty that he removed from the wheel of thel sprayed on the completed murevil spirits to accomplish evillposes the fanged head of a verylwould combine these elements Centre d'Art jeep. (Continued on page 13)
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FAUE 14
HAITI SUN:
SUNDAY MAY 7TH, 1961
All of the four men who work- say to a deacon, who objected,
Haiti's
ed on the apse Obin, Eenoit, that Christ had died voung and
Bazile
F ere in
Painters
and Leveque
that besides "He was a Man,
theii different ways devout, not a Symbol."
though Benoit least so. He alone Obin would often tell me about
(Continued from page 13) painters for his new cathedral. That, as a matter of fact, was would not kneel in prayer be- the laws of perspective while
als when the attack from the Bishop Alfred Voegeli, as it the one stylistic hint I, as dir- fore beginning to paint. His es- actually
in painting a
some
engaged
outside began. With
not happened, was called away just ector of the project, had given sentially decorative gentus took figure in the foreground half the
able exceptions, the Haitian elite before the artists put their char- to the painters. The italian mas- more interest in what the Virgin size of one directly behind it.
fact, was would not kneel in prayer be- the laws of perspective while
als when the attack from the Bishop Alfred Voegeli, as it the one stylistic hint I, as dir- fore beginning to paint. His es- actually
in painting a
some
engaged
outside began. With
not happened, was called away just ector of the project, had given sentially decorative gentus took figure in the foreground half the
able exceptions, the Haitian elite before the artists put their char- to the painters. The italian mas- more interest in what the Virgin size of one directly behind it. had been unhappy about the coal sketches on his Trinite Ca- ters, I pointed out, had painted would wear than in her face, His Eye of God looking down
Centre d'Art from the slart: thedral walls. He didn't return contemporary Italy, not Roman a conventional Byzantine mask. from a cloud he borrowed from
primitive painting was said to to Haiti until the apse had been Palestine, as backgrounds toHe would devote more time to the masonic symbol in his
give people abroad a dim view completed. His remark on enter their Crucifixions. The pictures the concentric eyes of the anim- early picture, The Apotheosis own
of Haitian cuiture, Paradoxical- ing the cathedral reveaied how I hoped. Obin would recall, for als and the veining of exotic of Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
ly, the enterprising bishop of the much wisdom lay behind his ap- instance, were the grcat Fune- leaves than to the perfunctory The wonderfully expressive
small Protestant Fpiscopal mo- parent madness: "Thank God!" ral," and his later pichure of image of the Child. Once I in- clasped hands of the Virgin
vement at onca determined to he exclaimed. They painted the guerilla leader nailed to the quired why he was devoting so would remind later visitors of
appropriate the talents of the Haitians!"
door. much time to a bamboo drain- Gruenewald. pipe in the rooi of a tiny caille
thirty feet from the floor of the The huge Miracle at Cana
Cathedral (from which it was which the twenty-two-year old
invisible). He repliei tolerant Bigaud painted on the wall of
lys "How long would thatching the south transept the following
last in the rainy season without winter ditfered markedly from
a drainpipe?"
the murals in the apse both in
color-key and in the eLisodic
Bazile had known exactly what realism of its content. Eigaud's
a
he wanted to do from the time work is noteworthy among the
he. painted his first picture l a primitives for its tendency to
RACTION
recognizable Bazile. He never portray scenes of native violence
hine
deviated from that style except and the macabre. au
in the direction of a greater monumentality. He is a natural mu- The Miracle, while by no
Tal painter. Though he can paint means Bigaud's first mural, was
a hand or a foot in perspective, This first successful one. Not unhis instinct tells him in a work al a deliberate effort was made
of great scale to distort so that 0 get him to synthesize the
Ae
the
and toes are
POINT D'ATTAQUE
fingers
exposed Jest features of his most sucflat. Though the other artists cessful easel pictures did Bigaud
took the full twenty-eight days of ealize his potentialities. Though
Le nouveau Traction Sure-Grip February to finish their panels, the space assigned to him, a
de Goodyeara été spécialement Bazile was though with his in wall measuring five hundred and
conçu pour vous donner une a little over two weeks. He had wenty-eight square feet and
other pietures to finish and wast- pierced by two windows, was by
traction maximum. Il est muni ed no time. far the largest and presented the
de longues barres pour vous
nost problems, the artist never
procurer la force de traction Obin, like Bazile and leveque, vavered in his execution.
their panels, the space assigned to him, a
de Goodyeara été spécialement Bazile was though with his in wall measuring five hundred and
conçu pour vous donner une a little over two weeks. He had wenty-eight square feet and
other pietures to finish and wast- pierced by two windows, was by
traction maximum. Il est muni ed no time. far the largest and presented the
de longues barres pour vous
nost problems, the artist never
procurer la force de traction Obin, like Bazile and leveque, vavered in his execution. intelwould invariably kneel in pray- igent enough to accept wholerequise parles tracteurs er before painting, but his reli- neartedly the idea of assimilat
modernes. Il mord en biaiset gion seemed to express less of ing his early work, he was consgrâce à son profila piety than of proud participation tantly. improving npon the old
C-E-N-T-R-E O-U-V-E-R-T, in the Lord's work. As he began formulas as he painted methodto advance with the figure of ically downward from the lunar
il se nettoie automatiquement. Christ he would sing in a muted mountains at the Lop, through
Ainsi vous obtenez une traction falsetto voice a Protestant hymn the figures grouped around the
constante. Il vous coûte with many stanzas vhich began: marriage ceremony at the cenmoins de temps, moins de travail Mon Sauveur mourut sur Ia ter, to the large details in the
et moins de carburant. Croix,
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proud strength with which he of native life, all conceived by
had endowed the martyred Pe- night in heavy jungle shadow. ralte, I suggested that he paint His chararacteristic graveyards
Him without the traditional provided the subject matter of
beard. He was shocked at first the upper left quarter of the Mi
but then took to the idea. I was racle at Cana though. this
surprised one day to hear him
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HAITI SUN
PAGE 15
Centre d'Art and for its enthus- haps insured its extraorditary:
Haiti's Painters
iastic attendence in the cerem- ensemple. onies at which the murals were It goes without saying that the
dedicated. Haitian renaissance has producwith the
from
ed no painter
(Continued
13)
always
page
Icause He
sufters for Hisl enterprise of Dewitt Peters, What the participating artists ive genius of a
decorat- or the
children." He told me that Pi- who gambled on opening an art
Matisse
time, of course, vathout the ac shop Voegeli "came all the way center in a place that had never themselves learned from the eX- inventive fertility ofa Picasso.
als were It goes without saying that the
dedicated. Haitian renaissance has producwith the
from
ed no painter
(Continued
13)
always
page
Icause He
sufters for Hisl enterprise of Dewitt Peters, What the participating artists ive genius of a
decorat- or the
children." He told me that Pi- who gambled on opening an art
Matisse
time, of course, vathout the ac shop Voegeli "came all the way center in a place that had never themselves learned from the eX- inventive fertility ofa Picasso. companying diabolism of the up here to look at the Virgin; produced an artist, and had perience With is 'equally important: Neither has it, SO fat, witnessed
zombl. Descending from that he looked as though he were the wisdom to let, the native
the possible exceptions of any such phenomenon as the exarea, around the oily yellow: prepared to die for Herl
painters paint as they pleased: Auguste and DuFaut, all St them pressive intensity of an Orozco
ercensblack trunk of cne of the Bigaud says of his style, "I Secondly, it required the excep- became better painters. Scale, or a Rouault. All the Inore resant trees which were used to began like Hyppoliie. Hyppoli- tional faith of Bishop Voegeli - and the experience of working markable (and encouraging for
bind the edges of the vast comtogether in friendly rivalty in the future OE
is the
te's style was very strong, but faith in the talent of the paintpainting)
position to the light abeve andi it had no nuances: I-was never ers and the judgment of their a common enterprise, were the magnitude of what it has accomthe shadows below, cock thieves influenced by. Obin; whuse pic- director LE and the courage t two factors that caused most of plished with its iimitations of
ply their nocturnal chase, just
to
the artists to outdo themselves. vouth and talent! If that accomtures are flat, my taste; outface hostility to unconventout of reach of the mountain though wonderful. Besides, all ional art both inside and outsids Though they may have had re plishment in St. Trinite is more
constabulary. Stealing cocks, and Obin's pupils paint like him. If the church. He saw with h's servations, I never heard one 02 impréssive in terms of religious
the more obscure crimes com-I have pupils, I shall see that own eyes the revival of a Christ- the artists speak of the work o: art than Assy or Vence, and in
mitted in the forest in such a they paint in their own way,not ian art, informed by gehuins another without admiration. The terms of a group effort more
nicture as the one in the. collec: in mine: Today I use only white passion and innocence, The Hai- fact that this was a wonk of humanly rewarding and homogtion of the Museum ot Modern Sapolin; (the substance with tian setting, he realized, notcnl/ permanente, a painting in H Dub- eneous' than any of ihe gvimly
Art, had been among the most which the Centre d'Art painters permitted the expression of 1bis lic place, never to he mov ed or frescoed public buildings Of Mesuccessful of Bigaud's recent worked in the early days); the art in fresh forms, forms whici sold or taken to another country, xico, is it not because the artpictures: The central group of other colors are oils in tubes. emerged from the very lives Oi made each artist feel that he ists of Haiti, self-taught and
the mural with its contributory I begin a picture with the iack- the artists, but was producting was the custodian of a responsi- seeking uninhibitediy to give
wealth of folk documentation re- ground Of hills, trees, houses and a sequence which might even- bility greater than himself. This, universal meaning to the life
calls the Vodun sacrifices or hil- so forth; I do the clothes and tually awaken the peasant mas- and the circumstanca that the around them, were assisting unarious wakes that Bigaud had faces last, SO that the figures ses to view the mumbled texts project's cation purpose fellowv was the edifi- consciously at the birth of a
favored in 1948-49.
i- seeking uninhibitediy to give
wealth of folk documentation re- ground Of hills, trees, houses and a sequence which might even- bility greater than himself. This, universal meaning to the life
calls the Vodun sacrifices or hil- so forth; I do the clothes and tually awaken the peasant mas- and the circumstanca that the around them, were assisting unarious wakes that Bigaud had faces last, SO that the figures ses to view the mumbled texts project's cation purpose fellowv was the edifi- consciously at the birth of a
favored in 1948-49. On the ex will detach themselves from the of the Scriptures in a new light:
of their
men, per- world? treme right, as a kind of philo- background. I never paint from the light or reality. Third, the
sophical balance to the forces of nature.. My memoryis enough.r murals cost money -thomsh not
evil and death symbolized on the Although the spirit of the St. much more than five thousand
lett, musicians singing and play- Trinite murals could probably, dollars for all the expenses of
ing every native instrument from not be exactly reproduced any- two years' work and this mon A chance for your children, for youth and
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Katherine
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SUNDAY MAY 7TH, 1961
"HAITI SUN"
PAGE 17
DEAN TURLEY RE-ELECTED
EDOUARD MARTINI
HOTEL SANS SOUCI OPENS
PETIONVILLE CLUB PRESIDENT
DIES IN AU CAP
SUMMER SEASON'S PROGRAM
Mr E. Dean Turley, well-l |Board. He mentioned that spe- Mrs Edouard Martin died at Hotel Sans Souci is opening] lowed by an informal dinner in
known USOM personality was cial emphasis will be given dur- her home in Cap Haitien Wedn- the summer season with quite the Hotel Patio. re-elected President of the Pe- ing the coming year to enlarging esday. She was in her nineties. an ambitious program. to the Friday night is GALA NIGHT
tionville Country Club. at the an- the active membership of the The mother of Engineer Char- delight of its guests, visitors, which starts at 8:00 pm with
nual meeting on April 4th. Other club, increasing social activities, les, Felix, Louis and Alice Mar- and friends. Rhum Punch Bowl, followed by
officers elected to assist the and improving the reereational tin the deceased was a respecta Gala Buffet Dinner with danpresident were: Tony Farrugia, facilities of the Club. The latter ed member of the Câp Haitien On Tuesday evenings. it feat- cing by the famous Sans Souci
Vice-President; Morris Bijou, include one of the largest, filt community. ures a "COOKED TO ORDER" Orchestra. Prizes and Floor
Treasurer: and Le Roi Elliott, ered swimming pools in Haitt Haiti Sun offers its sincere BARBECUE by the Pool. It is Show are presented at 11:00pm. Secretary. Members of the a nine-hole golf course, two condolence to the bereaved Mar- very informal and at the same During, the whole month of
Board elected were the follow- two well-kept clay tennis courts tin family among whom are her time intimate with quite a cozy May, the Haitian Singer From
ing: Mr Charles Fequiere, Mr. with illumination for night play- grandchildren a nd greatgrand- atmosphere. There is real good Paris TOTO BISSAINTHE will
Hans Heitkonig, and Mr Richard ing. The Clubhouse is currently children:, Eng. Marcel Martin, Haitian "Bouillon" to start your be the Star of the Show with her
Abbott. being re-decorated under the Jacques Martin, Captain Mau- Dinner; then comes the choice French, Martinique and Haitian
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Commenting on his re-election, and when completed the interior Freddy and Edouard Martin Jr. picked yourself and which js she is terrific... She returns to
Mr Turley predicted great promises to be a tastefull ex- etc.
Bouillon" to start your be the Star of the Show with her
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Commenting on his re-election, and when completed the interior Freddy and Edouard Martin Jr. picked yourself and which js she is terrific... She returns to
Mr Turley predicted great promises to be a tastefull ex- etc. prepared right in front of you. Paris next June, to resume her
things for the Petionville Club ample of Haitian talent at its)
Salad, Rio "Djondjon" and *a theatrical career. The whole
under the direction of the newl best. Emmanuel Thezan delicious dessert completes the evening with Punch Bowl and
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"HAITISUN
SUNDAY MAY 7TH, 1961
A New Weekly Column:
you in your tracks. This deceas- the young man was selling, but
Patrick
ed relative once made a will- in24 and a halft"
my favour, and changed it alCampbell
most immediately afterwards, I let him go. I always think
reducing my share to zero. But if people have no natural appreWrites From London for this unhappy accident I could ciation for the marvellous workby a rapid calculation, have ings of fate it's not much use
THE LONDON MOTOR SHOW
bought not just one of the cars) trying to kick them into it. "Been to the Motor Show,the'd arranged the show himself., miles away, This is Olympia;
have you?" he said, showing 4I go," Isaid, "because some-We got *the Dairy Show here!"
TOTO BISSAINTHE SCORES
perceptible tendencies to retire thing queer always happens And my car is on the fourth Last Friday the Sans Souci had a terrific attendance. Members
into his newspaper and bottled there." 17
floor, tucked in behind 200 "oth- o1 USOM gave a farewell party to one of their clan, Mr and Mrs
beer. "What did you think of it?"
ers! Henri ALSMEYER who have been in Haiti for the last four years. "You can't think anything He showed immediate traces
One Office
They are now going back to the States. There were SO many peoabout his attention by ordering of alarm. "You're not going to "I got a taxi to take me to ple who had come to hear TOTO BISSAINTHE singing, that somc
the same again. "Except that tell me one of these -these ex- the Motor Show. Half a crown. could
all the cars you might be able traordinary interesting. stories ofAt the Motor Show there's a
not even find tables. TOTO success is growing with every
to buy -given the abolition of yours! I'm latequeue of people trying to hand Friday performance. Unfortunately she will go back to Paris very
purchase tax' and instalments
over pound notes to get in and soon. spread over 20 years- now look "Listen to this," I said firmly, have a look at the machinery
exactly alike, save for the fact accustomed to evasive tactics. but only one ticket office is open
that the plastic furnishings in- There I was creeping up on the to take the money. Perhaps
side are eau-de-Nil in some Motor Show by the back streets, they'll open another ticket office
cases and off-mauve in others.' looking for somewhere to leave next year when it's lb 2 sterling
"That's coming it a bit too- the car. Round and round. NO to get in."
PARKING signs everywhere,
A Little Car
and the, constabulary with break- "Is it really going to be 1b2
down lorries ready to tow of sterling to get-
"Another thing you could think fending vehicles away and throw
about the Motor Show is that if them into the Welsh Harp.
some Motor Show by the back streets, they'll open another ticket office
cases and off-mauve in others.' looking for somewhere to leave next year when it's lb 2 sterling
"That's coming it a bit too- the car. Round and round. NO to get in."
PARKING signs everywhere,
A Little Car
and the, constabulary with break- "Is it really going to be 1b2
down lorries ready to tow of sterling to get-
"Another thing you could think fending vehicles away and throw
about the Motor Show is that if them into the Welsh Harp. "Just listen," I said. "The exyou bought one of these marvel- Round and round again, and on traordinary interesting part is! lous little
cars you' 'd have this lap I am halted by a jovial coming now. I fall into
FUGHTS
sports
conversato buy some other kind of car and fatherly policeman. *Best tion with a young gentleman who
as well because if you went thing we can do. sir,' he says is looking after. one of the few
EVERY WEEK
shopping on a Saturday morning 'is to shove her in here'; and cars worth buying in the whole
for a head. of lettuce in a mar before I know where I am I'm show. Four thousand pounds,
TO
vellous little sports car there'd driving into a garage which has but ample room for. heads of
be no room for the lettuce, un- a notice inside the dour sayingllettuee and cat-swinging, We go
MIAMI
less you towed it on a piece of UP PLEASE. Two minutes later] jover the whole barouche from
string behind.' 13
I'm sitting in the car on the stem to stern, and in the course
"But a lot of them have capa- fourth floor of the garage, hav- of his process I reveal my name,
cious-"
ing ascended by a series of in the hope that it will cause
ramps SO precipitous that I'm him to think I'm serious. A
"And the other thing you could lleft in a whirl. thoughtful look comes over his
think about the Motor Show is "When balance and steadier face. He mentions the name of
that the cars that have any char- breathing return I find my way a relative of mine, now deceasacter at all, combined with to a lift, which shoots me down ed, who was a close friend of
enough space to swing a cat to the ground again, and there his father's"
GO IN THE MORNING! or a head of lettuce, cost the is the jovial and fatherly police- "Remarkable coinci dence,
same amount as a six-roomed man, looking pleased. Well, I must be getting along. GO IN THE AFTERNOON! house with central heating, main
The wifedrainage, and a mature garden." "I aski him where I can, find
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SUNDAY MAX 7711, 1961
A
PAGE 10
tiJoseph report
Haitien
Cap
News
Yesterday at 6:00 pm, at the'the sanitary conditions of their/tion. Voters didn't want them to
Cathedral of Cap Haitien dyna- town. get a chance to participate to
mic businessman Edouard (Douthe electoral competition. By
dou) Martin, son of Mr and Mrs The sewage system is, in a night, it is reported, those unFelix Martin married the charm- poor situation as a result of an lucky candidates reached Port
The Red Cross charity ball at El Rancho was a sell-out and ing Mona Mucci, lovely daught- almost total lack of maintenar au Prince where they had fixed
colossal success Friday night. Even the occasional rain did-not er of Mr and Mrs Albert Mucci. ce: underground canalizations their residence long ago. mar the ball that continued until 3:30 am... A poll made amongst After the religious ceremony, are obstructed, drainage is impopular beach-going families shows that eight out of ten have the young couple was received! possible and mosquitoes bite the
by the parents and feted by residents of this interesting city. ENGLISH VISITOR
given up going swimming in the Sea because of the Sea Monster friends. May be a change will be obs- Mr Pen Astort, President of the
reports floating around for the past six months... Mona Attie daugherved after the visual inspec: North American division of the
er of Mr and Mrs Albert Attie and Joseph Rizk son of Mr and Mrs MINISTER BOULOS VISITS tion of the bosses of Health De- W.O. Peake, Ltd of London, EnThomas G. Rizk will join destines at the Sacre Coeur in Turgeau
CAP HAITIEN
partment. gland is vacationing* at Hotel
May 20. A 7 to 9 reception will follow at the "Club Haitiano- Arabe" This week, Cap Haitien receiChoucoune. Agent for Rodex
ved the visit of Minister Boulos UNFORTUNATE CANDIDATES Coats and Lyle and Scott
religious
of
of
after the
ceremony.. The engagement lovely. Marie- and Dr. Mode ,head of Public From the North we received Hawick Scotland Mr Aston is
Lisette David, daughter of Major and Mrs Antonio David to Gerard Health Service. This inspection words that some candidates to interested in selling high quality
Duqueres Pierre was announced in Les Cayes this past week... tour is in connection with the the last elections were obligedlwhoolen material to Haitian
Both the Dessalines Sugar Mill in Cayes and Larue in North Haiti complaints of many Capois about' to "fly" from their circunscrip- merchants. dont have sufficient grinding power for-all the available sugar
cane... Tele-Haiti manager and Mrs Andre S. Apaid welcomed the
arrival of a ten month old german shepard from the U.S. this
veekend... Mardi Gras bands have been reportedly asked to take
lothe streets today and next Sunday to warm up for the swearing
in... Two American journalists leave this weekend after covering
Haiti... Miss Alida Livingston Carey French-speaking formerly
Mith Time Magazine in Paris left Saturday after covering the elecfions and political scene... Paul Kennedy returned to Mexico City
soonert than he expected Sunday.
grinding power for-all the available sugar
cane... Tele-Haiti manager and Mrs Andre S. Apaid welcomed the
arrival of a ten month old german shepard from the U.S. this
veekend... Mardi Gras bands have been reportedly asked to take
lothe streets today and next Sunday to warm up for the swearing
in... Two American journalists leave this weekend after covering
Haiti... Miss Alida Livingston Carey French-speaking formerly
Mith Time Magazine in Paris left Saturday after covering the elecfions and political scene... Paul Kennedy returned to Mexico City
soonert than he expected Sunday. The New York Times correspondnt enroute home after covering San Juan was ordered out on his
to make
Rumored that
sugar
a
production
hird day in town
presidential clemency meastre
vill bes soon be applauded by all sectors of the country...Cap Haiian Is soon to have its first super-market. The Christophe Market
more efficiont
the handiwork of Mr and Mrs John Laroche... Electric Company
OSS Everett Shrewsbury flew to Miami Saturday... Colonel Pierre Prosper Chief of the Armed Forces Medical Corps
on a special mission to the U.S.,, A large truck disfigured the
official auto of Minister Georges Figaro Friday morning before
Banque Populaire Colombo Haitienne... In. Port this week was
Thompson first adviser of the Educational Division ot Potel
Cole in Northern Haiti.. According to Ocdipe primary elections
can not be convoked again for Six years and that is the reason
yhy voters last Sunday elected the President for a new termn... PREPARE A BETTER SEEDBED - destroy
Former Tourist Minister Mr Victor Nevers Constant now au memFORM YOUR LAND. shave off the high
plow or hard pans by deep tillage with Cat
ber of the unicameral Legislature was seen at his old department
spots, fll in the low places. Make fields
Diesel Tractors and Tool Bar equipment,
larger for more efficient useof equipment. Leave your seedbed in better condition. Wenesday receiving the congratulations of Tourism employces. Rumor has it that Depuly Constant may possibly return to: his
Jesk in the Department... The Dick Abbotts are planning their! ummer trip to Europe... Inter-American Geodetic Survey declared
holiday on receiving the news Friday morning of the success
the American Astronaut... Jean Claude Chanoy has returned. vith his young. French wife. They had a thorough European tour
before returning..,
Mayor Jean Deeb is envisaging the ereation of a symphony orch3. MAINTAIN ROADS
estra and a Municipal Theatre for the Capital according to Haiti
MODERNIZE
build and maintain
YOUR EQUIPMENT . by
good roads right up to your fields for effiJournal A guided Missile Frigate was anchored in the bay last
repowering your draglines, pumps, lococient hauling. Use Cat Diesel Farm Tractor
weekend.. Someone suggested that the U.S.S. Farraguet and its
motivesor mill with dependable,ccomomequipped with Bulldozer, followed by a
22 officers and 340 enlisted men be used to hunt down the Sea
ical Cat Diesel Engines or Electric Sets. Motor Grader. Monster... Writer Dr Norbert Muhlen is visiting Haiti with his wife
on a busman's holiday... Captain George B. Crist of ther U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti qualified for the 200
6. free-style dash last
En
Sunday. The ardent Spearfisherman was poking around a Montrouis
1A4
Teef when a tifteen- foot shark glissed into range. He is reported
Be
have barreled out of the two hundred feet of water
wisethat separHted him from the shore at speed seldom witnessed in Marine
Tom
on
forps.. Bernard a frequent visitor to Haiti since 1947
seetardize
recently
Teturned from
Coterpillr
Africa has entered into the Travel Business. SPEED UP HAULING high speed. Have US
Equipment
He
give
forms his many Haitian friends he can be reached at Vision
Caterpillar haulers move big loads of cane
all the
You
Fravel Inc 220 East 57th Street, New York City... No Haitian
efficiently from çane field, off to the road,
details
should
or on hard-surfaced roads the mill.
a frequent visitor to Haiti since 1947
seetardize
recently
Teturned from
Coterpillr
Africa has entered into the Travel Business. SPEED UP HAULING high speed. Have US
Equipment
He
give
forms his many Haitian friends he can be reached at Vision
Caterpillar haulers move big loads of cane
all the
You
Fravel Inc 220 East 57th Street, New York City... No Haitian
efficiently from çane field, off to the road,
details
should
or on hard-surfaced roads the mill. hiss the chance of seeing "Orpheu Negro" playing now at the
apitol It is the movie of the year. Even local hougans would get
theill out of the Brazilian voodoo ceremony which is SO similar
CATE PP a E
Haitian... Haitian... Dr F'ourcand director of the Red Cross refused to
Caterpillerand.Cate-e Ra sstered Tradema ter Tracter rCo.,U.S. in the TV. Set and Franck Martin recently returned from Miami
Haytian Tractor &
Co. S.A. ron
Equipment
it (EI Rancho Friday night
MAURICE BONNEFIL, Manager Chancerelles --- Page 20 ---
AGE 20
"HAITISUN"
SUNDAY MA Y 7TH,
al and industrial exhibits as wel
had them at the old Palais LeE
Labor
gislatif; it is not only the paraDay. de of floats; the first of May
is the worker's and the farmer's
day not in the restricted sense
(Continued from page 1) a symbol of this happy and fruit but on the wide basis of producful alliance of man and earth, tion which is the result of comence of social confliets between of energy and wisdom; it is the bined factors. SPIRITUEL
management and labor. It has symbol of this alliance where I would like that the first of Il
a ELEROER
almost "been 15 years that the victorious results are obtained May be the starting point of
R
Haitian Nation having regained without any note of discord. The this "examen de conscience"
its soul was starting off again symbol. goes even further and it which brings a thorough knowtowards a meaningfil destiny becomes a lesson and a token ledge of national solidarity and
which it had chosen after deep when one considers the achieve interdependence and that a more
turmoil. This first of May 1961 ments of the industrial nations precise willingness to industriabrings back to us all these me- of which the social and econo: alize and to fight the struggle
mories and in the actual politi- mic organization is an inherit of economic
tocal scene, where the Govern- ance ceasessly growing and gua wards a multiplication construction. and rement is trying to put a human ranteeing the increase of produc inforcement of national indusnote, more harmony and unifor- tion. Patient and persistent work tries, is brought about. This dimity will appear if men realize will bring wealth and the people rection is the right direction
that the Nation is one, and that will attain a high standard of and it is the one this govern Workers March National
where President
prosperity is a common wealth, living. The development of agri- ment has chosen. If labor and
by
Palace
and Mi
and that labor and equipment culture and industry will achiDuvalier reviewed traditional May Day Parade. work together for the production eve this objective provided that management, farmers and consu-
(photo Dietz
of economic utilities and maxi labor and management combine mers, industrialists and buyers
mum national revenue. their thoughts and their work resolute to combine more their
My fellow citizens,
with the same outlook. The first operations and to submit to the
Work and Agriculture day is of May is not only a convention- discipline of investment and
al theme of lyrism on the great spending that progress calls
Ruelle Robin Home ness of sacrifice and the beauty for, the Haitian miracle will
Cave In On
of nature; it is not only the fev: show the extent of our wisdom.
(photo Dietz
of economic utilities and maxi labor and management combine mers, industrialists and buyers
mum national revenue. their thoughts and their work resolute to combine more their
My fellow citizens,
with the same outlook. The first operations and to submit to the
Work and Agriculture day is of May is not only a convention- discipline of investment and
al theme of lyrism on the great spending that progress calls
Ruelle Robin Home ness of sacrifice and the beauty for, the Haitian miracle will
Cave In On
of nature; it is not only the fev: show the extent of our wisdom. erish preparation of agricultur- and at the same time will conChief Accountant
tinue the history of a civilizaWelfare Service
tion. which seeks the best possiMrs Daniel Beauvoir bilities of individual and soctal
A wall partition of the house
development. It is up to us to
TROPIGAS
in Ruelle Robin occupted by the
To Direct
accept the challenge and to
Chief Accountant of the Welfare
come out victorious. The HaiService collapsed following a
tian Nation will accept it and
heavy rain Friday April 28th in- National Library will be the victor and the futjuring a little girl and the wife
ure first of May Days will be
of the lodger. The house furnithe days of labor of all forms,
ture was damaged by falling
of physical strength and spirit,
morter and stones. Madame Ginette D. Beauvoir of liberty and order, of discipliTROPICAL GAS COMPANY, INC. The two injured persons were assumed the direction of the Bi- ne and organization, of agricul
transported to the General Hos- bliotheque Nationale this week. ture and industry. Makes everyday a "Holiday" in your kitchen... U
pital and the justice of the The wife of Port au Prince Po-
*Gold Star Award' winner, the TROPIGAS ran
peace was called in to draw up lice Chief Col. Daniel Beauvoir Dr. FRANCOIS DUVALIER the
a legal report of the accident. replaces Madame Max Adolphe
No finer range anywhere today. elected Deputy last Sunday of
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Episcopal Centennial
(Continued from page 1)
ing need from fast boiling or frying down to gen
include a reception and sports U.S. TUG IN PORT HE MADE IT!! bolling. program at College St. Pierre The U.S.S Kiowa, a Navy
n
and a folklore show at the Thea- fleet ocean-going tug-boat is (Continued from page 8)
EQUAFLO OVEN BURNER A Makes possible
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Mirebalais and Leogane will be plement of 62 enlisted, 10 offic- Commander Shepard, like his corners. visited. ers and 15 passengers. The Tug fellow astronauts, wanted to be
Drive-In Theatre is commanded by Lieutenant J. America's- first man-in-space. PIN POINT PILOTS Cool, economatic Pin
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Jeudi 11 Mai 1961
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Restaurant Owner
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Visiting
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challenge. Mr and Mrs Jean-Marie Be- A graduate of the U.S.
obviously is a challenge and I Pilots are only one third the size of ordinary pilots
Jeudi 11 Mai 1961
Famous Canadian feel that the mere severe chal- a flame sO tiny it keeps range cool in any weather, a
Restaurant Owner
will occur Gn the first saves money,
a
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lenge
you
too. The most acclaimed picture
Visiting
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Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank
Too many features to list here. You must see it
Sinatra, Donna Reed. Rene Marini, the Beriaults are numerous aircraft carriers. Be
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