| Show c t I i Wonderful Trip for Mrs Gines KAMAS KAMAS- Mrs May Olnes has returned home from a day 10 trip to SanJuan San Ban SanJuan Juan Junn in Puerto Puetto Rico where she attended the wedding of her brother broth r Ralph Mitchell a former Kamas resident Mrs Mra Olnes was accompanied on the tho trip by Marjorie Lewis of Heber Ito He- ber Utahna Frantz Riverton Ruth nuth Frantz Pueblo Colo and May Pace of N. N J J. J They traveled by jet airline fr from n New York Mrs Olnes GInes comments that the Island was just fabulous Every thing was bright green from Ute the dally dalty rain showers and temperatures tempera I tures a averaging 80 degrees I Sugar cane and coffee are aro their major crops with bananas several sev seVe erat eral verities of oranges coconuts pineapples vegetables etc grow ing in abundance I Homes arc are quite modern modem but they have no windows due to hur conditions Instead they use We screens and nd shudders There are many beautiful patios built out of angle iron featuring many different designs and colors Furniture Fur Fur- is g also built to a great extent extent ex ex- tent from this material Population on the small Island Is four million people The island Is miles long and 35 miles mUo wide Old OM Porte Forts They fIbey visited the man mane don sion and nd several of the large ho ho- Lets Highlight of their visit was the old forts San Ran Juan Is a aNa Na National lIonal Historic Site It comprises major defenses of ot the fabulous Spanish Main at the Caribbean gateway Here Spaniards planted the first permanent colony in the present territory of ot the United States and here hare to protect this colony and th ir lr treasure fleets they build mighty forts rising feet and more above the sea San Juans Juan's great fortifications are area a me measure suro of Spain's ancient pow Ow i er or in the New World and Its traditions tram tra form a historic bond tra-I tra between be bee tween the Americas The fortifications preserved as asa asja I Ia i I I I a historic site includes the Span Span- I ish ish forts of El Morro Ban San Cristobal and El the city walls and nd Casa Blanco Blanca I I Castillo de dc San Felipe del Morro rises feet above the sea at atthe atthe the west end of San Juan Island I A broad grassy slope Is the land approach to the walls I Storerooms gunrooms quarters chapel and prison surround a large or assembly plaza and huge cisterns lie beneath Ramps tunnels and stairways give access to the different parts of ot the fort a 0 tremendous five five- I tiered pile of limestone which I sweeps upward from the ancient gun platform washed by the Atlantic Atlantic At lantic to the broad ramparts that crown the head land The massive masonry fortifications begun by the Spanish in the Century are the oldest fortifications fortifications forti of European type in United States t territory National Sites I Back Dack In the United States Mrs Olnes Gines and nd her party spent two I nights In Philadelphia where they also visited many interesting historical his places They visited Inde Inde- p Hall and sat in George Washington's chair They viewed the pen used by the president to sign the Declaration of Independence ence saw the Liberty Bell Den and visited Christs Church the I country's oldest This his I Is la is the thel church attended by George WashIngton Wash Wash- I Ington and many many of the early pa I They sat in the the pew used bythe 1 by bythe the president and Martha Washington Wash ington and in the one used by Benjamin Benjan n Franklin Of special 1 In in terest was the fact that there are graves right inside the church In addition t to many burled buried lin in the the- churchyard While there thy also visited the Betsy Ross home |
