Show Residents Visit Puerto Rico As Belated Christmas Gift Mr and Mrs H laugh gh W Col Col- Colton ton made use of their Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas mas present of two round trip tickets from their daughter Nancy and her h husband Bob Bradley to visit them at their home in Puerto Rico Mr Bradley is s vice President of J P Construction Co PUERTO RICO is a beautiful tropical Island according to Mrs Colton and a possession of the United States operating under a common commonwealth wealth form of government with a gov governor They elect a delegate to the US but he has The climate is near 70 all year and the densely wooded forests are filled with many kinds of palms flowers and colorful birds THE PEOPLE are mostly of Spanish decent and are gay witty and hospitable as most Lati Latin Americans are The lush fertile lands pro pro- produce produce duce sugar cane pineapple to- to tobacco tobacco bacco coffee bananas and many other fruits and aDles a Iles They also produce beef and dairy cattle Cock fights baseball golf and horse racing are the pastimes THEY HAVE three large uni uni- uni universities one at the capitol of Old San Juan one at Pone Ponc and one at Mayaguez Most people speak Spanish but study English In the schools The beaches are covered with palm trees and lined with many large hotels for tourists It is just about a two hour plane trip from the tip of Florida past Cuba the Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico Mr and Mrs Irs Colton stopped over in St 81 Louis Missouri to see their son Phil and his fam fam- family ily Phil is a en- en engineer engineer and works for the United Nuclear Corp of America THEY THEN spent several days in Washington visiting their son Sterling and his his fam- fam family fly ily Sterling is the associate council for Marriott Motel and Hot |