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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 16, 1962
Banana Executive Reviews Costa Rica
Peace Corps trainees viewed Costa Rica through the eyes of a banana executive last night.
During the speech and a question and answer period which followed, Jasper Baker of the United Fruit Co., said United Fruit does not oppose Costa Rican labor unions.
"IN COSTA RICA the unions are more politically oriented than they are here. If they feel it is advantageous to join hands, they will join hands," he said.
Baker attributed the cooperation between business and labor partly to education. He said education was responsible for more reliable people becoming union leaders in Costa Rica.
He described the Communists as "a lesser threat in Costa Rica than in other Latin American countries" and said the people became disenchanted when the Communists stole money from the unions.
"They are beginning to understand why the company can or cannot give a raise," he said.
BAKER SAID the United Fruit Company has absorbed the "wrath" for unfavorable political activities in the past, but that it has not financed revolutions in Costa Rica for many years.
Comparing the rate of living of Costa Ricans to workers in the U.S., Baker said the company furnishes homes with electricity for workers. In the land where the average wage is $3.17 a day United Fruit has built individual two and three bedroom homes for workers.
Older units are constructed in row-house fashion above a cement slab used for a playground, he said, and a cookhouse with wood or charcoal stove is located behind the houses.
He said United Fruit has paid 50 per cent of the cost of 32 Costa Rican schools which were offered to the
Married Students Rank High at KU
The old standby that students come to college to pick up their Mr. and Mrs. degrees may well be born out in a statistical analysis of KU married students.
One of every five students at KU last fall was married, a ratio that has remained practically constant since the return of the World War II veterans.
THE PERCENTAGE of married students ranges from a low of 3.1 per cent of the freshmen and rises steadily through 6 per cent of the sophomores, 13.7 per cent of the juniors, 27.1 per cent of the seniors, 40.9 per cent of fifth-year students, 43.7 per cent of law students, and 50.8 per cent of the graduate students.
The women start out well behind in the marriage race, with 1.9 per cent of the freshman women married compared to 4.0 per cent of the men, and they stay behind for most undergraduate levels. By the time the women are seniors, however, they have caught up with the men and passed them; 27.4 per cent of them are married compared to 27.0 per cent of the men.
The statistics tell no romantic stories about how many married students met their mates at KU. They can be interpreted just as easily to read that college has become a place one attends even though one is married. Somewhere between the two lies the real explanation.
government. Costa Rican officials were reluctant to take them, he said.
HE SAID it is impossible to equate the Costa Rican plantation workers daily salary of $3.17 with that of a worker in the U.S. because of vast differences in the cost of consumer products.
One of the volunteers inquired about the anti-trust suit which the U.S. government filed against the company. Baker said United Fruit has until 1966 to divest its 39 per cent interest in a Guatamalan railroad and to set up a competitive producing nine million "stems" a year. He said that United Fruit also must halt its retailing activities in the U.S.
the three KU music fraternities will present the G. Faure requiem Mass and music by Mozart and Brahms at their annual combined concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Solists in the requiem will be David Holloway, Gas City junior, baritone, and Marilyn Belton, Lost Springs junior, soprano, Dingwall C. Fleary, St. Louis, Mo., senior will conduct the combined chorus
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and orchestra of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota.
Martha Shirley, Mankato junior,
soprano, will sing Mozart arias.
Three members of the Phi Mu Alpha
will play part of Brahms' clarinet trio.
Wife, Not Doctor, Is Needed
Admission is free.
MANCHESTER, England — (UPI) Business executives who sleep poorly, have bad tempers, drink too much and can't get along with anybody have little need for medical care, Dr. G. O. Hughes said yesterday at a conference on occupational health.
"The answer is to marry the right wife," he said.
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