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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 17, 1961
Jamaica Moving From Farm to Factory
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
KINGSTON, Jamaica — From Kingston, Jamaica's capital and industrial hub, to Montego Bay, where vacationing Americans escape the rigors of Winter on white beaches and in luxury hotels, it is 120 miles.
In those 120 miles, and at either end, are the elements which epitomize Jamaica's problems and its promise as one of the 10 principal islands of the West Indies Federation which, in the next year or so, will take its place among this hemisphere's independent nations.
Here in this westernmost of the West Indies islands, there is an acute awareness of Jamaica's proximity to Castro's Cuba and to troubled Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
HERE ALSO is awareness that Jamaica's exploding population, with a heritage based 90 per cent on that of the slave and the indentured servant, could result in a race problem based neither on Castroism nor Communism.
But with it is determination that Jamaica, benefited by a stable government, can lick its own problems through its own resources and ingenuity.
The road from Kingston winds narrowly upward through tropical hills, climbs steeply across Diablo Mountain and then plunges by twists and turns to Montego Bay on the north coast. It passes through Spanish Town, Jamaica's former capital, and along hillsides where earth moving machines dig bauxite which will become aluminum.
ALONG THE ROADWAY and in sun-baked villages the population
CLEVELAND — (UPI)— Talking about babies is any woman's pleasure, but for Robert Rundell it's business.
Mothers' Helper
During 10 years as office manager for a diaper service, Rundell has developed into a baby counselor with more know-how than a grandmother. His only difficulty is overcoming the surprise of mothers who call and ask for "Susan Adams," the baby counselor. "Susan" is Robert, but the voice doesn't quite fit.
Film on Communism Set
--seems to spring from the earth itself.
Jamaica's promise lies in an aggressive program of industrialization which encourages foreign investment in the pattern of Puerto Rico, in its expanding drive to encourage tourism, in a broad program of education and in an agricultural drive to get the most from its crowded acres.
The problem lies in the fact that for 300 years Jamaica slept in the sun under an agricultural economy where time was determined only by sunrise and sunset. It neither had nor felt the need of industry's time-clock precision or the education that went with it.
The Western Civilization Program will present the film "Communism" at 4 p.m. Monday, in room 3, Bailey Hall. The film is the third in a series chosen to correlate with Western Civilization readings, and is shown in cooperation with the visual aids bureau.
Jamaica's awakening dates from not much more than 10 years ago.
A stable middle class is developing and personal income in the last 10 years has more than doubled.
It's sunny beaches began attracting visitors in large numbers only about
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nearly 200 per cent and industry up nearly 250 per cent.
eight years ago. Today tourism is $30 million a year business.
ITS INDUSTRIAL planning board which will help a foreign investor select his site and even build his factory for him under various incentive laws, came into existence in 1952.
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The bauxite industry, now employing thousands of Jamaicans and returning to the government annual royalties of around $8 million, also is a postwar development.
The industrial board emphasizes that there are no financial strings attached to foreign investment here. The one measure of any industry is its benefit to Jamaican employment and the Jamaican economy.
Improved agricultural methods have increased Jamaica's farm output nearly 40 per cent, mining is up
Waiting? Check a Fire
KU men who harbor grudges against telephone operators at GSP, don't despair. The whole idea of waiting has been worked out to a science by King Parker, Alamo. Calif., freshman.
And it's practically infallible.
LAST NIGHT PARKER, a Delta Sigma Phi pledge, took advantage of a study hall break to place a call into the women's dorm. Then he tape a "Don't Touch" note on the receiver and walked off to buy a coke.
He never bought it.
No sooner had he placed the dime in the slot than Parker heard fire engines close by. He raced out of the house and gal-
loped down the street in hot pursuit.
THE FIRE turned out to be nothing but a false alarm at the Kansas Union. But the Delta Sig pledge stayed for more than ten minutes, hoping that his efforts would be rewarded.
Ten minutes later, he returned to the house.
He picked up the receiver,
cradled it in his shoulder. . .
and waited. A minute and a half
later, Parker grinned as a dulcec
voice on the other end proved
the validity of his theory on waiting.
A science? An infallible system just about. Required study hall resumed a minute later.
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