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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, December 31, 1962 7| tlre CANADIAN BEAUTY MARRIES ~ Connie-Gail Feller, selected Miss Canada in 1961, was married Saturday night to Montreal lawyer Nathaniel Henry Salomon. The Ottawa beauty, also a contestant in the Miss America contest in 1961, relinquished her Miss Canada title about a month after winning it. She said that misunderstandings be- | tween herself and the Miss Canada Pageant Committee "makes it impossible for me to carry on." (CP Wirephoto) Prisoners Tell Story Of Invasion Of Cuba For the first time the define as an anti-Communist,"|ships or planes aided in the in- world is learning the full (said Leyva. "I had felt that so- story of the Bay of Pigs in- jcialism had some good points. vasion effort. "At:midnight they got us up," vasion of Cuba in April, |We were worried about Castro|said Mario Santiago April 20. jthen only as a possible dicta-!"We had got together to throw 1961. In this story the ex- periences of several invad- ers, released from Cuban jtor."' | They were among those cap- away letters: pictures, watches, rings, everything we loved be- aT ag Re nay agate Gt AOL Y 1 hg prisons last week, are re- (tured in the Bay of Pigs inva-|fore going in to fight for what lated. jsion in April, 1961, and finally|we loved." By JIM BECKER |feleased after 20 months in| The men got into the boats to | Prison in a $53,000,000 deal com-.| go ashore. and | ROBERT BERRELLEZ pleted just before Christmas. (pace ACHINEAGUNS MIAMA (AP)--On the door- Recruiting had started the} "They were little runabouts| step of a rambling ranch style|year before the attack. Training | with outboard motors. They| home in Coral Gablesn _ Fia.,| Ulises Carbo, 37, tenderly kissed| his wife good-bye. As the tall, trim Cuban walked) down the steps, his 10-year-old| son, Ulises Jr., ran and caught} him by the hand. "Dad the house keys,"' the makeshift camps and with deter-| mination anc professional sud pervision in others, scattered throughout Florida. What was the American role in the recruiting and training? | Felix Santiesteban 25, who boy said, his face set in adult|trained with Leyva's battalion, seriousness, "I'll be the man of|said: '"'Americans had nothing the house now... ." In Miami, Rene Leyva, 4% read the final proofs of the to do officially with our recruit- ing or training." But other prisoners, who asked day's issue of the newspaper|that their names be withheld, Advance, but his mind was not |said there were some Cuban re- on the sheets. He was waiting|cruiters who gave at least the for a telephone call. impression they were represent- Leyvv's son, Eduardo, 17, hadjing th United States, and par-| volunteered for an anti-Castro|ticylarly the Central Intelligence invasion force. Leyva had told! Agency" 2g the organizers that his son could go--if he could go, too. Now the telephone rang and a man told him they both could go. Leyva telephoned the pub- lisher and said he would be away for a few days... It was March 15, 1961. CALL TO ARMS A call to arms had passed through the exile Cuban com- munity, and men were gather- ing. They said an incentive-to re- cruiting was the line that with the United States behind in he invasion could no fail. So in the spring of 1961, when thousands had fled Fidel Cas- tro's regime to Florida, men were converging on the Opa- Locka airport, an abandoned Navy and marine base near Miami, in' trucks and _ private! cars. The trucks drove up along- "There was really no other|Side a row of unmarked Amerid mission left for us in life but to can planes, and the men climbed go back and liberate our coun-|inside. By now it was dark. try," said Carbo. "I was not what you might "We flew straight to Trax, an airfield high in the mountains' --/of Guatemala," Leyva said. The 49-year-old Leyva was as-| signed to air force maintenance. | had begun informally in some! were shooting at us, machine. | guns, It; was thick," Santiago) said. | "From the moment of landing) I lost all physical sensation,"| said young Leyva. "It seemed! like I was watching a bad movie. Their men came scream- ing 'Patria o Muerte' (Father-| land or Death) and then they/| fell dead. They kept coming in| waves. 1 "They were in closed ranks, in| the most amazing manner." Carbo said. "They finally broke under fire, but scores were killed." "Castro must have suffered, 4 000 casualties in those first few hours," said Carbo. By night fall, Casto's rein- forecments had reached the bat- tle area and the tide began to turn, U Of T Pie Team Loses Second Time PHILADELPHIA (CP-AP)-- The University of Toronto. chess team was upset 2% to 1% by Los Angeles State College in the national intercollegiate team chess tournament here Satur- s Time Names Others went into combat battal-| day. The loss, in the fifth round ions. of the six-round tournament, Pope John Man Of Year NEW YORK (AP) -- Time magazine has named Pope John its Man of the Year. ZZ The Roman Catholic leader,) first man of religion to be so named since Time started the Man of the Year nominations in 1927, was picked by Time's editors largely because of the ecumenical council he called in Rome to further Christian unity. The Time announcement Sun-| day said Pope John has given! the world "'what neither science, nor diplomacy can provide: a} sense of its unity as the human! family," The Time editors added: "That sense is the core of the Christian tradition, whose God) lives in history and invites the family of man to help him form eat "By bringing Christianity to a new confrontation with the world and salving the wounds) that have torn it for centuries, | the Pope in Rome has helped vastly to recapture the Chris- tain sense of the family." President Kennedy won the honor last year. Professioinal soldiers many of; them Americans whipped the men into shape. "I came down from the moun. tains on April 13," said young Leyva. "We were flown from Trax to Retalhuleu, the air base in Guatemalan and from there to Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua. "We arrived at 'night and/ moved in covered trucks in a convoy to the docks. We spent the night and most of the next day there. Many civilians, vend, on the docks and President! Somoza came down to visit be- fore we sailed," | _"T stayed behind at an air-| tield in Nicaragua to help tend| the bombers and equipment," the elder Leyva said. '"'We had! B-26 bombers." | "Nothing much happened on the way to Cuba," young Leyva' recalled. '"'We were escorted most of the way by U.S. destroy. ers. We expected them to go into action but they didn't." U.S. military authorities de- clined, both then and now, to! Say whether any American war-| COMMERCIAL FOOD MART Canada's most complete | food plan. Compare. our FUEL OIL... 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