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[[2 column table]] | [[advertisement]] [image - " HAULAGE" curling around a crescent moon-shaped "C" with s winged tail and "oe" in centre of the "C"] YOU CALL WE HAUL [[large print]] [[italics]] WE CAN TAKE CARE OF YOUR [[/large print]][[/italics]] [[very large print]] TRANSPORTATION [[/very large print]] _________________ [[large print]] COE HAULAGE CO., LTD. [[/large print]] PHONES 4719 . 2019 . 2061 [[/advertisement]] | have beaten Abe Issa to it). Before a shovelful of sod could be turned he had to build a village for workers. Every bit of material except, perhaps, sand had to be trucked overland from Kingston. Every available master-craftsman had to be rounded up from the four corners of the island and signed up. Several chains of the MoBay-Oracabessa highway had to be deviated (Abe pays half-cost). Water had to be piped six miles from Ocho Rios (power from Roaring River). "Not a darned thing was here when we started except the old guest house which had to be demolished," is Abe's summary. [[bold]] Fire Under Sand. [[/bold]] Since March 7, 530 pairs of hands had been sweating, toiling and straining their sinews from sunup to sunset every day including [[image - portrait photograph of man]] [[caption]] [[italics]] Who's Who [[/italics]] JOE ISSA [[italics]] Abe figured out the tiling. [[/italics]] [[/caption]] | _____________________________________ [[advertisement]] [[image - drawing of Christmas scene of the Three Wise Men]] [[very large print]] A Merry XMAS to all . . . [[/very large print]] May the full meaning of Christmas gladden your hearts and may the New Year be one of combined joy and Prosperity for you. [[very large print]] [[bold]] KINGSTON INDUSTRIAL ______ GARAGE _______ [[/very large print]] [[/bold]] 34-42 CHURCH STREET KINGSTON. [[/advertisement]] | Sundays. When the rain soaks the construction sand, fires are built to dry it in batches for the mixers. Where adults couldn't be found for particular jobs, teen-age boys were hired. Meantime, Architect Oliver, a genial man with easy Continental manners, and Boss Abe shuttled back and forth from Kingston twice or thrice a week to consult with Tad and check the project's progress. Saturday, Dec. 3, Abe moved one-half his town staff over to do the sorting and stacking of supplies. [[bold]] Matti. [[/bold]] To run Tower Isle, he had sent Myrtle Bank's manager Sam Levy to Europe to hire a right man. Smart, flashy-tied Sam returned with a top-notcher in continental and Far-East experience: Swiss-born, quadri-lingual Gerald Matti, 45, a Swiss chef (Rene Walker) and Swiss maitre d' hotel (Johann Kohler) to assist him. [[bold]] Tower Isle's headline features [[/bold]] include 80 selfcontained rooms, each with telephone and private patios, facing north or south; roof garden looking miles out over the deep-blue Caribbean Sea, 'way out beyond the Oliver-designed 17th Century tower on a chain-long islet 150 yards off-shore; beach cabanas; semi-circular beach bar; Olympic-size swimming | [[/2 column table]] 24 SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.