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[[/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

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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
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24  SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.