DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962
Home Thoughts From North Africa
\ 11/11/61
We took the boys up to Score
Mountain to the radar site on Sun-
day. That is one of the most iso-
lated spots in the world. A narrow
road winds up the mountain (with
gravel areas extending out over
nothing for a car should you happen
to meet head on). It is at least a
mile up. There is the tower and
one other building that houses the
six airmen stationed there. An’ac-
cordion type barb wire fence sur-
rounds the place. You can see for
miles and miles. Mohammed vil-
lages visible in the distance with
the land cris-crossed by donkey
paths. One of the airmen took us
we on the rocky ledges. These boys
ours are like mountain goats and
just as careful.
I fried chicken, took along a
couple cans of potato sticks, Choco-
late cake and Coke. We ate with
the airmen. They have a well
equipped kitchen, but I guess they
get pretty tired of each other's
cooking. They ran a movie, “The
Wizard of Bagdad” for the boys. I
drove the car down the mountain—
Bill and the boys hiked — David
and Billy making it half way and
Patrick and Bill all the way down.
We took pictures of the event.
2/4/62
‘We drove to Merrakech Saturday.
I wish we lived down there. I'm
completely fascinated by that place.
With all of its smells (in some
places) beggars, etc. The French
market on the main drag is the
nicest vegetable market I have ever
seen. They have beautiful fresh
flowers, too — I bought a bouquet
of miniature roses for the Chapel
alter for today for 40c and a dozen
Baby Iris for 40c for the house. I
also bought 4 lbs of fresh peas for
200 francs (40c and they were de-
licious. “Also, 2 lbs of tomatoes for
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: 2/11/62
We did not eat at the Club today.
I bought a beef roast and we ate at
home. We get pretty tired of look-
ing at the same old cuts of meat in’
the Commissary. Do you know what
ou can have for us to eat when we
get home? A nice BIG platter of
lots of kinds of cold cuts and a
large can of cottage cheese from
Dallas Dairy! The only sliced meat
we can buy is balogna and pimento
loaf—both green around the edges!
Cottage cheese is made from re-
constituted powered milk and you
can imagine how it tastes! — Actu-
ally we should be ashamed to com-
plain about the food here. All we
have to do is look at these Moroc-
cans to realize that we have far too
much to eat.
‘We made our last trip to Fedala
and had a wonderful time. There
were a lot of campers, but at no
time were there more than a dozen
people on the beach at a time.
There were a lot of Swiss, Austrians
And Germans this time. We took a
‘minimum of food and equipment
with us this time. We slept on two
cots and the boys slept in the car.
Nv Thursday we were all sunburned,
“but not as bad as the last time we
were down. We shall never forget’
Fedala! The boys went on the coral
By MRS. PAT WILSON
every morning and caught crabs
and small fish in jars. We walked
on the beach at night — serenaded
by three Moroccan teen-agers with
a guitar. They played and sang
Spanish and Moroccan tunes and
even tried to do the twist in the
sand! We went through all the
words we knew in several languages
— German, Spanish, French, Arabic
and Japanese. Mostly words of
greeting, thank you, how are you,
etc. Its surprising how many words
you pick up.. I think we have
learned more Arabic than any
other.
On Saturday, at noon, Brecka
(our fatima )met us at the French
Market on the main street of Mer-
rakech. She took us to her home
in the medina. She has a court
yard around which lives her family
— married son, parents, etc. We
sat on cushions around a low table.
The cous-cous, a kind of cooked
grain heaped in a large dish. In
the center of the bowl were carrots,
turnips and bits of meat. No one
uses plates. Brecka gave us spoons
and we all dipped into the same
bowl. Then we were served beef,
done fork-tender, with potatoes in
the natural gravy. The gravy is
sopped up with huge chunks of
bread. Bread and fingers were our
only utensils — all eating again
from the same bowl. This may seem
unsanitary, but really did not bo-
ther us as only the food directly in
front of the person is touched. —
Then, we were served mint tea and
coffee. The head of the household
made the tea. This is a regular
ceremony. Brecka sat on a small
brightly colored rug — a brass tea
tray on short legs in front of her.
A large bunch of mint was pushed
into the ‘tea-pot, a lovely, graceful,
engraved pot. A special mint tea is
used, hot water.added and then
large chunks of sugar. Moslems love
sweet, sweet tea.
We took lots of pictures, black
and white as we couldn’t get colored
film. Brecka has some beautiful
children. Her little girl, 5 yrs. old,
has long, black hair, braided and
huge dark brown eyes, with long.
long lashes. ‘Zorra” was dressed
in a long, full, pink dress and under-
neath, sheer pale green pantaloons.
The little boy, age 3% yrs., was full
of the dickens. He kept running in
and out of the room, upset a glass
of tea, made faces.
sent for a belt. This the most ex-
treme punishment—they simply do
not believe in spanking children
and surprisingly most Moroccan
children are well-behaved. — Any-
way, ‘this did not fase little
“Hamed”! When his Daddy made
to slap his legs with the belt, he
promptly kicked his father in the
shins!
I gave the children a box of
chewing gum. The two little ones
and the older girls (Fatna & Fa-
tima) chewed constantly. One of
the girls kept up a constant crack-
ing of gum that put my efforts to
shame when I was ‘young’!
Brecka’s son has a small boy
about a year old. The Grandfather,
who is very old, also came in for
tea. How he loved the baby. The
old fellow wore a ‘tarboush” —
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unusual thing , as most Morocan | aave here. | are waist high out back!
dogs look starved and mangy. | 7/3/62 Brecka is on her prayer rug in
“Grandfather” smoked one of Bill's| we are sweltering! It was 107 | the bedroom going through her 5-
cigarettes, but the son refused (Mo- degrees today and at 7:00 o'clock |times-a-day ritual, She fills an
hammed’s are forbidden tobacco). [tonight had only cooled off to 98 | empty 3 pound coffee can with
‘TI could go on and © ut that | degrees. Most unusual. There is| water and goes into the back yard.
meal (and the walk we took into the | ne cool breeze blowing yet. Thunder | Washes her face, cleaning her eyes,
medina later with Brecka' as our | heads hung over the Atlas late this | ears, nose and rinses her mouth—
guide. - She would not let us buy a [afternoon but we expect no rain. |then her hands and arms (up ‘to her
thing as she said the prices were too | We are told there have been thun- elbows), then her feet and ankles.
high due to a religious holiday | der showers all along the other side | Good Old Mohammed was pretty
coming up. On ‘this holiday they |of the Atlas reaching all the way |foxy, eh, what? At least he knew
visit the graves. Also, it is the day |into Algeria. “Wish one would blow he'd get water on these people five
that all women pray that they may | over here — Ben Guerir could sure | times a day — that is, if they are
go to heaven. Moslem women have | yse a few drops of moisture. I feel | faithful and want to pray.
no “rights” in this life and cannot |sad because our lawn will get no.
be assured of ‘life after death”. |water and all our work to keep it
Brecka bought each of the boys a |green will be as nothing a few days
vase-like object with skin stretched | after we leave. My Four O’clocks
over one end. This is tapped with
the fingers. I've put them away as
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The boys are very restless the
last week or so. They know we will
soon be leaving. A lot of families
left this month. The large trucks
with huge packing crates were in
and out of the housing area. Bill
and I talk about getting this and
that done and how some of the
things we are doing for the last
time in Morocco. I suppose it is dis-
turbing to small children. They
talk about what fun it will be at
Grandpa’s but you know they have
been so happy here, it probably up-
sets them a little to be leaving. QTS. GALS.
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meds, mud villages, date palms and
a few Orange trees. When we went
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would be excited too at the thought
of T.V., super-markets and depart-
ment stores, if I was sure I could
some day return to Morocco. The
“Commies” are ready to grab it as
soon as we move out — have in
fact, already started and it is the
thought ‘that these (for the most
part) friendly people may turn
against us that hurts. These people
are so very poor — the things we
throw out are valuable to them. I
threw an old inflated toy in the
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