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LIMA'S winning golf team with emcee Hank Taylor, left, and Olga Alcock of Tela, center. She won low medal and high points award (see story).* 
Gwendolyn J. Butler 
Leda Bonilla Miralda 
*Left to right, Taylor; Millie Landry; Denise Pease; 
Flora Ferrera; Maria Luisa Flolley, captain; Lesbia 
Breve; Olga Alcock; Leila Venegas; Chita Martinez; 
Mimi Winn. 
*Rear, I. to r., Matute, Romero, Jimenez, Perdomo, 
McBoyle. Front, Aguilar, Ventura, Murphy, Sara- 
vanja, Director Navarele. 
beauty. With music of the ever popular 
H.R.P. #1 noisemakers, caps, streamers and 
confetti, the event was a success. 
The Grand Ball given at the Sula Club had 
a very large attendance. The hall was well 
decorated and the music was furnished by a 
marimba band. 
Watch-night service was held at the little 
Mission Church in Chula Vista. The church 
was filled with eager members waiting to wel¬ 
come the New Year. 
Mark Trafton Completes 
31 Years with UF 
Mark Trafton, Jr., completed 31 years of 
service with UF on November 13, 1957. He 
began work as a stenographer for Merchan¬ 
dise in Banes, Cuba, and became a cane 
farmer while there. After two years in Cuba, 
he was transferred to Puerto Armuelles, Pan¬ 
ama, and lived on many of the farms there 
in his 14 years of residence. In ’42 he came 
to Lima with a transfer to the Research De¬ 
partment and where he is administrative as¬ 
sistant to Dr. Thornton. He is married to 
Harriet Stine Trafton, one of Lima’s popular 
schoolma’ams and is the father of five — Mark 
III, U. S. Air Force; Susan, New Orleans; 
Wilber, Janet and Margaret D’Net of Lima. 
Our congratulations, Mark. 
Sports 
Highlight for our sports minded friends was 
the Ladies Golf Tournament held here No¬ 
vember 23 and 24 with teams from Tela, 
Progreso and La Ceiba competing with our 
local gals. All the ladies played good golf, 
but Lima had the advantage of a home course 
and took top honors as a team. Points scored: 
Lima 827, Tela 680, La Ceiba 570. Medal: 
Lima 1197, Tela 1280, La Ceiba 1341. In 
individual scoring Mrs. Olga Alcock of Tela 
took low medal with 177 and high points 
with 167; Chita Martinez and Zulema Liotta, 
second and third low medal; L. Breve and D. 
Pease were second and third high point win¬ 
ners. 
A banquet was held in the Clubrooms for 
players, their husbands, the team managers 
and a few friends. Each member of the win¬ 
ning La Lima team received a silver coffee 
spoon with the Shield of Honduras on the 
handle. A trophy was given to the team and 
was received by Maria Luisa Holley, captain. 
Mrs. Alcock received two trophies as her 
awards. R. T. Taylor was the jolly master of 
ceremonies and presented the trophies (see 
photos). 
In bowling special tournaments were run 
off for men and women during the holiday 
season and a nice group competed for the 
small trophies. Marta Sabillon won over 
Irene Pagan with a 384 series. Excitement 
seemed to throw everyone off game as these 
finals were the lowest bowled during the 
tournament. William Ernsting won with 537 
over Russel Caid’s 465. Miss Sabillon and 
Mr. Ernsting received trophies and Miss Pa¬ 
gan and Mr. Caid a consolation prize of ten 
Lempiras. Antonio Henaine of San Pedro 
was the only entrant to bowl over 200. For 
his 213 on the second night of play his tour¬ 
nament fee was returned. 
Tegucigalpa 
Personnel Changes 
Virgil Scott looked back on a quarter of 
a century of work for United Fruit company 
when he resigned as agent in Tegucigalpa. 
He began working for UF in Guatemala in 
April 1930 and transferred to Honduras where 
he did secretarial work until December 1942 
when he answered Uncle Sam’s call and en¬ 
listed for service until late in 1944. On his 
return to Honduras, Virgil was named agent 
in Tegucigalpa. He will make his home in 
Greeley, Colorado, where Mrs. Scott and the 
children are already established in their new 
home. 
Colin Shaw, the present agent, has a long 
record with UF. He has worked in the Agri¬ 
culture Department in Banes, Jamaica and 
Libertador, joining the company in Banes in 
1919. In July 1954 he came to Tela as di¬ 
rector of Labor Relations and was named 
agent December 16 last year. 
Jose E. Paz, who has served as chief clerk 
in the Tegucigalpa office for many years, will 
now be connected with the firm of Walter 
Brothers. Replacing him as chief clerk is 
William K. Lalley, another north coast UFer 
of many years employment. 
Colin Shaw Sustituye a 
Virgil E. Scott 
En la segunda quincena de diciembre 
partio para Greeley, Colorado, Estados 
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COMPANEROS de trabajo y otros amigos brindan despedida a Virgil Scott y a Jose Paz. 
Unidos, nuestro querido jefe y amigo Virgil 
E. Scott, quien durante varios anos desem- 
peno a entera satisfaction el cargo de 
Representante de la Tela Railroad Company 
en Tegucigalpa. 
Motivos de familia — la education de sus 
hijos, ya en edad de ensehanza secundaria — 
obligaron al senor Scott a trasladar a los suyos 
a Greeley, desde hace aproximadamente un 
ano, para unirse a ellos despues. 
En lugar del senor Scott fue nombrado Re¬ 
presentante de la empresa en Tegucigalpa el 
senor Colin M. Shaw, quien fue Director de 
Relaciones Obreras de la Division de Tela 
hace algun tiempo. El senor Shaw ernpezo a 
trabajar con la United Fruit Company en 
1919 en Cuba. 
Bill Lalley Reemplaza a Joe Paz 
El ano 1957 nos quito a otro distinguido 
companero, Joe Paz, quien durante varios anos 
desempeno el cargo de Chief Clerk de la ofi- 
cina de Tegucigalpa, despues de otro consi¬ 
derable periodo en La Lima. 
Despidiendo a los grandes amigos Virgil 
Scott y Joe Paz, los empleados de esta ofi- 
ciana organizamos reuniones cordiales, plenos 
de fraternidad y companerismo. “El Pasado 
Acusa” un libro sugerente de Adolfina Mejia 
M. fue cerrado con broche de oro, presentan- 
do en forma grafica la vida intima de todos 
y cada uno de los miembros del personal de 
la Companfa en esta ciudad. Este historico 
libro fue obsequiado durante la fiesta al senor 
Scott como un patente recuerdo del compane¬ 
rismo existente entre el y sus empleados. 
Despedimos el Ano 1957 
y Lalley Su Juventud 
Jefes y subalternos brindamos en el segundo 
piso del hermoso edificio de la Tela Railroad 
Company en Tegucigalpa para recibir con 
optimismo el ano 1958 y decir “Adios” a 1957. 
Lalley que arribaba a los 21 anos en ese 
dia fue el mas entusiasta en esta fiesta talvez 
despidiendo sus anos mozos. 
Hubo declamaciones, bailes y otros numeros 
sugerentes, al calor de los high-balls v de los 
chistes picantes de Daniel Casco. 
PANAMA 
Almirante 
By Jean Solovan 
Independence Celebrated 
Panama Independence Day was celebrated 
November 3 starting at daybreak with a 21- 
gun salute and continuing through the day 
with parades and speeches and terminating 
in an evening of dancing at the Social Club. 
Visitors 
Tom and Alice Louise Dunn entertained at 
a dinner party for A. L. Bump, from Boston 
. . . Joe and Griselda Herrera had a group at 
their home for dinner in honor of Mr. and 
Mrs. L. Greenberg from Guatemala . . . Betty 
and Bob Richards held a cocktail party in 
honor of Guatemalan visitors W. L. Taillon 
and Clyde DeLawder . . . Rev. and Mrs. E. 
C. Webster held a reception for visiting Rt. 
Rev. R. G. Gooden, Bishop Missionary, Dis¬ 
trict of Panama. 
Other visitors included a research group, 
Dr. Thornton, Ira Hubbard, Dr. Budden- 
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