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When at last the rains returned to nourish the olive crops, the poorer townspeople of Santisteban were happy in a prosperity such as they had never known before. The rich were not so happy. In April 1949, the wealthy industrialist whom
Times were hard in the little Spanish town of Santisteban del Puerto when young (30) Mayor Agustin Sanchez Lopez-Conesa took office in 1946. For two years straight, a searing drought had scorched the olive groves that were the town's only means of subsistence. More than 700 families were without work or food. "One day," recalls Don Agustin, "I came across the body of a worker, dead from starvation, lying in a ditch by the roadside. That decided it for me. There were too many rich people in my town for the poor to be dying of hunger...
...Benefits Fund" was expanded to cover an ambitious job-providing public-works program, which gave the town new streets, a better sewage system, a recreation hall for workers and even a new altar for the local church. Some of the funds were used to make a movie about the Santisteban way, which brought more funds into the town coffers...
...solved Don Agustin of all blame with the passing note that he "was motivated by the sole desire to resolve with honor and efficiency the multiple and urgent problems facing his community." From all over Spain, letters of congratulation poured in, but for Don Agustin, onetime mayor of Santisteban, the kindest words of all were spoken by a weather-beaten olive picker in his town. "Don Agustin," said the old man, "at last justice has been done. The people are very happy...
...than 500 South American students have passed through Spanish universities in the last two years. An Ibero-American Students' Congress at Madrid is planned for the near future, to include, as well as Spain and Peru, Portugal and Brazil. The President of the Congress, Señor Victor Santisteban of Peru, believes that the educational glories of Spain, which antedate those of Oxford and Cambridge, may be revived...
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