Settled in cottages after their arrival here late Friday night from Ciudad Trujillo, the pioneer group of refugees looked confidently today to the actual start on the historic Dominican Republic settlement project.
The group, numbering 36 adults and a 15-month boy, arrived after a rainy trip through the mountains and were immediately assigned to cottages. They spent yesterday in unpacking, inspecting the immediate vicinity and discussing their problems with Dr. Joseph Rosen, vice- president of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, and Dr. Frederick Perlstein, director of the Sosua project.
Instructions in how to live under the sub-tropical conditions here were given the pioneers by Dr. Siegfried Klinger and his wife, physicians from Vienna who have been here for some time preparing for the arrival of the refugees. Work on the individual 10 -acre plots to be assigned to each couple and on the cooperative plantation will get under way after the settlers have rested several days in order to become acclimated.
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