Evening star., 1944-03-26

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The Palm Sunday parade long
has been popular with visitors, Civ
ing them preview of what Easter
will bring in the way of new feni-
nine creations. This year, as be-
fore, the city will present the so
best-dressed women" on the Board
walk. Style experts will act as
Judges.
On Saturday, the weatherman
willing, the Yankees will cross bats
with the Athletics at Bader Field
in the first of the 1914 exhibition
games. Palm Sunday, the Dodgers
will be the opposition, repeating on
Monday.
The week end will be especially
gay at the hotels, with most of the
grilles providing music and enter
tainment.
Many persons who have never
ridden on a train before are buying
railroad tickets these days, Marion
c. Millican, president of the WASH
ington Association of Passenger
Agents, told us the other day over
a coke" Those who tell us so
frankly, he said, enable us to help
them. On the other hand, a num-
Der of such persons who try to hide
their lack of timetable knowledge
may cause any amount of trouble,
often even buying tickets to the
wrong destination and forcing any
amount of cancellations and reissu-
ance of tickets.
Speaking of oddities at the ticket
counter, he went on, a travel man
can tell general from lieutenant
even if both wear stars. The gen.
eral will be told Sorry, we haven't
anything but an upper berth on that
date" and will accept the ticket with
shrug; a lieutenant will say, ex-
plosively, who do you have to know
around here to get lower?"
He recalled, musingly, how a girl
secretary called for reservations for
a generals tickets and refused to
tell the ticket agent where her
boss was going.
And, of course, he said, any num-
Der of women walk away and leave
their purses on the counter. After
checking the Identification of one
I picked up, phoned the woman.
She insisted the purse was not hers.
saying she had not even opened her
bag. A half hour after she ap-
peared to reclaim it.
Completed stretches of the Blue
Ridge Parkway will be open to mo-
torists from April is to October Is.
Acting Parkway Supt Sam. B.
Weems reports from Raleigh, N. c.
The following sections will be
open: Starting at Shenandoah Ma
tional Park in Virginia, to U. S..
highway, 60 near Buena Vista, Va:
from the James River to the Peaks
/ of Otter in Virginia; from Admay
Gap across the Virginia North Car
olina line to Deep Gap, and from
blowing Rock to Mount Mitchell.
Picnic areas and parking over
looks will be open to the public.
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Travel agents, Wearied by the daily
grind of finding reservations, should
spend a half hour with Frank Grant
of the American Express here, re-
Gently transportation official with
/ the construction company which
built the oil pipeline from Fort Nor
man to Whitehorse, and on to Fair
banks, Alaska.
+ From Edmonston, Alberta, it was
Mr.. Grants job to arrange for the
transportation of skilled workers
from Canada and the United States
and see to it they got on the job at
the spot where the thermometer
sometimes sinks to go below zero.
I'VE got them to the job on truck
conveys, by plane and sometimes
dog-sled," he said. I'm the season
when the trucks would not 60
through, we sent them food and
supplies by plane. And we had to
arrange to take some of them out,
too, when the extreme cold hit their
lungs"
Speaking of the Alaska highway.
Mr.. Grant said that neither the
builders of the road nor people in
the sections through which it pass
care for the term "Alcan" highway.
1T sounds too much like ash can"
he said.
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Pinehurst's annual spring horse
show and gynkhana will be held
next Sunday. There will be seven
events, including three hunter classes
over a new outside course; equita-
tion classes and games. Privately
owned mounts and horses from all
the livery stables in the sandhills
area will compete, with an especially
large hunter class anticipated.
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Several railroadmen have told
us of leak" that stirred the near
by railyards several nights ago. The
leak, they said, was in a car carry
ing a tank load of West Indies rim