Evening star., 1945-03-25

brighten churches, hospitals and
homes OF Americans this season.
Growers estimate that nearly half a
million buds will have been shipped
by the end of the month.
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With thousands Of Navy blues and
Army tans to add to the traditional
spring finery worn by milady, At
lantic City IN. j. will greet Palm
Sunday with the hope that it will be
the last during war.
Some 1000 servicemen stationed
here in Navy, Coast Guard, Army
and Air Forces installations will join
with an estimated 100, 900 visitors and
residents in the annual trek along
the Boardwalk that begins around
noon. The lower Boardwalk, dam
aged by last September's hurricane,
will be re-opened in informal cere-
monies after being rebuilt from
Convention Hall to Hotel President.
High lights of the fashion event
will be the awarding of so corsages
to the SO best-dressed women on the
Walk between noon and o'clock,
and the awarding Of 10 Lou Apple
ton hand-painted ascot scarfs,
valued at $50 each, to the 10 best
Of the SO selected, providing milady
is escorted by a serviceman. Awards
will be made later in the afternoon
in the Park Lounge of Hotel Clar-
idge.
Easter Sunday opens at sunrise
with the annual sunrise service on
the ocean end Of Steel Pier. At noon
the Easter parade gets under way on
the Walk. For the most chic Easter
bonnets. the city will award War
Bonds and corsages Of War Stamps,
while the 10 best-dressed men will
receive as many hand painted Ap-
pleton neckwear creations. AS on
Palm Sunday, awards will be made
in Park Lounge Of the Claridge.
Springtime-in Mexico! The years
most delightful season. The April
air becomes softer, the unclouded
blue skies Of winter give way to
skies that are f1ecked with fanciful
white clouds that cast strange shad-
ows on the hills and carry with them
the gentle, life-giving rains.
Winter in Mexico isn't q time of
frost and cold. The seasons are far
more equable than in the United
States, the changes more subtle.
The showers of springtime turn that
earth green again, and then they
weave the brilliant carpet of flowers
that makes SO much of the Mexican
summer landscape one gorgeous gar
den.
Not that springtime in Mexico is
a rainy season; the showers are oc-
casional, but sufficient.
In Mexican springtime there is
promise in the air, the promise of
richly bearing fields. The people
sing at their work. The music of
the marimba and guitar mingles
with the song Of birds. It is a happy
time and so a time of fiestas. And
there are scores Of them, lasting
through all the summer that follows.
Rest and recreation, the rebuild
ing OF tired bodies and worn nerves.
is more important in wartime than
In peace. The American who feels
his country can spare him for a
short wartime vacation will be
doubly welcome in Mexico these
days.
Dancing and movies are a double
feature OF a new railway recreation
car designed by the Pullman-Stand-
ard Car Manufacturing Co.
The first passenger car ever de-
signed especially for these types of
entertainment, 1t contains club and
lounge facilities that can be trans
formed ingeniously into a smart
night club or little theater of the
rails, according to Ellis w. Test, as
sistant to the president, in charge of
engineering and research.
This is the fourth entirely new
conception in passenger cars an
nounced by Pullman-Standard. Like
the others, it cannot be built until
wartime manpower and materials
restrictions are lifted.
The new recreation car is func-
tionally divided into two parts. The
forward half is an ultramodern club
car during the day and a night
club in the evening. The rear half
is luxurious lounge by day and a
movie theater by night.
There are 10 national historic
sites totaling over 8,176 acres which
are under preservation with process
OF restoration or awaiting postwar
building, points out the Travellers
Cheque" Survey Bureau of the
American Express. They are admin
istered by the National Park Serv-
ice under the Historic Sites Act Of
August 81, 1885, and include:
The Atlanta campaign markers
(Georgia) follows the route of Sher-
mans march from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, a prelude to the March
to the Sea-" Federal Hall Me-
mortal (New York;, the site of the
present Federal Subtreasury Build
ing, where stood the famous Fed
eral Hall, the first seat Of the new
Federal Government. Fort Raleigh
North Carolina), the first at
tempted English settlement in the
United States, 1585-1587, birthplace
TRAVEL.