Evening star., 1945-08-12
The Travellers Notebook
Vacation Trovei Still Seen Many Weeks or;
Cos Rotioning End to Kill Many Jolopies;
Eostern Dude Ranches Expect Big Fall Season

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Eastern Dude Ranches
While surrender news was raising
high hopes of potential vacationistsl
for belated seasonal trip, railroad
ers. from high officials to trackmen,
paused only for a breathing spell
and a sigh of relief as they plunged
into the big job yet ahead.
Vacation travel. they know. isl
many weeks, remote. Yet, as II soI
offer some solace, Government off,
cials said travel restrictions would
ease in a few months"
First break in the 1a-year strain
on the carriers came with the an
nouncement OF the Association of
American Railroads that "certainl
fright movements" across the coun-
try have been stopped. But these
are limited, as the big job of feeding
and supplying men overseas must
go on.
Hating of some troop movements
west will effect but little the strain
on passenger equipment. Yet to be
transported are the hundreds OF
thousands of troops now returning
from Europe Demands for furloughI
tickets are certain to rise Ahead
also is the big job of transporting
men home once mastering out
begins.
Add to all these the demand for
space for necessity travel and the
picture for the vacationist seems
almost as black as the hour before
dawn.
Predictions by Government off, |
cials that gasoline rationing will
end within few weeks once sur
render papers are signed meanwhile |
raised hopes Of many families for
trips TO nearby resorts in what S
left Of the family car-if the old
jalopy can hold out.
Such movement en- masse is bound
to send hundreds of cars to the
junk pile months before the time
expected and raised the question
among auto men whether coming
new cars would be in the market
soon enough to replace even the
autos need in everyday work.
/ In any case end of gas rationing
would extend the summer resort
season we'll into October, it is be-
lieved.
| A very active September and fall
i vQrQtinn lie ontici~nfnI
member ranches of the Eastern
Dude Ranches Association. The re-
turn of many servicemen and the
increasing vogue for late vacations
are the prime factors in this rise of
reservations.
With a consistent increase of in
terest in dude ranching in the past
few years, these resorts anticipate
booming postwar patronage. Many
returning servicemen have found
| relaxation and fun in a dude ranch
vacation, thus providing an excel
lent transition from the war abroad
to the return to business and civil
ian life.
One of the advantages of fall va
cations at almost all dude ranches
is the feature Of unlimited riding.
During the height of the season rid
ing is generally limited to 2 or 8
hours daily, but in the late months
there is no limit to the guests use
of the horses.
The Eastern Dude Ranches Asso-
citation is comprised of Cimarron
and Cinnabar Ranches, Peekskill;
Hidden Valley. Lake Luzerne. Ridin
Hy and Sun Canyon, Warrensburg,
all of New York State, and G G-Bar-S,
Great Darlington. Mass. and Twin
Pine Ranch at Stroudsburg.
National road leaders here took
time out the other day to laud
launching of the Chicago-D Detroit
link of the national system of in
terstate highways.
This modern expressway, said H.
j. Brunnier, San Francisco, presi-
dent of the American Automobile
Association. is to become a part of
the very backbone of Americas
roads of the future-namely. the
10000 miles of highways of ad-
vanced design and high construc-
| ton standards authorized in the
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1914.
Mr.. Brunnier added that a con-
siderable portion of the Federal aid
authorization of $500, 900 900 a year
for the first three postwar years will
be expended on this system. includ-
ing the Chicago-Detroit highway,
because of its national significance,
its potential service to transporta-
ton and travel, to industry, to agri-
culture and to the national defense,
while at the same time linking large
centers of population throughout the
country.
Detroit and Chicago, said the AAA
president, took running lead on
the rest of the country with the
simultaneous holding Of meetings in
these respective cities to secure the
support of business and civic lead
ers for the early construction of the
expressway.
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DoWA dt SdEOllld 6edCn In NOTJn
Carolina local fishermen each morn
ing make one haul of the beach,
and they never have any trouble
getting help in landing the catch
nor in disposing of it.
Vacationists, young and old, watch
with interest as the little boat
bounces through the surf. Then
they grab the net and haul it right