Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
The Travellers Notebook
Scribblings of Tourist Events and Places

The Matson Lines Lurline, long
tied up by the longshoremen' S
strike, will not be in service in
time to carry tourists to Hawaii's
Aloha Week" celebration, Octo-
Der 30 November 6. Those hoping
to sail on the luxury ship for
Honolulu's unique event are be-
ing advised by the local office
that, on it's return to the West
Coast, the Lurline will 60 into
drydock. The first poststrike
sailing to Hawaii probably will be
later in November.
K. L. M. Royal Dutch Airlines
has opened a new hotel at Cura-
Gao, Netherlands West Indies. 1t
is located about half a mile from
Hato Airport and is primarily in
tended for K. L. M. transit pass
engers with a scheduled stop on
the island. No vivid imagination
went into naming the hotel. 1t
is called. prosaically enough,
*. L. M. Hotel Hato."
When Twenty-nine Palms,
Calf, holds it's Pioneer Days cele-
bration October 1928, every man
must wear a beard. Those who
don't will be hailed before kan
CARGO court for sentencing. Wom-
en- face the same consequences if
they wear makeup.
Pinehurst, in North Carolina s
sandhills country, opened its 55th
resort season October /. The
Holly Inn and the Pinehurst
Country Club already are receiv-
ing guests as well as. the big
Carolina Hotel, which opened
Thursday. The other NOTES.-THE
Berkshire, Manor and Pine Crest
start their season soon.
With devaluation, the United
States dollar buys a British West
Indies dollar valued at $1.69. The
BWI dollar is used, among other
places, in Trinidad and Barbados.
Sailing Up Mount Hood.-Now
nearing completion Is an aerial
tramway which will swing passen-
gers from the deep forests up to
Timberline Lodge, at the base Of
the ski terrain of Mount Hood,
Oregon. At Timberline, skiers and
CT yh
mile long ski lift and ride to an
elevation of 1000 feet on Mount
Hood. The view of the mountain,
forest and river scenery is recon-
mended.
-Four new hotels are being COM
pleted in Miami Beach for win
ter-season openings. With these
new facilities. visitors may choose
from a list of $50 hotels where
to stay. The Miami Beach News
Bureau reports that bargain sum-
mer rates will continue through
October. Next month will bring
upward adjustments in the rates,
but moderate between season
tariffs will apply through mid
December" according to the
bureau.
The dramatic "Wheels A-Rol-
lin" pageant of Chicago's Rail-
road Fair would become part
of Washington's sesquicentennial
celebration next year if Franklin
Snow, the railroad writer, has his
way. Shortly before the Chicago
exposition shutdown, Maj. Lenox
r. Lohr, president, said the ex-
position was closing forever"
that the historic trains and other
old transportation equipment of
the pageant would be dispersed,
probably never to be assembled
again." Mr.. Snow feels that the
railroads need to give Fasteners
something of that nature to
dramatic the progress Of rail-
roads. The show, he says, was
educational, clean, colorful and
entertaining, and would be ap-
pealing to many out-of- town per-
sons attending the sesqui.
All-American Always. whose
planes fly from National Airport
to New Jersey. Delaware. Mary
land and many other Eastern
points, has worked out arrange
ments for the sale of its tickets
at the downtown Washington
Offices of American Airlines. SINH
lar arrangements have been made
with AA in Buffalo, N. Y; Balti-
more, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
Newark and New York. ALL
American also has announced it
has joined the growing group of
airlines offering thrifty family
plan" rates.
The third edition of the Official
Trailer Park Guide, published by
the Trailer Coach Manufacturers
Association, is rolling off the
presses. It's 300 pages list and
rate about 5000 parks in all sec
lions of the country, gives ratings
of No. l and No. 2 to 2,878
grounds and tells of others scoring
below No. 2. It sells for ST and is
distributed by trailer dealers, park
operators and headquarters of the
Trailer Coach Manufacturers As
ISOLATION at 20 Wacker drive, Chi
cago. Fifty-two per cent of all
the listed parks are in California,
Florida, Arizona and Texas.
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