Evening star., 1952-04-27
7 traveller S Notebook
ScribbIings About Vocation Places, Events
By Jacques FutreIIe, Jr.

Overnight accommodations al
ready are available on Skyline
Drive. Big Meadows Lodge is op-
Grating again after its winter
shutdown. and Skyland will be
ready for motorists in mid May.
Dickey Ridge Lodge will reopen
in June.
The Chicago and North West
ern Railroad has informed its
local Office that normal operations
on all its lines were to be re-
sumed today. Recent floods had
curtailed service. particularly in
the Sioux City Uowa) area.
Rapidly being depleted is the
stock Of summer cruises to Alaska.
Many choice dates on liners have
been sold out for weeks. Some
travel agencies have a few pack
aged tours, but at least one agen-
cy Is limiting the number on each
trip because of scarce accommo-
dations for housing passengers
overnight on Alaskan soil. An
other source of an Alaskan cruise
is the Northern Pacific Railway.
We checked the local Office of the
railroad Thursday. Yes, they still
have some "choice space" on es-
corted tour parties, leaving from
st. Paul, MINI. Westward to
Seattle and Vancouver, B. c., to
take the steamer for the Inside
Passage sail, tour members will
sightsee Yellowstone National
Park, Grand Coulee Dam, the
Rockies and Yakima Valley. Re-
turning through the Canadian
Rockies. the travellers will visit
Banff. Lake Louise and Calgary.
The tour is designed primarily for
farm folk, but city tourists may
go along.
Some folks call San Diego the
plymouth Rock Of the West" A
Coast Guard station now stands
on Ballast Point, in San Diego
Bay. where Juan Rodriguez Ca
brillo landed in 1542 to discover
what is now the West Coast of the
United States.
The Southwest will get its first
dome cars this coming summer.
Missouri Pacific Lines will run
planetarium dome coaches in the
Texas Eagles between st. Louis
and Dallas. Fort Worth, Austin
and San Antonio.
Ceremonial Previews-Beginning
May S, Santa Fe IN. Mex.) visitors
will see dances that will become
part of the Inter- Tribal Ceremo-
nial in the summer. The seasonal
schedule of Indian dances will be
held each Monday evening in the
plaza.
After some special sailings, the
Georgian Bay Lines sister queens
of the Great Lakes will begin their
cruise season June %. SailingI
once a week on seven-day trips,
each ship will cover 1900 miles of
scenic and historic sections of the
inland sea. Starting point of the
South Americans cruises to Du-
luth will be Buffalo, N. Y. The
North American will run between
Chicago and Buffalo. VacationersI
may join either ship at Buffalo,
Cleveland or Detroit. ....
The Northwood Hotel at Ocean
City, N. j.. has become the Coch-
ran House.
The City Of Miami News Bureau
has come up with potent clinch-
er to its claim that the Greater
Miami area has an equitable cli-
mate in the summer. The bureau
quotes John @. Steinbach, anna
teur astronomer, to the effect that
New York and Chicago have about
two more hours a day of summers
hot sun than Miami. That's be-
cause the sun moves north" in
summer. 1t has been calculated
that on June 20, Miami has 13
hours and 46 minutes of sunlight,
against New York's Is hours and
seven minutes. That gives Miami
about two more hours each night /
to cool off. The southerly winds,
moving on Miami at about 10
miles an hour in the summer, also
have a cooling effect.
Faster Air Service-With its |
flight from Washington to Seattle
Tacoma, Wash, today. United
Airlines is cutting 40 minutes off 1
the fight. to offer the fastest |
service between the Nations
Capital and the Northwest. This
7-day-a-week plane makes only
two intermediate scheduled stops
and Denver.
Greyhound will puts its sum-
mer vacation schedules M effect
May 81. They will continue
through Labor Day.
Miami Beach says it leads the
world in the self-driven auto busi-
ness. Some 1000 rental cars are
available.
Devils Tower, the 400-million-
ton rock that rises out of a river
bed in the northwestern corner of
Wyoming, was set aside as a ma
tional monument in 1906. Geol-
ogists have more than one theory
as to how it came about. But