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contest at Darnestown Elementary School.
Tommy Thrasher (left) and Stephen Chap
man lost their chances to the 25-mile winds
which snapped their kites before they were
Europe Paves the Way for
Vacationers on Wheels
United Press International
! Driving through Europe,
‘ growing in popularity among
tourists, also is getting smooth-,
er and faster thanks to new
highway construction and im
provements.
A survey conducted by a ma
jor auto rental and sales organ
ization (Auto - Europe, Inc.)
among several European na
tions points out major projects,
■ undertaken to speed the domes- J
• tic as well as foreign traveler
on his way.
Here are the resuits of the
survey in which each country
listed what it considered the
most important advances dur
’ Ing the past year to improve
• road and general driving condi-
I tions. The price of gasoline in
each country also is included:
Austria
Austria has modernized and
' rebuilt the vital Brenner rdr
leading, from Innsbruck into
*, Italy. This project includes con
struction of the Europa Bruecke
Bridge. At the top of the Gross
; glockner Pass, 8,000 feet above
'• sea level, a new silo garage is
' being constructed and will be
completed this summer. It will
accommodate 900 cars and 300
■ scooters and motorcycles. Seven
floors high, the garage will be
served by spiral ramps.
I Gasoline: 52 cents a gallon
" regular, 56 cents high test.
Denmark
Denmark, whose major high
" ways are generally excellent, re
h ports that it is concentrating on
‘ the improvement of secondary
roads which have been modern
• ized extensively in the past few
1 years and offer a very attrac-
Z tive net of “green roads.”
|* “Green roads is the Danish term
■ for the most picturesque routes.
Gasoline: 51 cents a gallon for
regular, and 53 cents for pre
• mium.
Finland
| The Finns estimate that there
• has been more new road con
struction in Finland than any
• where else in Europe during the
- past few years. An automobile
‘ trip from Helsinki to Savon*
• linna, the center of the Easter
I Leke District, which formerly
• took 10 hours can now be made
, on one of the new highways in
• four hours. From Helsinki north
• towards Tampere and Pori, road
J construction has been com
• pleted.
• Gasoline is about 62 rents per
! gallon.
France
f . In order to facilitate access to
the new French Southern High
! way, a circular boulevard
; around Paris is being built.
! When completed, it will be possi
| ble to drive from the Porte de
• Chatillon to the Porte d’ltalie
; without encountering stoplights
or intersections. There will lie
, no speed limit on the route
; which will bo 36 kilometers (22
. miles* long.
> Gasoline: about 60 cents per
; gallon with reduced rate tourist
coupons.
. West Germany
; The important section of the
I Autobahn between Cologne and
; Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), was
. completed in December, cutting
’ down considerably on travel
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airborne. The contest followed a ceremony
at which Cub Pack 1079 presented a dog
wood tree to the school. Sponsor of the
Pack is the Darnestown P-TA.
time to Brussels. Another high
way has been opened between
Wuppertal and Hagen in the
Ruhr district. This 18.6-mile
stretch is the costliest Autobahn
feeder in Germany, costing over
$1 million per mile. A scenic
road, the Black Forest “Hoch
strasse” between Baden-Baden
and Freudenstadt has been
widened to accommodate in
creasing traffic.
I
Gasoline: 64 cents to 74 cents
per gallon.
Great Britain
The most important new road
projects completed in Britain in |
the past year are the M-l tour-|
lane highway from London to
Birmingham, and the Ross Mo
torway from Tewkesbury west
ward to Ross-on-Wye. The new
M-l, with its high speed, makes
it possible for the visitors to
reach the historic countryside
of Warwickshire in a little more
than one hour from London.
Here Stratford-on-Avon, War
wick Castle, Leamington Spa,
Sulgrave Manor and the famous
Cotswold Hills are notable at
tractions. The road from Tew
kesbury to Ross-On-Wye in
Britain’s west country makes it
easy to drive into Wales from
the Warwickshire area. This su
per highway is only 23 miles
long, but it passes through out
standing scenery.
Greece
One of the most modern roads
in Greece was opened to traffic
recently. It runs from Athens
approximately 290 miles north
to Salonica over a new bridge
at Tempi, located 20 miles north
of Larissa. The 110 miles from
Salonica south to Larissa is four
lanes. The road from Larissa
south to Athens is two lanes,
j but will become four lanes later
this year according to the Na
tional Tourist Organization of
Greece.
Gasoline: 65 cents a gallon
regular.
Ireland
In recent years. $1,120,000 has
been spent on developing and
improving special tourist roads.
About 25,000 miles of roads now
have new dust-free surfaces.
Some 25,000 signposts, including
3,000 advanced reflectorized
signs, have been supplied by the
Irish Tourist Boards lor mark
ing these roads.
Gasoline: 54 cents a gallon.
Italy
Italy has opened the Auto
jstrade from the Po Valley to
1 Florence. The highway eventu
ally will link the Swiss border
with Naples. It is now open
from Milan through Florence.
The major link across the Apen
nines from Bologna to Florence
has just been opened to traffic,
while the section from Rome to
Naples is under construction.
The Rome-Florence portion will
be completed in 1963. A drive
from Milan to Florence now
takes only four hours.
Gasoline: 53 cents a gallon
with reduced rate coupons.
The Netherlands
Roads in The Netherlands are
generally good and the env
! phasis is on maintenance of the
existing roads. Pavement on
highways and even smaller
roads are either concrete or
—Photo by Mervis.
hard mixed with fine gravel to
deter skidding when wet. Of in
terest to motorists is The Neth
erlands Touring Club which
maintains all road signs and
operates a road guard service.
Special patrolmen wearing
brown uniforms and riding yel
low motorcycle or small yellow
cars patrol the roads constant
ly on the look-out for motorists
in trouble.
Gasoline: 48 cents per gallon.
Norway
New overnight steamer serv
ice between Oslo and the West
German port of Kiel begins in
May. The 7,500-ton car ferry
Crown Prince Harald will make
the crossing in 19 hours and
thus save motorists one to two
days over the shortest available
motor route. The new ship can
carry 120 cars and accommodate
1 513 passengers in single and
; double cabins and a sleeperette
! section with airplane-type re
clining seats.
Gasoline: 55 cents a gallon.
Portugal
Portugal reports that part of
the Lisbon-O porto Highway—
the span between Lisbon and
i Vila Franca de Xira with a
length of about 20 miles—is ex
pected to be open to traffic in
May or June.
Gasoline: About 60 cents a
gallon.
Spain
Spain reports a vast plan to
modernize the Spanish highway
system to be initiated this year.
The most important construc
tion underway is the highway
from La Junqucra to Barcelona.
Gasoline: about .64 cents per
gallon. Use of premium gasoline
is recommended.
Sweden
Sweden's most beautiful high
way—the part of National
Route 1 that runs along Lake
Vattern—has become an attrac
tion itself since the opening of
a new section which provides a
good view over Sweden’s second
biggest lake and is faster
than its predecessor. A new
highway expected to be
open in late summer will run
through Lapland and provide
the first direct connection be
tween Kiruna. gateway to the
Arctic, and the North Cape. Re
cently opened was a new high
way between Ostersund, Swed
en, and Trondheim, Norway, via
the scenic Indal River Valley
and the popular mountain re
sorts Are and Storlien. On the
west coast, north of Gothen
burg, a new highway connects
Tjorn Island, with the coast by
means of a new bridge across
the Askero Fiord.
Gasoline: 50 cents a gallon
for regular, 60 cents for pre
mium.
Yugoslavia
Rapid Strides are being made
i to improve the once inadequate
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Thunday, May 4,* 1961
SENTINEL
Travel Topics
By Ralph Villers
United Pres* International
TUCKER’S, TOWN, Bermuda
(UPl)—Bermuda, long a popu
lar honeymoon and just plain
vacation haven, did something
more than cry about the compe
tition when business dropped
early in 1960.
Now, the Atlantic coral island
is back to besting previous rec
ords for visitors. And there’s
enough confidence in the future
to justify another new hotel,
the 440-bed, modernistic Carlton
Beach, which will be opened in
July on the south shore of
Southampton Parish.
Last year there was some talk
back in the United States that
Bermuda business was off, and
extreme measures were being
considered to right the situation.
I
There even were suggestions!
that in this age of the distance
gobbling jet, Bermuda, 750
miles from New York was just
too close to the U. S. East;
Coast anymore.
It isn’t the easiest thing to
ask your-dinner host “embarras
sing” questions about how
things are going, especially if
he’s the chief of the Bermuda
Trade Development Board's
3rd Tri-County
Season Opens
The Tri-County Baseball
League opened for this third
year of business last Sunday
with a five-game schedule.
Beltsville defeated Muirkirk,
11-3, as Ray Lassiter picked up
the win. Blackwell was the
loser. The winners picked up
eight hits, with Tyson Baker
getting a homer, a triple and a
j double.
Minnick's blasted out. 16 hits
and scored 24 runs to route Bur- j
tonsville, 24-1, to give Delbert
Wright an easy win. Taylor
j Slye got a sole homer as Green
' belt took Bowie, 11-2, in an
: other lopsided game. Charles
i Marshburn was the winner in
I that one with Bill Nalley tagged
with the loss.
Bill Smith shutout Scaggs
| ville on one hit as Sandy
I Spring won, 3-0, on its home
I field. Lenny Hodges was the
winner while Bill Smith ab
sorbed the loss. In a high scor
ing free for all, Fairland bested
the Wheaton Sox, 10-8. as Carl
Cager with two homers paced
the winners. Earl Adams was
the winner.
| Wash. Window ...
(Continued from Page A3)
government program.”
Editor Williams probably is
right about that. Otherwise,
intelligent taxpayers seem eas
ily to accept the idea that the
weekly income tax bite on
their pay checks is paid by the
company. Hence the phrase
take-home pay, which actually
means what is left but which
the taxpayer comes to regard
as his salary—the tax deduc
tion, itself, being something
exclusively between his em
! ployer and the U. S. Treasury.
It is a wonder that employ
es who believe that can get
jobs at all—at anything.
system of roads and highways.
The long highway along the
beautiful Adriatic coastline is
half completed and in two years
will be finished. At present it
runs as far as the resort area of
Split and is partially completed
I between Split and Dubrovnik.
! The transit highway from Italy
i Austria - Hungary • Romania to
Greece is completed with the ex
ception of 100 miles. This new
highway passes through Sara
jevo and Mostar. Yugolsavia
! claims that each year over 250
miles of modern highways are
i built and new gas stations and
motels are constructed to com
pliment the improvements.
Gasoline: 57 cents a gallon
1 regular, 65 cents for premium.
I News Bureau. But Colin Selley
' wasn’t reticent about talking.
True, in early 1960 Bermuda's
tourist business (which repre
sents about 80 per cent of the
island’s income) was down. But
instead of damning the Jet Age
or the growing popularity of
some Caribbean Islands, Ber
muda promptly did not one, but
several things about it.
First off, an additional quar
ter-of-a-million dollars was budg
eted for advertising and pro
motion. The hotels also got into
the act.
By the end of last November,
despite a slow start in the year,
the 1959 season had already
been surpassed. And business
from last November through
February, 1961, was 8.5 per cent
over the same 1959-60 period.
Selley said that four of the
bigger hotels then started a pro
gram to see that visitors were
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amply entertained during the
evenings of the off-season
months from November
through February. The hotels
had gala nights in rotation, with
each sending its night club acts
to appear at the others and
limiting dancing among the
four to the hotel holding the
gala night.
Also all tl.o island's hotels
and the Corporation of Hamil
ton (the capital) got together to
see that every visitor received
an engraved invitation to a
weekly tea at Hamilton’s City
Hall.
The Trade Development
Board and the government co
operated to turn a majority of
taxi drivers into qualified tour
guides, offering a training pro
gram and licensing the drivers
who passed a test.
There even was a report last
year that Bermudians were des-
perate and had begun opening
their homes and gardens to visi
tors Sn specific days.
Selley scoffed at that—visits
to homes and gardens has been
going on for more than five
years during March, April and
May. More than 80 per cent of
the people who have taken the
Garden Club tours, which in
clude a stop for tea, have been
tourists. All the money from
the $1 charge has always gone
to charity. '
Bermuda had some 100,000
long stay visitors, plus some
45,000 cruise ship visitors, dur
ing 1960. The average length of
stay of the 100,000 was eight
days.
By the time the new hotel
opens this summer, the 24-mile
long sub-tropic island will have
some 5000 hotel beds.
The Jet Agp couldn't have
hurt either. There are as many
as six jet flights daily from
eastern U. S. and Canadian
cities in addition to as many as
five prop and prop-jet flights.
The jets put Bermuda only 80
minutes from New York. In
fact, airplanes were what took
Bermuda out of the category of
being exclusively a playground
for the rich. There are plenty
of rooms at exclusive rates, but
it's possible to get a room with
breakfast included for as low as
$5 to $7 a day.
* *
Visitors to Bermuda who
don’t island-hop elsewhere are
in for a pleasant surprise. The
U. S. Customs Service now has
agents based right at Bermuda’s
civil airport and passengers
clear customs before leaving
Bermuda. It has eliminated
sometimes long and frustrating
waits after arrival back in the
U. S.