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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wdnsdy. July 17, 1967 Famed Sun Valley Winter Resort Offers Many Summer Attractions Many Families Motor to Spa Thm following ( Mndofi aatlon f a niatortar appar lJiC In The ftanday Oreronlan. It U ana of an annual thrift pnnor4 JaIMI? by tha Or a Ntata Motar aatoclatloa and Tha Orrrnnlan. BT HAROLD HUGHES Surf wntr. Tnt Ortfonun Under the winter snow banked nd drifted around the lodge, Inn and chalet of Sun Valley 1 the richest bluegrass lawn In Idaho. Thii grass, which lies frozen and dormant during the exhilarations of the skiine sea- sin, is symbolic of the trans formation the resort undergoes from winter to summer. Such a good job of bathing E in ValJy In dazzling winter ized glamor has been done, what -ith peopling the place with movie stars, presidents. Interna tional celebrities, beautiful women and handsome men, that th average budget-conscious family was once timid about tackling tne resort in the sum mer season. Anyway, who would go to the nation's most famous ski resort in summer when the snow Is all melted? Well, lots and lots of people, both the Hollywood species and the budget-reminded family are showing up at the Sawtooth mountain resort to sip a cool- temperatured vacation loaded with all kinds of entertainment. Blaay Arrive Br Auto Despite the fact the resort was built and is owned and operated by the Union Pacific railroad, a large number of guests arrive in automobiles, just as we did vhen we arrived in a white Ore grin State Motor association mo torlog car and highballed the family into a couple of comfort able rooms in the Challenger inn. Here. 13 hours' driving time from Portland, we began an ex citing stay In the bluegras principality of Sun Valley. The hottest attraction in the summer is also the coolest. It is the 16,200-square-foot Ice skat big rink, said by the builders to be the largest year-round out door rink in the world. In no time at all, say a few hours, children who have never been closer to Ice than an eleo trio refrigerator are actually standing upright on skates. In a few days, some are skating backwards, thanks to the help of the Olympic caliber skating pros. -it. - Cv t'' One wintertime activity continues throughont snmmer at Son Valley. Here the writer's children. Sheila and Joe, tried Ire skating nnder the warm sun. This Is popular attraction. The rink is in front of the Lodge Terrace, so it is possible each night to -enjoy the best food in Sun Valley and watch the skaters spin on the bril liantly lighted rink. If you get either bored or bruised by the skating, there is the Sun Valley Opera House, which shows first-run movies each night; there are two bars, nightly dancing, two dining rooms and a cafeteria for the guy who has to watch the fam ily dollars. There is also good television, for those who refuse to escape. Hayrack rides and pack trips aboard horses to Trail Creek cabin where a jazz trio provides dancing music are offered twice a week. Kids Have Playground There are two swimming pools; a nine-hole golf course with 18 tees; one of the finest trap or skeet shooting rigs in the nation and a rifle and pistol range. There is trout fishing in near by creeks between June 4 and October 31 and restricted fishing for lazy guests in the Sun Valley lake. There are four tennis courts and a pro to improve your shots. There are also 100 western riding horses and a superabundance of wide open spaces. A special playground, stocked with baby sitters, is provided for young children. Also, the -l N Burrs yaoQ-nW " " rerro 'TiHn 1 VSeoV ( VALLEY W Sj v -La- i? OregonUn can aaaoh Son Valley by auto via V. S. highway XO or SO to Boise, U. S. 10 to Shoshone, then onto U. S. 83. common between the two major hotels has no auto traffic, so children are safe walking there. Bicycles and tricycles can be rented for modest sums. Cycling is a favorite form of transporta tion for all ages. The Impressive lawn and landscaping, never seen by the winter visitors, is not just to look at. Comfortable lounges around duck ponds and picture book bridges and waterfalls make the common an ideal place to soak up the sun and ignore the world. Rooms and rates to fit most pocketbooks, ranging from cele brity - like accommodations in the lodge to dormitory rooms for four at motel prices, are available. You can spend as little or as much money as you like. However, most of the entertain ment and rides, except for the swimming pools, which are free to hotel guests, will cost extra money. Shoshone Is Railhead The maximum average tem perature in July, generally the hottest month in the valley. which is 6000 feet above sea level, is 80.1 degrees. August is about the same and Septem ber averages about eight de grees cooler. Driver from Oregon and Washington will approach Sun Valley from the west through Boise. It is 121 miles from Boise over U. S. highways 30, 26 and 20 to Shoshone, where rail visit ors are picked up on busses for the 55-mile trip north to the re sort. Only an hour's driving time from Shoshone are the volcanic and lava splendors of the Crater of the Moon, one of the geological wonders of the na tion. Four and a half hours more driving will bring you to Yel lowstone national park, where nature has Indulged in super exertions to provide scenery. Summer activities at Sun Val ley run from June 1 until Octo ber 15, when the resort Is closed down for repair and refurbish ing in preparation for the ski season that opens at Christmas and runs to early April. Pan Am Now Serves Island By Qirect 10-Hour Flight Bridgetown, Barbados HB This Caribbean oasis has opened its airport to an American air line and decked to go after the American tourist market with a vengeance, After 15 years of trying. Pan American World Airways won its fight to serve this British West Indian island directly in stead of by shuttle flight. When PAA ran its first plane in here recentlv, the locals were out spokenly hopeful that a flood of Americans would follow. Barbados has been somewhat off the beaten track for Ameri cans, although it lies in the heart of the island chain that arcs southward from Puerto Rico to the South American coast. Its charm lies in that element of quiet backwash, since for rre than 300 years it has been a bit of England in the tropics. ut with the coming of new days and the prospect of the new Caribbean Federation, Barbados longs for the clink of Yankee dollars. Long known as the "sugar bowl of the British Empire," and a place favored by the ship wreckers of pirate days, it now needs more than sugar cane to insure a living for its growing population of more than 240,000 persons. 10-Hour Flight Most are colored, and they are showing the stirrings of col ored races all over tie world At present, they work five months a year in the sugar cane fields and at the sugar factories. The rest of the year they get by somehow, calling their plight "the hard times" and waiting for better days. But these are days of pro gress, and the people of Bar bados feel the need for industry. ' commerce and tourism to make I their lot a better one. They have all the built-in ad vantages to make their dreams come true. Their climate is de lightful ranging from the up per 70's to the low 80's and caressed by the gentle trade winds to give the place a built in air conditioning system. They haye six de luxe club3, 12 first-claW hotels and a num ber of second-class hotels and guest houses offering a total of nearly 1,000 beds. Prices range from less than S4 per person to about $18 per person in the winter which is the busiest sea son. From May 1 to Nov. -30 the off-season rates at the de luxe clubs and the first class hotels run from $6 to about $9 per person, and even less for groups. Such prices, and the new ease of reaching this island al though it's 1.825 miles from New York and 2,023 miles from New Orleans should bring Bar bados into competition with Miami, Cuba and the Bahamas as a tourist mecca. Pan Am's new three-times-a-week flights from New York bring the U. S. metropolis and Bridgetown within less than 10 hours flying time of each other Grange Notes Central Point Granga Miss Josephine Tombs, Inter national Farm Youth Exchange student from Tewkesbury Glou cestershire, England, will talk and show slides to Central Point Grange members Friday, July 19. She is a guest at the Chuck Taylor home. Members are asked to bring items from England for the dis play table. The serving commit tee will be Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wendt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Con ger and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Conger. MilitaryCivilian Air Officials Differ On Arizona Airways Washington HP - A battle of the airways between military and civilian planes is on in Ari zona. The conflict involves jet planes flying north and south out of Luke Air Force base and airliners and other civilian planes flying east and west along the airways out of Phoen ix. Collisions Ftarad The Civil Aeronautics Admin istration, fearing collisions in the crossing pathways, issued an order June 7 requiring all planes crossing the major east west airways to fly below 2,000 feet altitude. Planes traveling on the east west airways were ordered to At Least 400 Dead In Philippine Flood Manila HPi At least 400 per sons were killed and another 1,000 fear dead in one of the worst floods in Philippine his tory, reports from remote Pan gasinan Province said today. The flash floods triggered by typhoon Wendy swept entire vil lages away on the northern island of Luzon and some 30.000 persons were reported homeless in an area covering six towns. It was feared that more than 1.500 persons may have been swept away by the surging waters of the Agno river. The government was rushing new troops and relief workers to the scene. The typhoon last was reported sweeping toward the Chinese mainland with 70 mile an hour winds. The Hong Kong Observa tory said it would pass 100 miles south of the colony by Thurs day. Escaped Prisoner Held for Arizona Portland HPI A n d r e w D. Polan, Arizona state prison es capee serving a life sentence lor murder, waived preliminary hearing Tuesday and was being held here until Arizona author ities could arrange for his extra dition. Polan was raDtured here Mon day by the FBI after a tip from an unidentified person who saw his picture in a post office. Robert L. MCK.ee, roian bi- fnmv niH Polan had been in Oregon for 'the past year and had been working in the office of a logging company. Polan was convicted in the 1953 slaying of Herbert Wright Sr. at Phoenix and entered prison on April 25, 1955, the FBI said. He escaped March 4, 1956. remain above 3,000 feet. The commanding general at Luke objected. He said crossing the airways below 2,000 feet is highly dangerous for jets be cause of collision danger. He alro said severe turbulence at such low altitudes over the des ert creates hazards for student pilots flying in formation. Exercising the military's right to object, he served notice he would not comply and said his jets would fly as high as 2,500 feet when crossing the north south runways. He said this alti tude is necessary for safety. Previous Order Applied The CAA, which rules civilian air traffic, asked the Civil Aero nautics Board with power to con trol military planes as well to overrule the Luke commander. Last Friday the CAB gave the CAA power to handle the matter and the CAA applied its previous order to both military and civil ian planes. CAA officials said, however, that as far as they know the Luke commander is still letting hi jets fly across the east-west airlanes at 2,500 feet. The CAA order specified a coiling of 3.000 feet above mean sea level for the jets. This is 2,000 feet above the ground at Luke. MONEY CLAIM BACKFIRES Fort Mill, S. C. m Glen Mullinax thought he had a shrewd financial deal in the making when he claimed $17.34 in city taxes paid over the past three years on the ground that he lived outside the city limits. But the alert town council promptly billed him for $72 for city garbage collections during that time. Grange Notes Shady Cot Orang The Shady Cove Grange met Wednesday evening, July 10, in the Shady Cove school music room. Owing to many on vacation not all committees had reports. Mrs. Ola Houston, the HEC chairman, reported on the picnic held at Casey State park with the HEC of Upper Sogue Grange. The next HEC meeting will be at Mrs. Reed McKays w.th a noon picnic. The next Grange meeting will be the monthly social meeting which will be a potluck supper at the home of Mrs. Thelma Reining on Rogue river on July 4. The regular quarterly meeting of the Jackson County Grange council was held at the Shady Cove Grange Saturday, July 13. Malheur Bridge Repair Bids To Be Presented Ontario (W Ontario City Su perintendent Herb Derrick was informed Tuesday by state Dep uty Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper that plans and specifica tions for bids for the repair of the Malheur bridge north of On tario would be presented to the highway commission at a meet ing Aug. 8. The bridge was washed out last February by heavy floods in the Ontario area. It was not until 1909 that in vestigators discovered that in fantile paralysis was caused by a virus. Rolling Dice for Drinks Said Illegal Portland (W Police Chief William J. Hilbruner warned cocktail lounge and tavern oper ators Tuesday they will be sub ject to arrest if patrons are per mitted to throw dice for drinks or jukebox music. Complaints had been received, Hilbruner said, that patrons in some night spots were rolling dice with employees for drinks instead of dealing with cash. A Portland gambling ordi nance makes gambling for any thing of value illegal, he explained. NICKEL OFFICIAL DIES New Brunwick, N. J. iffl Walter C. Kerrigan, 64, assistant to the president of the Interna tional Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., and its United States subsidiary, the Inter-National Nickel Co. Inc., died Tuesday. The WASH LINE IS FOR THE BIRDS Use Our Economical ' FLUFF FOLD SERVICE Washed! Dried! Folded! $J25 6-Hr. Service 15 LBS. Dumas' Domestic Laundry & DRY CLEANERS 30 N. Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-6165 Family Fares Money on the CITY of PORTLAND Jo CHICAGO and EAST Big Family Pays Off! But there's real saying when two or mors people in a fam ily group travel on Union Pacific's Family Far plan Good when boarding ANY U. P. train on Monday. Tues day. Wednesday or THURS DAY. Return any day and there's a generous baggage allowance. Ask us for details. R. Tl. TOOMEV, General Traffic Agent, 207 Medlral Center Bld(., Phone SP 3-5388, Medfora, Or. Pedaling Reclaims 'Hopeless Cripple' Seattle, Wash. OPl Nineteen years of pedaling a giant tri cycle back and forth across America have reclaimed what doctors once called "a hopeless cripple." Wilfred F. Wright, 57, a bache lor from St. Petersburg, Fla., rolled into Seattle earlier this week after pedaling some 3,918 miles from his southern home. He left Florida May 3 and is en route to Alaska. Wright began pedaling the mammoth three-wheeler in 1939, a year after doctors in a veterans hospital had pronounced him a hopeless cripple. It began as just a health exercise, but in the 19 years suice, he says he has made five trans-continental journeys aboard his velocipede: It is estimated that some of the engines in use on the Cana dian railroads build up as much mileage as 16,000 miles within 30 days. Boat, Car Launched In Willamette River Portland ilF Robert J. Sto field, Portland, launched his out board boat and his car at the same time at a public ramp on the Willamette River Tuesday. Stoficld had backed his car onto the ramp to ease the boat into the water, when his brakes fail ed and the vehicle plunged into 30 feet of water. Stofield broke a window and escaped from the car on the wav down. The boat floated. I HERB WILSON ft - 1 J W "Would you buy a new car if , I can give you over $800.00 discount on my 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air?" My Sport Sedan is complete with Power Pak V8 engine, Power Glide, radio, heater, con tinental tire carrier, back-up lamps, washers, safety power steering and many other deluxe extras. See Me at Courtesy Chevrolet CallMeatSP2-6115Daysor at SP 2-7224 in the Evening PLASTIC Juice Container s . Made of unbreakable polyethylene with easy pouring non-drip spout. Regular 79c SALE PRICE 57 PLIERS Combination slip joint, drop forged steel pliers. Regular 59e Sale O "57 Prce 37 LADIES' 1 Plastic Mats House Slippers 12" x 16". For drainboard or stove mats. Available in red, white, pink and turquoise. 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