Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-01 | Page 17 | American Olympic Team of Winter Sports Aces Will like Bavaria Town

American i Olympic Team Of Winter Sports Aces 1 Will Like Bavaria Town By PAUL GALLICO t r I Special to The Telegram eAR Bavaria By y Mail Mall l American winter win ter sport athletes who come to this wonderful place a year from today practically for the opening of the 1936 Olymp games sames will find them t l selves in a little Bavarian Alpine village right out of oC a fairy fary book Every little snow-covered snow street f down which you walk or ride in a al hor horse dr drawn wn sleigh is like like a setting out of a story of dwarfs and gnomes and and line fine looking old foresters In green coats coals and long beards The gaily painted houses all seem to be bc made of ginger bread and candy and vanilla anilla and strawberry frosting Our boys bos will never have seen uen an anYthing any anything thing qui quite e so o gay or picturesque The outsides of th these e houses howes t the e ewall walls wall and their fronts arc all aU gaily frescoed in the old style with bright pictures of biblical scenes They all allI I have peaked roofs and beams and md h woodwork under the peak ak or scroll croll work Most of them have the trade or profession of their owners painted in Gothic Gothie letters on the outside Live in Simplicity The little villages look and live as h they have for the last man many hundred hundred hun dred of years When I asked the director director- Were rcck what plans had been made to receive quarter and take care of the thet t teams am and particularly the American contingent he told me mc that first of all 11 11 he be would await the wishes of the various teams and then would govern gov gov- cm ern himself according to those wishes He told me that when the American AmerIan Ameri Amen tan can an committee acquaints him with the number of men who will be In Inthe Inthe the party and whether they wish to tobe be in the town or on out of it to have havea a local cook or their own cook he will take care of them in just that manner Garm Garmisch is in the throes practically of ol war time billeting billet ing and the director is the chief billeting bil officer He lie plans to take over entire houses for various nations and thus keep them all living together under one roof with their own cooks No Detail Overlooked The Germans are going about this business as you ou might expect they might thoroughly and efficiently I Ibave have bave a copy of their billeting blank or rather an inventory blank on which as they go o from house to house housein in the village they list not only every room and bed but also ever every chair i table couch and mirror the type of heating bathing and toilet facilities lighting balconies and even the view There wi will l b no profiteering or price boosting The committee according ac cording to the quality of the quarters quare juar will affix the price to be charged right to the door Ever Every bed or room in Jn the villa village e will vill have the official price fixed by the Olympic committee commit tee one that is fair to lo both parties the landlord and the guest Thus said Director the average A per r per person on for bed and three lull full meals a da day will be somewhere about 8 marks which at the present rate of exchange is around a day for lor room and board And i if the Americans will think to bu buy regis marks bc before ore coming over here that will make even cheaper