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Show ) Green RiveF "TV A Letter from Pearl, lona and Barbara... CARAVAN AMERICA TOUR 6 Castle Country Travel Council Coun-cil aided by Green River City and Chamber of Commerce, hosted 28 Airstream Trailers of a Caravan America Tour on the night of July 4. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Simone and Mrs. Pat Hyita came down from Price and were joined by Mr. and Mrs. James Ramsay of Castle Country Travel Country to host the dinner. Outlaw Trails served an outdoor banquet of filet mignons, dutch oven potatoes, tossed salad (with Outlaw Trails special dressings), dress-ings), zuccini and tomato, which is a river specialty, and a variety of drinks, including coffee from fire-blackened coffee pots. Ted Ekker and his son Gib built a fire at the United Campground and fried the potatoes, while Joe and Maxine Baker got the salad and other food ready. Ted and Joe broiled the steaks to order. Informality was the keynote of the gathering, and Butch Cassidy was the theme. Mayor Hart's welcoming address was gracious and friendly, and started things off in the right direction. There were people from the magazine and newspaper news-paper fields, as well as TV and other news media from all over the world, including Germany, Italy, Ceylon (which is now Sri Lanka) Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Nether-lands, England and several South American countries. All of them, whether they spoke much English or not, knew who Butch Cassidy was, and one little lady from Ceylon told me that there is even a comic strip in her country of Butch Cassidy. She promised to send me one. There are eight of these caravans traveling throughout the country as a Bicentennial program. The trailers are Airstream, furnished by the company, and the cars are Chryslers. The participants furnish their own food and gasoline. The tours cross the country from east to west. They begin in Washington D. C. and end in San Francisco, where another group of people takes over the equipment and crosses the country from west to east. The Wally Byam Company, builders of Airstream Air-stream trailers, is one of the sponsoring organizations, and several Federal agencies are involved. Tour guides and interpreters are along, but since the tour people told me that English is spoken almost worldwide, and all of these people spoke at least a little, they communicated with the local people very well. It was a special privelege to be a part of entertaining so cosmopolitan a group of people, and they told us again and again that they had resented being scheduled to spend the Nation's birthday in the middle of nowhere, but they had enjoyed this stop as much or more than any on their agenda. NEW GUT SHOP Mrs. Agipita Siders (she says to call her "Aggie") is opening a gift shop in the front portion of the Lemeiux cafe. She will offer Polynesian exports for sale. At present, the area is being remodeled for her needs, and she will have a grand opening in the near future. TRAIL RIDE Mrs. Jacquie Jewkes, riding Razon at Salida on Saturday, and Mrs. Pat McGann on Taffy participated in a 50 mile endurance ride. Razon came in first in best condition and Barbara placed 6th overall on Taffy. Endurance rides carry two coveted firsts, the winner and the horse that comes in in best condition. Jacquie almost always al-ways wins this with her mounts, Kindi or Razon (belonging to Parti Coomer), and often picks up a top prize on time. |