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Show SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1952 THE JOURNAL Page 2 THE READER'S DATE BOOK Communities in the Sun-Be- lt Advertise Winter Attractions O Experts predict a drop in food prices following peak Index of 234.4 reached on November 26. We already have noted In this column decline of Vacation promotions are usually associated with spring, sum- -; mer and fall. In recent years, however, more and more home town-e- rs rest in winter, headhave started taking the annual too, ing for the sunny south. And home towns in the sun-behave become aware of this trend and have taken advantage of it to attract tourists. Motels in or near small towns along the southern routes in sun-belt the have done much to attract business. Today the Re spectability of most roadside rooming is on a par with :'ts almost unDog Show, Phoenix, March believable luxury. There are At state fairgrounds, open to all stretches of highway in the south, breeds. Gem Show, Phoenix, March specially in Florida, where motels ,are lined up almost solidly. Rodeo, Phoenix, March The growing appeal of the motel, ARKANSAS of course, is based upon ease and Quail Championship, Booneville, informality of ar- March 3. National event for amarival, stay, and de- teurs. parture. At the end Concert, Little Rock, March 1 of a long days high school competition. drive a tired and Sunrise Service, Hot Springs, wrinkled family 13. annual presApril doesnt particularly entation onSeventeenth mountain. Hot Springs care to buck traffic Hot Fishing, Springs, April 20. in a city to searcn on Lakes Catherine and Contest 'out a hotel, find a parking place, Hamilton mark 120th anniversary !parade through a critical lobby, and of Hot Springs as a government tip bell boys in and out. Many peopark. ple now prefer to pull up at their CALIFORNIA "sleeping door", where everything La Sixth Tennis, Jolla, Jan. ,in the loaded car, down to the tournament annual for players 45 babys bottle, is handy. A clean restaurant L usually in or older. Admission free. Golf, San Diego, Jan. $10, jthe same building or just across or 000 tournament. open down the road. There are no city Carrot Carnival, Holtville, Feb. inoises to keep the traveler awake, Bug Bunny will he-- d street no hands out for tips, no necessity carrot-crat- e coaster contest. !to dress up. Departure at any hour fair; Date Festival, Indio, Feb. in the morning is at the convenience Camel races highlight this annual 'of the motorist. event. the Gold Coast Along Floridas Soaring, San Diego, Feb. luxury of some of these motels is Sixth annual Pacific Coast midunbelievable. Comfort is representwinter soaring championships. new room. ed by San Diego, Feb. 24. AnRegatta, Some are wholly nual contest for Southwestern Yacht (Quite a number have their own Club Trophy. swimming pools and sundecks. "This Is America, San Diego, as beaches 'Many have their private 26. Songs, dances, discussions 'well. Restaurants and bars are Feb. about various nations whose people present in the big new ones. In the service department the came to America. Garden Tours, Santa Barbara. motel is beginning to outshine 30. March hotels. At many places the guests FLORIDA are practically wrapped up in cotton are If at bed to and put you night. Fishing, St. Petersburg, Jan. 1. Rod-Gu- n Clubs tournament staying at least a week the icebox will in your complete kitchenette Camellia Show, Pensacola, Jan be stocked, free, with bacon, butter, Cat Show, St. Petersburg, Jan cream, milk, eggs, bread, breakfast food, sugar, salt and pepper. Maid service is included in your Regatta, St. Petersburg, Jan. the on is car Your rent. washed, lightning meet. house, every few days. Flowers Antiques, St. Petersburg, Jan. from the grounds are kept in your Horse Show, Miami, Feb. vases. Ice is always available. Of increasing popularity to winter Sports Show, Miami, Feb. Southvacationists is Key West, favorite Fair, Ft. Myers, Feb. retreat of President Truman. Last west Florida exhibition. AtState Fair, Tampa, Feb. year all records were broken on the Overseas Highway which connects tracts more than 1,000,000 visitors. Edison Pageant, Ft. Myers, Feb. Florida and. the Keys when 406,-34- 7 passenger automobiles were checked through the toll gates. Of Gasparilla Festival, Tampa, Feb. these 174,729, or 43 per cent, were Parade, pirate invasion, corocars. This was a big nation ball, fiesta, outward-boun- d jump from the previous year, when voyage, fireworks. tolls were collected from 282,600 of GEORGIA which about 45 per cent were from Masters Tourney, Augusta, March out of state. In 1946 the number of men golfers parpassenger cars was the much ticipate. smaller total of 154,555. Hams-Egg- s Show, Ft. Valley, For the home town tourist plan- March ning a vacation in the next few Titleholders Golf, Augusta, Apr. months here is a calendar of events For women experts. ' in a few states: 21-2- 12-1- 3. 12-1- 3. I 20-2- All-sta- In meat te Charles revenue bureau, admits he gave Henry Grune-wal- d data on Teitelbaum tax case, but denies he was member of alleged clique of officials who tried to shake Teitelbaum for $500,000 in crooked money. QUESTIONED ex-couns- el . . . Oli-pba- nt, of O There is expected general shortage of civilian goods in first quarter of 1952, but stores handling bicycles and household appliances are efense 0. 19-2- 0. 28-3- issuing public reports in October, 7 per cent in October 1950. From publicly reported cash FREED . . . Vance Erin Hardy was freed in Detroit court after spending 27 years for crime he did not commit murder. He was freed through the efforts of his sister, 024.000.- 000, up 9 Gladys Barrett, Detroit, after investigation by a national magazine O Of interest of his case. 8. 11-1- 6. te 3-- 6. BLEAK FUTURE . . . Korea vet John Palma, Brooklyn, smiles with fiancee Terry Marchiano. Wounded in Korea, taken prisoner and released, he still has 12 pieces of shrapnel in his head and G. I. bill of rights offers him no aid in supporting himself. Travelcades, sponsored by Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, to Mesa, Feb. 2. Don Club Treks, from Phoenix to Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Feb. 21-2- 13-2- 6. Spring Fiesta, New Orleans, Apr Tours of old homes, party in 6. French Quarter. .Wickenburg Dude Ranches, Jan. 13; MISSISSIPPI .Wickenburg Gold Rush Day, Feb. 3; Field Trials, Shuqualak, Jan. 21. St. Johns Mission, Feb. 24; Lost National meet. Dutchman Mine, March, 9; San U.S. Field Trials, Hernando, Feb. Carlos Indian Reservation, March 11. March Grand Canyon, ,23; ' Mardi Gras, Biloxi, Feb. 26. State Picnics, Mesa, Kansas-Mis-sour- i, Feb. Pilgrimage, Natches, March Jan. 27; Montana, 3; DaNEW MEXICO South Dakota, Feb. 10; North San kota, Feb. 17; Wyoming, Feb. 24. Ildefonso Pueblo, Jan. Fiesta, 3. Feb. Phoenix, 23. Buffalo Dance featured. Stampede, roundup. Western Dance, Clayton, Jan. I Rodeo, Wickenburg, Feb. 10. ConCandlemas Dancing, Phoenix, Feb. Day, San Felipe, e and gests for square dancing Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos, fiddling. Feb. 2. Cactus Show, Phoenix, Feb. Spring Com Dance, Cochiti PuebFeb. Phoenix, lo, March Trapshooting, Horse Show, Mesa, March (Released by WNU Features.) 29-3- 25-2- 7. old-tim- 17-2- 4. 22-2- 4. 1-- 9. 25-2- 8. Prepared by (he Washtnrtoa Bureau or WNU Features. CQUESTIONIBOXft died recently a result of a serviceconnect-e- d disability for which he had been drawing 100 per cent com- 0. 6. O Department of Agriculture reported price support program loans and inventories- of Commodity Credit Corporation as of. Oct. 31, 1951, amounted to $2,036,088,000. CCC sustained net loss of $39,052,000 in carrying out program during current fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951. Q. My husband pensation pay. After VA passes my claim for death compensation, would my payments be based on his degree of disability? M.J.R., Leesburg, Va, All-.'weste- rn 15-1- January through October dividends aggregated $6,- per cent over 1950. to all business men on Main as 0. 1 corporations amounted to $533,000,000 above $496,000,000 paid out (Send your questions about the armed forces or any aspect of military service to: Walter Sbead, Armed Services Question Box , 10 57 National Press Building, Washington 4, D.C. Answers will be given in this column .) LOUISIANA ARIZONA US - 14-1- 6. 27-2- 8. field offices, then per cent increase asked by roads last March. granted 9 per cent in August to apply east of Mississippi and north of Ohio rivers, and 6 per cent in rest of country. Roads say it isnt enough and want balance of 15 per cent increase originally asked. 6. Top-ranki- may be ICC 4-- 9. ng applications 15 1. 13-1- 6. RFC Street is action of Interstate Commerce Commission m setting January 14 ror hearings on railroad petitions for increased freight rates. Railroads filed petition in October for 7.2 per cent increase to be obtained by putting into effect full 1-- 3. out-of-sta- any one of 32 Loan O Cash dividend payments of er 1-- steel RFC. 19-2- 3. Mid-wint- of called to attention of Small Defense Plants Administration for recommendation; terms conditions and maturities of each loan to be determined by pri-jva- te 19-2- first that bicycle allotments Production act. filed at an 15-M- ay conducting survey laundry equipment material allotments will also produce a shortage, and layoff of possibly 45 per cent of present plant force early in 1952. O Small Defense Plants Loan ; RFC announced plans and procedures for handling loans from 5100.000.- 000 fund set up by congress in new D- I spick-and-sp- to determine profits. home , 4. is now first quarter of 1952 are cut 50 per cent while washing machines, ironers, dryers and other 1. 23-2- OPS profits. for 0. 4. better pendent stores, however, make forewarned I 19-2- grocers are running into red. According to one source a survey of chain stores indicates profit per $100 of sales is 410 for this year in 32 chains as compared to $1.44 last year. Indemany 12-1- 4. 17-2- prices. O Office of Price Administration Is being flooded with petitions from retail groceries, including big chains, ,that prices are too low and 3. J and oils, eggs and chickens, and In meat supplies which Indicate slide build-u- p big lt, fats on prices two-wee- ks Death compensation paysurvivors of veterans are BLIND GI HOME . . . P.F.C. the number and type of Charles Hunzlger, New York, aldependents only, and not on the most totally blinded by a grenade of compensation the veterexplosion In battle of Heartbreak degree ans received while they were alive. Ridge, was flown home by the miliQ. What requirements must a tary air transport service. He d recent the veteran have spent holiday with his A. No. ments to based on recently-discharge- mother. to take out the new type of non-converti- ble government term in- surance? D.E.C., Yorktown, Iowa. He must have been ordered to active duty for 31 days or more; served since June 27, 1950, and been released from active service. Q. I have a permanent National Service Life Insurance policy. While on active duty in Korea, I was granted a waiver on part of the premium, but was told to keep on paying the full premium anyhow. What is VA going to do about the waived portion that I paid, now that Vve been reA. leased? P. L. T., Davenport, Florida. refund the waived portion in a lump sum. The money you receive will be the portion of the premium that was waived, with interest, for the entire period that the waiver was in force. A. ' VA will (Released by WNU Features.) |