SPECIAL WINTER VACATION SECTION Resorts and Travel—Camera Sunday Jitaf Educational—Classified E

TWENTY-TWO PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 6, 1952 — --■-—____

1 7 9

New You-Drive-lt Tour Of Europe to Cost $700

By Horace Sutton * Barring unforeseen hitches,

Americans will be able to spend a month in Europe next summer

for less than $700, round-trip transportation included.

Travelers will make their own Itineraries and travel in new, eight-passenger miniature buses, which they will drive themselves. If they stop at one of the several hundred hotels scattered all through the Western countries which have already agreed to participate in the plan, they will be accorded special rates for rooms and meals.

Called the Pamosa Plan, a

project of Pacific Motor Sales, the scheme was first unveiled at the World Travel Congress of the American Society of Travel Agents In Paris last fall. A few lines about the Pamosa Plan which I included in a column from Paris evoked so much interest that I am outlining all the phases of the enterprise which have been settled so far.

Get New Station Wagon. Here is how it works: Eight

persons each contribute a $100 fee. plus another $100 as a de- posit. For this total outlay of $1,600 they receive a new, eight- passenger Volkswagon station wagon. The vehicles, of hnique design, are manufactured in the American zone of Germany. They are about the length of a medium- sized American automobile, are

square-shaped like a railroad car, with the motor in the rear. Three sit in front, two in the second row and three in the back.

Since there is no hood, the view is unobstructed: since there is no

propeller shaft, there is no engine heat. The baggage rides on the roof.

When the car is returned to the Pamosa garage in Paris at the end of the trip, each passen- ger’s $100 deposit is returned. The $100 fee which each has paid covers the cost of the rental of the bus for' one month, plus inter- national driving documents, li- cense and insurance.

Participants will have to pay their own gas and oil, but here, too, the cost is negligible. An average month's trip will include.

More Homes To Open for Garden Week

RICHMOND.—Visitors to Vir- ginia during historic Garden Week, next April 26 to May 3, will find approximately 250 in- triguing homes and gardens open to them. About 100 of these places were not open last year, according to the State Department of Con- servation and Development,

One of the houses which is open for the first time is Oatlands, in Northern Virginia. This Geor- gian house was built in 1800 by George Carter, son of Robert Car- ter of Nomini Hall and great- grandson of Robert (“King”' Carter. It is now the property of Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis. The garden at Little Oatlands. the home of Mrs. Eustis’ daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Finley, will be open also.

In the Gloucester area may be seen Airville, Elmington, Todds- bury, Bel Rio, Hopemont and Kingston Hall, as well as a num- ber of the ^places which were

shown in former years. On the Eastern Shore, Bow-

man’s Folly, Mount Pleasant and Vaucluse will join the many places enjoyed by visitors during earlier garden weeks.

The Northern Neck is offering probably more first-time places than any other section. One of the especially interesting places is Kendall Hall, reputedly the site of the supposed Spanish set- tlement of 1570. At Cypress farm may be seen excellent flying stairways. Other homes, as well as churches, add to the offerings.

say, 2,500 miles of driving. The Volkswagon bus averages about 22 miles to the gallon and gas in Europe can roughly be figured at 50c a gallon. The gas bill for the entire month would come to $56.- 80, or $7.10 per person. Total ex- penditure per person so far: $107.10.

Itineraries Suggested. When tourists sign up for

the Pamosa plan, they will be handed a 56-page booklet, now

on the presses, which will outline suggested itineraries. (A sample one-month trip includes the tra- ditional route from Paris to Switzerland, over the Alps to Italy, then back across France to Paris.) The booklet will list the hotels in all the countries of Western Europe which have agreed to give special rates to the Pamosa tourists.

The hotels, all designated first- class. will charge a single room rate of $4 a night and provide a

complete luncheon or a full din- ner at $1.50. A continental break- fast costs about 50c. Figuring $3.50 a day for food and $4 a day for lodging brings the month’s cost for personal maintenance to $225 a man. Total per-person cost so far: $332.10.

Transatlantic transportation Is an expensive nut to crack, but ships like the Holland America’s new Ryndam, designed expressly for the comforts of the tourist- class passenger, charge a mini- mum of $150 each way, New York to Southampton. Figuring $320 for the ride to Europe and back, plus $332.10 for one month on

land, brings the total bare mini- mum cost for the entire trip to $652.10, with a little cushion in- side the $700 mark for tips and an occasional bottle of wine.

Those who wish to take ad- vantage of the new rates for tourist travel aboard the inter- national airlines will gain about two weeks’ time, but the minimum air-tourist ^ptes are still about $170 more expensive than the minimum steamship rates.

Travel Agency Sales. Pamosa's intricate system of

payment is designed to fit within the existing Continental regula- tions governing the sale of cars. In Prance, for example, a car of British or German manufacture may legally be resold to a non- resident; thus the transaction of Pamosa's German-made bus be- comes a deal between two Ameri- cans and is handled in dollars within the law. In effect, Pamosa sella the ear to the party of eight; and buys it back one month later | for $800 less titan the original price.

By this summer, Pamosa expects to have a few hundred of its snub nosed buses loaded with Ameri- cans skimming the European roads from Spain to Scandinavia. Most of its groups, it expects, will come from colleges, frater- nities and church societies The <

entire plan will be sold through travel agents, and Pamosa also anticipates that agencies may form parties of eight from among their individual clients.

Within the next few weeks, a Pamosa Volkswagon bus will begin touring the West Coast, and an- other is due to make the rounds of the East beginning late in January. Pamosa currently has offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Paris, and will open others in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington this spring. Those who do not wish to miss the bus may write now to Pamosa, 565 Fifty avenue. New York, N. Y.

Transfer Arranged United Air Lines and Pan Amer-

ican World Airways have signed an agreement which permits pas- sengers to transfer from one air- line to the other at Honolulu on through flights between the United States, the Orient and Australia, United officials have announced. FoUherly such transfers could be made, on a through-fare basis, only at Pacific Coast cities.

_TRAVEL._TRAVEL. |

\ agaycruises, ?

*

Make your escape from Winter as

gay as confetti or as restful as a lull- aby. Sit back, relax... do exactly as

you likol Broadway night dub enter- tainment sparks round-the-clock fun I Luxurious staterooms and a sapphire swimming pool typify your princely life I As for food and service, you'll wonder why Aladdin ever bothered || with a lamp!

H !

PIB.1 • N. Y. fa St. Thomas, Fort of Spoia, la Ooaira, Cristobal, Kingston, Havana, Natsao. It DAYS,'$495 op*

FIB. SI • N. V. to St. Thomot, Marti-

Vlncont, Fort of Spain, la Ooaira, Cristobal Kingston, Bi_ HOVOIHI#

11 DAYS, $49S op*

MAR. 12 • N. Y. to 5

St. Ulema*, Port of || Spain, la Oaaira, || Havana, Nassau. 14 DAYS, $3 SS up* || MAR. 29 • N. Y. to | St. Thomas, Barba- dot, St. Vincent, |' Port of Spain, la p Oaaira, Kingston, •. ;

Havana. 15 DAYS,$3S5 op* |

P Compioto Shorn Ex- || carrion Programs. ||

No U.J. Transportation Tax

if. See your travel agent ar Cunard Line tor these or ether Winter, Spring and |i| Summer cruises,

n

1504 K St. N.W., Washington, 0. C. §§

.....

With white beaches glistening against a glittering array of luxury hotels, Miami Beach becomes a Mecca for vacationers each winter.

New Orleans' Spring Fiesta Opens Easter

NEW ORLEANS. — The 1952 spring fiesta will open in New Orleans on Easter Sunday, April 13, at Delgado Museum of Art, City Park. There will be a tableau, reception, with spring fiesta mem-

bers receiving ante-bellum cos-

tumes, and special exhibits in the museum.

A Vieux Carre home tour will be staged April 14, with a recep- tion at Le Petit Salon, exclusive woman’s club of the French quar- ter. The tour will be repeated on April 21.

An uptown home tour, in the American section, on April 15, will be followed by a reception at the Orleans Club, another exclusive woman’s club. This tour will be repeated April 23, with a recep- tion at International House, a businessmen’s organization for the promotion of trade with the Port of New Orleans.

On the night of Tuesday, April 15, the first patios-by-candlelight tour will take place in the Vieux Carre. Historical vignettes will be presented in the patios.

The garden district home tour will be given on April 16, with a reception at International House. This tour will be repeated April 25, with open house at St. Mary’s Do- minican College, with members of the faculty, student body and alumnae receiving. On April 17, the courtyards and crinolines tour of private courtyards, not included in the patios tours, will be con- ducted from 2 pjn. to 5 p.m.

The Bayou St. John Home tour, which includes the old Spanish customhouse, will be staged on April 18. with a reception at the Jackson House. This tour will be repeated April 24, with a reception at the Italian Union Hall on old Esplanade avenue. On the night of April 18. the gala spectacle, “A Night in Old New Orleans,” with its usual parade and vig- nettes, will take place in the Vieux Carre.

Baedeker Publishes New Guidebook on

Northern Bavaria HAMBURG, Germany.—A new

Baedeker has just been published jy the Baedeker Publishing Co. of Hamburg. It is the fourth in the

English-language series written by Carl Baedeker since World War II.

This one deals with Northern Bavaria in the American zone of jccupation, and covers such places is Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg, Wurzburg, Schweinfurt. Bamberg, Bayreuth and Nuernberg. An- other volume in this internation- ally famous series of travel guides, dealing with South Bavaria, is presently being revised and brought up to date. It will be re- leased shortly.

These postwar Baedekers are lonsiderably improved over the earlier editions in that the English is smoother, and the former pleth- pra of parenthetical abbreviations virtually eliminated.

As heretofore, the notes on his- tory are condensed in agate type, and the book itself retains its familiar characteristics of soft red cover, well-known imprint and place-marker ribbon.

Four Races a Week TAMPA, Fla.—Tampa’s an auto

"race-happy” town. Three nights any week and Sun-

day afternoon is race time in Flor- ida’s west coast metropolis dur- ing the winter season.

T ravelers Notebook By Jacques Futrelle, Jr.

The Star's Travel Editor.

Miami Beach is not Miami. The fabulous ocean-front re-

sort, which counts its luxurious, multi-million-dollar hotels on

three-column adding machines instead of fingers, coined the

phrase years ago to identify itself from its sister city, inland across Biscayne Bay.. The slogan is more than geographically true, and packs an innuendo that would readily be suspected in such para- phrases as “New York is not Brooklyn” and “Minneapolis is not St. Paul.”

The phrase hasn’t caught up with the crowd, however. When

First of a series on Coribbeon area va- cation lands.

they say they are headed for Miami, most of the luxury-loving, fat-wallet throngs that like a gilt atmosphere with their warm win- ter sunshine really mean Miami Beach. It still holds the title as the more glamorous of the two sisters. And while Miami in recent years has concocted some gorgeous hotels of its own, such as the Bis- cayne Terrace, it doesn’t neces- sarily intend to match the sparkle beyond the wind-tossed palms in its ever-green front yard.

Miami has acquired a different

I Tit Traveler's friend] \ frtm Begimiitg to f»d ) For your lorig-awaited European trip, choose either of these popular American Express travel methods:

INDEPENDENT TRAVEL featuring

e Your own custom-made itin- erary, planned by travel experts.

e Individual travel vouchers that assure every service you’ve bought

... an American Express exclusive. e Friendly uniformed interpreters at

principal airports, seaports, railroad stations, and frontier points.

• American Express offices m major cities abroad (over 200 throughout the world) ready to service your trip.

ESCORTED TOURS $759 up For carefree group travel 'with an experi- enced tour conductor, select from a wide variety of American Express escorted tours. 27 to 77 days. There’s none better!

Wrk* for than fra* booldth: •American Traveler in Europe (Independent Travel).

• American Express Escorted Tour* of Europe.

Always carry American Express Travelers CHEQUES...at work...on business trips...on pleasure travel. AIR • STEAMER • RAIL • HOTEL Reservallent anywhere In Hie WerM

ter now for the new, tow-cost Air Tourist Service to Europe, starting Ma

Sm your Travel Agoat or Dept. L50

14H> Stroot N.W.—NAtionol J. Gorfiitckel tr Co. Travel I

l«in S*nrtng m Public CbirtlMMtly for Mon Ttiin 100 Ttm

f V

type of fame. With one of the Nation’s busiest airports, it has become the foremost winter vaca- tion gateway of America.

Miami’s eminence as a hopoff point for vacations with an inter- national flavor—British, French, Spanish and Dutch among them— has come about since the war and principally in the last three years. Commercial planes of nearly 50 airlines, now fly in and out of the sprawling airport.

Over the horizon lie picturesque foreign ports and mellowed cities that quicken the pulse of the stay- at-home and still intrigue oft- time visitors—Medellin, Colombia, where it is always spring; smart Montevideo and the Uruguayan Riviera; Havana, with a night life that rivals Paris’ in raciness; Jamaica’s great harbor of Kings- ton, home port of unforgotten Caribbean pirates; Lima, center of Peru’s ancient Indian culture; St. Thomas, in the American Virgin Islands; Mexico City and Merida, Aruba, Maracaibo.

Virtually without cruise ships, Miami specializes ih a relatively new breed of traveler—the aerial vacationer. Not disposed to touch- and-go visits, he lingers. For him, pleasant hotels have been built through 270 degrees of the com- pass beyond Miami.

TRAVEL.

New Jamaica Card Speeds Re-entry of Tourists to U. S.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, British West Indies.—American tourists returning home from Jamaica will not be required, henceforth, to produce a valid vaccination certi- ficate at the port of re-entry in the United States, provided they have not been outside of designated areas in the 14 days immediately preceding their departure from Jamaica.

Cards, called “Certificates of Non-Exposure,” will be issued to eligible passengers, at the Kings- ton and Montego Bay Airports and on the steamship piers by public health nurses. They will be issued only to poisons who have been in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is- lands, Canada, Bermuda, the Ba- hama Islands, Cuba and/or Ja- maica throughout the entire 14 days immediately preceding their embarkation.

Daffodil Festival Set TACOMA.—The 1952 annual

Puyallup (Wash.) Valley Daffodil Festival will be April 4, 5 and 6, with the big, three-city parade through Tacoma, Puyallup and Sumner on Saturday morning and the parade of decorated yachts on Sunday.

The annual daffodil flower show will be held all three days with the coronation of the queen on

Friday evening, April 4.

TRAVEL.

TRAVEL.TRAVEL.

\v /

yrntrs-T' \\\ «w«

New York TO tU fores round trip pirns lust

BERMUDA—*99.00* Luxury Constellation flights—no extra

charge for connecting flight to New York from Boston, Philadelphia, Washington.

NASSAU-*187.20 , Double-Decker Stratocruisers exclusively. Luxury, nonstop flights—4 Yi hours. B.O.A.C. done offers this service.

JAMAICA—J198.00* Luxury flights to Jamaica ... with Strato- cruisers to Nassau and stop-over privileges at no extra charge.

♦ ticket good for 30 days • * ticket good for 90 dryt Ask for All-Expenso Tour Booklets

BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION Reservations through your Travel Agent or call B.O.A.C., 1124 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Phone Executive 3944.

_•

87% RAIN-FREE DAYS’... 18% HIGHER TEMPERATURES

Sm your Trawl Agont or

WHEN YOU TRAVEL ON THE

MEDITERRANEAN SUN-LINERS

Go to Europe the way of better weather. An average of six sailings monthly. Thrift season rates now effective.

Independence and CoNSTrnmoN-all classes completely air conditioned. New- est, largest, fastest liners serving Gibraltar, Naples, Cannes, Genoa.

Exochorda, Excambion, Excalibur, ExETER-air conditioned throughout De- lightful one-class cruise sailings every other Friday to-Barcelona, Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut Latakia, Is- kenderun, Beirut Alexandria, Piraeus, Naples, Leghorn, Genoa, Marseilles, Bar* celona, Boston, New York.

*Bued eo weather words ol the lut 100 yean.

AMERICAN EXPORT UNES 1517 K Street N.W., Washington, D. C.

GAIA ANNIVERSARY CRUISE w. INDEPENDENCE

to the entire Mediterranean Feb. 8, 1952-56 days-20 ports f

%

SPECIAL SAILINGS EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS PILGRIMAGE

*.*. CONSTITUTION Including 6 days in Barcelona

May 16, 1952-3 Idays-S ports

k

HOLY LAND—EUCHARISTIC CRUISE-a-a. -INDEPENDENCE Including 6 days in Barcelona

May .7, 1952-33 days-JO porta