The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1954, Page 5

‘ the Italian Dolomites, scores of| W—Italy And France Family Of Five Tour Europe On $20 A Day Editor's Note: How do you take to hairpin gravel trails that would make a mountain goat dizzy? Would you prefer a traffic jam on a Venetian canal? The five Beckers — Bill, his wife Rae, and their three daughters — experi- enced both on the last leg of their motor junket to Paris. Here is the last of four stories. By BILL BECKER PARIS i — From the top of the Eiffel Tower, or Montparnasse, or strolling along the Champs Elys- ses — not matter how you look at} it, there’s only one Paris. | ‘The beauty and vitality of the| city almost smothered us at first sight. But the traffic on the Champs, Rue de Rivoli, or any) major boulevard resembles the | first lap of the Memorial Day race at Indianapolis. Paris climaxed a hectic one-/ week drive through Italy and/| France. | After crossing the Austrian Tyrol and Brenner Pass, we dipped into | some of Europe’s wildest country— heer, jagged cliffs more imposing fie half domes in California’s Yosemite. We crossed passes 7,000 feet high on hairpain gravel trails one-car} wide that would shame any back | road in Colorado. Peasants with faces rough-hewn as wood carv-| ings stared at us unbelievingly. We finally labored into Cortina d@’Ampezzo, the site selected for the 1956 Winter Olympics. Tuesday, August 10, 1954 THE Expansion Seen In W. German Diplomacy BONN, Germany, (#—The young West German republic, soon to win sovereignty, is rapidly expanding its diplomatic relations with other nations. The Germans plan to have 170 diplomatic missions by next year. They now have diplomatic rela- tions with 68 nations and 133 dip- lomatic missions abroad. All of the new missioas will be established in Western countries. But the Germans also are expected to set up some missions behind the Iron Curtain when Western oc- cupatign ends. They now have no direct diplomatic contacts with Communist countries. Expansion of the foreign minis- try and of the diplomatic corps in Bonn is keeping pace with the in- crease in German missions. A new 14 million mark ($3,332,000) nine- story foreign ministry is nearing completion here. It will have 690 offices with a total area of 12,000 square yards and a glass-roofed restaurant overlooking the Rhine. With West Germany fast emerg- ing as a new world power, some diplomats predict that Koblenzer Strasse 99, the new ministry’s ad- dress, will become as well-known as Wilhelmstrasse 76, the old for- eign ministry in Berlin. The West German foreign serv- ice now has 874 persons with dip- lematic or consular rank. Of these, 28 per cent came from the old for- eign ministry. But anxious to break away from the old, Nazi-tainted, foreign service, Chancellor-Foreign Minister Konrad Adenauer has handed the most important posts to non-career diplomats. His dep- uty foreign minister, Walter Hall- stein, was a university professor for law until 1949. The three most important dip- From there, thankfully, it was downhill all the way to Venice — city of canals, gondolas, and varied sights and smells. We did the usual tourist routing — St. Mark’s, feeding the pigeons on the Plaza, and an hour’s gon- dola ride down the Grand and lesser canals. This trip was noteworthy for the traffic jam we ran into on a@ back canal where a barge was de- livering huge rolls of newsprint to the Venice Gazetta. Accustomed to being blocked by newspaper trucks on U.S. streets, I never expected to encounter such a jam on water. Our gondolier adroitly used oar and tongue to get us through. Our route to the Riviera took us through walled Mantua, historic Cremona and bustling Piacenza. Here we verified what we had be- gun to suspect in Venice: Italians are the most voluble people, day or night. For the second straight night, we were awakened about 3 a.m. by spirited discussion. I can’t Say arguments, because Italians always seem to talk at the top of their lungs. Besides, we didn’t un- derstand a word. _ We saw women washing clothes in mountain streams and carrying the loads balanced neatly on their heads — no hands. We didn’t see any such bundle-balancing in cities but it can be reported the Italian female has probably the best pos- ture in Europe. The palm-lined Riviera shore re- sembles Southern California or Florida beachers. We went KEY WEST CITIZEN CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS WASHINGTON (#—The Senate moves toward a final vote on a new farm bill after approving con- troversial provisions in line with President Eisenhower's recommen- dations. The Senate yesterday voted in favor of a shift to flexiole price supports for basic crops. Though the range of flexibility wasn’t as great as the President originally asked, it was approved over strong objections from supporters of high, rigid price props now in effect. In another vote, the Senate sup- ported an action by Secretary of Agriculture Benson reducing sup- ports on such dairy products as butter and cheese. A farm bill in somewhat differ- ent form already has passed the ATOMIC — Republican leader house. Knowland of California says the Senate will stay in séssion, no matter how long it takes, to ap- prove a compromise version of President isenhower’s atomic energy program. Some senators predict lengthy debate by mem- bers wanting to require private in- dustry to share atomic patents. The compromise measure would encourage sharing, but would not require it. DOPE PURCHASER MISUSES FUNDS PHOENIX, Ariz. (#—Vederal narcotics agents said they gave Ralph M. Ochoa $40 a month ago to buy narcotics from ‘‘the under- ground” as a help in rounding up peddlers. But he spent the money on him- self, the officers claim. He was free under $400 bond today on a charge of embezzling government funds. Page § London and Paris—are in charge of a chemical engineer, an agri- lomatie posts abroad—Washington, cultural expert and an art historian. FIRST in Key West... WITH TV BEST— Poinciana TV and Radio Proudly Presents . «+ TELEVISION Home Demonstration SEE IT!! TRY IT! IN YOUR OWN HOME BEFORE YOU BUY IT ~*~ * wk *& cok ok WE FURNISH THE ANTENNA FOR THE TEST FOR DETAILS — COME TO Poinciana Television & Radio RCA — ZENITH — MOTOROLA COMMERCIAL ROW, POINCIANA (A Few Blocks from Wickers Stadium) Open Till 10 P.M., Monday Thru Saturday swimming on both the Italian and|Koreans gathered «at Seoul City forces—Christianity, Islam, Pagan- French sides, with the beach at Cannes proving a special treat.\ Here the girls and dear oid dad got generous é¢yefuls of Bikini bath- ing suits for the first time. Con- clusion: Many French girls are overconfident. On the Italian Riviera, at Im- Peria, we found one of our better | hotel bargains — two sprawling bedrooms in an old ducal manse with marble floors and paintings on the ceilings, plus supper with chianti on a bougainvillea-covered terrace, all for $1¢ for five. Then we headed into the higher rent dis- trict of France. ‘Y¢t it’s not impossible for a fam- ily of five to get by in France, even Paris, on a $20-a-day total. (We held to this average through- out our 17-day continental trip.) The secret is only one big meal a day and plenty of French bread for lunch. That’s no -hardship — those long “flutes,” yard-long loaves with the world’s tastiest crust, make superb sandwiches no matter what you put on them. Beautiful weather followed us across Italy and up through the syeamore-lined roads of the Pro- vence and Rhone Valley in France. The motorist should be advised that gasoline, costly enough at 55 to 60 cents a gallon in Italy and Germany, soars to 70 to 75 cents in France? The French and Italians drive by ear, leaning incessantly on the horn. It may be the right approach — lanes are not marked and you never know when someone might dart out of a side road or street. But all previous driving prob- lems pale when you reach Paris. Perhaps the best advice is to park your car and use the Metro (sub- way). Bucking Paris traffic is an unforgéttable experience. It moves | amazingly fast except on side streets where jams, often caused by horse or handcarts, can hold you up 15 or 20 minutes at a time. And Parisian drivers weave in a manner that leaves even a veteran of Los Angeles traffic gawking. Somehow, without scraping a} fender, we managed to visit Ver-| sailles (30 cent admission fee), the! Louvre (15 cents), Notre Dame and the cathedrals at Bourges and) Rheims. | Rae and I put the girls to bed, early one night and visited several | clubs on a “package” tour. 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