Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saving Temple endangered by the rising Waters of. Egypt s Aswan High dam the Mam Moth shrine of Abu Sibil will be dismantled and rebuilt on another site. Ruled by Many Cyprus first overwhelmed by egyptian conquerors about 150 by was ruled by nearly a dozen empires before gaining Independence in 1960. Pig free press saturday february 29, 1964 if is your charter flight been Mackie s offer their Complete facilities and lowest fares Ever to Britain and Europe. Air reservations package Tours hotel reservations travel now pay later plan available. Mackie travel service 285 carry St. Phone 942-3423 More than 25 years travel experience in Winnipeg motorways 7 motorways motorways motorways Superb travel Comfort will i or ways simply luxurious hotels with motorways style service Leisure and pleasure. All inclusive Tours 10-32 Days from write new for free illustrated brochure la motorways overseas Ltd., , suite 806, no. 6, Adelaide Street East Toronto i. Telephone 364-2815 or from your heal travel agent. Select european and scandinavian Tours that satisfy clients because of japanese take to skis with a mad passion by John Kirkwood Tokyo special the japanese it is said have three favorite pastimes sleeping watching television and playing the Kachinko Parlours where they spend a lot of Money and Many hours attempting to squeeze prizes from Slot machines. a fourth must now be added skiing. Ski fever has swept the country in the last few years until it has now reached the stage where the fanatical enthusiasm for the sport has become a sort of National madness and anyone who wants a restful Winter week end stays in the City. Accompany us if you will on a typical japanese skiing weekend. Setting out on a saturday afternoon for what we envisage As a quiet relaxing weekend in the fabled Jap anese Countryside we Board the train in the Industrial City of Osaka about 400 Miles South of Tokyo. Fight for seats several thousand japanese All armed with skis poles hoots and Rucksacks join us in the no holds barred fight for seats. Triumphantly elbowing women and children aside and trampling the More frail old ladies under foot we emerge victorious. Sling the skis on Spe Cial Racks above the seats buy Beer from a platform Vendor who hands the quart bottles through the window and Settle Back for the trip to mount Ibuki close by the shores of Lake Bina. The trip takes two hours this being a slow train which Means it travels at 80 Miles the fast British rail services were just what our budget needed we never beg ened Yott could get everywhere in Britain so easily by Mues of comfortable rv.0. Travel for As Low As that Reatty helped we buy Thrift coupons for British rail Are Good for 6 months and anyone in the family can use them. Are going to Send Mother and dad Over next a family gift of Thrift coupons for their rail g x s British railways have Al sorts of interesting and convenient steamship connections to the contine Rrt Are bred custom Toors scores of trolls and Tai services. Send a Coupon it helps Jou budget your trip. Per hour instead of 100 . Precisely two hours later japanese trains May re semble travelling sardine they always run on we change to another train hurtle through the blackness for 15 minutes and eventually Are pitched out and herded aboard a Fleet of buses for the trip to. Ibuki Village at the base of the Mountain. Farmers ready the Village banners being shrewd businessmen in their Way Are ready for the in Vasion. They rent put All available accommodation the family generally sleeps on the Kitchen floor at these times at about a head including All the Tea you can and a Good Hearty bowl of Rice for breakfast. Our Host a sociable Chap throws in warm Sake at no extra Cost allows us to puff experimentally on his pipe introduces his wizened grand Mother who is 73 and looks 103 and who accepts a filter cig Aret with alacrity offers us a plate of raw fish graciously declined and Demon Strates the wonders of his new television set. Sleep although the Sake helps does not come easily. Twelve of us sleep on the Straw matting of the living room floor huddled under quilts feet warmed in the Centre by an electric fire ingeniously lowered into the floor. can see the Snow inches from our head through a rent in the paper Wall. It is cold. By morning the peaceful Little Village we vowed to return in summertime to Saver its Beauty after civilization had departed bears a curious resemblance to downtown Tokyo in the morn ing Rush hour although the traffic does make Tokyo seem a Little Dull by com sail a to Europe and save during Thrift season r relax or let off a Little steam on gleaming sports decks eat magnificently sleep like a log in your air conditioned stateroom. You la wish the Ocean were wider ask your travel agent about your free baggage allowance up to 275 pounds and about the special bargains available on All Thrift sea son sailings saving you up to Thrift season Happy ship sailings to South Ampton be Havre Rotterdam. From Halifax Wyndam mar. 18. From Montreal que Bec try dam apr. 12, apr. 30. From new York dam mar. 4, Wyndam mar. 16, maasdam apr. 1, state dam apr. 9 Rotterdam apr. 15, t n i e u w Amsterdam apr. 23, state dam apr. 30. T special Tulip time sailings. Also to cob Bromer Haven. Spring cruise i Wyndam to new York via i Boston Days from Montreal i Mays. Pay later plan available see your travel agent or. British and Irish railways King Street 1, Ontario dept please Send me literature and prices on d Brit rail Tours q Thrift coupons re hotels d sea services to continent and Ireland q Handy trip Cost calculator name address City British railways for Holland America travel information always Call All ways travel Bureau 315 Harcrave 942-2535 arrange it rail and steamship res creations plus All other travel arrangements. 250 ibs of free baggage to dockside when you travel Canadian National. Call your in agent at we 6-2361 we 6-2261 Parison. There Are the Farmer announces proudly skiers Here this weekend. can believe him. The line to the first lift there Are three is at least a half mile Long and by the time we reach the top two hours have passed and we stumble numbly off the lift to discover that skiing is impossible anyway mainly because it s impossible to find a Patch of Snow without someone standing on it. As the Case May be lying Down or writhing in agony for the japanese approach skiing in the same Way they approach the driving of motor cars with Strong suicidal tendencies. The casualty rate is High. Slopes jammed the slopes Are jammed for As far As the Eye can see with people skiing walk ing falling lying rolling the lifts Are jammed. A pass leading to the Mountain top is covered specks struggling higher and higher through the Snow a scene reminiscent of one of those faded snapshots from the Klondike Goldruss. Eventually having made a few tentative excursions of at least 10 Yards before colliding with other skiers we give Upland retire to the Lodge where we wedge our selves in with several thou Sand others eat steamed Rice and Curry and listen to the Juke Box blaring that old japanese favorite Danny boy. Returning in the evening to the Village we bid our Host Farewell after using his out House under the inscrutable and protective gaze of Granny of course and admiring the television Aerial tacked incongruously onto the thatched roof of the cot Tage Stop in at the Village store to buy a pipe just like his. And fling ourselves once again into the Battle of the trains. look Forward to recovering from our weekend in the country in the peace and quiet of downtown Tokyo at Rush hour. Parks to stay wild Ottawa Federal government feels that the har vesting of resources above or below the surface in National Parks is not consistent at All with the Way in Wlinich the Parks should be maintained with these words resources minister Laing assured the 1 commons thursday that Ottawa is sticking with its Long time pol icy of maintaining our a ional Parks in a nature state which Means the preservation of the wilderness aspect of the he had been asked for this Assurance by Robert Prittie nip Burnaby Richmond in View of the decision by the government of British Columbia to allow limited exploitation of the Forest and Mineral resources of provincial Parks. Or. Laing said what the prov inces do with their Parks is heir responsibility. But Federal policy would continue in hanged. Unfortunately though in one r two of the National Parks in Western Canada forests were eing harvested at the present Ime. This resulted from very ild Dominion Timber Baths that ild Dominion Timber berths that vere alienated As late As the 9th Century before the Parks vere set As an indication of the fed ral government s Earnest in mention to preserve the Parks n their natural state he said t is working closely with the olders of the Timber berths to claim them for the people of Canada. Gene Rheaume pc North est territories asked whether be resources department is negotiating with the Alberta gov rement to turn Over a portion f Wood Buffalo National Park o the province. The Park Strad is the Alberta Northwest Ter tories Border. There has been no official approach made to me As min or. Laing replied. To fully enjoy the thrills of any far Eastern country leave the arrangements to All ways travel Bureau Ltd. Nets cause injuries of 185 tagged Salmon caught f Norway s Fin Mark coast Ith Nylon nets Only four per ent were found to have suf red no net injuries. Inabet Memaj in the year of festivals festive events in Hanover festival of music and theatre at Herre Hausen Palace May 30 sept. 5, featuring William shake Speare and Georg Friedrich Handel Royal plays by 200 dancers july chamber and choir concerts baroque fire works in the fabulous great Gar Den. Coblenz summer festival held july 4 sept. 13, with Lehar s operetta the merry widow in the limelight. Other attraction include theatre july 8 sept. 12 and opera july 6 sept. I performances Seren Ades june 30-sept. 8 and promenade concerts also illumination the Rhine aflame on aug. 8 with gala fireworks. Theatre at Landersheim Shakespeare s a a m 1 e to and Hofmannsthal s everyman Are performed june 10 27 at the Cathedral festival in bad Landersheim. The Beautiful romanesque Church is the stage. In addition to festivals Germany offers Many other interesting events this year. 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