Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Seoul tourism Jin Leswith japanese coins by Arthur j. Dommen Seoul South Korea tons Walker Hiu the Mountainside rest. And recreation Centre build by the South korean government to capture some of the dollars spent by american i s Here is operating in the Black for the first time in three years. But it s Hue mainly to the spending of the japanese Here As elsewhere the Orient s Foremost tourists. Officials of the Korea tourist service which operates the resort along with a tourist1 Bureau a commissars , two downtown should. Hotels and two provincial hotels report they Are encouraged by the resort s recent Fin Ancial record. After loosing .80 million won about last year. Walker Hill registered a. Net profit of lfi.000 last april for the most profitable month up to then. Japanese have lacked to Walker to till in Ever increasing numbers since the re establishment of diplomatic relations Between Tokyo and Seoul last december and the Start of a huge japanese reparations payments pro Gram. They arrive by the bus Load from Seoul s Kimpo Airport or in pairs of honeymooners. And gladly pay the reasonable room rates at Walker Hill s hotel and Villa accommodations. They while away the hours on the tree covered slopes overlooking the Han River Valley throw themselves into sports like Golf and Tennis and patronize the rows of Slot machines in the basement of the modernistic Concrete and Glass main building. The foreign tourists who stayed overnight at Walker Hill during May were japanese. The rates charged for Eigners for accommodations and food at the resort Are attractive since foreigners Are exempt from the 10.per cent korean hold tax. They Are doubly attractive for american military person Nel in Korea since the . Forces command in Korea subleases 47 of Walker Hill s 262 guest a Semi permanent basis. A total of foreign tourists of All nationalities visited Korea during the first four months of this year. The proportion of japanese among these visitors is increasing All the time the Walker Hill manage ment is making plans to install a japanese food lovers. The resort Complex now has korean Western and chinese restaurants. For South Korea As a whole tourism is becoming an important Dollar earner for the first time since the korean War a scant two years ago South Korea s earnings from tourism amounted to Only last year this shot u Plo and the government predicts that this year it will hit the government originally calculated so u the Korea would Host tourists this year. Now the estimate has been revised to last year the number was about this unexpected Boom has touched off plans for Ron Striction of new hotels and highways talk of increasing air services Between Korea and Japan and has stimulated a movement to keep tourism Here korean sized father than letting it become this last Wilt be difficult to in a country where the style of the West is already so visible in All the dealings koreans have with for Eigners and where English has b c o m the Lingua France among the improvements now in the planning stage is the Extension of the four Lane Concrete Highway that run from Kimpo International Airport to the out skirts of Seoul so that it reaches Walker Hill which is situated approximately the same distance East of the City As the Airport is West. Also the its is promising to step up the efficient and cheap 20 cents a ride bus service from the downtown Bando hotel to Walker Hill. F o r n a t 1 y for the koreans the attractions of their country for. Tourists a durable kind. Korea is an ancient kingdom dotted with historic Castle Sites and natural senic wonders such As Grottoes and waterfalls. In the Jet age it is barely two hours flight from Tokyo and can be visited at no extra fare on a ticket purchased in the United states. Another attraction Sibly Tor less durability is the relatively Low Price level. A japanese tourist for instance can Purchase a tailor made suit a Korea Ftp approximately one third tin Price he has to pay for having the same suit made 00 the Ginza also Good buys Are shoes of All kinds since the koreans Are traditionally expert Shoemakers and lacquer Are the govern ment recently began enforcing a strict ban on Export of Art objects sales of which were booming along the Street that is Seoul s antique Atlantic City booming for another big season by William Mcpherson Atlantic City special tons Queen of resorts Mecca on the Midway Boardwalk Babylon last Refuge of the belgian Waffle. S3 More less turns soothsayers and Palm 600 a regiment of aging shills and hustlers and a High diving horse. It is the Esth Edral City of mid Atlantic mid-20th Tury America dedicated wholeheartedly to the reran. Hiring of youth if Pursuit of pleasure and the things of the world. The pilgrims 10 million or a tre each summer. 20 mini ii a year come to worship a t the Seaside shrine in accents that cover the waterfront so to speak ranging from drop Lynese to japanese. From a distance the towers of Atlantic City Rise out of a surrounding Plain to Pierce the sky just As in the Best of medieval . Then drawing closer the Boardwalk Spires gradually behind a Thicket of. Billboards which yield in turn to a Forest of television antennas above a Field of Urban blight before rising again to soar Over the Boardwalk on the Ocean s Edge. Plays h real forget about the Middle ases. This is Atlantic City. And there is. A disparity of ultimate ends Between them. Here s the Board walk there s Park place. Atu tie and Pacific Mediterranean and. Baltic. Avenues the whole monopoly Beard that this City not insignificantly inspired is Laid out before your wondering eyes Only Here they play the game with real Money. Twenty five cents on the. Dollar. Does that ring 3. Of the Boardwalk Emporium Ling ers Over the words his eyes glistening lips curving into smile. He is let us be your travel agent trying to unload for a pair of Ivory carvings Dang Ling an Price tag. But no Bells ring. All right thank the tone is u do n i y. Crisp and business like. He has Al ready begun to walk away the gleam the smile vanished. A ten minute stroll on the Boardwalk reveals clearly that Atlantic City s Mer chants Are attuned to the infinite possibilities of the Dollar which is the Price of one Green Beret a machine vends lord s prayers for a Penny Neon flashes the message play Pokerino win die cries of auctioneers Echo up and Down the Boardwalk All but drowning put the of the surf. Of course it s commercial. And if that word is levelled As a charge those who reap the. of travellers dollars say they cry All the Way to the Bank. The the Way. May run up deposits of s19 million after a Holiday besides the beaches Are free. Furthermore a surprising number of things Are relatively inexpensive. The Flossier hotels on the Board walk . Charnic from to for a double room but some distance away rooms rent for 12 to a week admission to steel largest of the five. Is. Less than s2" and there is a least a Day s entertainment there for the Price movie Thea tres dancing big name entertainment stage shows. Then there is the air fresh from the sea that dispel any lingering whiffs of the scent of see aureus which is quite another new Jersey Aroma the great Era for Atlantic City came in the Early years of this Century when those who could afford it arrived by train and stayed a month or six weeks. Hall the largest in the world and the Ridge hotel wore built in. 1929. In Days people used to tread the Boardwalk in evening clothes. Then came the crash the depression and the second War. The evening clothes disappeared arid Atlantic City went virtual hibernation until 1954, when things began to pick up. Visitors did t come by train any More and they Clinti t stay for a month they arrived by tar and were Many More of them. To accommodate them the first Motel was built in at lactic City. Now there Are 99 of 350 hotels and 2.200 places licensed to rent rooms. In the last eight years Motel rooms have Bern opened. Three new motels Are opening this summer. Altogether City has 32.000 rooms for visit ors. A area bord ered by. Virginia Atlantic and new Jersey avenues and the Ocean is now being rated to make room for High Rise and Garden Type apartments. There can he no doubt about it Atlantic City is to the midst of a Boom. There s been tremendous change in the face of this town just in the last five says Mai Dodson of the visitors Bureau and there s of Faith in the future there s a Heck of a lot of Doli Fly being poured into it or. Dodson has lived Here More than 30 years. He Thailand s capital Bangkok is a City of temples tinkling Bells and is faced with canals like an asian Venice. In her tem Ples one can reach Back to Oriental splendor White her native dances speak of a people known for their hospitality. In England history hangs heavy 12 lock Lions a serve Foti Winnipeg 1180 pm bios Hwy. Of Steinbach i 301 Moin St. Del by Jerry Hulse Greenwich England special where the world used to set us clock till the blokes up and moved the watch works to another Hamlet. Still any Schoolboy in Greenwich just downriver from London can Tell you in a twinkle How it takes seconds to make a Day. Get Means Greenwich mean time. But the Royal g re in i c h Observatory s been r to c a t d due to head for the Hills and a Mountain weekend in the relaxing Black Hills of Why not Vlra Little Scamon Miles from the Cool Trenity mum it 8 East of Rockies the. Bluer. And. Cooler ii mpg. . Fishing Ammine. This not Only Tours away you know. Now Tor personal Cotor Ful Previtl office _ . Deft. Ofha ways f Titre so toll. Do Koto 7nr 70b aoobes5_ cite state Arno Sheric p o 11 u t i o the. Polite British manner of saying Smarg. Kovy the Observatory is anchored in Hurstmonceux one minute 20.091 seconds East Here or about 15 Miles around the Bend. Still the world continues to refer to Greenwich time and signals Are piped daily to seamen and airmen around the Globe those concerned with reckoning the distance to determine where they Are in relation to the Earth s surface in of latitude and Longitude. Greenwich to designated o Meridian and when the Sun is on the Meridian at Greenwich All areas West of Here Are before noon and those East Are afternoon. Wit h the Observatory gone Greenwich now at tracts tourists in such time honoured targets As the National maritime museum the Royal naval College and the ancient Clipper ship Cutty Sark. We sailed Down the thames from West Minster Bridge to Charing Cross past the Royal Festi Val Hall cd Eop a t r a s Needle scooted Neath Waterloo and London Bridge past the Tower of London and traitor s Gate to the Tower Bridge looked off at Middleton wharf where they hanged capt. Kidd and docked finally at i eem Vich pier less than an hour from old London town from Here took our selves off to Trafalgar tavern where win. Is served in Silver goblets snails Are delivered Dezic i Ousby hot at , Steak tatar is priced at s3 and pheasant or Duck will set you Back s5.50. Specialities include Steak ind kid Ney pie Royal jagged Hare and game pie which comes filled with grouse Partridge and Quail done up in a Flaky crust. It s a pleasant place to Stop for an evening not to mention the romantic River. Ride getting Here. By boat the Tab is is. 10 roundtrip from Westminster Bridge it s 20 cents by bus or Trafalgar tavern. For murky the old George is 400 years old. Once the carriages of London s elite lined Park Row out front. The delicacy was Whitebait caught on the flood tide and Fried in Fine flour just As it is today. Dickens came with his cronies a fiefs novelists a n d newspaper men. They relaxed with their goblets of grape on the great verandahs and watched the barges pass along the Muddy old River til darkness fell and Only the twinkling lights sailed by one dining room extended the full breadth of the building and live turtles swam in vats so that the soup could reach the table fresh As the Whitebait scooped from the thames. The old tavern was the haunt of every status conscious londoner til finally it fell to disrepair. After this it became the Home for disabled seamen until a Little. Over a year ago when the new owners spent nearly is million turning out the ghosts. Now cheery lights glow again in the dining rooms and bars both tip stairs and Down. The carriages have returned to Park How. They Deposit elegant ladies and proper British gentlemen at the door. Entering the Doorman bows a n d Waltz music carries out Ato the night. Cocktails Are taken of either Side of the entry Hall. And after this guests climb a staircase to the dining rooms above. Each room is named for a British naval hero Nelson. Hardy Hawke Howe Duncan and Collingwood. Dream y a y d Young couples sip aperitifs in the Hawke and Howe room recreated after an 13th. Century sailing vessel the Mast rising in the Centre tables bathed in the yellow glow of ancient lamps. History hangs heavy in Greenwich. Both Henry Viii and Queen Elizabeth t were born Here in the Palace of Placenta Mary sir Francis Drake and Charles i Rode Over its streets in ornate carriages. Lasting memorial permanently berthed at Greenwich is the Cutty Sark last and most famous Rotthe old Lea clippers a permanent memorial to the sailing merchantmen who were the Backbone of British supremacy at sea for so Many the Cutty Sark was launched at Dum Barton on the Clyde in 1869 and handed Over As a Public museum in 1957 by Queen Elizabeth ii visitors poke among the Crew s quarters. And below deck they face a collection of carved figure Heads among them glad Stone Disraeli and Abra Ham Lincoln. Nearby in National maritime museum Are exhibits reaching Back into the Lgth and 17th centuries. Displays d r a m a t i z the transition from sailing ves Sel to steam. Elsewhere the first and second world wars Are documented and off in the Nelson galleries relics illustrate the life of England s greatest naval hero the Bullet scarred coat worn when lord Nelson died at Trafalgar plus other effects. So now the memory of Peteon together with the Long ago Battle is rekindled by the warm glow of Light shining out from Trafalgar tavern. The carriages have returned. Music drifts among the rooms. The afternoon Sun shines Golden along the Muddy old River. And when darkness there is the passing twinkling lights. Hawaii offers Scenic variety Honolulu special it s Good sense to explore five scenically different re sort islands in Hawaii. True most Holida Yert still make Waikiki their head quarters since Honolulu International Airport is Only a half hour s drive away and passenger liners berth in downtown Honolulu 20 min utes by. Taxi from Waikiki. But from Oahu they schedule All expense package or inde pendent Tours to Maui Kau Ai Hawaii Island and Molo Kai. While Waikiki specializes in urbane Beach life inter National shopping dining and , the neighbor islands Are noted for the Pace and atmosphere o old they Are the coun try cousins of sophisticated Oahu site of the Capitol at Jolani Palace. I with the newly., arrived inter Island jets no resort Island is More than a 40 minute flight from Oahu. Thus the expense of doing the. Grand Alws land circuit is far from prohibitive. In Jess time than it takes to glance Over the Honolulu paper you can now. Jet to Kauai or Maul with Seaside resorts or Mountain lodges available at either. Your plane shoots above Coral reefs occasional cavorting porpoises or whales fishing samoans and often yachts under full Canvas. Later you May see some of these sights aboard a Dempses Tiphine boat or excursion launch based on one of the neighbor islands. You zoom above Silvery pineapple and Cane Fields before Landing. At Kauai you put. Down in the Centre of a sugar Plantation and step Ping out of the Airport look up to mount Waialeale that dominates the entire land scape of the verdant Garden Isle. In Between swimming at pandanus edged Kauai beaches you la drive to Wai Mea a miniature grand can Yon cruise up the River to a Fern curtained Cave Prex lore sea caves and fish Ponds built by the legendary Menehune hawaiian elves. You can. Also visit a Cactus and Plumeri Garden a sea Geyser and a hotel where Waitan lads Light half a Hundred torches among thou Sands of Palms at cocktail time. On the Orchid Island of Hawaii site of part of Hawaii volcanoes National Park you la motor through giant Fern forests through recent by Active Valcanos. You la tramp through lava tubes Fields of orchids and the one time summer place of Haw iian Kings. At Kailua Kona you la to boat a Marlin or inspect Coffee Plantation. In Hilo you May picnic in a Japan Ese landscaped Park or tour an Orchid Nursery. At Hono Kaa you might hire horses and ride into Kaipio the Val Ley of the lost tribe. Came for a vacation and stayed which seemed to be a fairly common occurrence at Beach resorts. It s an entirely different town he says. I guess you d say it used to be South. Not any whether it has anything to do with a Lack of is questionable but the town of people does have 240 saloons More for its size than any other City in new Jersey and they re open every Day but election Day. Balancing the scale per haps Are 65 churches also a new Jersey record. The pity is now attempt ing to attract retired people. There Are four apartment houses exclusively for elderly persons and More Are being built and planned. The City wants retired people or. Dodson explains because they Don t need schools they Don t so on welfare and they Don t have illegitimate in other words they Don t Cost much. They May no spend much either but they re Here All year around important in a resort City. Furthermore they re. 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