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C4 Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, May 3, 1970 SoJTou the maximum for tourist class. Add another 22 pounds if you're going first class. Steamship travel regulations allow you 275 pounds. Again, your travel agent and your friends can help you with suggestions for the clothes you'll need. Some people have "done" Europe in what they could stuff in a cosmetic case, others just don't feel right without complete ensembles for every possible occasion that might turn up.

You'll enjoy your trip more, whether long or short, if you pack clothes that are easy to care for. The wash and wear type that need little or no ironing are recommended. And don't turn your nose up at people when they tell you to trade your heels for comfortable walking shoes. Your luggage should be lightweight enough so that you can handle it yourself. Forget the trunk-type with the hangers inside.

The clothes may stay wrinkle free but your disposition won' t. Don't forget the travelers checks. How much you take depends on the length of your trip, the kinds of expenditures you anticipate, and the places you want to visit. It won't hurt to have an introductory card prepared by your bank. Also, as long as you can provide identification, you can cash a personal check in most foreign countries.

One tip your friends who have done any traveling will probably give you is to carry along a large supply of $1 bills. This is especially advisable paying for souvenirs or other small purchases. And it makes even more sense when you're traveling with a tour from country to country. Officials of one country may not accept money from another, but the American dollar is good By MARY SEMPEPOS Pttt Staff Writer So you've decided. This year you're going on a cruise or a tour and visit those faraway places you've read so much about.

If this is your first time for travel outside the United States you may be perplexed about what to do first. Probably you have friends whohavedone the tour bit or have cruised somewhere. They'll have tips, advice and comments. Much of it will be helpful, because after all, there's nothing like the voice of experience. A good travel agent can be your best friend when planning a special trip.

He, or she will have the latest information about types of tours and cruises, air and steamship departures and rates and hotel facilities once you arrive at your destination. Don't be afraid to ask questions, no matter how dumb or zany they may seem to you. How else are you going to learn whether or not your pet poodle can accompany you to France without being put under quarantine? By the way, there's no problem in Europe except in England where a six months quarantine is enforced. Double check for latest information. One woman we know who travels to France often will be sailing this month with her pet cat an alley cat who will be making her fifth crossing.

When you do make that first important decision where to go then you should start preparations immediately. This is especially true if you're planning to travel by steamship. Depending on where you're going, space is sometimes difficult to book, so travel agents advise making arrangements several months ahead if possible. Students traveling will find two other special cards quite helpful: the International Student Identity Card and the International Youth Hostel Card, both available by contacting the United States National Student Travel Association (UNSTA), 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, Y. 10011.

Each card costs $3. With all the paper work done and the shots taken you're ready to pack for your trip. If you're traveling by air, 44 pounds in luggage is Steamship or air reservations can be made long before you've obtained your passport and been inoculated. A deposit is usually required on your fare once reservations are a certainty. Passports are usually no problem for U.S.

citizens. But don't risk waiting till the last moment. It normally takes two weeks to process passport applications. It can be done in a week for an extra $2 fee. Pick up your application in Room 202 at the County Court House.

That's the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit and Criminal Courts. Personnel in the Passport Department will be glad to answer your questions and help you fill out your form. If this is to be your very first passport, bring along your birth certificate. If you don't have one, don't panic, but do write the Bureau of Vital Statistics in your home state for a certified copy of your birth certificate. If you still can't locate a birth certificate, a baptismal certificate might do.

Check with the Passport Department clerks. If you anticipate any problem with providing proof of your birth get busy right away. People with passports issued more than five years ago need new ones. The fact that a passport has been issued, no matter how long ago, will facilitate processing of a new one, according to Mrs. Gladys Rodo of the Passport Department.

A law passed in 1968 extends the validity of a passport from three to five years. People who are not U.S. citizens must work through the consul of their native country for their passports. The clerks in the Passport Department have consul addresses but cannot process information dealing with a foreign passport. Whether it's your first passport or a new one, photographs are required.

Most photographers are familiar with the type needed. You may also need a visa, depending on where you will be traveling. Information regarding visa and tourist cards is available at the Passport Department, however, if a visa is needed you must obtain it from the consul of the country requiring the visa. In some countries, a visa can be issued at the border. You do not need a passport or visa to go to Mexico, Canada, the Bahamas or Bermuda.

You can get out of this country without being inoculated against smallpox, but you may have trouble getting back. To avoid any delay when you want to reenter the U.S. and for your health protection you should be vaccinated before leaving the United States. And you should keep your vaccination certificate with your passport. If you haven't had a vaccination in more than three years you'll need one.

Your family physician or one at the County Health Department can administer it. Smallpox vaccination is the only type of innocula-tion absolutely recommended for foreign travel. If you're going to be traveling to out of the way places it might not be a bad idea to have a typhoid shot. Your travel agent and your family physician can help you decide. If you're planning to rent a car, you'll need an International Driver's license.

Any travel agency can provide you with one. The cost is about $3 and no test is required. Bring along a couple of extra photos you had taken for possports. How an American Put Soul Into French Food 'yp By ALISON LERRICK PARIS AP) For 20 years Leroy Haynes has been dishing out pigs feet and black-eyed peas just a few minutes from the red lights of Montmartre. Screen stars and diplomats hobnob with homesick soul brothers, Parisians who are "sick of all those sauces" and offbeat couples who like the lenient atmosphere of Haynes, the restaurant that put the "soul" into Paris food.

Everyone gets a clap on the back from the owner, 56 years old and almost 300 pounds, a black mountain of a man from Chicago who was All-America from Morehouse College in 1935 and 1936. When Haynes bellows "hey, baby," you don't know if he's calling one of his six waitresses or welcoming a customer. This greeting goes for Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus and French pop singer Sylvie Vartan. "I yell 'baby' because I want someone. I don't care who comes," he says.

Yellow light shrouds the cave-like restaurant with its sham moldy stone arches and suggestively curving pillars. On one wall, a giant photograph shows Elizabeth Taylor staring happily into Richard Burton's eyes don't bring the dogs, only the Haynes himself is pictured over the bar, and in a discreet corner you find a cluster of "art" photos of a languid blonde in unzipped dungarees romping through a clump of bushes. "Whether you're in Florida, Mississippi or Paris, if it's Negro, it's the same cooking. That is old home cooking, baby," said Haynes, who first came to Paris in 1949 on the GI Bill to get his doctorate in sociology at the Sorbonne and didn't want to go home again. He was wearing a rather grubby T-shirt, with arms like overdeveloped thighs from weight-lifting and a tummy bulging casually over the top of his houndstooth-check pants.

"French food is beautiful, but everything tastes the accompanied by fried rice or beans. Even the most; inhibited eaters "take their shoes off and use their; fingers." Pies from apple to mango, persimmon, sweet potato and pumpkin are served with ice cream, an' unheard-of combination in France. The menu offers mythical chef's table on Wednesdays which features such tempting specialties as grilled monkey hips, stewed boar's head, sauteed 'gator and, squirrel in Normandy cider. But these are only for; laughs, as is the notice: "Don't be afraid of over-' working the chef, for his wife is too young to cook and he is too old to do anything else." Instead of corn liquor, Haynes serves excellent! wine and keeps a private cache of "lousy-good" vintag-; es in his tiny study, hidden from the mob by a red; curtain. With shelves of cookbooks overhead have' to know what the professionals are he kicksoff his hiking boots and heaves his bulk onto the bed, a' quart bottle of Evian water in hand.

Here Haynes, who has been acting in movies for 15, years, is currently reading over a new role. Also turned author, he is simultaneously working on two anecdotes of "personalities'! have known" and an autobiography. The saga will include eight years in the three divorces, the last of which he is now and two soul food restaurants. In 1964 he signed away' his original one, Haynes and Gaby's, just around the. corner, to his second wife.

"I gave her the son, the! apartment, everything." When Haynes first arrived in Paris, he "had the; reputation of being a rich American since I had a big, Dodge." He later sold the car on the black market to; finance his career as chef. "Everyone thought my' father owned the largest packing house in Chicago," he! reminisced. "Actually he was on relief Since then, he has become more French than the; French, naturalized of course. Leroy Haynes Runs A Soul Food Restaurant In Paris same," he added, wrinkling his moustache in disgust at the thought of a steak au poivre. "One thing about my cooking is that nothing has the same taste depending on how drunk you are." For cornbread or biscuits you must call in advance.

But even without them, most people find the portions not only ample but maybe too much. First, there is a bewildering choice of salads: beet or cucumber with onions and sour cream, heaps of homemade coleslaw or Haynes' favorite, lettuce, tomato and slabs of bacon. Next, diners attack mounds of fried or barbecued chicken, spareribs, "the kind of Mexican chili they make in Chicago," shrimp gumbo or jambalaya, all The Latest in Fashion Is Just an Apology for the Midi Skirt but it's a new kind of problem that she'll have to cope with. Has she, for been waiting all her life to free her spirit by wearing gaucho pants? They're the calf-length, loose trousers worn by the cowboys on the Pampas, and there isn't a collection that doesn't have some for big-city girls. Knitted ones with clingy tops are for leisure hours; tweed or flannel ones with matching jackets are for formal day wear.

Why on earth gaucho pants? Because, you see, regular pants are so safe. Any woman who's troubled about skirt lengths can cop out by wearing long pants, designers reason. (It's hard to recall that a year or two back she worried about wearing pants to restaurants, let alone to work.) So the avant-garde can prove they are by wearing the new length and pants at the same time. By BERNADINE MORRIS v(c) New York Times NEW YORK Women who want to buy just plain clothes next fall will probably be able to find some, but that's not what designers are counting on. The forward-thinkers want to sell "a fashion experience" a life style, not just the cut of a sleeve or a longer skirt.

Part of it is flak to distract attention from the fact that all skirts are longer in a way, it's an apology for midi-lengths. When a designer says, "I'm for all lengths," he means anywhere from below the knee to the ankle. He never means miniskirts or anything else even slightly above the knees. With varying degrees of enthusiasm, designers have banished knees and are touting self-expression in the clothes for next fall. It's tough on the woman who simply wants a coat that fits or a color that she dilection for slinky knits, shirred strategically at the waist or hips, he has a point.

Often he wraps the clingy outfit up in a bulky poncho or cape. He almost has to some of the clothes are so revealing. The store buyers loved them. They're not against slink. "They laughed when they first put the fins on the Cadillac," said Sandy Smith of Modelia, introducing the company's first coat and suit collection by Frank Masandrea.

"The women with the anti-midiskirt banners will be the first ones at the party in the long look," predicted Smith. Masandrea, who is 23 years old, naturally didn't make any short clothes. But he made some of the longest coats shown in the last few days, 51 inches from stem to stern, or collar to hem. This brings them to the ankle and, like as not, there were pants underneath. The designer made the transition from the bridal market, where he had been laboring for a couple of years, neatly enough.

His wrap coats, split-skirt suits, gaucho pants and so on were interesting, but what caused the biggest stir were the face veils he added in the tilted-brim felt hats that are obligatory with the longer clothes. The dominant off-beat look Annemarie Gardin is trying to express is winsome Victorianism. The 27-year-old Swiss born designer, who had her own business for a couple of years, teamed up with Susan Sheinman, 26, to form Papillon. They run to below-knee lengths and puffy sleeves and dry for velvet ribbons around the neck. Still, it's Victorianism without starch and stays, for the fabrics are all thin and moderately clingy.

The gaucho pants look good with waist-length jackets, but the big accomplishment is her group of Challis dresses. As everyone's been saying, it's hard to make a long dress look appealing. It's an auspicious beginning. Any kind of pants looks fine to Gunter Rucker of Project 2, who, just a few months ago, was happily working in the Courrages manner. His neatly tailored coats and dresses with jackets were pleasant and tasteful.

"The all-American princess look is out," says Gunter, who is gilding his gaucho pants with nailheads, hanging ermine tails down the side of leather jeans and making jumpsuits to go under coats. Instead of smooth woolens in pretty colors, he's using rugged tweeds, shaggy fake furs and ribby sweaters with turtle necks that pull into hoods. Expression, according to Gunter, is taking a sporty turn. To Marshall Klugman of STJ, self-expression is looking sexy. He doesn't think longer skirts are a handicap.

"You cover the leg, but you show everything else," he says. With his pre A..