The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 3

Two Million Overnight Tourists Beach ming I A What's 28 miles long and has four million feet? Virginia Beach, of course, which has had two million overnight tourists so far this summer. sun-and-sand set ap- parently is turning out in record numbers at the resort city, according to local in- nkeepers and the Chamber of Commerce, Almost everyone's first advice is not to go to beach without reservations. "It's really been busy since the; Fourth of July," a chamber spokeswoman said. "This is the busiest we've had it in a long time." So far, she said, the beach has had two million visitors who spent the night. Last year, the total for the summer was one and a half million, she added.

And it hasn't been unusual for some visitors without re- servations to be sent to motels in Norfolk, she said. "I think it's the best I've seen in my 13 years here," said Rick Anderson, manager of the 124-room Hilton Inn On most days, he said, an ocean-front room is impossi- ble to get after 2 "Then the motels across the street fill up by 6 o'clock." At the Carriage Inn, Frances Dearing said her Language Barrier Patrick Has Its Problems STUART (AP) Patrick County court officials have had many cases were thick accents and rare dialects made it difficult to conduct a trial, but Kruska and Maron Dobobrov were a new challenge. Nobody in this rural southwest Virginia county of 16,000 can understand the couple who are Gypsies. For a while county authorities thought they would have to delay trying the two alleged robbers'because state law re- quires that defendants who cannot un- derstand English be provided in- terpreters. "We've had trouble with some southern accents and mountain accents from time to time, but this is the first time the county has had this kind of a problem," according to Patrick County Assistant Commonwealth's Atty.

Mary Sue Terry. problem, she said, was the two apparently can speak only Serbian, a language spoken in parts of Yugoslavia While court officials say it's possible that somewhere in the hills of Patrick County there may be someone who can speak the Balkan tongue, the law requires the interpreter be certified as competent to translate complicated court terminology. The Dobobrovs, who were charged July 22 with forcibly taking more than $1,600 from an 86-year-old man, were freed oh $10,000 bond. Commonwealth's Atty. Marvin Clark set out to find an interpreter.

That was easier said than done. With the help of the Virginia Attorney General's Technical: Assistance Unit, contacted Virginia Commonwealth University's Foreign Language School, which operates a "language bank" in cooperation with the Red Cross. At Newport News LNG Tanker Is Launehed NEWPORT NEWS, a (AP) The wife of the Algerian ambassador to the United States cracked a bottle of champagne on the bow of the El Paso Arzew to launch the huge liquefied natural gas tanker here Saturday. The 948-foot ship, one of three being built for El Paso Natural Gas of Houston, was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding Dry Dock yard before a i a 1 5 0 0 0 spectators. Most of them came for a shipyard open house after the launching.

It was the second LNG tanker to be launched at the yard in seven months. The El Paso Southern was launched last January and now is in the the yard's outfitting area, where she will be 'joined by her sister ship, Arzew. A third LNG tanker, the El Paso Howard Boyd, is. under construction. The ships were designed specifically to transport LPG from Alergia an agreement between that country and El Paso Natural Gas, The El Paso.

Arzew, di- splacing 96,500 tons, can carry 125,000 cubic meters LNG, or a load equivalent'to a to shipyard officials. This is done by freezing natural gas at a temperature of i 160 degrees Farhenheit, which reduces 630 cubic feet of natural gas to a single: cubic foot of LNG, the officials said. Algerian Ambassador Abdel Aziz Maoui, referring to his country's agreement with El Paso Natural Gas and to other Alerian-U. S. financial ties, told the audience, wishes to see this relationship and cooperation continue in an atmosphere of admiration and mutual re- spect." HEAR THE ROYAL HEIRS Quartet Sunday at STOKESLAND BAPTIST CHURCH PET-BRO.

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or Your M6ney Back Sears Where 230 South Ridge St Sm. Shop Monday indFrhiny AuioCenter business also is good. "I almost always have a good season," she said. "But this-year I'm turning more people away." The Sheraton Beach Inn, with 203 rooms, has had oc- cupancy rates in the 90 per cent range almost all sum- mer, according to manager Dan Spry. "Last year was disappoint- ing," said Spry, who explained that the inn did about as much business as in previous summers but did not experience the anticipated growth.

He said he believes there are several reasons for the increase in visitors this summer. After the exceptionally cold whiter, Spry said, "people just want to set out and forget it" Also, some persons did not visit the beach last year because of the Bicentennial promotions that made them fear it would be too crowded, he said. And there's the spectre of 'gasoline prices hi the future. "Nobody knows how much gas prices will be next sum- mer, "Spry added. Almost all the innkeepers agreed that the weather has been a plus.

The hot, dry July may have been hard on "farmers and- their crops, but no better medicine could have been prescribed for the beach. Walter Wright, manager of the Boardwalk Inn, said the closeness of BUsch Gardens helps. "Tourists go there for a day or two and then spend time at the beach." The booming business can have an adverse effect on some tourists. One beach-goer said he had to go to four motels before finding a room. It cost him more than he had wanted or expected to spend.

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