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THE FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane If imlllirfffl Indiana Summer Activities FUNFEST 77 -Through Aug. 21 in North Manchester. Activities from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturdays and from noon to 10 p.m. Sundays downtown and on campus of Manchester College. Gospel sing, square dance, antique show, tractor pull, arts and crafts show. HAYNES-APPERSON FESTIVAL Through tomorrow in Kokomo. Until 10 tonight, from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. tomorrow. Re-enactment of Elwood Haynes original run tomorrow, ice cream social, art show, antique show, swap pieet. HISTORIC INDIANA FESTIVAL Next Saturday and 21 at Adams Mill on 'Wildcat Creek in Cutler. Old-time music and fiddlers contest, craft demonstrations, history displays, country cooking.

KEWANNA HARVEST FESTIVAL Thursday, Friday and next Saturday in Kewanna. From 5 to 11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to to 11 p.m. Saturday.

Parades, queen contest, art show, talent show, square dancing, garden tractor pull, contests, exhibits, midway, entertainment, food. LAZY DAYS FESTIVAL Through tonight in Gos-port. Lively contests, food stands, antique and crafts displays at town park and school grounds. POPCORN FESTIVAL "Don't wolk over that thing, Jeffy! You might fall down into the subway." Eleanor Roosevelt Estate New Tribute HYDE PARK, N.Y. "Val-Kill." the 175-acre estate established for Eleanor Roosevelt as a place where she could seek solitude and refresh her spirit, has been designated as a National Historic Site.

Mrs. Roosevelt's greatness was distinct from that of her husband, said Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, declaring the appropriateness of the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site as separate from the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, two miles west. FDR commissioned a cottage for his wife in 1924. Mrs.

Roosevelt used the cottage, set among fields, trees, swamps and ponds, to entertain friends and dignitaries and to promote the many causes that interested her. As a tribute to her Kfe and work, Congress specified the site would not be preserved as a sterile capsule of the past, but as a site for continuing studies, lectures, seminars and other endeavors related to the issues to which she was devoted. No. 44 Chugs Its Riders Along Rocky Mountains BIGGEST ENTERM REELFOOT LAKE wi Through tonight in Van Buren. Diverse festivities.

Entertainment Is the Spice of Life ja Tannassaa'f 3 Santa Oaua, IN 47571 17 OREAT IH0E8, LIVE MUSICAL SHOW, MUSEUMS, EXHiBrrs all included Indiana's Largest Resort Area WITH YOUR ADMISSION a HouekKfang Urrt an Ike loll lor Fomlics Fitrermgn HM Pool SMfleboord Poddlt Sort kcyde lot a Go-KWS Man ViHoge 6 QUIT MILES FMH wouainui JJ tmm. lafJteMar BOARDMAN RESORT hat HaniaHk, Ta. 3ttB ai INDIANA BEACH Raatauranta and Ptente aclMUaa avaaaMa. ForSpaetal 3 OBOUP RATES Wttf oonofaf (nfofmction Can Ton Fraa Indiana 1400452-949 1 Ph. (901) 531-2113 2 Leadville, shipments of ore and the "Loop's" fame created a large volume of freight and tourist traffic for decades.

In 1939 the Georgetown, Breckenridge Leadville Railway, unable to cope with increasing truck and auto traffic, abandoned the track west of Georgetown, selling the rails and bridges for scrap. For 35 years the grade lay dormant among the relics of Colorado's mining boom. Then, in the late 1950s, the State Historical Society selected the site for construction of an operating railroad and restored mining area. Reconstruction of the railroad began in 1974. The present route covers 4 miles, requiring slightly less than an hour to complete.

The train ride begins at the original Silver Plume depot and takes passengers and a bonafide train crew of four through heavy growths of aspen and pine trees growing so close to the tracks that it's possible literally to reach out and touch them. Passing through a large boulder field, the train crosses Clear Creek twice within 600 feet. Remnants of early silver mines can be seen in the distance. The train leaves the depot on the hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

daily during June, July and August. Georgetown is located along 1-70 about 50 miles west of Denver. A vacationing Hoosier family rode the "Loop" and during the ride a rainstorm developed suddenly, accompanied by hail that covered the mountainsides. As the train neared the end of its journey there was excitement in the forward cars and the engineer slowed his locomotive to a crawl. Boulders, loosened by the storm, on the tracks? A big pine uprooted and blocking the way? No, an automobile traveling on 1-70 on the mountainside above had slid out of control and spun around on a ledge off the road, leaving its left rear wheel' dangling precariously over the edge.

Another foot, perhaps less, and it would have tumbled onto the railroad tracks below. By JACK HESS Staff Writer GEORGETOWN, Colo. Vou need not be a railroad buff to enjoy a train ride in the Rocky Mountains. And, although much of the track lies in a valley below beautiful mountain peaks, there is little cause for concern about falling boulders. There are times, however, when falling automobiles are a potential hazard.

The Georgetown Loop, two winding ribbons of steel running between the old mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume, is a delight for sightseers and adventurers alike. The train, consisting of open passenger cars, a gondola and an honest-to-goodness coal-burning, steam-snorting locomotive, affords riders an opportunity to relive bygone days and to enjoy the beauty and, majesty of the mountains. The locomotive pulls laboriously up one grade, sometimes going chug-chug-chug-chug as its wheels spin in a near-stall, then reverses the wheels as it brakes going down the other side. A bell atop old No. 44 clangs at trestle crossings and deer paths while a steam whistle emits a shrill cry that echoes through the mountain range.

There are sights and sounds not soon forgotten. Although only 2.1 miles separate the two picturesque towns the original "Loop," opened in 1884, covered 4.47 miles. In the course of those 2Vz miles the railroad climbed 638 feet on a maximum 3': percent grade. It crossed itself once, turned nearly three and a half circles and crossed four bridges. The most impressive bridge, known as "Devils Gate Viaduct," spanned 300 feet and towered 95 feet above Clear Creek.

Hailed as an engineering marvel, the original "Loop" was a major tourist attraction with as many as six passenger trains going each way daily. Although the first track never reached its intended destination, Lake Sharer I MonticeUo. bid 14 1 47960 ride jjieSBm FOR 7 JpfWrnVi HOURS feAa ride muP DAYS ADULTS $3.50 AT KENTUCKY LAKE KLV's 13th Annuel FALL EiOiiiLXiC Children under 7 $2.00 7 tin. of UNLIMITED RIDES MON. thru FRI.

on 15 RIDES 11AM to 6PM or 4PM to 11 PM BOARDWALK FUNWAY OPEN DAILY AT 10 AM MOTELS COTTAGES Cash Prizes for Amateur Anglers and Entry is FREE! For 19 yeart the folk at fenturkv Uke have hrU lark rhu Derhy, if they needed it. mi Tfaii, brintifal fal nr potty, nrrowded walen, local attractioni tod tingle rdautioB are enoajcb vacation package thra-elvf. Rot the Deri? pcrtat, and vwtiot: Caber mem take hoar weekly anal veral rath and aBcrrhiDuW prfaea. And entry it free. Cone your awa piece Ike action! 1000 CAMPSITES in Free Farryboat to Boardwalk, liahing, awtmming.

IS Farewell To Tut BIG FUN RIDES Games, Shops 4 More E5ri DINE IN SKYROOM Ell DANCE IN 2 LOUNGES YLJ Llva Muaic Italy (Drrfcr mm kugmi IS OrtobwJI) Kentucky Lake 3 SKI SHOWS DAILY 2:00 5 00 to catch a glimmer of gold; the graceful goddess Selkit, standing the tiny Tut in a squatting position; the magnificent death mask with its gold face and neck, representing him as the sun god to secure a solar afterlife. Thousands of Hoosiers will not forget their glimpse of Egyptian history, sharing the spectacular archeological discovery, the ancient artifacts more than 3,000 years old, on loan to this county by the Cairo Museum. Next stop, as the exhibit raopes.1- to the New Orleans' Museum" of Art By MOLLY ADAMS Special Correspondent Monday evening it will all be over. Down will come the banner on the front of the Field Museum in Chicago proclaiming the presence of the treasures of King Tut, And the lines of people standing, sitting, sleeping, reading, leaning, waiting for their number to be flashed on the closed-circuit screen will move on to the New Orleans Museum of Art. No 'morC crdwds' inching" forward, elbowing Wrlta lor Information to ddrasa aboa chack Boi For more information write: Camping Molalt Amuaamanta Cotlagaa FALL FISHING DERBY Dept.

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