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SmsU v' 'T'' HI I 9 sit KBi 1 J3f jj ra fti MONUMENT DIVIDES a place you can actually straddle the earth! If you put one foot across the line here be half in the Northern Hemisphere and half in the Southern Hemisphere. This is the famous Ecuadorian Equatorial Monument, 15 miles north of Quito, Ecuador. It is latitude short, exactly Stone Pictographs Tell Tourists About Indians ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex. A motorcade will leave here Sunday, April 24, for an interesting Journey into the past.

It will go into the great Tularosa Basin, home of vast cattle ranches, rolling lava floes and the Great White Sands. This is one of a number of guided tours which will be sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce throughout the summer, and it will investigate the great pictographs in the foothills of the Sierra Blancas near Three Rivers, N. Mex. Amazingly simple in style, the strange relates stories of the everyday things with which the earty redmen came in contact. The writings extend for miles along the rocky surfaces of the low rolling foothills.

The limestone boulders on which they appear serve as great pages. If the artist came to a midsection of his sketch at the edge of the stone, he simply rounded the corner and finished RESORTS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THI CLARIDfiE HOTR I "The Skyscraper by the Sea" GEORGE B. BRUNI, General Mgr.

Telephone Atlantic City WEEKEND SPECIAL (Friday te Sunday) Per Person tIE Two in Room 10 MODIFIED AMERICAN PLAN European Plan, From ST I COCKTAIL LOUNfiE UJ COFFEE SHOP TELEVISION Open and Closed Son Decks Jefferson 7 KENTUCKY AVI. I i NEA LJlfflLjjS. ATLANTIC CITY Phone 3 0141 Si MW Maybe Missed the Public Holiday at Make Yourself A Private Holiday NEXT WEEKEND For Comploto Information writo Room SOT Convontion Hall, Atlantic City, NJ. the picture on the other side. A natural preservative for the writing occurs in a thin brown coating covering all rock surfaces.

Some scientists claim that this Is a mist which came from adjoining lava beds when they were molten; others say It Is a caused by the excessive heat of the sun. Certainly no modem wax could have proven a finer protection. It Is believed that these pictures were Inscribed from 600 to 1,200 years ago. New Hotel Opening Set LAS VEGAS, Nev. The Las Vegas Riviera Hotel has postponed its opening to April 20.

The $7.5 million building, Las first skyscraper was scheduled to open April 8. The new opening date, according to the management, change the scheduled show which will star Liberace. TRAVEL TRAVEL East and West COOKES you best World's largest Travel Agency offers more for your tima LiJhl Check your choice POPULAR-PRICED WESTERN TOURS Alr-conditlonod coach rooms with bath at sightseeing. Escorted. Leave Chicago 8 COLORADO, ROYAL GORGE sl7l 9 YELLOWSTONE, COLORADO $206 10 days.

YELLOWSTONE-GLACIER PARKS $229 14 dayi. CALIFORNIA, GRAND CANYON $237 (Indudiaf Yowmite National Park. $262) 14 doya. YELLOWSTONE, CANADIAN ROCKIES $299 daya. CALIFORNIA, CANADIAN ROCKIES $279 15 daya.

CANADIAN ROCKIES, CALIFORNIA $279 BEST OF THE WEST Pullman finest with bath, lighttooing. Escorted. Leave Chicago 14 daya. YELLOWSTONE, OR AND TETONS, UTAH From $349 days. CANADIAN ROCKIES, PACIFIC From $375 15 days.

CALIFORNIA, PACIFIC NORTHWEST $319 22 daya. CANADIAN ROCKIES, CALIFORNIA From $340 29 daya. COMPLETE TOUR OF THE WEST. 6 National Parks, Canadian Rockies, California, Pacific Northwest From S79S EASTERN VACATION TOURS 6-13 daya. TOURS BY PRIVATE MOTOI COACH to Cape Cod, historic New England, Gaspe, Ontario Lakelands, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa.

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Visiting St. Lawrence, Saguenay, Quebec, Montreal, Nova Scotia. Fine hotels, sightseeing, all meals included. Escorted groups leave New York weekends. Fares from $216.

BERMUDA VACATIONS to fit your budget. Weekly sailings of Bermuda" and Monarch." Round-trip fare from $135 NASSAU, 7-day Cruises in air-conditioned S.S. "Nassau," sailings every Friday from SI4S (Taxes additional where applicable HAWAII CRUISE-TOURS from Los Angeles and San Francisco, ALASKA-YUKON TOURS from Seattle; 21 days. MEXICO ISCORTID TOURS every week. 13 days in Mexico.

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COOK SON INCORFOIATBD 812 Fifteenth N. Washington Republic 7-8555 open MSP. M. CM Carry Ceek'i Travelert Cheques note, convenient Air Fares Cut To 2 Caribbean Holiday Spots MIAMI. Already less than four flying hours from the United States, two of the most popular holiday and the Dominican being put within closer reach of the average American tourist in the way that counts the mostfinancially.

A 22 per cent cut in passenger fares between Miami and the two playgrounds went into effect April 1 on the routes of Pan American World Airways. The round-trip fare between the Florida gateway and Port-au- Prince. capital of Haiti, dropped from $135 to $lO5. And, instead of $140.40, travelers now will pay sllO for the flight to Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, and return to Miami. Variety of Activities A French-speaking country.

allures range from dining, dancing and gambling at a suave casino in (he capital to bouncing over mountain trails in a jeep for breathtaking views of waterfalls, natural beaches, forests and mountain pools. Rates at Haiti's 30 hotels and pensions range from $5 to $24 a day for a room with all meals. A $5 bill buys a guided tour of Iron Market, art museum, mahogany factories and other points of interest. The same sum also takes tourists on a trip by glass-bottomed boat to the underwater marine gardens on the coral reef of the Bay of Gonave. It also pays for a dinner dancing session at a luxury hotel or night club.

More Hotel Rooms. Ciudad Trujillo city Christopher Columbus ordered his brother to found as Santo gearing Itself for tourists en masse. A 100-room annex is now being added to the modernistic Jaragua Hotel, and the Dominican Government is RESORTS WILDWOOD, N. A HR Sukkl red I Hfl SMItMH building a 150-room hotel due to open November 3. Another $2.5 million hotel, air-conditioned throughout, will be ready December 20 for the Inauguration Dominican International Fair.

The hotel will feature a swimming pool, night club and 18-hole golf course. A four-day package tour of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, allowing two days and nights in each playground, which share the island of Hispaniola, is being Offered by travel agents for $66, plus air fare. It covers de line accommodations, on a double occupancy basis, sightseeing and all meals in Haiti. Jamboree to Include 2 Treasure Hunts NAGS HEAD, N. C.

Two treasure hunts, one for adults and the other children, will be features of the first annual Dare Coast Pirate Jam-' boree. The three-day jamboree, opening the vacation season for I this region is set for April 29, 30 and May 1. A committee has been named to plant the treasures In the vicinity of Jockey Ridge and draw up necessary charts and arranging clues for the hunt. TRAVEL RENT A NEW CAR I HERTZ and drive it yourself! 1955 de luxe Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles or Station Wagons. You will be surprised how little it costs to rent a HERTZ car.

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This will replace the old double-deck railroad and highway bridge that for many years caused a traffic bottleneck. Many new motels are nearing completion, adding to the number of accommodations that will be available for visitors. Twain Slept Here HAMILTON. Mark Twain was one of ardent boosters. Another famous author and playwright, Engene also owned a home in Bermuda.

home, Spithead. was once owned by a famous privateer, Hezekiah 1 Frith. TRAVEL TRAVEL Boston Arts Festival Set tor June 5-19 BOSTON, Mass. The fourth annual Boston Arts outdoor pageant of the take place June 5 to 19 in the Boston Public Garden. Attendance last year was 500,000.

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Fred Whlttemore. i Bex D6W, Dorset, Vcmont painting, sculpture, graphic arte and architecture selected by Jury. Innovations this year will Include a craft exhibition with demonstrations of woodworking, TRAVEL TRAVEL I I LAKE SUPERIOR takas on a now magnificence from high-up Sconic Domes. Canadian Pacific presents Canada's first and only stainless steel Scenic Dome The Canadian i Starts in daily service April 24 new train, The Canadian. between Montreal and Vancouver, Enjoy new luxury and I Toronto and Vancouver; travels uniquely Canadian sc no through Banff and Lake Louise in extra fare.

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