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By JOHN LODWICKupwtal »« T«r detboit time*.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.,December 21.
1 AECEMBER arrivals from King** Winter’s northern dominionsare finding the Christmas seasonin the sub-tropics a glorious newexperience, replete with brilliantsocial life, outdoor sports andentertainment, and spectacularlybeautiful as holiday decorationsand illumination effects drenchthe City with color and light
after dark.Dinner dances and balls and
innumerable private parties arescheduled for Christmas Eve atthe Hotel*- Vinoy Park, Soreno,Suwanee. Huntington. PrincessMartha and Tides, at the Bathand Yacht clubs, at the Chatter-box. Mayfair and many otherfavorite gathering places of thefashionable set.
Young people, home from col-leges and universities, will befeted at a'gav round of partiesduring Christmas week. A com-ing out party for 12 sociallyprominent members of the col-lege set is one of the headlineevents on the week's calendar.
Lane of Living TreesPmhahly no city in America
can match the magnificence ofSt. Petersburg's mile-long laneof living Christmas trees border-ing the approach to RecreationPier, each tree colorfully illumi-nated with electric bulbs andYule symbols. The living Christ-mas tree idea is carried out inall parts of the city, home-own-ers everywhere decorating theevergreens which grow on theirlawns.
Among the new arrivals fromDetroit who are enjoying therrinitial visit in this tropical Para-dise are Mrs. Ida Donnell, Mr.and Mrs. L. McNeil, Mr. andMrs. E. Walsh, and Mrs. Kath-erine Zopfi.
Others returning from Detroitto spend the Winter in the sun-shine are Mr. and Mrsr O. FvBehm and Miss Marie Behm,Miss Valentine Rezaire. Mr. andMrs. H. C. Blasberg arid Har-rick Blasberg. Miss Juliet Bois-mier, Miss Florence M Rradow,Mrs. Arthur DeNio, Frank Dett-hoff, Mrs. L. H. Duguid, AlvinJ. Dunn Mrs. George Floyd, Mr.and Mrs. C. T. Grawn. MissLouise R. James, Mrs. BlancheF. King. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F.Mohr. Miss Edith Parke, Mr. andMrs. Murray Pearlston. Mr. andMrs. Glenn Smith. Mrs. MarvinSteele. Mrs. Louisp Stilson, Mrs.J. F. Utley and W. E. Wright.
Sun ValleyVisitors toSet Record
SUN VALLEY. Ida., Dec. 21.CUN VALLEY LODGE, built
on the edge of one ofAmerica's primitive areas, wasopened formally today, inaugu-rating the resort's fifth Winterseason.
According to W. P. Rogers,general manager, advance book-ings indicate that this also willbe the most successful season inSun Valley's history.
No little part in this advancebooking. Rogers said, has beenplayed by the many new im-proved ski runs on the resort's9.200-foot Baldy Mountain, siteof the famed "Chairway to theSiars." America's longest skilift. Best of the new runs is"Broadway,'’ which is threemiles long.
A schedule of Winter sportsevents has been prepared for thecoming season. It follows, infull:
Ice Carnival. Dec. 25; Inter-collegiate Ski Meet, Dec. 29. 30,31; Sun Valley Midwinter SportsCarnival and" Interstate SkTMeet, Jan. 18, 19; Sun Valley¦Ski Club Meet and Ice Carnival,Feb. 22; Sun Valley SkatingClub Carnival. March 15; Na-tional Four - Event CombinedChampionship and HarrimanTrophy Race. March 20 21, 22,23; Idaho Junior Championships,April 12. 13: Sun Valley Snowand Spring Sports Meet, April17. 18. 19. 20.
CaliforniaA Cure forWar Jitters
r IIHE men who run America’sA business and industry are
going to need a cure this Win-ter for the fagging effects of thewar*worries. Southern Califor-nia is supplying it with the All-Winter Sun Festival fivemonths of interesting events,300 in all, ranging from flowerfestivals through wild boarhunts on an ocean island.
A pleasure trip, rather thanany other kind of relaxation, isthe answer to the war jitters.
The 300 Sun Festival eventsare taking place on almost everyday of the five months of thefestival and they are scatteredall over the Southland.
Desert a DelightSouthern California’s desert
is a delight to visitors from thesnow country. Amid the cactusforests, piles of colored rock,sand dunes, Salton Sea and boil-ing mud pots, there is the greenoasis of Indio, and here occursa festival event, the DateFiesta, jn mid-February whenihe crops are ripening on thepalms. Weird Death Valley,with the lowest dip in AmericaBad Wat ter, 276.6 feet belowsea level), is near at hand, andhere 'the festival offers a tourthrough a sparkling w-hite boraxmine.
Winter is a beautiful flowerseason in Southern California,with flaring red poinsettiasgrowing to the eaves and rosesblooming in every front yard.The world's largest wistaria vineis in bloom in late February',tinting half a block purple.There is Midwinter swimmingalong the southernmost beachesand elsewhere visitors relax inthe warm sun, hunt starfish,beautfiul shells, and watch thejiolicans flap overhead.
Shirt-Sleeve ClimeTn the border country, beside
Old Mexico, the festival takesvisitors to San Diego, and 1oevents such as the Desert Caval-cade at Calexio, the town whosesouth city limit is the Interna-tional Fence. Calexio's sistercity across the border is Mexi-cali (the two towns composetheir internationally dividedstatus by splitting up the wordsMexico and California for theirnames), Mexicali holds a MardiGras, with the burning of JuanCarnival and crowning of ararnival queen at the Mexicangovernor's palacio.
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By THE OI.D AAA TRAVELERFRANKENMUTH, Dec. 21.
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FILEAXOB HOLM, famous swimmer,sans herself at Miami Beach. With herhusband, Billy Rose, shr went to the Floridafrsort just as soon as the Aquacade closedat the Xcw York World's Fair.
Frankenmuth, Where Chicken Is King,Makes Eating a Major Enterprise
piattor. with the motto, “HereFood Is King!"
For this little Michigan town
of some 1,300 souls is a townliterally built on a foundationof roasted chicken, a town whichhas never spent a dime on so-called relief and in which, to-
day, there is not a jobless per-son, man or woman, who wantsto work. The town, it is ad-mitted. did spend some s3o° overthe last five or six years onwhat might technically lietermed “relief," but as a matterof fact, it was spent to buy shoesfor transients who merelypaused in the town.
9,000 Dinners a Week-EndYessir, the chicken is Frank-
enmuth’s sacred bird, for it hasbeen the serving of chicken
dinners over the last half cen-tury that has made the townone of the most unusual spotsin all of America, certainly thespot where eating has beenelevated to the nth degree as amajor enterprise.
As we said before, there are1,300 residents of Frankenmuth,
yet more lhan 9.000 chickendinners are served each week-end; 9,000 pounds of chicken isdelivered to Frankenmuth res-taurants for every week in theyear—and that, if you'll get outyour slide-rule, means that eachdiner polishes off an average ofone pound of roast chicken.And along with the pound ofchicken he takes on 21—count’em!—other dishes, rangingfrom Frankenmuth-grown celeryto bread baked in great outdoorovens and from sweet cabbagesalad to Frankenmuth's ownversion of chop suey.
Persuaded to Open InnLet's let Henry Fischer, son
of the original restaurateur ofFrankenmuth and alderman for18 years, tell how the chickendinner originated in Franken-muth:
"Frankenmuth was settled a
little more than 100 year* ago
by solid German farmers fromaround the town of Franken-muth in the old country. Sixty-five years ago my father, Theo-dore Fischer, a miller by trade,
visited Frankenmuth.' He founda German saloon which servedtwo hig glasses of German beerand a roast beef sandwich for anickel. Father derided that wasthe place he'd been looking forand got a job in the Franken-muth flour mill.
“For generations my familyhad been inn and restaurantoperators, and my father finallywas persuaded to open an Inn.The German farmers startedcoming In on Sundays forchicken dinners, and the fameof the restaurant spread tonearby towns and to Detroit.
TouristsRush EarlyTo Dixie
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,Dec. 21.
OPURRED southward by lastweek's blast from Old Man
Winter, throngs of early visitorsare pouring into Jacksonvillethese days as this lovely old city
on the St. Johns River begins
playing its dual role of gay,friendly vacationland and key
national defense center.Jacksonville is in the military
spotlight now, in a big way, andthe bustle and excitement oftwo major national defense proj-ects have been added to thescores of historical and scenicattractions that delight visitorshere. A $25,000,000 UnitedStates naval air station, largestunder the American flag, isnearing completion on the out-skirts of the city and a $10,000,-000 United States Army train-ing camp is under constructionclose by.
With the earlier and heavierinflux of vacationists and thestepped-up tempo of military ac-tivities, Jacksonville is enteringthe busiest, gayest period of itscolorful history.
Still the most popular attrac-tion for visitors, however, isJacksonville's world-famousbeach, 600 feet wide at low tide,stretching in a silvery-whitecrescent for more than 30 milessouthward from the mouth ofthe St. Johns. Here they thrillto the exciting novelty of surf-side motoring on the hard-packed sand, laze away thehours under a friendly sun andenjoy other beach pleasures.
California ListsFestival Features
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAcelebrates Christmas outdoorsin the sunshine and under thestars, and one form the observ-ance takes is "Las Posadas," acarry-over from the merrySparrish-Califorma days.
This is one of the picturesqueevents of the All-Winter SunFestival which the Southland isholding for the entertainment ofWinter visitors. The Festivallasts until April 1, 1941, and in-cludes .100 colorful fiestas, flowerfestivals, foreign celebrationsand famous athletic games.
That was the hirth of the‘Frankenmuth Chicken Dinner,’
which you will «ee bill-hoardedalone the highways from Texasinto Canada and from Boston toSan Francisco.”
Keeps Business in FamilyToday the Fischer tradition
is earned on. Henry Fischeroperates one of the great
restaurants. Herman Fischer, abrother, operates another, and athird is operated by WilliamZehnder a cousin. As HenryFischer put it:
"We have sort of kept it Inthe family."
Yes. the Fischer family drawsa lot of water in Frankenmuth.In the last election, HenryFischer had opposition in hishid for the aldermanic post, buthe registered a 5 to 1 victoryover his opponent.
And now here’s a tip forMichigan gourmets who havethrilled to Frankenmuth chickenand might like to try preparingit in their own kitchens:
Use five-pound young hens.Do not joint. Simmer in a sma’’amount of water until tenderand then remove from stock.Salt and pepper, dip in meltedbutter, lay in roasting pan androast until brown. The dressingis made of a secret recipe, butwe do know that it is of breadcrumbs" and-Fbe-rtnck where thechicken was boiled, plus highseasoning; it is baked in theroasting pan around the chicken.
So—on to Frankenmuth!
Jan. 26 Is Big NightIn Frisco ChinatownJANUARY 26 is a red-letter
** night in San Francisco'sChinatown, largest in the world,
outside the Orient. It is (ChineseNew Year's Eve.
Amid rituals as old as civili-zation. 20,000 Chinese welcomethe new year. Exotic orientalcustoms and ceremonial ritesare consummated before thegaze of western eyes.
For seven days and nightsthere are colorful ceremonies.There are religious services inthe joss houses and in privatehomes; feasts of the lanternsand banquets. The culminationof the occasion is the dance ofthe Buddha Lion through thestreets.
Six young Chinese boys guidethe great silken Lion from storeto store, and at each place ofbusiness the Lion receives giftsol money, wrapped in lettuceleaves. This money goes tocharity.
Among other things, theChinese adjust their money mat-ters at the new year. All out-standing debts are paid in full—the slate is wiped clean.
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SALE OF WATCHESJust arrived . . . due to a delay
in shipment! Sale priced to avoida surplus stock after Christmas!
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16 men's watches, were 37.50
18 men's watches, 21 jewels, were 29.75
12 men's and women's watches, 17-jewel, were 27.50
10 men's and women's watches, 17-jewel, were 24.75
8 men's pocltef watches, 17-jew»l,_were 27.50
Smart styles, fully guaranteed. Manu-facturer’s original price tags remain on
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17-jewel27.50 pocket
wa*ches,
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Authorized store for Bulova, Hamilton, Elgin,Waltham, Pierce, Welsbro, Harman and Im-perial watches.
SALE! ZIRCON RINGS
Generous Pre-Christmas reductions on
these sparkling gems . . . selected forcolor and brilliancy. Large variety tochoose from!
SIOO.OO Zircon Rings, sale price $76
$85.00 Zircon Rings, sale price $56
$60.00 Zircon Rings, sale price ..$42$50.00 Zircon Rings, sale price... $36$40.00 Zircon Rings, sale price ..$29$32.50 Zircon Rings, sale price . s2l$27.50 Zircon Rings, sale price . $lB$22.50 Zircon Rings, sale price . sls$15.00 Zircon Rings, sale price $lO
SALE! DIAMOND RINGS
Express your fondest Christmas greet-ings with a ring she ll cherish forever!These are diamonds of unusual bril-liancy. Reduced for worthwhile savings!
$675 Platinum Rings, baguette diamond*on aides, sale price $485
$495 Platinum Ringß, large diamond oneach aide, sale price $345
$375 Platinum Rings, 3 diamond* on each
aide, sale price $265
s2sft Platinum Rings, 2 diamonds on eachside, sale price $lB5
$?oo Platinum nr Yellow Gold Rings,diamonds on sides, sale price... $149
$l5O White nr Yellow Gold Rings, manystyles, sale price sll9
SIOO White or Yellow Gold Rings, saleprice $77
$75 White or Yellow Gold Rings, plain or
carved patterns, sale price... $59
SALE;] MEN'S RINGS
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Group of 22.50 Men'sRings, now 15.00
SALE!DIAMONDWATCHES
$250 Platinum watches, 28round and 2 baguette dia-monds, 17 Jewel, now $lB9
S2OO White Gold watches,36 round diamonds, 17jewel, now $149
$l5O Platinum watches, 36round and 2 baugette dia-monds, now $lO9
SIOO White or Yellow Goldwatches, 18 diamonds, 17Jewel, now $79
$75 White Gold watches.L 22 diamonds, 17 Jewel $59
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SALEWOMEN'S RINGS
Q95Many styles for your se-lection. Opals, cameos,-bladt onyx, b+rthstonesand others. Regularly12.95 and 14.95.
Group of $25.00 and $22.50Women's Rings, n0w..515
Sale! DiamondMountings
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Detroit Sunday Times, December 22, 1940PAGE 12
