SAM DALE TOURS EUROPE
From the moment he boarded
Lufthansa Air Lines' big European-
bound Boeing 707 jetliner at Kennedy
Airport on August 1, until he set
down there again eighteen days later,
every minute was an exciting one for
Sam Dale, supervisor of the Greige
Goods Department of Plant 1. Even
the four-hour hold on the runway at
congested Kennedy Field failed to
dampen his’spirits as he started the
first leg of his journey that was to
take him and his wife, Edith, to visit
the family of their son, who makes
his home in Germany, and to tour
much of Western Europe.
Seven hours after take-off, Sam's
plane set down at Frankfurt, Germany
where he was met by his son, Tom;
his daughter-in-law, Mathein; and his
three granddaughters--Sharon, age 9;
Chris, age 8; and Pamela, age 4. Up
on arrival at Tom' s home in the small
German tovm of Bottenback, a big wel
come awaited them. Tom's German
neighbors were on hand--many of them
with flowers--to greet the visitors
from the United States.
After resting and just enjoying
visiting with each other for four or
five days, the Dales set out in Tom's
station wagon for a five-day tour
through Germany, northwestward into
The Netherlands, then down into Bel
gium and Luxembourg, through the
northeastern section of France and
back to Bottenback. Highlights of this
trip included visiting the Daimler-Benz
Museum in Stuttgart, riding on a sight
seeing boat through the canals of Am
sterdam, visiting The Hague and, per
haps best of all, just viewing the scenic
beauty of the countryside.
Two days later saw the start of a
second journey--this time, south. Sam
and the family traveled from Germany
into Switzerland, where they visited
Basel, Zurich and Lucerne. Here,
One of the city gates that are
common throughout Switzerland.
again, they were awed by the beauty
of the country, particularly by the
snow-covered Alps, dotted with chalets.
Next on their itinerary was Italy,
reached by way of St. Gotthard's Pass
where they crossed the Alps at an alti
tude of 8,250 feet. In Italy, they stop
ped in the towns of Milano, Trento and
Bergamo; then, they traveled through
the famed Brenner Pass into Austria
and visited Innsbruck before returning
to their home base in Germany.
The Dales' final tour before re
turning to the States was through Ger
many's Black Forests, the one-hundred
mile long mountainous district in
Southwestern Germany, Here they saw
beautiful valleys winding through wood
ed hills--hills so densely wooded with
conifers that they have a black appear
ance. This is one of the favorite sum
mer resorts of the German people.
Here, too, live the woodcutters, lumber
men and the makers of wooden clocks
and music boxes for which the Black
Forest is noted.
It's no wonder it was with sadness
that Sam and Mrs. Dale said goodbye
to Tom and his family--and to their
German friends who took them to their
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