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Marion Arthur, On Oriental Trip, Finds World Small, Orient Exotic .A ? * * Miss Marion Arthur, Kings Mountain citizcn and civilian army employee ol the army in Tokyo, Japan, recently took a several-day trip to Okinawa, Hong Kong, and Bankok. She describes the trip in a let ter dated April 16, and recently received by her parents, Mr. and Mts. J. H. Arthur. Miss Arthur, who went to Ja pan two years ago, expects to re turn to the. United States in July. . The letter follows: "You had better prepare your selves for a little reading as" this will probably drag on forever and ever. I arrived back In Tokyo yesterday morning about 7:30 from Taipei, and my trip couldn't have been more wonderful. I'll start from scratch and give you ? the details, step by step. "We left Tokyo, from Haneda Air Port, the 6th of April (Sun day) at 2:00 in the a. m. Our de parting was changed from 7:15 to 2:00 because the plane didn't get In from Taipei sooner. From Tokyo, our first stop was Okina wa, and we arrived there about 9:00 Sunday, where we had a delicious breakfast. Okinawa was hot and flat and not too much going on. While there, I Just had time to call Clyde MacCurry and talk to him for a few minutes. "From Okinawa, I got to ride in the co-pilot's . seat- to Taipei, which was certainly an experi ence for me. The pilot of the plane was a Capt. Richardson who graduated from I^enolr Rhyne college and whose home was somewhere In Tennessee. From Okinawa to Taipei, it takes 3 hours or 2 1-2 if the weather Is good. We arrived there in time for lunch and Col. Loofborogh met me and wanted me lo go to his home f?r lunch but. they wouldn't let me leave the termi nal as I only had a one-entrv visa. (I'll come back to talpef Jatcrl and give you the details). Well we left there nnd It took about 3 hours for us to get to H6ng Kong. J here, we were given a permit to leave the air field for dinner and we stayed there for' an hour. Hong Kong is perfectly beautiful and the harhor is beyond any lu!rg. ,We ovor stH>n- Il's impos sible to describe in writing. "From Hong Kong, we started oh our long flight to Bangkok, rhaHand fSlam) which took us 7 12 hours straight flying. This was certainly a long trip and I was beginning to get pretty tired. We flew over French Indo china. Him w , 7 aI*? fl Sh ting. but nlost of our flying was done over water. We arrived in Hang. ' ,^Ut 4:00 iH ,h<> corning ami it was nlunit no degrees and all of us with a winter suit on. i irsr , let mo say that the air i?r<n j is just ,n';iniifiil there. Jt js a targe new modern building and since it is hot the year around. no doors but large en tran.es. All the furniture in done m bright orange and different col ors and the cafeteria there would hold .1 .(XX) people. Bangkok, itself is very primitive. From what 1 could gather, all the people <|(> j$ cal ami sleep. They appear to be ten 1 ibly lazy to mp We stayed at the l rocadero Hotel 'and this ho- V tel reminded me of those in the' . pictures filmed in the West Indies I Any minute. I expected t6 s,.v Sydney tJreenstreet walk around : the corner. It was dork and mus- : t> and we walked in. this huge l biid let out a big yell, and there sat a big Siamese t\?i on t lu? stop * r^n,Vm;^*ocl f;,,< ?<>>??? abou.: ,>.00 that morning and were up at m' ready for breakfast. In I Bangkok, von use the tii-.ils <s money and 1.070 tic als c<?,rH ?ne ' u. vS dollar. 'Ihis rate ?f 0.\ : changf changes from <iav it* dav so you have t? t?. vv" ; went on several tours fll(. shrines and temples for whicb'4 Siam is famous. We went lo ; Siamese dinner and saw the , las steal Siamese dance One after i noon. I spent at the spoVu cinb ! where we had lunch on the tei : race and swam: with an Ameri can whom. I met at the hotel. lie ? was in Siam making motion pie- : tures. . 1 ? 1 ilidn t hu\ mu? h ihere 1 - bought myself ,m alligator nurse ? teVelope style, a pan of Siamese dancers pictures.- some straw -shoes, hat etc. We went o?.t:?n the floating market one momim- n 6:30 and got hack about uV-od .Where we had breakfast ,it the Oriental Hotel. I think we ate about a loaf of bread The mode of travel there is mostlv peddi cabs 1 called sainloys there and I know I spent about S,>n IU|m., through the streets there, I had i very good little driver who spoke good Knglish arid who knew where to take me for the stuff I wanted to buy. I think he really earned every penny as 1 felt like a dog with him pulling ,n(. through that hoi sun. I wont to two night clubs there and both Of them had Filippinno orches- ! tras which were very good.- At ! one of t hese clubs, we "had a reim lar dinner which consisted of beef ! curry (very hot . lots of different fruits etc. Of all the food (for eigni that I've eaten, this I v.ould hardly get down. For instance they had mangos for dessert serv ed with a sweetened rice which was sweetened with coconut milk ?? rom there, we went to an opium den which perfectly legal there P0" *1? alarmed, I had a hand kerchief over my face and we Just walked straight in and out. This in my estimation, was just ihonlble. You ran't imagine what It s like so hot and Ihey re minded me of animals in caees f More about this when I get home' I've never gotten as much enjoy ment In my life as I have eating all the delicious bananas and fruits. They sell bananas there for about 3 cents a pound and they have about 200 different spe cles which consist of various kinds of cook nlgandneltan-enWe kinds of cooking and eating bana nas. This is enough about Slam for now. The fleas and mosqui toes were terrible and I hardly slept a wink while there. "(I'll stop here and say that I met two charming girls before we left Tbkyo, and we spent the entire trip together. One was Doris Watkins from Weavervllle, N. C., .1 Special Service girl, who Is a dietician by profession. The other girl was "Marty" Oliver, who Js a professional nurse and Is In Public Welfare here. She has spent 2 1-2 years In the Dutch West Indies, and her home Is In New York. We got along perfect ly and roomed together the whole time), "We left Bangkok at 2:00 Wed nesday morning and you should have seen.us getting on the plane. My feet had swelled and I had on my bedroom slippers, a big straw hat on my head and Toaded down with stuff. We arrived In Hong Kong about 9:00 and this Is a paradise. We stayed at the Peninsula Hotel which sits right on the harbor and everything in Hong Kong 13 strictly British. We had our tea at 4:00 in the after noons in the lobby and they serv ed the most delicious assortment of cakes you've ever eaten. It was raining when we arrived so I had breakfast rather brunch, then headed for the tailors which was right behind the hotel. I had my tailoring done at Harlleia's which is run by 3 Indian brothers. Now, this is what will amaze you. I had a full length dressy cashmere coat, a three-quarter length bright red camel's hair coat, and a grey wool suit made and the whole works cost me exactly $102.00. They are perfectly beautiful and I don't have to worry about a thing to wear next winter. The tailoring Is perfect and so Is the fitting. Can you Imagine getting a cashmere coat for $41.00 when the cheapest one advertised In the States is $179.00 not including tax. This is my pride and Joy from the whole trip. From there, I had my hair done and you will Just die when you hear what I did my first night In H K. 1 had been giv en some friends to look up so I cabled them immediately upon ar rival. They are Mr. and Mrs. Tom my Crosthwaite, British, rather he is. He had Uved his lif e In H K and he married a girl from Wash- j lngton, N. C., and her name is Mary. We Jusi had a wonderful time talking! We had dinner and then alterwards, this is It ? we played bridge. My partner was a retired British Colonel and I ended up by winning about $5.50 in U. S. dollars. Had I known we were playing for points, I would have been terrified. They exclaim ed what a good player I was and I thought them good myself. In fact, I didn't know what I. was getting In to! The next day we shopped. We were staying on the Kowloon side and you take a fer ry to go over to the Hong Kong side, takes about 5 minutes. I bought some more linen, some Chinese Jewelry, and odds and ends. I took lots of pictures but since it was so dark, don't know whether they'll turn out so good or not. The second night there, us three girls went over to the Parisian Grill for dinner which is the place to dine. There, we met 3 American men who were very nice so we ended up by go ing with them to the various night elubs, to the top of the peak to see the lights and then riding on a Walla Walla which is the little boat that runs after the fer TENNESSEE RAMBLE BS COMING SATURDAT? Cecil Campbell and hU Tennessee Ramblers, famous radio and television performers, will appear her* Saturday night at Central school auditorium at 8 o'clock. The group, along with Fred Xlrby. is being brought here by Otis D. Green Post 155. the American Legion and a large crowd is expected. ry stops at 1:00. That is some thing I'll never" forget At one of the clubs, the Arizona, I met Dr. Jose Rodrlquez, who is Cousul of the Republic of the Philippines, and who invited me down there for A visit. He's an M. D. and very Jolly and a good dancer. "In H K. you use Hong Kong dollars and American currency.. Six H K dollars equals one U. S. dollar and here, too, the rate of exchange changes from day to day. The highest I got while there was 650 H K dollars to one U. S. dollar. "We left Hong Kong about 2:30 Friday, April 9th, and arrived in Taipei about 6:00 that afternoon. Phil was there to meet me and here I had a wonderful time. As I said before, he is a full Col. in the Air Force and now holds down n Bridagler Gen's job. Is a West Point graduate and very smart. His daddy is a Baptist minister. He had a big house there with another col. and a MaJ. Klssick and his wife, Pat, plus 5 servants. When I arrived at the house that nlte, they were having a dinner party lor which I am thankful. There happened to be a Captain there by the name of Candaras who works with the Mar Trade Corporation in New York. Now, they don't carry passengers on their ships but he invited me to go to Europe as their guest when I got home. Their ships go to Europe, usually France, and stay there for 2 weeks, and they carry passengers occasionally as good will. The last passenger they had were 2 oJj ladies 65 years old and one was 68. Their life-long ambi tion had been to go to Europe, so they fulfilled tyelr dreams. He said that Capt. Candaras was very , sincere and meant every word he said so my trip was in the bag, absolutely free. "Taipei Is entirely different from the other places. All you can see there is soldiers and they always stand watch with fixed bayonets. The mode of travel there is principally oxen and wa ter buffalo and rice is their main crop. They have fresh pineapple Civil Service Exam Announced By Falls A Civil Service examination for the position of Library Assis tant, GS-2 thru GS-5, in the Fed eral Government Is now open, It was stated today by M. C. Falls, secretary of the Board .of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at the Local Post Office. The basic en trance salaries range from $2950 to $3410 a year. Ilie examination is being held iby the Fourth U. S. Civil Service Region, Washington, D. C., to 1111 ?positions in various Federal A gencles in the States of Mary land (except Montgomery and Prince Georges counties), North ? 11 ' 1 ? 1 i " "? 1 ? 11 1 ^ ' 1 " and bananas year around plus lots of other fruit I had always thought of Taiple as flat but 1 f consists mainly of high moun tains. We covered about 90 miles my first day there looking. One night, we went to the "Friends of China" night club for dancing. The ne?t night, we were invited to a dinner party given by Col. and Mrs. Ying-Nan Yung and we had Chinese food cooked Can tonese style which Is supposed to be the best. It was really delicious and Fm afraid I ate like a pig ? chopsticks and all. "Then one afternoon, Mr. Z. Y. Chow, Vice- Pres. of the Bank of Taiwan, and an M. I. T. and Cor nell graduate, came to pay us a visit He was so sorry that I had to leave as he wanted to have a party for me. As I sat there talk ing, I thought how much I felt at home talking about the various cities In China, Japan, etc., and talking with an International set This business of travelling is wonderful, and you meet so many Interesting people. I brought a big basket of bananas and a big bag of fresh pineapple home with me for the Colonels in the office. Fresh pineapple is delicious, much better than canned, in fact, the taste is entirely different" V Carolina, Virginia (except Ar lington County and the city of Alexandria, and West Virginia. Applications will be accepted by the office of the Director, Fourth U. S. Civil Service Region, Tem porary "R." Third and Jefferson Drive, S. V'., Washington 25, D. C., until the needs of the service are met. This examination requires a written test. The experience re quirement range from one year to three years of work In the field of library science. Approximate education may be substituted for experience. Complete Information and ap plication blank* may be obtain ed from M. C. Falls at the local Post Office. Gross national product, ? the market value of the Notion's out put of goods and services, In creased to $328 billion in 1951, as compared with $283 billion In 1950. For MOTHER ON HER DAY GIVE.... CHOCOLATES BocciUSl are Preferred Famous SAMPLER 1 lb. $2.00 2 lbs. $4.00 Other Whitman 't Assortments Ideal For Gifts Mountain St. Phone 8 O 1 ? ? a a> CRISP DOLLAR B.ILLS 90c TO THE FIRST 300 ADULT CUSTOMERS DURING DOLLAR One To A Customer? Please Have Coned Change Our Loss Is YOUR Gain WE ARE SELLING MERCHANDISE RELOW COST EVERYTHING In Our Store Marked D This is the first time RAIRD'S has ever put on a Store- Wide Sale, but it is one youll Remember! You don't save pennies, you Save (J Dollars Ry The Dozens! Sofa Beds. 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