Wednesday, August 1 2

1959.

THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

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Sylvia Baker's Letter Home
Home

Visit British air

while touring Germany

Here I am again, but I won't
get much of a start on this
ter as supper (scrambled egg
night) is almost Teady. We
are cooking on the banks of the
Rhine under a bridge at
Cologne. We are eating early
tonight because we are going
visiting at six o'clock. We are
soing to see Fritz Acher and
family, his brother Walter lives
in Williams Lake. Fritz and
Agnes are awfully nice people
and we spent an enjoyable
evening with them. He works
a night shift and his wife is em-
ployed by the government as an
interpreter. She speaks
German, French, Dutch and
English, and they are saving to
build a few guest bungalows on
their plot of land in the country.
They have two very nice daught-
ers, aged 13 and_14, who hope
they will be able to go to
Canada when they are a little
older. Fritz says he would like
to come to Canada, but he feels
he is too old now (43) to be
Starting out in a new country.
PROCESSION :

Now, I will go backwards as
T usually do. Dad, did you get
your beer stein in one piece?
Hope so. By the way, it is not
an ornament, it is to be used.
Guess what your only daughter
did the other day? She took
part in a religious proce
in Trier, Germany. Trier is
the town where the alleged
Robe of Christ is kept. The
Robe was being shown for the
first time in 26 years and for
the seventh time since 1512—
and I was there. Only Marg,
Jeanette, Kevin and I went to
see it. First of all we attended
a church service and then all
the people in the church formed

let-

base

very small country as you know,
so we didn't spend too much
time there, only a day. I like
the city—it was as I had pi
tured it,with a deep gully divid-

ing the city and the bridges
bringing it together. From
Luxembourg we returned to

Germany and drove to Frank:
furt which has been built mostly
since the war, have most
German cities and is fairly new
and has nice store and office
buildings. It seems strange but
all the German cities I have
visited have not had ‘the usual
city sounds and fast pace. Gen-
erally the streets are very quiet,
you seldom hear the blare of
horns and the people don't
seem to be in any great rush.
After having seen Frankfurt
we drove north and followed the
Rhine valley up through Bonn
and Cologne. The Rhine must
be the busiest river there is.
There was more traffic on the
river than on the highway. All
day long tugs and barges bore
their way up and down the
river. The river is fairly wide
and has been divided by buoys

as

a procession and we walked
through the streets to Ger-
many’s oldest cathedral where
the Robe was on display. The
Cross was carried at the h

of the procession and ¢

said their rosary as they walked
along (you should have seen
me.) The Holy Tunic is sup-
posedly the seamless“ coat of
Christ. It was a remarkable
thing, it is so old that it no
longer looks like cloth, but like
parchment. I am sure that
were it touched, it would
crumble to dust. It is kept in

Sylvia Baker and her friends were
Kaiser-Wilhelm
It stands in the

impressed by the
Church shown above.

time we stopped. This slowed
us down considerably and we
were too late in arriving in
Bonn to take the whirly bird
ride, so now I will hold out for
Antwerp and hope that it will
be possible for me to go from
Brussels.

VISIT FRIENDS

centre of the modern-city of Berlin
and has been left as a reminder to
the Germans of the horrors of war.

rooms in it. We have each
been given a bedroom and we
have three bathtubs, three
showers and three toilets at our
It was almost too
to believe. When we
were left alone the four of us
went wild with excitement, “we
ran up and down the hall filling
bathtubs to the brim with hot

nice German sausage and salad
and still wasn’t full so had to
order a second one—glutton
that I am.

Having completed our meal,
we returned once more to see
if Peter and his wife were
home. They were, and we re-
ceived a hearty greeting, were

a large glass se. I read
the other day that 100,000
people each day will flock into
Trier until September 20. when
the pilgrimage will end.

We crossed the border a few
days ago into Luxembourg and
spent a little time in the city.
To reach Luxembourg we drove
from Heidelberg down through
the industrial section, around
Saarbrucken. This part of
Germany is very close to the
French borders and you can
still see the effects the war had
on this area. Many of the
houses have holes where bullets
and machine gun fire struck
them and along the road are
quite a few block or bunker
houses that have been bombed.
It was awfully dirty in the
towns where the factories are
All the trees and
covered with dirt
Luxembourg is @

situated.
houses are
and soot.

4 DAILY

was a very nice evening, a lot
of people were there and they
seemed to thoroughly enjoy our
pictures. In the next room a
temporary bar had been set up
for the evening. Yesterday was
a very full day for us. We were
shown over the pase and visited
two of the squadrons. In each
case the commanding officer
of the squadron escorted us
around and very patiently ex-
plained what went on and an-
swered any questions. We saw
the various offices, some of them
being the control room, map
and photography and radio
rooms. I even sat in the cock-
pit of two different ‘types of
jets and the numerous dials and
controls were pointed out to me.

landing and taking off.
were introduced to a lot of the
men and they too were very
nice, taking time to explain
what they were doing. It, was
really a terrific day and we were
all thrilled to have had the op-
portunity ‘to be shown the air
base.

Each time I meet the English
I like them better. I don't
think there is another race who
can match the English sense of
humor. When we visited the
first squadron were were taken
to the crew room and here we
were introduced to Elmer Dal-
crosses, their tortoise mascot.
On our way from Cologne to
Gutersloh we travelled over one
of Germany’s many autobahns.
They are wonderful roads and

to another. We had a little dif-
fieulty when we reached Dort-
mund. We couldn't find a sign
Post that read to Hanover, all
the signs read Dortmund east.
Dortmund north and so on. A
a result we, drove past Dort-
mund, around Dortmund and
through Dortmund. At one
stage it appeared that we would
never find our way on to the
autobahn. Quite by accident we
stumbled onto the right road.

I have hardly mentioned
a word about Cologne so now is
as good a time as any. Cologne
is another wartime city and like
Frankfurt and the others has
been rebuilt in recent years.
There is a lot of construction
being done and even yet there
are the bombed ruins and shells
of former buildings still stand-
ing amongst the new buildings.
I had never thought too much
about the war as I was so young
when it was on, but every day
T become more aware of how
horrifying it must have been.
It is strange to be travelling
through the country of our for-
mer enemies and to find them
so friendly. I thought there
would have been a lot of ‘re-
sentment. We have come across
a few who have been a little
unfriendly and surly, but you
find that wherever you’go. An-
other thing that we are all
amazed by is how completely
Germany is occupied. You
really notice the Americans,
they are everywhere and they
have bases in most places we

I have really strayed from
Cologne so I will give it another
try. We were really fortunate
while we were there, as I men-
tioned earlier in my letter, we
were all taken to the home of
Fritz and Agnes Acher and
made to feel part of the family.
They were simply wonderful to
us and we spent two enjoyable
evenings with them. They fed
us, offered us German beer and
all in all were just grand. You
have to be pretty wonderful to
take in seven nomads.

Before we leave in the morn-
ing we hope to be in possession
of the necessary papers that
will get us into East Berlin
without the usual red tape. The
car has been repaired and is
now ready to face up to the last
lap of her journey. Until next
week, then, goodbye.

Horsefly news

ON AUGUST 5, ‘Mrs. Lloyd
Hurst and Mrs. Alice Stober
were co-hostesses at a surprise
birthday party in honor of Mrs.
George Hockley’ at the home of
Mrs. Hurst. The ladies spent
the afternoon playing parlor
games. A buffet luncheon was
served on the screened veranda.
Other guests present were Mrs.
Ben Gruhs, Mrs. Joe Williams,
Mrs. Lance Thygassen, Mrs. Rod
McLeod, Mrs. Laird, Mrs. Gil-
bert Walters, Mrs. Joe Fetters,
Mrs. Tince McDougal, Mrs. Wil-
fred Racher and Mrs. Bessie
Lowry. *

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We saw a lot of people swim-has happened since yesterday|a drink ‘and told that the vist-|“*°* 2n¢ washing dirty clothes. | 44-6 your quickly from one city | have visited.
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tresses and when a barge came|begin, 1 suppose the beginning| pared for us, and at nine were} Excuse me, it is seven o'clock
along they had to hurry andlis as good as any place. After|expected at the officers’ tmess/and time to dine again, Will
get out of the way. The Rhine|our stay in Cologne we left in|for dinner. This was almost|continue at a later hour.
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