DAY, AUGUST 16, ig7L

fe IN HOLLYWOOD.” |

‘Calif, were here for a‘couple of
. days this week on another ore of

'. their faunts around the world,
“For the Wouters are. hitch:

hikers, and estimate they have
covered more than 50,000 miles

in their travels over the’ past
years, |

recorded on maps which they
carry with them, for Mr.

track of the exact mileage and

_ travels,

The couple were ‘married 24
years ago in their native
country of Holland and left. four
years later for North America.

They have been living in
Hollywood for the past 17 years,

.working during the winter so
they can travel all the summer
months,

Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wouters

. is the hitch hiker who has more

, weaves around the road’ or

In fact, in one. two-week
holiday, they flew thousands of
miles criss-crossing ‘across’ the
United States. and. over the
Atlantic,

Last year they covered 16, 292
miles hiking in 20 countries in
five months of last summer, -

They do not camp out over-
night, but stay at motels or
hostels and so do need a fair
amount of money to carry with

them when they start out. They .

always use travellers’ cheques.
DRUNK DRIVERS

And they say their worst
trouble is being picked up by
drunken drivers. Instead of the

- driver having trouble with the

hitch hiker, as seems to be the
usual case, the Wouters found it

trouble with the drivers,

And once you get into the car
and realize the driver has been
drinking, it’s then you are in
trouble, they say, for you are
completely at his mercy as he

speeds ‘carelessly down the
freeway,
They both wear sturdy,

comfortable shoes, and carry *

small,

““gompact shoulder

‘packsacks to facililate their #:

travels.

US. dollar plunges: low

LONDON (AP) — wt slight
metcrop in the value of the United
p}States dollar highighted early
; pirading in London currency
meimarkets today, but in Frankfurt ©
/eithe dollar plunged toa new low
of 3.3890 marks. . ;
at The Frankfurt drop came in
the first 40 minutes of trading.
: The dollar opened at 3.3930,

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At midmorning. here, the
pound «cost . $2.4195 - compared
with Wednesday’ S $2.4193- This
means it took more dollars to
buy a pound. ‘

One Frankfurt dealer said
pressure from export-oriented
industries would force the West

German Central ‘Bank to inter-
vene to shore up, the price of the

be ‘an effective revaluation of
nine per cent.

‘ Throughout Europe, central

banks have. been intervening
this week in an effort to boost
waning confidence in the dollar.
Wednesday the Bank of England
bought dollars in London to
shore up prices, and in Rome
the Bank of Etaly bought an esti-
* ‘mated $10 million to fight the
a decline, - .

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Trollers,..
_in-near- miss:

Four Canadian trollers had a
near-miss with a Soviet fishboat
early Wednesday morning 33%
miles south of Cape Beale on
Vancouver Island, but no injur- ff.
ies or serious damage were

reported. ; .

dollar,’ But today’s ‘financial’
daily Handelsblatt said the bank :
_ will not step in until the dollar -.
falls as low as 3.33—that would _

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“World travellers: he: ‘and Mrs,
J.H.-” Wouters “of” Hollywood,” :

‘And ‘it- is all meticulously.
* Wouters was formerly. in the ©
' mapping business and has kept
routes they have taken on their ©.

and save their money while .

“they: started.

this year, are

Highway 16 Monday, but did not
know. what direction they would
‘lake once they would get to

Prince George, whether it -

would be continuing east, or
north or south, They said tliey
would figure it out when they
got there.

They first started their

‘ (ravels in 1953 when they hitch.

hiked 8,080 miles in that year

and the next, travelling mostly -

‘in Canada.

In 1955 they went L 229 miles
and then again in 1968 they went -
12,460 miles, making a total of'
32,769 miles in the U.S. and
‘Canada,

Add to that the 16,222 miles
they have gone in Europe, it
makes a total of 48,991 miles
altogether before they started

out on this j jaunt

And they are looking forward
with great anticipation . to
further adventures,

They expect to cover more
than 2,000 miles on this trip
before they settle down again
for the winter at home, where
they can recall experiences of
their trips by re-tracing their
routes on the maps and by the
pictures they. have taken and
the papers they | have picked uP
along the way.

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: Hollywood this year on April.13:
~ and figure they have: covered. -

more than 13.000. miles: 50 far : F in the hot breeze, lacked only |

They. headed back out along .

the victim.

Along the deserted western
sireet—saloon, stage depot,
jail, Perkins general - store;
Quong Lee laundry—tinkied
the laughter of a nearby cock-

.. tail luncheon Tuesday ‘cele. -

bra ting an announcement that

" could only makedyed-in-Tech-

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This month bulldozers will

. Start ripping out the Western

street and many other historic
sets on MGM's 68-acre back
lot No. 3 for a $60 million
centre of luxury condomi-

- niums and apartments,

Slated'to fall, as the develo-
per puts up 2,000 residential
units with rustic exteriors on

_ Spacious sites, are:

—The street where Clark
Gable and Spencer Tracy.
fought in the mud in Boom
Town.

—The three-million-gallon
water tank where the Cotton

blossom sailed in Showboat, a -

40-foot. miniature of HMS
Bounty sank in Mutiny on the
Bounty and Wally Beery and
Marie Dressler squabbled on
shipboard in Tugboat Annie,
—Tiie palace stairs trod by
Marlene Dietrich and Ronald
Colman in Kismet and the

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and other, trees, including
some from which Johnny
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made lake will be redesigned

LOS ANGELES (AP) —

“Boy, it ‘was. really thick
there,"’ says Highway Patrol-
man Ken Mazzanti, called to
investigate how 51 ,000 gallons

of wine were spilled onto’ the —

SanBernardinoFreeway. |
“I'm afraid I'm going to

have a heck of a headache,” ’
‘The wine evaporating under

a hot sun Tuesday could be

smelled a quarter-mile away, -

The driver of the trailer truck

_ carrying the wine said he lost

control and the vehicle fack-
knifed.

KALAMAZOO, Mich (AP) ~

— Police Chief Dean Fox in-
stituted a new department
policy last week allowing
longer hair and moustaches—
and he's in the hair-raising
vanguard,

"Just keeping up ‘with. the

social trends,” said Fox,
about 45, who has let his side-
burns drop below his ears and

_ fache. .

ae the ing ‘of aim

them rélate to thelr peers,"

A police “Heutenant said |
. about 20 per cent of the 143-
roteres routing.

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‘Phone 635-5847,

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mousing.

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All it takes is a little
thoughtlessness.

Baipaciagh #

seemed and Land | Use 7
f ihe Government of ¢

Af every; resident of British Columbia (2, 250 000):
nd each visitor this year (est.-7,515,000) took one
84x11 sheet of paper, ‘crumpled. it up: and thew
way in Stanley Park, we. would. haves “ot
paper’ 576 feet high, Or we'c
Park:(188,000 aces): with, a.
crumpled: uip paper. » .

A terrifying thought indeed.’

Yet ¢ every year. we do thoughtlessly: throw away that.
much: and: more: -The: ‘Govern ment: ofBritis
Columbia is asking. for your help.

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