European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Resort grows in hands continued from Page 3 weekend photographs i teams Battle for laurels in Winterland stadium where International hockey matches and a colourful ice show fill the Winter to natives of to Many i american to German entertainers scattered throughout and to athletic teams All Over scatty Rogers is As one Secretary who has worked under him for a year when the occupation forces Garmisch will still Boom As Long As Scotty Hes the Best chamber of Commerce weve Ever in the fall of Scotty and Captain Edward then head of the third army Winter sports Section kept the third army Headquarters in bad Tolz Busy with requests for equip ment and expansion of later those trips paid when lieutenant general Geoffrey Keyes took command of third army in it was his continued enthuse an for Garmisch that kept it going and kept it officials of the Center used to look Forward to keyes1 eights whenever he could squeeze in a few hours of Keyes would come to Garmisch with eight gis and six was from his head quart who were his guests for that the men behind the Garmisch program have been successful in Mak ing the resort designed for the visitors Comfort and entertain can be confirmed by the five Hundred visitors who take the train up Zug Spitze every the four Hundred skaters or the five Hundred skiers who have used Gar Misch facilities in one or the fifteen Hundred who used the Eidsee motor boats in one week last or the 150 who Are playing Golf every Day on the Garmisch nine4iole for use of the Garmisch facilities visitors pay such nominal fees As ten cents to rent a Tennis Racket All Twenty ave cents Fox a fal Bourt trip Down the Loisch Twentyfive cents to use the Golf clubs All Day on the nine Hole even these charges have Only been in effect since june when by command of general Lucius became financially to make the monthly profit it has realized during the past few Garmisch spent from its recreation Center plus a figure estimated by Garmisch officials at from bavarian Economy and the same expenditure of army neither of which were being relayed from Garmisch a sizeable portion of the Cost was in salary to the forty four Garmisch american civilians they Are not Wax department pm with the two army officers enlisted seven army hostesses and the 865 indigenous comprise the total strength of the Garmisch recreational Garmisch and has always that its facilities Are operated for the two of its five hotels reserved for gis Are the Eib the Lake of the same where breakfast is served in and the hotel in downtown prewar Mecca of socially prominent some of its sixty three German employees today can remember Well Prince be hard was courting Princess Juliana of Holland now 70 per cent of the Garmisch billeting space scattered in the seven hotels and two pensions is continued on Page 23 Casa Garmisch lavish open air night club with a Glass roof is set against the Wetterstein mountains 20
