European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Offer Illert nation s longest season from november to August. Indian totem is a reminder of Frontier olympic National Park often joins picnickers for lunch. Grand Coulee dam harnesses Columbia River. By Mark Daunger staff writer who has t chomped into the cold Crisp Juicy goodness of a washing ton Apple you my kit oven Colt this most northwesterly of the United Stales the Apple of America s Eye this clean aired land adored with a splendidly mild climate All in own. Graced with spectacular Snow cupped mountains and mantled with in Jestic is a rapidly growing Young Ster among the suites. With a slow Start by cause of its remoteness its population growth rate is now More than double the . Average. But even so. It is still among the most sparsely settled s Star grows Ever brighter though and the successful Century Al world s fair at Seattle reflects this. Seattle is the Scenic stale s no. 1 City bordered on the West by Salty Pugel sound and on the East by fresh water Lake Washington the surface of which is 20 feet higher. Because of this the Hiram m Cal Lenden locks and canal second in size Only to the Panama canal were built by the Federal government. Inking the Lake with the sound via Lake Union. The warm japanese current softens the breezes off the Pacific with Thi result that Seattle has an unusually mild climate for a place so far North. The japanese current in t the Only thing Oriental about Seattle. Us location and harbours have Long linked it via ship More than 2.000 tie up at City piers annually and airways with the Orient. It even has an annual japanese Bon odor festival. The Eity is intertwined with the growth of the entire Pacific Northwest and Alaska too. It was at Seattle that a ship loaded with a ton of Gold docked in 1897. Setting off the Alaska Gold Rush. Sort of within spitting distance South is the state s third largest City Tacoma. The Indian Nemo for it Rainier that 14.408-foot-Hlgh masterpiece of nature that forms the backdrop for these sparkling cities. And lust a bit farther South is Olympia. The state capital. Over the Cascade mountains at the East Ern Edge of the state is the second largest City. Spokane. City of lilacs and capital of the Inland which extends into Oregon and Idaho embracing some of the wealthiest and most productive agr culture. At. Lumbering and mining areas to the nation. The Inland Empire claims u production of a third of the nation s Apple crop. 12 per cent of the nation s wheat. 25 be rent of the Silver. 90 per Cuni of the dry pea crop a third of the i Uri. And 12 4 per cent of the Gold. At Spokane the Kaiser aluminium and chemical corp s plants Are rated As among the largest in the world. So Spokane need not be jealous that Over in the magic West the puget sound country has 64 per cent of the state s total population and two thirds of the state s manufacturing. Washington rises from the Pacific Ocean into a narrow coastal Plain dominated by the olympics highest Peak of which to my. Olympus at 7.954 feet. The Broad mass of Snow capped towers is surrounded by Virgin Evergreen rain forests. The highest rainfall in the us. 142 inches a year fulls on their Southwest slopes. In this splendid Alpine wilderness is olympic National Park. Adjoining is the Pugel sound area. Its Shoreline peppered with some 300 islands a Haven for tourists and the basis for Seattle to claim the densest per capita bout tally in the world one boat for every six families moving farther Inland the mighty Cas Cade mountains split the state from the Columbia to Canada with such familiar sounding peaks As Zalnier. My. Baker and Glacier Peak for tilts lakes streams and Snow Tor Winter sports bring thousands of vols Lions who also flock to huge artificial Lake Roosevelt created by the construe continued on paa0 14v the stars and stripes
