European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Domestic travel up Only slightly association says monday August 4, 1966 the stars and stripes Page 9 Boston a terrorism fears and the declining Dollar have spurred Domestic travel but nol As much As some reports predicted earlier this year an Industry group announced Friday. Travel within the United states not about 5 percent in the tint six month of the year compared to the same period in 1985, inc travel Industry association of America said. The association also announced this fall in would revive the discover Ameri Ca Thane from the 1960s to promote Domestic travel. We re not disappointed because we predicted 5 percent and that s what happened said William Toohey president of the group. There were Many Media stories ear Lier in inc year about How great travel and tourism would be and a lot of that was exaggerated and now you re Reading Media dories that travel is in a tailspin he mid. Expectations aside this will be a great travel Toohey said the travel figure is com piled by the . Travel data Center an affiliate of the travel Industry association using a computer program that Tal lies figures from the government and the Iravea Industry along with mutts of nationwide surveys. Air travel overseas from the United states dropped 3.3 percent in the first six months of the year compared to the first half of inthe travel group said. In the fall of ims. The . Travel and tourism administration had predicted a 3 percent decline in these trips but Many others bad predicted a far greater drop became of lie fear of terrorism Many airlines american and foreign introduced special Low fares and other incentives to counter potential fears of terrorism. Increased Security at airports and tougher preflight checks of Passen Ger Abo were added. However bookings of International flights were Down to percent in compared to the same month in 1985. Because International air travel involves bookings months in Advance june 1986 reflected a big portion of the decline in International air travel attributable to concern Over the travel Industry association said in a statement. Meanwhile Domestic air travel Rose 13.4 percent in the first six months of the year compared with inc same period of 198s, according to the air transport association. Airlines Are having a Banner year said Gabriel Phillip executive vice president of the airline group. He attributed much of the increase to bargain air fares. Adjusted for inflation he said the Cost of air travel is roughly one tenth of what it was so years ago. Automobile travel is hitting record numbers so far this year the american automobile association said in a report to in travel association. The group reported that travel by car Over the fourth of july Holiday weekend increased 11 percent Over 1985. The aaa said decade Low gasoline prices can be credited for much of the jump in car travel which is used by More than so percent of americans for vacation. Attendance at National Parks was up about 9 percent for the first six months of the year Toohey said. National Park service officials bad predicted earlier in the year that Park attendance would jump 1,215 percent. A Media general a Job taken last april 3-11 found eight of 10 american travellers said they planned to take summer vacations in the United stain this year. The travel executives said the nation wide Campaign this october will bring Back the discover America theme and its red White and Blue weather vane logo. The officials said the five year multimillion Dollar Campaign will be aimed at prodding americans to spend More of their disposable income on Domestic travel not at changing the plans of those who want to travel abroad. A new View of an old beast aft of a new theory by Stephen Turku researcher associated with the los Angeles county natural history museum could change idea tests opinion of what the prehistoric Twefi saurus looked like. In photo at top to a Model of Czerkas Dinosaur with Only one raw of Plale Tumlir Long the Backbone. The Bottom Polo Thow the Dan Oscar with two Row of plates the eld Berv s Conception of hour the Ite Gomann looked. Woman claims clerk misled her in lottery Santa Rosa Calif. Up an elderly woman whose Reading glasses were broken be fore she threw out a $50,000 lottery Tia edit suing a grocery Chain after a clerk assured her the ticket was worthless. That Money would have changed my life. Said Lorraine Mahaney who lives on a j450-a month social Security Check. Mahaney said her big Winner was one of five tickets bought at a Raley s grocery but that she could t read it clearly at Home because her Reading glasses were took the California lottery rub Oft ticket which showed two $25,000 figure plus Appl drug Gei Back to the store to ask someone if h was a w a clerk twice assured her it was not saying that the $2j,000 figure had to appear three times in Ibe ticket to be a by he Lime she got Back to the store h or the store s trash had been hauled away. State lottery officials said it is him _ by that a winning ticket must be produced to claim a prize. Race car Drivers Crews taking Bales of Hay to drought area Columbus. Ohio up a 46-truck Convoy of race car Drivers and Crew members left saturday with 12,000 Bales of Hay in a Good neighbor gesture from Ohio Farmers to their counterparts in the drought stricken Southeast. Shortly after the hayride 500" left Columbus for Charlotte . The Kentucky Hay a mile Long train earning More than 71,000 Bales left i in ton by. For North Carolina. Another 12,000 Bales was headed to fort Bragg. . In 43 trucks driven by Ohio National guardsmen on summer training exercises. When people see a need people respond said Steven Maurer director of the Ohio department of agriculture. The nature of agriculture has always been to be a Good neighbor. Usually the help goes just Down the Road this Lime it s Way Down the the South s worst drought in a Century has Cost the Region s Farmers an estimated $2.3 billion in lost crops livestock and poultry. Ohio gov. Richard Celeste who gave the Convoy a mid morning sendoff said he Hayloft showed How individuals sometimes can do More than governments. The tractor trailers normally used to transport race cars on the Lascar circuit arrived in Columbus from Charlotte ., Friday night at a giant Grain staging area on the City s East Side where hundreds of Farmers from throughout Centra Ohio dropped off their Hay. Lascar Driver Tim Richmond grinned and waved to a cheering crowd As he pulled his truck out of the parking lot the Convoy was to Complete its journey saturday night. I be been very very fortunate said Richmond. 31. A native of Ashland Ohio. 1 be got my health and my family. There Are times i forget thai and take it for granted. When a situation arises when 1 can help someone who is nol As fortunate As me it s just something. I guess. I m an Maurer also said the Lascar and National guard shipments were just a Small part of the Ohio Farmers Effort. He said they have donated a total of nearly 14.000 tons or about 200,000 Bales in the last few weeks Cox corp. Provided the boxcars for the Kentucky train in
