LETTER TO STANSFIELD TURNER FROM JOHN W. BURKE, JR.

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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AREA CODE 202
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 298-7650
JOHN D. deBUTTS
Chairman
JOHN W. BURKE, JR.
Executive Secretary
BENJAMIN F. BIAGGINI
Vice Chairman
ROBERT S. HATFIELD
Vice Chairman
THOMAS A. MURPHY
Vice Chairman
IRVING S. SHAPIRO
Vice Chairman
William S. Anderson
J. Paul Austin
Malcolm Baldrige
S. D. Bechtel, Jr.
Benjamin F. Biaggini
Winton M. Blount
William W. Boeschenstein
Fletcher L. Byrom
Frank T. Cary
A. W. Clausen
John T. Connor
R. Hal Dean
John D. deButts
Frederick B. Dent
E. Mandell de Windt
Charles D. Dickey, Jr.
E. Hervey Evans, Jr.
James L. Ferguson
Lewis W. Foy
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr.
Richard L. Gelb
W. H. Krome George
Harry J. Gray
John W. Hanley
Edward G. Harness
Shearon Harris
Robert S. Hatfield
Harold J. Haynes
Henry H. Henley, Jr.
Henry L. Hillman
Amory Houghton, Jr.
John V. James
Samuel C. Johnson
Donald M. Kendall
Ralph Lazarus
J. Paul Lyet
Donald S. MacNaughton
Robert H. Malott
C. Peter McColough
Brooks McCormick
Louis W. Menk
Buck Mickel
Thomas A. Murphy
David Packard
Donald S. Perkins
Thomas L. Phillips
Charles M. Pigott
Charles J. Pilliod, Jr.
John J. Riccardo
David Rockefeller
Donald V. Seibert
Irving S. Shapiro
Mark Shepherd, Jr.
Richard R. Shinn
J. Stanford Smith
William S. Sneath
Edgar B. Speer
George A. Stinson
Robert D. Stuart, Jr.
Charles B. Thornton
Rawleigh Warner, Jr.
George H. Weyerhaeuser
T. A. Wilson
Walter B. Wriston
April 28, 1978
The Honorable Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Enclosed are all of the papers for you and Mrs.
Turner with details on our forthcoming meeting at
The Homestead. There are certainly some first-rate
speakers at the business sessions and we are privileged
to have the Vice President as our dinner speaker. It
should be a good session.
We are especially glad that you and Mrs. Turner
will be with us for the entire program. Hotel reser-
vations have been made for your arrival at about 5 p.m.
on Thursday, May 11th and departure on Saturday, May
13th. We will, of course, have a car to meet your plane
when it arrives at Ingalls Field and know that your
always-efficient staff will have the estimated arrival
time given to us in plenty of time before you put down.
As always, it will be a pleasure to have you both
with us.
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GRADUATE MEMBERS
Robert B. Anderson
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William 0. Beers
James H. Binger
Fred J. Borch
William S. Brewster
Carter L. Burgess
Donald C. Burnham
Louis W. Cabot
Edward W. Carter
Howard L. Clark
C. W. Cook
John E. Corette
Stewart S. Cort
John H. Daniels
Russell DeYoung
C. Douglas Dillon
A J. Donahue
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Henry W. Gadsden
Philip O. Geier, Jr.
Richard C. Gerstenberg
Edwin H. Gott
Patrick E. Haggerty
R. V. Hansberger
John D. Harper ,
Ellison L. Hazard
William A. Hewitt
Jack K. Horton
Gilbert W. Humphrey
Robert S. Ingersoll
J. K. Jamieson
Horace C. Jones
Reginald H. Jones
Edgar F. Kaiser
George E. Keck
J. Ward Keener
William F. Laporte
T. V. Learson
James A. Linen III
Edmund W. Littlefield
Malcolm MacNaughton
Bimy Mason, Jr.
Charles B. McCoy
James P. McFarland
Irwin Miller
Otto N. Miller
Frank R. Milliken
Roger Milliken
Howard Morgens
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Robert S. Oelman
Charles H. Percy
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W. F. Rockwell, Jr.
Stuart T. Saunders
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THE BUSINESS COUNCIL
888 SEVENTEENTH STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20006
The Homestead
Hot Springs, Virginia
Tentative Agenda
Friday, May 12th
8:30 a.m. Convene in Commonwealth Room
Council Business
Report on the Domestic Economy
THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR
Private Sector's View -
Banker
Economist/Academician
Exporter/Importer
International Trader
10:30-10:50 B R E A K
The Administration's View
The German View
12:15p.m. ADJOURN.
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7:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner - Black Tie
Speaker - The Vice President
Friday and Saturday
May 12th and 13th, 1978
Irving S. Shapiro, Chairman
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Walter B. Wriston, Chairman
Citicorp
Dr. Paul W. McCracken
Graduate School of Business
University of Michigan
Michel Fribourg, President
Continental Grain Company
Carl A. Gerstacker, Director
Dow Chemical Company
The Honorable W. Michael Blumenthal
The Secretary of the Treasury
Dr. Otmar Emminger, President
Deutsche-Bundes Bank
Commonwealth Room
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THE BUSINESS COUNCIL
888 SEVENTEENTH STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
The Homestead Friday and Saturday
Hot Springs, Virginia May 12th and 13th, 1978
Tentative Agenda
Saturday, May 13th
9:00 a.m. Convene in Commonwealth Room
Council Business
THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR - Continued
The Federal Reserve View The Honorable G. William Miller
Chairman, Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
The United Kingdom View Lord Roll of Ipsden, KCMG, CB
Chairman, S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd.
The OPEC View
10:55-11:15 B R E A K
PANEL ON UNEMPLOYMENT
12:30 p.m. A D J O U R N
To Be Announced
Lewis W. Foy, Chairman
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Dr. Ruben Mettler, Chairman
TRW, Inc.
Dr. Eli Ginzberg
Columbia University
The Honorable Arnold M. Packer
Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Evaluation and Research
Department of Labor
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888 SEVENTEENTH STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
GUEST LIST - MAY 1978
W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL, The Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary Blumenthal, a Berlin-born refugee from Hitler's Germany, spent
his teen-age years in Shanghai, the city to. which his parents had fled in 1938.
In 1947, he landed in California at the age of 21 and worked in low-paying jobs
to support himself while studying international economics at the University of
California. He was awarded a scholarship to Princeton, earned two master's
degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, taught for a while, but then switched to the
more exciting world of business, joining a subsidiary of Crown Cork and Seal,
where he quickly climbed to Vice President and Director.
In 1961 he joined the Kennedy Administration as one of three Deputy
Assistant Secretaries of State. In September 1963 he and his family moved to
Geneva while he was in charge of negotiating the Kennedy Round of tariff agree-
ments, and after four years in the trade job became President of the Bendix
Corporation in 1967. He rose to become chairman and turned a company whose
profits had slumped into one that had improved earnings for six consecutive
years, and was known in business periodicals as one of the best-managed com-
panies in the country.
In his spare time he plays tennis, enjoys jogging, is a lover of classical
music and a voracious reader. Married to the former Eileen Polley, they have
three daughters, one of whom was recently married.
OTMAR EMMINGER, President, Deutsche-Bundes Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Dr. Emminger was born on March 2, 1911 in Augsburg and studied law and
economics in Berlin, Munich, Edinburgh and London, graduating in economics with
a Doctor's degree in 1934 and in law a few years later.
Dr. Emminger has been associated since 1950 with the Deutsche Bundesbank,
where in 1953 he was appointed a member of the Directorate, in 1970 the Deputy
Governor and on June 1st, 1977 the Governor. He has represented his country on
the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, on the Monetary Committee
of the European Economic Community, and on various committees of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development. He took part in the negotiations on
the European Payments Union (1949-50), the European Monetary Agreement (1955),
the General Arrangements to Borrow with the IMF (1961-62), the Special Drawing
Rights in the IMF (1966-68) and the various negotiations on the Reform of the
International Monetary System (1972-76).
He is a member of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements in
Basle, as well as Governor of the International Monetary Fund for the Federal
Republic of Germany.
He will be accompanied to Hot Springs by his wife Gisela.
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MICHEL FRIBOURG, President, Continental Grain Company
Mr. Fribourg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Grain
Company, represents the fifth generation of his family to have owned and operated
the business since its founding in Belgium in 1813.
The Continental group is one of the leading companies engaged nationally
and worldwide in the major areas of the food sector. The company is a diversified
originator, processor and distributor of agricultural raw materials and a manu-
facturer and marketer of consumer food products.
Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1913, Mr. Fribourg spent his early life in
France and was educated in Paris, where he attended the Law School of the Univer-
sity of Paris. He entered the Armed Forces of the United States during World War II
and became an American citizen.
Mr. and Mrs. Fribourg (the former Mary Anne Steinweg) make their home in New
York with their five children.
CARL A. GERSTACKER, Chairman, Finance Committee, Dow Chemical Company
Mr. Gerstacker retired as Chairman of the Dow Chemical Company in 1976, but
remains as a director and chairman of its Finance and Compensation Committees. He
also continues as a member of the board of numerous companies and is associated
with a number of trade organizations and educational institutions.,
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and joined Dow in 1938 after graduating from
the University of Michigan with a B.S.E. degree in chemical engineering, He spent
six years with the U.S. Army during World War II and, other than this time, his
entire business career has been with Dow. He was named a vice president in 1955; a
member of the exeucitve committee in 1957; and chairman of the board in 1960.
On the public service side, he was chairman of the Export Expansion Council
of the U.S. Department of Commerce for seven years and also served on the U.S.
Commission for UNESCO. For his varied services he has received numerous awards,
both in this country and abroad.
Mr. Gerstacker is a 33rd degree Mason and holds honorary membership in many
other fraternal organizations. He and his wife Esther reside in Midland, Michigan.
They are parents of four daughters and one son.
ELI GINZBERG, Director, Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia University
Dr. Ginzberg was born in New York City. He was a student at universities in
France. and Germany before receiving an A.B. degree from Columbia in 1931. He earned
his masters from Columbia in 1932 and a Ph.D. in 1934.
He is currently A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics and Director of the
Conservation of Human Resources Project at Columbia University. He also serves as
Chairman of the National Commission for Manpower Policy and Chairman of the Board of
the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
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ELI GINZBERG (continued)
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ginzberg has been a
long-term consultant to the federal government since 1941 and to major corpora-
tions and nongovernmental institutions, including Dupont, GE, IBM, AT&T, and to
the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and others. He is the author
of more than 50 books, primarily in human resources and manpower.
Married to the former Ruth Szold, they are parents of two daughters and
one son.
PAUL W. McCRACKEN, Edmund Ezra Day University Professor of Business Administration,
University of Michigan
Dr. McCracken returned to the University of Michigan in December of 1971,
after having served for three years as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
When he took over in the top economic spot in 1968 he was no stranger to Washington,
having served as an economist during World War II and as a member of the Council of
Economic Advisers in the second Eisenhower Administration.
In 1937, after leaving William Penn College in Iowa, he taught for a while at
Berea College in Kentucky. He went onto earn his Master's. and Doctorage degrees
from Harvard, then moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis until 1948, when
he first became a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan. He has been
active as an advisor to business and has undertaken special studies for the New York
Stock Exchange. He is currently Chairman of the Council of Academic Advisers at the
American Enterprise Institute.
Dr. McCracken and his wife, the former Ruth Siler, are the parents of two
daughters.
RUBEN METTLER, Chairman, TRW Inc.
Dr. Mettler joined the newly organized Ramo-~(ooldridge Corporation in 1955;
was named Executive Vice President in 1965 and in 1968 assumed the additional
responsibility of Assistant President. He was elected as President of TRW in 1969.
Born in California, he had been one year at Stanford when he enlisted in the U.S.
Navy in 1942. While in service he attended the California Institute of Technology,
receiving a B.S.'in electrical engineering in 1944. He returned to the California
Institute of Technology in 1946 and was awarded his M.S. in 1947 and Ph.D. in 1949.
His early business career was with the Hughes Aircraft Company where he worked on
advanced aircraft electronic and radar systems. In 1954 he was appointed a full=
time consultant to the Department of Defense in Washington.
Dr. Mettler is a member of the Board of Directors of many companies. He was
chairman of President Nixon's Science Policy Task Force, has been a member of the
California Institute of Technology Associates since 1963, and was appointed a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees in 1969.
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RUBEN METTLER (continued)
In 1955 he was named by the U.S. Junior College of California as one of the
Ten Outstanding Young Men in America. He was elected "Engineer of the Year" in
1964 by the Engineering Societies of Southern California and in 1965 was elected
by the National Academy of Engineering to the academy in recognition of his contri-
butions to engineering theory and practice.
Married to the former Donna Smith, they are parents of two sons.
G. WILLIAM MILLER, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
Mr. Miller was sworn in March 8, 1978 to a full term as a Member of the
Federal Reserve Board, and was designated Chairman of the Board for a four-year term
beginning on that date. He had previously been a director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston.
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, he graduated in 1945 from the Coast
Guard Academy with a B.S. in marine engineering. He served until 1949 in the Far
East and on the U.S. west coast. In 1952 he received a law degree from the Univer-
sity of California School of Law at Berkeley and joined the firm of Cravath, Swaine
and Moore in New York City.
In 1956, Mr. Miller joined Textron Inc; became a Vice President in 1957 and
President in 1960. In 1968 he became CEO and was elected Chairman and CEO in 1974,
which post he held until taking his post at the Federal Reserve Board.
A former member of The Business Council, including two years as Vice Chair-
man in 1973 and 1974, Mr. Miller has been active throughout his business career in
public service. He was a member of the Business Roundtable and Chairman of the
Conference Board and of the National Alliance of Businessmen.
Married to the former Ariadne Rogojarsky, they now reside in Washington, D.C.
WALTER F. MONDALE, The Vice President
The Vice President was born in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist min-
ister and his mother a music teacher. After two years of study at Macalester
College in St. Paul, he took a year off from school to work in Washington, D.C.
He returned to the University of Minnesota, earned his B.A. in political science
and, following service with the U.S, Army, received his LL.B. cum laude from their
law school in 1956.
After 4 years of private practice in Minneapolis, he was appointed in 1960
as the State Attorney General and it was from this position that he was appointed
to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy created by Hubert Humphrey's election to the Vice
Presidency in 1964. He was reelected to the Senate in 1966 and 1972.
He has served on the Committees on Finance, Labor and Public Welfare and the
Budget. He was Chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity,
the Intelligence Committee's Domestic Task Force, the Subcommittee on Children and
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WALTER F. MONDALE (continued)
Youth and the Subcommittee on Social Security Financing.
The Vice President and his wife, the former Joan Adams, live with their
three children in the Vice President's house on the grounds of the Naval Obser-
vatory, the official residence established by Congress in 1974.
ARNOLD M. PACKER, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, Evaluation & Research
Before taking his position at the Department of Labor, Dr. Packer was em-
ployed from 1974 to 1977 as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee
on the Budget. From 1971 to 1974 he was Senior Economist with the Committee for
Economic Development where he directed a comprehensive study of the nation's energy
problem. From 1969 to 1971 he worked at the Office of Management and Budget, where
he began a system for long-ranged forecasting of the federal budget. Previous
positions were with Research Triangle Institute; Aerojet-General Electric Corpora-
tion; Jaros, Baum and Bolles; and General Electric.
Dr. Packer received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North
Carolina in 1969. His book, Models of Economic Systems: A Theory for Their
Development and Use, was published in 1972. He has also published numerous articles
on economic issues.
He and his wife, the former Marcia Jacobs, reside in Bethesda, Maryland.
LORD ROLL OF IPSDEN, K.C.M.G., C.B., Chairman, S. G. Warburg & Co., Ltd., London
Lord Roll has been Chairman of S. G. Warburg & Company, Ltd. of London since
1974. He had been Deputy Chairman since 1967. From 1968 until 1977 he was a
Director of the Bank of England.
Among the positions which he held during his many years in the British Civil
Service were those of Permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Department of
Economic Affairs, Head of the Treasury Delegation in Washington, and Executive
Director for the U.K. International Monetary Fund. He was named Fellow of the
Institute of Politics, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Uni-
versity, in 1966-67 and is the author of many books and papers on economic theory
and thought.
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1962, he was made a Life Peer in 1977. He
and his wife, Lady Winifred, are the parents of two daughters and are with The
Business Council on this occasion having arrived from an engagement in Ottawa,
Canada.
ELMER B. STAATS, Comptroller General of the United States
Mr. Staats, who took over as Comptroller General of the United States in
March of 1966, came to his position from the Bureau of the Budget.
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ELMER B. STAATS (continued)
He first joined the Bureau in 1939 and served in various capacities until
1953, when he left for about a year to work for Marshall Field and Company in
Chicago. He returned to Washington as Executive Officer of the Operations Co-
ordinating Board and held this post until returning to the Bureau of the Budget
in 1958. He was appointed Deputy Director of the Budget in 1959, a post he had
also held under President Truman from 1950 to 1953, and was in this position when
appointed by President Johnson to the job of Comptroller General to head the
General Accounting Office.
Mr. Staats is married to the former Margaret Rich. They have one son and
three daughters and they reside in Washington, D.C.
ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER, Director of Central Intelligence
Admiral Turner was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence on March
9, 1977, following a distinguished career with the U.S. Navy.
A native of Highland Park, Illinois, he entered Amherst College in 1941,
received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1943 and graduated in the
Class of 1947. One year out of the Academy he entered Oxford University as a
Rhodes Scholar for work on his master's degree.
In May 1970, after a variety of naval assignments at sea and on shore, he
was promoted to Rear Admiral and soon assumed command of a Carrier Task Group of
the Sixth Fleet, after which he directed the Systems Analysis Division in the,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In August 1974, following two years as
President of the Naval War College at Newport, he became Commander of the United
States Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic. In August 1975, one month
prior to his promotion to Admiral, he became Commander in Chief of the Allied
Forces Southern Europe, with headquarters in Naples, Italy, and it was from this
command that he returned to Washington to assume his present duties.
Admiral Turner and his wife, Patricia, have a married daughter and a married
AL ULLMAN, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
Representative Ullman was born in Montana, received a B.A. degree from
Whitman College in Oregon in 1935 and went on to teach at Port Angeles High School
in Washington State. He earned a Master's Degree in Public Law from Columbia
University in 1939, served as a communications officer in the Pacific in the U.S.
Navy during World War II, and was a real estate broker and builder before being
elected in 1956 to serve in the 85th Congress from Baker, Oregon. He has been
re-elected to each succeeding Congress since that time.
Representative Ullman's Congressional District is one of the largest in the
nation. His legislation has added thousands of acres to Oregon's irrigable land
base and encouraged development in rural regions. He is currently Chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee and as such alternates with the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
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AL ULLMAN (continued)
Taxation. In 1975, Representative Ullman was principal author of the Tax Re-
duction Act of 1975 and also led efforts that resulted in enactment of the Tax
Reform Act of 1976.
Married to the former Audrey Manuel, thay are the parents of a daughter
and three sons and reside in Arlington, Virginia.
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HL20FUL INFORMATION:
How to find your way around ...
For the convenience of our guests a panoramic layout
of The Homestead is available at the front desk. This
shows sports facilities, shops, function rooms and
public areas. There is also a complimentary map of
mountain trails and Cascades stream for hiking, riding
and fishing buffs.
Dress...
Casual sportwear is recommended for. daytime wear.
Walking shorts, mini skirts, slacks and turtleneck
shirts may be worn in the dining room for breakfast
and luncheon. Tightfitting and abbreviated attire is
not allowed. Gentlemen must always wear coats while
dining. Bathing suits are restricted to the pool area
and guests must wear robes over suits when passing
through the hotel. Young ladies can wear con-
temporary bathing suits. Evening Wear: Most of our
available for younger children. (lnson)
Dancing
Main Dining Room
cept Sunday.
Drug Store
The Pill Box -
Entertainment
Concerts daily.
cept Sunday.
Equipment Rental
Rental of equipment for all sports, including jodh-
purs, jodhpur boots, fishing tackle, swimsuits,
skates, skiing and golf equipment.
Exercise Rooms
Zander Gymnasium, Spa Building.
Fishing
guests wear formal attire, but this is not required. Golf
Cocktail or dinner dresses for women and dinner
jackets for men predominate after 7 p.m.
Tipping ...
The Homestead has arranged a gratuity plan for all
guests as follows: Dining Room and Housekeeping
Services: For your convenience, the hotel will add to
each individual bill-a charge of $4.00 per person daily
to cover dining room waiters, waitresses, bus boys,
roll girls and captains for food service. Housekeeping
services, chambermaids, and supervisors are covered
under this special plan.
This service applies to all regular meals served in the
Hotel, Casino or the Cascades Golf Club Restaurant.
Beverages: No special arrangements are provided for
beverage service. Fifteen percent is recommended.
Other Service Personnel: No special arrangements
have been made covering gratuities for bellmen, door-
men, porters, room service waiters, Grille waiters,
locker attendants, or bath attendants who should be
tipped at the guest's discretion when special service is
given.
Should you have any questions concerning this plan,
after arrival please contact the Assistant Manager.
Bowling
Eight tenpin alleys. Automatic, pinsetters.
Carriage Rides
Buckboard, fringe topped surrey rides available for
your pleasure. During the winter season horse drawn
sleighs.
Casino
Buffet luncheon daily in season.
Children
A supervised playground and indoor playroom is
Three 18-hole courses. Homestead Course with put-
ting green and practice fairway near Casino. Cascades
Course and Lower Cascades Course nearby with com-
plimentary bus service to and from both courses. Golf
carts available all three courses. Homestead Course
open year-round. Cascades Courses
through late fall.
Hiking
Attractive graded walks and paths are
hikers on our 17,000-acre estate.
Homestead Grille
A la Carte dinner and supper
Closed during
applies.
Ice Skating
Olympic size rink. November through March.
Indoor Games
Ping-Pong, Billiards . . . Spa Building. Bridge, Canasta
and Backgammon.
Lawn Bowling
Adjacent to the Casino.
Movies
Nightly at 8:45, Sunday 9:15.
Photographer
Call Operator for services of professional photog-
rapher.
Riding
Large stable with mounts for experienced and begin-
ning riders.
Skeet & Trap
Four fields N. S. S. A. specifications.
Skiing
December through March. Ski lifts, trails and slopes
are right on the Hotel grounds.
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Spa
Famous mi ral baths, massage, steam room, sauna .. .
Spa Building.
Stenographer
Call Operator for services of public stenographer.
Swimming
Indoor and outdoor pools and sun beach. Warm
Springs Pools.
Served each afternoon in the Great Hall.
Television
Lobby Lounge.
Tennis
Eight courts, one all-weather court.
Train
The Chessie System provides service from principal
cities of the East and Midwest to Clifton Forge, Vir-
ginia, our mainline station.
Automobile
U. S. Route No. 220, a modern highspeed highway,
runs north and south through Hot Springs. Motor dis-
tance to Hot Springs from some principal cities is
approximately as follows: New York, 440 miles; Cin-
cinnati, 350; Washington, 200: Cleveland, 370; and
Roanoke, 80 miles.
Airplane
Piedmont Airlines serves Ingalls Field with con-
veniently daily commercial schedules. Air taxi and
charter service to and from Ingalls Field easily ar-
ranged. Also Piedmont Airlines offers direct flights
from principal cities to Roanoke, Virginia from where
limousine service can be conveniently arranged upon
request. Ingalls Field, located atop Warm(Springs
Mountain, elevation 3,800 feet, 17 miles from The
Homestead by new paved access highway, now has a
5,600-ft. bituminous concrete paved runway
equipped with medium intensity taxiway and runway
lights, 36" rotating beacon, abbreviated visual ap-
proach slope indicator lights and runway end identi-
fier lights runway 6-24. Modern terminal facilities,
can now serve most all types of private and corporate
aircraft.
Navigational aids include a 36" rotating beacon, FAA
Instrument landing system and Unicorn (122.8), all
operating continuously and located right on the air-
port 80/87, 100/130 octane aviation gas and type
A-1 turbine fuel available.
Limousine Service and Rental Cars
Limousine transportation and Hertz rental cars are
available to meet all aircraft and passenger trains
through advance reservations with Independent
Livery at The Homestead.
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