Joys, Sorrows, Cards, Letters, & Memorabilia from the Library & Assorted Storage Boxes of Mr. Lynn Ransom Burton, as accumulated through the years. PART 1. Contents of an old, latched, marbled, cardboard box, such as used for legal documents. The box will be destroyed as soon as its contents are listed. Items are listed in the order they are retrieved from the box. In other words, randomly. Item 1. 1946 Certificate of Membership. Agnes Burton. The American Red Cross. Contribution: $0.25. Signed: M.E. Schwaneveldt, Red Cross Representative. Also signed by Chairman, whose signature is unreadable. This is business-card size. The back of the card is a calendar for March 1946 through February 1947. Item 2. March 1, 1951. Lynn Ransom Burton's menu card at New York's Tavern on the Green, in Central Park. Dinner: Champagne Cocktail ($1.00) Fresh Fruit Cup ($.85) Braised Stuffed Breast of Veal, Demi Glace ($2.95) Milk Raspberry Sherbet Important Note: Since I did not and do not drink alcoholic beverages, the Cocktail was consumed by my traveling buddy (we had to travel in pairs when we went from Valley Forge Hospital to New York City.) This particular "buddy" (Richard Stackhouse) managed to be my traveling companion on nearly all our trips to New York City, solely because he wanted to drink the alcoholic beverages supplied to him and to me by our host, the Fifty-One Club of New York City. This was one of many times we were brunched, lunched, or dined at The Tavern on the Green. It should also be noted that the drinks were of such a small quantity that even having two servings did not manage to affect this congenial person adversely. On the Menu card: *Dancing begins at 6.45 P.M. Milton Saunders and his Orchestra. Cutun and his Rhumbas. Jovita with the Maracas. Minimum after 9 P.M. $2.00 Dinner served daily from 5 P.M. - Sundays from Noon Supper from 9 P.M. to closing Accommodations for parties, weddings, and sales meetings. For information call Banquet Manager *The Federal Amusement Tax is applicable after 6:45 P.M. SUNDAY BRUNCH--FROM NOON TO 3. P.M. From October to May we are closed on Mondays. Item 3. Another Menu: Town and Country Restaurant, 284 Park Avenue, New York City. This is a large, heavy paper menu, printed on one side. The menu is divided into 4 sections: From the Town Kitchen, From the Country Kitchen, Desserts, & Brunch. My waiter signed my menu. For some reason we usually got signatures of waiters, waitresses, and band members and singers who entertained us on these occasions. My waiter signed his name: Federico Tumboge (or Tunboge, or Tunboze, or ?) At least Federico is clearly readable. My fare: Fresh Fruit Cup with Mint Ice, Breakfast Grill: Rhode Island Sausage, Chicken Livers, Hickory Smoked Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Country Style, Potato hashed in Cream ($1.75). Frozen Peanut Ball, Fudge Sauce. Most expensive item on the menu, other than from the wine list: Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Pan Gravy, Yorkshire Pudding ($3.50). Minute Sirloin Steak also cost the same. Item 4. HOLLAND BY RAIL. Netherland Railways. (illustrated travel folder). Lynn R. Burton US56056540, Hq & Hq Co. EUC0M Quartermaster School, c/o P.M. New York, N.Y. (Actually, this Quartermaster School was in Lenggries, Bavaria.) The folder contains a map and 7 nice photos of Holland scenes. "Go to Holland when you take leave. Low, shining, tidy and sparkling Holland. With its dikes, windmills, costumes, and tulips...it's modern architecture, fishing villages, sand beach resorts, and sidewalk cafes." So, I did. To Amsterdam and then a long boat ride to the Isle of Marken. People from Amsterdam would go out to the Isle of Marken each day, change into their Dutch costumes, and act as guides and hosts for the tourists. Then they would remove the costumes and put their regular clothing back on and return to their homes in Amsterdam. This was their daily routine and their employment. One lady, who called herself, of all things, "Mae West," posed for a picture with me alongside the fishing boats lined up along the wharf. It made a very nice photo--of the boats at least.-LRB Item 5. Announcement. Logan Seventh Ward Chapel, Sunday Evening, October 16, 1949, 6:00 p.m. Farewell Testimonial in honor of Dale T. Fletcher, prior to his departure for the Northern California Mission. Missionaries now in the field (from Logan Seventh Ward): 1. Emile C. Dunn; 2. Evelyn H. Dunn, Tongan Mission; 3. Ivan Henrie, Texas-Louisiana Mission; 4. Allen Reed Schvaneveldt, Netherlands Mission; 5. Andrew H. Gibbons, Central Atlantic Mission. (Brother of long-time Public Health Administrator Harry Gibbons, of Salt Lake County, and brother of Eileen Gibbons); 6. Phillip Flammer, Swiss-Austrian Mission; 7. David LaMar Doutre, Spanish American Mission; 8. Eileen Gibbons, Northern California Mission. Program: Song: Choir and Congregation. Prayer: H.R. Fletcher (the well-known Utah Artist and Teacher, father of Dale Fletcher); Sacramental Song: Choir and Congregation. Sacrament. Quartette: Ferrin Hale and Co.; Remarks: Wallace Wilcox, President of Elder's Quorum. Quartette: Ferrin Hale and Co.; Remarks: Calvin Fletcher; Remarks: Bishop Gibbons (our neighbor, 2 doors north, in Logan, UT); Song: Choir and Congregation. Benedition: Ruth F. Jenkins. This announcement is accompanied by a newspaper clipping from The Logan, Utah Herald Journal, Friday, October 14, 1949. Nice photo of Dale T. Fletcher. Dale Fletcher To Fill Mission. Entering the LDS Mission home in Salt Lake City to serve in the North California mission was Dale T. Fletcher, son of Calvin Fletcher, professor Emeritus of the USAC and Mrs. Fletcher. A testimonial will be held in his honor Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Logan Seventh ward chapel. Dale is a graduate of the Logan senior high school and seminary and has completed two years at the USAC. He has been active in many capacities in the ward and stake M Men organization and is now secretary of the YMMIA and general secretary of the Aaronic priesthood of the ward. All ward members and friends of the family are invited to attend the service. Notes: Dale and I were friends at USAC. He was a great artist, especially at sketching and painting in oils. His dad was an oil-painting teacher of mine at USAC, noted for his great action paintings of horses. Dale's mother was also a well-known painter. Dale and I played chess hours at a time on the front steps of my mother's home in Logan, UT. I can't remember winning any of these games. He lived just a few blocks away. Dale and I used to go fishing along the Logan River, just east of our homes. If we caught a fish, Dale would have me hold it (facing him straight on) because he said drawing a fish straight on from the front was quite a difficult problem in perspective - to make it look like a fish, that is. Try it! But Dale could do it with ease! We used to decorate the LDS Institute dance hall for most of the dances there at the time. No, not with fish. We would decorate the hall and often finish just as the dance got started. Usually, we just went home, but sometimes we had dates and also attended the dances. We belonged to Lambda Delta Sigma, and we both graduated from the LDS Institute of Religion in Logan, UT. Item 6. A crumpled note, reminding me to write to Army buddies, as follows: Israel R. Waldron, 2604 Reynolds Rd., Toledo, OH Dan E. Roberts, R.F.D. #2, Box 74, Provo, UT Edwin Howell, 8114 Forest Hills, Dallas, TX Hans A. Pohlsander, 1985 South 5th East, Salt Lake City, UT Earl H. Bendt, Sherman, South Dakota Donald K. Guiton, 7906 Dartmouth Drive, Parma 29, OH Silas Griggs, Rt 1, Box 558 B-15, Ft. Worth, TX Howard P. Key, 502 West Seventh St., Freeport, TX Frederick J. McAliece, 385 East 184th Street, Bronx, NY Harold Adams, Sidney, NE H.A. Moore, 2417 Spruce, Philadelphia, PA And also to the two LDS missionaries who so faithfully visited me week after week at Valley Forge Hospital, in PA: Elder Leo Twitchell, Cannonville, UT Elder Clifton Bennion, Meetietse, WY Item 7. December 17, 1952, 5:30 P.M. (post mark) A Christmas Greeting Card: Many Good Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season, from Eleanor R. Rowe. She says: "Thank you for your card. What are you doing?" Note: Eleanor was one of several art teachers (grey ladies) at Valley Forge Hospital. She painted beautifully - flowers, mostly. She didn't much care for my artwork, but still entered my art in a Philadelphia art contest, where I won 3rd place, and my winning entry was displayed in a store-front window, in Philadelphia. I saw it there. I also served as a judge in an art contest in Philadelphia, but not the same one, of course.-LRB Item 8. Military Railroad Ticket. No. 28634. Dated December 21, 1951. US Forces in Austria. (Actually, I was in Bavaria, Germany). Name: Burton, Pvt. has paid a cash fare from Munich to Vienna. Traveled on the "Mozart Train" which ran only at night because it went through the Russian Zone. Car No. 20817, Berth No. 17. Charges: Rail - $4.65; Sleeper - $4.70; Total - $9.35. This is your receipt. Do not destroy. (so I didn't). Notes: During my one-week stay in Vienna, I saw and heard the great Vienna Choir Boys, and attended a performance for servicemen given by Danny Kaye. If ever there was a great entertainer for soldiers, Danny Kay was it. My hotel room was very cold. The room steam radiators were all pre-set to COLD and could not be changed. Coal was hard to come by at that time. The streets of Vienna were covered with 4 or 5 inches of solid ice. The servicemen's club was located in an old palace - The Palace of Clam Gallas, a once very elegant place. During one of my visits to this Palace, I wrote one of my more successful poems, which was later published twice. The Blue Danube was very icy, the water being far more muddy-colored than blue.-LRB Item 9. Illustrated travel folder. THRILLING ONE-DAY TOUR TO ZUGSPITZE. For vacation variety and that extra thrill. Come to Scenic Garmisch - EUCOM's Playground. (How could I resist?) GARMISCH offers the most unusual one-day tour in Europe...a conducted round-trip to Zugspitze by Bus. 5000 foot Austrian cable car, 2000 foot pedestrian tunnel, stop-over at the famous Schneefernerhaus, return by Bavarian cog-train. Picturesque villages. Mountain scenery. Thrilling cable car rides. Luncheon atop a mountain. Photographer's Paradise. The center spread of the folder is a map showing points of interest, called Round Trip to Zugspitze via Austria. Visitors Bureau. Main RR Station. Ski Stadium. Ice Stadium. Cog train-station. Alpenhof. Post Hotel. Hd Qrs. GMP. Loisach. Griesen. Riesseree. Kreuzeck. Eibsee. Overmoos. Bavarian Cog-Train. Schneefernerhaus. Tunnel. Cable Car to Summit. Zugspitze, 9,967 ft. Zugspitzkamm. Austrian Cable Car. Notes: WHAT A TRIP! 1st Lap: You start out with a bus ride from Garmisch through the picturesque Loisach valley across the Germany-Austrian border, to Obermoos, Austria in the French Zone. Here is the station for the Austrian cable car to the Zugspitze. 2nd Lap: Now for a 20-minute thrilling cable car ride on the 5000 foot cable, longest in Germany and Austria. Up you go to the Austrian Zugspitze Hotel, elevation about 9000 feet. From the terrace of the hotel you have a wonderful view of mountains and valleys. (YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!-LRB) 3rd Lap: Now a 15-minute easy walk through the tunnel, where you cross the German-Austrian border again. You come out at the Schneefernerhaus, the Bavarian mountain hotel operated by Garmisch Military Post. There you find more wonderful views of mountains and the famous Zugspitze ski area. Here you have every facility of a modern mountain resort hotel: dining room, snack bar, Germany's highest bar and night club, library & sun terrace. Guests may stay overnight in the comfortably equipped rooms of the hotel. But make your reservations at the Billeting Office in advance. Return ticket to Garmisch is valid for four days. 4th Lap: From the Schneefernerhuas there is a short cable car ride to the very summit of the Zugspitze, about 10,000 feet elevation. The car leaves every half hour, quarter to and quarter after the hour. Here you will have a magnificent view of the mountains of Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. (YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT! This is the site of the Munich Observatory. This was (probably) the closest I ever got to Yugoslavia, at least as the crow flies. Ground-level locations may actually have been closer. NOTE: Now let me tell you, walking along the razor-sharp, icy ridges of the tops of these mountains, with the strong wind blowing you this way and that way was SCARRY, especially if you went out on the ridges alone, as I did! I could easily have been blown into Yugoslavia and died there. What a romantic notion. -LRB. 5th Lap. The return trip to Garmisch is made by cog-train which leaves from the basement of the Schneefernerhaus. YOU'LL NEVER FORGET IT! (You can say that again. If you survive, that is.) A great memory that scares me even now. OH! That cable car to the summit! -LRB (brrrrrr!) Item 10. Colored travel folder. BERCHTESGADEN Recreation Area. Weekly Guide for Oktober 6 - 12. (1951). APO 541 US Army. Lt. Col. Lawrence E. Sommers, Commanding. The Berchtesgaden Recreation Area is a year-round EUCOM vacation and sports resort for U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and U.S. Civilian and Allied personnel. Located in the picturesque Bavarian Alps at the Southeastern tip of Germany, this beautiful vacationland has been the favorite of international sportsmen for many years. The BRA hotels and recreation facilities are the finest in Germany. For further information and reservations contact your Special Services Officer or telephone Berchtesgaden Military 23 or 35. Special Events for the week are listed, including floor shows, barn dance, and Viennese Night. Performers at the Floor Shows: Rollwinds (Roller Skating Act); Anne Young (dancer); Bernd Hacker (comedian); Schwierkotts, (musical act). Available tours are listed: To Hitler's Home - see the ruins of Hitler's famous Obersalzberg home where several historic conferences took place. Also see ruins of SS barracks. Chiemsee - for tours to King Ludwig's Dream Castle. Other tours to: Obersalzberg, Helibrunn, Salt Mines, Predigtstuhl. MOVIES at Berchtesgaden: (showings start daily at 1945 hours). Sat, 6 October: He Ran All the Way, with John Garfield, Shelley Winters, plus The Moslems and the West Moroccan Outpost, and Big Little Leaguers. Sun & Mon, 7-8 Oct. Showboat, with Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ava Gardner. Tues & Wed, 9-10 Oct. Cyrano De Bergerac, with Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, plus Droopy's Double Trouble. Thur & Fri, 11-12 Oct. Three Came Home, with Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, plus NEWS. And showing at the Koenigsee Rest Center Theater: Mon, 8 Oct. Follow the Sun, with Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter. Tues, 9 Oct. The Thing, with Margaret Sheridan and Jimmy Arness. Wed, 10 Oct. Santa Fe, with Randolph Scott and Janis Carter. Fri, 12 Oct. Mr. Imperium, with Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza. And showing at the Predigtstuhl Theater: Mon, 8 Oct. The Bullfighter and the Lady, with Robert Stack and Gilbert Roland. (Trust me, Gilbert Roland did not appear as the Lady-LRB.) Tues, 9 Oct. Follow the Sun, with Glenn Ford and Anne Baxter. Wed, 10 Oct. The Thing, with Margaret Sheridan and Jimmy Arness. Thurs, 11 Oct. Santa Fe, with Randolph Scott and Janis Carter. Religious services for Roman Catholics and Protestants are given. Religious services for Jewish and Christian Science are given. The folder contains a great photo of Bartholomew Chapel, Koenigssee. And bus and train schedules are given. On the back of the folder there is a picture of the beautiful Mirabel Gardens of Salsburg. That's all for now, folks! Goodbye, marbled, old, heavy-cardboard box that I have had for so many years. sigh, -LRB. lburton@infowest.com Copyright (c) 1987-2006 Lynn Ransom Burton.