—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10, 1973
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Area Farmers, Agri-Businessmen Home From People-to-People Tour
By .1. Homer Graybill
On Friday, October 27,1972, my
wife and I along with 41 other
people, mostly farmers, left
Olmstead Airport on a “People to
People’s Goodwill Tour” of the
Far East The late President
Eisenhower introduced the
program to promote greater
understanding on a people to
people basis involving in
dividuals and groups, rather than
olficials and institutions.
President Nixon is Honorable
Chairman Mr and Mrs Enos
Heisev formerly of Hershey
were the tour guides.
We departed Harrisburg for
Chicago O’Hare Airport,
departed Chicago on United
Airlines for Seattle, then we,
departed Seattle for Alaska on a
Boeing 727, arriving at An
chorage We spent Saturday
touring Anchorage, a beautiful
ntv and we saw much Ear
thquake damage They have a
tract of ground called Ear
thquake Park which is as the
Quake left it for the tourists to
see They had snow there, and the
mountains were covered. We also
saw many Bush Pilot Airplanes.
We left Anchorage for Japan
Saturday and arrived in Tokyo
Saturday, the reason for this is
that we crossed the International
Date Line and lost part of the
day
The next six days were spent
touring Tokyo and the coun
tryside This was a very beautiful
city and country We saw
thousands of acres of Rice
Paddies most of them covered
with water for the growing
season There were many men
and women working in them The
farmers plant the rice up to the
buildings there are no lawns or
shrubbery Some of the rice is
grown on terraces on the
mountainside
We visited an experimental
nee farm where they had electric
fences around the plots to kill the
rats Last year they killed 25,000
rats
We also saw many Grape
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The Pennsylvania contingent on the Oriental People-to-Peopie tour pause
in Anchorage, Alaska, on the first leg of their trip to the Orient.
Vineyards On Tuesday,
November 2, we saw the great
Buddah From here we had a ride
on the world’s famous “Bullet
Train” with a speed of 150 miles
per hour, that was like low level
flying
On November 3, we had a full
day of sightseeing, including the
Heian Shrine and Nyo Castle
There are many pavillion shrines
and temples in this part of the
world The people worship them
One Bronze Buddah was cast in
1225 A D and weighs 121 tons. In
the year 1495 A D a tidal wave
swept it off it’s foundation.
However, it was not damaged
much, and it was replaced
On November 5, we departed
Osaka on Thai International
Airways for Taiwan We had two
days tour of Formosa during
which we visited a land reform
exhibit, a Taiwan agriculture
extension and a farm That night
at dinner we had to take our shoes
off and sit on the floor and eat
with Chop Sticks, the custom of
the Oriental people (try it
sometime!)
On Sunday, November 6, we
had church services in view of the
beautiful waterfalls in our hotel
lobby
On November 8, we departed
Taipei on China Airlines and
arrived in Manilla, seat of
Government m the Phillipines.
They were in a state of Martial
Law at the time, but it did not
effect us The terminal at the
airport was partially burned by
the Communists shortly before
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The city of Manilla has many
parks and many beautiful
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U S Military Cemetery. There
were 38,000 soldiers buried there.
We also visited a prison com
pound where many prisoners
were drowned when a tidal wave
swept over it
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minutes for the call to get
through fliey received the call at
5 a.m. Friday. The reason for this
was because we talked through
the International Date Line. We
talked to people there, they were
very much pleased that
President Nixon was re-elected.
We departed Manilla
November 11 at 3:45 p.m. on a
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first of five 747 flights. We
crossed Vietnam, and managed
to see some of it. We arrived in
Bankok Thailand after a good
flight. Bankok is exactly half-way
around the world.
Early the next morning, we
took a fascinating boat ride to see
the farmers’ market and their
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