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lewOf Retreat Of RooseveltCATOCTIN, LODGE OF PRESIDENTi - •V /President's Summer Residence Hear Thurmont In-T » . ■ « •** ■ ■specfed—Truman Has Never Visited CatoctinVim'-' ■?* ',4'1 • ‘ •*+- * ' «* r* .. » * * * * + . i. ,1 •+ # VBy ERNEST B. VACCARO1 * .. * . rfThurmont, Md., Sept. 30 (/P).— Reporters got an inside- view today of historic Shangri La, wartime mountain1 retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt.-White House attaches serving as)guides in the first public inspection said President Truman has never• • * * Hvisited- the famous camp.• -Whether he will use it next summer has not been decided’ althoughMrs. Truman once spent an hourlooking it over.H • 4Two thousand feet above the level of the Potomac river in thei •Catoctin mountains and three miles• k ... 'from this Maryland community, Shangri La is a 70-mile automobiledrive from the White House,4 , ' * • • .Taken Over In 1942I 1Originally Camp No. 3 in the Catoctin recreational area built by CCC boys as a part of their national forest work, it was takenIover by Mr. Roosevelt in July, 1942, as a weekend spot when the Navyfelt it best for him to abandon theuse of his yacht for wartime se-* ' *curity reasons.*Navy officers said they forbade Mr. Roosevelt to use his yacht for fear of enemy bombing in that critical period of the war.Medical officers insisted on aspot with a 2,000-foot altitude that*(Continued on Page 2)
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Mon, Oct 01, 1945
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