More Foreign Visitors Coming

More Foreign Visitors Coming

Officials from Ann Arbor sister cities and Michigan sister states have full spring itineraries.

In addition to a group of 29 persons from Ann Arbor’s German sister-city, Tuebingen, and six persons from Dexter’s German sister-city of Ofterdingen scheduled to arrive here next week, the area will host visitors from British Honduras and Shiga Prefecture (Japan).

Premier George Price of British Honduras will be in Detroit April 5 to 7. Price was recently re-elected to head the government of the Central American country that is Michigan’s sister state. Until the new capital city is completed, government headquarters remain in Belize City, the Ann Arbor sister-city.

Price and Gov. William G. Milliken are scheduled to speak at the Economic Club of Detroit luncheon April 6. Soon to become an independent nation, British Honduras is associated with Michigan under the Partners in the Alliance for Progress program.

On May 16 government officials and businessmen from Michigan’s other sister state, Shiga Prefecture, arrive in Detroit.

During Michigan Week members of this delegation will visit Ann Arbor and the four other Michigan cities with sister cities in Shiga.

The Greater Michigan Foundation has planned an August tour to Alaska, Hong Kong and Japan. Ann Arbor’s sister city, Hikone City, which is located 40 miles from EXPO '70, is among stops on the agenda.

Michigan Week and the August festival on Lake Biwa, largest fresh water lake in Japan, were selected as dates for this major exchange of Michigan and Shiga Prefecture visits.

The Tuebingen delegation, scheduled to arrive here March 23, will be touring the Ann Arbor area until April 2. Included on their itinerary are visits at Huron High School and the University.

On March 30, Tuebingen mayor, Eberhard Doege, will preside at a special meeting of the Ann Arbor City Council. The following morning the Germans return to City Hall for a special tour.

Detroit Mayor Roman Gribbs will greet the German delegation in his office March 26. Prior to their arrival in Ann Arbor, the delegates will live in homes in Arlington. Va„ while on a tour of Washington, D.C. After Ann Arbor, the group will go to Niagara Falls.

Ann Arbor, Dexter and Saline are among 30 Michigan cities with sister cities in foreign countries under the Town Affiliation Association citizen volunteer program. This is one of the People To People programs founded at a White House Conference presided over by the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower.