Royals’ Tour Becoming Campy

Two members of Britain’s royal family are roughing it in one of North America’s most remote areas. Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, have begun a 10-day wilderness canoe trip, with six of Andrew’s friends from his days as an exchange student at Lakefield College in Canada’s Ontario province. Their precise route is a secret, but spokesmen said the group was dropped by plane at the edge of the Thelon Game Sanctuary. The tundra region is above the tree line east of Great Slave Lake in what is known as the “barren lands” of Canada’s Northwest Territories. The campers have less than regal living conditions. They are sleeping in tents, and, although they are carrying a special oven for baking, the provisions include such everyday items as spaghetti, oatmeal, granola, bacon and cheese. Meanwhile, the Toronto Star reported that Andrew’s first anniversary gift to Sarah is a ranch mink coat with a hand-painted lining designed by Clifford Yong, whose coats cost more than $40,000.

--Joe Gallichio has finally reached retirement age--he just celebrated his 100th birthday. So, after Friday, the Dayton, Ohio, man will no longer walk a five-block route delivering legal papers for E. S. Gallon & Associates, a law office. This will be the second time that Gallichio has retired. The first was about 30 years ago when he left General Motors Corp.’s Inland Division. But at age 80, he went back to work “because I was too young a man to loaf.” And what happens after he leaves his delivery job? He plans to rest a bit and take a short vacation. “Then I’m going to look for something else to do,” Gallichio said.

--When it comes to the naked truth, George P. Shultz doesn’t shirk his duty. The secretary of state has offered his help in controlling nude bathers at a swimming hole near his Massachusetts home. Selectmen in Cummington had written Shultz last month because a trail to the swimming spot on the Westfield River crosses his property. “I can understand your concern about local environmental matters and safety for those who use the site,” Shultz wrote in a letter, signed “George,” read at the selectmen’s meeting. Shultz wrote that he looked forward to receiving the selectmen’s recommendations on how he and his family could help solve the problem. He also acknowledged a letter of apology from the selectmen about the publicity generated by their initial note, saying: “I appreciate your thoughtfulness about possibly having inconvenienced me. I know that the press play has been done with some measure of humor and lots of competition.”