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Show fHU&dAY, JULY 1 6, 1964 MiAUNt dit&Vi itWitw, uuunt ttovt, UTAH, THUiSOAY JULY , 1 6, I9C5 Johnsons Back Tour of Europe; Mr. and Mn. Arthur (Hazel) Johnson and their four child-ren child-ren Van, 17; Darlena, 13; Car-ol, Car-ol, 14; and Mary,' 9 hava recently re-cently returned home after spending a year on the Eur opean continent They left here June 8, 1963 in their pickup truck and camper. camp-er. They visited each state they drove through from here to New York. On reaching New York they visited two nephews Stanley Plefe and David Ericksen, who are laboring in the Mission field there. They boarded the ship "Stat-endam," "Stat-endam," of the Holland American Amer-ican line In New York. The trip had been planned for several purposes, as can be gathered by talking to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Van. First, Mr. Johnson wanted to introduce his wife and family to Sweden, the land of bis birth, and where two sisters, num- erous aunts, uncles and cousins still live and where be had fulfilled ful-filled a mission for the Church In Sweden and Finland- This he did. They visited the shops, wharves, fjords, parks and the schools and commented on the cleanliness and kindness of the people. It was a year filled with more learning for the children than could have been gleaned from book learning alone. They learned how it feels to be a. foreigner in a foreign land and how kind and helpful most people peo-ple are. Carol learned enough French to converse with the people in France, where they were detained de-tained for 3 months, when Mr. Johnson met with an accident acci-dent and was hospitalized. Here they were taken into the home of the head nurse of the hospital and stayed with her and her mother. Pictures show the smiling faces of the two women who wanted to help and who said, "If the Germans could live in the front of our house for 4 years while France was occupied, occu-pied, we can certainly give room to the Americans." The doctor who took care of Mr. Johnson wanted Carol to come back to Bar-Sur-Aube the little town they were in, as an exchange student, to stay with him and his family, while his daughter, Annette, the same age, came to Pleasant Grove and 'lived with the Johnson family. While Mr. Johnson was incapacitated, in-capacitated, he did a lot of missionary work, talking to all who were interested about the : Gospel. They wondered why he was so interested in his triple combination, and his bible, borrowing bor-rowing especially a Book of Mormon to read, and sometimes some-times to keep. Culture was one facet of their trip when they visited museums, mus-eums, art galleries, where in one they could have touched the Mona Lisa, large libraries, mu-, sical concerts, beautiful churches,: chur-ches,: large gardens and the homes of people. Here they saw the Christmas satellite launched by the United Unit-ed States, lit up like a Christmas Christ-mas tree, with colored lights, and were interested in the peoples peo-ples reaction to it They, talked of what a progressive and won- derful country America must be.. r ; V ""'"..'' "-T- Pleasure came from getting r acquainted with people, seeing the beauty and grandeur of the oceans, the hills, the miles and miles of vineyards, where grapes grap-es hung thick and sweet, visiting visit-ing the shops and stores, , walking walk-ing the white sandy beaches along al-ong the Mediterraneon Sea and lying ; beneath the stars that hung low and bright in Morocco Mor-occo and with the knowledge that home was the best place . in the world. While in England, Van followed fol-lowed his hobby of fossil hunting, hunt-ing, when he saw heavy equipment equip-ment cutting into a hillside, to make way for a new highway. He found fossils of snail shells . a foot or more in diameter, and 3 or 4 inches thick . They visited two missionaries missionar-ies from their home ward, Dennis Den-nis Cullimore, son of Mr- and Mrs. Pick Cullimore in England Eng-land and Royal Christianson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Verl Christianson Chris-tianson in France, and Diane Prestwich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Prestwich. Every Sunday they found an LDS Sunday School and Sacrament Sacra-ment meeting, to keep in touch with their , church. Sometimes there would be 50 people in attendance at-tendance at others only 6 or 8. They met several missionaries who had attended tthe BYU and who knew where the Johnsons 4 lived. Such incidents were hailed hail-ed with delight and were as from Wonderful Ono Year Trip welcome as money from home by the homesick missionaries. In Strasburg, France, they visited an International Exhibition Exhi-bition comparable to our State Fair, and saw the progress being be-ing made in the Western part of Europe, industries being expanded, ex-panded, homes and yards kept clean, the people clean and well kept, and enthusiastic. They visited the Linden School, where a group of the t students have corresponded "with a group from our own Lin-don Lin-don School for over three years. They talked to the principal, who at the conclusion of their visit, took them on a tour of the town of Bochum, where the school was, and invited them to stay at his home. In East Berlin, they saw the evidence of war, still as it fell 20 years ago, the stores dirty , and shabby and the people disinterested dis-interested and poorly dressed. In Switzerland"they visited with Mrs. Johnson's relatives, and marveled at the cleanliness cleanli-ness and greenery of the hillsides. hill-sides. In Italy they visited the' Cis-tine Cis-tine Chapel, where Michael An-gelo's An-gelo's famous works cover the ceiling and walls. They saw the Piata now being displayed in the New, York World's Fair-They Fair-They saw the Coliseum, the Catacombs and the Vatican. When Mr. Johnson was able to travel, after his accident in France, they visited Spain, Portugal Por-tugal and Morocco, where Mr. Johnson said, "People were as interested in seeing us and our truck and camper as we would be if an Arab with aH his trappings trap-pings rode down our streets on a camel." They pressed their noses against the windows and windshield to see what was inside. in-side. Every border they crossed they were told theirs was the first such outfit that had ever been there. Pictures of the 'out fit' appeared in many newspapers. news-papers. They traveled from Lapland to Morocco and visited 24 countries coun-tries in between. Good health was enjoyed by everyone, except for Mr. Johnson's John-son's accident . While in Denmark, they celebrated cele-brated our Independence Day at Rebild Hills, where every. July 4 is celebrated on a grand scale. Last year 35,000 people congregated and by noon the park's natural amphitheatre is alive with color and motion. The replica of the Liberty Bell starts things off, then to the roll of drums, the Stars and Stripes, and the Danish flags are hoisted to the top of the flagpole. The Danish royalty, King Frederik and Queen Ingrid and their three daughters were in -attendance. It is called a glorious glor-ious family picnic. President Johnson, this year, in a recorded message, greeted his "friends of Denmark, whose annual celebration of the 4th of July is a warm and wonder-ful wonder-ful expression of the close and abiding friendship between our countries and our peoples. One American tourist said, "I've been asking myself what -happened to our glorious 4th. Now I know. It's moved over here They . visited everywhere, stayed as. long as there; were ? interesting things to see and slept i where - mght ' overtook-' them. -' They enjoyed the public steam baths, where everyone had a good scrubbing.' This is the usual method used in bathing bath-ing in Europe, where plumbing plumb-ing is a luxury. Upon returning to America, they drove south to Key West, Florida, where points of interest inter-est in each state were visited. They visited Cape Kennedy, where they vitnessed the launching laun-ching of two missiles, drove across Texas, down into Old Mexico, on their way to Yucatan. Yuca-tan. . When the temperature reached 106 degrees, they came back. . in Old Mexico, where five days were spent, Book of Mor- r mon artifacts were searched for and found in a field, being dug up, where water pipes were to be installed for a subdivision of homes. They visited Monte Alban, overlooking the Valley of Oaxaca. Here extensive ar-chaelogical ar-chaelogical work is being done. The temples, terraces, and tombs cover an area of 24 acres and was enjoyed by every one of the family members. During their trip they stood on the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Mediterranean, Medi-terranean, Baltic, North and Adriatic seas. They ferried over ov-er numerous canals, fjords and other waterways. s They toured 24 countries in ERNEST DEAN Needs your support Democratic Rally For Ernest Dean Slated for July 2 An "Old Fashioned Political Rally" will be held for Ernest H. Dean, Democratic guber-national guber-national candidate Wednesday, June 22, at the Uintah. Theater in Provo. The rally will begin at7:30 p.m., with outstandingre-show outstandingre-show entertainment and the introduction of Mr. Dean. A first run movie will then be shown and light refreshments will be served. The rally will climax a county-wide drive for funds and voter support for Candidate Dean, a resident of American Fork. All Utah County residents are invited to attend the Democratic Demo-cratic Rally in support of Mr. Dean, whose qualifications for the office of Governor stem from service in the Utah State Legislature and other positions of responsibility. Mr. Dean has served as House Minority Leader, House Majority Leader, Speaker of the House of Representatives and as Chairman of the Legislative Legis-lative Council, and has a broad background of the many problems prob-lems facing the people of Utah. Rate Reduction Set By Mountain States Telephone Rates on residence main station sta-tion telephone service throughout through-out Utah will be reduced by 25 cents per month beginning with the Aug. 1, bills, according accord-ing to a joint announcement by the Utah Public Service Commission Com-mission and the Mountain States Telephone In addition, the Company has proposed ' to discontinue inter-zone inter-zone message charges in the Salt Lake metropolitan area by Oct. 1, 1965. This will be done after necessary equipment is ' added to take care of the in-creased in-creased calling between zones which will take place when the charges are eliminated The additional ad-ditional investment required to provide this service in the Salt Lake Metropolitan area is estimated es-timated at one and one-half million dollars. The total reduction in service charges for Utah customers subsequent to the elimination of the Salt Lake Metropolitan inter-zone charges will: amount r M $876,000 per year.' ; ' v Charges , presently, apply. , on calls between ; Holladay and; Bountiful; Bountiful and Murray Mur-ray -Midvale; Kearns and Bountiful; Boun-tiful; Magna and Bountiful,' Kearns and Holladay; Murray-Midvale Murray-Midvale .and Magna; Magna and Holladay. These are the charges which will be removed with the new service arrangements arrange-ments in October, 1965. This is the third reduction -in Mountain ' States Telphone Co. rates in slightly over two years. In May of 1982, intrastate intra-state long distance rates were reduced and in April of 1963, with the adoption of the after 9:00 p.m. interstate schedule, long distance telephone costs were again reduced so that one could make a station-to-station call any place in the United. States for three minutes for $1.00 or less. Europe and 23 states in America, Amer-ica, covering 6,000 miles of ocean and 28,000 miles of land travel, besides ferrying. In talking to the couple they both expressed the conviction that their trip .was. wortorauUc the time and cost They arrived " home June 8, one year from the day they left IU3.CAVINC3 COrS3 3U COUNTRVJ. Dry and Hot Last Week, More of Samo for Now It was typical Utah July weather in Pleasant Grove during dur-ing the weather period which closed at 6 p.m. Monday, July 13. Daytime temperatures were mostly In the hot 90s and early morning readings in the not too .cool 50s. Also the week was dry. Two potential thunder storms moved In July 9 and 13. However, they left only traces of moisture-Cherry moisture-Cherry season is here again. There seems to be a good crop . of the ruby red fruit. For once, the trees are almost free of black aphis thanks to the rain, snow and chilly temperatures tempera-tures of late spring. Apricots are turning yellow on the early trees. Some folks have 'em; some folks don't. But's thai the way with apricots Skies were partly cloudy last Tuesday morning. Forecasters said "Continued hot weather, with some; small chance of thunder showers." It's July, an right Statistics for the week ending end-ing July 13, 1964. Date High Low Pre. July 7 93 50 0.00 July 8 95 51 0.00 July 9 ....... 82 62 trace July 10 90 52 0.00 July 11 92 55 0.00 July 12 95 59 0.00 July 13 95 61 trace Summary Highest for the week, 95 degrees July 8, 12 and 13. Lowest, 50 degrees, July 7. Precipitation for the week, a trace. Total since Jan- lr 14.62 inches. ' Sun rises and sets, locally, at 6:35 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. the o Two P.G Co0pes , Visit Yeilowsotn Mr. and Mrs- Wendall K. Young and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ray-mond Thayn , returned Sunday after a ten day vacation thru-oat thru-oat Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wlsconslln, on their way to Virginia, Vir-ginia, Minnesota, to visit Mr. Young's sister and brotherin law, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gen-tiled Gen-tiled and their three children. ' , While on the way they saw .Mount , Rushmore, the Black , ' Hills, Western historic spots at . Rapid QCy, and Deadwood City. They stayed at Aberdeen, South Dakota, where the famous fam-ous "Fisher Quints" were born. While at Virginia, Minnesota, they went fishing on Lake Vermilion Ver-milion and boat riding. They went to Deluth, Minnesota on the shores of Lake Superior and into Wisconsin where ships from Japan unload cargo.; While in Deluth Mrs. Shirl Young, owner of Shirt's Beauty Shoppe visited the Beauty College Col-lege there and brushed up on hair styling and pennent waving. wav-ing. After five days touring the vicinity of Virginia,' they journeyed journ-eyed to Billings, Montana and Yellowstone National Park. While at West Yellowstone they visited wtih Ruby West at the Brandin Iron Motel. Then on to the Teton National Nation-al Park and stayed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A ride on the chair lift there, is a thrill to experience then at Silver Stream Lodge they had a real Buffalo Dinner, "Delicious and on home thrilled to see Utah their an of their eight lovely children. C00L your whole house way you HEAT with GIS The very finest air conditioning, like heating, is provided by natural gas. And it's just as easy to install. With the circulating fan and. ductwork of your present furnace you already have half of a gas air conditioning system that cools your whole house, not just a room or two. 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