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Show Couple return from Orient trip Club meeting in Thailand where those in attendance represented rep-resented 33 different nations. Again in Taipi, he was interested interes-ted in the Rotary Club meeting where it was all in Chinese and he was presented with a small Chinese flag. The Madsens made the entire en-tire trip by plane, with special tours pre-arranged in each country. Ivan and Faye Madsen returned re-turned home from a most delightful de-lightful trip to the Orient and the Hawaiian Islands which extended ex-tended over a month. They went especially to visit a srn, Phil and Carol Haymond and family at Bangkok, and were on hand to welcome twins, a boy and a girl, named Jonathan Ruel. after a great great grandfather and grandfather Averett. The girl is named Martha. The couple toured the many places of interest in the Bangkok Bang-kok area, including monasteries, Budha Temples, a 4-hour trip down the river with a floating market; watched the people making silk and noted the many other primative methods of doing things. They reported report-ed the weather very warm and the children do not wear anything any-thing for the first three years of their lives. The twins, she said, came home without any clothing on. After two weeks in Bangkok, the Madsens traveled on to Hong Kong. Here they saw many interesting sights, among which was the cemeteries and were amazed at the manner in which they bury the dead. After seven years, the remains are intered in urns or vases and placed on the hillside permanently. per-manently. This is necessary because be-cause of the crowded condition of the country. They were also interested in the methods used to house the refugees coming over the border from Red China. The many shops were fascinating, the Madsens reported, re-ported, but the prices are very high especially to tourists. They stopped at Taipi, Taiwan, formerly for-merly Formosa, where under Shai Ki Shek, the people are remaking a nation. Here, they saw US patrolling the shores of the country and learned that in this country, they appreciate Americans, to whom they believe be-lieve they owe their survival. A small Chinese man was their guide and escarted them over the cities, speaking perfect per-fect English. In Tokyo, they were amazed at the progress being made and at the size of the city, which is the largest in the world with one tenth of the Japanese people living there. They viewed the city from 1,092-foot Tokyo tower. Tokyo, they report is a very expensive city for tourists including in-cluding food, lodging and merchandise. mer-chandise. Many things made in Japan cost more for the tourist in Tokyo, than after they have been shipped to the U.S. From Tokyo, the Madsens traveled to Anchorage, Alaska. Here, it seemed more like home. It was the light season in the country and his was interesting to the travelers. En route to the Orient, the Madsens toured the Hawaiian Islands going through a session of the temple there and attended attend-ed the Easter service in the same chapel that Mr. Madsen had attended while in the service. ser-vice. They tourned Honolulu, swam on the beach and generally gen-erally enjoyed the restful relaxed re-laxed atmosphere of the islands. Mr. Madsen attended Rotary |