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Show The Tooo!o Tranncrrt Friday, July 14. 1961 ' THE TOOELE TRANSCRIPT I mi cm) C'itv. I'tjh as Si'inml im( h Eruln ui 7ml Clasx Mailer al Iht Pmt OHitt at Iimm-I- i City, 1't.ih, Augu't H. sM, ur.iler Ad of Mmh H. IHilileiheif bv tlx Trjnst ripl liulleim publishing Company, Inc., 5n Not ill Main Slieet. Tooele City, I'l.ill. AiMicss all I'Oiiev poililemv i llox 3'0, 1(101 ie, Cull. Pure 10 mil a per cpv. Subscription $t per vear, ALEX T. DUNN. Publ.sher LOREN C. DUNN, Editor f 'Vi !: H j f' f f k 4 E Interesting Sidelights i -- f ffm i) i yi A I r m nu A Cis 'i c ! in laces ol of Quito, m. tj picul Ine builttgh! ring al Bogota, as three oi Ihe lour group ladies watch Ihe fourth one demonstrate Ihe skill otbulltighiing, L to R Mrs. Ale F. Dunn. Mrs, Ijman Rich, logan, Mrs. Golden Buchannan and Mrs. Glen Miner, both of Salt Lake school children on (he outskirts This I xkimo Igloo Is being constructed In Iho Northern Hemisphere with in a few feel of Ihe line of the equator in Ecuador. On 'lour Willi llie Editor city. tSkAllll The first insiruruon from our jniule on art i inj; ui Bogota. Columbia, which is more than 8.000 feet above sea level, was to1 ? ; watch and if the heiphi had an effect to lie down and take a drink tat v a of whisky. aii.T Bogota is raied as third in the woild in pnnluctinn of ixt-r- , the consuitihiinn is 120 bottles of 7 per cent liecr capita porj month. Yes, this figure was verified twice, and to make it even more unlwliev cable it is unlawful to serve beer to uny one under) IS years of age. WE WFRE MORE or less under the personal Impression IhaC we were stopping, in Bogota, just to pass the distance of n Inns flight, from Mexico City, but this city is a beautiful place, nestled in a valley whuh was once a volcano crater and entirely surrounded by high mountains. Bosnia has 1. iso. 000 people and rated os the fastest growing city m the world. The climate is delightfully cool although within an hours flying time of the equator. This creater valley is highly knee deep in lucious grass. Ihe 4 productive with cattle standing lak with is or. the a strata found in our own nution.; stmk par dairy and a successful program of artificial insemination is being followed through. Some will remember In recent years of dairymen in the Mrs. Alex F. Dunn talks with a family of Bogota Valley U. S. trading dairy sunk in payment for an all expense visit to) v. Indians. Notice their hats. Tach EaMcr the father bus a i Columbia, and this plan could have been the basis for the top' k- .a. new hat and passes his old one on to his wife, who in turn we traveled as of the seen cattle along highway quality diary passes her hat onto her oldest child, and in this pattern the Ihe suspended cable tram car snapped as it reached the through the valiey. Columbia is now an exporter of dairy products. hat goes down through the family. top of Ihe Mountain, after a 1500 foot climb on a suspended The peoples of this nation appear more propenous than those of cable. The car carries 20 passengers, and gives one a greater heat for long, at at the equator found it was uncomfortably chilly. Mexico, but 50,000 were killed in recent revolutions and counter thrill than an airplane flight. SOMFONE HAD COME up with the Idea to build an Eskimo revolutions, and Columbia also hail many of their youth fall on the Igloo a few feet over the line in the northern hemisphere. It was battle fields of Korea when they joined with the free world to fight communism. and extreme poor, but Ecuador people are a happy lot and will nearing completion. Between Quito and the Equator we passed through an area ONE SEES A FEW SICA'S here and there by Mountains, for return a smile in trigger timming. The Indians are the ones who similar to desert areas in Nevada, and irrigation was being Castro Sells Men," seen to lx the down and outers but their children and against Communism, One sign read well appear Castro received the Major share of his education in Rogota. but fed in practiced. of rags. spite In the Southern hemisphere at the base of the monument dea was never here he that openly communist, although people say Of course the highlight of our trip here was the visit to the ther equator Lions Clubs International had built a stone his thinking was along this line. signating We traveled by chartered bus over sturdy but rough steat as a token of world unity. So far in our travels we have no need of our Tooele friends equator. roik roads, built bv the Spaniards 300 years ago with Indian slave THE INCAS ARE credited with making the first markings for sending their tractors down to bail us out. We have been treated labor. The policy after capturing the natives was to keep them so the equator and were only two miles off the modern line. with the most courteous considerations. Only once as we left our worn down through labor, and we suppose meager rations, that In Quito the sun comes up at 6 a m. goes down at 6 hotel was a stir started by a young man, but his girl friend shut him p m. There wouldn't or couldn't fight back and gain their freedom which is they twelve hours night and twelve hours day, minus the twilight american demonup in quick order. We believe that all these anti originally lost through treachery. ami morning light of course. strations arc more embarrasing to the people of South America they After descending some 2000 feet in the IS mile journey from Our guides said that Ecuador was entirely free of race prejuce A embarfew crackpots are always than our own good old U.S.A. in of could we th and whether stand Quito (Keyto) anticipation as a national virtue. rasing to the great body of people whom they declare they re- try.' O r V rf Xv- u .y W present. Lcllcrs To The Editor We could write a book about Bogoda. but we are supposed to be on vaction, and we near the equator want to enjoy the cool pleasant temperatures while vou people in Utah swelter. THE FIRST GREAT SIGHTSEEING event which everyone is rushed to in the Bogota Y'alley in the Catholic Cathedrei constructed large in the bottom of a salt mine. It is larger than St. Peters in Rome in ail dimensions and is now nearing completion. This salt deposit, mined by the Indians hundreds of years before the coming of the white man to the Americas extends 2S0 miles in the Mountains at more than 8,000 feet above sea level. The Dear Sirs, Indians in surrounding areas, the report goes, would come for Just a small note to let hundreds of miles and trade their gold for salt, and when the know how much 1 appreciate re Spanish came and discovered so much gold they exterminated eivtng both the Tooele Bulleton the Bogota Valley Indians and took the gold, except here and there and The Tooele Transcript. I look some of the gold ornaments have been dug up and in the basement forward to receiving the Tooele vaults of the National Bank of the Republic our party was per- papers every week, they keep me mitted to view this collection of gold jewelry, gold battle armory, informed on the goings on back etc. etc., rated to be the largest collection of gold ornaments in home and also how all my friends the world. and the people I know are getting It is said that when the Indians discovered the treachery of the along. I hope that I can keep receiv Spaniards that they sunk most of their gold in the surrounding lakes, and the government is considering serious an expedition to ing both of the Tooele papers for find this untold wealth. the rest of my time in the Air BACK TO THE SALT MINES, numerous sea shells are found Force. in the salt, which is mined under government Monoply. We would You, the Editor and Staff, are tell you how this salt was tossed up some 8,000 feet above the doing a wonderful job in keeping bottom of the ocean to form a mountain range, but we havent people like me informed on the the space at this time. happenings around Tooele. Thank Another sightseeing attraction is the cable tramway which you very much. climbs 1500 feet from ground to mountain top, and carries the passengers in a cable car many feet above the ground from the Sincerelv, Lee Wilcok AF 19649673 Valley to mountains where a shrine is erected and believers go 31st Consolidated Aircraft there to worship and be healed. Just a passing word before leaving our write up on the Nation Maintenence Squadron of Colombia, Sixty five per cent of the population suffers from Box 244 malnutrition and as a result have a high death rate from tuber- George Air Force Base California. culosis. The next in line to menace the welfare of the nation is Victorville, veneral disease. The malnutrition is said not to be so much the back of food as CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our deepest it is a one or two food diets living on the particular food that in thanks to all who assisted us is grown in the various areas of the nation. WE OBSERVED JULY 4th by flying out of Bogota and landing anyway at the death of our father For in Quito, Ecuador, passing over the imaginary line of the equator and cousin Seth J. Finch. flowers, cards, help with the fun some eighteen miles before landing. It may not be amiss in telling of the first class hotels and fine eral and in the home we are food which we have had thus far. Nothing better in the United deeply grateful. Mrs. Sylvia Dunivan States. Last night we pointed our finger at an item on the Menu and ended up with a banana split, and we are following the rule Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shields to eat what is set before us. Most of the menus are printed in both Spanish and English, but ones finger is the tool by which CHILDREN VISIT we talk, although we have always been taught that it was not of Visiting here at the home Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell are Mr polite to point, but it sure is convenient conversation. Quito is 9500 feet above sea level and the Natives around here, and Mrs. Jack Heagin and child it is noticed, have large chest cavities. of Tus ren Peggy and Michael LIKE ALL AREAS WE have visited thus far there is the rich son, Arizona. i stfw - -- The dark mark at the bottom of (he picture is the line of the equator. Mrs. Alex F. Dunn is standing In the Northern Hemisphere and your publisher is in the Southern hemisphere The weather was cloudy and uncomfortably cold at the time (his Photo was taken. THE DRIYERS TOR THE three busses on which we went sightseeing were fascinated by the operation of our minute camera, and asked that we take their picture. We said yes," providing that they would stand near an Indian mother who had a baby on her back and was leading a small horse as a pack animal. In signs which could not be mistaken they said "nothing doing. Much as you try to change the human race, there dwells within the soul of every mortal person the inclination to pick their friends. This Weeks Best Buys! SHAVER'S FRUIT Grapefruit Jell-We- Your Family Will Love No. 303 con FLAVORED YOUR CHOICE Ellis's Beans ll Baty Lima Assorted Fruit Flavored Gelatins 8 If Red Northern Large Limas Kidney-Gr- eat Pintos or No. 300 can Fresher Foods Cost Less At SAFEWAY ! A-- . r.i i t; , V. , v No-L- t 12 10 Ib. , Farm. Fresh Produce! 'iJ M t LEG i Hiiy : U.S. Choice Si ; " K n ijm, . Fancy Large Flavorful LAMB LAMB LAMB LAMB LAMB Thompson Seedless Z 39n U.S. No. 1 Selected Ideal White Rose For Potato Salad r A i Tiiififr Ktadarh icier can be obtained from the mine portal to this structure which is rated larger that St. Peters in Rome. 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