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Show ' ' A 1 - f ' V ; 1 . - v.. y t - ' ' ' y ' "" J , I t , v J 1 . ' V ' ' . N l f , V , . 1 8 - , - y j S ' H ' I ; l - " - I A " ' ',U Of HEW RESIDENTS V Arriving from Vietnam recently, and living liv-ing in Bountiful, are, front 1 to r, Ka and Hao. Second row, Que Ying and Chen Hwa. Back, Kim and Tai. Happy new residents of Bountiful are six young refugees who arrived here Aug. 17. 1978 after fleeing from Vietnam. CHEN HWA Chow is 35 years old and his wife Que Ying Wong is 30. Their son Tuan Hao Chow is six and daughter Hing Ka Chow is just four. The two brothers of Que Ying are Hoat Kim Wong who is 18 and Dong Tai Wong 17. THE GROUP left Saigon on April 30 at night and with other refugees, there were 64 people in all and they got on a boat 45 feet long and 13 feet wide. The next day they entered the South China Sea. At about noon they were spotted by a Viet Cong guard ship which started to pursue them. Very fortunately for the 64 people, a big ship, either Chinese or Japanese drew near them and apparently drove the Viet Cong back in the other direction. direc-tion. THE HEAVILY laden small boat, filled with the refugees were thus able to escape. On their third night at sea, these people were rescued by a large German ship and arrived at Singapore Harbor two days later. It was eight days later that they were finally given permission to disembark. THIS FAMILY lived in Singapore Sin-gapore for three months when they were cleared to come to the United States. Chen Hwa Chow is a tailor and will be employed at Mr. Mac's in Salt Lake City. Kim and Tai will be students at Woods Cross High School and Hao will be a first grader at Muir School. Four year old Ka will be in the Head Start Program. A GROUP of interested people from the Bountiful Community Church is sponsoring spon-soring this family during the period of adjustment which they are making in their new way of life in America, kj |