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Show Springville Lady, 83, Compares First Airplane Trip Vith Earlier Travels Mrs. Ella Reynolds, celebrating celebrat-ing her 83rd birthday the twentieth of this month, had one of the thrills of her lifetime life-time when she took her first plane ride from here to Las Vegas on a gift ticket from her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Mendenhall whom she visited. A grandson Russell Hales accompanied her down and the Mendenhalls brought her home by car. Upon her return, Mrs. Reynolds Rey-nolds declared it was just as much of a thrill as when hei grandfather let her ride as s child, on an ox-drawn load o; hay. Those were the times when it took a full day to travel to the west fields and back and Mrs. Reynolds made the trip to Las Vegas in an hour and twenty minutes. She said the airplane trip also compared favorably with the thrills she had as a young girl riding in horse-drawn sleighs with bells ringing and also with her first auto ride with her father, who owned one of the first ten cars in Springville. Spring-ville. All these modes of travel, Mrs. Reynolds has experienced in her life time and each has brought a big thrill, but for ease and comfort and a decided saving of time, she will take the most modern means of transportation. |