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Show Australians Get Pieasing View Of Western U.S. Extremely impressed with I the friendliness of the Amen- j can people with whom they came in contact, were Mr. and ; Mrs. Frederick W. Bennetts j and their daughter Barbara of Perth, Australia who spent several sev-eral days as the guest of Mr.) and Mrs. Harrison Conover and , family in Springville. Having met the Bennetts on the Mariposa during their South Pacific tour returning from New Zealand, Mr. and Mrs. Conover invited them to stop here. Enroute they visited friends in San Francisco and Los Angeles where they saw many places of interest. They also went to Las Vegas and toured the canyons of Southern Utah. While in Springville, the Bennetts were guests of the Conovers on trips to Salt Lake, the Bingham copper mines, Brighton, Geneva, the BYU at Provo and the Springville Art. They left Monday to return home, going by train 1 to Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park, thence to Portland, Port-land, Oreg. and Vancouver, B. C, where they planned to take a plane for Tokyo, Japan and then to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore, and over the Indonesian islands and to their home on the west coast of Australia. Aus-tralia. Mr. Bennetts is a drapper or dealer in general dry goods in his home town and is also interested in-terested in the Geraldton Newspapers News-papers Ltd. The daughter Barbara is a school teacher and is presently on leave of absence as their schools are going on at this time of year. At Christmas time, they get their annual vacations va-cations similar to our summer vacations but for a period of eight weeks, she said. |