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Show World Traveler Stops Here To Visit Friends An interesting visitor in Springville Spring-ville the past few days, was Vig-fus Vig-fus Gudmundsson of Reykjavik, Iceland, who was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Bearnson, while he toured interesting places in the vicinity. A newspaper man, Mr. Gudmundsson Gud-mundsson is making a tour of the world and has already traveled some 7000 miles from his native land. He planned to go on to California, the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and through the Suez Canal enroute to Iceland, planning plann-ing to arrive home in March. The world traveler came to Utah especially to see and visit with the Icelandic people in Spanish Span-ish Fork. He is acquitanted with Mr. Bearnson's brother in Iceland and recounted interesting experiences exper-iences to relatives in Utah. Known in this country as a freelance free-lance writer for newspapers, Mr. Gudmundsson writes of what he sees and sends it to Iceland newspapers. news-papers. In addition to his newspaper news-paper work, he also operates a hotel in one of Iceland's well-known fishing resorts. He was particularly impressed with the Kolob Stake House which he toured as well as the LDS church which encourages mass participation par-ticipation in various activities. He explained how ot water from natural springs in his native land was now being used to heat homes. Only in the last 50 years, have we known we could do it, he said. The hot water is used to heat block-long hothouses where tropical fruits and vegetables are grown the year around. He said that unlike its name, Iceland is very green and the weather is never extreme. He described the northern lights and the bright nights in his coun-f I I try, where one can read without1 a light during July and August Mr. Gudmundsson visited the Herald office and shop and noted I"1 that his country has many of the'pnse same machines used in producing a r newspaper. tV! |