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Show Springville Man Returns from Ethiopian Survey Hyrum Greenhalgh returned to Springville Wednesday from Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, where he has spent the,-past three months making a survey of water resource development possibilities. pos-sibilities. He was in company with Engineer T. A. Clark of Ogden. Mr. Greenhalgh is employed with the Bureau of Reclamation with offices in Spanish Fork, working principally on the Central Utah Project. He is clerk of Kolob Stake and has made his home in Springville Spring-ville the past four and half years. Commenting On his experiences in the foreign country, Mr. Greenhalgh Green-halgh said that the climate was delightful with the miximum temperature tem-perature being about 85 degrees and the minimum about 45 degrees. de-grees. Ploughing is still done with oxen and forked sticks but the land is rich and the people are anxious to improve their methods and develop their country. Schools, especially in the rural areas, are backward in comparison compari-son to those of this country, Mr. Greenhalgh noted, but education is also being stressed. A comparatively compar-atively small number of the country's coun-try's fifteen or twenty million people attend schools, he said. An interesting observation made by Mr. Greenhalgh was the profusion pro-fusion of eucalyptus trees. In some cities, the houses, many with grass thatched roofs, are built back from the street fifty feet and are completely hidden by the trees. The Ethiopian ruler is progressive progres-sive and anxious to improve conditions condi-tions in his country and the people peo-ple are very polite and happy, Mr. Greenhalgh noted. |