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Show WORLD TRAVELER TAKES FILMS HERE Visits of interesting and even iamous personages were commonplace com-monplace occurrences before the war. Now the arrival of someone some-one not "run of the mill" is unusual un-usual enough to merit headlines. Amos Burg of Portland, Ore., explorer and photographer of note, arrived Tuesday to spend several days as guest of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Frazier, on the last lap of a six months' tour required requir-ed to make an educational film depicting America's industry and phases of American life Mr. Burg had the help of H. L. Garrity, mine superintendent, in traveling over Utah Copper company mine Tuesday to take films of workings of the world's largest single copper operation. Previously filmed are pictures of other mining operations, farming farm-ing and pictures on national parks, Indian life and New Mexico. Mex-ico. 1000 copies of the educational education-al films have been ordered by the U. S. army. Mr. Burg's travels have included in-cluded trips down practically every river on the North American Ameri-can continent. He journeyed a-round a-round Cape Horn in a sail boat and wrote an account of the trip for National Geographic, for whom he has covered many assignments as-signments and supplied many pictures. One of his most popular articles was an account of the 2600 anniversary an-niversary celebration of the founding of the Chinese empire. |