Show Friendships Begun in South Africa Continued in S. S Lv L L. v rA i 1 Lip t W WI I I fI f 4 iI THEY MET IN SOUTH AFRICA RENEWED RENEW ED FRIENDSHIP IN SALT LAKE CITY Evan Wright left his daughter Barbara Jean 4 Mrs Wright and Miss Grace Millan Hospital Compares Life As Seen on Two Continents Editors Editor's note This is another in Ina a series of stories Introducing Salt Lake City newcomers Grace Millan's parents Mr and Mrs Christopher L. L Millan left Scotland 30 years ago and emigrated emigrated emi emi- grated to South uth Africa Afric Now despite a war that has spread to all corners of the globe their daughter has bas Meef Meet just completed her herThe herThe herTie The T 0 own w n migration migration- f from Johannesburg F Folks o Ik S to Salt Lake City And its it's hard to say which she prefers Miss Millan office of St. St Marks Mark's hospital made up her mind eight or nine years ago to see Salt Lake City She joined the L D S church at that time She sav saved d her pennies and eventually eventually eventually even even- had enough for the trip Then the war broke out She was able to obtain permission to leave South Africa for the United States after months of effort and departed departed departed de de- de- de parted one day on a Danish ship whose passengers herself included numbered i 1 13 But there was n nothing thing unlucky about our voyage Miss Millan recalled The boat was blacked out at night of course and we saw aw other s If It the enemy was about he stayed out of sight She arrived in a New England port two days before the Jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor reached Salt Lake City on February February February ary 14 She had friends in Utah Utah Utah- Mr and Mrs Evan Wright 1451 Perry a avenue venue and Clarence Randall Randall Ran Ran- dall dalI Ogden Miss Miss' Millan was a book bookkeeper for a a in drive cafe chain operated by Mr Wright and Mr Randall in Johannesburg and other South African communities Think of South Africa as a jungle Well it isn't isn't-at isn't at least not as much as one would think she answered her own query Life in the cities down there is much lik like it is here in the United States While South Africa has frowned on military conscription many many of its men are in service Many of ot the troops now fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing in Libya and other North African African African can battle areas are South Africans cans eans and I have received e ed occasional occasional occa occa- ca- ca letters from some of them she S said id Miss Millan who enjoys surf riding riding not not the up standing-up kind though though is is anxious to swim in Great Salt lake She thinks Utah's capital is one of the worlds world's most beautiful cities and intends to become become be be- come conic an American citizen Her indoor indoor hobbies hobbles center around collecting of ivory pieces stamps and coins Mr and Mrs Wright who have among other fine miniatures miniatures minia minla- tures an ebony bony elephant receive frequent visits from their South African friend Like it here echoed Miss Millan |