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Show Fourteen Dixie College Boys Join In Exciting Vacation Trip To Old Mexico Kaibab Forest, Carlsbad Caverns, Old Mexico Are High Points of Trip Through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, a dip into Old Mexico, back into Arizona, Nevada and home, was the six-day itinerary of 14 Dixie college classmates as a vacation va-cation headliner. The group in- . eluded Ray Sorenson and Monte Lamb of Mt. Carmel, Lester Gubler Gub-ler and Kent Reber of Santa Clara, Dawine Schmutz, Walter Christian and Joseph Blake and Cecil Blake of St. George, Carlin Hinton,. Floyd and Linden Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, Stirling Isom and Weston Spendlove of Hurricane and La-Void La-Void Leavitt of Kingman. The trip was made in Cecil Blake's truck, each boy contributing contribut-ing towards the transportation expenses ex-penses and paying their own bills otherwise. Leaving St. George Thursday, June 1, they dashed through the Zion-Mt. Carmel tunnel, the Kaibab Kai-bab National Forest of Arizona visiting as a side trip the Meter Crater - and other lesser points of interest. With only brief stopovers stop-overs enroute, they visited part of a day in Albuquerque, N. and then on for the Carlsbad Caverns. This was the major highlight high-light of the entire trip according to the entire group, who figure that every man of the United States should have the privilege of viewing this intricate underground under-ground panorama. Leaving New Mexico they covered the southeastern portion of Texas and on into El Paso from where they crossed the Ric Grande for a dip into Old Mexico, just for a change of flavors, say the boys. They went only as far as Colonia Juarez, but would willingly have gone farther into (Continued on page eight) Vacation Trip (Continued from first page) this interesting country had time permitted. Returning along the Rio Grande they were soon back into. Arizona through Mesa, Phoenix. Kingman, on across the Boulder Dam, into Las Vegas and home. Asked as to the actual expense of the trip the boys hestitated to say, but asserted it was really so inexpensive any group could get together on that end of the bargain. And as for the trip itself, it-self, they figure they have returned re-turned with talking experience to last a year, and count this the best possible start off for a summer sum-mer of downright hard work in the beet harvesting and elsewhere. |