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Show Girls Ride Horseback From Buffalo To Los Angeles, Calif. I for-sch.-i! k, Ij-lU miles from Buffalo, Buf-falo, N. Y., to I.ns Angeles, to reg.-iin tln'ir health after months of strenuous work in defense plants will givf Miss Minnie Sperla and Miss Rose M. Kurek jiliTity of material for extensive scrap books and endless stories to tell their eventual posterity. The girls slopped over in St. George Saturday anil part of Sunday, to get their mounts, Black Hoy and King shod for the fourth time on tin' six-month trip. Kinriloviul In Htlffitlo. IV. Y. Both young ladies had been employed em-ployed in the machine shop of Bell aircraft company, Buffalo, turning out Aircobras, and the strenuous work undermined their health. On the advice of physicians physi-cians to take a cross-country ride horseback, they decided to make it a real trip, hoping the open air and warmer climate of California Cali-fornia would help them regain their health. Purchasing a couple of trusty horses that had seen better days, fine saddles and trappings, the girls left Buffalo May Hi, 194.3, hoping to reach California . by the end of September. Septem-ber. With still more than 400 register into November before they reach their destination, but they'll apparently arrive there in the best of health and all ready to go right to work. They left Buffalo with twenty pounds of clothes, blankets and lunches and have averaged 20 to 25 miles travel per day and reported re-ported at St. George they have had a wonderful trip all the way. They camped at the Rodeo Park while here, and said they had a good night's rest. On the long journey they have slept in churches, at the homes of friends, 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ti ll! uuiiis, iiayM.aci:i, ijuui Jicuii, ranch homes, on the open highway high-way and even in jails. They report re-port having received very courteous courte-ous treatment all the way, and have been amply repaid in their complete recovery of health. ' Included in t,heir scanty saddle packs besides the sleeping bags, toilet articles, water canteen, raincoats rain-coats and extras, are nose bags for the horses, and linament for one of King's joints, which has been troublesome all the way. Wally Pymm shod their mounts Sunday morning, taking off the old shoes which were completely worn through, and the girls continued on their journey at noon. |