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Show Seminary students return from 34-day church, U.S. history tour Kennedy was assasinated in the latter state. They made a tour of Carlsbad Caverns, stopped stop-ped in Boswell, N. M., and saw on the last leg of the journey on the last leg of the pourney home. Most of the students showed no signs of homesickness throughout the trip. They made numerous phone calls to relatives back in Utah and when they placed a' large sign on the bus, reading "Happy 24th of July," the drivers knew they were thinking about what the folks were doing at home. A tired but very happy group of students have returned return-ed to their home in Springville and elsewhere in the state, from a 34-day tour of places of interest in the mid-west, east and southern states. Included In-cluded from Springville on the two buses were: Pat Curtis, Cheryl Baker, Carla Brinker-hoff, Brinker-hoff, Nedra Snelson, David Wheeler on one and Bonnie Barney, Chris Crandall, Sally Orton, Ann Palfreyman, Lucille Lu-cille Davies, Carol Medved, Jeanne Crandall, Margery Peterson, Pe-terson, Peggy Patten, Linda Peirce, Pauline Whiting, Marsha Mar-sha Jenkins, Laurie Sheffield, Gloria Hansen, Susan Judd and Alzada Numhema on the other bus. There were several chaper-ones chaper-ones on each bus and each student was assigned to one of these people to do various jobs including cooking, doing dishes, serving lunch or maintaining the bus. Each student also had to have three reports for the trip, one on a state through which he traveled; another a devotional devotion-al talk; another on a church site visited. The tour covered 24 states. Most of the time, the students slept under the stars in trailer parks or other sites specially designated for thier accomodation. accomoda-tion. However in the larger cities, Chicago, New York, Washington, D. C, Baton Rouge and others, they were housed in hotels or motels. Historical interest According to a review of the trip from the bus reporters Carol Medved and Pat Curtis, the students will never forget the many . historical places, from a national and church standpoint, which they visited and they will also long remember remem-ber the many friendships made among other students - on the tour. One of the buses returned Saturday and the other, which was delayed for a time in Washington D. C. arrived back in Utah Tuesday. While lack of space does not permit a detailed description of the places visited, those interested in-terested may read a student's personal account, anyone of which makes a good story. A general outline notes that among the first places at which the buses made projected project-ed tours were those of church interest in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. In Chicago, the students stu-dents attended church which in itself was described as a rewarding re-warding experience. Niagara Falls, the church pageant at Palmyra as well as the many church sites in the vicinity, the World's Fair in New York; also a Broadway show were enjoyed together with a tour of the city including the U.N. Building. National Capitol From New York, the tour went to Washington D.C., where students watched his- tory in the making at the National Na-tional Capitol and became acquainted ac-quainted with many places and things of which they had studied: stu-died: Arlington Cemetery, where President Kennedy was buried and the numerous other national shrines attracted their interest. ' Jamestown and Williamsburg Williams-burg were included in the tour before the group began the trip home by way of the southern south-ern states. Many places of interest in-terest were visited in Florida, Mississippi and Texas, including includ-ing the places where President |