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Show ( ' -r-rbr r, COtU RETURN FROM LONG TRIP Part of the group, of Senior Citizens are pictured as they arrived in Springville Friday evening from the three-week conducted tour of the South ern States. The tour was sponsored by the Springville Senior Sen-ior Citizens and was organized and directed by A. I. Tip-petts. Tip-petts. They toured points enroute to Florida and return. Chartered bus tour of Southern States enjoyed by 46 people Forty-six people, mostly from Springville, arrived home Friday Fri-day evening from a tour of the southern states. They traveled over some 14 states nearly 6000 miles, stopping at the larger cities and points of interest en route. The tour was sponsored by the Senior Citizens of SDrine-ville. directed bv A. I. Mangelson, Levan; Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jones, Evelyn Burton, Virginia S. Clegg, Salt Lake; Joseph Richardson, Pay-son; Pay-son; Kathryn Strate, Columbia; Hilda Grant, Hayden Lake, Idaho; Ida-ho; Lillian Condie Lewis, Vera Harmon, Addie Shurtliff of Overton, Nevada. Tippetts with Odessa M. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen and Blanch Beal, assisting. assist-ing. Highlights of the trip included includ-ed a stop at Santa Fe, N. M., second oldest city of the U.S.; Carlsbad Caverns, the Astrodome Astro-dome at Houston, Texas, for a national league ball game; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., Homosassa Springs and the Cypress Gardens and the Everglades Ev-erglades in Florida. At Miami, boat tours and deep sea fishing were enjoyed. En route to Day-tona Day-tona Beach, they stopped to see the Corrillon bells, memorial to Edward Bok at Mountain Lake. St. Augustine, Fla., oldest old-est city in the U.S. was an interesting in-teresting part of the tour as was the Cyclodrama, portraying in three dimensions major battles bat-tles of the Civil War at Atlanta, At-lanta, Ga. The statues being carved in the mountain at Atlanta, At-lanta, similar to that of Mt. Rushmore, was interesting as was the reconstructed southern plantation in Atlanta. The group viewed the steel mills at Burmingham, Ala., and stops were made for sight-seeing at Memphis, Tenn., Tulsa, Okla., and in Dodge City, Kan., at the famous TV Front Street. They returned home by way of Pueblo Pueb-lo over the scenic Colorado mountains. Taking the trip were, A. I. Tippetts, George Brailsford, Ed Johnson, Ray Hales, Glen Coffman, Coff-man, Berton Groesbeck, Bill Brown, Lewis Clegg, Lee Davis and wives, Zola Gogarty, Mildred Mil-dred Boorman, Odessa Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, Blanch Beal, Elsie All-man, All-man, Birdie Thorpe, Grace Martindale all of Springville; I. J. Burr, Max Brown, and wives and Loreen Bliss, Orem; John Crawford and wife, Bessie Bes-sie Ward and Stella Rupper, Provo; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. |