Show it itI itI w wa I I d a I t l t I r jr i 1 t it v i I. I k L J a i 4 1 rr r e L t VISIT THE MIDDLE EAST I Mrs AArs Raymond Pace recently returned from a trip to fo the Middle East Her son It all started three years ago when Dr Joseph Khoury of Lebanon and teacher of the Arabic language went to live Jive I with the Raymond J. J Pace I family of Bountiful T The They h e y talked then of some day seeing his homeland and the Holy Land MRS PACE and son David did just that this summer when they traveled to the Middle East They met the Khoury family and visited in their home at an Arabian village near Beirut in Lebanon David had previously visited there in 1963 with members of his Arabic class MRS PACE says people seem to have more time to visit David visited there last year on on a a tour I with students and be sociable in many ways than we do She warns to be careful in the street the residents drive very badly Among the most interesting sights they visited were the Pyramids and camels of Egypt the donkey carts and water buffalo falo Palo the heavy loads carried on the heads of men women and children They saw the Cedars of Lebanon and the terraced terraced terraced ter ter- ter- ter raced gardens and forms gracing gracing grac grac- ing the mountain sides in homey homey hom homo ey happiness Hard cut stone i is used for homes in tJ the e cities that cradle the shores of the Mediterranean Sea TWO TiVO WEEKS were spent at atthe atthe atthe the American Univ University of Beirut in Lebanon where they met people of many countries A visit to the Garden of Gethsemane Gethsemane Gethsemane Geth- Geth semane and the garden tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee Galilee Gal Gal- ilee was a thrill indescribably THE KHOURY family consists consists consists con con- of Mr and Mrs Khoury a sister Georgette and a brother broth broth- er Nassime a first year college college college col col- lege student Elias Khoury a brother of Joseph lives in Salt Lake City He is a medical doc doc- tor The paces hope that the rest of the Khoury family can some day visit them in Utah Virginia and son David also visited London Paris Rome Istanbul l Cairo and |