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Mr». Park Dickerson and two children left by plane Wednesday to return to their home in Johnson, Vt. after visiting Mr. and Mrs. George H. Davis, Jr. at their home on Gay Street.
Quenton McCoy visited his parents Mr. and Mis. C. D. L. McCoy at Coebum during the weekend. His three children returned home with him after several weeks visit with their grandparents.
Mrs. H. Taylor Updike is a
the local zoos from now on. It is more difficult to see the cat family- lions, leopards, cheetahs,in open country, even though they are there. I did see lions and cheetahs in the Nairobi Game Park, where they are free to roam as they please. It is perfectly safe to come up to them as long as you do not get out of your car. The government restricts (hooting of the animals, since they are a source of the tourist dollar in a country that desperately needs foreign exchange. (Last year the touristbusiness brought in fifty million dollars, quite a contrast to the average annual per capita income of 125 dollars. Even though hunting is restricted, there is a great deal of poaching. The leopard has almost been wiped out in the fast few years, because of the fashionable leopard coats, hats, and purses in the western world.
Kenya, along with every other developing country, is doing its best to catch up with the mid-twentieth century. Education, health, industry are ail fields the government, with the help of the United States and other advanced nations, is trying to make progress in. As we know well, progress brings disadvantages too. So I would suggest that if it interest you to see an environment practically untouched by modern civilization, that you plan your safari soon. Kenya won’t stay the way it is for long.
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