The Sidney herald., 1957-04-18
Miss ~Johnsgaard
Here From
Saudi, Arabia

Miss Dorothy Johnsgaard ar
rived in Sidney March 26, from
Dhahran, Saudi, Arabia, making
the trip by plane, with several
changes enroute. She is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Anna Johnsgaard
and her sister, Mrs. Richard E.
Emaline) Helton and family.
Employed by the Arabian-Amer-
lean Oil Co. in Saudi Arabia for
the past seven and one-half years,
she made n previous visit back
here, five years ago. Miss Johns
gard grew up in Fairview where
she graduated from high school
and is this week visiting friends
there.
Leaving Dhahran January IL,
she flew to Bombay, where she
spent four days sightseeing. From
Bombay she took the SIS Chusan
to Hongkong, the boat making
stops at Ceylon, a small island off
the lower coast of India, at PAN
ang, Malaga, and Singapore. Miss
Johnsgaard spent ten days from
the 18th of February in Hongkong,
where she had some tailoring done
and tells us that styles there con-
form to those of the world noted
style centers with prices for like
women's apparel comparatively
lower.
In Saudi Arabia, where it is
hot and dry and the desert sands
blow, one dresses for that living
condition, which made her shop
ping activity in Hongkong all the
more pleasurable with the won
derful interest that city with its
worldwide international atmos-
phere holds for the visitor.
From Hongkong, Miss Johns
gard flew to Toyko, Japan, and
Honolulu, Hawaii, in the mid-Pa-
cific, where she spent three en-
joyable days. From Honolulu she
flew to San Francisco and there
spent two weeks visiting friends.
Accompanied by a girl friend,
she was flying to Tucson, Arizona
to meet her sister, Mrs. Richard
Emaline) Helton, when she got
off the plane at Phoenix, where
they were both happily surprised
to meet one another in the air.
port, Emaline enroute to meet
Dorothy. Flying on to Tucson they
spent one night there and ten
days at the Circle z Dude ranch
80 miles south Of Nogales.
A happy incident of all these
travels was meeting Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Severson as they were re-
turning to Tucson from Nogales.
First attracted in passing them by
the Montana license plate with the
Richland county number on their
car, they recognized Mr.. and Mrs.
Severson and had a nice visit with
them.
Returning to Tucson, they flew
to San Francisco where they spent
two enjoyable weeks and Mrs.
Helton experienced her first earth
quake, involving a series of tre-
mors that shook their hotel and
the city generally. Leaving San
Francisco by plane they arrived
in Sidney March 26, coming by
way of Seattle, Washington.
Miss Johnsgaard will leave by
plane this coming Sunday, April
81, for Los Angeles on the return
trip to Saudi, Arabia and her work
there where she is in the indus
trial relations department, senior
staff personnel division, of the
Arabian-American Oil Co. Her
route from Los Angeles will be
over the North Pole and down
the Scandinavian countries
and Europe with stops at Copen-
hagen, Denmark, Hamburg, Ger
many, Rome, Italy and finally at
Miss Johnsgaard will
be the first lady from Richland
county ever to have flown over
the North Pole and one of very
few women in general who have
done SO from l.. A. to her destin-
alton in Arabia, this writer would
guess. She will report back on her
job May Bird from a grand 311
months vacation absence.