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Show SALT LAKE SCOUTS TO SEE ZION PARK Caravan Several Hundred Strong Plan to Make Loop of South Counties in June. (Descrot Evening News.) In vory different fashion from that of early day frontiersmen, local boy scouts and citizens will join in n big caravan June 11 to Zion's Canyon nnd Bryco's Canyon, it is expected by lo-col lo-col scoutmon, who last night further developed pluns for tho big outing. In trucks, which it is hoped enn bo secured through the courtesy of local automobile men tho boys several hundred hun-dred strong, will start out on the trip, ench evening holding big cnmpflro 'councils in the various towns along tho routo. Tents will bo taken along for tho journey but unless weather forbids the boys and scoutmen will j sleep out in tho open. To tho enmp-I enmp-I firo councils will bo invited tho citi-. citi-. zctis of each town and nil members of the various local scout councils. (According to D. E. Hammond, local I assistant scout oxxecutive, Btops will , be made at Nephi or Mt. Pleasant, 'according to the routo taken and nt Richfield on tho down trip and nt Cedar Ce-dar and other towns on the return. I When tho youngsters reach Bryce's canyon u big program of hikes will be carried out, the pnrty taking a-llong a-llong its own lecturers on vnrious na-I na-I turo study subjects. No one but a sec- ond class scout will bo nllowed to I muko the trip and plans arc being laid which will bring the cost down to about $1 per day to each boy. It is possible that the nationul opening of Zion's Canyon Park may take place by the time the travellers leach the canyon. If so tho scoutmen point out thnt there will bo moving picture men, nntional press agents and government officials on the ground when the boys arrive, in addition ad-dition to a swarm of tourists. A number of Salt Lakers who own autos ure planning to make the outing out-ing in tho wake of the boyB. Theso no doubt will be invited to somo of tho campfiro councils and Vill help form one of the biggest caravans which lias ever crossed tho country and also a caravan unique in that it is planned merely for the pleasure-able pleasure-able and educational purposes of a trip to the big out-of-doors. |