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Show Large Delegation of Local Scouts, Scouters To Attend National Meet More than 250 Boy Scouts and Scouters from the Utah National Parks Council are anticipating the "experience of a lifetime" when they attend the Na- tional Boy Scout Jamboree June 30th to July 6th at Valley Forge, Pa. Those who have registered to go to the national meet from Kolob district Scout troops are: Elmer W. Bird, Richard Clyde, LaVar Felix, Bert Gividen, Brent Hay-mond, Hay-mond, David Haymond, Mark Hoover, Hoo-ver, LaMar Holt, Drexel Pate. Douglas Poulson, Louis Thorn, Jesse Warren Tonks, Wells Wentz, Donald A. Watts, Charles Wentz, Arnold Wilson, dene Wilson and Norman Young. Leaders registered register-ed to go include: Louis H. Cutler, Donald Perkins and Wilford Man-waring. Man-waring. Traveling by special train, the delegation will leave the evening of June 22 and return home the morning of July 13 after nearly three weeks of sight-seeing- and wholesome Scouting activity. The National Jamboree second in the last 40 years is expected to attract 44,000 Scouts and Scouters. It will be the largest gathering of its kind in the world. More than 1500 delegates are expected ex-pected from foreign countries. It will feature scout pageantry such as has never been on parade before. A gigantic July Fourth celebration will be one of the not-to-be-forgotten events. Quota for the Utah National Parks Council, accoording to Maurice Mau-rice Harding of Provo, Jamboree Chairman for the Council, is 260 Scouts and Scouters. To date, the quota has not been filled, with a few places still open. Over-all cost of the trip is$250, exclusive of spending money and uniforms (each boy is expected to have two lamboree uniforms). Ten dollars of this amount must ' be sent to the Council headquarters at Provo with the registration. This, with $30 more due prior to May 1, covers the Jamboree fee. The 260-person delegation from the Council will be organized into seven full Jamboree troops of 33 boys each plus leaders. According to Rulon W. Doman. Council Executive, Ex-ecutive, there will be about one leader for each eight scouts. Leaving Provo June 22, the special spe-cial Jamboree train will make stops at Denver, Chicago where a day, will be spent, Greenfield Village Vil-lage near Detroit for a half day, and Niagra Falls, where the boys will see the falls both in daylight and under lights at night. From there the party will continue con-tinue to Palmyra, N. Y., where the boys will visit the Joseph Smith farm, Sacred Grove, Hill Cumorah, and other points of interest. A special religious meeting- will be held in the grove, with one or more of the D. D. S. Church general gen-eral authorities expected to attend. Two days will be spent in New York, where the Empire State building and other points of interest inter-est will be visited. Plans call for attending major league baseball games at the Yankee Stadium. The train will then move on to Valley Forge for the full week of Jamboree activities. Before proceeding homeward the party will visit Philadelphia, two and a half days will be spent at Washington, D. C, with another religious service scheduled there. A boat ride down the Potomac to George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon will be a side attraction. The train will head west via a southerly route, through Louisville, Louis-ville, Ky.St. Louis. Carthage and Nauvoo (two historical L.D.S. church locations) and then home ward via Pueblo, Colorado and the Royal Gorge. |
