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Show 'Kolob District Scout Gives Report Of Trip To Valley Forge Jamboree lws who went to the Jamboree at Valley Forge were Wi ford Manwaring, Lewis Cutler leaders; Jen Si Richard Clyde, Roger Clyde, Mark Hoover, Senear the Valley Forge Memorial church. Apostle Bennion was the principal speaker. In the afternoon there was a bell dedication service at the same place by the Utah group. That evening there was a pageant in the arena. On the 4th of July some of the Springville boys went into Philadelphia Phila-delphia where they enjoyed a base ball game between the Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Boston Red Sox. We were back in camp in time to see the pageant and to hear General D. Eisenhower that evening. After the program we watched the fire works. It was a grand display. On July 5 all of the Utah scouts went into Philadelphia and took a walking tour of the city guided by a 11-year-old boy. We saw the real Liberty Bell in Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House and many other interesting shrines. We marched from the campsite at Valley Forge and boarded our train- at midnight July 6. By six the next morning we were in our national capital. From our hotel in Washington, D. C, we took a bus tour of the city, visiting the capi-tol capi-tol building, passed the Pentigon Building, to Arlington National Cemetery and on to Mt. Vernon. From Mt. Vernon we returned by boat on the Patomic River. The next day some of us visited Washington Wash-ington Monument, Lincoln Memorial Mem-orial and the LDS church, where we held services. Another interesting interest-ing stop was at the Federal Bureau Bur-eau of investigation. At 5 p.m. we boarded our train to start the return journey. I think Washington was the most beautiful beauti-ful and most interesting city we visited. The only stop of importance we made on the return trip was in St. Louis, Missouri. We arrived home at 2 p.m. July 12. ROGER CLYDE Louie Thorn, Brent Haymona. Douglas Poulsen, Arnold Wilson, gene Wilson, LaVar Felix David Haymond, Donald Watts, Bert Gividen, Norman Young, Wei Wentz, Charles Wentz, Drexei Pate. On June 22 we left Provo on a train loaded with scouts and their leaders from Salt Lake and Utah National Parks Council. We were fortunate to be able to ride m an air conditioned pullman car all the way. We enjoyed the beautiful mountain scenery and many tunnels tun-nels between here and Denver over the D. & R. G. W. route. By the time we were in Nebraska Ne-braska the Union Pacific PuUnian cooks were on strika but that did not bother us. In fact, we had one of our best meals because of the strike. Arrangements were made for us to leave the train and to have dinner prepared by the ladies of the Lutheran church in one of the towns in Nebraska. We thought Chicago was interesting inter-esting We were taken on a sightseeing sight-seeing tour of the city which took us to the Planaterium, Field Mus-elm Mus-elm and some world's fair exhibits. Greenfield Village near Detroit was one of the most interesting places we visited on the trip. At the village Henry Ford has preserved pre-served the laboritories an invention inven-tion of Thomas A. Edison for all to see. The Ford Co. were nice to us. They gave each scout a box lunch in which was a Ford car in miniature. From Detroit the train took us through a part of Canada between Lake Huron and Lake Erie to Niagara Nia-gara Falls. It was about 6 p.m. when we arrived at the Canadian side of the falls so we saw both sides of the fals at sunset and at night. The next morning we had breakfast break-fast at the Eastman Kodak Co. plant in Rochester, N. Y. It is the largest kodak plant in the world. The plant employes about 48,000 people. Our tour of the plant was another interesting trip. After we had our lunch we went back to the train and on to Palmyra, N. Y. We were taken by bus from Palmyra to the home of Joseph Smith then on to the Hill Cumorah and the Sacred Grove. The LDS missionaries conducted a testimony testi-mony meeting at the grove. The scouts all participated. Early the next morning we arrived ar-rived in New York City. It was interesting to see the city just when the streets were practically deserted and the city still asleep. From the Lincoln Hotel where we stopped we took a bus tour of the city and a boat trip around Manhattan Man-hattan Island. That night some of us went to a show in Radio City Music Hall. The next morning we toured Rockefeller Center. In the afternoon we went to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium and to Coney Island in the evening. At midnight we were back on our train which took us to Valley Forge Pennsylvania. New York is a wonderful city. We enjoyed the sights very much. It was a thrill to go to the top of the Empire State building and to view the city, but I would hate to live in New York because all the people we saw had sour faces. We set up camp early Thursday morning June 29 at Valley Forge. President Truman spoke to the scouts the evening of June 30. If you have ever sat on the ground on the edge of a crowd of 47,000 boy scouts you will know that we saw and heard very little. We did see the President's car pass by our camp with his escort. Troop 23 (our troop) camped near the supply tents which were a mile from the arena where all the programs were held. There are woods here and there along the small streams and poison ivy grows under all the trees. Only one fellow from Springville got poison ivy but one of the scout leaders from Utah had such a bad dose he had to go to the hospital. Sunday morning July 2, the utah scouts held church services |