Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-13 | Page 13 | Scout Contingent Home from Capital Jamboree

No Place Like Home for Utah Troops j fj. h- rr ,v rJ? i .. r,i0 TIRED, BUT HAPPV, 90 SALT LAKE ClTY SCOUTS RETURN FROM U. S. JAMBOREE Orval V. Adams, Salt Lake City banker, helps his son, Foster, left, lug baggage; family reunion: R. II. Hansen, scoutmaster, greets his wife; "Hello, Daddy," sang Charles, 20-month-old son of Charles Geurts, assistant scoutmaster, at D. It R. G. W. depot Scout Contingent Home From Capital Jamboree Ability to Swap Successfully Provided Fun and Plaudits for Utahns Ninety Salt Lake City Boy Scouts arrived home Tuesday morning morn-ing from the first annual Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington, D. C, each basking in the scouting limelight for their bartering activities. The contingent arrived over the Denver A Rio Grande Western railroad. rail-road. Aboard the train also were 28 scouts from Ogden and 42 from Logan. The Salt Lake City khaki clad scouters, reported D. E. Hammond, scout executive, who was In charge of the three-week excursion, won a host of admirers. 1. They had the most unique things to trade.. , 2. Their stockade camp was acclaimed as typical of pioneer design. j.... ... 3. Their ability to serve as genial pioneer hosts to visitors in camp. The local scouts took along about 1000 copper neckerchief slides to the nation's capital. Trading Began "As soon as camp opened." Mr. Hammond said, "news leaked out and trading started." The slides, in form of a covered wagon, were presented to the local scout council by the Utah Copper company. The local scouts bartered with scouts from this country and abroad. The local council's design of the camp resembled a pioneer double circle stockade. Large clusters of Utah sagebrush enhanced the pioneer pio-neer scene, as did rustic seats, huge outdoor fireplaces, willow beds and wooden equipment The Utah scout contingent consisted con-sisted of 250 youths. The Utah national na-tional narka fnnnril rnmnrli.H nf 116 scouts, returned to Provo Tues- day morning, headed by A. A. An-: An-: derson, Provo scout executive. This group was the largest from Utah and the only one which took a special spe-cial train. 10 Go to Holland Ten Utah scouts continued on to Holland, where they will partlcinate in the international jamboree. Two of the youths Knight Kerr and Hugh B. Brown Jr are from Salt Lake City. They will remain for nearly a month. Two scoutmasters and four assistants as-sistants aided Mr. Hammond in Washington. A scout band was on hand at the depot to serenade the weary travelers trav-elers when they arrived. A crowc1 in excess of 500 also was present