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Show Instructors from Washington, Washing-ton, Iron, Beaver and Millard Mil-lard Counties Meet for Three Day Jamboree Over two hundred teachers and their partners, (from Washington, Iron, Beaver and Millard counties, coun-ties, enjo3-ed an outing at Zion park Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Sun-day, April 10, 11 and 12. Cars were arriving in the canyon can-yon until midnight Friday and the next morning breakfast was cooked cook-ed over camp fires. Everybody drove vp the canyon Saturday morning and hiked from the end of the road to the Narrows. A number of pictures were taken and on the return trip all rested at the natural stadium. Baseball, horseshoe pitching, cards and visiting were the diversions diver-sions of the afternoon until 5:30, when campfires were started and preparations made for the evening meal and general program. Supper Sup-per consisted of roasted weinies, radishes and ice cream. Earl J. Bleak, from high on the mountain side, played a number of cornet solos, and following this a program pro-gram of music, readings, plays and speaking was participated in by the teachers of the four counties. W. D. Farratt, secretary of the U. E. A., gave an address and commended the teachers on the place of meeting and their help in putting over legislation to better bet-ter conditions. It was recommended that this outing be made an annual afi.'air with the presidents of the local teachers' associations and the superintendents su-perintendents of the four counties as a committee, which suggestion was unanimously accepted. The crowd broke up Saturday evening some leaving the canyon that night, the others remaining until the next day when they enjoyed en-joyed a drive through the Zion-Mt. Zion-Mt. Carmel tunnel. |