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Show FUTURE FARMERS PLAN VACATION TRIP. TO CALIF. BEAUTY SPOTS June 5, 1935 has been definitely defin-itely set as the date for the beginning of the annual summer outing trip of the Dixie Chapter, Future Farmers of America. Thirty-six members of the chapter chap-ter will make the trip which will be under the direct supervision super-vision of the chapter officens and P. D. Spisbury, agricultural instructor in-structor at Dixie Junior college. President B. Glen Smith and six or seven fathers have accepted ac-cepted invitations to accompany the chapter and will assist in supervision of the trip, which will be made in a large school bus. The boys have been saving nickels, dimes and quarters since last fall when school began and the trip was first discussed. The sionev deposited at the prese"1 time is close to the two hundred dollar mark. Boys selected to :go will be those who have taken part in chapter activities and have done good work in their school studies. The cost of the trip will be such that nearly every member of the chapter who has missed a show now and then and deposited the money with the chapter treasurer will be able to go. The trip will be largely a camping trip, with stops at tourist camps where necessary, being paid for out Of the chapter fund's. The itinerary of the trip is as follows: June 5, Leave St. George early, drive by way of Ias Vegas to Mono Lake. California, where camp will be made in time for a swim in the lake before supper. sup-per. Vosemite National Park. June 6, View the highest water fall in the world. 1 430 feet, the "Big Trees," the world's oldest living things, wild hoar and deer in their native haunt", fire falls at night from the highest peak in the park. facramento Valley, June 7. Drive down the rich agricultural i section of Sacramento Valley to California's capitol, near Davis, where the agricultural cxpTimr-iit station is located, whre Captain Sutter discovered gold in 1 84 9. Petaluma, the world's most important im-portant poultry pr'during renter. ren-ter. Visit the hatcheries and silk factories. Reach San Francisco Fran-cisco that night. San Francisco, June 8, Gold-n Gate park with its thousands of animals in the famous Park Zoo. Mare Island. (Continued on page four) F. F. A. TRIP where the navy is building ships. ,San Quentin prison. Lmers and shipping 'from the Orient New Zealand, and Hawaii. Union Stock yards, home of the Interstate Inter-state Livestock show. China town to see, hear and smell Chinese. Japanese Sunken Garden. Flower Flow-er market and other sights including in-cluding Market street, busiest street in America. Palo Alto and Berkeley, June 9 Visit the University of California Calif-ornia and Stanford university, where Herbert Hoover lives. San Pedro and Santa Monica, June 10, Visit one of Uncle Sam's warships, at San Pedro. San Luis Obispo, where is located old Spanish Mission built m 1772. Rich orange groves and beaches along way. Beach bathing bath-ing in the ocean. Hollywood. Mount Wilson observatory at night to view the heavens through the telescope, largest in the world. Las Angeles, June 11, Lion, ostrich, alligator iarrns, and the famous Kellog farm, where are kept some of the best trained Arabian horses in the world. Great Western Livestock show and stockyards. Long Beach oil wells. i Catalina, June 12, Trip to the Catalina Islands by steamer or launch. Trip over marine gardens gar-dens at Island in glass-bottomed boat to see sea plants and fishes in large numbers. If trip is made in launch, part of the day will be spent in deep eea fishing for barracuda, jew fish, yellow tail, tuna, and white sea bass. San Diege, June 13, Pacific Internaional exposition at Balboa Park, 1400 acre zoo. Marine base End navy aviation base. Ocean shipping and lumber factories. Agua Caliente, Mexico with visit to Tia Juana race track. See interesting Mexican life. iSan Bernardino, June 14, Orange Or-ange show and igroves of orange trees. Las "Vegas, Boulder Dam, St. George that night. Each boy will take two blankets blan-kets with him and what food he cares to take from home up to twenty-five pounds including the blankets. A swimming suit will j be very much in demand for I swimming in the ocean, at deslg- nated swimming beaches. The trip will be approximately 2000 milee in length. |