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Show HURRICANE FUTURE FARMERS MAKE TOUR OF CALIF. BEAUTY SPOTS By : Sylvan Wittwer I'resSdent, Hurricane F. F. A. May 31 marked the completion of possibly the most outstanding tour ever attempted in Hurricane. Hurri-cane. Beginning Thursday, May 23, the trip lasted over a period of nine days and was under the general supervision of the chapter chap-ter advisor Elmer A. Graff. The tour covered a distance of over 2300 miles, and was financed with a cost of five dollars per person. A total of thirty-four persons attended on the trip, including two fathers, John Judd j and Arthur Woodbury., The i chapter was also honored by the i presence of Wayne Hinton. In addition to the truck driver, Dar-: Dar-: win Stratton, the following boys attended on the trip: I Sylvan Wflttwer, Hal Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, Marlowe Wood, Lawrence Hinton, Evans Woodbury, Gerald Stout, David Ruesch, Arlon Hall, Merlin Hirschi, Ned Wright, Paul Sullivan, Ray Spendlove, Keith I Barber, Gladen Dalton, Lloyd Wood, Stanford Spendlove, Mads Gibson, Lloyd Sandberg, Alma 1 Cox, Ashby Reeve, Ward Bal-I Bal-I lard, Clive Woodbury, Robert Judd, Floyd Bradshaw, Kenyon Graff, Carlon Hilton, Wilden Tweedie, Dee Callahan, and Elton El-ton Stout. The boys were instructed to pair off and each two boys were allowed four blankets, a suit case and a small grub box. These articles were placed on a support sup-port above the boys' heads, while the passengers rode in comfort underneath. On Thursday, May 23, the opening op-ening day of the tour everybody rose early and we left at fh o'clock in the morning. Everything Every-thing was fine the first day until we reached Las Vegas, where we had car trouble. This bothered bother-ed us until we reached Baker, California, where the trouble was finally remedied. Because of the car trouble we only reached reach-ed Barstow, California the first night, where we camped in the sand and stink bugs. Friday, May 24, we rose early and crossed the Mojave Desert before it became too hot. At the town of Mojave we arrived , at the mountains, and with large I orchards and waving fields of , grain ready to harvest. At Ba-kersfield Ba-kersfield the chief attraction was , the oil fields with the forests of oil derricks. From Bakersfield to Fresno we passed through wonderful orchard country. The I olive, peach,, fig, and walnut orchards were beautiful. The vineyards were marvelous and looked even better and larger ' than the orchards. At Tulare we made a brief stop and went through the park, seeing many I strange anima-ls and birds. At Fresno we headed for Yosemite National Park where we camped the night of the second day. May 25 we spent the early morning in the Park, passing through the beautiful Merced Valley. We were surely thrilled at seeing the highest waterfall in the world; the large redwood trees were also a great attraction. attrac-tion. What interested the fellow? fel-low? most however was the wild bears, the boys got a great 1 "kick" out of chafing them. From Yosemite Park we turned Iwest for Oakland and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Again we parsed through rich orchard country. As we neared the coast we were surprized sur-prized at the change in temperature. temper-ature. The cool ocean breeze was verv chilly and the boys were shivering all during . the --tay in Oakland. In the evening, all' the bovs and fathers took the ferrv across the bay to San Francisco. About two hours were spent sight-seeing in San Francisco, visiting such places as China town. Market street, and other popular places. Nothing Noth-ing very exciting happened in San Francisco except that Ray Spendlove forgot to stay with the crowd and got lost. H was brought back to camp about 12-30 by some policeman who made him promise he would never leave the crowd again. You should have heard the kidnap storv Ray made up." Not onlv did he get lost hut the re- (Contin-jed on las', page) FUTUREFARMERS tural horn detect.ves S 1' Wittwer and Hal Bradshaw left the crowd and were . going to tell the rest where to go- " van and Hal not only lost th m selves but tried to lose the whole group. "The laugh as on them." Mav 2 6 we left Oakland and headed south for Los Angeles. We staved inland several miles and passed through a very fertile fer-tile section. Our first real view of the ocean was at 'San Louis Obispo, where we stopped on the beach and fathered shells. Camps were made just south of Santa Maria. During the entire journey down the beach the weather was cold and foggy. Mav 27 we journeyed down the coast toward Los Angeles. About 9:30 a.m. we stopped at an orange grove where we had our first real fill of oranges and grapefruit. The owner of the orchard was also kind enough to show us his nursery which included all the tropical trees and shrubs growing in. California. Califor-nia. At noon we stopped at the Lion Farm and saw the many lions on exhibit. We also visited a large bird farm a few miles farther south which was also very interesting. In the early afternoon we passed through Hollywood, Hol-lywood, and then through the more thickly populated sections of Los Angeles. In Los Angeles it was necessary to stop at every service station to find which way to go. Camp was made at Long Beach, where we hired cabias I for the first time and had a good nights rest. I Mjay 28 in the early morning ' we went down to the ocean and viewed the docks; saw the ships loading and unloading freight. We next went through the Fori I factory and saw the assembling of the parts. In the afternoon we went to the beach and had a fine swim. The evening of the same day we loaded on the baggage and headed for San Diego, Die-go, reaaching Old Town 3an Diego at almost sun down, where we camped for the night. May 29 the entire group went out to San Diego Bay and visited the docks; saw some of the large battleships. We next visited the airplane factory which was very interesting and educational. The remainder of the day we spent at the Fair. Some of boys did n't have very much money when they entered, but they had considerably con-siderably less when thev came out. The fair was wondrful and enjoyed very much by all of the boys. One thing, howev-! howev-! er, which attracted " the fellows, and which was considered not ' entirely desirable, was the nudist nu-dist colony. r May 30-31 was spent on the , homeward journey. A't Las Ve-tas Ve-tas we went through the ice . plant, and then saw the Boulder . Dam which- was almost finished. ; We reached home in the middle . of the afternoon of the ninth . day. i This tour sponsored by the Hurricane Chapter of Future Farmers Far-mers was the first to be under- taken by the organization, and , was a decided success. The boy;; all expressed their desires to . make the summer tour an annual an-nual affair in the future. The trip was made without accident or sickness and was thoroughly enjoyed by all in attendance. With an average 'cost of less than twelve dollars per person for the entire trip. |