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Show Robert Prince Returns Home After Hitch-Hiking Hitch-Hiking To Provo Friday Safe back home again, and like the run-away boy in James Whit-comb Whit-comb Riley's poem, promising sure "to never run away no more", is Robert (Bobby) Prince, 12-year-old son of Pres. and Mrs. William H. Prince, who gave his parents a long night of anxiety when he took "French leave", during their adsence at the Alumni banquet Friday evening. Filled with adventure ideas gleaned from Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy, and other stor ies, and with ideas of his own, Bobby failed to think of the trouble it might make, when he left home Friday evening, and hitch-hiked a ride with tourists to Provo, telling them he was being be-ing allowed a vacation to visit friends in that city. Word of his absence was brought to President and Mrs. Prince at the Alumni banquet, and with the help of officers the parents and other relatives combed the barns and other possible hideouts in and near St. George all through Friday Fri-day night. Bobby had been teasing teas-ing for a vacation to visit a small boy friend in Provo. and with this in mind, Mrs. Prince called the boy's home on the phone at 7 a.m., Saturday morning, happy to learn that her son had been safely delivered de-livered to their door that morning morn-ing and was sleeping. Learning of the boy's whereabouts. where-abouts. Scout Director Roy A. Passey, of Mt. Timpanogas Scout council, gathered Bobby in and returned him to his parents at 1 a. m., Sunday. |