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Show Springville Scout tells of trip enroufe to national jamboree Editor's Note . , The following well-written descriptive account of the trip being made by a group of Scouts and Explorers, including includ-ing 14 young fellows and two leaders from Springville, to the National Jamboree at Valley Val-ley Forge, will prove interesting interest-ing to every reader here at home. by Larry Cliristensen The Utah National Parks Council contingent of the National Na-tional Jamboree at Valley Forge left from the Salt Lake City Municipal Airport at 8:30 MST bound for New York City, July 10. From the confusion confu-sion of the airport, some semblance sem-blance of order was estab- lished as the tedium of the non-stop flights grew. Food was served in the form of supper sup-per and breakfast, along with juice, by the air line. Early on the morning (6:30 EDST) of the 11th, the two chartered flights touched down at the JFK International Airport, Air-port, and the 247 boys and leaders left from the airport on busses for a general tour of Manhattan. The pride that so many take in their home and city in the outskirts and suburbs su-burbs was evident and some what surprising to many. The first major point of interest was the World's Fair grounds around which the highway described a half circle. The tour included brief glimpses of special buildings, downtown New York, Skid Row (the Bowery) , Greenwich Village, the .waterfront- and- olherso.-.- About 9:00 a.m., the contingent contin-gent checked into the Taft Hotel on Broadway. Directly across the street played, the hit Broadway musical, "Funny Girl" starring Barbara Streis-land. Streis-land. Later on a walking tour to . the United Nations Building Build-ing and still- later to the Empire Em-pire State Building, topped off the day. During the whole week preceeding the arrival at (continued on page 8, col. 5) Springville Scout tells of trip (continued from page one) Valley Forge, the places where we have eaten have not been duplicated in use more than twice. Early Sunday morning we again left the hotel and walked to the waterfront, where we embarked .upon a ferryboat tour to tiie Statue of Liberty and on around Manhattan Man-hattan Island. Sights included Welfare Island, Yankee Stadium, Sta-dium, the former site of the Polo Grounds, innumerable bridges, and Central Park. The following morning, after esating breakfast at the In-ternation In-ternation Restaurant in the Rockefeller - Center, we walked through St. Patrick's Cathedral Cathed-ral across the street. Later on we left by subway for the World's Fair grounds where rain caused many ' to buy plastic raincoats immediately, after which the rain stopped almost completely. The troops broke up into smaller groups to tour the exibits. About nine o'clock in the evening we returned re-turned by subway to Grand Central Station, and from there to points closer to the hotel, after which we ate. (continued next week) |