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Show Scouts Get Thrills, Thirst, At Salt Lake Encampment By JIM MUNCEY Twenty boys from the Milford Boy Scout Troop 324, two Min-j ersville Scouts, and 12 boys from) Beaver, accompanied by, six! leaders, comprised the Beaver I District Trnnn nt tho TTtcV, r- tennial Scout camp. A good time was had by all altho the campsite was in bad shape when the boys arrivied. Grass and sagebrush was over a foot high and had to be cleared before camp could be set up Each troop had an area 100 by 100 feet. 1 Milford boys left at 7 a. m. Saturday, picking up the Minersville Min-ersville and Beaver boys on the way, and arrived at Camp Williams Wil-liams about 4:45, where the entire en-tire Utah National Parks Council was encamped until Monday morning. Church services were held at Camp Williams Sunday after which the boys practiced singing and marching. The boys arrived at the Centennial Cen-tennial Camp about 11 a. m. Monday, and cleared off the camp site and set up camp, and went to the East High stadium that evening for a huge campfire nrnpram whinh inplnrlorl the. Scouts from Canada and Mexico singing the favorite songs of their nations. Tuesday, the boys wept on a 100-mile trip, which included the state capitol, a swim in Salt Lake, a trip to Bingham Canyon, where a brief talk was given them on the working of the largest larg-est open-pit copper mine in the world, and then to the midway at the Exposition, where they had a great time. Tuesday night they wjre to see "Promised Valley," Val-ley," but while marching to the U Stadium they encountered a cloudburst and were wet to the skin, so didn't get to see it that night. Wednesday the boys led the large parade and wore blisters on their feet, after which they went to the tabernacle and listened lis-tened to a fine program, including includ-ing the organ recital. That aft- ernoon they were free to roam over town, which most of them did, and in the evening they went to see "Promised Valley." Thursday the boys were to attend at-tend the dedication of the "This Is the Place" monument. The dope was we were to have the choice seats, but the "choice seats" turned out to be a hillside of tumble weeds and sun flowers. flow-ers. The boys were marched to the monument at 8:45 a. m., with the services starting at 9:30, and had to sit or stand in the hot sun and line up at four water taps (1000 boys to a tap) for drinking water after their hike while the "civilians" sat on chairs and had iced water from Lyster bags served them in paper cups. A few ice cream boys broke thru and sold 5c Milk Nickels to the Scouts for 10c but the officials stopped the sellers, so the Scouts took French Leave and wandered down to Hogle Gardens, where they could get a drink and sit in the shade. At 11 o'clock, the Scouts were called on to sing their songs, but only about 1,000 boys could be I found. We broke camp at 9 a. m. Friday, Fri-day, arriving at home about 6 o'clock that evening. A good time was had by all, and everyone every-one enjoyed the camp, tho we do feel they could have provided a better campsite, and shown a little more consideration for the comfort of the Scouts, who added materially to their parade, and their "show" generally. |