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Show :."... ... " - 4. " .' j jj - ; nn Hiked from a food, clothing, and camping gear stijffed into a bearded man named Vern Carroll knbw&verytepoHhe-wayibficauseJirecently, golf cart, but he switched to" a shoulder pack on the Alcan Highway: "All along the Way people offered to pick me up, but when I explained I was walking in behalf of the Boys' Clubs, theyd wish me well and go ahead," says CarrollrIn fact, the only problem I had was dpgs they're riot always as friendly as people!" His most memorableexperience was in the Yukon. Picking berries one day, he glanced up to spy a beaiv foraging in the same bushes. "I moved onfhe., admits. Other times, incessant rains' washed out his camp site, and he spent the nights trying to get warm and dry, "As he goes through life, everyjnan has to take some bitter with the sweety" Carroll wrote the Dubuque Club from Alaska. "When you can do that, it makes a good man out of you, and I know all you lads will be real men some day." The walk from state No. 29ostate No. 49 Iowa to Alaska jsysome 4,000 miles,-b- ut e - ' " - if . v l ' A covered iton foot. He went from Dubuque to Fairbanks, a march lasting almost five months, during which he slept under bridges and in culverts and enjoyed such delicacies as moose, porcupine, and wild berries ht when his groceries gave out adventure" and I wonderful It wasiawild. vhad a good, rough time of it," says Carroll. "The" outdoor life made me feel like3lrnan of 20 again; and I'd do it oyer if itU help the boys." former 'The boys" of whom the truck driver speaks are the youngsters whoar members oFooys' Clubs of America. Carroll, a volunteer worker in the Dubuque Club, staged , his trek to dramatize the need'f or a club tobe established in Alaskartne only state which doesn't have one. 'Orphaned as a boy himself, Carroll declares, "I've always been interested in kidsj'and while I've seen evil men I've never et a bad child." The hiker started from Dubuque with some - store-boug- w "Ax . 49-year-- J S ft u The pause that refreshes Carroll l iscrchange of footgea old -- already has borne fruit: anncnorage business- man named ftenry .Wolffnas donated land for and a number of carAlaska's first Boys'-Clupenters have Volunteered to erect the building. . b, i iTxiiMi) '( sit - v'P v j'-- ' f QESBBR) y S pray w th i mm f wiioa (BllSXHMi) QSSB WEED-B-60- N Weeds killed with Improved r :. Hormone ingredients 2, force weeds to and 2, 4, grow old and die from the roots up: Tough weeds may take two WEEOT-G0NlldirrgT6Wtia- 4-- D Cr iki bROVE D 5-- T applications but you don't bend over oncei Use the ORTHO Lawn Sprayer attached to your hose and weeding is .as easy as watering. Economical, too costs less than two cents 'f ""' per 100 square; feet fo roofout"wecds with WEEDB-GO- N. WEED-B-GO- N roots out poison oak and poison, ivy, too!. IV. California Spray-Chemic- al Corp. A subsidiary of California Chemical Co. Richmond, Calif., Waahlngton, b.C, Atlanta, Ga. t n.' Bca. u.t. Mt. orr.i on, ootho |