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Show Five County Scouts Prepare for national Jamboree Four Cedar City boys and one from Enterprise are making plans to attend the Fourth National Na-tional Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., in July of 1957. The boys who are plannin" on making the trip are A. Leon Matheson, G. Allen Froyd. Jay L. McClellan and Kent V. Farnsworth, Cedar City, and LaVon Randall, Enterprise. Enter-prise. Two and a half weeks of sightseeing sight-seeing tours, adventure, pageantry, pag-eantry, scouting skills and brotherhood bro-therhood with 50,000 boys from around the globe, will add to their preparation for citizenship and responsibilities of tomorrow. Chicago, Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, and Nagara Falls; Palmyra. Pal-myra. N. Y. with visits to Hill Cumorah. Sacred Grove, and Joseph Jos-eph Smith Farm; New York City with tours around Manhattan Island, Is-land, Statue of Liberty. Empire State Building, Radio City; Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, the "Cradle of Liberty." Liber-ty." Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Carpenter's Hall. Betsy Ross Home; Washington, D. C, the Nation's Capital; Washington Washing-ton Memorial. Pentagon Building. Build-ing. Lincoln's Tomb; all of these historical and national shrines I will be visited by our boys. In addition to the above, six days will be spent at Valley Forge, camped at the very spot 'where General Washington 1 camped the American Forces dur-I dur-I lng that eventful winter of 1775-1776. 1775-1776. A boy's schooling In Amer-I Amer-I lean Heritage could be obtained obtain-ed in no better way than with a buddy In the uniform of the Boy Scouts of America to remind them of their inheritance as citizens cit-izens of this great land of ours and as participants of the world's greatest brotherhood guided and encouraged by the Scout Oath and Law. six days of companionship with thousands thous-ands of other scouts, exchanging exchang-ing of ideas, skills, home town products, home made handicrafts nd greater still, mutual under-standing under-standing for one another. Word is received from Floyd Loveridge, scout executive, that a few additional places are now available on a "first come, first served" basis. To qualify, a boy must have reached his twelfth birthday by Jan. 1, 1957, and be a First Class Scout or Apprentice Explorer by July 1, 1957. Any boy meeting these requirements is eligible to attend the jamboree and is encouraged to send $25 reservation fee to the office of the Utah National Parks Council, Coun-cil, Box 106, Provo, Utah, as soon as possible, said Mr. Loveridge. |