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Show Boy Scourt Contingent from Japan Makes 2-day Stop in Cedar City ' from Australia also stopped briefly in Cedar City on th same dates on tours of Bryce I Zion and Grand Canyon Na- ! tional Parks. In addition several other pri I vate groups of scouts and ! scouters ave toured the area while in this section of the United States. to Cedar City as a stopping off point for National Parks in this section of the west. After Af-ter arriving Wednesday the group left Thursday for stops at Cedar Breaks National Monument and on to the Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim. Thursday the group returned to Cedar for another overnight stay at El Escalante dormitories. A group of 320 scouts and scouters from Japan made a ' two night stop at Cedar City this past week in connection with a tour of national parks taken following the World Scouting Jamboree held in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. While in Cedar City Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday evening even-ing they were headquartered at the College of Southern Utah El Escalante dormitories where housing and meal fa-1 cilities were provided. The contingent, including 61 scout leaders and 256 scouts, I were under the direction of Tomezo Ike, a lawyer in Tokyo, Tok-yo, Japan, who also served as a member of the executive board of directors of the National Na-tional Headquarters, Boy-Scouts Boy-Scouts of Japan and a Chairman Chair-man of Tokyo Council of the Boy Scouts of Japan as well. ! In an interview with Mr. Ike, his thanks for the hospitality hospi-tality shown to the group while in the southern Utah area particularly and during their entire stay in the United States, were expressed. Following the World Jamboree Jam-boree the contingent from Japan, Ja-pan, made up of top scouters from throughout that country extended their stay in the United States with extensive touring. Enroute from Idaho the group visited in Yellowstone i National Park and the Grand Tetons National Park. They spent a day in Salt Lake City prior to continuing Friday they were enroute again, this time for Zion National Na-tional Park then on to Las Vegas, Nov. Final destination was San Francisco, where the scout delegation del-egation will board various flight of tho Japanesse Airlines Air-lines for the return trip to their homeland. Asked if the group, made up principally of boys 13 through IS years of of age, had showr any signs of homesickness, Mr. Ike indicated that they ; were too interested in the sights and the experiences at this point. One of the difficult problems of handling the contingent was the flight from Japan to the United States. Transportation was provided by the Japan Airline, but a chartered flight was not scheduled. The boys left in small groups at intervals inter-vals on separate regularly scheduled flights arriving at San Francisco at different times. Not until they reached the site of the World Jambore( did they assemble togethe again as a group. The return flight from San Francisco to Tokyo will be a duplication of that effort. Mr. Ike said. While on the post Jamboree tour transportation is being provided through Continental Trailways bus. The Japanese contingent is only one of several touring scouts groups traveling through Cedar City following the jamboree. A delegation |