Show delta editor writes book on A 11 millard and nearby 1 1 1 41 al 1 Z 4 ta 1 q f N 3 NY N 0 O pa P 4 V k 0 wl 1 kaka RO V W n 34 wa W the urge to write a love of photography photograph yand 1 and archaeology and kindred studies and tho the desire to do a good turn for the boy scouts of millard county alt all combined to inspire frank beckwith senior editor of the millard county chronicle at delta to write a book which blitch bears the title millard and nearby haying having completed the book contributed to it many of ills his prize photographs assembled during years of work in the region gone to considerable expense even to take pictures of at important spots from the alir aari mr air beckwith turned the entire work over to td the boy scents of millard county to publish and sell as a project on which all profits are to be divided on an approximate 60 50 60 50 basis between the boy scouts tor for their sales efforts and their scout council to support scouting activities appreciation to editor beckwith for his work wark Is expressed in a forward of the book by the exec autive officers of the boy scouts of millard county th y say in part mr frank beckwith senior very kindly compiled this material concerning millard and nearby and gave his work freely and without thought though tot of recompense to the cause of the boy scout movement in ent weare very fortunate in this indeed for hla lils studies of this a urea have been conducted over a period of more than thirty years exploration inquiry research and much concentrated study of at the indiana ills his attitude on oil the matter was tho the DoyS boy scouts couta are taught to do a good turn 11 well heros a good turn dono done to them the book just completed and ready leady for sale Is written in language easily read mid and understood by young and old alike and Is made up tip as a series of tours to points of historical and scenic interest ter estlin in millard county and the surrounding areas it contains contain s that clipped elip ped concise phraseology so eo its author that makes any reader at all familiar with frank beckwith feel that he ha must bein be in the room speaking to him personally from its pages in commenting on tho the book himself the author says some of the pictures are 30 years old I 1 made my lily air airplane piane flights mainly in ehg at the age of 70 whiskers flung to the breeze and the entire hook book Is just as breezy hs as that in spite ofilio of the tact fact that it was completed as its author approaches the age of 72 we dare say years of il delving elving into tho the past have made frank beckwith keep young and following him bim in the pages of millard and nearby will make the reader feel young too the book was printed by art city publishing company spring ville |