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Show Scout Camps Are ! Planned For The ! Various Districts Utah National Parks council Boy Scouts camps are conducted to give the Scouts the maximum of development and pleasure at a minimum expense. The whole period per-iod of camp is one great adventure, adven-ture, filled with the romance of Scouting. The Scouts will meet other boys, belonging to troops away from his district, or home town, and will come back to his parents with a new zeal, a new determination de-termination to live the Scout oath and law in his home. Besides the intimate contact with their Scoutmaster, who is directly responsible for their welfare, the boys will come in contact with many fine men on the camp staff. This adds the force of example to the uplifting teachings they receive. re-ceive. Each Scout furnishes his own: shelter, bedding and equipment. He provides his own food, much of which is garden produce that he isj expected to raise himself and assist ' in its preparation at camp. A j small camp fee is exacted to cover i expenses of members of the staff. 1 In order to insure the boy's health while in camp, a health examination ex-amination by a competent physician physi-cian is required. The drinking water at each camp is tested for purity and a doctor or skilled first ajjl man is present during the week encampment. A full program of activities is supervised by the Scoutmasters and members of the camp staff. This includes hikes, nature study, handicraft work, games, Scout advancement ad-vancement and campfire programs. The schedule for the remaining camps is as follows: Cove mountain moun-tain and Navajo lake camps, July 0-11; Uintah Basin and Puffer's lake camps, July 13-18; Manti national na-tional forest camp, July 20-25, and Timpanogos camp, July 20-25 and July 27-August 1. |