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Show Bridger Group Elects Officers Officers for the tenth annual Bridged Hike, to be conducted in August, 1945, by the Cache Valley Boy Scout Council, were announced an-nounced Monday when 72 members mem-bers of this year's party returned to Logan after an eight day trip into Wyoming's Windriver mountains. moun-tains. Henry R. Cooper, principal of the Woodruff school, Logan, was named "Jim Bridger", succeeding L. A. Ripplinger, Logan, at elections elec-tions conducted during the final campfire program. Dr. Joel E. Ricks, professor of history at Utah State Agricultural college, was namd "Old Man of the Mountains," while Bob Murray, Mur-ray, Logan, Laron Brite, Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, and John Kovach, Rock Springs, Wyo., won the honor of ''Bridger scouts." "Hill Billies" for the 1945 expedition, ex-pedition, sponsored by the Cache Valley Boy Scout council, will be Kenneth Glauser, and George Everton, Logan, with J. Howard Maughan, Logan, and Van Ness Hansen, Preston, as loggers. Winners of various contests were announced as follows: Fishing, Cecil James, Rock Springs, who caught a 5-pound California golden trout; Wisker growing, Newell Cahoon and Paul Murray, Logan; walking cane building, Laurn Crookston, Logan, who carved a "bridger rattler," with a ' rattle representing each of the nine past hikes. |