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Show GREAT WALKER Jack Eldredge, the Philadelphia long-distance walker, who passed through Ogden five years ago on his record-breaking "hike" from Boston to San Francisco, was in Ogden a few minutes yesterday. Ho is en route, by rail, to Los Angeles, from which city he expects to begin a 60-day "hike" to New York City. Eldredge is a bible class leader and a Y. M. C. A. and Boy Scout worker in Philadelphia, and bear the greetings greet-ings of his home scout troop to the 'scouts of the Pacific coa9t He is five feet 10 inches tall, weighs 161 pounds, and is 29 years old, and expects ex-pects to average 55 miles per day, seven days a week, on his return trip |