Show publisher gives his book to boy scouts the urge to write a love of 0 photography and and agy ogy og and kindred studies and the desire to do a good turn for the boy scouts of millard county all combined to inspire frank beckwith sr editor of the millard county Cronl Cron cle tele at delta to write a book which bears the title millard and nearby having completed the boon book contributed to it many or of his prize photographs assembled during years ears of work in tile the region gone to considerable expense even een to take pictures of important spots from the air mr air beck with ft ath turned the entire work ork over oer to the boy scouts of millard county to publish and sell as a project on which all are to be divided on an approximate 60 50 50 basis between tile doy boy scouts for their sales efforts and their scout council to support scouting activities appreciation to editor beckwith for his work Is pressed expressed ex in a forward of tile the book by the executive officers ot of the boy scouts of mellard county they the say sa I 1 in part mr air frank beckwith senior very ery kindly compiled this material concerning millard and nearby and gave gae his work freely and without thought of recompense to the cause of the boy scouts movement we were very lery fortunate in this indeed tor for his studies of this area have been conducted over oer a period ot of more than thirty years ears exploration inquiry research and much concentrated study of the indians his attitude on the matter was wa the boy scouts are taught to do a good turn well heres a good turn do to them the book just completed and ready tor for sale Is written in language easily read and understood by young oung and old alike and Is made up as a series of tours to points of historical and continued on page tour four publisher gives book continued from page one scenic interest in millard county and the surrounding areat it contains that clipped concise phraseology phrase so of its author that eliat makes any reader at all fai familiar nillar with frank beckwith feel that he must be in the loom speaking to him personally from rom its pages in commenting on the book himself the author says some of the alio pictures are 30 years old I 1 mado made my airplane flights mainly in 1946 at the age of 70 whiskers flung to the breeze and the entire book Is just as breezy as that in spite of the fact that it was completed as its author approaches the age of 72 ive we dare say years of delving into the ilia past have hae madd frank keep young and following lafin in the pages of millard and nearby will ill make inake this the reader feel young too the book was printed by art city publishing company spring ville mile j s T IV 71 4 A 51 U I 1 0 P 4 A E alk n 4 1 z 01 j 4 ZI ilk 0 6 tv va A tw X 2 t it V the guardian of or areat stone jace face one ot of the many points of intel interest est described by author frank beckwith in his book A lillard and nearby its remarkable resemblance to photographs of the mormon pro phet joseph smith makes it of special interest to utah ers photo by frank beckwith |