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Show Scouts enjoy two-week National Jamboree stay s - v x . " I ' t 1 I " . e ft '? ' ' - , v . 'T 1 : f " rf ' ! v" J TJ 1 i . . i i- ; ""'1 r . , : .... .. . .. ... . .. , t .. ... . t - r " ' - . . . : . - , By GARY LEONARD Three local boys, two of them 0 brothers, recently returned from He National Boy Scout Jamboree fl held at Camp A.P. Hill in Virginia. B Chris and Tony Brereton and A Burk Gurr spent two weeks touring W He nation's capital and attending V He scout jamboree. They returned 0 toe tired and worn out, but ex- 1 died about their experience. n Their troop was divided into four W patrols of eight boys and two adult leaders each and followed a I rigorous schedule during the two rak stay. The day started at 6 rt lin. and, for the first week, usually- teduntilllp.m. , hey were greeted by Utah M Senators Orin Hatch and Jake Gam i and Representative Howard Nielson A and treated to a tour of the White House. Also included were trips to the Smithsonian, Capitol Building, Treasury Building and the Lincoln I and Washington Monuments. 0 "We were kept pretty busy," the leys said. S Tony was impressed with the J treasury and printing of money. "All that monev." he said, "and I Besides sharpening their scouting skills, they were able to make new friends and meet people from other parts of the country and world. All of the boys agree that meeting new people was one of the best parts of the whole trip. Trading seemed to be one of the busiest activities at the . jamboree. Tony returned home with a box full of different hat pins from all over the country and Chris had a collection of shirt patches. The U.S. Army put on a demonstration of parachuting and displayed several weapons including in-cluding the new Cobra Helicopter. They also provided army field rations, which the scouts ate almost . every day for lunch. Mrs. Reagan visited the camp and spoke on drug and alcohol abuse. Chris was amazed at all the security and said that the scouts enjoyed her talk. The jamboree came to a close with a big bang. A huge fireworks display was set off to close out the weeks activities and 30,000 scouts and 5,000 leaders went their separate ways. Reflecting back on the trip, Chris Chris and Tony Brereton display their souvenirs from the National Scout Jamboree. couldn't have even one sheet." On a trip to Arlington National Cemetary the boys were moved by the precision and solemness of the changing of the guard at the Tomb nt the Unknown Soldier and by the serenity of the eternal flame at Ihegravesite of President Kennedy. One of Chris's favorite pictures is f a young woman grieving for her ted husband at the Viet Nam Memorial. "She was really crying hard," he s, "It's hard to understand." While at the jamboree they had j opportunity to work on merit "dges and attend many seminars. and Tony both agreed on the things that they liked and disliked. They liked the green countryside but disliked the humidity and the cold showers. Both enjoyed the traveling even though it was exhausting at times and both said they would do it again if given the chance. Burk Gurr commented on the trip and perhaps sums it up best. He said, "It's an experience that everyone should have at least once. It's a good chance to make new friends and to actually see things that we had only read about before." |