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Show Irvine Ranch Is Site . . . Fifty-Seven Scouts, Scouters Leave Saturday For Jamboree Lead Basin Scouts To Jamboree. . . . I ' V s. - p, ;- K r ' s ." ' I 'ti '2, . . . ,1 HOLLIS G. HULLINGER . . . Goes to Jambore as Scoutmaster. I '! PAUL MURPHY . . . Will perform Assistant Scoutmaster's duties. Approximately lifty - seven Boy Scouts from the four Uintah Uin-tah Basin districts and five Scouters will board busses Saturday Sat-urday morning at 7 o'clock and will hit the trail for Southern California and the third National Nation-al Jamboree, which will officially of-ficially open June 17 at historic Irvine Ranch, 40 miles southeast south-east of Los Angeles. Accompanying the Scouts from the Basin will be Hollis G. Hullinger, president of the Roosevelt stake, who will act as Scoutmaster of Troop No. 16, which is composed of boys from Roosevelt, and Clyde E. Merk-Assistant Merk-Assistant Scoutmasters for this troop will be Paul Murphy, Roosevelt, and Clyde E. Mark-ley, Mark-ley, Tridell. From Duchesne district will be Earl Jordan and representing Moon Lake will be Linford Maxfield, of Altonah, who will be assistant scoutmasters scout-masters of another troop which the two districts will be a part of. Information as to the complete com-plete personnel of the other troop was not available at this time. Where a few weeks ago sheep grazed on its 3,000 acres, today hundreds and hundreds of tents are appearing, changing Irvine Ranch into the newest city in the West, where on July 17 it will have a population of 50,000 - All Boys! Every state will be represented. This peaceful rolling land overlooking the Pacific is the site for the third national Boy Scout Jamboree. Scout leaders are working day and night to be ready for J-Day. The Jamboree Jam-boree officially opens July 17, but the Scouts will start pouring pour-ing in by train, auto and bus by July 13. Jamboree City is located on the coast highway. U. S. 101, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles on the way to San Diego. The land of the Irvine Ranch rolls down to the seaside sea-side resort town of Newport Beach where quite a few southern south-ern California millionaires tie up their yachts. Newport Beach, with its population of 12,000, sprawls along; the beach for (Continued on back Dage) Scout Jamboree. . (Continued from oaee 1) about eight miles. Nearest large city is 50,000-plus Santa Aana, five miles inland. It is a colorful location. From the Jamboree acres you can view the dark blue ocean, the yachts in Newport Harbor and the white houses of the town. The beach is within easy hiking distance. The Scout camp has been divided di-vided into 36 large sections each to accomodate 34 troops. Each troop will have four patrols pa-trols of eight Scouts each, a senior patrol leader, scribe, quartermaster, two assistant scoutmasters and a scoutmaster. scoutmas-ter. Each section will be a self-sustaining self-sustaining village, with a health lodge, headquarters, comjsnis-sary, comjsnis-sary, equipment tents, post office of-fice and shower facilities. In all there will be 1,242 troop campsites, each 90 by 90 feet. P. S. for parents: The camp will have its own telephone system and the number will be: "Newport BeachTTSi boree 1953 ' Calif, ti V EDITOR'S N0Tp s 31 1 names of the Bov TAl1 f-mg f-mg the trip fr0ymS were unavailable ? tne Bs-if Bs-if the ffirfit quired, a complet? ! n published neSWlJ |