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Show Over 400 Scouts And Leaders To Attend High 0 iiriah Camp On Yellowstone River Week-long Camp To Open Next Man. 1 On Yellowstone River.; Members Of Staff Have Been Selected "Over 400 boy scouts, explorers and their leaders are expected to register in Monday, June 25, for the 1956 High Uintah Scout Camp on the Yellowstone River as six days of .fun and adventure get underway un-derway as part of the largest, most well planned scout camp ever staged in the Uintah Basin becomes a reality", states Rowan C. Stutz, Camp Committee Chairman. A staff of twelve adults and 15 explorers will be on hand Monday Mon-day morning to greet the campers, assign camping spots and get the .fcamp program underway. Camp j director will be .RuI.on Dean Skin-ner, Skin-ner, Field Scout Executive. Rowan C. Stutz, who has headed the planning plan-ning for the camp will have the role of assistant camp director once the camp is officially opened. Membe-rs of the adult staff will include Rowan C. Stutz, Elvin O. Barker. Neill C. Jensen and Dr. I John E. Smith of Duchesne; I James E. Bacon. SDencer Sauire. Max Todd and Rulon Dean Skinner of Roosevelt;, Glen Mohlman and W. Grant Peel of Altamont; La-Rell La-Rell Anderson and Jack F. Dexter Dex-ter of Vernal. Flag Will Fly Monday afternoon after the camp is fully established, activities acti-vities will center around the waterfront and fishing. The 10-foot 10-foot American flag flying when the first camper arrives Monday morning will be lowered in color ful ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Monday evening the campfire will be under the direction of the camp director, Rulon Dean Skinner. Skin-ner. Tuesday m o r ni n g explorers wishing to make the 25 mile, three day trail experience will be given their final instructions by James E. Bacon explorer activities chairman, chair-man, before they head up Swift creek to upper lakes of the High Uintah's, where fishing is king. Only boys 14 years of age and over will be allowed to make the trip. The comp Committee is furnishing furn-ishing leadership for the 3-day high adventure. Meanwhile, at the base camp, the younger scouts will be receiving re-ceiving instructions in second class, first class and merit badbe requirements. Members of the Junior Staff have been preparing for nearly four weeks to make the second and first class activities activi-ties real experiences. Learn To Advance Each moming on Tuesday, Wed-! Wed-! nesday and Thursday will be spent learning the skills needed to advance ad-vance a rank while at camp. Badges will, be awarded at the four district Court of Honor Friday, Fri-day, June 29. The public is in-I in-I vited to visit camo on Friday. Fun activities of fishing, swimming, swim-ming, boating, archery, horseshoe horse-shoe pitching, etc. will get a workout work-out each day from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. troops and posts of the Uintah Basin will compete in the building of monkey bridges and signaling towers. Montwel, troop 262, will be using homemade home-made ropes to build their monkey bridge. Other units will have their own inventions. A visit to the camp by one of the LDS General. Authorities Tuesday Tues-day evening and for campfire will climax the second day in camp, Wednesday's scoutcraft contests will center around first aid, relay re-lay and morse code signaling. Campfire that night will be presented pre-sented by Lee Kay of the Utah State Fish and Game Department. To Display Talents Tent pitching, bread making and (Continued on Back Page) I ; I -t ' - . ' ! t WHERE SCOUTS WILL SWIMM This beautiful man-made reservoir will supply many activities for the approximately 400 Boy '. Scouts who will be found at the High Uintah Camp June 25-30. It is known as the Yellowstone Reservoir and supplys water for Moon Lake Electric Hydro-plant on the Yellowstone River. HIGH UINTAH SCOUT CAMP (Continued from Page 1) fire-building will see the climax to the scoutcraft contests among the troops and posts on Thursday. Each unit will display it's cultural cul-tural talents in the big talent show Thursday evening. Friday will be visitors day in camp and parents and friends are invited to spend the day with their sons in the camp. Camp-fire Camp-fire Friday evening will climax the formal activities of the giant camp. Saturday morning units will quickly make the city of 400 disappear into the natural surroundings sur-roundings with little evidence being left to indicate the High Uintah Scout Camp had been held there. In impressive ceremonies, camp awards will be presented and "Old Glory" lowered just before be-fore noon June 30 to officially end the 1956 High Uintah Camp. Boy scouts and explorers this week are completing preparations for the big camp. One of the main items is a personal physical examination within the last week prior to the camp. Doctors of the basin will be on hand as a service to boyhood during the camp to maintain the health of each camper.. camp-er.. Doctors Will Respond Drs. John E. Smith, Harb Fowler and Paul. G. Stringham will each spend two days at the camp operating op-erating the camp hospital. Council visitors for Friday's giant Court of Honor will be W. W. Clyde, Springville, who is president pres-ident of the Utah National Pars Council and Floyd Loveridge, Provo, who is Scout Executive. Both men were loud in their praise of the 1955 High Uintah Camp held at Bennion Park. Fee for the camp has been maintained main-tained at $1.50 of which 500 will go to cover a camp health and accident insurance. Two requirements have been listed for those that attend the camp: 1 that every boy is a registered reg-istered scout or explorer and 2 that every unit has adult leadership leader-ship at all times during the camp. Cooking for the camp has been planned on a patrol and crew basis with practical experience being secured by every camper under the direction of the unit leaders. Two Boats Provided The Utah National Parks Council Coun-cil office at Provo has provided the camp with two , 20-man rubber rub-ber boats, 10 one-man rubber boats, two bows with arrows, handicraft material to sell, and badges for the giant four-district Court of Honor. Explorers not participating in the trail experience will have activity ac-tivity in the vast program provided pro-vided in the camp experiences, states James E. Bacon, explorer activities chairman. Heavy emphasis em-phasis is being placed this year on the explorer program. President Wm. Wallis, Uintah LDS Stake President, reports he plans to spend at least a day and night visiting with the LDS scouts ' and explorers from Uintah stake. Members of the 1956 Junior staff are: Orin Barker, Leon Moon, Jerry R. Moon of Duchesne; Robert Rob-ert Tanner, Arcadia; Pete Nyberk, Mt. Home; Carl Mohlman, Altamont; Alta-mont; Gene Berrett, Bluebell;. Noil Anderton, Charles Timothy of 1 Roosevelt; DeLoy Squire, Ballard; Jerry Murray, Myton; Bruce Fris-by, Fris-by, Larry Pope, DeNile Williams, of VeVrnal and Mike Borden of ' Bonanza. These explorers received receiv-ed their instructions at a special meeting June 1 in Roosevelt. Units who have not registered for the 1956 High Uintah Scout Camp are reminded by the Camp Director that they may do so Monday, June 25, while checking- |
