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Show Scout Leaders Aclaim Eligh Uintah Camp An Outstanding Affair; Smaller Crowd, But Better Records With the satisfaction of an all-"1 time record breaking advancement program the formal ceremonies of the camp was highlighted by the presentation of 588 awards at the Four ' High Uintah Scout Camp Court of Honor June 29 on the banks of the Yellowstone River. The total gives an average of two awards for each of the 287 campers, reports Rowan C Stutz, chairman of the High Uintah Camp committee. Jerry Murray, explorer of Myton My-ton Troop 253, and Donald Heed, evplorer of Post 2252, received their Eagle badges, highest award of the boy scout program, during the giant Court of Honor. Presentation Pre-sentation to Jerry Murray was by Floyd Loveridge, Scout Executive, and to Donald Heed by P. Wendel Josnson, Union High Seminary principal. Expressin the . feeling among officials was Rulon Dean Skinner, Camp director, when he ..said, "When we thought the camp en-'' en-'' rollment would reach 400 we set 500 awards as the high goal for the week of Scouting, but when the participation was only 287 we felt 350 awards would be an outstanding out-standing record for the week. The , 586 awards are more than any of us had ever dreamed possible." Interest was high during the 6-day second Annual High Uintah Scout Camp for the Honor Camp award. First place for the Boy Scout troops in the 1956 Honor Camp Award went to Arcadia. Troop 259, of Duchesne District, with Vernal Fourth, Troop 245, in second place. Hanna, Troop 265, was third; Ioka, Troop 264, was fourth; and' Maeser First, Troop 244. fifth. J Included in the Honor camp award contest were daily inspections, inspec-tions, scoutcraft, contests and demonstrations de-monstrations and advancements. Ballard Post 2t52 of Roosevelt District took the 1956 Honor Camp award honors for Explorers, with Duchesne Post 2268, second, and Tabiona Post 2263, third. A much higher percentage of scouts at the 1956 camp advanced while at camp than during the 1955 High Uintah Camp report camp officials. Uintah District had 37 advance in 1955 and 47 this year; Roosevelt District had 41 in 1955 advancing and increased in-creased to 59 this year; Moon Lake District increased from 41 to 67 this year;, and Duchesne District which led percentagewise percentage-wise both years had 57 advancing advanc-ing last year and 74 this year. Better Counselling Of the advancement at the 1956 High Uintah Camp, the upswing of awards was credited to a much more efficient merit badge counselling coun-selling system at the camp as 491 merit badges were awarded at the June 29 Court of Honor as compared with 178 at the 1955 Camp which had more campers. More units were represented at the 1956 Camp than at the 1955 camp. Forty-eight units attended t this year's camp as compared to 39 for 1955. I Attendance was higher from Duchesne and Moon Lake Districts Dis-tricts for the 1956 camp over lost year's, but much lower from the Roosevelt and Uintah Districts. Dis-tricts. Duchesne District had 71 of its boys of scout age and 27 of its explorers at this year's camp. Moon Lake had 62 of its boys scout age and 11 of its expolorers at the camp while Roosevelt District only had 29 of its boys scout age, but 22 of its explorers attending the 6-day 6-day encampment. Breakdown of attendance at the 1956 High Uintah Camp showed 66 from Duchesne District; 39 from Moon Lake District; 112 from Roosevelt District, and 70 from Uintah District. ' Three-Day Hike Highlight of the week's camp for Explorers was a three-day trail experience made by' 36 explorers ex-plorers and leaders from the base High Uintah Camp on the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone River to the Upper lakes of the High Uintahs. All explorers explor-ers caught their limit of fish and reported a real explorer high adventure ad-venture experience. Monday's activities centered around' the establishment of unit camps, swimming -and boating, and She orientating campfire presided pre-sided over by Rulon Oean Skinner, Skin-ner, camp director. Tuesday morning the daily camp inspection, scoutcraft instruction in second, first class and merit bads work, and personal inspection inspec-tion in the evening began. During Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday scoutcraft contests and demonstrations were held. The monkey bridges were built across the Yellowstone River by Mont-well Mont-well Troop 262; Myton Troop 253; Utahn Troop 760;. Arcadia Troop 259; and Maeser First Troop 244. Maeser First Troop 244 took top honors in the scoutcraft contests during th three davs. Leaders apeak Tuesday's campfire featured Paul Murphy', Vice-president of the Utah National Parks Council, and William Brotherson, Moon Lake Stake President, as speakers. Thursday evening was stunt night at the High Uintah Scout Camp with Vernal Second Troop 232 winning top honors. Myton Troop 253 was second; and Ballard Bal-lard Troop 252 was third. Friday was parents' day at the High Uintah Camp, and a large number of parents and friends were on hand for the giant four-district four-district Court of Honor that evening. eve-ning. Visiting from the Council office of Provo were Floyd Loveridge, Love-ridge, Scout Executive; H. Eugene Highes, Council Commissioner; and Boyd Davis, Council Camping & Activities Chairman. Saturday morning the group broke camp, the two bridges built for the camp removed, and the site left as nerly as possible as it was prior to the 1956 High Uintah Scout Camp. "Well done " was the remark of Rowan C. Stutz, camp committee commit-tee chairman and assistant camp directors, to the units as they left the camping area after cleanup. clean-up. Budget Is Close Operation of the camp trading post and handling of all camp finances was under the direction of Glen Mohlman, Moon Lake District chairman. Camp finances were planned on an anticipated 400 attendance and when the attendance at-tendance dropped to 287 serious cuts had to be made in the operating op-erating budget, yet it was fearful fear-ful the camp would operate at a great loss financially. However, Mr. Mohlman states that thanks to the cooperation of everyone, it looks like the budget will almost balance after all obligations are paid. Adult leaders for the camp staff included Rulon Dean Skinner, camp director;, Rowan C. Stutz, assistant camp director; lvin O. Barker, scoutcraft activities chairman; chair-man; James E. Bacn, fun activities chairman; W. Grant Peel, camp-fire camp-fire and water front activities chairman; LaRell Anderson, hospitality hos-pitality chairman;, and Jack F. Dexter. Health & Safety committee commit-tee chairman. Other members of the staff during the week included Dr. John Smith, Dr. Paul Stringham, Dr. T. R. Seager, Neill C. Jensen, Max Todd, Tom Howell and LaVer Bentley. |