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States and other countries.
July 4th, Independence Day, was at some of the stores in the vicinity,
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just like any other day. for the most before we proceeded enroute to Salt
equipment and uniforms were sold.
part, since fireworks are banned un Lake City, where we visited the Mor
In another adjoining tent, were two der Pennsylvania state law. Part of mon Tabernacle, and listened to sev
television sets that were running all our troop worked as arena officials eral numbers played on the famous
day and practically all night.
The that day.
(Arena official, another ' staying. When we told him. he could
favorite show on the TV was the name for stage hand.) That night tabernacle organ, which has 10 000
wrestling matches. Everyone would was one of the most interesting times i Temple grounds, busses took us out
howl with delight when one of the of the whole Jamboree, for me. at | to the Utah state capitol building
grapplers would throw the other out least. Not only did I get to shake We then went out to the Great Salt
of the ring or kick him in the face.
General Ike's hand, (although a friend Lake, where we swam in water which
Just a little way from our section of mine got his picture taken with is 28% salt and mineral.
FAMILY STYLE MEALS
On our
was the Texas sections. All day the Ike) but I was an Arena Official trip out to the lake, we were told not
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boys from Texas would wear their which entitled me and the rest of our to try diving into the lake, because
ten-gallon straw hats, and their hand- troop to have very choice seats back three boys had tried diving down
tooled pressed paper holsters, with stage That night 8 000 boys parti- eight feet into it, and all three broke
their .45 calibre cap pistols, pretend cipated in pageant on scouting activ their necks.
to shoot each other. Either that or ities going good deeds, and saving
About this time all of us were get
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ting anxious to get home, although
Most of the boys brought a lot of
Included in the night’s festivities I don’t think anyone suffered too
homed toads with them as trading was a huge fir^’orks display which much from homesickness during the
material, and some of the toads got was licensed by the state More than trip.
loose somehow sowhen anyone walked $5.000 was spent in the course of an
At San Francisco, we took a ferry
past those sections, they would al hour and a half with many moving ride from Oakland across the bay. to
Il per month and up
ways watch the ground closely in displays and colored scenes. Follow the Bay city, where we took several
Also serving Gates and I.yona
hopes of picking up a free horned ing this beautiful sight, the Scouts rides on the scenic cable cars.
toad.
were dismissed to their respective
Some of the boys in our troop had
MILL CITY
The Arena shows were some of the camp sites.
a meal in a Chinese restaurant, but
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The night of July sixth, when we the majority of us were financially
highlights of the camp. The Jam
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boree was opened June 30th with had gotten all ready to leave the unable, so we had a hamburger in
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speeches by many outstanding people ' camp, there was another program stead.
—one of which was President Harry which was mainly a closing ceremony.
Thanksgiving is some time off yet. but the governors of Oregon and
The next morning everyone got up
Washington are already talking about turkeys. The fate of that large
S. Truman!
Following President Immediately after we got on the very early, and got all ready to get
fellow pictured above depends on the actions of people using Oregon
Truman’s address, a large pageant train headed for New York, we got off the train. So everyone just sat
forests. Should Oregon have more man-caused forest fires than Wash
was put on depicting the history of as well settled as possible and went around impatiently waiting. Then it
ington, he will grace the table of Washington’s governor. Arthur B.
Valley Forge.
One of the scenes to bed. Waking up just a few min got worse when those characters from
Langlie. However, should the users of Washington’s forests cause the
portrayed George Washington kneal- utes out of Manhattan, we dressed Eugene and Klamath Falls got off,
greater number of fires, a turkey dubbed ‘‘Chief No Fire’’ will leave
ing in prayer, which was part of the quickly and were all set for the trip because we too were very eager to
the Okanogan country for a Thanksgiving date in Salem beneath the
to the Hotel Governor Clinton, be get home.
Jamboree emblem.
Finally we arrived in
fork of Oregon’s Governor McKay. Shown presenting the 17% pound
On Sunday morning, services were fore setting out for a ferry ride out Salem, and you might have thought
.broad-breasted bronze turkey tom ’’Sir Keep Oregon Green" to the Ore
provided so the boys could go to the to the Statue of Liberty, where sev that half the people in Oregon had
gon governor is Loren Johnson, Scappoose turkey raiser. Both turkeys
should tip the scales at 40 pounds by Thanksgiving. The score in the
church of their own choice, and on eral of us went all the way to the a boy on that train. As soon as the
unique contest was Oregon 201 fires, Washington 389 fires on July 1.
Sunday evening, a convocation was top of her crown. Soon our troop train stopped sufficiently, all the
held, showing how religious freedom was on our way back to the hotel to boys remaining jumped off of the
was barred in certain countries, and rest a bit and eat dinner before split train and started telling his folks and
ting up. some going to see a radio girl friends, etc., all about his trip.
Quality iob printing at the Enter broadcast at Radio City, and others
You might have noticed in last
going to see their first major league week’s issue of the Enterprise that I
prise.
baseball game at Yankee Stadium. mentioned scrambled eggs several
The Yankees won over the Bosox times. I think that out of the 24
that night, 5 to 2. Six of the seven days we were gone on this trip, at
runs scored in that game were home least 12 of them we had scrambled
runs with a man < n first base. Pre-
eggs for breakfast, and then we had
ceding the game was a home-run fried eggs most of the rest of the
hitting contest. Being a fan of Joe time. We were all egged out!
DiMaggio, I could see why Ted Wil
liams could hit more homers than
DiMaggio, at least in Yankee Stad
ium. since it is only a distance of
367 feet to the right field fence, while
to the left field fence it is a distance
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night.
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After a good night's rest, we went
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out to Coney Island, where I got my
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on to Detroit, where we were the
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