The Jamboree

Bud Prather, of Hillsboro, recently returned from the National Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Here is his story.

This was the fifth National Jamboree, not a world one, but a good many foreign boys came anyway. It gives a boy a chance to realize how big a program scouting really is. Even President Eisenhower came out to wish us luck.

Almost every night and day was some entertainment –– rodeo, movie premiere, Matt Dillon, the Lennon Sisters and Herb Shriner. There were millions of things to do during the spare time. The Blue Angels, a special Navy flying team, performed for us.

The land used by the Jamboree was loaned to the scouts by three generous ranchers. The arena was in a valley forming a natural amphitheater.

There have been five Jamborees: 1937, a world Jamboree, 1950, 1953, 1957 and 1960.

At the Skillorama each troop showed off what it could do best.

The Scouts had to cook their own meals, clean up, haul their own water and dispose of garbage. Each day food was drawn from section headquarters, and two boys had to cook and clean up for every 10 boys. We cooked over charcoal and the fire lighters had to get up at 4 a.m. to start getting breakfast by 5 a.m. I earned my cooking badge while there.

It was very hot in the day and very cold at night. In the daytime a candy bar would melt before you could get it to your mouth but at night, it would be so stiff you couldn’t hardly chew a chunk out of it. We threw snowballs on the top of Pike’s Peak. The wind blew hard all the time we were on duty five minutes after we showered. Herb Shriner was all wet about the soap –– I used three cakes all by myself.

We slept four boys to a tent and 10 to a dining fly. The equipment was given away at the end. Any troop having eight boys was given a tenet and other small stuff.

The Air Force Academy had bulldozed the site level 2,000 acres, and dug garbage pits, etc. There were paved roads. It was two miles from our section to the arena and it was an impressive sight to watch the scouts march eight abreast in a line stretching for miles.

Getting the 56,000 scouts there was a terrific job. They came by bus, pullman day coach, any way they could. They slept two nights each way. Some leaders slept in the aisles. One put a board over two seats and put his mattress on that with boys below him. One boy came from Pakistan and started in June. It was a lot of work but an experience all of us will long remember.

Tractor Contest

Duane Sharp, of the Edray Producers 4-H Club and son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sharp, won the second annual 4-H Tractor Operators’ Contest with a score of 746 points. Bill Shaffer was second with a score of 1,151, Bill Perry third with 1,777 Jerry  Clifton fourth with 2,061, and Jacob Beard fifth with 2,281 points.

A total of eight boys entered the contest which was scored on a points off basis, low score winning.

ALPINE THEATRE

“Jack the Ripper”

Lee Patterson ~ Betty McDowell

“Once More, With Feeling”

Yul Brynner ~ Kay Kendall

“The Gene Krupa Story”

Sal Mineo ~ Susan Kohner

DEATHS

Henry E. Hiner, age 68, of Marlinton

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Friel, of Dunmore, a son named Mark Edward

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kerth Friel, of Marlinton, a son named David Wayne

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ledford McCarty, of Frost, a son

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