The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-08-12
THE
BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE
AT COLORADO SPRINGS
By JOHN GIBBS

+ Ihree scouts, Timothy Gaylord,
\ Walter Gray and John Gibbs from
Troop 165 of Manteo, N. c., at
! tended the Fifth National jam
: boree at Colorado Springs, Colo
RADIO. Each scout who went to the
Jamboree were supposed to earn
t all or part of the cost of the trip.
\ Each scout had to pay his own
expenses.
~ On Monday, July 18, we left
\ Norfolk at 1880 PM, bound on a
! special Norfolk and Western train
J for Colorado Springs. Along the
{ way we picked up scouts in Ports
\ mouth, Suffolk, Petersburg, Lynch
burg, Roanoke, West Virginia and
! Ohio. At noon on Tuesday, we ar
! rived in Chicago, where buses took
US to the Fountain of Time, the
\ Museum of Science and Industry
J and the Clarence Buckingham Me-
! mortal Fountain.
Nj We arrived in Colorado Springs
on Wednesday noon and buses
! took us to our Jamboree troop site.
About three o'clock, our baggage
! arrived; then we put up our tents,
J put our table together and cooked
our first meal at the Jamboree.
\ Thursday we went to Fort Carson
] where we had the SO and 80 cali
! Der machine guns, the MI. Mia,
\ Browning automatic rifle, the ba-
l zooka, and LOG recoilless rifle ex-
J planned to us. We also had the
"Honest John" Missile, the Telluro-
\ meter, a device used for survey
] ing; and M-59, MIA, and MAS
! tanks; and a helicopter explained
\ to US. All of US got to fire 80
l caliber machine gun and we also
] got to ride in an armored personnel
J car. After all of that we all got
to see most of the above equip.
\ ment used.
] The gateway to our troop site.
! was replica of the entrance to-
\ Fort Raleigh. 1t had two Lost
| Colony flags flying above it. Our
J troop participated in both arena
shows. The skit they put on in the
\ last show was the landing of the
colonists at Fort Raleigh.
All the scouts at the Jamboree
\ got to attend a rodeo. The first
] event was the bucking bronco rid
J ing. The cowboy would come out
( of the chute riding the horse. He
\ would have to stay on the horse
Il for nioht CannnAc The
( was the calf roping contest. The
\ calf and the man on the horse
would be let out of the chute at
J the same time. The man on the
( horse would lasso the calf, jump
\ off his horse, and tie the calf's
legs together. After that there wase
a man who had two horses which
4 he had trained not to be afraid of
\ fire and he did many tricks with
them. The Brahma Bull riding con-
J test was the most exciting. A man
{ would come out of the chute riding
\ Brahma Bull and he would have
to stay on the bull for ten seconds.
i One time, a bull butted man all
\ the way over the fence. 1t was
a rodeo and all of us thought it
J the first time many of US had seen
{ such fun.
The part of the Jannboree that I
enjoyed most was the Obstacle
t Course. First you had to swing
\ from rung to rung on a horizontal
ladder, next you had to jump a
J fence three feet high, walk log
( which was across ditch, then you
had to climb ten foot wall with
the help of a rope. After that, you
t had to crawl under series of a
\ foot and half high boards, the
next thing was to climb nine foot
y fence, walk across narrow board,
\ swing across a ditch, and step
through series of tires.
( l met and traded trophies with
\ many scouts from different states
and countries. 1t was fun camping
! with scouts / hadn't known be-
\ fore.
On Saturday the S0th of July,
we left the Jamboree for home.
( We rode the train all Saturday
\ night and arrived in st. Louis at
noon Sunday. In st. Louis, we Wis
i tied the st. Louis Zoo, which is the
II largest zoo in the world The part
J of the zoo l liked best was the
( Monkey Circus. Here the monkeys
did all sorts of things such as
playing baseball, riding bicycles,
i racing go-carts, and playing a
\ band.
On Monday, August 1, we got
J back to Norfolk at in the even
( ling, thus ending a never-to-be-for-
gotten fifteen-day trip.