New Mexico’s Philturn Camp Offers Much to Boy Scouts Vast Tract of Land Given By Waite Phillips To Scouts To Use As Back To Nature Area. New York, May B—ln the heart of the Kit Carson country in New Mexico is perhaps one of the most unique camps in America for young men. It is a camp truly national in scape for it is owned and operated by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America to provide opportunities for Senior Scouts to get the bene fits of a rugged and adventurous experience in the wilderness. Its campers hail from many parts of the United States. The Philturn Rockymountain Sc: utcamp, located just north of Cimarron, New Mexico comprises 35.857 acres of superb mountain wilderness, the gift in 1938 of Waite Phillips of Tulsa, OVL. ■who simply stipulated that it be put to practical use by Scouts whose experience, training, lead ership and proper equipment would enable them to enjoy ex periences like the pioneers who blazed the trails into the wilder ness and helped to found this nation. Already Scouts of fourteen states, including young men from New York, New Jersey and Pen nsylvania, have made preliminary arrangements to camp on the wilderness preserve during its 1940 season which opens June 14 and ends on September 1. In accepting the land from Mr, Phillips who also provided $50,- 000, for its development into a camp site, the Boy Scouts of America, through its President. Walter W. Head and its Chief Scout Executive, Dr. James E. West, told why the Movement undertook to provide a national S Best Wishes To . ♦ ♦ ... Graduates % 'iJfH I I ■ I- H fl is JB » :*< .%» t % «B x>- vfS 1 AHm Rhl MB] * ’i? I I Peebles Dept. Store • Extends its Best Wishes to I Graduates of Person and j Adjoining Counties. t May Each of You Enter : Upon a Successful Career. | Peebles Dept. Store e• * V > . - , ■ - : . camping area for older boys. - “In providing these opportuni ties for Scouts today to develop the rugged self-reiiance and the ability to stand on their own feet and to take care cf themselves, and others, which were a funda mental part of the equipment of cur pioneer forefathers, the po tentialities of the Scout Program have been greatly extended. In creasingly from year to year this enrichment will be reflected in the quality cf our Scouting, our camping and our leadership. The fundamental objectives of the Scout Program, character build ing and citizenship training, will be strengthened.” Chartered or Provisional Troops, qualified by experience, which are approved by their Local Council may have the priv ilege of camping at this high ad venture wilderness camp, which in a sense, is serving as a nation al laboratory for testing adven ture programs for older boys within the Movement. Many different types of hikes and expiditions, varying in leng th from three days to twelve, are provided to meet the needs of different groups. Each camp site is arranged to provide water, tentage space, cooking facilities and sanitary facilities to accom modate up to 32 Scouts and lead ers Each group is responsible for its own tentage, sleeping and cooking gear and is really on its own. There’s a three day back pack hike of approximately 15 miles, and a three burro pack trip. An “overnight horseback hike” com bines the use of horses and back packing and takes the Scout campers away from the base camp for two days and a night. A trip PERBON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. France Keeps Vigil on Western Front j/m, tj IHi ,| lSgj ■BOBBi Jim. a '*'o' " •- & . . JsmTW IZjS Somewhere on France’s Lorraine front a French soldier keeps eternal vigilance behind his rifle-machine gun, lest a German sur prise attack be successful. Note the cache of hand grenades just below the gun. They are used for close-in fighting. to the Carson National Forest involves a 75-mile journey over wonderful mountainous drives with an overnight camp in the forest. The attractions of this trip are Eagle Nest Lake, the Red River country, the pueblos at Taos, the Moreno Valley and Cimarron Canyon. Six and twelve-day exploration trips pro vide a more general experience than those offered by the shorter trips. The Scouts’ wilderness camp— kniewn as Philturn Rockymount ain Scout 1 lamp, a combination of he donor’s name and the ‘‘good turn” of the Scouts lies in the heart of a country that had a civi lization long before he white man came. Ruins in these mountain fastnesses tell the story of how the cliff dwellers bored into chal ky cliffs, placing their homes be yond the reach of their enemies’ l arrows. Pictographs which dot the canycn walls record the history of ancient Indian tribes. The country is rich in Indian lore. Just west of Philturn the Na vajo* herded their flocks, wove their blankets and gathered pinon nuts. Aztec villages and their garden-like fields are not far a way. Here the fieilce Apaches. Comanchs and Cheyennes roam ed the plains and their ceremon ial chants resounded in the can yons. Near Philturn passes the Santa Fe trail which 100 years ago was the great trade route linking A merica and Mexico. The ruts made by the huge wagons and the marks of the feet of oxen that followed the trail can still be seen in many places. In his early twenties, Christo pher “Kit” Carson explored thor. oughout the southwest with trad ers and adventurers. For years he piloted wagon trains carrying merchandise across the plains to Santa Fe. He guarded the same trains on their return journeys, this time errying furs and miner als. He fought the Indians and la ter was loved by them. His well marked grave in the little Taos. N. M. cemetery is visited by thou sands of persons annually, among them Philturn campers. Philturn lies 7,000 feet above sea level and some nearby peaks are 11,000 feet high. In the Scout area lie nine main canyons, flank ed on each side by rock palisades, adorned by western pines, Doug las firs, balsams, quaking aspens and cottonwoods. Ranges with deer, wolf, mountain lion, bears, cyotes, fox, beaver, porcupine and countless smaller animals are a part ictf the unexplored wil derness. Local and migratory birds are plentiful. Philturn is about two miles from Cimarron, N. M. on the Ute park Branch of the Santa Fe Railroad. It can also be reched by U. S. Highway 64 out of Raton, a distance of some 38 miles. Scout parties check in at Five Points camp, the center of all of Philtum’s activities, where one finds a camp lodge and adminis tration buildings. Here fresh fond supplies are purchased and ad ditional camping gear may be rented for normal costs. It is the capital this in stallment purchase plan, which permits of travel anywhere. o GERMS Germs are being used to des troy germs in garden and field soil in tests being conducted suc cessfully at the New Jersey Ex periment station. COTTON WEEK National Cotton Week, an ap will ba obMrrid May 17-*.