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
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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
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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 <X 4 wilderness area en
trusted Mb present and future fee?
Scotott « OwStftikwWfltittlift to
their use and they, to turn, vffl
preserve it as one of the nation’s
greatest natural preserves.
The first training courses in;
camping leadership will be held
in Philturn May 17, 18, and 19
and will be directed by Dr. Lome
W. Barclay, National Director of
Camping and Activities.
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“May on the Farm”
Raleigh, May 8 Enos Blair,
Extension Service Agronomist,
says com should be planted in
the Piedmont and Mountain sec
tions between May 1 and May 15.
Coastal Plain growers should fin
ish planting their com by May 15
if possible.
He also pointed out that May is
the best time to plant soybeans,
since they will grow better and
make larger yields than if the
seeding is delayed until June or
July. The same is true to some
extent of oowpeas, although these
should not be planted until the
latter half of the month.
Velvet beans, on the other
hand, should be planted as early
in the month as possible. Cnotal
aria, too, should be planted around
the first of the month.
Paul Kime, Experiment Sta
tion agronomist, says a weeder
and spike-toothy harrow are ex
cellent implements for destroy
ing young .grass. They also put
the land in better shape for the
cultivators. If the weeder is used
one or more times on cotton be
fore it is chopped, the coat of hoc
labor will be reduced.
Cotton should be chopped as
early as is reasonably safe. If the
plants grow tall and slender be
fore chopping, they will fall down
badly and will not grow off rap
idly. On the other hand, it is not
advisable to chop during cold,
damp weather or while the plants
are dying badly.
Dr. Luther Shaw, extension
plant pathologist, warns against
planting watermelons, sweet po
tatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, cotton,
and other crops on the same land
where wilt disease caused serious
losses the year before. The organ,
isms causing wilt have lived over
in the soil and have multiplied
tremendously.
May also is a busy time for
liestock producers, since it is the
time of year when many changes
in feed and management are ne
cessary, says Professor Earl Host
etler. For example, permanent
pastures are ready to graze thro
ughout th State. However, al
though this means less labor and
no feed, except grass, regular in
spections and salting should not
be overlooked. Then, too, the bull
should be turned with the herd
the first of May so that next
year’s calf crop will early and uni
form.
C. L. Sims, extension apiarist,
advises beekeepers to examine
their colonies during this month.
If it is- found that the food supply
has fallen below 15 pounds of
honey, the oolony should be fed
15 to 20 pounds of sugar syrup.
Queenless colonies should be un
ited with those having good
queens.
ADVERSE
Nine states are spending money
to ISith products, And
{thus help fannsn.
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Installment Rates Offered
As New Travel Accomodation
Many Railways Now Pro
vide Unique Method For
Financing Longer Trips
And Vacation Jaunts.
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New York, May 8 lnto the '
news this week comes an announ
cement that will bring cheer to
the hearts of the legions of sub
stantial Americans who want to
travel but “can’t spare the money
just now.” This announcement
brings assurance to millions that
the slogan, “1940 is Travel Amer
ica Year,’ really means some
thing after all. From now ion, you
can literally travel and pay lat
ter,
A Travel Credit Plan, spon
sored by 66 great railroads, makes
possible the purchase of railway
trips and tours in the same man
ner that you buy your car or ra
dio—ten convenient monthly pay
ments.
The plan, which becomes effec
tive May 20, is exceedingly sim
ple. The prospective user merely
goes to the ticket office of the
Cooperating railway over whose
lines he wishes to travel, or to a
travel agent, and makes applica
tion for credit in -the amount of
the cost of the proposed trip or
tour. If the routine credit inquiry
indicates an ability to meet
monthly payments, he is notified
that his ticket is ready for him.
The wily contact in connection
with the application is with the
ticket agent, just as though the
ticket were being purchased for
cash. The application is passed
quim no collateral 6mtf the
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signature of the individual. The
cost of the proposed trip, how
ever, must total SSO cr more to be
eligible for purchase on credit. No
down payment is required. There
is a normal service charge for the
credit accommodation.
It is predicted that the largest
use of the Travel Credit Plan will
be for vacations and other recrea
t'oraltiips and tours, although the
service is intended to cover any
form of railway travel. Credit is
not necessarily confined to the
cost cf transportation alone.. It
may be used for Pullman accom
modations, all-expense tours,
which usually include hotels and
meals, specified side trips, and
any service that is sold through
the railroad ticket office.
A nation-wide survey of the
vacation and traveling practices
of averagje Americans indicates
that many persons are frequent
ly forced to forego trips or vaca
tions because of financial string
ency right at the only period of
the year in which they can get
away to enjoy themselves. For
such individuals or families the
credit service is seen as a verit
able boon.
Others will use the plan, it is
expected, who might have suffi
cient cash to make a trip, but
who would have to compromise
on its extent or would be forced
to-economize too rigidly in order
to meet normal expenses of trav
eling, apart from the actual rail
way fare. By taking advantage of
. the credit for the purchase of all
. or a part of the actual transporta,
tkrn, the trip would be made In
'proper fashion and with vastly in
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creased enjoyment.
As an example of the potential
money saving advantages of the
plan, in addition to its: conveni
ence, a railway’s spokesman cited
the hypothetical case of an east
ern or midwest oouple’who might
plan a tour taking them as far as
Seattle, tout who would be finan
cially unable to make a long
dneamed-of Alaskan Cruise from
that point. Now, instead of aban
doning that dream, or at least
being put to the expense of re
tracing the trip to Seattle and
thence to Alaska at some impro
bable date in the future, they
could use the travel erdit plan
and go the whole way at one
time and at a great saving.
Economists look upon the plan
as probably the most dramatic
and far-reaching step ever taken
by the roads in their efforts to
make rail travel a commodity
which lean be enjoyed by the
whole public. It is regarded as
evidence cf the progressive policy
of the American railroads of to
day, alert to every opportunity
for providing new and improved
service.
Nearly all the railroads in the
United States are party tx> this in
stallment purchase plan, which
permits of travel anywhere.
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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-*.