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Philmont Ranch: A Scouting Adventure
Scouting without “outing”
is but a word and nowhere but
at Philmont can more “outing”
be found! Philmont is much
more than a place- it is a rare
experience for those who face
its challenge. It is a testing
ground for all Scouts and
Scouters to measure the forti
tude, courage, endurance, and
skill required to complete a
Philmont hike. It is DIFFI
CULT but a feat that makes a
Philmont “veteran” proud he
Highway
Board’s
Budget
ATLANTA-The State
Highway Board has approved a
budget calling for $153.6 mil
lion during the next fiscal year
for submission to the Budget
Bureau, and a $162.6 million
budget for the 1972-73 fiscal
year.
An expected $110.4 million
in federal aid matching funds
would be added each of the
two years, but State Highway
Treasurer W. M. Williams told
the board he would submit an
additional $225 million of road
needs in excess of the funds
available for each of these
years.
Mr. Williams also said he
would tell the budget planners
of road needs totaling at least
S4OB million every year for the
four years following this bien
nium.
State Highway planning en
gineer Leland S. Veal followed
Mr. Williams with a report to
the board on urban area studies
which he said showed needs of
more than $530 million in the
state’s six metropolitan areas
during the next five years.
Mr. Veal pointed out that
funds available to meet these
needs would total only about
$350 million for the whole
state. He said that, if the
money available were distrib
uted on a population, basis,
only about $l6O million would
be available for these cities.
tommy'kling
° SEAT CHATTOOGA COUNTY
N 0 3 BOARD OF EDUCATION
Concerned...
At no time in history has the educa
tion of our children been so important
as it is now.
Being a parent, and having a child in
school. Tommy Kling is interested in
seeing that our children are prepared
to go forward in today's modern
world.
TOMMY KLING IS INTERESTED IN OUR CHILDREN
could accomplish it.
Philmont is the Paradise of
New Mexico. After crossing
miles of barren wasteland to
the north or east, suddenly one
comes upon the old city of
Cimmaron, New Mexico, which
is the gateway to a land of
scenic enchantment. Nestled in
the foothills of the majestic
Rockies lies Philmont Scout
Ranch, stretching for 27 miles
from north to south and span
ning a distance of 22 miles east
and west. Included in this vast
domain is 137,000 acres of the
best of the “Old West’s” his
tory and scenery.
Massive mountain peaks
towering over 10,000 feet ele
vation, covered with dense for
ests and numerous deep can
yons and valleys offer a chal
lenge to the best of hikers and
campers. Mountain streams af
ford the best of trout fishing
and supply crystal-clear lakes.
Such surroundings abound in
wildlife: Deer, elk, antelope,
mountain lion, chipmunk,
turkey, rabbit, rattlesnake,
raven, buffalo, beavers and
bear, all abound in their
natural habitat at Philmont,
without fear of man.
It is this “Mecca” of the
west in north central New
Mexico that annually over
15,000 Boy Scouts and leaders
venture to test their abilities
and to enjoy the thrills pro
vided by this portion of
nature’s wonderland.
Once there the eastern
“tenderfoot” readily realizes
the 7,000 feet mean altitude.
Mere walking causes hard
breathing. The day's delay in
making preparations for the
trail is needed to adjust to the
different rate of breathing.
After being instructed in the
Philmont manner of hiking and
camping one soon discovers he
brought with him twice the
amount of gear he really needs.
So half your gear goes into a
locker for the ten days you will
be on the trail. Nevertheless,
your pack will still scale forty
pounds which increases, seem
ingly, ten additional pounds
for each half mile of hiking.
After one night in “tent
city,” population four
hundred, your crew is trans
ported by local Colfax County
School bus the few miles to
>: Editor’s Note: Fourteen Boy Scouts from the
x North-West Georgia Council recently took part in a $
g 12-day outing at Philmont Scout Ranch in New |
n Mexico. The Scouts included. Bob Eleam and S
g Scott Pullen of Summerville; Arthur and Phillip
Gray and Neal Reynolds of Rome; Van Miller,
Vann Munn and Bill Lovell of Cartersville; and
$ Steve and Eric Adams, Clay Dykes and Tommy x
Pope ot Dalton. The Scouts were led by James
Hollaran, Gordon district commissioner, who sent
in the accompanying account of the trip.
your departure point some
where among the 250 miles of
hiking trails you have chosen
to traverse. None of these
routes chosen are less than
forty miles; some are over sixty
miles distance, but none of
them are alike, and all of them
are tough!
A mile at Philmont is up
and down-then more up! To
move a lateral distance of one
mile on the map may require
three miles of footsteps quite
“pantingly” taken. Inter
spersed along these miles are
numerous wild animals and
breath-taking views that will in
spire you. Artists cannot paint
such beautiful pictures as you
will see. And lurking some
where on high, sniffing know
ingly, Mr. Bear awaits your ar
rival at tonight’s campsite so
that as you wearily repose and
the campfire has become but
dead coals, Mr. Bear will sneak
ingly deprive you of your next
day’s supply of food. Even
soap and toothpaste fail to es
cape his keen sense of smell.
And the “unprepared” hiking
crew that failed to swing a
“bear bag” to safety in the
trees will hike ten extra miles
for more food, or go hungry
for the next two days.
He who wrote the song
“Walking in the Rain” cer
tainly never visited Philmont
during the “monsoon” season
where, without fail, it rains
daily between 2 and 6 p.m.,
and woe be unto the hiking
crew who arises late and breaks
camp after 8:30 a.m. That
crew will surely be soaked be
fore reaching the next camp
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for the following night. The
rain made necessary the hour
of 5:30 a.m., to begin the day’s
activities: Two hours for break
fast, one hour for breaking
camp, five to six hours of hik
ing to the next camp, two
hours of rest and relaxation,
supper preparation from 5 to 7
p.m., an hour of campfire
pleasure, then to bed by 8:30
p.m. Thus passes a day at Phil
mont! But-when it rained on
the trail (as it did twice) a crew
of WET boys reach a WET
camp, build a fire with WET
wood, and keep it burning dur
ing the rain. This situation cer
tainly challenged all the scout
ing skills the group possessed.
On one such occasion the
determined North-West Geor
gia Scouts climbed 2,500 ft. up
a sixty degree incline along a
switchback route during a
heavy downpour of rain that
turned to pelting hail. That
night was a wet, cold camp at
10,470 ft. altitude. Such is the
challenge and adventure of
Philmont! Considering the
trials encountered by the Boy
Scouts it is easy to understand
why they are rightfully deemed
to be “men” at the end of the
hike on the trail and are
pleased to be called such.
Aside from camping experi
ences, the wonderful scenery
viewed while hiking, lessons
learned from wildlife along the
trail, practice in map and com
pass, and many other scouting
experiences the Boy Scouts
also gained an appreciation for
the heritage of the land over
which they hiked. For Phil
mont is rich in, not only New
Qualified...
* Lifelong Resident of
Chattooga County
* Graduated from
Summerville High
★ College Graduate
RECEIVED B.S A. DEGREE FROM
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
IN 1962.
Mexico’s history, but also that
of our United States.
The scout who hikes the
Philmont Trails steps on his
tory! He walks where the Pueb
low, the Ute, the Navajo, the
Apache, and the Comanche In
dian Tribes lived, fought and
passed on into history. He
treads where the Spanish ex
plorers. De Vaca and Coronado
sought in vain for Seven Cities
of Gold. He views the domain
of various Spanish conquista
dors who were later followed
by Mexican nobility who drove
out the Indians to dwell there
until driven out themselves
during the Mexican War.
Scouts follow paths made by
the “mountain men” who
trapped for fur for France,
then Britian. Also, through
these mountains marched Gen.
John C. Fremont and Gen.
Kearny as they explored our
vast Southwest in days of old.
Kit Carson once lived there and
today his home is a museum
and monument to the life he
lived as a frontiersman and
Army scout.
Philmont lies along the
route of the famous wagon
train Sante Fe Trail and ruts
left by the early settlers’
wagons as they rolled slowly to
California are yet there to be
seen by Scouts as they come
off the trail. Then followed the
U.S. Army and the Indian
fights of the past century,
some of which were fought in
the canyons of Philmont.
Following the Army came
the railroads; then lumber
camps sprang up over Philmont
to cut the virgin Ponderosa
Pine that grew abundantly. In
1830, gold and copper were
discovered on Philmont and
mining flourished, creating
boom towns. Within a decade
mining ceased but left over 1 50
abandoned mines on Philmont
with, as yet, $8 million worth
of gold in Philmont’s moun
tains. (Scouts today pan for
gold and can keep what they
find.)
During the latter part of the
last century Philmont territory
became outlaw hide-out
country. From its mountains,
canyons, and Mesas came bank,
train, and stagecoach holdup
men. Philmont territory was
"home” for Black Jack Slade,
Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy
and others who were chased by
such men as Pat Garrett, Clay
Hollister, and Bat Masterson.
Could any scout hope to hike
on any more historic paths? On
a still night at Philmont an
imaginative scout can meet
many ghosts of the past!
Following the twelve-day
stay at Philmont the North-
West Georgia Council contin
gent, led by Gordon District
Commissioner James Hollaran
returned by train as they went.
They traveled by L&N to St.
Louis, Missouri Pacific to
Kansas City, and Sante Fe to
Raton, New Mexico. Enroute
they enjoyed stopovers at
Kansas City and St. Louis.
The experience gained by
the Scouts is invaluable and
will mean much to each. The
teamwork, unity, and compan
ionship displayed and shared
by each will clearly show each
of them the true meaning of
scouting and living by scout
law.
Their leader has only praise
and admiration for each and
every scout in the expedition.
He left Philmont for the fourth
time with the realization that
his was the opportunity to lead
the finest group of Scouts he
had men in fifteen years of
scouting.
In conclusion, may it be
said that the Boy Scouts of
America owes a most profound
thanks and much gratitude to
the memory of the late Waite
Phillips for so generously giving
to them this immense Ameri
can wonderland! Truly, I joint
in the spirit of the Philmont
Hymn "Philmont, Here’s to
Thee Scouting Paradise.”
The ‘Fat’ American
WASHINGTON A govern
ment survey shows American
men and women to be larger
and fatter on the average than
their counterparts around the
world.
A group of Harvard Univer
sity and government scientists
reported causes of overnutri
tion and too little exercise.
Willing...
If elected to the Chattooga County
Board of Education, Tommy Kling will
cooperate with other board members
and the people of Chattooga County
in seeing that our educational system
puts forth every effort in obtaining
the quality of education that our chil
dren so desperately need.
The Summerville News, Thurs., Aug. 27, 1970
Section B
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THE BIG ONE GOT CAUGHT
Proof that the big one didn’t get away in this case
is evident from the above picture. J. T. Morgan, Jr.,
is shown with a five- and an eight-pound bass
caught recently at Lake Eufaula in Eufaula, Ala.
Chattooga Sailor Now Training
NORFOLK, Va. Navy Air
man Recruit William R. Packer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Packer of Summerville, is
participating in the summer
recruit training program at the
Naval Air Reserve Training
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