Springfield Leader and Press from Springfield, Missouri • 38

YMC A Facility Ready for Camping Season 3- I. i. A. 3 'a 4 Nm ana hernial SUfl Wet Mike Long (left), 21, a Drnry College senior who serves as assistant camp director, plans a schedule for daily devotion services with Lisa Criswell, 17, of 1505 South Holland, a- A- Greenwood High School senior who is a camp counselor, along with coiinseloreta-trainirigu Qancy Scanloa and Bryan Luna. r.

Finbrooke to Open Next Sunday i Girl Scouts Prepare An Olympic-size swimming pool, fed by filtered spring water, provides a cooling off spot for YMCA campers. Close supervision is maintained on the swimmers and a "buddy system'' is nsed as a safety precaution. For Camping Season Springfield, June 15, 1969 MjitndMubber IPmts Sem own world better and glided because they, like women, can back below. be unpredictable and cantan kerous) lacks the vibration and Multiply the feeling you get on Table Rock Lake in southwest iiiniiiiii iiini.il jiui in ii mi i.iii i in i i i i 1 lifaaMirni r--f-'''---' i ifiifi iniiiiinr giwhri- iw-aTTl-irrinwrfMi "tr-ifr Tfii-jirig fuel oil smoke of conventionally powered ships. That's nice this time of year when a sailor must wear spotlessly clean whites to rate liberty or to pass in Missouri Multiply that by hun EDITOR'S NOTE: Fred Wtckmaa.

tar-, met member af Ike SnrlntfiekJ Dally ti Off wk in tbe Sij. werks la tke ublle affairs ffi with tkree bcr jonr-Baiiitt, anoterrapker's mat and a bo-tenant Junior grade. Tke arena pobltekee daily, weekly and Quarterly newspapers and a craisebook whiie at sea and writes stows aDoot crew members. By JOSN FRED WICKMAN "To sea for a day! How fabulously exciting!" For a suspicious those are strong words. But tbe feeling was real tbe first time only then will you fath om (no pun intended) the vast ocean.

An ensign friend is captain of The YMCA summer -camp program is getting underway and for more than 200 area youngsters, both boys and girls, the Y's well maintained and supervised 85-acre facility -located five miles south of Halltown, will afford a memorable vacation pleasure. The camp is open to all youngsters for a moderate fee, and YMCA counselors and high school stndents serving as counselors-IB-training supervise the weeks of activities, including fishing, swimming, crafts, rifle ry, archery, horseback riding, and trampoline training. The camp lends a religions emphasis to the lives of the campers, as once a day, the group holds a short devotion service conducted by the young counselors. The camp has nine cabins capable of holding ten campers, pins a recreation hall, galley, and tent city, located near Goose Creek which runs through the camp grounds. But you can suit tell when the USS Long Beach is underway on the open sea.

In calm waters there's a gentle roll, side to a swift boat in Vjetnanu While he was' training in the United Lockwood, Marionville, Monett, Marshfield, Mt Vernon, Ozark, Rolla, Salem, Strafford, St. James, Stockton, Waynesville, West Plains and Willow Springs. Each of the three regular sessions will continue for 12 days. In the first session, the emphasis will be on the arts, and activities will include a field trip to the Southwest Missouri State College art and theater departments, attendance at the open- ing night of the SMSTent The- ater, and production of original one-act plays or puppet shows. v- Emphasis in the second session will be on swimming and girls at this session will earn Junior Life Saving cards and will learn synchronized' swimming.

International understanding win be emphasized in the final session. During the winter. Scouts participated in a camp patch designing contest The winner was Michelle Moore, of 1139 East Seminole, whose design features a large dogwood blossom with a background of tents and camp-fires. The design will appear on camp sweatshirts this summer. An eight-weeks session of camping will begin a week from today at Camp Finbrooke, owned and operated by the Dogwood Trails Council of Girl Scouts.

The camp" is on the Finley River near Linden in Christian County. It will serve about 600 girls in regular sessions this summer, plus an estimated 1200 girls who will attend weekends in troop camping. The camp's new Olympics-sized swimming pool, financed by tbe sale of Girl Scout cookies, will be open this A chain link fence enclosing the pool has been donated by a Springfield firm. The Red Cross-approved swimming program will be supervised by Chris and Ann Peterson and Catherine O'Neil, all of Springfield. In addition to" Springfield Scouts, other area communities sending Scouts to the camp this summer will include Ava, Aurora, Birch Tree, Bolivar, Branson, Cabool, Camdenton, Crocker, El Dorado Springs, Fort Lepnard Wood, Gainesville, Greenfield, Houston, Lebanon, side, up and down.

It's a sensa States, he told of his first venture. A swift boat is only slightly larger than a cabin cruiser, so my ship, the USS Long Beach, cruised the Pacific Ocean with me aboard. The quote is from tion almost like flying but slow er and with more motion. I my personal log. It continues: haven't learned about stormy iTn 4ct a.

waters; that should be worth an citement Amazed by the con other story. "No seasickness stant motion, vastness of the sea. Cloudy at first, then clear as we returned to port." in rough seas most of the sea-sickness ingredients are present. Of course, he got sick. "Come for a ride with me.

You'll be sick, too," he advised after I told him of my prowess as a big ship sailor. I wonder if he's right? Naw, that motion doesn't both, er me. Up, down, back, forth. Ah, what pleasure. Side to -side, up, down, sway, sway.

Fun, fun I feel funny. Not me, anyway. But there was sailor who spent a night In the year since I graduated from the University of Missouri in jthe head (for you civilians, that's bathroom; for hillbillies School of Journalism and in the six months since I lqft the Springfield Daily News, no ad like me, privy) and who was as green-gray as the sea. on a cloudy day. And there was a venture has impressed me so Supervised marksmanship training is one of several out-of-door activities taught at the camp.

Bryan Luna (right), guides Bobby Corbin, (kneeling), 15, Holden, proper gnnmanship, as Jerry Enyart, 16, of 1248 East Edgewood, and Chris Bar-bee, 15, Clinton, observe. Marine who tried to make bis S'cuse me, I don't feel so great after all. Never say never. much as going. to sea for tbe first time.

Actually, it's not that big a deal, the old salts tell me. Yet, rirry years ago in in the same breath, they're ready to tell about their ex periences', their first The novelty, no doubt will wear off but the memory of that day buddies sick by rolling his shoulders back and forth while carrying on a conversation. excitement" I was a kid, the novice sailor getting his first taste of salt If at sea you lose sight of land, only ocean, sky and an occasional ship remain. The sea changes color blue in sunlight, green-gray under clouds and bright turquoise in the propeller turbulent wake of the ship. If you have good eyes, you can spot porpoises jumping and jelly fish lloating past al "MV -Vaaiar Um0m l-4 iaHs wont I joined the Navy curious about sea travel and I'm My ship's cruiser, somewhat smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer.

She is nuclear powered the only such cruiser and is armed I saw a flying fish my first night out It sailed along beside us, sizing up this man-made floating beast carrying this wide eyed sailor, decided it liked its with missiles, antisubmarine rockets and 5-inch guns. She (ships are referred to in the feminine gender, probably pi, 1 habit of raising a large part of their food on their own land. "The garden habit helped them keep in good muscular condition and gave them just as good outdoor life as could be offered by membership in the most costly" country and outing club," O. J. McCutcheon of the McCutcheon Brothers Vehicle and Harness Company, distributor of Dort motor cars, says new transportation has eradicated the old fashioned "drummer." "The days of the old fashioned drummer the fat one with a black cigar a derby who used to take up a lot of the red plush in smoking fc- are numbered," wrote a reporter after talking to Mr.

McCutcheon. "In his place has arisen the motoring salesman who covers his territory in an automobile." The motoring salesman gets into a town, sees his customers, and then speeds away without wasting a minute." Tbe annual banquet of the Springfield Women's Business Club was held in Heer's tea room with the following program: Mrs. Alma Lohmeyer, president presiding; Mrs. Mary S. Bigbee invocation; Miss Mary Howell, vocal solo; Mrs.

F. S. Banersfield, reading; Mrs. W. -E.

Handley, violin solo; Miss Hazel Dreyfus, vocal solo; and Miss Sarah Hubble, leader of community singing. Under the bead "The Fool Daylight Saving" Law," an editorial in The Re- ing necessary. George F. Reed is for the church. Dr.

W. H. Winton is pastor. Paul Oliver is finance chairman and F. T.

Jared plan committee chairman. Office of the division engine fr of the fifth good roads district of Missouri has been located in Springfield with H.P. Mobberly in charge. It is on the 10th floor of the Woodruff BuUding. Probable road building program outlined by the Missouri State Highway Commission calls for a principal -state road from Seneca to St Louis via Spring-.

field and Strafford. It is expected that about 109 miles of state road will be established in Greene County. Of Course the building is dependent upon passage of a $2 million state bond issue. The Republican editorially regrets that this year there is "no organized campaign to promote gardening except among the school children." '-'Some of the people who raised little but blisters last year have perhaps decided to quit," says the newspaper. "Yet, the reasons for general cooperation in raising vegetables are still good.

The world is still short of foods. Famine prevails in Europe. Sensible people regr-v et that after the war period the gardening babit seemed to have gone out of fashion. "Years ago the borne garden was as common an adjunct as it was last year. Many founded their prosperity on their 'publican says, "There was no valid reason for enacting the Daylight Saving Law in the first place.

It was just of a multitude of impractical ill-considered schemes for helping America to win the war. "It never did any good. On the con-. trary, it worked a serious hardship on 'many, the farmers particularly, and the sooner it is kicked into the discard tbe better. Let us get back to the safe and sane way of doing things." Col.

E. B. Smalley, who has been in Army service about 19 years, has pur-. chased the Piggly Wiggly grocery in the Elks arcade of the Public Square. F.

A. Black founded the store several months ago. A 25-year ago column in The Leader records that the burials in the private gravjeyard known as the Fulbright Cemetery in the western limits of the city had just been moved to Hazelwood Cemetery. The family burial place was just behind the Dingeldien Brewery and close to the Memphis shops. The Jordan passes right by the tract and the location is one of the landmarks of the city.

It was near here that John Fulbright, pioneer settler of Springfield, established his borne. The Fulbright farm included acres of rich land along the Jordan. A large spring was near the home-site. At the time burials were moved (1894) the age of the cemetery was given as 50 years. Today, of course, much of the Fulbright farm has been turned to commercial uses with the former Memphis Shops near the Frisco occupying the bomesite and spring area.

The Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Club this week endorsed the $2 million state road bond issue at a meeting-attended by 200. V. CarroU, secretary of the Sedalia Chamber of Commerce, was speaker. M. D.

Lightfoot presided. Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. While are visiting their daughter, Peal White, famous moving picture actress, in her Bayside, Long Island, home.

Miss White is the leading star of PathaPicture Corpo-" ration. She will go to Europe this fall. A. B. Wyman and C.

J. Rose will open a men's furnishing establishment in the 300 block College Street. George F. Reed has been engaged to draw plans for a hew front for the building which they are to occupy. Youf loving niece, CELIA Each week "Celia" writes a mythical aunt the happenings of Springfield, as compiled from half-century-ago newspapers.

By LUCTLE MORRIS UPTON Springfield, Mo. June 15, 1919 Dearest Auntie: Days are warmer and life is pleasant in Springfield as we drift along with no unusual happenings to upset things. This is quite a difference from the war stir we were in at this time last year. Now we can talk about such things as the shortage of straw hats for men and the big building boom underway in tbe city. It seems that with former soldier boys exchanging military bats for civilian headgear the summer straws especially Panamas are in short supply.

Dealers failed to order enough because they hadn't anticipated tbe early return of the soldiers. It is said that Panama hats are almost off the market, all straw hats are high, and cleaning establishments are swamped with calls to clean and repair old hats. One company here is reported by our newspaper to have nearly 1000 bats on hand to be cleaned. The Colonial Hotel is to have a large addition, according to announcement of John Landers, owner. That brought an editorial in The Leader pointing out that the Colonial is a new hotel and when completed was thought to be sufficient to supply Springfield hotel space for 20 years.

"Possibly within ten years Springfield will need a hotel on a far grander scale than anything now thought of," said the newspaper. "The growth of the city has furnished surprises in the past but it is now growing in a manner which is really astonishing." The painting "The Last Supper," by Ralph Ott, distinguished former-Spring-' field artist hi St. Taul Methodjt Church will be unveiled, June 18. Lee Savage, member of the church board and friend of the artist made-possible the presentation of the painting to the church. Campbell Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has opened a campaign to erect a new building at Campbell and Division Streets at a cost of $40,000.

The present church was built 30 years ago and increased membership and Sunday School eryiment make a new build- trfim-iiaWfnirl SalV Fred Wickman Panama hit were in such short supply years ago dealers could not meet the deman The sea I gray'-grtrtn and so are some crewmen..