Dale County AlArchives News.....Boy Scouts World Fair Trip June 15 1939
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Southern Star
 World's Fair Trip
(Reprint from The Southern Star, Thursday, June 15, 1939):

  Ozark's Boy Scout Troop will leave Friday morning for a three week's tour of 
points in the East, including Washington, the New York World's Fair, Niagra 
Falls, points in Canada and a return trip home through
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
  All preparations have been made for the annual outing that will take the boys 
on one of the most interesting trips that could be mapped out by Scout 
Executives. Leaving from the Mixon Hotel, at 6:30 in the morning, the boys will 
go to Dothan where they will join the Council bus and a party of Scouts headed 
by Scout Executive Roscoe Stevens. The Ozark Scout bus will travel with the 
Council bus as far as Washington, D. C. The route will be to Waycross, Ga.,-on 
to Augusta, Ga., where they will take U. S. Highway on- into,New 
York.                  
  Scoutmaster Harry N. Mixon, directing the Ozark troop, states that he expects 
to drive into Washington sometime Sunday. A few days will be spent in the 
national capital visiting the many government buildings and
looking in on Congress in session.
  From Washington the Ozark Scouts will go to New York for several days at the 
World's Fair.
  On through New York State Via Niagra Falls, into Canada. The boys making the 
trip are Scoutmaster Mixon, James Sollie, Joe Frank Sollie, William Gamer, 
Stanley Garner, C. T. Bell, Phillip Lett, James Carroll, Glenn Price, Kells 
Carroll, Taylor Thomas, Martin Price, Emerson Valentine, Major Mills, Royce 
Smith, Lawrence Johnson, Van Dyke Johnson, all of Ozark; Phillip Spears of 
Quincey, Fla.; R. A. Dowling of Pinckard; Gaston Johnson of Geneva; Clyde Smith 
of Hartford and Hugh Segrest of Slocumb; Yatt Sistrunk, Troop cook.

Additional Comments:
 From the Centennial Edition of the Southern Star, Oct 15, 1970

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