. Bell telephone magazine . ; a telephone call for a Scout was acceptedon a call back basis and a message was sent to him to return the callthrough one of the camps telephone centers. Nearly 100 telephone operators and supervisory personnel were requiredto handle calls on the switchboard and to staff the locator center. Thegirls lived in tents at the camp site, and a comfortable living tent, com-plete with television, was provided for them. There have been other Jamborees: one at Valley Forge, Pa., in 1950, andthe earliest of all at Washington, D. C, in 1937. In all probability therewill be ot
. Bell telephone magazine . ; a telephone call for a Scout was acceptedon a call back basis and a message was sent to him to return the callthrough one of the camps telephone centers. Nearly 100 telephone operators and supervisory personnel were requiredto handle calls on the switchboard and to staff the locator center. Thegirls lived in tents at the camp site, and a comfortable living tent, com-plete with television, was provided for them. There have been other Jamborees: one at Valley Forge, Pa., in 1950, andthe earliest of all at Washington, D. C, in 1937. In all probability therewill be others in the years to come—and Bell System companies will acceptsimilar demands for brief, essential telephone service for Scouts and othergroups having special needs, no matter where. The Boy Scout emblem whichheads this page bears a motto to which telephone people are no strangers:Be Prepared. The next several pages show how some of those people dis-charged that obligation in California in July of 1953. 149 JNTINGTONPARK. f«r JC0¥TS Of *UttK4 atmpoti 1149909. CMiir Near Nczvport Harbor, a fezv ifrom the coast of Southern Calif onstands the Jamboree campsite of j,acres. It is a part of a 100,000ranch zvhich dates back to the Ugrant system of the Spanish-Mexkregime and has been in the posses,of one family for more than 80 y,Miles of water and sewage melectric light and power lines, antcr-camp roads were constructed]well as the complete telephone systi
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