This Day in History: 1953-07-10
Three Troop 50 Scouts left for the Third National Scout Jamboree in Santa Ana, California. Jack Wiley, Fred Tehran, and Charlie Vuolo, representing the North Bergen and Ridgewood-Glen Rock Councils left by train with over 5,000 Scouts from the metropolitan area to join the encampment of some 50,000 boys and their leaders between July 17 and July 23. Special reductions in fares made it possible for Scouts from this area to pay only $228.74 for railroad and Pullman fare for the round trip in a lower birth. About 75% of the Scouts came by train, in a movement comparable in its complexity to some of the troop movements of World War II. (Bristow)