Re: Q: The Boy Scout Jamboree newspaper for 1953

See response on alt.genealogy

KirGo wrote:

> I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to ask this.  [I have
NO 
> clue where else I COULD.]
> 
> My mother is in her 80s.  Her brother died nearly three decades ago.  In

> addition to searching our family tree, she is trying to write up
detailed 
> 'life stories' of those that she knew well.
> 
> She recently discovered that her brother had won a free plane flight
back 
> in 1953 for (apparently) some writing or presentation to the Boy Scouts.
> 
> She tried contacting the Boy Scout museum in Texas only to find that the

> 1953 issue of their paper that might contain the answer to her question 
> was the ONLY year around that time that they did not have available.
> 
> 
> So... her question is: How did 13 year old Bill Monahan win the Boy
Scout 
> Jamboree prize of an across-country flight in a jet plane in 1953?
> 
> 
> She said that she would pay $25 to the first person who could 
> definitively get her this information (possibly with a scan of the paper

> if possible, or other source), and her e-mail address for that response 
> is: Patmonaghan522@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Again, if this is not an appropriate place to ask this, I sincerely 
> apologise.
> 
> Thank you VERY much for any assistance with this.
> 
> ~Kirgo