Lost Scouts Worry Folks
(Special to The Republic)

TEMPE, March 22 Parents of Tempe Boy Scout Troop 79 were considerably worried Friday night when a busload of about 42 boys failed to return on schedule after an all-day trip to Four Peaks. The boys left early Friday morning accompanied by Scoutmaster Eddie Scales. They went up the trail into the mountains from Cottonwood ranch, tramped over the mountain trails, located an old air plane wreck and when it began to get dark started back to the bus. Then they discovered two of the boys, Bruce Larson and Bobby Tillery, had taken another trail and apparently had become lost Pete Wang, junior assistant scoutmaster, and two other boys went back looking for them. By that time it was snowing and darkness had come, but they finally found the lost boys. Returning they had to wade a 50-foot wash filled with about 6 inches of water and were cold and wet when they finally reached camp. I One of the boys killed a rattlesnake and one of two dogs who went along got mixed up with a cactus and had to be carried. The weary, footsore boys arrived in Tempe about 12:30 a. m.