Philmont Scout Ranch aids senior Scouts on rugged trails
J F Sandoval guides Carl Hawkins and Don Rumsfeld at Philmont Cimarron New Mexico as 2200 senior Scouts yearly live on the trail. They learn first aid axmanship fire making cooking horsemanship and fishing during a 24 day stay on the vast 1 714 000 acre ranch. Willie Joe McCullers remains in an iron lung at Fort Worth while a seven year old dies in a nearby ward. Sammy Perry a 12 year old in Philadelphia battles muscular dystrophy and hopes to become a concert violinist.