Scouting, Volume 38, Number 8, October 1950 Page: 22
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EXPLORER SECTION
BORDER INCIDENT
1950
o n / /on Field Scout Executive,
fey JotWl 6. (JGXfe Narragansett Council, R.
ML "PLACE — 71° 48' 14" West Longitude,
41° 58' North Latitude.
"WHO MAY ENTER — Only registered Explor-
ers may compete. Crew of four Explorers will make
up a team. All Crew members should be from the
same Unit.
"WHAT IS IT? — Obviously we are not free to
explain the entire event. But we can say that this
will be the best Explorer event so far. It will be
rugged. It will demand the utmost physically and
mentally from the competitors."
Wouldn't those opening instructions interest the
Explorers in your District? They certainly did the
young men in Woonasquatucket District of Nar-
ragansett Council early last spring. Crews from 14
Troops and two Posts turned out for the Border
Incident 1950 held on April 1.
Continuing the build-up for the event:
"HOW YOU CAN PREPARE —Get plenty of
experience in following a given compass bearing
through woodland. Physical conditioning is im-
portant. Do a lot of hiking and rock climbing. Pre-
pare your Crews in emergency thinking, and weld
each into a team. Have them make lost kits con-
taining emergency rations high in protein — dates,
raisins, chocolate —first aid material, and emer-
gency fire equipment.
"WHAT YOU NEED —1. A good compass —
Silva seems to be the easiest to use. 2. Boots —
water proofed high-cuts, snow pacs, or rubber
arctics, with wool socks. 3. Tough warm clothing,
hunting type. 4. Trail lunch — you may have to
eat as you hike. 5. White or yellow cloth 18"x24"
and 4 safety pins — to be worn on back to enable
planes to spot Crews. 6. Lost kit."
If you are familiar with orienteering contests,
you have guessed by now that this is a cross-
country orienteering race. District officials joined
with Civilian Air Patrol officials to add the glamour
of planes and walkie talkies to the event and to
provide practice in the CAP method of lost person
searches. This was the beginning of an effort to
gear Scouting manpower into the work of emer-
gency service agencies of the area.
A four mile stretch of the Connecticut-Rhode
Island boundary comprised the course. Walkie
talkie communication was maintained between six
stations along the route and command posts at the
start and finish lines. Three planes continually
scouted the Crews from overhead.
At the starting station, which Crews left at
three-minute intervals, each Crew received this
note:
"THIS IS IT! One mile south on this road is a
control point manned by a Scouter and a CAP
walkie talkie operator. You are to proceed to this
point. Previously the Crew members had been
given the step-test of their endurance.
At the first station the Crew received these
instructions:
"You have just your compass to guide you from
this point on. Your bearing is 194°. Along this
azimuth is the state line. Every one-tenth of a mile
is a card posted on a tree with a code number for
you to copy. Each card is numbered from 1 to 29.
You should find all the cards.
"It should not take longer than six minutes to
travel from one card to the next. If you have not
found a card for ten minutes, SIT DOWN. You are
lost, and a search team is on the way to find you.
"This contest is based on (in the order of their
importance): 1. Cooperation, 2. Time, 3. Accuracy,
4. Interpretation of the problems which will appear
on some of the cards.
"KEEP CALM. USE YOUR HEAD. GOOD
LUCK!"
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