Scouting, Volume 48, Number 7, October 1960 Page: 13
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VOTERS GET OUT. A leader called the council
service center and requested the use of our training
room on November 3. The secretary explained that
the room was reserved for the eitv elections on that
date. Then came the question, "Do you suppose they
could change the date?
Jess Wheiler, Field Seout Executive
Cache Valley Council
FULL UNIFORM. At our Christmas party I gave each
boy in my den an official Cub Scout blue and yellow tooth-
brush. Later we presented a program at a meeting of the
P.T.A. I told the boys to look real sharp with shoes
shined and in full uniform. The youngest Cub Scout ar-
rived in full uniform, proudly wearing his toothbrush in
his shirt pocket.
Mrs. Dan Ryan, Den Mother
P.T.A. Pack 57, Blanket, Texas
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UNDAMPENED SPIRIT. Before we got the tents
pitched, the rain started and continued all night.
Next day with our gear loaded in the camp cart we
started out of the woods. We came to a small stream
that had washed out the support under one end of a
bridge. Tenderfoot Seout Bill Phillips and I. both
soaking wet and weary, were maneuvering the cart
over it. We stopped to rest, and Bill said, "Mr. Noth-
nagel. when are we going camping again?" I looked
in hi s eves and saw beaming there a love of Scouting
that surmounted our miserable situation—and that
would help him earn the Eagle Scout Award later.
Therefore, I'm glad I replied, "Bill, let's not discuss
that subject at the present moment."
W. P. Nothnagel, Scoutmaster, Troop 50
Rosemont Congregational Christian Church
South Norfolk, Virginia
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MAN TO MAN. In our household, consisting of a Scout
committeeman, a Life Scout, a Lion Cub Scout, and a
den mascot (dog), I believe I received the supreme com-
pliment when our Cub Scout said, "Mother, you are
really a boy inside; you just look like a girl outside."
Mrs. James A. Cast, Den Mother
Pack 14, P.T.A., Marion Ohio
POISE UNDER PRESSURE. While driving on a
Pennsylvania highway with his father, Scout Jack
Scott of Paoli came upon a head-on collision. The
parents of a two-year-old child were seriously in-
jured, and the child was lying in the road, bleeding
profusely.
Jack immediately applied pressure at a facial point
on the youngster to stop arterial bleeding. He main-
tained the pressure in the ambulance. At the hospital
an attendant suggested releasing the pressure, but
Jack courteously asked, "Are you a doctor?" Receiv-
ing a negative answer, the boy said he would hold on.
This he did until a doctor gave permission to let go.
The child's mother said she had never seen a boy
with such poise in an emergency.
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WASH OUT. A Scout was showing his mother around
the camporee. Pointing to the clothesline, he explained,
"I fell in the creek, and there are my clothes drying."
Mom glanced down the line and exclaimed, "But what's
that awful looking rag at the end?" "Oh. that's our dish-
cloth."
Mrs. John Eisle, Peoria, Illinois
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