Scouting, Volume 50, Number 9, November 1962 Page: 14
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M
ws
In your council,
district, or unit
GOLDEN GIFT. Wondering about a
holiday gift for your favorite Scout or
Scouter? A suggestion: The Golden
Anniversary Book of Scouting is an ex-
citing and comprehensive collection of
Boy Scout history, pictures (over 300),
and practical information. Superb illus-
trations—most of them in color—include
paintings by Norman Rockwell, plus
many line drawings and sketches by
Scouting's founder Lord Baden-Powell.
Available at most bookstores as well as
your Scout distributor and council
office. Published by Golden Press. Inc.
$4.95.
BIG SHOTS. Last November, Ex-
plorers of Ashkum District (Pokagon
Trails Council) triggered their first
father-son event—an Explorer-Dad Tur-
key Shoot. Participants brought their
own rifles (.22 cal.) and ammunition.
The competition took place at the Mini-
ster (Ind.) Police Range. A $1.50 regis-
tration fee for each father-son team
paid for prizes.
East Texas Area Council (Tyler,
Tex.) likes its Explorer-Dad Hunt each
November. This two-day adventure,
held in the Davy Crockett National
Forest, features a venison barbecue on
Friday night and venison stew on
Saturday.
FAIR INCENTIVE. Pleasant voices
help promote roundtable attendance in
the Lincoln Home District. Springfield.
111. Their "Minute-Maid" telephone
squad, composed of Den Mothers, for-
mer Den Mothers, and Cub Scout
Mothers, calls all district Cubmasters.
Den Mothers, and pack committeemen
before each roundtable, reminding
them of the date and outlining the
night's program.
FOWL INCENTIVE. Four turkeys
helped bring Scouters out to last year's
November roundtables in The Apple
Core District, Daniel Boone Council.
Reading, Pa. Each person attending
the roundtables was weighed, and the
14 units having the heaviest total got the
birds. Two packs and two troops were
lucky recipients.
PREVIEW NIGHT. "Every Boy
Scout troop should hold a Webelos
night at least once a year"—recom-
mends Tioughnioga Council, Cortland,
N. Y. The plan: Your troop develops a
list of all Webelos Cub Scouts in neigh-
borhood packs, then invites the boys,
plus their leaders and dads, to a special
meeting. The program includes cere-
monies, songs, games, contests, demon-
strations, introductions, and refresh-
ments. It might also feature a history
of the troop and a preview of future
activities. As a variation, each Scout
can be assigned Cub Scouts to person-
ally invite and accompany to the
meeting.
GET A LIFT. The next time you
feel like throwing in the Scouting
towel, stop in at a council office and ask
to see the Eagle book—a handsomely
bound volume kept by many councils
with a page for the advancement record
and photo of each Eagle Scout. Flip
through the pages, and if you don't get
a lift from those clear-eyed, clean-cut
young fellows looking at you, nothing
else will do it.
PICNICS PREPARED. S ome
groups on the college campus in Bryan,
Texas, have no facilities for preparing
food for their picnics. Explorer Post
735 takes orders, buys the food, has it
prepared by a committee of mothers,
delivers it to the picnic, serves it, and
cleans up. Mothers take turns as the
food chairman. The post treasurer han-
dles all financial details.
BY THE BAGFUL. First Saturday
in May Scouts of Tall Pine Council
distributed 69,000 empty bags for
Goodwill Industries in three counties
BOB WHITE'S PALS. Some of the
5,000 multiflora roses planted by
Troop 10, Austin, Texas, are distrib-
uted by Assistant Scoutmaster David
Carson. Theron Carroll of the state
game and fish commission, and con-
servation merit badge counselor, told
the boys that the two-mile border
they planted around a farm would
provide food and shelter for quail.
around Flint, Mich. A week later they
collected 53,000 full bags—an 84 per
cent return. This will provide 66,000
hours of employment for handicapped
persons who refurbish the material
collected.
"NEW EAGLES." With this head-
ing and a picture of the Eagle badge,
the Great Plains Council in North
Dakota recognizes its new Eagle Scouts
each month in the council bulletin. The
boys' names, unit numbers, and com-
munities are listed, and they are wel-
comed into Scouting's highest rank.
300 CANS. At charter renewal time
Pack 211 wanted to show its apprecia-
tion to its sponsor, the First Baptist
Church, Memphis, Tenn. The four dens
collected 300 cans of food and pre-
sented them to the pastor at pack meet-
ing for distribution to the church's
needy.
GIFT TO VILLAGE. President Paul Kostka of guess what village in Wisconsin
receives signs from Scoutmaster Gene Janssen and patrol leaders of Troop 57,
same village. Scouts made the signs for the highway through their community.
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