Scouting, Volume 55, Number 2, February 1967 Page: 2
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Camping, Canoeing, and Cooking merit
badge requirements have been extensively-
revised. Camping and Cooking are now
better related to each other. Canoeing
contains better safety training and prep-
aration for canoe trips. The 1967 Boy
Scout Requirements book will contain the
new requirements.
Parents' Magazine's 12th Annual Youth
Awards program has recognized five B.S.A.
units for outstanding service to their
communities. Receiving 1965-1966 Youth
Group Achievement Award Certificates of
Honor were Troop 70, Colorado Springs,
Colo.; Post 836, Cincinnati, Ohio; and
Troop 165 and Post 2165, Mount Carmel, Pa.
Troop 29, Leland, Mich., was recognized
with a Special Certificate for Continuing
Service.
The Buffalo (N.Y.) Area Council, B.S.A.,
was recently designated "Youth Conserva-
tion Group of the Year" in the Second
Annual Conservation Achievement Awards
Program, held under the auspices of The
New York State Conservation Council, Inc.
The program is sponsored by the National
Wildlife Federation and the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation. Especially recognized was the
council's emphasis on conservation proj-
ects at camp and in the units, its con-
servation special-interest program for
posts, and its Explorer Conservation Camp
that has trained many leaders and influ-
enced many youth toward conservation
careers.
The official film of the XII World
Jamboree will be produced by Pure-Pak, a
division of Ex-Cell-0, who also produced
the last World Jamboree film 4 years ago.
That award-winning film, entitled Higher
and Wider, was translated into 19 lan-
guages by the U.S. Information Agency. A
shorter, commercially distributed version
of Higher and Wider (Jamboree at Marathon)
has had an estimated audience of more than
23 million persons in the United States
and Canada.
Members of the first Apollo flight crew
were all Scouts as boys. They are Command
Pilot Virgil I. Grissom (Star Scout),
Pilot Roger B. Chaffee (Eagle Scout—and
a former assistant Scoutmaster), and Pilot
Edward H. White II (Second Class Scout).
The backup crew for this initial pre-
moonshot flight, scheduled for the first
quarter of this year, is also an all-Scout
team! They are Command Pilot James A.
McDivitt (Tenderfoot Scout), Pilot Russell
L. Schweickart (First Class Scout), and
Pilot David R. Scott (Life Scout). Of the
54 astronauts named since our manned space
program began, 46 were Scouts.
The Future Farmers of America recently
presented a special citation to the Boy
Scouts of America for our continuing in-
terest and cooperation in supporting voca-
tional agriculture students as they work
to develop agricultural proficiency, rural
leadership, and responsible citizenship
and patriotism.
Coming Events in 1967;
Boy Scout Week, February 7-13.
57th Annual Meeting, Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, April 12-14, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Region 9 Annual Meeting, May 12-13, Fort
Worth, Tex.
XII World Jamboree, August 1-9, Farragut
State Park, Idaho.
10th Jamboree-on-the-Air (International),
August 5-6.
XXI Boy Scouts World Conference, August
11-17, Seattle, Wash.
52nd Anniversary National Conference of
the Order of the Arrow, August 28-
September 1, University of Nebraska
(Lincoln). □
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