Scouting, Volume 58, Number 6, November-December 1970 Page: 7
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man Land, $2.45, Hart Publishing Com-
pany, 510 Sixth Avenue, New York,
N.Y. 10011. Primarily for parents con-
cerned about potential or actual drug
abuse among their children. Should
also be helpful to Scout leaders. Spe-
cial chapters are devoted to preventive
measures, how to spot drug use in
young people, and where you can go
for help.
Common Sense Lives Here, $2.00,
National Coordinating Council on
Drug Abuse Education and Informa-
tion, Suite 212, 1211 Connecticut Ave-
nue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. De-
signed for community groups and in-
dividuals who want a sensible way to
approach fellow townspeople about
drug abuse. Presents specific steps to
mobilize community support; includes
a list of treatment centers, hospitals,
and other places for help on drug-
abuse problems.
CORRECTION: BSA catalog number
for BACKPACKING by R. C. Rethmel
is No. 3520 instead of No. 3592
as noted in the September-
October issue of SCOUTING
MAGAZINE. Please use this num-
ber when ordering from the BSA
Supply Division.
WELL WORTH KNOWING. More
than 6,300 college ROTC scholarships
for 1971-72 are available through the
U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Printed materials about these scholar-
ships can be obtained at local offices.
Next annual competition for U.S.
Coast Guard Academy appointments
will begin in December. Appointments
are on h competitive basis with no con-
gressional appointments or geographi-
cal quotas. Each applicant must be un-
married, have a high school diploma,
have reached his 17th but not his 22nd
birthday by July I, 1971, and have his
application in before December 15 to
the Director of Admissions, U.S. Coast
Guard Academy, New London, Conn.
06320. Applications are available from
the Director of Admissions or from high
school guidance counselors.
Women may now serve as members
of unit committees (including chair-
men), district and local council operat-
ing and special committees, and re-
gional and national subcommittees.
Approved uniform for such women is
the one currently worn by Den Mothers
and Den Leader coaches. Women will
continue to wear their identifying Cub-
bing badges, while other women Scout-
ers will wear an embroidered universal
emblem on the left side of the blouse
or dress and a metal pin—an outline
of the universal emblem—on the cap.
... The recent international Boy Scout-
Priesthood Encampment conducted at
Letchworth State Park, N.Y., by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints ("Mormon") attracted almost
2,000 Boy Scouts and adults from 14
states, the District of Columbia, and 4
provinces in Canada. . . . The 1971
Scouter 16-day tour to Japan still has
a few vacancies, first-come, first-
served. Cost for the flight leaving New
York and Chicago on July 21 is $ 1,078;
the flight I eaving Oakland, Calif., on
July 29 is $968. Both flights include
meals, porterage, tax, gratuities, sight-
seeing in Japan and a visit to the XIII
World Jamboree. For details, write to
Scouter Tour, Boy Scouts of America,
North Brunswick, N.J. 08902. Please
enclose a stamped, self-addressed en-
velope. . . . Scouting's birthday in 1971
will be called the Anniversary Celebra-
tion of the Boy Scouts of America in-
stead of Boy Scout Week, and will be
observed throughout February. The
new name better describes the BSA
anniversary celebration that includes
Cub Scouts and Explorers as well as
Boy Scouts. . . . Following the tornado
that hit Lubbock, Tex., last May, Boy
Scouts, Explorers, and leaders of the
South Plains Council pitched in. They
worked around the clock helping work-
ers and residents in destroyed areas,
setting up cots, assisting with wood
service, cleaning up street debris, and
distributing relief supplies. One Scout
organized a toy campaign for children
who had lost everything. Troops and
packs from Amarillo and Dallas, Tex.,
and Altus, Okla., sent truckloads of
food, clothing, and household goods to 7
the South Plains Council for channelling
through the Red Cross and Salvation
Army. The Order of the Arrow also
joined in this "Duty to Others" service.
. . . More than 125,000 handicapped
boys are currently enrolled in Scouting,
most in so-called "normal" units. More
than 40,000 boys are registered in
2,434 units sponsored specifically for
handicapped Scouts. Among the many
organizations working with the BSA to
serve handicapped youth are the Dis-
abled American Veterans, National
Association for Retarded Children,
Association for the Deaf, American
Association of Instructors for the Blind,
American Foundation for the Blind,
United Cerebral Palsey Association,
National Education Association, and
the American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recreation.
COMING EVENTS 1971: May 26-28
—Our National Council Annual
Meeting in Atlanta, Ga. . . . Aug.
2-10—XIII World Jamboree, Japan
. . . Saturdays—Boy Scout Ham
Radio Net, 1800 GMT, 21.360
MHz.; net control WA7GOO
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