C i j'vOU s w Its purpose: to make a young man out of a hoy , Its method: to require selfdiscipline, dedication and team work; to expect each boy to do his best. During its 75th year, Boy Scouting continues to attract boys through a combination of traditional values and outdoor adventures. After a drop in membership during the late '60s and early '70s Scouting membership is up all across the country, including Brunswick County. Chris lngrams. county coordinator for the Cape Fear Council, Boy Scouts of America, estimates that more than 400 boys and 50 adults actively participate in Scouting in Brunswick County. Of the 17 county units, seven Cub otuui pucks '.uc locatea in inland, Southport. Bolivia, Supply, Shallottc and Ash, while 10 Boy Scout troops are located in Leland, Southport, Bolivia and Shallotte. Cub Scouts are boys seven through nine, Webelos are 10-year-olds making the transition into Boy Scouts, w ho are ages 10' z up. Explorer Posts include both senior high boys and girls. Scot BY BORIS WEINTRAUB National Geographic News Service uuut'i i oiepnenson omym naoenPowell, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Daniel "Uncle Dan" Beard never heard of Tiger Cubs or Varsity Scouts. They probably would have disapproved of female Explorers. And who knows what they would have said about merit badges in atomic energy, space exploration, or golf? On the othr hand, those three pioneers of Scouting would have thoroughly understood the mission the Boy Scouts of America adopted in 1983: "To serve others by helping to instil! values in young people and, in other ways, prepare them to make etical choices over their lifetime in jichicviiig their full potential." Would have been pleased to know those values are based on those found in the Scout Oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey ihe scout I .aw; to lw>ip nincr people at all times: to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." IV itlliiluU ksHmmm x?.U. On Feb. 8, the Boy Scouts of America will mar it its 75th anniversary, three quarters of a century in which more than 70 million Americans have vowed to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent -the 12 tenets of the Scout I.aw. The culmination of the celebration will come in July with the National Scout Jainbcree at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., with the end of the Heritage Campfire Caravan. Beginning in May, a Heritage Campfire will be lighted outside every state capitoi. Ashes will be put into a wooden box the shape of each state and added to a caravan that will zigzag, capital-to-capitai, 7,600 miles apffi?? rrua miinirv- in -'A nati* in Jamboree. There, the boxes will be assembled into a map of the United States and ceremonially burned, "uniting the councils of the Boy Scouts of America in a pledge to continue providing a meaningful program for America's youth." If that all sound a little grandiose and abstruse, well, that's the way it's been since the earliest days of I _ _ ! -I ?_trv JUi ii 1 Gets Award One of the recipients of this years Silver Beaver award from the Cape Fear Councii, Boy Scouts of America, is Leo Johnson, city executive of United Carolina Bark in Shallotte The Stiver Beaver is the highest award a Boy Scout council may bestow on its leaders The award recognizes those adult volunteers ?w??C hoV? n*'-1 ??rw? ov er a period of time to youth and programs os the entire council. The award was presented at the council's annual recognition banquet PrtdSjT flight it BbdillbOfO PnfTmry School wh?r? volunteers from Brunswick, Pender, Columbus. Bladen and Sew Hanover counties were recognized Observe Ingrains said Cape Fear Council is v< discussing the possibility ox beginn- t! ing the county's first Explorer Post at the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department. The largest Scout unit in ; southeastern Brunswick County is i Troop 287. sponsored by the Shaliotte I American legion Post. Cecil Logan | serves as Scoutmaster and Bill I Sledge as Assistant Scoutmaster to 31 boys. Like other troops it has reorganized, growing from eight members two years ago to its current strength of 31. That number includes three boys approaching Eagle rank and six Scouts voted into Order of the Arrow 1 membership by their peers "We're going buck to Boy Scouting j basics?pioneering skills such as map and compass and where a boy learns to cook over an open fire and to pitch a tent." Logan said recently. For Scouting this is a special week in a SDecial vear. Scout Week beonn with Scout Sunday, Feb. 3. Troop 287 members benan their observance by conducting an opening ceremony at the morning worship service at Shaiiotte Presbyterian Church. Weather permitting, the Wolf. Viking and Cobra patrols plan to end the SJ jfs To Mi nfj-T'v -wZ ''o>Jw(*d?'(K? 11 ARTIST NORMAN ROCKWKI.i. did a almost every year from 1925 through is" tlvlties. uniforms, and gear, he became age of the Boy SrouU of America. Th Hand." Scouting, and it's worked pretty well. There have been numerous changes in American society in the Boy Scouts' 75 years, and they have had to adapt They now seek out black, Hispanic, and handicapped youngsters. They welcome 7-yearolds into the Tiger Cub program and young women into the co educational, career-oriented Explorer posts. The "Official Boy Scout Handbook" now warns of druu abuse and teaches first aid for ratbites as well as for snakebites. Merit badge lists have been updated to mcorpoi ate new fields of interest. Campfires And Knots But the handbook still shows how to build a campfire and tie knots, a return to traditional Scout concerns after a flirtation with "relevance" in a previous edition And membership roils, after a precipitous decline from a "baby bocm" peak of 5 5 million in 1972, have begun to edge upward once more after dropping to 4 3 million by the end of 1979. Sow, says a spokesman at Scout headquarters in Irving, Texas, membership is over 4 7 million, having risen about 45.000 in 1964. Of that number. 11 million are adult Scout leaders; the rest are Tiger Cubs, Cub D~. C---.4- -rA F The father of Scouting was BadenPowell. who had written a book for soldiers on how to function in the field while serving the British Empire When Baden-Powell returned to England a hero after holding on a v-?r\ ii i reek with an overnight campout at [ r?e iegion Hut. i The campout will give them an op- i 1 I mm wm H pf BOY SCOOTS of Troop 287 con ceremonies at Shallotte Presbyteriai in recognition oi Scout Sunday, w'nicii of Scout Week, Jan 3-10. Pictured at ti are Kyan Cooper, Keith Logan, Roy ILL TRUSTWORTHY, L irk 75Y< jry * HiSSf^Mnifi ? ^ BRn^^j' v," ^'ligjS fl )j f>lr^ Mr< m npyfigt'* 0?? t'O^ 0?^h- . ? r.l i'0?.n A A'g?l0" ol ? toy ol Am*f>?o painting lor the Boy Scout calendar IS. Through his portrayal of Scout ac closely Identified with the ideal imis 1946 work was titled "A Guiding boys as a guide to life In the outdoors. Baden-Powell decided to rewrite the book especially for boys, and took 20 of tlieiu camping fot two weeks on an island, wliere he trained them in tracking, first aid, woodcraft, and other outdoor skills. The result was "Scouting for Journalist To Keynote Boy Scout Banquet *- - ?- . _ ..?P J. . / ! It L a r?_ t. rwiiiKi ham; oim/m iM/at r i oiia Blair will be the keynote speaker at iiie Cape Pear Council's annual Ragle Scout recognition banquet March 1, at the Wilmington Hilton Blair is himself an Ragle Scout and V\'?c ^ unnC j n 'ii if ifitii Vi w.u Ragle Scout award He distinguished mentator and journalist as well as being active in rnarry civic and community endeavors Tickets to the banquet may be purchased by mailing tit 75 per ticket to the Boy Scouts of America, P O. Box HX. Wilmington, NC TtMfl At Ikallottt Point MING HOMI WDCHtUIV 0*54* At SHAllOTTf POINT GtOCltT * j linfriAMi I IU! I IV/R I jortunity to start earning some of the 75 i7 special Diamond Jubilee patches ssued in observance of Scouting's sa . m IP wS C&Ati lii Y iducted opening Long (bearing flag), i Church Sunday the second row, froi i marks ihe suiri master Cecii Logan, lie front from left Toby Russ and ndr Allen Kirby, Pat lA'ggett. OYAL, AND HELPFUL ears Of C Boys," a 'combination of postVictorian moral urgings and practical advice. It became the basic text of the British Boy Scouts when they were founded in 1908. The following year, a Chicago newspaper publisher, William D. Boyce, got lost in u thick Uindon fog. A young boy appeared and helped 1 Boyce find his way. When the J publisher proffered a one-shilling tip, the boy?soon to become legend as the "Unknown Scout"?replied, "No, 1 sir, I am a Scout. Scouts do not accept tips for courtesies or good t turns." Intrigued, Boyce visited r Scout headquarters to learn more. In t 1910, he organized the Boy Scouts of I America. i / _4 -L. VOIVII | v . . QJpMr : /A M ? ICOUfl C ^ / | /'or 7J years, strength of ckm ly join in celeh tion! This tribu iVisr 0] Doi Herl u I Brunswick THE BRUNSWICK BEACON, Thi ri Si ir\i!c^? KA th anniversary. P Their parents won't be forgotten, id, l-ogan. "1 believe in full parent tl "mmm -v /"* Mi l tvh v igi c ?fffV <#*( ? - ^ " ,V-J" Uj? . /?' j ' . r |\B Mi liu^. o MHI1V MM* PMOIORV SUSAN USHIA Kyle Young and Bryan Snow. On m left, are Jeff Williams, ScoutCharies niiiiams, Sonny l.cggcti, nl.sistrative Scout volunteer BUI 70od Dei Touches Special Chord Other groups dedicated to helping roung boys learned self-reliance ilready existed, including the Woodraft Indians, organized by Seton, a winter and naturalist, and the Sons >f Daniel Boone, formed by Beard, in illustrator and outdoorsman. But nost were soon folded into the Boy tenuis. The orguntzutlon succeeded or 75 years in touching n special hord in millions of American hoys. Perhaps the best explanation for his comes from William Hillcourt, etired national director of Seout raft and uuthor of the most recent, mck-to-bnxics. Scout Handbook, iiiicourt scorns tnc tdcu that \ // FtliR b \ ' ^ ' the Hoy Scouts rui'tftr nn.fi hiirh ith ?rating this outstun itc to scouting s/>o sh Harbour Golf fster Bay Goif Hi ug & Diana Stana boT Nutrition SuporvHort. 57' nited Carolina B Russ Ford-Chrysh G & M Interiors ; Electric Mernbei \ irsday, February 7, 1985?Page 9-A ^ I I articipation." Some of his Scouts' parents sta\ throughout troop meetings. They'll 11 be invited to a campfire supper aturday night prepared and served y their sons. Both district and council camtorecs will be held in Brunswick tounty this year. Other activities iulude day cuutp, a golf tournauieiit, a ouncil raft race at Holly Shelter and ingle parent weekend, family day ad Scout camp at Camp Bowers. All these activities contribute to a antral nuruose. "The intent of Scouting is to make i young man out of a boy," said sjgan. It does so by instilling in the niltii soli-disiMpltno, control of '.'1 Melons. a sense of security and selfvnrth PB?ni?n! for nlilnrc fiixl >atriotism. Plus, he siiiil, unlike doing the Vietnam era, their uniform tives them a sense of pride. "They learn things in Scouting they don't learn anywhere else," he add ed. The more tangible skills range from building table and chairs ftom the trees around them to how to can for equipment. The intrinsic benefit are harder to pinpoint, but stay with a Scout throughout his life. Scouting has to be "in tune with the times." Bven In 1908, he told Robert W. Peterson, author of a new history of the Boy Scouts, Scouting was out of tune with the times: "The idea of cooking your meal over on open fire when you mother at home wns perfectly willing to cook your meal pvor a coal fire, and this idea at silling around a campfire when you had a perfectly good kerosene lamp buriug in your living, room at homo?it whs exactly because it was idiotic tuul out of tunc with the times that nuule Scoulim nppeaiinK. it noes buck to tie atavistic tlnnn thai is supposed to be in every human being to play Tartan and iiobinson Crusoe and so on ~ 1 UARV 3 to 9 -* "ST" * k '< I9IO-I9H1 /i//signified hIs. We proudulinfj; orffjiniznn sored by? Links nks land 9651 1 ink 3r rship Corp. m MAfrjn