Boy Scouts Will Open Their Camp Sunday, June 18 Cape Fear Area Council To Open Summer Camp On Own Property For First Time In History For the first time in its his* tory, the Cape Fear Area Coun cil, Boy Scouts of America, will open summer camp on its own property along the shores of beau tiful Lake Upchurch, located six miles Northwest of Parkton on Rockfish Creek. A visit to Camp Tom Upchurch will show you a frenzy of activity j among carpenters, plumbers, brick masons, and laborers as they go about their jobs of building tent! platforms, completing a huge cement block dining hall and kitchen, putting in water and sew age systems, and completing the swimming area and dock in or der to meet a June 12 deadline. The facilities for camp will be among the most modern in the state and yet the camp will retain much of its original rustic beauty. Camp Tom Upchurch will have much to offer a Scout in the way of training and fun. The water front will be staffed by three counselors. Directing the aquatics program will be Carl “Sonny" Sewell, Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 86 of Lumberton. Sonny is an Eagle Scout and has twice completed the Boy Scout National Aquatic School. Assisting him will be Ellis Ehle, a member of Ex plorer Ship 5024 of Wilmington, and graduate of the 1950 National COURTNEY ROOFING CO., Inc. Roofing and Siding Contractors TELEPHONE 3121 -SOUTHPORT, N. C. — also — CRESCENT BEACH and CONWAY, S. C. Build-Up Roofing, - Asphalt Shingles Aquatic School. Serving as a Junior Staff Mem ber will be Luther Hayes, Troop 74, of Laurinburg, who made an outstanding record in aquatics last year at Camp Klahican. Acti vities on the waterfront will in clude rowing, canoeing, swimming and Lifesaving methods. David M. Brown of Elberton, Georgia, formerly Director of Aquatics at Camp Bert Adams of Atlanta, Georgia, graduate of the National Aquatics School, Eagle Scout, graduate of the Citadel, Charleston, S. C., where he was a member of the Rifle Team and qualified as an Expert Marksman, will direct the camp rifle and archery ranges. Brown will also assist in many other activities on the camp schedule. Charles Stone, Star Scout, of Troop 52, Laurel Hill, will be manager of the Trading Post and serve as Camp Clerk. Stone will have his hands full keeping cold drinks, ice cream, craft materials on hand and issuing supplies to all the Scouts coming into camp. Jack Wagner, Jr., Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 86, Lum berton will be Dining Hall Ste ward and see to the general sanitation in camp. Gurney Bracey, Jr.,' of Troop 22, Pembroke, an Eagle Scout, will be on the Junior Staff and work in General Program Acti vities. C.arl T. Knott, Field Executive of the Cape Fear Area Council, Tobacco Needs TOBACCO POISONS Of All Kinds SPRAYERS and DUSTERS HORSE-DRAWN SPRAYERS TOBACCO FLUES.... Complete New Sets or Replacement Parts MINTZ & CO. Hurry L. Mintz, Jr., Mgr. SUPPLY, N. C. will assume the duties of Business Director and will be in charge of all purchasing and the operating of the dining hall, kitchen, trading post, and seeing to it that an adequate amount of good food is served to tickle the palate of the most tempermental eaters. Mr. Knott will also contribute to the program in camp. Elmer Stevens, Scoutmaster of 72, Bladenboro, will be the Camp Provisional Scoutmaster and As sistant Director of Program. Dick Auger, Field Executive the Cape Fear Area Council, will be Director of Program in camp. Many exciting activities will, be featured on the program of Camp Tom Upchurch, nature hikes at the crack of dawn, forestry, bird study, reptile study, pioneering, first aid, botany, crafts, and many other of the difficult and hard to get Merit Badges. On the waterfront, a Scout can expect many thrills and spills for there will be aquatic meets which will include gunwhale jumping, boat races, canoe tilting, swimming races which will include relays on land, water, boats, and canoe. On the rifle and archery ranges, Scouts will learn the correct use of the riflfe and bow as governed 1 by national safety regulations. Matches will be held at the end I of each camp period to determine the best rifleman and archer. ■ Every precaution will be taken for the health and safety of the Scouts in Camp. A Scout must have a physical examination both before and after he arrives in camp. He is immediately given a swin test to determine his ability in the water and placed in an area and group that fits his ability. During swim periods six to eight life guards are on hand to supervise and observe the swimmers. There will be one adult to every eight boys in camp. In the evening after the days’ activities are over, a Scout will thrill to the throb of Tom-toms as the Order of the Arrow lakes over a campfire program in all their Indian regalia. Yarns, skits, and high inspiration will fill each camper with a mellow feeling of fellowship with new and old friends. In order for a boy to come to camp, he must be a registered Boy Scout and should make re servations through his Scoutmas ter to the Cape Fear Area Coun cil, Boy Scouts of America, Tide Water Building, Wilmington. There will be four one week periods of camp, starting June 18. Campers arrive on Sunday after 2:00 P. M. and will leave after noon meal on Satin-day. The camp fee is $14.00 per week where eight or more Scouts from a Troop come with their leader and individual Scouts pay $15.00 per week. 4