Show 10 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 9 JUNE 14 1936 SUNDAY MORNING SCOUTS’ and SCOOTERS’ PAGE Swimming is a necessary accomplishment tor scouts Join Tritelevance dub swimming and life saving courses immediately “Once a Scout Always “Once a Scouter Always a Scouter” a Scout” Scores of Salt Lak scheduled to attend day Saturday at Creek canyon council troop Wig-o-ral- all ly Tracy Wigwam Mill At Giles Flat Council Camp Season Opens In Salt Lake Third Annual Outing in Canyon Contests Hikes Mark Program Grand Field Daj Will Start Rally Beginning Early Next Saturday When More Than 40 0 Scouts Met in Wilderness Comporal FourHundred Attend Camp 'e- By BILL TURNER Opening the Boy Scout camping Season more than 400 scouts from all lections of Utah participated Monday Tuesday and Wednesday in the third annual Utah state camporal at Giles flat in Big Cottonwood canyon In 1934 and 1935 the camporals were held on the grounds of the state capitol The camp was moved to the canyon location so the scouts would have a Wilderness campsite at which to test their camping ability Patrols attending the camp were those which received an “A” rating at one of the camporees held in The each of the four councils average weight of the packs in each patrol was limited to 25 pounds and all fires were Ignited by flint and steal or by friction Officials at Camp Oscar A Kirkham was the re glonal representative at the camp Other members of the camporal advisory committee were S D Young Ogden council executive In charge of checking in D E Hammond Salt Lake council executive ceremonies A A Anderson and Royal Stone campfire programs Preston W Pond Cache valley executive and Merrill Chris' topherson National Parks council associate executive program chairmen and Robert H Lamott sani- V - (A v--i : Scenes at Giles flat Big Cottonwood canyon where more than I picked scouts met Monday Tuesday and Wednesday in the Utah state wilderness camporal Upper left a view of the concluding assembly right Maurice Marler senior scout of troop 9 Logan attached to heswquarters at the camporal stirring a luscious dinner In the making Lower Raymond Droubay John and Kenneth Larson of the Blue Eagle patrol troop 21 Salt Lake council John is stepping Into a pair of overalls to keep his legs warm His companions are holding lumps of snow which was plentiful near the campsites 400 O Eld-red- Scouts Fathers Plan Beaver Creek Outing three-daWEST JORDAN- -A fathers' and scouts' outing wjl be 28 at Beaver held June 26 creek according to an announcement by Charles Beckstead West Jordan district commissioner Final plans were made at an executive committee meeting at which y 27-a- nd -: William J Leak and Joseph G Green were appointed chairmen of the outing W A Maybe has been named general chairman of the camp- He will be assisted by Charles Beck-stea- d and Royal B Beckstead - n ge Rains Block Wigwam Trip - t ' ' Win In Contest Interpatrol contests were held during the afternoon in which the following patrols won places: Chop- ping— First Eagle patrol troop 84 Salt lake council second Mooae patrol 46 of National Parks council third Guide patrol 61 of National Parks council Knot tying relay race— First Eagle patrol 84 of Salt Lake council second Beaver patrol 84 of Salt Lake council third Crescent patrol 9 of Salt Lake council Estimating (tied) — Crescent patrol 9 of Salt Lake council and Eagle patrol 84 of Salt Lake council Flint and steel —First Guide patrol 51 of National Parks council second Moose patrol 51 of National Parks council Water boiling— Guide patrol 61 of National Parks council Campfire programs were bald during the evenings of Monday and Tuesday Tuesday afternoon was completed with hikes by the various patrols to different parts of the canyon The Wednesday morning program featured an assembly of all of the scouts around the flagpole Here the program directed by Merrill Chrlstopherson included a dramatization of archery by gardes Robinson of the Deseret gymnasium Secret Word Many scouts were completely ignored when they addressed camporee officials After many slips they found that ths secret words necessary for recognition were “jo mun-kat- “ Plying deeper into the secret they were told that it meant “I am your friend" In many places on the camping site large snowbanks still remained from the winter blizzards Improvised refrigerators in soma camps employed the snow as ice while other patrols which chose their camp sites neighboring one of these simply buried their supplies in the now Camp pets became numerous be- fore the three-da- y stay was finished Several scouts were able to capture a small inowshoe rabbit which Immediately took up residence in one of their shirts A small kitten appeared In camp and the dogs which came to visit their masters were numerous The camp broke at about noon Wednesday and the aunburned and weary but happy scouts plodded Weather conditions were home Ideal with a warm sun overhead and a cool breeze blowing through the canyon r tr s j mi eV‘ u W Y?1 tryt Arm J Tales of Real Dogs Men t ? Pay son Terhune Red and Queenie— Bloodhounds of the Law Perhaps you may remember the several short stories about bloodhounds which were grouped Into one of the articles of this series some time ago Today I want to tell you about two bloodhounds which “broke into the news" last year They were Red and his mate Queenie and they were stationed at the Hawthorne barracks of troop K Of the New York state police For almost a year they had been kept d sorrel there (along with a colored giant of a bloodhound named Hamlet!) before the public at large knew of their existence But during those long months they had been doing magnificent work not only as trackers but as savers of human lives It was not the policy of the police to advertise the presence or the work of the hounds They were there for work— for grim hard exciting work— not as an advertisement And they were doing that work in splendid fashion owed their lives Then there were other persons whom they located and who no longer were living when they were found ' Gne demented man was reported missing A shirt of his was given to the hounds to sniff The two went straight to the front door of a house about three miles away and scratched eagerly at it The troopers asked the people of the house if strays sad-eye- For example Whenever neighboring children strayed from home or ran away or were lost the state police of troop K were notified The troop’s captain Christopher Kemmler would hurry to the home of the missing child In the police car with him rode Red and Queenie Would Find Children Kemmler would ask for some garment that had been worn by the absentee He would give it to the dogs to sniff Deeply they would inhale its scent Then straining at their leashes they would cast about nostrils to earth until at last they found ths odor of the garment's wearer Off they would start along that trail even if it were faint and if the scent was stale with time or if other footateps had crossed the track Unerringly they followed Sometimes they had not far to travel Again the distance might be seven miles or so At the end of It always they found the person they were seeking In less than 10 months the two dogs tracked down and found 12 person nearly all of them lost children who still were alive but who might not have lived If they had been allowed to go on straying through cold forests and at the verge of swift rivers To Red and Queenie some of these Utah Is Leader In Scout Work they had seen the missing man They denied seeing him or ever having heard of him Straight Through House For once it looked as if Red and Queenie had struck a false trail and had been fooled But the two hounds dashed into the building and straight on through to the back door and out of it The troopers who held their leashes had trouble in keeping up with them They still had faith in their dogs in spite of the setback A long distance farther on the n body of the crazed man was found by them in a thicket The people of the house were sharply They admitted at last that the man had run In through the front doorway and so on out through the back doorway At the first questioning by the police the folk of the house had denied this for fear of trouble with the law Red and Queenie were vindicated On a chilly December night the two hounds followed the footsteps of a crazed old woman to the shores of Croton reservoir There Queenie sniffed at the brink lapped a few drops of the reservoir water and then lay down - Her mate plunged into the icy lake and swam around in a circle some 25 feet from shore until Captain Kemmler called him back That night the reservoir froze solid When the ice broke up in early spring men were sent to drag the bottom of it at the spot where the hound had swum in circles Deep in the mud the bqdy of the old woman was found Now let me tell you how Red and Queenie "broke into the news” to greatlength and with photographs of themselves and of their trainers: Boy Disappears One September morning in 1935 young Grover Whalen Jr went from his father's Dobbs Ferry N Y home to say goodbye to some friends in the neighborhood before starting for boarding school in the early afternoon He was to be back In time for lunch But he was not back in- time for lunch nor later He had not visited any of the neighbors he had planned to visit Nobody had seen self-slai- cross-question- Utah with 60 per cent of its boys registered scouts leads the nation in scouting and the L D S church with 75 per cent of its boys registered scouts leads all other churches in scout participation according to Dr Ray O Wyland national director of education and relations Boy Scouts of America Dr Wyland will address final sessions of the L D S Young Men’s Mutual Improvement association annual conference! Sunday and ha addressed sessions Friday and Saturday He also addressed a meeting of Olympus district scouters and clergymen Saturday in Dick Gunn’s cafe ‘The pastor or priest of a congregation" said Dr Wyland "does not have time to be scoutmaster but he should delegate one of his rlghthand men to lead the boys He also should maintain close Vital connection with the scout program “We never conduct encampments without religious observances and we feel that basically the scout program has a spiritual foundation The national council never has given less emphasis to religious participation by scouts We feel it is an essential and that the church which has the confidence of parents and Is a natural meeting center of the community Is in moat cases the logical sponsor for scout troops “We encourage participation of scouts in religious activities and observances and feel that a spiritual motivation should exist throughout the scouting program" V v wig-o-ral- ly J v a At the camporee the Salt Lake council was represented by 19 pay trols the Utah National Parks council by 18 Ogden council by 12 and the Cache Valley council by nine making a total of 58 patrols in camp The longest trip to the camporee was made by a patrol from Moab a distance of 300 miles The farthest point north represented was Trenton east Greenriver and west Hinckley Patrols checked in at 2 p m Monday after having traveled by many modea of transportation to the canyon site An orange hunt at 5:30 a m Tuesday assured early rising of every scout and opened the morning program which Included a detailed Inspection of the half mile long oamp and a scavenger has-bee- "Will-O-Rall- Mi o tation hunt Salt Lake City council’s camping season will be initiated Saturday with a grand field day and rally beginning early next Saturday and continuing all day All scouts and scouters are invited Lemonade will be served without charge and a varied program arranged the Termed the event will begin with a treasure hunt at 10 a m Scouts at that time will be divided into teams for the remainder of the day’s activities Bring Lunches Scouts will bring their own lunches and dinner and should bring cup for lemonade The day It Is anticipated will serve as the first real camping vacation for hundreds of Salt Lake City scouts Approximately 90 scouts will be V at the camp Thursday and Friday attendpreceding the ing a training session prior to making the Tracy caravan trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks Many of theee scouti are expected to remain at the camp to participate In the council function The regular summer camp schedule at Tracy Wigwam will begin Monday June 22 A number of projects improving the Wigwam probably will be completed at that time Including rerouting the canyon highway north of the athletic field Paul Y Dunn recently appointed Wigwam director for this summer has plans completed for a number of optional activities scouts may enjoy at the camp Camp Steiner Granddaddy lakes area retreat will open for the regular season July 25 Registration for week periods at the camp is now the largest in the history of the camp The staff at Oamp Steiner this year will include a hikemaster who will conduct at least one overnight hike each week with a number of shorter hikes leaders who will assist boys in winning merit badges OGDEN — Camp Kiesel Ogden camp and S S Barton veteran in canoeing rowing pioneering scouter will return as program area council camp in South Fork camp handicraft including making diBob Buswell is morale of souvenirs and leaders for an canyon will officially open Monday season with nearly rector for the season for an and Bob expanded nature program 150 Boy Scouts and leaders in at- Blakeley and George Lowe Jr will ‘HoteL’ Plan tendance be in qharge of waterfront activity “hotel” The plan of camping this Troops registered for the opening and safety on the lake season is rapidly being abandoned week with about 20 boys expected Rigid rules regarding boat operait Is to attend in each group are troop 9 tion to guard against accidents will by council troop this year sooutmas-te- r scout- be enforced officials have an- reported Instead of the Walter Grossenbach Jr or patrol leader providing cookmaster troop 14 F W Smith nounced and care has been taken to utensils and assuming major ing 17 21 new Alf Anderson train the leaders for the troop phase troop responsibility for menus each scout Pat Quinn troop 24 Eden Beutler of activity own outAbout 1300 boys are expected to is expected to provide his troop 27 Earl Hansen and troop 51 own in meals his and fit arrange Milton Yorganson attend camp during the season Mr cooperation with his fellows The new lake constructed by C Lowe said Shelter cabins to be constructed The new lake is 1000 feet long C C workers last winter will give not A the camp an attraction long needed and nearly 200 feet wide along most as part of a W P project are expected to be completed this President George H Lowe of the of its length Some 10 boats have season council states Boating swimming been provided The dam built by canoeing and a wide variety of the Hyrum C C C camp bridges water games will be inaugurated South Fork canyon at “The Nar- S L Council Studies Monday when the first seven or- rows” and backs the water up past s the junction of Wheat Grass and ganizations meet to open Camp Program Extension eleventh season Causey creek canyons nearly to the S Dilworth Young council execu- foot of the rise on which the main As a means of enriching program tive again will be director of the lodge stands possibilities SaltLake council and pack chairmen will compile a list of all possible pack and den projects whether or not the projects have been put to the test it was announced Saturday by Scouts vs Forest Robert H Lamott council field executive in charge of cubbing activiBy BILL TURNER ties Decision to gather the list of projThis scoutatorial is addressed not that 61 per cent of the fires were ects was reached at a meeting of only to scouts but to the citizens started by campfires Thousands of cubbers June 4 in the Hotel Utah The cub leaders also decided to of Salt Lake City In many parts scouts and citizens this summer court of of Utah we have a natural resource will visit near-b- y canyons and wil- recommend to the council which not only supplies beauty to derness camps where they will en- honor committee that some type of our state hut is a protection to our joy campfires Any one of them recognition be given to scouts who watershed This is our forests may be the cause of a forest fire if have aided in cub work by serving 1931 and from the years During safety precautions are disregarded as den chiefsof The list projects will be disThe location of the campfire has including 1935 4956 acres of timber were destroyed by fire in our own much to do with the safety factor cussed in detail at the next regular Wasatch forests alone The loss They should be in the open away meeting of cubmasters and pack 3 from trees and dry grass A ditch chairmen Thursday night July 2 during these years amounted to and included 264 fires The dug around the fire will preveht it in- the Hotel Utah tragedy is that 93 per cent of these from spreading underground When fires according to the U S forest you break camp put the fire out Fishermen Anxious service were the direct result of with water and dirt Scout fishermen are awaiting carelessness by humans Do your part Prevent the fires with keen anticipation the opening Behind these figures is the fact by safety precautions on your out- of roads to the Granddaddy lakes that every acre of land destroyed door hikes If you find persons in area Fishing at Scout lake is one means not only the loss of land- the canyons disobeying the rules of of the most popular diversions since scape beauty and timber for com- the woods remind them of the facts the waters are kept well stocked mercial purposes but the loss of or report them to the canyon ranger with trout More Isolated lakes protection to valuable watersheds We want our records clean this offer even better fishing and are We are concerned with the fact year! within hiking distance from Camp Steiner (Continued on Page 14 B) Annual Outing Scheduled for June 27 Rain and cold weather caused postponement of the annual outing of the D3C and the SWPL from Saturday May 30 at the Tracy Wigwam Mill Creek canyon until Saturday June 27 at the Wigwam Invited to the party are all district commissioners both Explorer and scout and their ladies Formal initiation into the District Commissioners’ Comradeship circle of the Scout Widows’ Protective league is not required prior to the outing Games and contests will be held at the Wigwam during the afternoon for those who care to come early Dinner will be served at 7 p m and a program will follow J Reese Baird chief comrade of the D3C and Mrs T L McKean chief rolling pin thrower of the SWPL will be aided by the following chairmen: Vaughn A Cutler refreshments Art Schleder program and Charles E Price finance Troop Hikes Twelve Miles Members of the Pine Tree patrol 64 at Springville proved themselves to be real "wilderness" campers Monday when they were forced to hike 12 miles to the Utah state camporal The scouts had made arrangements to come to Salt Lake City in a truck loaded with cement The trip went well until the truck reached the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon and was unable to make the grade Bailing out Patrol Leader Loraine Allen and Scouts Billy Bradley Shirley Thorpe Joseph Allen and Ralph hike to Griffiths began the the camp at about 5 p m Monday After sleeping in the lower part of the canyon overnight they checked into the camporal at 5 p m Tues of troop le Asm' I Ogden Area Council Camp To Op en Officially Monday Kie-sel’- rs SGOUTATORIAL 1-ir-es $37-63- In Italy Germany Investiture Ceremonies Elimination of from Italy and Germany and Mark Hyrum Camporee ments introduction of militaristic izations among youths there has Boy Scout move- organ- day The patrol leader reported that HYRUM— Investiture ceremonies the patrol is right at home with this “stop and go” method of hiking fbr 100 Cache valley council tenderand that they make many camping foot scouts and dedication of the trips around Springville Trappers’ Cache monument near BILL TURNER Hyrum with an audience of more than 1000 persons were features of the council camporee held June 5 Council Will Enter Archery Tournament Archery teams of several districts of Salt Lake council will enter teams In the council archery tournament June 27 in Jordan park Dean Green council archery commissioner will be in charge Events will include the wand shoot junior American round Af rican hunt and clout shoot Equipment of the archers accord ing to experts is far more perfect than in past centures enabling more accurate shooting ' Beauty in Utah Natural beauty of Utah forests and mountains is now conceded to be at its height Spring flowers are in blossom in the higher altitudes and grass and tree foliage is at its most verdant hue and 6 George Albert Smith member of the national executive board Boy Scouts of America presented the tenderfoot badges and Harold M Peterson chairman of the court of honor committee was in charge of the investiture ceremony J Cecil Alter member of the executive committee of the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks association gave an historical sketch of early Cache valley at the monument unveiling ceremonies He related that more than 16000 pelts mostly beaver furs were cached near the monument by Jim Brldger and sev6 eral companions the winter of The furs were taken to markets both east and west during the The cache succeeding two years was made so cleverly that neither vermin nor Indians molest4 U 1825-182- re- moved one of the most potent facOther speakers were Mr Smith tors for International good will and master of ceremonies John D peace in the opinion of scout Giles executive secretary of the leaders Trails association and Oscar A Kirkham associate regional executive The dedicatory prayer was ofSpy Class for the fered by William H Reeder Jr Ogden Scout Edgar Allred offered Week the invocation and O M Wilson silver beaver pronounced the benediction Wednesday and Thursday: Romance was added to the specta7:30 p m—Camp leaders’ traincle by the arrival of impersonations ing course in the Murray L D S of Jim Bridger and trapper cereFirst ward recreation hall to be monies with a pack horse and furs given by Royal B Stone council A group of Indians from the Fort field executive Completion of this Hall reservation also arrived by or an equivalent course Is required canoe from across the large dam of all leaders who conduct sumE J Wilson Sr Hyrum related the mer camps story of the killing of Weber Jack Friday: Funds for the monument were 7:30 p m— Tritelevance club raised by scouts and explorers of meeting on sixth floor of Tribune Cache valley area and by public building to be followed immedisubscription ately by swimming and life savMore than 100 scouts and exploring course at Deseret gymnasium ers participated in the camporee Swimming pool which was held on the high school Saturday: 10 a m and all day— of athletic field Instead in the river bottom because of the wet weather opening field day at Tracy Wigwam Mill Creek canyon All Separate camps were held for junior and senior scouts scouts and acoutera invltei - Wig-o-ral- 4 ly |