Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
COURT OF HONOR
MAKES AWARDS
TO BOY SCOUTS

! Boy Scouts participated last night
| in the first court of honor of the
| season. which took place in Elks'
Hall, with Harry Horton as chair
man.
Preceding the meeting the boys
| sketch and Troop enacted clever
shadow pictures for the entertain
| ment of parents and friends.
/ The formal part of the session
| opened with the presentation OF
/ colors by Bud Tondro, Delno Hook
cit and Bradford Kilgore, and
! Charlie Thomas gave the Scout
; laws.
The chairman introduced S. l..
McCrory, former scout executive,
and now chairman Of the camping
committee, who presented Troop q
with the camp pennant for 1880.
This troop, of which Charlie Jobes
is scout master, won the pennant
for 63 per cent of its membership
at the camp the past summer. This
is the same troop that won the flag
Presented by w. s. FaWcett some
years ago for having the largest
camp attendance.
Second class badges were present.
ed by Horton to Scouts: Troop 16,
Harlan Daily; Troop 81, Milton
Lawrence. Bradford Killgore, Paul
Marsh and Gyle Baker.
Mrs. Charlie Jenny had the honor
of pinning a first class badge on
/ her son, Charles Jr.
Mr.. Jenny presented following
Scouts with merit badges: Troop Il,
Rollie Clark, pathfinding, fireman
snip, dairying, hog production,
swimming; Randell Conner, path
finding, life saving, swimming, fire.
manship; jim Burke, pathfinding
swimming, cooking, life saving; Pat
Bush, pathfinding, cooking; Mr..
Jobes, farm home and its planning.
Troop Seven: Charles Jenny, lite
saving, swimming. pathfinding, CT
vics; Joseph Brunner, life saving,
swimming; Donald Douglas, cooking
and athletics: w. E. Capps (asslS-
tant scoutmaSter, wood carving,
bugling, plumbing; Dale Nice, farm
home planning; Robert Mayfield,
firemanship. Troop 25. William Du
Bois, Chester Veliquette. Warren
Brock, Edward Burns, agriculture;
Frederick Veliquette, first aid and
agriculture; Henry Moline, lie
saving, agriculture. Several camp
merit badges we're also presented.
lue of scouting and scout advance
With fitting remarks on the va
ment, S. L. McGrory presented Pat
Bush and Rollie Clark, Troop u,
with star badges.
No Court of Honor is complete
without the presentation OF at least
one eagle badge. Rodney Hansen
Troop 7, was called before the court
OF honor and his mother, Mrs. John
P. Hansen, was given the pleasure
of pinning an eagle badge on her
son. Rodney received the biggest
ovation of the evening and when
called upon for speech said, IN
part, that he does not intend TO
drop out of Scouting but is going
on for more merit badges and for
the eagle palms.
w. F. Robson, scout executive,
showed a reel of motion pictures
taken of the local Sea Scouts from
Imperial Valley, Yuma and El Cen
tro on their trip to Sea Scout Camp
at Catalina the past summer. The
pictures were very well arranged
and showed clearly why the boys
had such a good time and why Sea
Scouting has place for the older
scouts. The audience got real
kick of the pictures, and 1t is hoped
that other activities of the local
Scouts can be filmed.
The first fall Court OF Honor was
decided success. They will be
regular thing from now on" states
Mr.. Horton, "and the public is m
vited to attend and enjoy them