The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

The program for a rally to be held
by the white and colored Boy
Scouts Of the district council during
early February was announced last
night by David Lilies, scout execu-
tive.
The white scouts will hold their
rally Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, February 8, at Robert
Strange playground.
The colored troops will hold their
rally on February 6 at 1880 p. m. at
st. Thomas Hall.
Troop IA, of Wilmington now holds
the rally trophy for the white scouts
of the district council and troop 101,
of Fayetteville, holds similar honors
in the colored division.
The events to be staged are:
1. Inspection: Troop will be lined
UP in company front and under COM
manu of the senior patrol leader. The
inspection officer will grade each in
dividual Scout on basis Of being cor
rectly uniformed. n%eatness, discip-
line. Ten points is perfect score for
uniformed Scout. Five points will be
maximum score for Scout in civilian
cl-. es. All Individual points are to
be added together and divided by the
number Of active Scouts on roll at
headquarters February 1. Judges will
especially look for the following in
sigma: community strip, troop num-
eral, patrol medallion, badge OF
rank, service stars.
2. Knot Tieing: The first nine
knots listed in the handbook for
boys. Troops will furnish own rope
for knot tieing. The knot tier may
have one helper to hand him the
ropes and read the list of knots, but
the helper may not tie any knot.
All rope will be on the ground and
tier will hold hands over head Until
command is given to begin.
8. Fire-by-friction: The rubbing
sticks method will be used this year.
One Scout to represent troop. Troop
furnishes own equipment.
4. Signaling: Either Morse or SEM
aphore. Troops will furnish one team
consisting of four Scouts. One read
err, n sender, one receiver, one
writer. Troops must furnish own
flags, Morse code sets, paper and
pencils, etc. The message will be
given the reader three minutes be-
fore the event begins. Upon a sig
nal the reader opens the message,
and upon receiving the second sig
nal the senders will begin. Message
will take approximately three min
utes semaphore, six minutes Morse
to send.
5. Rescue race using firemans
carry: Five Scouts to make up team
Tie race will be in relay fashion
Number one stands at mark about
=; fifteen yards from numbers two
four, and five. The last four are
living on their backs with their heads
toward the rescuer. Upon the wore
CO., number one runs to number
two, picks him up and brings him
back to the starting line. At n in
slant the rescuer and rescued eros!
the starting line the rescred becomes
the rescuer and goes back for number
three, and so on until number nv
: is brought across the line. The team
first to get all members across tn
line is the winner. No equipment !
leeded.
6. First Aid: A party Of fou'
Scouts are going through the wood
and find a fifth Scout lying by tn
side of the path in an unconsc1ou
condition. Upon examination the!
! ascertain the Scout is suffering fron
I a fracture of the left thigh, and ]
n therefore suffering from a bad cas-
= Of shock. His right hand is also bad
ly skinned. 1t is impossible to get
T doctor to the injured boy, and the!
must improvise from their ow
c clothing some sort of s~tretcher wit
: Uhich to carry him. It will also o.
5 necessary for them to improvise al
a other bandages except that found II
# the belt first aid kit. The teams ma
: bring Scout slaves, or po.es such a
they would ordinarily find in tn