The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-05-30
Boy Scout Comporee
Soturdoy-Sundoy

Scouting activities were decidedly
on the upswing in the Libby area
Saturday and Sunday with a good
attendance of scouts and scouters
from Eureka, Troy and Libby tax
ing part IN camping and scout con-
tests
The campfire Court of Honor Sat-
urday evening, presided over by
Paul Church, District Chairman of
Advancement, made awards to the
following scouts: Roger Switzer,
Libby, Music merit badge; James /
Peltier. Robert Curtis, Robert Korn, |
Warren Hanson, Don Leonard, Gaius
Clark and James Slater all of Eur |
eka and Bob Polette of Libby, Sec
ond Class badge. J. R. Culver,
Scoutmaster of the Eureka troop,
presented two new troop members
with their Tenderfoot Scout badges.
One of the highlights of the two
day Camporee was a short talk by
Robert Fltzsimmons who seVed as a
Scout in the British
army under Lord Baden-PoWell, ORR
glnator of the Boy Scout movement
IN England from whence it spread
to the United States in 1910.
A lively, impromptu softball
game OF innings between Eureka ;
and Libby troops. with the Tray Il
patrol divided between them, re-
suited in an astronomical score for
the Libbyites which, however, was 6
pretty we'll eVened up when the n
scout contests were finished. Re-
iults of the contests are summarized n
IS follows with winners listed in I
,rder: {,
Compass-Eureka, Troy, Libby; t
,!rst Ald--Eureka, Troy, Eureka; e
Ire Building-Libby, Eureka, Lib
y; Peg Driving-Libby, Troy, Eur g
ka; Signalling-Eureka, first with al
roy and Libby incomplete. The II
our boys from Troy did remark al
bly, well for their number and b.
'ould have provided keen COM
clifton for the other troops if W
ley had been represented with M
w more boys. lu
Rev. ShotWell conducted a church
,rvice for the scouts Sunday morn A
g at 8:l5. Fl
Leaders for the two day Camp
zee were Paul Church, Advance ofl
ent Chairman, o. L. Gillespie, 81
lstrict Chairman; George Markin, Ct
ouncil Field Executive; A. c. Aus
l, District Committeeman; the ~
'outmasters. Ivan Hodges, Troy; ~.
K. Culver, Eureka, and Rev. Clay o." o.,
n M. Shotwell, Libby; Life Scout, 81
'bert Clowers and Robert Fitz- sir
nmons. oII
Scouts. present from Eureka we % S a2t
alter Chalcraft, TroOp Connan- 4 ', f.
r; Patrol Leaders James Peltier. Fp
ID Korn, Don Leonard and Tom h,,,
Ambrose; Assistant Patrol Lead n',I
Bob Curtis, Warren Hanson and FGI
Jus Clark, and Scouts Donald 81,
rney, Clifford Curtis, Tommy a aS-ii
alcraft Frank Wetzel, Chas. Bron- any
|, James Slater, Timothy Peltier, TO
mmy Sicily and Vernon Stock SA'
:. Scouts coming from Troy were
bert Peterson, Robert Laffoon, G
van McDOugal and Herbert Coff- hat
n Representatives of the Libby all
OPP present were Bob Clowers. IN
Assistant Scoutmaster; Roger eve
itzer, Sr. Patrol Leader; Don the
omson, Bob Polette and Wayne T
erSon, Patrol Leaders and Scouts the
e Thomson, Alan Sherman, Ern- by
Engle, Bob Potter, Bob Conn and plea
en- Kreymer. muir
he Scouters and Scouts extend AZ
II appreciation to Al HameI for an an
use of his fine camping area.
Hamel visited the camp and was tn
lnded of several incidents of his FRS
hood days in northern Canada. JOIN
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