The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1962-06-15
SCOUTS PURSUE
LOOT VIA CANOE
ON OUTER BANKS
Explorer Post "A From Indiana
Arrives After Canoe Trip
Through Dismal Swamp


A tired and sun-soaked group
of explorer scouts from Post A
in Muncie, Indiana arrived in
Manteo on Wednesday evening
after a grueling $50 mile trip by
canoe across the Great Dismal
Swamp and down the Outer
Banks in search of Blackbeard's
treasure.
The explorer contingent, COM
posed of nine youths and two
adult supervisors are nearing the
completion of a 400 mile journey
from Norfolk to Wilmington,
and expect to search for the Leg
endary treasure of Edward
Teach, the notorious Blackboard,
before proceeding to Whining
ton, North Carolina via the In
land Waterway.
The "super trip" as the scouts
call it, is sponsored by High
Street Methodist Church of
Muncie, Indiana and is made
possible through the sale of dog
tags, which the boys sell each
year at the Indiana State Fair.
The group left on Thursday
morning for Avon on Hatteras
Island, where they are expected
to run into navigational pro-
blems and rough water. They
expect to arrive at Avon on
Thursday and move on from
there to Cape Hatteras where
they will spend Thursday night.
Transportation for the group
consists of five two-man 17-foot
aluminium canoes, all rugged for
sails, and 19-foot cupboard
motorboat equipped with 75-
horsepower motor. The group
has been prepared for the ardu-
Gus journey. The explorer scouts
were tutored for the trip by a
swimming program which re-
quired each boy to swim one-and
-a-half mile every Saturday
since January. The boys alter
mated at swimming above water
and below, using aqualungs and
other typical underwater para
phernalia.
The group made preparation
fer navigational problems by at
tending a IS session training
course at a Naval Armory in
Indiana where they learned les
sons in seamanship, rules of the
road, weather, first aid and nav
al courtesy.
The youngsters range in age
from IA to IS. They left nine
Post members behind, who were
unable to make the trip. The
nine boys in the group include:
Steve Swanger, Eugene Grim
and Paul LaBerteauX, all IA;
David Gentry, David McNary,
Harold Grim and Paul Waid, all
Is; Jim Reese, 16; and Wade
Smith, 10. LaBerteauX, who is
the son of the post advisor,
Harold Grim Smith, and Waid
all made the annual trip for the
group last year, which was a
nationally publicized survival
trip of rs miles across the
Tundra of Canada.
The scouts are under the sup
ervision of A. o. LaBerteauX, Jr.
of Muncie, who conceived the
trip, and Arlan Count, an as
sociate editor of "Boys Life
magazine.
This is the first time LaBert-
eaux, who is a "a year-veteran Of
scout counseling, has attempted
to take a group of boys ovel
such an area of water. Five pre-
vious supper trips" were takeI
in Canada and one at the Ma
tional Boy Scout Jamboree helt
a few years ago in Valley Forge
LaBerteaux was in Norfolk earl
Ter this year making prepare
tons for the trip and did recon
naissance work on the area to b
convered by this years voyage
The scouts are accompanies
on their trip by Walt Babson,
"Boys Life" associate editor whit
will cover the story for thu
scouting magazine. The maya
zine editor will cover every as
pect of the journey, with part
cular emphasis on the cooking
chores. The boys bake their owl
bread, drink powdered milk AM
take along meat which the,
have had canned prior to depart
ure. s
Other trips, not classified a
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