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Supplement to the: HARLAN DAILY ENTERPRISEWeekend Edition, June 23, 2012

A GLANCE INSIDE:n 100th year celebration of B o y Scouts in Harlan County

n Will Ward Duffield, the origi-nal Boy Scout Commissioner

n First Harlan County BSA en-campment in 1912

n Scout photo contributions through the years

n A look back at Scouting in the 80s

n and more....

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The BSA provides a program for young people that builds character,

trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship and devel-ops personal fitness.

For over a century, the BSA has helped build the future leaders of this country by combining educa-tional activities and lifelong values

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100 year celebration of Harlan Boy ScoutsSid DouglassContributing Writer

We are celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Boy Scouting in Harlan County this year of 2012.

One of the earliest Boy Scout troops in Kentucky was organized by Will Ward Duffield in Harlan, Kentucky in the spring of 1912 and chartered by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America on June 20, 1912.

Considering the Boy Scout movement only began in England in 1908 and in the United States in 1910, it is extraordinary that one of the earliest troops was established in Harlan in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.

You would not recognize the Harlan of 1912. U.S. highways 421 and 119 did not exist. The railroad had just come to Wallins Creek and Harlan on its way to Lynch and Benham to serve the newly developed coal mining industry. As part of the industrial development of Harlan County at the turn of the 20th Century, financial investors from the east coast created the Kentenia Corporation, a land holding company that owned 50,000 acres of coal and timber land in Harlan and Bell counties. Kentenia hired Will Ward Duffield as its General Manager and sent him to Harlan in 1907 to survey, enlarge and manage the company land holdings. Kentenia’s largest stock-holder was Charles Henry Davis who had his offices in Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Another signifi-cant investor was Warren Delano who sent his nephew Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Harlan dur-ing the summer of 1908 to abstract titles for Kentenia.

Upon settling in Harlan, Mr. Duffield became an important business man in the community. He also became very active in civic affairs. He was a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church and was instrumen-tal in erecting in 1912 the brick church as we see it now. He served as mayor of Harlan, as a member of the Harlan City Council and as a member of the Harlan Board of Education. He was an active member of the the local Masonic Lodge that still bares his name. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Centre College. However, Mr. Duffield is best known as the father of scouting in Harlan County. He must have learned about scout-ing in his many visits to Mr. Davis’ office in New York where the National Boy Scout headquarters was located.

Mr. Duffield thought southeastern Kentucky offered one of the most promising fields for development of the Boy Scout movement. He was appointed commissioner of the Harlan Council by the National Council of the Boy Scouts and a charter was issued to the Harlan Troop

on June 20, 1912.The troop started with

57 boys and grew to over 100 boys. The troop was the main game in town. There was no football, baseball or basketball little league and no boys choir. Some of the char-ter members of the first troop were Earl and Virgil Brock, Taylor and John Forester, Arna Gregory, Carlos Gross, Hamp Huff, Raymond Jenkins, Owen Kelly, Fred Lewis, Orville Howard, Herbert Smith, Joe Cawood, George R. Pope, J.R. and Clyde Rice, Ralph “Castle Rock” Smith and Hobert Walker. Tom S. Ward Jr. was the Scoutmaster. The troop meetings were held in the Kentenia office on the sec-ond floor of the First State Bank building at First and Central streets. Pictures of the bank building and Mr. Duffield’s office have been provided to us by Dr. Fred Howard, Eagle Scout. He obtained the pictures from his dad Fred Howard who

was the last land agent in Harlan for Kentenia. Since the 1930s the troop meet-ings have been held in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church on Clover Street.

The charter group of boys took their first camp-ing trip in August 1912. The scouts hiked from Harlan, up Catrons Creek, crossing Catrons Gap and camped for 10 days at Smith. Mr. Duffield started the day at 5:30 a.m. with the raising of the national flag and ended the day at 9:30 p.m. with taps and lights out. Mr. Duffield’s written report of this camping trip is a fascinat-ing study of early scouting. In 1914 some of the older boys paddled canoes from Harlan to Cumberland Falls and camped under the overhang of the Falls.

In 1916 Arna Gregory and Ralph “Castle Rock” Smith earned the Eagle Scout Award. In 1958, I interviewed Mr. Gregory for a school paper and he

showed me his Eagle Scout Medal, which was a flying eagle not an eagle setting on a perch as we have today and have had for decades.

My father, J.B. Douglass was a member of Mr. Duffield’s troop and told me of the troops 10-day camping trip in 1928 on the Tellico River in Tennessee, where he said they were chased by wild horses on a bald knob and they were awakened one night when a bear raided their camp.

One of dad’s scout bud-dies was Murrell Cawood, whose son Steve Cawood has provided us with pic-tures of that trip. In 1957, Steve and I met at Camp Blanton at a Camporee and have been lifelong friends since.

My father told me that Mr. Duffield was a mesmer-izing storyteller. Around the campfire he would tell stories about his surveying experiences in Alaska, the western states and on the east coast.

He met Sitting Bull and other famous Indian Chiefs. He attended a meet-

Contributed photosBoy Scouts are pictured at a 1961 “Order of the Arrow” Conference at Camp Blanton. Members pictured are, back row: Richard Ackley (third from left), Sid Douglass, Steve Cawood, and Burt Douglas; bottom row: Burt Douglas (fourth from left) and Knox County/Laurel County retired circuit judge Lewis Hopper (sixth from left) are pictured.

Boy Scout meetings were held in the 1915 building pictured, which was owned by former sheriff Steve Cawood. It housed the bank and Kentucky Utilities as well as Kentenia Corporation where Duffield had an office. The building was located on the corner of First and Central streets where the Bank of Harlan is now located.

Third generation scout, Jesse Douglass is pictured in 1982. He is the son of Sid Douglass and now resides in Louisville.

Dr. Sanford Weiler is pictured at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs, Colo. in 1960. ing between Indian leaders

and government represen-tatives that took place in the winter on a frozen lake in Colorado. Mr. Duffield said the Indians were bare-foot and wore buffalo robes, but did not seem to mind the cold weather, but he thought he was going to freeze before the pow-wow ended.

During World War I, the troop members sold War Bonds and the troop band marched in a Liberty Bond Parade.

Down through the years the boys grew up and many became lead-ers in the troop. Cloyd McDowell and Willard Carmical were scouts and later served as scout-masters for Dr. Murphy Green, Hap Cawood, Charlie Pennington and Bob Newcomb. Dr. Sandy Weiler was Scoutmaster for Burt Douglass, N.S. Guy, Peter Dalstrom, Logan Weiler, Tommy Pope, Leo Miller and me. Dr. Weiler

took some of us to the 1960 National Jamboree in Colorado Springs, Colo. Leo Miller and I were scoutmasters of the troop when our sons Will and Jesse were scouts. We took the scouts back to Tellico Plains for a camping trip in the 1982. Returning home, we spent the after-noon at the World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn. Scouts Darby Bennett, Paul Douglas, Spohn Berger and Trey Berlin were also on this trip.

For the first 75 years, Mr. Duffield’s troop associated with the First Presbyterian Church was known as Troop I. In the 1980s the troop number was changed to 501 and is now known as Troop 149.

David Howard is the current scoutmaster and Will Miller is serving as an assistant scoutmaster in the troop where his son Mason is on track to earn the Eagle Scout Award. The legacy continues.

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Duffield was father of Scouting in countyEditor’s Note: This

story was published in the March 4, 1973 edition of the Enterprise

Mabel CollinsThe name of Will Ward

Duffield may not ring a bell in the minds of today’s youth, yet, he was so much a part of building the char-acter of Harlan’s young people more than 60 years ago.

Few other men have given so much time, money and effort to the youth movement of yesterday. W.W.Duffield organized Troop 1 Boy Scouts of America in Harlan. It was chartered June 20, 1912 and was the first Scout troop south of the Ohio River. The national organi-zation was formed only two years earlier.

Duffield was born Nov. 12, 1858 in Detroit. His father, Gen. W.W.Duffield, served on the Union side in the War Between the States. His young son became an engineer after college and later his travels brought him to Kentucky. He became associated with the Kentenia Corporation in 1908 and served until his death in 1939.

Harlan became his home and his interest was the welfare of boys. Many trips

were made to New York to learn about he Boy Scout movement.

As Scoutmaster and commissioner, his corre-spondences were numer-ous with headquarters and various firms. Cloyd McDowell has preserved hundreds of letter written by him and to him. One let-ter asked for application for George S. Ward and Elmer D. Hall to become assistant Scoutmasters. They were approved. W.T. Rice and George R. Pope were also associated with the first group of Scouts.

Many letters were writ-ten to companies con-cerning canoes and tents. One letter contained the description of the Minneola canoe. It read, “it is the most graceful and easiest paddling canoe ever built.” It was purchased in 1914.

The scouts made their first canoe trip down the Cumberland River to Burnside. It required sev-eral days. Arna Gregory recalled one of the first camping trips. They walked up Catrons Creek to Yancey and cross the mountain above Smith and pitched tents in a big bot-tom on the Martins Fork River.

“Mr. Duffield told us to strip the pine trees for

leaves to make our beds,” he said. “He showed us how to ditch around the tent to keep water out.” He said some of the boys car-

ried their supplies attached to poles and some used a haversack. They explored Harlan County hills from top to bottom and learned

from a man who was repaid only by the satisfaction of knowing he was helping young people to be good citizens.

Once he wrote national authorities and pointed out that as “Scoutmaster and commissioner I am making an effort to stop the sale of cap pistols in Harlan.” There is a law on the statute books which has not been enforced and we propose to enforce it, he wrote. One local store had purchased a quantity of the guns, but returned them to the company.

A few years later, Mr. Duffield organized a band within the troop. They played on the courthouse lawn and in front of busi-ness places. The band was joined by other musicians for “The Liberty Bond Parade.” D.C. Jones led the parade down Main Street in 1917. It opened the sale of bonds.

Some of the musi-cians were C.R. Shannon, Gregory, Henry Smith, Hamp Huff, Lige Huff and “Castle Rock” Smith. They carried banners and beat the drums.

Down through the years Harlan Boy Scouts came and grew up. In 1924 Fred Smith was a leader. Some of the young boys were H.W.

Smith, H.C. Rice, Duffield Rice, Cloyd McDowell, Carl Ward and Carl Smith.

McDowell has served twice as Scoutmaster, once in 1937 and later from 1950-54. He has been active in Scouting for 35 years. In later years Dr. S.L. Weiler was Scoutmaster along with W.H. Jones, Vernon Ackley, Harold Hurst and Waco Hurst. W.E. Arnold and Frank Cawood were instrumental in establish-ing Camp Blanton.

The first group, Troop 1, was sponsored by the Presbyterian Church. It is pretty special because it was the No. 1 Troop. It all came about because a man had the foresight to realize the potential and benefits boys could receive though the organization.

Mr. Duffield also initiat-ed Cub Scouting which was then called Junior Scouting. He recommended the “Order of the Arrow” to the National Council which is now a part of the history of scouting. The Harlan-Bell districts were named for Duffield.

There is hardly a Harlan family that hasn’t been directly associated with Scouting and may we never forget its beginning and the man who contributed so much …W.W.Duffield.

Will Ward Duffield, known as the father of Scouting in Harlan County.

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Troop 101 is pictured at Camp Davy Crockett in Rogersville, Tenn. in June of 2006.Contributed photos

Eagle Scout Joseph Turner is pictured in September 2008.

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LEFT: Eagle Scout Seth Murphy is pic-tured in July 2009.

BELOW: Eagle Scout Mitchell Alford is pictured in N o v e m b e r 2006.

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Duffield recalls Scouts’ 1st outingWritten by Will Ward

Duffield in 1912, a Harlan resident and Boy Scout Commissioner at the time. Contributed by Dr. Fred Howard who obtained it from his father, Fred Howard — all Scouts.

Our first encampment

August 19 to August 29, 1912

It is probable that the boys of the mountain sec-tion of Southwestern Kentucky offer one of the most promising fields for the development of the Boy Scout movement of any section of the country. Until recent years there was little communication with the outside world; educational opportunities were limited to from three to six months at small one room log schoolhouse, with a single teacher (often selected more on account of family connection than qualification for the posi-tion) who presided over a room full of children of all ages and all grades.

Under these conditions progress was slow and the present generation as a whole are sadly lacking in the educational advan-tages.

Home training in many of the mountain family’s was also sadly lacking and the children grew up totally uncontrolled. A few years ago should a stranger ride up to a mountain cabin the chances are that the children, especially the younger ones, would scur-ry for cover, and spy at the stranger from behind the shelter of a rock or tree to which they had retreated. Scarcely could you ever secure an answer to a ques-tion from either boy or girl.

These conditions are rapidly changing, the mountains are being opened up for develop-ment; good schools are being established, and the boys of the coming genera-tion will have advantages which their fathers never dreamed of. In no way is the real character and worth of the true moun-taineer more clearly shown then in his ambition, that his boy should have advan-tages of education, the lack of which he now begins to realize is a serious hand-icap to himself, and the poorest mountaineer is today making every effort to educate his children.

The children are excep-tionally bright and intelli-gent, and like new ground, proper cultivation, the results will be large and quick.

The boys of Harlan County lack training and no one realizes this fact more than their own fathers and mothers. They have roamed the streets of the town and surrounding hills almost uncontrolled and naturally acquired many habits injurious both to health and character. They are however, a hardy, stur-dy set of youngsters, self-reliance, courageous and quick to take advantage of opportunities offered them.

Such were the gen-eral conditions when two months ago we began the organization of the Harlan Council of Boy Scouts of America. The people of the town (as soon as the object

of the Boy Scout move-ment was explained to them) responded heartily, and fully fifty percent of the men of Harlan contrib-uted liberally in both work and cash, and our council represents all professions, churches and classes of our people, and today we have enrolled as Boy Scouts of America, over one hundred boys, between the ages of elven and eighteen.

A few preliminary hikes were made and on August 19th we started with a party of fifty-three boys and five scout masters and assistant scoutmasters for our first encampment, the description of which and the results accomplished thereby, this article is intended to describe.

The prime requisites for a successful Boy Scout camp are:1 – A good neighbor-

hood, not too thickly set-tled.2 – Abundance of pure

water for drinking and cooking purposes.3 – A large and adequate

swimming pool.4 – An ample supply of

fire wood for council fires and cooking.5 – Plenty spruce or

other evergreen timber for beds.6 – A dry and well

drained camping ground, and7 – A good region for

long and hard hikes.Considerable difficulty

was experienced in select-ing the campground but the site chosen on the head waters of Martins Fork at the foot of the Cumberland, or Stone Mountain, came very near filling all these requisites.

On Monday morning early (notwithstanding a lowering sky) we started for camp, to reach which we had a ten mile tramp, including the crossing of the Little Black Mountain, while the wagons with the camp outfit had some fifteen miles to travel by road.

The boys were raw and we made the tramp by easy stages, reaching camp at 3:30 p.m. in spite of having partially lost our way in crossing the moun-

tain, through an error of the Scoutmaster acting as guide, whereby the tramp was lengthened some two or three miles. The wagons had not arrived when we reached the campground and after a short rest the boys set to work collect-ing spruce pine for beds. It was nearly six o’clock when the wagons arrived, with a heavy thunder storm approaching. No time, therefore, was lost in pitching camp and we got all the tents up, baggage and spruce under cover before the storm broke. Cooking however under the conditions was out of the question, and we had to content ourselves with a hand lunch, canned corn beef, bread and water, and soon after turned in a tired but happy crowd of boys, among whom were thir-teen of our so-called junior scouts, under twelve years of age.

The next two days being rainy, we devoted the time to whipping the camp into shape and by Wednesday night it was in perfect order, with cooking furnac-es built the swimming hole well explored to be sure there were no dangerous snags or other obstructions which might injure the boys while jumping from overhanging limbs into the water, a telephone installed and the rules governing the camp published. Each boy was given a printed copy. These rules were strictly enforced and were as fol-lows:Camp rules

These rules will be strict-ly enforced during the stay of the Boy Scouts at Camp Martin.1 – Scouts will be

required to live up to and obey the Boy Scout laws.2 – No Scout may leave

camp without permission from officer in charge and must report his return upon arrival in camp.3 – No indecent or pro-

fane language will be per-mitted in camp.4 – Gambling, either

with cards or in any other form is strictly forbidden in or around camp and to Boy Scouts anywhere.

5 – The entire camp will attend the ceremonies of raising and lowering the National Flag, morning and evening.6 – Cigarette smoking by

Boy Scouts is prohibited, and they are urged to cut out the use of tobacco in any form.7 – Each Scout must do

cheerfully and willingly work assigned to him, including the preparation of meals etc.8 – Every person in camp

must use the regular latrine or outhouse and no other place within 200 yards of camp.9 – No table scraps or

other litter of any kind must be thrown upon the ground about camp and any Scout violating this rule will have to clean camp as a penalty.10 – The Scouts occupy-

ing each tent will be held responsible for the appear-ance thereof, and all tents and blankets must be well aired at least once each day.11 – Hours of camp:5:30 Turn out and attend

raising national flag. All boys rising earlier must remain quiet until 5:30 so as to not disturb rest of camp.

5:45 Morning bath6:30 -7:30 Breakfast7:30 - 8:30 Clean camp,

air blankets8:30 - 11:30 Recreation

and exercise of the morn-ing

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch12:30 - 5:00 Recreation

and exercise of the after-noon

5:00 - 7:00 Dinner7:00 Lowering national

flag.7:30 - 9:00 Council fire,

reports, complaints, trials, discussions stories etc.

9:00 - 9:30 Retire9:30 Taps, lights out.Will Ward Duffield,

Scout CommissionerW. T. Rice, ScoutmasterGeo. R. Pope,

ScoutmasterThoe. F. Ward,

ScoutmasterC. T. Michel, Asst.

ScoutmasterDavid Middleton,

Assistant ScoutmasterFor each meal cook-

ing detail was changed so that each boy got instruc-

tions in cooking under the able guidance of Assistant Scoutmaster, David Middleton.

There were but two heavy meals each day, breakfast at 6 a.m. and din-ner at 5p.m., lunch being prepared by each boy for himself.

Careful arrangements for supplies had been previous-ly made and our bill-of-fare consisted of:

Bread (light bread)Ham (country cured)Chickens (frying size)Potatoes (Irish)Bacon (country cured)OnionsApples (both eating and

cooking)Corn (roasting ears)To which the boys added

as individual means or skill, peaches, watermelons and fish. No can goods were used in camp save on the first night of our arrival. The capacity for consum-ing food by this crowd of boys was almost apalling, and one day’s rations con-sisted of the following:

1 bushel of Irish potatoes2 bushels of apples18 chickens18 dozen eggs50 loaves of light breadAnd yet the boys were

apparently always hungry.On Thursday the first

hikes to Cumberland Mountain were under-taken under the leader-ship of Scoutmaster T. F. Ward and Assistant Scout Master, C. T. Michel, each with a party of ten or twelve boys.

This mountain, which forms the boundary line between the states of Kentucky and Virginia, is ideally adapted to hikes, abounding as it does in huge cliffs, caves (locally known as rock houses) dense forest of spruce tim-

ber and other hard woods.From the crest at the

State line one can see for miles over Virginia, look-ing South over the famous Powells Valley to the Clinch Mountains in Tennessee, while to the north the view seems endless over the Kentucky hills. On the high-er portions of the mountain wild goose and whortleber-ries were still abundant and the boys feasted on them every day.

Some signaling with camp was attempted from the crest of a huge cliff on the mountain, but the dis-tance proved too great for signal work.

As the days went on, longer hikes were made, including one to Castle Rock and one to the Sand Cave, both on the Cumberland Mountain, the first being a fifteen mile hike, and the last a 20 mile hike, with about thirty miles of railroad travel. Both of these points are peculiar geological features, espe-cially the Sand Cave, which is a cave, or rock house, of from an acre to an acre and a half in extent, with high solid sand rock roof, and the floor covered to a considerable depth with a soft coating of sand, vary-ing in colors from white to black and through the various shades of yellow, red and purple. On this hike, under the leadership of Scoutmaster George Pope, the boys, (twenty-four in all) started at 5 a.m. crossed Cumberland Mountain to the railroad, four miles distant, then by train some 15 miles, climb-ing Cumberland mountain again to the cave, (which was half way down the north face of the moun-tain) a distance of about six miles, where they had lunch and remained dur-ing a heavy thunderstorm; returning the same way, they reached camp at 9 p.m., after having made 20 miles on foot, and some of the party were not twelve years of age.

The Castle Rock hike was a 15 mile tramp under the leadership of Assistant Scoutmaster Michel and included a five mile tramp along the rugged crest of Cumberland Mountain, over cliffs, some of which seemed almost impassable. Many smaller hikes were made during the encamp-ment, nearly all to the Cumberland Mountain, which, owing to its rug-ged character, was a favor-ite resort, and the boys explored it for miles in each direction.

On clear nights some time was given to astrono-my and the boys learned the North Star “Polaris” and how to identify it by refer-ence to the constellation of the dipper (Ursamajor and Caspiopaias Chair)

Among the activities,

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ContributedBoys Scouts met inside Duffield’s Harlan office shown here in 1915.

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ENCAMPMENTFrom Page 4

other than hike, of the boys were baseball, marbles, council fires, drilling, sig-naling etc., but the real joy of the camp was the splen-did swimming hole, which was full of boys from early morning until night, for the morning bath before break-fast was followed as a rule by all.

This pool was 75 feet wide fully 150 feet long, ranging from 3 to 10 feet in depth, and over the center of the deepest part hung a splendid beech, which the boys soon trimmed and equipped for easy climb-ing. Before camp broke they were jumping from the highest limbs in this tree 44 feet, measured, above the surface of the water, which just there was ten feet of water with a good sand bot-tom.

At our first council fire Scoutmaster W.T. Rice was formally tried and con-victed before a regular jury of misleading the scouts on our first days march. He was sentenced to treat the entire camp to water-melons, which penalty he cheerfully paid and the trial afforded considerable amusement not only to scouts but to visitors who attended same.

Among the last results

accomplished by the encampment were:First: Teaching the boys

to care for themselves every way. Including cook-ing, making of comfortable camp beds (for camp should be comfortable as well as a pleasant place to live) and the keeping of their person neat and clean, the proper care of their property and generally self-reliance.Second: The cutting out

of the use of the cigarette. When we started out fully a third of the boys were smoking cigarettes but they were shown that by the use of the cigarettes they vio-lated the last clause of the Scout oath, wherein they promised on their honor to “keep themselves physical-ly strong, mentally awake and morally straight” and they responded nobly, and only three cigarettes were smoked in camp during the entire stay after the first day. The pipe was allowed, but in the end we hope to eradicate the use of tobac-co in any form among the scouts.Third: Possibly the great-

est results accomplished was the entire suppression of profanity. When one realizes that of these fifty odd boys the large major-ity swore, and some of

them swore badly, the fact that during the last week in camp not a single oath was heard. The result was certainly gratifying. This feat was accomplished by the organization among the boys at one of the council files of what we have called

“The Boy Scouts Anti-swearing Society.”

The members of this Society pledged themselves, upon their honor as scouts, to cut out swearing under a penalty of a fine of one center for each oath, and further promised to report

all violations whether over heard by anyone else or not.

The scouts were not required to join this soci-ety, but after the writer had (at a previous council fire) described what a similar organization had accom-plished among a party of 60 men, the scouts took hold of the idea with a vim, and when the society was started on Sunday evening, August 25, all but seven of the boys voluntarily made the pledge and became members of the Boy Scout Anti-swearing society.

Of the seven who refused, four came the next day o headquarters tent and enrolled their names as members and the other three, though they did not join, promise to do their best to stop swearing and they have kept their word. The boys now plant to invite their fathers, even though not Scouts, to become mem-bers of the anti-swearing society. With the hope that through the efforts of the Scouts that profanity may to a very large extent be banished from the streets of our town.

During the 10 days in camp there was only one fight, no serious accidents, no sickness, only one boy raided a melon patch,

though there were plenty around camp, and this boy was tried, convicted, his uniform was taken away from him, sent home and suspended from the Scouts for a month.

We were exceptionally fortunate in having able Scoutmasters and assis-tants, who, while somewhat lacking in camp experi-ence, devoted their time and energy to making the encampment the success it proved to be.

The people of the neigh-borhood were so pleased with the conduct of the boy scouts that they have invited them to select the same sight for their next year’s encampment, and on the night before camp broke, they tendered to the scouts a social at the school house, about a quarter of a mile from camp to meet the young people of the neigh-borhood, where a delightful evening was enjoyed with ample refreshments, end-ing with the organization of a patrol of Boy Scouts at Smith, Kentucky.

Camp broke up on the 29th, after a most success-ful 10 days outing and the boys made the fifteen miles home in great shape, most of them reaching town by 2 or 3 p.m.

A profile photo of Will Ward DuffieldContributed

Jones awarded pin by grandson

Robert “Bucky” Jones is pictured as a young Boy Scout. His mission to become an Eagle Scout was brought to a halt by World War II, where he served his country in the Navy. When Bucky’s grandson, Matt Jones, became an Eagle Scout he recognized his grand-father for his service to his country as well as the Boy Scouts and awarded him an Eagle Mentor Pin.

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In the BSA, Scouting is considered to be one move-ment with three main pro-grams:

Cub Scouting is the larg-est of the three programs, available to boys from first to fifth-grade or 7 to 11 years. The program is designed to pursue the aims of character develop-ment, citizenship training and personal fitness. Cub Scouting is divided into age-based levels of Tiger Cubs, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear and Webelos Scouts.

Boy Scouting is the flag-ship program of the BSA for boys ages 11 to 18. (Boys who have achieved the Cub Scout Arrow of Light Award or have completed the fifth grade can join as young as 10 years old) It uses outdoor activities such as camping, aquatics and hiking to achieve the aims of character, citizenship and personal fitness training. Varsity Scouting is a sub-division of Boy Scouting available to boys ages 14 to 18; it adds a program of high adventure and sport-ing activities.

The Order of the Arrow is the Boy Scouting national honor society for experi-enced campers, based on American Indian traditions and is dedicated to the ideals of brotherhood and cheerful service.

Venturing is the program for young men and women ages 14 through 21. Its pur-pose is to provide positive experiences to help youth mature and to prepare them to become responsi-ble adults. Sea Scouting is a sub-division of Venturing focused on nautical activi-ties.

There are about 100,000 physically or mentally dis-abled Scouts throughout the United States. Anyone certi-fied as disabled “may enroll in Scouting and remain in its program beyond the reg-ulation age limits.

Scouting: 3 purposes

The Scout Oath for the BSA developed from the original ver-sion by Lord Baden-Powell, the main dif-ference was that the second line stated that “I will do my duty to God and the King.”

Worldwide howev-er, only four Scouting organizations — including the BSA — utilize the “keep myself physically strong, etc.” state-ment, and only Boy Scouts in the United States pledge “To help other people at all times”.

The Scout Law for the Boy Scouts of America was originally adopted in 1910. By 1911 it was adjusted to what it is today.

The original ver-sion by Lord Baden-Powell had only 10 points to the Scout Law (the eleventh and twelfth of the BSA version were added when the BSA was founded). The Outdoor Code is for optional use by units; the Scout Oath and Scout Law are man-

datory obligations.* Scout Oath

On my honor, I will do my best

To do my duty to God and my country and

To obey the Scout Law;

To help other peo-ple at all times;

To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

* Scout LawA Scout is trust-

worthy, loyal, help-ful, friendly, courte-ous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and rev-erent.

* Scout MottoBe Prepared

* Scout SloganDo a good turn

daily

* Outdoor CodeAs an American, I

will do my best, to be clean in my out-door manners, to be careful with fire, to be considerate in the outdoors, and to be conservation mind-ed.

The Scout Oath

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A look back at Scouting in the 80s

Scouts are pictured at a Scout-A-Rama in Middlesboro in 1987.

Scouts pictured with Spiderman at a 1980s Boy Scout Expo in London.

Scouts pictured at a Scout-A-Rama in Middlesboro in 1987.

Cub Scout Chris Mabelitini is pictured on Awards Night with Charles Mabelitini and Scoutmaster Denver Turner — Pack 535, Evarts.

Archie Ridings is pictured awarding the Presentation of District Award in December of 1986 to Denver Turner, Evarts Cub Scout Pack 535.

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Scoutmasters from Harlan County attended and participated in the Eagle Ceremony. Pictured are, from left: Gene Harber, John Derrick Noe, Gordon Pruitt Jr., Gordon Pruitt Sr., Sonny Noe, Jim Helton and Denver Turner.

Scouts James Troutman, Keith Jones, Seth Pryor and Tommy Lunsford are pictured at the 1988 Pinewood Derby, Pack 535 Blue and Gold Banquet.

Cub Scout Pack 535 members are pictured on National Boy Scout Sunday in February of 1988. They were sponsored by Evarts Congregational Methodist Church.

American Folklore skit by Evarts Cub Scout Pack 535.Gordon Pruitt Sr., Tim Lewis, Johnny Lewis and Louise Lewis are pictured in 1986.

Scouts pictured at a Scout-A-Rama in Middlesboro in 1987.

Scouts took part in the flag raising ceremony at the Evarts Post Office on Flag Day in the late 1980s.