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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1960)
Medford Tribune ' ' fc-iiiSiiitiMiiiiiiiwiat,iirftMtttiiW-iiiM")fim 111 ii i h MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, I960 Boy Scout activities are taking on a deeper significance in 1960, for it is the Golden Jubilee year of the organization. Coming important events include four annual Scout-O-Ramas, one to be given by the Big Pines district March 12 and others in Grants Pass, Yreka and Mt. Shasta March 19. Earl Yoakley, chairman of the Crater Lake Council Scout-O-Ramas, is shown presenting a neckerchief slide to Tim Brooks, Cub Scout of Pack 3, sponsored by Roosevelt Parent-Teacher association. Tim was one of the first Cubs to earn a prize by selling 10 tickets f-r the event. ttKmJ i n j&& 'TT v rnr r rtrt h i t j t s I - &&t T-,, v nil I t - it&t I f fww T-v. 5- . 1 I II I I I I I I .INK KW1 Ktiffl 1 f'r MVEftRS of SERIflCEh sr COlKlTBf i If - As it travels along tho highways of the West, this trailer of the Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight line focuses attention on the Boy Scout Golden Jubilee. Painting of the trailer was arranged by Jim Baker, San Carlos, Calif., advertising manager for the firm. . . and it will be in Medford during the coming Scout-O-Rama. i 1 - torn. ' M. N. Hogan (at left) and Col. W. H. Paine are two "grand Scouters" of the Crater Lake council. Mr. Hogan was a scoutmaster when the council was formed in 1924, served as council president in 1927-29, is a member of the council's executive board and one of the five trustees of its trust fund. , His Scouter career includes . many ' other offices and trusts. Colonel Paine, who.will be 90 years old in May, . helped organize Crater Lake council as a ' T representative of- the Chamber of Com merce, has served as council historian for many years and often represents the local .council- at. regional meetings. Both men' . hold the Silver Beaver award for dis tinguished service to Scouting. , Cub Scout. Bob Graham's Jubilee project is to make a friendship scrapbook which will be sent to some Boy Scout troop in a foreign country.. Bob is a member of Cub Scout Pack 15, sponsored by First United Pres byterian Church in Phoenix. The boys put snapshots, clippings, songs, menus. Scouting recipes and other material representative of their activities in the friendship book and Bob uses a warm iron to press the ' plastie covers on the pictures. " ! WJ J ' ' mM.. ' yg Members of Troop 4 have been engaged in a conservation project, and will set up a Scout-O-Rama booth in the conservation them-. Don Fredenburg, scoutmaster of the troop, Roger Schmidt and his brother, Richard, are among those who will arrange the booth. Troop 4 is sponsored by Oak Grove Parent-Teacher association. The Scout-O-Rama is arranged to show residents of the area and Scouts the whole scope of the Boy Scout program. Scouting is a family affair. J. A. McDougall (at left) long-time Boy Scout volunteer, was commissioner for Crater Lake council for 15 years, served as council president for two years and then returned to the com missioner's position. His son, Jerome A. McDougall, is leader of a Webelos den, and his daughter-in-law is a den mother for Pack 100, sponsored by Hoover Parent-Teacher association.- Commissioner McDougall's grandson, Craig, has won his Lion rank and Gary is looking forward to becoming a Cub Scout when he reaches his eighth birthday in March. Craig's "Den Doodle" is strung with spools to represent the various Scouting ranks, and Gary holds an empty string which he plans to fill with spools as he progresses in Scouting. The younger McDougall will be one of the adults to attend the Fifth National Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs - this summer.
