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Oakland Tribunt, Sunday, Sept. 13, 1953 FRONTIERSMEN! CRUSADE AIDES Boy Scouts Hurdle Yosemite Reaks, Now Eye hAl Whitney Camp Fire Girls Prepare for Drive ana describes the trek as lows: i scheduled under the direction of Mrs. Emil Andker, assisted by Mrs. Lloyd Kahrs, who will serve refreshments. The meeting on September 29 will be a craft meeting directed by Mrs.

Belchar, and Mrs. Simon serving refreshments. October 8 will be an excursion under the guidance of Mrs. R. Nadeau, Mrs.

Graves and Mrs. Dickens. Blue Birds in the group are Kay Andker, Linda Belchar, Sheila Cleverdon, Linda Clarke, Deborah Dandy, Susan Dickens, Linda Diels, Merrill "Fountain, Gay Gantt, Marilyn Graves, Carolyn Kahrs, Connie KrolL Karen Laoey, Donna Lewis, Sandra Martin, Helen Moore, Carlie Meeker, Sue Nadeau, Kris tine Ravn, Margaret Routt, Donna Rumbaugh, Cathie Simon, Carla Stone and Andrea More them 100 miles of Yosemite wilderness was trod by Boy Scouts led by Bob Lela-reuelle on ths 1S53 23rd annuel Frontiersmen's Trek sponsored by the Oakland Area Boy Scout Council. Left to right are Delareuelle. Floyd Owen, Lee Shay, icdthful Xaty (the mule).

Don PucdnL Oliver KoEanann and Harry EoQanann. FALL 'ROUNDUP' Mortgage1 Gimmick Spurs Recruit Campaign made for a swim and lunch be fore continuing to Tuolumne Meadows. "Camp was made near Soda Springs: Tuolumne Meadows is 8700 feet high and the largest meadow in the High Sierra, guarded by Mt Dana, Unicorn and the Cathedral. "There was frost on the meadow when we arose next morning. The trail to Glen Aulin followed the main Tuolumne and we surprised numerous deer on the trail.

Ascending Cold Canyon, camp was made at Lower McCabe Lake below Shepherd's Crest. "The alpen-glow on the peaks across the lake is truly memorable." Delareuelle said a horseback party the hikers met descending to the floor of Virginia Canyon next morning was the last people they were to see for four days. Crossing Burro Pass "Climbing ever the ridge by Miller Lake we made a lunch strip by the stream in Matter-horn Canyon. The late afternoon pull up Matterhorn Canyon and over Burro Pass at 10,500 feet was truly a 'barter But the view of Sawtooth Ridge, Matterhorn Peak and Whorl Mountain was worth it. "Our camp on the north side of Burro Pass was in an alpine We took advantage of the few stunted pines and used them for shelter.

The climb up Matterhorn Peak was relatively easy and the view from the peak all encompassing. Parctically all of Yosemite Park could be seen. "After an early lunch it took us only 15 minutes to pass around the end of the big slide at the upper end of Slide Canyon. The slide had erased the trails shown on maps and lack of tracks indicated no one had been, in the canyon for several years. The stream through Big Meadows, where camp was made, was an angler's paradise.

"Next morning we climbed along Camp Creek and crossed Benson Pass to Smedberg Lake where we lunched. This was th first warm of the trip and we made it wash day. Volunteer Peak was climbed next morning, then camp waa moved to Neall Lake by way of Rodgers Lake. Sand Beach at Benson "Benson Lake's sand beach invited us to stop for lunch and a swim. The forest at the head of the lake with its wild flower gardens was magnificent.

The climb to Seavey Pass was warm and dry but not too difficult "The next day we met the only mosquitos found on the trek. So we picked a windy camp site on Tilden Lake to escape them. And the trout we caught were a reward in themselves. That night deer came into camp and ate our bran muffins we saved for breakfast. "From Bearup Lake we led our mule around by trail while rest of the group descended Moraine Ridge to Lake Vernon.

Camp was made by the stream below the outlet A huge pothole in the stream was full of fish and we pulled out 17 within about 45 minutes. There were at least 150 more in the hole when our worms gave out "Laurel Lake was visited next and the last night's camp was made at Beehive. From there, the 7.6 miles hike downhill to Hetch Hetchy was covered in mm fol- "We left Camp DimondlO on July 26 and returned August 9. After discarding equipment not needed and building a rack in the truck for our pack mule, Katy, we were given a final check by the camp "Our early morning start took us to Tuolumne Meadows by way of Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees, Crane Flat, White Wolf and the old Tioga Mines to Tenaya Lake. Here a stop bing, Scouting and Explorer ac tivities, Participant application are now in the hands of the Participation chairman in each district.

Each unit is urged to sign up for some part in the activity. Final allocation of space will be made October 30 by the Scout-O-Rama committee headed by Robert Burnstein. This Scout-o-Rama is what you asked for and represents the best planning on the part of every District in the Council. It will be different from any we have ever held. It will; have many outstanding features.

We will have more room, better opportunity for demonstrations and will raise the curtain to the 1954 Scout Anniversary Week. Every unit should do jthese things now: 1 Decide on the activity your Unit wants to demonstrate. 2 Select a Unit Ticket Sales Manager (not the Unit leader). 3 Start your list of prospects for the sale of tickets. 000 Dimond-O Camp Gets Face Lifting Job A "face-lifting" program and renovation of Dimond-O camp is in full swing under the! general direction of Ralph Madeley assisted by Gordon Osborne, Tom Doctor, Ronnie Kurtz Wm.

Spalding and Chester Paranski. A ceiling has been built in the mess hall and windows and walls weather-proofed and insulated so that the room will be ready for winter use when the roads are open for travel. A heating unit will be installed in the mess hall to supplement the fireplace in order to make the room more comfortable. All of the cabins are being overhauled. Structural improvements needed are being made, siding and roofs are being repaired.

Many of the cabins: will be insulated for use as sleeping quarters for winter camping. This is part of the long range program of the Camping and Physical Properties committees of the Council and will be continued until the entire camp has been put in shape or until funds are exhausted. Plans for use of the camp for winter operation are still subject to assurance that the road from Early Intake to camp will be open. Negotiations are now being carried on with proper authorities to insure this service when the snow We will keep you advised on the prog- ress made. i 'Between summer vacation fun and school opening.

Camp Fire Girls have volunteered their services to the United Crusade to help prepare Crusade campedan. Left to right are Margaret Raines, Coralie Moffitt Melinda Moore and Barbara Gearon sorting United Crusade cards at headquarters in 13th Street Camp Fire girls are Community Chest agency. WOODMINSTER PAGEANT nans are aireaay unaer wav for next vear's 24th an- nual Frontiersmen Trek under the sponsorship of the Oakland Area Boy Scout Council, and should there be sufficient sign-ups the Scouts have set their eye on the John Muir trail from Kearsarge Pass to Mount highest mountain in the United States. These ambitious plans follow this year's 23rd annual trek led by Bob Delareuelle and termed by Scout executives as "the most successful ever." This year's Frontiersmen hiked 107 miles in 11 days on the trail, traversing the wilderness area of Yosemite National Park from Tuolumne Meadows to Hetch Hetchy. The trail took the hikers over Matterhorn Peak and Burro Pass.

Leader Delareuelle reports the Scouts made the climbs like veterans be worked out in the districts for recognition of all units that fulfill their obligations in the way of bringing Scouting to more boys and their parents'. Members of the Commissioners Cabinet formulating the plans-were: Wally Pond, Twin district; William Reno, South district; Ed Zittleman, Castle district; Charley Marshall, Central district Dave Phelps, South district Scout executive presented the plan, and Earl L. Hinden, assistant Scout executive, analyzed membership in each district. Commissioners agreed to give a progress report at the meeting of the Operations Council on October 5, as requested by Robert J. Matheison, Council on president in charge of Council operations.

000 Educational Events Thrill Members of Cub Pack 91 September 2 was a red letter day for Cubs from Pack 91, sponsored by the Laurel P-TA. Fifteen boys went en a tour covering two widely different subjects. First, they went through the Calo Dog Food plant, seeing first hand how food is made for their pets. Secondly, they enjoyed a trip through the Golden State Company plant, learning how milk is bottled and how milk products are produced. Finally they gathered at lunch.

Those present were Den Montclair Park for a picnic 2 under leadership of Mrs. M. R. Morrison; Art Donaldson, Phillips, Mike Morrison and Clifford Miscovich. Den 3 under leadership of Mrs.

J. R. Barkell; Harvey Wright, Richard Perry, Glenn Leonis, John Simons, Johnny Niemand and Ronnie Barkell. Den 6 under leadership of Mrs. Mae Clark: John Pekrul, John Neal Crockett, Bobby Clark and Steve Davi-dovich.

000 Scout-o-Rama Plans Call for Reading of Program Notes The greatest Scout-O-Rama ever held in. the Oakland Area Boy Scout Council will take place next February 5 and 6 in the Oakland Exposition build-' ing. Read pages 16 to 19 in the supplement the Program Notebook for details on this tremendous event. It will be a seven-in-one show. Each district will be allocated space in the building where units from the district will put on their demonstrations of Cub Girl Scouts Plan 'Scouts The Commissioner's Staff" of the Oakland Area Boy-Scout Council voted at 'their, last meeting to hold a "Fall! Roundup" in all units of thef seven districts, according to Dr.

Robert G. Adams, commis- sioner. Each unit in the Council willl be asked to sign a "Ranch Mort-i gage" as a gimmick to keep! track of all new boys invited to join the more than 300 Troops and Explorer Posts of: the Council. The mortgage wilt; be signed by the Ranch Boss who will be either the Institu-f tional Representative or Chair-f man of the unit committee; the Ranch foreman or the unit leader, and will be witnessed by the Neighborhood Commissioner known as the Range Rider. Pay ment of the mortgage will be made by recruiting and registering new boys into the unit prior to midnight of December 31 this year.

5 Sure as Shootin' Adams said the readin' of the fine print of the mortgage was as follows: "SURE AS SHOOTIN all th cowhands on this here novf Ranch, otherwise known as (Unit) of District, pledge our? selves to rope and brand (Number of new boys stated) maver icks and strays afore sundown on the 31st of December; and NOT-W ITHSTANDIN OR wtttottsj. ii NUTHIN to the contrary, in? cludin the party, of the first part, this Ranch is hereby mort-S gaged for the amount stated above. And we'll be ridin' the range to pay it off by the due date." In the space for recording payments are two columns! showing the names of the new mavericks and strays and the, names of the Scouts that rounded up the new boys. The new boys will be given all the requirements for their respective ranks with the proper Investiture Ceremonies" and presented with; registration cards as members of the Boy Scouts of America. Plan Cub Packs Show The districts of the Council are prepared to put on a reaf show in the Cub Packs during' this period and Boy Scouts are planning to hold Roundup camps at Rancho Los Mochos in the Livermore Hills for the purpose of branding the new mav ericks and test passing for mem bers of the Troop of First and Second Class ranks.

Plans will The Oakland Camp Fire Girls' Leaders Association will have its first fall meeting next Friday morning (September 18) atlO o'clock in the High Street Presbyterian Church, according to Mrs. Joseph Sanford, president of the leaders group. Most important on the agenda will be a discussion of the United Crusade Drive which Will begin October 6. Camp Fire Girls are an agency of the Oakland Community Chest, supported by the United Crusade. Many of the leaders and Camp Fire mothers will take an active part in the drive.

Also on the program will be a demonstration of Christmas Crafts. Instruction will be given on elemenfary ceramics by Mrs. Henry Rothling; plastic lacing and copper tooling by Mrs. Harold Rebholtz. On the same portion of the program Mrs.

Emmet Murphy will display hospital service projects. The, leaders will be asked to collect clothing for the Hop Indian Reservation which is sponsored in part by Mrs. John Hasting of the Four Winds Club of the YWCA. The clothing is to be turned in at the October association meeting," together with baby garments made by Camp Fire Girls for the Needlework Guild In-Gathering. Both projects are part of the Camp Fire Girls active service program planned for the fall term.

In addition to Mrs. Sanford, officers of the Leaders Association are Mrs. Harold Rebholtz, vice-president; Mrs. J. Muir, secretary, and Mrs.Nicola Storkovich, treasurer.

Hostesses for the Friday meeting will be Mrs. Storkovich, who is also chairman of the day; Mrs. Earl Olson, Mrs. Barron Penick, Mrs. Leon Bowen and Mrs.

J. Glen ParshalL Decorations will be in keeping with the United Crusades theme. Camp Fir Field Office New Open in Hayward To serve a rapidly growing and mobile youth population in its council, the Oakland Camp Fire Girls have opened a new field office in the southern Alameda County territory, according to Miss Claire Barricks, executive director of the Oakland area. It is in the new Community Chest agencies building at 414 Foothill Boulevard, Hay-ward. Miss Joan Judd has been named council field director, who announces she has arranged a Wednesday morning appointment schedule to receive calls from Camp Fire Girls, Blue Birds and leaders who have transferred to the area and wish organize new groups in their home neighborhoods.

The: new office constitutes a long-needed expansion of council territory now being -served by the Cimp Fire Girls in Oakland, San Leandro and San Lorenzo. Blue Bird and Camp Fire groups in the southern county area will be given the tame opportunities to participate in the council's program as those who have been in the Oakland council since its incorporation In 1923. This program includes training courses for leaders, all city activities, day camping, participation in the summer camping program at popular Camp Celio near Nevada City, special district and art craft projects, and other similar activities. Activities Crowding Fall Calendar of Blue Birds With the first signs of autumn in the air, Camp Fire Girls are crowding out memories of summer camp and vacation fun to turn to a busy calendar of fall activities. Mothers of the Busy Beaver Blue Birds, a group of 24 girls from Crocker Highland School under the leadership of Mrs.

Howard Stone, will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Wll Fountain of 1136 Clarendon Crescent to formulate plans for weekly meetings for the next several months ahead. Committee chairmen for the group are Mrs. Patrick Clarke in charge of excursions; Mrs. Robert Sturgeon, telephone; Mrs.

Vernon Graves, treasurer; Mrs. Charles Martin, publicity; Mrs. Raymond Lewis, P-TA, Blue Birds co-ordinator; Mrs. Carl Simon Jr. and Mrs.

Paul Dick-' ens, mint drive in February, and Mrs. Francis Belchar, camping. The season's activities for the Bine Birds will begin on September 22 when a game is 15,000 Catholic Youth Aided by United Crusade Catholic Youth Organization in the East Bay provides spiritual, cultural, social and recreational programs for approximately boys and girls and young men and women. The agency receives almost complete support from "United Crusade contributions and operate! 1a 20 Catholic-parishes. More than 8000 Oakland Girl Scouts, their parents and friends will have the opportunity to see a panorama of Scouting at Woodminster Theater in Joaquin Miller Park on the evening of October 25 when they gather for the first Council -wide Scouts' Own.

According to 'Mrs. A. F. Tiggard, program chairman, her committee was requested to sponser the event by the adult membership through neighborhood meetings last spring. Miss Faythe Elliot, librarian assistant at the Oakland Public Library and a member of the program committee, is currently working with a group of Senior Girl Scouts in writing the script.

The group includes: Marybeth Gavigan, Sharon Grieve, Shelia Moran, Sondra Holan, Mary Elizabeth Nunez, Loretta Peterson, Dianne Wacker, and Jean Wright. The Scouts' Own will be in the form of a pageant depicting the aims and ideals of Girl Scouting. Scenes will show be necessary on Saturday, October 24, a day before the Scouts' Own date. Helen Kravetzky Takes Over Post As District Director Miss Helen Kravetzky of Berkeley has joined the staff of the Oakland Girl Scouts as a district director according to a 'recent announcement by Mrs. Phillip McCaffery, Staff and Office chairman of the Oakland Girl Scout Council.

No stranger to Oakland Scouting, Miss Kravetzky has served as a counselor at Camp Timberloft for the past three years. As a student in the Graduate School of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, she completed a year of field work as program advisor to Girl Scout leaders of the Santa Monica Council. She received her master's degree in Social Work last June. Miss Kravetzky will serve as director in the North and West districts. In addition, her fall schedule will include training courses for leaders and work with the program committee.

She is replacing Miss Joan Kirk who has resigned to enter the Graduate School at San Francisco State for further study. Miss Kirk was on the staff of the Oakland Council for two years as North and West District director. She was also an assistant director of Camp Timberloft in 1952 and 1953. 111 Miss America's Freedom Says Finnish Girl Scout Visitor By VIVIAN BROWN, AP Newsfeatures Writer hours The hikers were treated to a watermelon feed at Hetch Hetchy before boarding their truck for Dimond-O. Scouting activities in the home, camp, and community from the seven-year old Browni Scout, through the Senior Scout.

An epilogue will "flash a scene from the days of Juliette Low, founder of Girl Scouting in the United States, 41 years ago. A high point in the program will be a candlelight ceremony showing the investiture of older Intermediate Scouts to Senior Girl Scouting. Actual work for the production will get under way soon after the opening of school on September 14 according to Mrs. Tiggard. Intermediate and Senior Troops who wish to volunteer to be in the Scouts' Own are requested to register by calling the Oakland Girl Scout Office.

Groups jwho have participated in the following activities-are especially needed: folk dancing, backyard camping, Timberloft, cook badge, community safety badge, group singing, troop dramatics, camp-craft, minstrel, play producer, hostess, and my troop badges. Only one general rehearsal will Kaarina will mi si many things, she says things we take for granted pretty clothes, shiny cars, gay people, big buildings, sugary food, Sunday roast rMMron And h'A 11V. to take home buckets and hurfe. ets of cooked carrots and peas! She-explains: "We have vegetables back home, but not like yours. We eat them raw.

Here you cook vegetables so that I will never forget" She Swims and Skis She'll miss American sports but' is looking forward to swimming in some of the thousands of Finnish lakes. She has a mastar diploma in swimming as well as trophies for cross-country skiing. Kaarina was a model high school student, completing her three-year accelerated course with high grades. She made most of the time at Monroe High School in Middletown, sometimes studying until 2 or 3 o'clock in the, morning. She even won an essay contest for a paper on Finland.

Speaks English Fluently She is proudest of the fact that she can speak English so fluently, although she couldn't speak more than a Word when she arrived here. She hopes to be an English teacher in Finland. But some day she hopes to return to America. Right now she Is planning, just how to tell her mother, three brothers and two sisters and all of her friends in Finland "about this wonderful, wonderful country and the happy people," I Kaarina Vanninen, 20-year-old blue-eyed blonde Finnish girl, preparing to take off for her native land after three years in America, says Says that what shell miss most is the wonderful freedom that teen-agers have in America. Says she: "Life will be different when I get hack home.

I will not be able to date without my family's permission, and then they will want to know who he is, what he does, and what his intentions are before I can see him. If I decide to get married, I will need the permission of the President of Finland as well as my Girl Scout Protege Kaarina's father was killed in the Russo-Finnish war and her life was a series of refuge camps via cattle cars after the Russians were ceded her home. She was brought here by the Girl Scouts of Middletown, Ohio, sponsored through the Save the Children Federation. She is crazy about the casual lif here thinks American boys are wonderful so nice and no lite to girls so eager to "wait en them" and such lovely gen tlemen. Quite a Difference "In my country boys do not learn to do that very says Kaarina.

"But I hear they are trying to make them more like that in the schools, teaching them manners just like American boys. It probably will be a little while before they catch on. By that time I will be settled down, maybe." -fl LI I II mis new look Adds More Room A face-lifting that has more to do with youth than with age has just been completed at the Fannie Wall Children's Home and- Day Nursery, 815 Linden Street While the home's new facade, utilizing the space of a former front porch, does give new youth to an old face, it does even more it provides additional room for 47 youngsters to grow in. Fannie Wall's "new look," a two-room addition, houses the home's administrative offices, releasing the old offices and reception room for nursery classes and a future library. The remodeling and expansion of the home's facilities was made possible by the generous contributions of local Masonic lodges under the leadership of Harry Pierson, past master of the Good Hope Lodge.

The vital program for children provided inside the building is financed by contributors to the East Bay United Crusade and by the California Association of Colored Women which established the home as a monument in 1918. Boy Scouts Since 1916 Congress granted a federal charter to the Boy Scouts of America in 1918. on the Estuary at Webster and Tynan Streets in Alameda. The boys' recent trip was Ud by Cubmastex Walter Cos. Members of Seta Leandro Cub Pack No.

1 learn about boats from LL W. Handler at the UJ3. Maritime Planetarium.