Boy Scouts 50th Anniversary

On February 8 the Boy Scouts of America will be 50-years-old. Scouters number about five million today, and by the end of this year it is estimated that at least 33 million Scouts and leaders will have taken part in the program since 1910. One article recently stated that the Scouts’ Handbook for Boys is second only to the Holy Bible as the most widely printed and distributed book.

Interest in scouting is growing in Pocahontas County; a new troop has been chartered, but more needs to be done.

Pocahontas will soon indeed be scout conscious and we will be the focus of statewide attention, nationwide if plans materialize. This summer will mark the opening of what will be the finest scout camp in the east at Dilley’s Mill Scout Reservation. And this week the West Virginia Centennial Commission put out it’s printed report for the Centennial Celebration which includes plans for a National Honor Boy Scout Camp, with Watoga State Park as its recommended location. Here would come Honor Scouts from each state for a two-week camp each year. If Pocahontas County can be a good host to all our visitors, our fame will go far and wide.

Scout Dining Hall

W. A. Boone, vice president of the Buckskin Council, Boy Scouts of America, announced the awarding of a contract to Lewis Worlledge of Mt. Lookout, for construction of the combination Dining Hall and Recreation Center. The structure designed by Henry Elden and Associates of Charleston will be laminated wood arches containing seating space for 350 scouts. The area will also be used as activity and recreation center for activities during inclement weather. Completion date has been set for May 15, in ample time to serve the first group of campers. At the new group camp at Dilley’s Mill near Watoga State Park in Pocahontas County, other permanent structures nearing completion are a Trading Post and a Health Lodge. Already completed is a lake at the camp site for swimming and water activities. Underground utility lines are also being installed. For camping, youth groups will pitch their tents on wood platforms that will be spotted throughout the wooded areas. The Boy Scout Council conducted a successful $250,000 camp improvement fund with a fundraising campaign last year.

Names of Streams

Another name or two, Mrs. Wilma Beard, of Elkins, writes in to say that Hospital Run at Arbovale was so named because of wounded Indians that were there at an early date.

Stamping Creek seems to have carried its name from being the stamping ground of the buffalo.

Swago is an Indian name and as can best be learned probably comes from Oswego, a county in New York State.

Over the Bridge

The new bridge was opened to traffic Monday and work was started tearing down the temporary bridge. Dr. N. R. Price, who has lived in Marlinton for 75 years - longer than anyone else here - made the first official trip across the new bridge. He was the first across the bridge in 1915.

Basketball

Marlinton 56 - Green Bank 45

White Sulphur 66 - Hillsboro 53

Marlinton 74 - Ronceverte 70

Franklin 62 - Green Bank 44

Lewisburg 58 - Hillsboro 49

ALPINE THEATRE

“Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure”

Gordon Scott ~ Anthony Quayle

“Bowery To Bagdad”

Leo Gorcey ~ Huntz Hall

“Al Capone”

Rod Steiger

“The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw”

Kenneth More ~ Jayne Mansfield

DEATHS

Mrs. Lula Edna Coppage Gentry, age 69, of Huntersville.

Eva B. Cochran Holley, of Mill Point.

F. L. Davis, of Campbelltown.

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crist, of Arbovale, a daughter named Betty Ann.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pugh, of Boyer, a daughter named Nancy Carol.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Fromhart, of Dunmore, a son.

Born to Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Denmar, a son named John David.