Canadian Bay THINGS TO DO JUNE, 1968, VOL 5, NO. 4 BOATING SAFETY When it's time for boating at your camp or cottage Lontents — take a minute to check these safety precautions. Scouting Round the World: Sweden 7 Mexico 8 Australia 9 Germany 12

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The Terror of the Tar Sands by Ed Cosgrove 10 • Examine the boat hull. Is Make Peace Not War by George Bourne 14 it in good repair? • Is there a Dept. of Collecting and Trading Badges by Evan Morris 17 Transport approved lifebelt Great Canadians by James Simpkins 18 for everyone? • Is there a bailer? Books 21 • Is there a good distress signal light or bright flag? Otto Matic by Vic Atkinson 22 • Is the first-aid kit O.K.? Penpals 23 • Is any food or equipment stowed carefully and pro• Those Wonderful Two-Wheeled Machines! tected? Part Two by Roger Appleton 24 • Are there two paddles or T-Iiiotlp Rtiplrl oars in the boat? • (On power boats) is there The Square Page 26 a fire extinguisher? • Be sure to inform your Award for Valour 28 parents or another adult where you plan to go and Models by George Bourne 28 how long you will be. Stamp Corner by H. L. Woodman 31 If you check all these Hockey Puzzle Winners 32 points you'll enjoy your trip more—and for added Science by D. A. Coburn 33 enjoyment be sure to take along enough Wrigley's Letters to Lester 5 Spearmint gum for the whole gang. Editorial: Go To It! by Dan Spry 4

THIS ISSUE, in both Junior and Senior editions, the former director of the World Scout Bureau speaks to all Canadian boys active in Scouting. Dan Spry's guest editorial, on page 4, is for you. Take a look. See what you think of it. The cover on this issue is one of our more unusual efforts. No, we didn't have to send a cameraman around the world. We found some Canadian boys who represent the various ethnic groups. We asked for and received official taste that uniforms from different countries. We put them all together and—the June 'HAftY GO LIVELY' cover! Howzat for trick photography? flavour

JUNE, 1968 Norman Brown EDITOR

George Bourne Go To It! ASSISTANT EDITOR

Investiture is a big moment in the standing of one another's problems, Richard T. Logan life of every Scout. During the concern is kindled and bursts into ART DIRECTOR ceremony he is told he is "now a a flaming desire to help. We can member of the worldwide brother• be proud that our movement was Margaret Large hood of Scouts." How many of us one of the first voluntary organiza• appreciate the full meaning of this tions on Earth to work at helping EDITORIAL ASSISTANT welcome? in the development of a real sense Jack Young Many of us know there are of the brotherhood of man. Scouts in different countries on this We know now, surely, that we ADVERTISING MANAGER planet, but do we realize that Scout• are not our brother's keepers — at ing census figures show thirteen home or abroad — but we have Mary McWilliams and a half million men and boys come to know that we are his SUBSCRIPTION SUPERVISOR working in our movement, in 92 helpers. countries? Do we fully appreciate CANADIAN BOY is published by Boy In Canada, where we are blessed Scouts of Canada, 1345 Baseline Road, that all of them, regardless of race, Ottawa 5, Ont. Chief Executive, J. with a beautiful, bountiful land, we Percy Ross. Advertising Office, 696 creed, or nationality, are our broth• Yonge Street, Toronto 5, Ont. West• have the wherewithall to be good ern Canada representative: John L. ers? I feel we must admit that helpers. We have a responsibility Jackson, 3610 Main Street, Vancouver most of us have a hazy idea about 10, B.C. Single copies 25c. Subscrip• to share our wealth, our know-how, tion prices: In Canada, 1 year $2.00, 2 the movement we joined. Surely years $3.50, 3 years $5.00. All other and our energies, with less fortu• countries, $3.00 per year. Authorized we were signing up for fun, for as second-class mail by the Post Of• nate peoples in this world of ours. fice Department, Ottawa, and for adventure, for friendship! payment of postage in cash. Contents As Scouts, we've already set an copyright by Boy Scouts of Canada. Contents may not be reprinted with• Now we need only read our example for others, for years past, out written permission. Characters and names in fiction stories in CANA• daily newspapers or lock onto our and for the years ahead. Now, let's DIAN BOY are imaginary. While the publishers will take all reasonable television sets, and we can see that go an extra mile. Give that extra care they wiU not be responsible for ounce of interest, and care, and the loss of any manuscript, drawing in some parts of the world our or photograph. brothers are having a rough time. concern, for a troubled world. Op• Race riots, student strife, and other portunities exist in Scouting, in CHANGE OF ADDRESS. To avoid missing copies, please send your incidents of violence indicate that CUSO, WUS, Oxfam, the Canadian change of address before you move all is not well in our space-age, Hunger Foundation, and in a multi• to: Subscription Department, CANA• DIAN BOY, P.O. Box 5151, Station F, Telstar-TV world. tude of other organizations, for Ottawa 5, Ont. Please give both your old and new address, and any letters action that can give personal satis• or numerals appearing on the address It's my impression that young label. If you are a member of the faction, and create good. Boy Scouts of Canada also give the people today are more aware of name and number of your group. and more concerned about their Too often, young people blame ADVERTISING POLICY. The policy fellow humans than the older peo• their elders for the condition of of the Boy Scouts of Canada prohib• its seUing in the uniform or in the ple are. The splendid participation today's world. Too easy! 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The advertise• — but perhaps their best wasn't ment of any product or service does number of charitable, urgent causes enough, for the times they lived in. not indicate approval by the National Executive Committee unless so stated. is only a reflection of the teen's They did manage to survive de• awareness that poor people need pressions, they fought wars, they The Boy Scouts of Canada do not assume any responsibility by way of help, that the hungry and the sick opened up uninhabited land and warranty or otherwise with respect to the products offered in advertise• in distant places cannot survive developed the great nation that is ments in the magazine, but to the best of our knowledge, the value of without a hand from us. Canada today — great in the eyes such products is commensurate with the selling prices suggested. All ad• This is good. Kids from two to of the world. vertisers in this magazine are familiar with the official policies of the Boy 20 are giving their time, their Canada is far from perfect. Scouts of Canada and have indicated their willingness to abide by them. energy, and a magical thing called There's a lot more to be done. We Anyone receiving information or liter• ature that is in conflict with these heart, without expecting to be paid know it. So do you. policies should immediately notify the Editor, CANADIAN BOY, P.O. Box for it. I hope there will be more Young Canadians have the 5151, Station F, Ottawa. 5, Ont. participation, and more interest, in chance, the great opportunity based these acts of thoughtfulness for ' All editorial correspondence should on our affluent society — which be addressed Editor, Canadian Boy. others. P.O. Box 5151, Station F, Ottawa 5. your elders built with good intent Ont. As technology shrinks the phys• — to give your time and talents to ical size of our planet in terms of help make the world a still better MEMBER OF CANADIAN rapid travel, instant communica• place, for yourselves and all your CIRCULATIONS AUDIT BOARD tions, and a resulting deeper under• brothers. Go to it! By Dan Spry INC.

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ROVER HOSPITALITY Dear Lester: The Maccabee Rover Crew of the Sir William Van Home District is once again extending its hospitality. Man and His World promises to be just as exciting as Expo 67 was, and our crew is offering accommodations to any Rover Scout or Rover Crew visiting Montreal this summer. All those interested write to: Sheldon Spier, Secretary MRC, 4610 Mackenzie Street, Montreal 26, Que. And get your letter away to Mr. Spier as soon as possible. This offer does not include Cubs, Scouts, or Venturers. —LS CYPRESS JAMBOREE Dear Lester: The Cypress Jamboree, August 3rd to 11th this year will be held in Cypress Hills Provincial Park, 20 miles south of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. "Cypress 68" — as we call the jamboree — is on the site of the original home of the Royal North West Mounted Police, and will involve It takes a real adventure program. Anyone interested should write to: Bill Metcalfe, all kinds 489 Central Ave. S., Swift Current, Sask. There isn't any single knot WANTS MORE SPORTS that'll do all jobs. As a Scout, Dear Lester: I would like to see more stories on Canadian sports, like you'll have learned how to tie hockey interviews with some of the older stars, trades in the various knots —and the football, something about Nancy Greene and skiing. I proper function of each. would also like to see more stories on indoor sports like slot racing (CB Mar/Apr 68). Otherwise I think it is a The banking services at Can• very good mag. ada's First Bank are a lot like David Fisher, Calgary, Alta. that. There are 21 of them. Each Dear Lester: designed to do a particular job This is my first year subscription to CANADIAN BOY and I enjoy it. Next year why don't you put a sports story in to help our customers. every issue, especially hockey? For instance, the service that Byron Howard, Trail, B.C. would be right for you just now CURSE YOU, RED BARON! probably is a Savings Account. Dear Lester: You can tie yours up for as little On page 18 of your Jan/Feb 68 issue, under Great Cana• dians, you stated that Capt. Brown shot down Baron von as a dollar. Then build it up Richthofen while Richthofen was chasing Wop May, but with regular deposits. this is not true. Richthofen was already hit when he came down behind Wop May. It was Brown who shot down the Red Baron, but not as you described! RS Pat Eckert, Sidney, B.C. Were you there? Nope, that would make you too old to Bank of Montreal be a Rover Scout. We'll concede the point and skip the Canada's First Bank qualifications.—LS Continued on page 6

JUNE, 1968 5 i LETTERS Continued from page 5

BUYER S GUIDE M UFO AND OTHER QUESTIONS Dear Lester: Supply Services v Do you think you could get an ar• ticle on facts about UFOs? Also I would like to know if you could have an article on how to handle a CUB WATCH — This 17 JEWEL MOVEMENT, shock resistant, patrol. waterproof, anti-magnetic watch is a quality product by Bulova. It is Craig Swayze, Islington, Ont. luminous, has sweep second hand, genuine leather band and a ONE Dear Lester: YEAR GUARANTEE by BULOVA. Catalogue 60-263 $14.95 I think Sandy Gardiner's column is a little bit too much pro-Canadian. How about some articles on the Jefferson Airplane or The Turtles HAND AXE — Has a keen carbon- instead of second - rate Canadian steel, tempered head with a shock bands? An article on UFOs would absorbing, tough hickory handle — be educational and controversial. I an ideal Scout axe. Catalogue 50-101 $2.95 hope to see it. Andrew McKenna, Leather Sheath for hand axe. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Catalogue 50-102 $1.25 In 1968 we will definitely publish a UFO story, not fiction, facts! With pictures! — LS Blue nylon cover, OFFICIAL SLEEP• HE LIKES OL' HERB!! ING ROBE, 72" x 32" with full zipper side and bottom, warm flannel lin• Dear Lester: ing, "thermofil" germ resistant, non- Could you please have an article allergenic, non-toxic, odorless, mil• dew and mothproof filling. Will meet on the Tijuana Brass, with pic• Spring, Summer and Fall camping tures? They are my favorite group. requirements. Weighs only 3 lbs. Thank you very much. P.S.—Your 2 ozs. Science column was great! Catalogue 52-605 real value at $11.95 Jim Makinson, Vancouver, B.C. ADC LIKES CB SCOUT WHISTLE—Useful for group Dear Lester: activities — reveille, assembly, sig• nalling, games. Can serve a useful Speaking for the older reader, I purpose at water fronts, as a home might say that CB has produced safety warning and as emergency alarm (elderly people may well find some very enlightening articles. This the Scout whistle a boon in emerg• statement bespeaks not only our encies. respect for the younger readers Catalogue 46-460 75c who, by their response, obviously appreciate the versatility of CB, but also a sense of pride that this ex• cellent publication is presented as SCOUT HIKE BAG—The perfect bag part of the Scouting movement to for the one-day hike. Three roomy Canadian boys of all ages, includ• inside pockets and adjustable ing us Scouters. shoulder straps. Size of main pocket 15" x 13". Weight % lb. Denis Magee, ADC (Cubs), Catalogue 51-130 $2.50 Humber West Distr., Rexdale, Ont.

A MINI-BIKE? Dear Lester: I was wondering if you could get SCOUT RUCSAC — Just right for me some information on building camp or overnight trips. Main sack a mini-bike. Also, where could I 20" x 19" plus three roomy outside pockets. Strongly reinforced. Weight get the material to build this? If IYA174 lbsIUS>.. you can get this information, would Catalogue 51-128 $6. 95 you please send it personally to: Mike MacDonald, 12 Young Street, Georgetown, Ont. Can anybody out there help Mike All items available through SCOUT SUPPLY SERVICES plan a mini-bike?—LS SCOUT DISTRIBUTORS BOX 5151, OTTAWA 5, ONTARIO Continued on page 29 or direct from (Cash with order) CANADIAN BOY Scouting Round the World In the past 60 years, Scouting has spread from England to more than two hundred other nations and geographic areas. Let's take a look at a few of these faraway places and the different ways they've found to enjoy Scounting, like Staffan Trewer (below) of Sweden.

Svenska Scoutforbundet Sweden: is a good group!

It was a very cold Christmas morning. knows the various sport planes, which he son! The temperature was 25 degrees Centi• likes to watch from one of the airports of Next term Staffan will be transferred grade below zero and it was only six Stockholm. But, above all, he has lots of to the Senior Scouts. The Senior Scout• o'clock. You might think everybody would airplane models which he built himself. ing section is entirely united, and there be asleep at that hour! He also likes to watch the birds in the is no difference in the programming for And who would want to go out in that Spring and, like so many Swedish peo• boys and girls. Staffan thinks he will terrible cold? Suddenly, right behind the ple, he goes out early in the morning miss his old patrol and he realizes he football stadium of Rasunda, a long with his field glasses to watch the birds. will no longer be first man in his own worm of living lights started to move. In at least one respect Staffan's family small gang. Still, he's looking forward to On closer examination it turned out to is not an ordinary family. His mother, the new program because he knows his be a hundred children carrying torches, who is now 48, was a Girl Guide at 11, older pals are enjoying Senior Scouting. marching happily, as if the sun were and she has with only a few years' inter• Staffan is a first class Scout not only blazing! ruption been active in Scouting ever with regard to the badge requirements, This was the Solna Scoutkar, a group since. His father, who is an engineer, but also in spirit. Last year he attended a of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts marching was one of the builders of the Scout hut. confirmation camp at the association's to their annual Yule service in the thou• Staffan's sister Anita, now 20, was in High School Kjesater. There he spent 30 sand-year-old church of Solna. Guiding until she was 18 and his other days with other boys and girls, getting Tradition dictates that they should do sister, Marianne, 18, took part in the Ex- religious training. This was crowned by a so, come nice weather, or come blizzard! One of those looking forward to the ceremony was Staffan Trewer, patrol leader of the Martens. His patrol has only five members, but two of them were to receive their first class badges on this crisp morning, from one of the outstand• ing Scouters in Sweden. Staffan remem• bered receiving his first class badge a year ago from the same man, and he felt honored to have received it in such a setting. Sitting in the pew, Staffan was think• ing not so much of the service but of the next hike the troop was going to have. They planned to visit their group hut 25 miles northwest of Stockholm. Staffan is a member of a group be• longing to Svenska Scoutforbundet, and there are 225 members in his section. It's a good group, but not extremely good; just an ordinary bunch of ordinary girls and boys and their leaders are as clever as most leaders are. Some of them are bit better than aver• age, as is Staffan's troop leader, who is Staffan, fourth from left, makes plans with some of the boys in his an active young man wanting his boys to get out into nature as much as possible. troop for a "Blue Hike". These hikes are held every year in four He urges them to take hikes with their different parts of Sweden. More than a hundred boys and girls take patrols whenever they don't have any part for 10 to 12 days. troop hikes or green-bar hikes coming up. [ Let's visit Staffan's home. He lives on the first floor of a four-storey house. It's plorer Belt Expedition in Germany in confirmation in the newly erected little an apartment house, like all the other 1967, together with 40 other Girl Guides chapel at the school. Like most other apartment houses where Swedish people and Boy Scouts from Sweden. In Sweden Swedish people, Staffan is a member of live. There are five in Staffan's family, in the Girl Guide and Boy Scout movements the Lutheran State Church, and he a three-bedroom apartment, just enough are united. In summer, the girls and should really have been confirmed in his for the family. It does not really permit boys camp together. The girls have their home parish of Solna. But the popularity Staffan to bring home his patrol or his own camp and the boys have another, of Scout confirmation camps made the other pals too often, but he does have a but they are not far from each other, so family decide on his attending the one at room of his own. that their daily programs can be integrat• the Kjesater school. Besides getting the ed easily. religious training, they did a lot of Scout In that room he has collected his activity work and, as a specialty, they got dearest possessions: a few turtles; and Staffan is 15 now. He's not too keen riding lessons every day. two basins containing fish. on girls, yet, so he doesn't bother much He can distinguish a Spitfire from a about parallel camps of this nature. Of Another bit of excitement is waiting Swedish Draken, or a Hunter-Hawker course, it is nice sometimes to have par• from the Swedish Flying Tun. And he ties and invite the girls. But, within rea- Continued on page 20

JUNE, 1968 7 Olympic Games Mexico: in the streets!

How would you like to stand in front of "In all Mexico we have snakes and big hands after chopping chili peppers. Pan• your own house and watch Olympic ath• spiders," Pancho said. "And in Meztitla cho answered for his brother. "He would letes racing by? we have many scorpions." But he has• wash his eyes!" Then he laughed. "Arid Two-Mexico City Scouts did just that tened to assure me that the scorpions at then he wpuld cry some more." during last year's pre-Olympic games Meztitla are not really dangerous. It's the But if Mexican Scouts are looking for• and, when I visited Mexico, they told me ones in the hot parts of Mexico that you ward to showing boys from around the how it happened. have to worry about! world some of their customs, there are a Pancho and Carlos Macias Valadez Both the boys are looking forward to few that they cannot show! Take posa- said that at first it was thought the Olym• meeting Scouts from other countries, but das, for instance. pic marathon race would be held on an Pancho has a special reason. He has at• Every year, Pancho's Scout troop holds tended jamborees in Alberta and in Pan• one of these traditional Christmas par• ama, and he's hoping some of his old ties. Posada is the Spanish word for inn chums will turn up in Mexico this year. and posadas are held to commemorate If they do, they'll find that a hike at the night that Mary and Joseph found Meztitla can' mean exploring caves "there w,as no room in the inn." nearby or climbing an ancient Indian At their Christmas posada, Scouts and pyramid less than a mile away. And if members of their families assemble out• that sounds like a Scout camp that's dif• side the door where the party is to be ferent, so is the food that Mexican held. Then they ask for shelter, singing a Scouts take to camp with them! special posada song. At first, the hosts There are always tortillas, the flat pan• refuse to let them come in, just as the cake-like corn bread of Mexico, in which innkeeper of olden days refused to admit the boys roll meat or other fillings to Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. But, lat• make tacos, the Mexican version of a er, the door is thrown open, fireworks sandwich. explode in the courtyard, and the party Just as Canadian boys like milkshakes, begins. Mexican boys savor atole, a corn flour The highlight is the breaking of pina- broth which comes in various flavors, tas, fancy clay pots especially decorated like vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. and filled with candy. The idea is to try They drink it for snacks, ,with meals — and break the pinata with a bat while even for breakfast. (This is beginning to you are blindfolded. The pinata is hung sound like a tv commercial!) And, Carlos overhead from a rope, but as you swing told me, his camp cooking often includes blindly trying to' hit the thing, your chopping fiery hot chili peppers to make friends will jerk the ends of the rope to mole (pronounced "mo-lay") sauce for make it a little more interesting! chicken. There's one pinata for the big boys I asked Carlos what he would do if he absent-mindedly rubbed his eyes with his Continued on page 20 Mexican Scouts invite Scouts of the world to visit them in 1968 and stay for the Olympic Games. ordinary track. But officials decided to route the race through the city itself, down tree-lined streets that would pro• vide shade for the athletes. And when the route was announced Pancho and Carlos discovered it ran right past the corner of their block! That was why, during the pre-Olym- pics, they were able to watch the mara• thon pass their home. Then they piled into the family car and drove to the sta• dium to cheer the same runners across the finish line. Right now, everybody in Mexico is talking Olympics, dreaming Olympics, and scheming to become part of the glamorous international events in Octo• ber. Pancho and Carlos are lucky. Be• cause they are Scouts, they are already assured of a role. Scouts will man infor• mation centres, carry messages for ath• letes and officials, and play host to boys from other countries. Mexican Scouts are inviting their com• rades from all over the world to visit them in 1968 and to stay at their camp, Meztitla, near the city of Cuernavaca. Attending a Mexican Scout camp can be quite an experience. In northern Mexi• co, for instance, Scouts who go in for rock-climbing have to check every rock ledge before they use it for a hand-hold. There could be poisonous snakes in one Pancho and Carlos Macias Valadez work constantly on their Scout- of those crannies. First aid training for craft. Here they try out some knots, bends, hitches and tricks they can Mexican Scouts includes lessons on show you if you get to Mexico this year. treating snake, spider, and scorpion bites.

8 CANADIAN BOY Jungle life Australia: in the suburbs! Jeffrey Clark has lived through the great• est period of progress Australia has seen since Captain James Cook first sailed into Botany Bay nearly 200 years ago. Jeffrey was born in Sydney 14 years ago. In that brief period, his country's population has exploded from nine mil• lion to nearly twelve million. The population explosion Down Under wasn't all homegrown, though. Much of this growth results from Australia's immi• gration drive which, since World War Two, has brought in more than a million new settlers, mainly from Great Britain and Europe. In Jeffrey's lifetime, Australia has de• veloped from a nation which produced mainly primary products into one which is close to being self-sufficient industrial• ly. Australia exports highly sophisticated secondary products all over the world. Just in the last decade, huge new depos• its of iron ore, coal, oil, and nickel have been discovered and opened up. And Jeffrey has seen, though he may not fully understand its significance yet, an Asian country, Japan, emerge as Aus• tralia's most important trading partner, and Britain drop into second place. With this shift has come an increasing aware• ness throughout Australia of the impor• tance of Asia to her future development and well-being. Jeffrey is probably not yet aware of what all this is going to mean to him, but it has already had an influence on his life. Jeffrey is Patrol Leader of the King• fishers, one of two patrols in the First Bardwell Park Troop, a southwestern suburban group in Sydney. A good deal of residential development has been going on in Bardwell Park recently. It has shared in Sydney's great postwar building boom which has made it a city that sprawls 40 miles along the coast of the' State of New South Wales and 25 miles westward to the Blue Mountains. • Jeffrey's troop has been organized for " about three years. Scouting in Australia has kept pace with the population growth and new groups have been formed wher• ever there has been a demand for them. There are now 50,000 uniformed mem• bers of the movement in New South Wales, and 150,000 in all Australia. Like a hermit crab, First Bardwell Park Troop took over a small, dilapidated clubroom vacated by an older group who had built new quarters elsewhere. Jeffrey and his fellow Scouts and their parents painted the building inside and out. But with a flourishing Cub pack, a troop of 15 Scouts, and the prospect of a senior troop soon, the clubroom is already too Jeffrey Clark, 14-year-old Australian Scout, lives in a country that has small. The Group Committee is working seen tremendous development in recent years. Jeffrey rides his new towards a larger building which can be erected around the existing one. bike — his pride and joy.

Jeffrey is the middle member of a swimming and diving in the summer. He tional schools, with about a thousand family of three boys. His elder brother, has a new bicycle — his pride and joy. students. To get there, he walks from his Gary, is the Troop Leader of First Bard• home to Bardwell Park station, rides an well Park. His younger brother, Philip, is He likes building model cars from kits. He does free-hand sketching, belongs to electric train two stations farther on to a member of the other patrol, the Buffa- Kingsgrove, then catches a bus to the los. a church fellowship group, and likes watching TV. In Sydney he has four school. He attends classes from 9 a.m. Jeffrey's father is an electrician with channels to choose from. to 3 p.m. week days. the New South Wales Government Rail• Kingsgrove High School, like the ma• ways. He and Jeffrey's mother have en• And a family interest, pioneered by brother Gary, is the keeping of bees. jor part of the educational system in couraged their boys to develop wide in• Australia, is government-run. Again, Jef- terests. Jeffrey plays soccer with the Jeffrey goes to school at Kingsgrove YMCA club in the winter, and enjoys High, one of Sydney's big new co-educa• Continued on page 20

JUNE, 1968 The Terror of the Tar Sands by Ed Cosgrove SYNOPSIS: Deep in the Northwest Territories, the In• dians are terrorized by giant demon-like forms they think are Windigos, or evil spirits. Investigating are the flyers of Windigo Wings, a bush-pilot company: Grant Mackenzie; Chuck Johnson, an Indian himself; ex-RCMP female agent Madeleine Boisvert; and sixteen-year-old Ricky Trudel. Chuck discovers the demons are really baska tar sands. Meanwhile, RiCky ovulars two stapi- machines, but his plane is shot down by helicopters be• cious-acting hunters, Sommers -arja Duncan- plotting to fore he can tell the others, and for five days he dodges ambush Chuck, using an Indian&fiamed Crow. Ricky is death in the woods, living off game shot with a bow and himself ambushed by the Indian* twt his life is jaued arrows. He stumbles on the giant machines hidden by Chuck. Grant Mackenzie and Corporal fDavis gPthe under a huge net, and discovers them to be laser-bearing RCMP, with Madeleine Boisvert, are searching for unuck drilling rigs being used to separate oil from the Atha- and Ricky as our story opens.

Grant studied the ground below leine said. Madeleine and Corporal Davis. intently as he circled down• The landing was a smooth "This way." wind for his landing. Beside one. Grant taxied the big plane "What about me?" Grant him, Corporal Davis had just to the shore, where Corporal asked. Duncan smiled. finished cleaning his pistol and Davis helped him make it fast. "We intercepted your radio was carefully replacing the bul• The camp was as they had message to the Sesrchmaster. lets. left it, with Chuck's sleeping You have to make one final The Windigo flier was still bag and the small store of food radio call to him, and Sommers angry at Ricky for leaving in the apparently untouched. - here will stay behind to make middle of the night. The note "Well, we'd better push on sure you say the right thing." was not the only surprise they and find our missing! pilots," Grant watched helplessly as had had that morning when Grant said. "Wait here. I'll get Madeleine and Corporal Davis, they awoke. The two hunters the rifles from the plane." their hands bound, were had broken camp during the "That won't be necessary, marched into the forest. night and were gone, along with Mister Mackenzie." Sommers and one of the half of the Indians from the Grant froze. Two figures black-clad guards hovered near village. The rest were packing stepped from behind a large the pilot, their weapons aimed their belongings furiously, their rock, rifles held steady. at his mid-section. faces dark with fear. "Sommers and Duncan," "Sit down, fly-boy," the big "They say their chief, Crow, Madeleine gasped. man said. "You make me ner• has vanished and they think the The smaller man smiled and vous standing there." Windigo has got him," Corporal bowed slightly. "At your service, The flier glared at him, Davis reported. Miss Boisvert." but a nudge from the On the flight down the Clear• From where he stood, Grant muzzle of the rifle water, Grant had been in touch could see six other men, clad held by the guard with the Searchmaster's plane, in black uniforms, rising from backed up the which was airborne at first their places of concealment. command and light, making the final sweeps Corporal Davis moved sud• Grant settled over the route Ricky had denly, his right arm streaking himself on a I marked out on a map. for the pistol holstered at his rock. Sommers I "We'll be pulling out soon," waist, but he was not fast was sweating in the Search master reported. enough. A shot rang out, the "We'll make one final radio check with you in about two hours to see if you're all right." "Roger, out," Grant replied, bullet whipping past the police• his anger increasing. man's ear. Adjusting the flaps as the "The next one will be right plane dropped to the surface of between your eyes if you the river, Grant muttered be• try that again," Duncan tween clenched teeth, "When I rasped. He made a mo• find that kid, I'm going to tan tion with the barrel of his hide. I don't care how old his rifle and the black- he is." clad men surrounded Davis laughed. "Calm down. the trio, searching them When you think it over, he may for weapons. have done the right thing." "All right," Duncan said. "That's right, Grant," Made• "You two." He motioned to

10 CANADIAN BOY the heat as the sun climbed time operation. We have enough higher. He consulted his watch money behind us to buy and several times. sell jerks like you. The Syndi• "Okay, Sommers," Grant cate—," he paused, afraid he spoke quietly. "What do you had gone too far. plan to do with us?" "The Syndicate?" Grant said The big man grinned. "After sharply. "What Syndicate?" you send the message, you're Sommers grinned. "As I said, going to have a little accident." you're not going to tell anybody. Grant shrugged. "If I'm going Yes, the Syndicate. In the old to die anyway, why should I co• days we used to hi-jack liquor operate and send that mes• and dope. Now we hi-jack oil sage?" wells. We're getting out of the "We have ways to make you," old rackets, into legitimate Sommers said softly. "You business, with regular offices, might as well make it easy on and everything on the up and yourself and do what you're up." told." "How about that? Crime "The stakes must be pretty moves into the oil business." high to justify wholesale mur• Sommers consulted his der," Grant continued. watch. "Okay, fly-boy, we've "You said it, fly-boy. Millions. talked long enough. Get in your We're stealing an entire oil plane and send that message. field." And remember, this gun is Grant raised his eyebrows. pointed right at your spine. You "Sounds interesting. Tell me wouldn't be the first smart guy more." I've knocked off." "What for? You're not going The guard followed them to be able to pass the informa• down to the edge of the water. tion along." "You stay here," Sommers Sommers lit a cigar and set• told the man. "Keep your rifle tled himself comfortably on a handy just in case he gets too log. The guard took up a posi• smart." tion behind Grant, his rifle lev• Inside the plane. Grant elled at the flier's spine. The switched on the radio and ad• man looked hot and uncomfort• justed the dial. able in the black clothing he The Searchmaster sounded wore. surprised at hearing Grant's "What's the idea of the mon• voice. "We didn't figure on key suit?" Grant asked, gestur• calling you for another half ing towards the guard. hour," he said. Evidently bored with the Grant felt the rifle nudge his silence, Sommers forgot his back. "We've landed and are warning against talking. "Pro• leaving the plane for a while, tection," he said. "He's harder so we thought we'd make our to spot, and the cloth is treated final check now." to protect him from rays." "Sorry it turned out this At Grant's puzzled look, Som• way," the Searchmaster replied. mers went on. "We're using "But I think we're wasting time lasers to drill into the ground. looking. Your partner evidently We're carving out a chamber died in his plane." down there, a great big under• "I guess you're right," Grant ground storage tank, in which said into the microphone. "Tell we're going to pour more oil the rest of the pilots how much than you ever dreamed of, fly- we appreciate their help." boy. Then, when the time is "Roger, out." The radio went right, we send in a regular dead. Sommers looked at him drilling crew on land we already with a pleased smile on his fat, own-, sink a well, and start sweating face. pumping." "Smart boy. Now come on. "Smart idea," Grant said We have things to attend to, softly. such as your funeral." From Ed Cosgrove's new book, The Terror of the Tar Sands, "You bet it's smart," Som• He backed into the cabin of published this spring by Burns & MacEachern, Toronto. mers snapped. "This is a big- the Continued on page 19

JUNE, 1968 11

I Pfadfinder Germany: in Schwarzwald To 130,000 German boys, the word Pfad- Konrad is lucky to be living in this North Sea to the southern frontier on finder means Boy Scout. More than that, part of Germany, filled with forests, roll• one day on an Autobahn or freeway. The it means the comradeship, instruction ing hills, and old legends. From his climate is similar to that of our west , and motivation that only a group such as house on the outskirts of Offenburg, he coast. this can give. From the opening words of can see one of the many old castles in At the southern end of the country, in the troop meeting to the final song, this area. This castle, so the legend the middle of the Schwarzwald (Black these boys have captured the true mean• goes, was once inhabited by a wicked Forest) Konrad Bauer lives. A 15-year-old ing of Scouting. baron. The tall stately fir trees which Scout, he is a member of the Freiburg ' Germany is a small country by Cana• abound in this area grow almost to the District Group and a leader of the Pan• dian standards. You can drive from the walls of the castle ruins. ther troop in Offenburg. It is said that people make a country. Industrious people like Konrad's mother, and his father, who is an interior decora• German Scouts in the Black Forest, at the southern end of their coun• tor, have done a fabulous job of rebuild• try. They wear no proficiency badges. ing the country. Right now Konrad and his troop are getting ready for the annual jamboree at Chichilrame, France, on the 1st of Au• gust. Because Germans take care of the few forests they have, Panther troop has had overnight camps in them in prepara• tion for the jamboree. During these camps they have heard sounds of the wild boar packs that inhabit these woods. When these boars are aroused they are just as dangerous as a cougar V. or a mountain lion. i Activities at the joint French-German jamboree will include mountain climbing under expert supervision, judo, riding, woodcraft, exploring caves, and other projects. German Boy Scouts on the jam• boree will live with French families for two days. Konrad's school hours are slightly dif• ferent from those of Canadian boys. He attends classes from eight in the morn• ing until 2.30 in the afternoon, Monday through Saturday. One of his favorite, subjects is English. After school, he helps in his father's shop. Apart from his troop meetings, Kon• rad's interests lie in photography. He has a darkroom at home and develops all his own pictures. His tape recordings also take up much of his spare time. Panther troop has just finished a fund-raising drive to help the medical missions in Africa. During this drive they cleaned rugs, washed cars, and collected bottles for resale. The boys of this troop, headed by Scoutmaster Gunther Giesler, purchased a 12-man inflatable life-raft some time ago. They've taken this craft on some ad• venturous journeys. Among their best trips was one from Offenburg to Rotter• dam, Holland, via the Rhine River. It took them two weeks and was well worth it, the boys say. The Rhine has V v. swift currents and, several times, they had to be towed by one of the big barges carrying supplies upriver. Unlike Canadian Scouts, the German • Boy Scouts have no proficiency badges. In a fireside ceremony soon, however, \ Konrad and two other members of his troop will receive the coveted First Class Badge. Konrad and other Pfadfinders in Ger• many, while they speak a different lan• guage and are not called "Scouts", have the same aims and principles as any Boy Scout in the world. Even the words of their song, Good• night, Friends — which closes out their The boys in Konrad's troop have been making plans for the big annual meetings — tells of their brotherhood with all Scouts, and goodwill towards all jamboree at Chichilrame, in France, on the 1st of August. Panther men, no matter where they may be. Troop has just finished a campaign to help mission work in Africa. By R. C. Morrison \

12 CANADIAN BOY OorfJiniO" Panther Patrol OalQI lla- stalks the pillboxes! 11 The blazing noonday sun beat down on assembled at 10 a.m. and boarded a and the last face-like pillbox, set apart their backs as a column of uniformed special bus for their first destination of from all the rest. Canadians climbed up the side of a the day: the U.S. Coast Guard station at This hill is part of the complex of rugged hill, advancing ever nearer their Cala Mosca, on a rocky, jagged point of coastal defences ringing the island. Built objective: a German pillbox at the crest, land that once housed big coastal can• during World War Two, they never saw staring out over the Mediterranean like a nons. -giant leering face. Arriving a short time later, the Scouts It seemed as if machine-guns would were eager to get started. The trail was open up on them any second. But all rough and rocky leading up to the top• was silent. most turret. The big guns were long The patrol leader, Hal Button, called gone but the ammunition storage areas, his column to a halt: "Let's take a break caverns and tunnels of this huge com• here!" And the Panther Patrol of the 6th plex survive, and are now used by the Maple Leaf Group, Sardinia, sat down in Coast Guard as closets for their radio a bunch along a ledge inside the eye-like equipment and other material. gunports of the pillbox to wipe their brows. The Scouts had a field day probing through passages inside this former ene• The Germans were gone. They had my fortress. It was built like a smaller been gone now for 23 years. Gibraltar, guarding the lagoon below and The date was April 7, 1968, and the the sky above. first wave of the long hot season, • stretching from April through September, Little wonder the area was so well for• had arrived in Sardinia. It had brought tified! Beneath this huge stone promon• the Scouts out on the first of their many tory there once existed a great German summer hikes. submarine pen. The underwater entrance I to this cavern was blown up by the re• Today they were exploring only a cou• • ple of many fascinating ruins to be found treating Germans themselves in 1944. : « on this large Italian island. It was hard to After seeing Cala Mosca, the troop believe that in some parts of the world climbed back into their special bus and (like Canada, for instance!) people were headed for another German fort. This still up to their eyeballs in snow, while one was located on the far northern side here in Sardinia all eyeballs were squint• of the Poetto. A different type, designed ing against the glare of the warm Medi• to hold off a ground invasion force, this terranean sun. seco/id stronghold is actually a system of Wait a minute! What are Canadian bunkers and pillboxes built into the side Scouts doing in Sardinia? of a small mountain overlooking and con• trolling an expansive beach. The boys reach the tunnel entry Their fathers are in the RCAF Air at Cala Mosca, a rocky, jagged Weapons Unit, staffing a NATO base not The Scouts piled out of the bus and point of land that once housed far from the city of Cagliari. Most of the soon found the entrance to the long tun• Canadian families live at the Poetto nel that twists and turns through the hill• big coastal cannons. The complex beach district of Cagliari where Maple side, connecting all the bunkers. Down is a little Gibraltar with its under• Leaf House, the community club, is lo• into the ground they went, to explore the ground installations. Ifs a U.S. cated. It was in front of M.L.H. that this insides of this engineering marvel. Later Coast Guard station now, day's activities began. they stumbled out into the sunlight Under the leadership of Scouters again, inspected the outside more closely Chuck Martin and Dave Leigh, the troop and started their climb toward the top, action! As the Allies advanced, during the last days of the war in Europe, Italy surrendered and the German forces with• drew to defend the mainland. They took with them all their weapons and equip• ment, abandoning the island but leaving most of their fortifications intact. And the majority of these fortifications are stili standing today. Returning to the Poetto from this day's outing, the Scouts were a hot, dusty, thirsty, tired lot. But not too tired to top off the day with a cooling swim! And, after lunch, away to the beach they went, with diving masks, fins, and towels. The water was a warm 62 degrees. All the boys dived right in without hesita• tion. They had the beach to themselves. The Italians wait for even warmer weather before they go in swimming. But not these tough Canadian boys! The weather and water were perfect for them — like mid-summer back home. After romping in the surf for a while, these hardy guys decided to practise gymnastics up on the white sand. The appearance on the beach of some pretty girl-type people might've had something to do with this decision! At Poetto beach on the sunny Mediterranean Sea, Canadian Scouts After all, it was a good way to dry off. in Sardinia have the surf to themselves in April. Even though the And they needed the practice, of course! - water is a warm 62 degrees, Italians prefer to wait for summer. By Richard J. Schumert

JUNE, 1968 13 Make Peace Not War In 23 years the world has endured at least 28 wars, declared and unofficial This, In spite of the existence and efforts of the UN. Will the UN ever be able to help us keep peace in our time?

What is the United Nations? What it was in• tended to be? Is it really what 50-odd nations had in mind when they put their best brains together in favor of peace, during the final days of ^Norld War Two? Five Scouts from Canada dropped Mo UN Headquarters in New York to see if they could find out. Doug Bolduc, 16, of Lomond, Alta.; Michael McGrall, 16, and Darell Smith, 15, both of Champion, Alta., and two Vulcan boys, Roger Grant, 14, and Bill Christensen, 13, did get some answers. How? You cou\d do it. They went on a regular public tour of the UN buildings. They listened to their tour guide. They asked questions. And they sought out and chatted with a Canadian who works in the United Nations Organization. Canada was one of the founding members of the UN. That was 23 years ago. Now there are more than 120 member nations. Sometimes the UN falls to keep peace in the world. Sometimes its members don't pay their dues, and won't support peacekeeping operations. Still, the UN is the world's only real hope for peace. At least, it provides a place tor talk. As long as you can keep talking, you're not fighting. The Canadian Scouts came away with a feel• ing that Canadian activity in the UN — peace• keeping — is the cornerstone of our diplomatic work in the world today. There is, when you leave this great meeting-place, a feeling that the United Nations Organization will not be allowed to crumble, like the old League of Nations eventually did, following World War One. You come away from this place con• vinced that there is too much at stake to let the world's biggest international club fold up. Things like peace. And people.

Left: Scouter Gary Jopling chats with his five travelling companions on the cool lawns beside the UN buildings. The boys' uniforms drew hardly a glance tram security guards or passersby, who are accustomed to seeing people from all over the world, in national dress or uniform. How you dress or what language you speak makes no difference here! Most of the guides and information staff can switch from one language to another in mid-sentence. Top left: Inside the main building, the Canadian group is almost lost in the spacious foyer. Unusual blending of traditional art with space- age artifacts gives the visitor a sense of standing on history's horizon, while gazing through a window to the future.

Top right: Highly informative guide explains setup of General Assembly and Security Council at the UN. The Vulcan boys iound it impossible to become bored, with so many attractive sights grabbing their atten• tion1. It's still not known which the Scouts noticed more: the UN buildings or the UN guides! Remarkable architecture.

Above: Canadian press attache S. A. Freifeld, at right, briefs the boys on Canada's role at the UN. He said the Canadian mission's job is primarily one of peacekeeping activities — without appeasement. The boys were interested to know if you had to be bilingual to work for Canada's UN mission. Mr. Freifeld's answer: "BiUngualism is important in Canada, and anywhere else. In the UN, if you are not bilingual when you start working here, they'll soon have you that way!" Still, only 1,200 people in the entire world are qualified to hold a UN interpreter's job!

At left: Even the United Nations has a tuck shop, iam-packed with souvenirs from every imaginable corner of the globe. Little toys from Taiwan, expensive jewelry and valuable vases share the limelight here with simple souvenirs and penny postcards. The boys laid down their money for unusuai knives and knick-knacks. Photos by Clay Price, Black Star Photostory by George Bourne

15 Scouting on Hong Kong: Red China's doorstep!

Hong Kong is one of the most important plus. Three Scout Districts were estab• cities in the Far East. It is a tribute to lished: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the energy and versatility of the people the New Territories. District Commission• here, eight thousand miles from England, ers were officially appointed and an effi• that by 1909 informal Scouting groups cient headquarters was set up. had been formed in Hong Kong. The year of the Hong Kong Jamborette, But inadequate organization and lead• 1959, also celebrated the 50th anniver• ership exposed this as a false start. Soon sary of the inauguration of Scouting the informal groups ceased to exist. there. It was the first jamborette ever Between 1911 and 1912, in the face held in Hong Kong, and it appeared to of some difficulty, a group of British have been a great success among the merchants and army officers succeeded 1,600 Scouts who attended it. in founding Scout groups in Hong Kong In 1961, the year of the Golden Jubi• on an organized basis. lee Jamborette, the movement marked But the movement was still young the 50th year of Scouting in Hong Kong. and, with no assistance or support from This was a significant milestone in its Britain, the first Scout troops were weak. history and its record of service to the A year later the situation had improved youth of the colony. and the Hong Kong branch was regis• The jamborette camp in Kowloon was tered and officially recognized by the attended by 3,000 men and boys from Boy Scouts Association in England. the Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, Bru• Between the world wars progress was nei, Thailand, Japan, and the United steady. By 1941, the year war broke out States. in the Pacific, the total strength of Hong More and more young people were at• Kong Scouts was about 1,500. tracted to Scouting after that, and the During the Japanese occupation the numbers have continued to grow. As a movement became completely inactive. result there are now three Area Head• quarters to serve Hong Kong Island, But Scouts loyally defended their Kowloon, and the New Territories, plus home territory. Forty Scouts lost their 18 districts! lives during the occupation and an ap• preciable number of Scouts and Scouters The years since the jamborette have endured great hardship in order to reach been busy ones. A great deal of planning China, where they could continue to and preparatory work has been done for serve against the militant enemy. the future development of the movement here. When the war ended in 1945, Scout• When Hong Kong Scouts are not out ing revived in Hong Kong. By 1946 about on reforestation schemes, they are start• 400 pre-war Scouts and Scouters had ing new projects for the betterment of Sea Scouts in Hong Kong carry reorganized a large number of troops. A out a camp project. Familiar? year later enrollment reached 2,000- Continued on page 20

A pocket of Canadian Cubs Warsaw: behind the Iron Curtain!

Ever hear of a Canadian Wolf Cub Pack volved here were Canada, Great Britain, Group Committees in existence. Its mem• with no Canadians and located, of all Israel, Finland, the United States, India, bership includes the British Ambassador, places, behind the Iron Curtain? Belgium, the United Arab Republic, Ar• the United States Ambassador, the Cana• Well, there is one, in Warsaw, capital gentina, France, and The Netherlands. dian Ambassador, and representatives of of Poland. All these governments and the Scouting a number of other western embassies in How come? That's an international sto• officials concerned agreed to the unique Warsaw. ry. proposal and the pack was off to a howl• The pack continues to use the old Two In 1962 the Boy Scouts World Bureau ing start! Star Program and has made frequent ex• in Ottawa received a letter from Group Since that time this pack has re• change visits with Polish Cub Packs. The Captain Barry H. Moffit, air attache at mained on registry in Canada, although Polish Boy Scout movement still exists, the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw. He there are no longer any Canadian boys or but its government does not permit affili• wanted to know how to go about organiz• leaders in the group. ation with world Scouting. ing a Cub pack for sons of the western In 1964 Group Captain Moffit returned The Canadian pack has joined in diplomatic personnel in the Polish capi• to Canada and his son Craig, a charter weekend camps, regular pack meetings, tal. member of the Warsaw pack, became a campfires and other Cubbing activities Since Group Captain Moffit was to be Scout in Ottawa. Cubmaster Moffit was with their Polish counterparts. It has the Cubmaster, it was decided, with the succeeded as pack leader by Major R. F. been a happy and rewarding association consent of other nations concerned, that Dorey of the British Embassy. Mrs. J. for boys from both sides of the political the pack would be registered in Canada. Luckin, also from the British Embassy, barrier. So, since 1963, the Warsaw Diplomatic served as his assistant. Corps Pack has appeared in the census Colonel Zwijnenberg is still the Pack of Canadian Scouting. Later, Colonel J. T. A. Zwijnenberg of Scouter, and his assistant is now Miss N. The Netherlands Embassy became the Collins of the British Embassy. Before this could happen, though, we had to have the consent of all countries pack's Akela. His assistants were Mrs. Membership includes boys from Great concerned. We had not only to get their Yvonne Legrendre of the French Embas• Britain, Finland, France, the United permission, but to establish that whatev• sy and Corporal Jack Burns, United States, India, Afghanistan, and Japan. States Marine Corps. er the boys achieved in this international And, as we started out to say, there's pack would be recognized by Scouters The Western Diplomatic Corps Cub not a Canadian boy or Canadian leader in on the local level when the boys returned Pack, as the group came to be known, sight in this Canadian Cub pack behind to their own countries. The nations in- boasts one of the most distinguished the Iron Curtain! By Bert Mortlock

16 CANADIAN BOY If you're going buggy over badges there are thousands of others who are doing the same thing! Trading is wild among badge collectors, at jamborees, meetings, or by mail!

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Collecting and Trading Badges BY EVAN MORRIS An increasingly popular hobby buy from your Troop Scouter a ing badges by mail is another pos• among Scouts is collecting badges dozen or so of your provincial and sibility. By exchanging in this way, — Scout badges, that is. Almost district badges. If the badges are you can get Scout badges from any badges are collected, but the made of silk, they won't cost too other countries, especially the Com• favorite types are the provincial and much, but the hard-backed crests monwealth nations. Bartering by district badges which Scouts wear vary considerably in price. The best mail is not at all like the hectic on their uniform, and sometimes in• possible time to exchange these trading that goes on at jamborees. dividual town or city crests. badges is at a jamboree. Most Badges are usually exchanged on a Other sought-after badges are Scouts at one time or another have one-for-one basis, and in this way those from jamborees, especially the chance to go to a jamboree, you can get a large number of val• foreign ones, such as the Seventh particularly a provincial one. uable badges at low cost. Australian Jamboree, or the Na• All provincial jamborees see When you've gathered a bunch tional Jamboree held at Valley troops attending from the other of badges, you'll probably be faced Forge in the United States. provinces, and usually one or more with the problem of how to display Scout flag badges from foreign troops from the United States; so them. One method is to sew the countries are also popular. These you have a chance to get badges badges on to cloth squares of dif• badges are given to Scouts to wear from all Canadian provinces, as ferent colors. Felt is usually a good on their uniform when they attend well as from another country. If material to sew them on. jamborees in another country. Col• you're good at bargaining, you Another method is to pin the lectors in many parts of the world should do all right, and perhaps badges in their proper positions on are asking for the maple leaf flag come home with twice as many a large wall map. As long as you badge, which has replaced the red badges as when you left! But if have a good selection of badges, ensign. you're not good at this type of fran• and the map doesn't get too clut• If you're interested in collecting tic trading — beware! tered, then this method will give badges, the best way to start is to For more serious collectors, trad• you a handsome effect. rffo

JUNE, 1968 17 GREAT ANADIANS

JOSHUA SLOCUM BORN IN WILMOT TOWNSHIP, NOVA SCOTIA. IN 1895 HE SET SAIL IN HIS 36'9"SlOOP *SPRAY " ON A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,LASHING HIMSELF TO THE MAST IN FIERCE STORMS, AND FIGHTING OFF ATTACKS BV PIRATES, HE SAILED 46,OOO MlLES.FINALLV LANDING IN NOVA SCOTIA THREE YEARS LATER, HE HAD BECOME THE FIRST PERSON TOSAILCOMPLETELY ROUND THE WORLD ALONEH A NON-SWIMMER/ TAR SANDS Chuck clapped him on the shoul• felt anger surge inside him. The men Continued from page 11 der. "Switch to the PAL* frequency, were drifting away now to other tasks, because the air force plane may be and Duncan had entered the small- plane, keeping his rifle aimed at the pretty far away. Stick with the radio tracked vehicle that served as the cen• flier. At the entrance, Grant faced the until help comes. We're counting on tral control of the drilling complex. guard, who watched him carefully as you, Ricky. Fifty men are too many Desperately, Grant searched the in• he climbed from the cabin. Sommers for us to handle." terior with his eyes. A huge mass of was about to climb down the small "Come on, Chuck," Grant said im• metal, about the height of a three-sto• ladder to the floor when the guard patiently. "We've got to move fast." rey building, caught his attention. suddenly grunted and fell forward. It wasn't hard to find the hidden "What's that?" he asked Chuck. "Wha-," The big man had no drilling site in daylight. Grant was as• "That's the monster," the Indian chance to finish the word, for Grant tonished by the size of the place when replied. "The drilling rig. It's hoisted hit him in a football tackle. Sommers he caught his first glimpse of the huge into the sky by a sort of retractable fell from the float with the flier on top green mass of camouflage netting tripod built right into the body. That of him. Grabbing the gangster by the through the trees. little penthouse on top is the main las• front of his jacket, Grant slammed his Briefly, Chuck explained what he er, used for drilling." fist once, twice into the beefy jaw, had learned. "And they move these A plan was beginning to form in and felt Sommers go limp. rigs westward every night, drilling a Grant's head. It was desperate, but it "Okay, champion! That's enough!" long chamber underground with las• might just succeed. Grant looked up. Chuck grinned at ers," he said. "Look, all this stuff piled around him from the shore. Beside him, "But why is there no sign of a hole here stretches right up to where Ma• Ricky reached down to help Grant in the surface?" Grant asked. deleine and the Corporal are tied up. pull the unconscious gangster from "It's like the x-rays they use in If I created a' diversion, could you slip the water. treating cancer," Chuck explained, up and cut them loose?" Grant stared at his friend. "What leading Grant into a clump of bushes Chuck nodded, a worried look on are you made up for — Robin Hood where they could scramble under the his face. "But be careful." or Hiawatha?" he asked. tent canopy unseen. "The rays pass Grant gave the big Indian's shoul• Chuck waved his home-made bow, right through skin and bone without der a squeeze, then scrambled towards with an arrow already notched and harming them, and burn only the can• the huge laser machine. Chuck ready for release. "You'd better thank cer." slipped away towards the captives his your stars I still remember how to "Pretty advanced technology for a hunting knife held steadily in his make these. A shot would have tipped bunch of gangsters!" Grant muttered. hand. off that plug-ugly who was guarding "Hold it!" Chuck whispered. "Over Grant had no idea what he would you, and you might now have an ad• there!" he added, pointing. do once he reached the machine, but ditional hole in your head." Grant could see a number of men since this was the main part of the en• "What about the other guard?" working around several helicopters. tire operation, it seemed to him the Grant asked, looking toward the "The big ones are used to haul sup• best objective to aim for. Fervently, sprawled figure on the grass. plies and machinery," Chuck whis• he hoped Ricky was reaching some• "Don't worry about him." Chuck pered. "Those little ones are scouts, one by radio. said grimly, and Grant shuddered and deadly!" He pointed to the lasers A small steel door on the side of slightly as he saw the feathered arrow mounted on the nose. the machine caught his eye and he protruding from between the man's Grant could see Duncan among the headed for that. Suddenly there was a shoulder blades. group of men around the helicopters. shout! Grant whirled. One of the "Look, when you two get finished Madeleine and Corporal Davis were black-clad guards had spotted him with all this chatter, how about some close at hand, tied to one of the .long and was reaching for a pistol belted action to get Madeleine and Corporal steel posts that held up the ceiling of around his waist. Davis?" Ricky snapped. the huge tent. Firing from the hip, Grant dropped "Right." Grant picked up the "The way I figure it," Chuck whis• the man with his rifle, then hurled guard's rifle. "Ricky, get some rope pered, "they plan to load us aboard himself through the steel door. There from the plane and tie Sommers up. our plane, then after dark, one of those was a confused babble of shouts and Then you get on that radio and try to big cargo carriers will air-lift it to commands in the tent now. Men be• raise the Searchmaster." some small, deep lake, where the laser gan racing towards the sound of the "And what are you going to be choppers will blast it into wreckage." shot. doing?" the boy asked. "Just another accident in the bush," Inside the machine, Grant saw a Grant looked at Chuck. "We're Grant replied through clenched teeth. steel ladder that vanished through an going after Madeleine." overhead hatch and darted towards it. The Windigo fliers could see Dun• Feet clattered hollowly overhead and "How come I get left behind?" can talking to Madeleine and Corpo• he caught a glimpse of black-clad legs asked Ricky angrily. ral Davis. They saw him throw his coming down the ladder. A hand ap• "Because we need help. There are head back in a laugh, then speak to peared, clutching a gun. Grant fired three of those drilling rigs in the the other men, who joined in the again, the explosion echoing loudly in neighborhood manned by about fifty laughter. men, all killers, and if the other two the steel chamber. A black-clad figure "Bunch of cold-Wooded killers, find out we're alive and kicking, they tumbled down the ladder and lay still. making fun of their victims." Grant might send for reinforcements." At the top of the ladder, Grant

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SCOUTING ROUND THE in the long-distance running and the div• ing competitions. Carlos, a soccer player WORLD himself, is just as excited about the foot• ball and swimming competitions. I asked Carlos if he would be watching the football games at the Olympics. SWEDEN (from page 7) "Quien sabe?" he said, answering me The sleek red sports car hurtled into in his native language. Then, in English, for Staffan this summer. Those patrol the S-turn at 70 miles an hour, tires with a shrug: "Who knows?" leaders who are outstanding and who are howling. The driver cut the steering going up to the Senior Scouting branch Pancho grinned in harmony with his wheel hard right, and floored the ac• next term have the chance to take part brother. "Mexican Scouts are going to be pretty busy this year," he said. celerator. The red car straightened in a "Blue Hike". This is held in four dif• ferent parts of Sweden each year. More And that must be some kind of record and headed down the backstretch, flat than a hundred girls and boys live an ex• for understatement! By Merna Leviston out. Its exhaust sound rose to a citing Scout adventure during a period of screaming "puff-puff-puff-puff" . .. 10 to 12 days. Hey .. . wait a minute! A car ex• The hike Staffan is going on will in• volve a raft, going down one of the large page haust that goes "puff-puff-puff-puff"?? AUSTRALIA (from 9) rivers in western Sweden, close to Nor• Yep! Just like an old-time railway way, j frey finds himself part of some sweeping locomotive. The sleek red sports car is They will spend their days and nights new thinking introduced only in the past driven by a steam engine — an old on board the raft, make excursions on decade or so. His curriculum involves ge• land, and anchor up for the evenings to ography, art, technical drawing, English, type of automotive powerplant that have campfires. Staffan has heard so maths angled towards the age of the may be on the edge of a big much about Blue Hikes that he is eager• computer, science in a wider sense, comeback! ly looking forward to this summer's trip. woodwork, music, and physical educa• Staffan's troop leader is going to be tion. It's a course designed to give the Steam cars were big news in the the leader of the Explorer Belt Expedition student a broad base of knowledge, rath• early days of auto history. Doble De- to Scotland this summer. There was er than steering him too narrowly towards troits and Stanley Steamers were as fa• some discussion in the family about Staf• specialties in academic or technical studies before he's ready to decide on mous as Oldsmobiles and Mercers. fan going, but they decided he was too young. He couldn't have gone anyway: his career. But the gasoline engine won the battle minimum age is 16. Jeffrey also finds himself working and and the steam engine became an auto• Staffan's experience with camps playing with new settlers from Europe, motive museum piece. abroad amounts to participating in a North America, and Asia. jamborette in Denmark. There he en• Now, steamers are in the news The Clarks have a car but Jeffrey joyed meeting Scouts from other nations, again. Both General Motors and Ford hasn't travelled much yet, except to and he came to the conclusion that in• country centres fairly close to Sydney. are experimenting with steam power. ternational friendship is a great thing! There is a motor vehicle for every four Los Angeles County has begun a se• To go back to our Christmas morning people in Australia, according to gov• ries of freeway tests with a steam-driv• scene, it should be said that after the ernment statistics. en Volkswagen. service everybody got hot cocoa and buns, in the great hall of the School for Scouting will give Jeffrey the chance Main reason for revived interest in Blind Children. Staffan's troop has invit• to go to jamborees in the main capitals steam is air pollution. Standard gas- ed the blind troop to their meetings on every four years. Meanwhile he's working burning engines cause heavy pollution occasion, and his gang all enjoyed being on his First Class, which involves a hike with the handicapped Scouts. into the Royal National Park. That's an of our atmosphere. A steam engine, area of varied natural bushland, ranging fuelled with kerosene, diesel juice, In the Scout Hall, which is now in the from bald sandstone plateaus to lush premises of the football stadium at Sol• bunker oil, or even paint thinner, rain forests, beginning on the southern' na, every unit of the group has a board. burns much cleaner. fringes of Sydney and occupying a coast• On the board of Staffan's troop every• al strip of 40,000 acres. Steam cars are also a little easier to body pins up clippings from the press, drive. They need only three controls which they think are funny or informa• Ahead of Jeffrey Clark lie almost un• tive. The system works well and keeps limited opportunities to choose what he- — a throttle, a cutoff, and a brake. everybody up-to-date as well as in good will do with his life. He is a reflection of Because steam drive is direct, there humor! an Australia which, in little more than the short span of his own lifetime, has are no transmissions, gearshifts, or Coming home from the church pa• developed a new spirit of independence, clutches. rade, Staffan felt he had earned some thought, and action, and a real sense of sleep. So, at nine in the morning, he was Main problem with the steamers is destiny. fast asleep again. Sleep is a good thing size. Because a steam car must carry for growing Scouts, too! By A. E. Ende along its own water tank, steam pow- erplants tend to be bulky. However, factory engineers are working on this HONG KONG (from page 16) problem and say they think they'll MEXICO (from page 8) Hong Kong as a place to live and to grow soon find an answer. up. Five-year plans have been begun. What about performance? Just fine! and another for the little guys. The most These are aimed at furthering Scout- The Los Angeles experimental Volks• fun of all, according to Pancho, is watch• ing the fathers trying to break their ing's service to youth in the colony. And wagen gets up working pressure in 14 pinata. they're going after more leaders, more seconds, goes 36 miles on a gallon of > and better training and camping facili• Mexican Scouts often arrange posadas ties, and leadership cadres. cheap fuel, and drives ordinary motor• for poor children. And their good turns ists straight up the steering column as throughout the year might include col• Today Hong Kong's enrollment stands lecting clothing and toys for the poor. at 18,000. About 99 percent of this it whizzes past them on the freeway, number are Chinese Boy Scouts, a trib• blowing its whistle and going "puff- Still, the main reason most Mexican ute to the international appeal of Lord boys join the Scouts is to have fun. And, puff-puff-puff!" By Roger Appleton Baden-Powell's dreams and schemes of for Pancho and Carlos, 1968 will provide so long ago. By Evan C. Jones even more fun than usual. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. To avoid miss• In not very many months, the mara• ing copies, please send your change of thon runners will race past the corner of Evan Jones is a 15-year-old Scout living address before you move to: Subscription their street again. This time, it will be in Hong Kong. He is interested in writing Department, CANADIAN BOY, P.O. Box the real thing: the 1968 Olympic Games. as well as in the history and future of 5151, Station F, Ottawa 5, Ont. Pancho, who competes in the 5,000-me• Scouting, in the colony and around the ter races at his school, is most interested world. jjte*

20 CANADIAN BOY (Little, Brown, $5.95) is the detailed Victor Ambrus has done some ad• day-by-day observation of what hap• mirable illustrations for some of the fulfill"^1 pened in the month of May, at Oak more dramatic scenes. Lake, near the Illinois-Wisconsin On Course! (Macmillan, $5.50) by B border. There is nothing soft about S. Carl Hirsch recounts the whole his• • the life at Oak Lake. Yet nature's tory of navigation on the sea, in the Clarke Wallace, who has done a wide range of reporting and writing harsh world is rarely mean or ugly. air and in space as far as man has for CANADIAN BOY, once again dem• This book contains stories of remark• gone — and returned to tell about it. onstrates his keen insight into and able animal heroism! Illustrations by William Steinel are as understanding of the personalities of Life in the raw is something we've informative as Mr. Hirsch's easy-to- boys and girls — how they think, what all dreamed of. Tom Neale did some• read text, and add to the reader's gen• they do, and why — in his Montreal thing about it! He tells you what in eral enjoyment of this big book. , Adventure (Burns & MacEachern, his book, An Island to Oneself (Col• U.S.S. Mudskipper (Dodd, Mead, $3.95). As a first book, it is surpris• lins, $6.00), and how he made out $5.50) by William M. Hardy, is an• ingly un-autobiographical and free of alone on his personal desert island. other good novel, set off the coast of the painful soul-searchings so often Beautiful color photos! Japan. It's the tense tale of the sub• evident in a writer's first novel. This Whether you're a Scout or not, marine that wrecked a train. book is also a Canadian literary mile• Knotcraft (Welch, $6.50) by Allan The Sea Cub (Musson, $2.10) by stone of sorts: it sets the story in the and Paulette Macfarlan, can help you Showell Styles, and Tawny Trail vicinity of Expo, in Montreal, in Cen• in work, play, games, stunts, magic (Musson, $2.10) by Falcon Travis, tennial Year, and it smacks of a bi• and general fascination. Fully illus• are both for Cubs. These two ad• lingual flavor. trated throughout its 186 pages. venture stories fit right in with Cub• bing, and the first one should also Canadian author Kerry Wood has Dr. H. C. King's Book of Astron• interest Sea Scouts. published another of his big paper• omy (Collins, $3.95) is only one of backs, this time a guide of hobbies a number he has written on the sci• and handicrafts which he calls A Time ence of the stars. Dr. King, who is for Fun. It's riddled with references now director of the new planetarium to Scouting and deals mainly with of the Royal Ontario Museum at To• JOIN THE FUN making happy use of wilderness ma• ronto, believes astronomy is a scien• IN YOUR OWN ALCORT terials you can pick up around tific discipline. At the same time it streams, ponds and lakes. A Time for does not bar the non-specialist; so Fun costs $3.95 a copy and is in most this science, and Dr. King's beautifully i Amu OR Canadian book stores. You can also illustrated book, should prove inter• 3 get it direct from Kerry Wood by esting to anyone who has even noticed writing to him at Box 122, Red Deer, the night sky! Alta. Windows to Space (Little, Brown, 8111 David Harwood's third book, Scouts $5.75) is written especially for the Indeed! (Clarke, Irwin, $3.85) offers amateur astronomer. It deals with the encouragment to anyone in Scouting two huge "windows" through which who may be losing faith in the Move• men can look into space: telescopic ment or losing confidence in his own astronomy, and radio astronomy. • ability to give further service through You'll get some of the history of Scouting and gain any worthwhile ex• astronomy, too, from the picture- periences from it. As Ralph Reader packed pages of this worthwhile book! says in his foreword to Harwood's Elinor Chamberlain's Mystery of work: "In the pages of this book you the Jungle Airstrip (Lippincott, $4.25) will re-discover our faith in the would be a good thing to pick up if younger generation and particularly in you're looking for a birthday present our movement ... In this year of for your sister! You might even want our Diamond Jubilee we enter into a to read it yourself, even though this new phase of our Scouting. I believe fast-paced, suspense-filled novel is that you will find encouragement when about an American girl in the Philip• you read this book." We couldn't pre• pine jungles. Adventure is where you tend to say it better, Mr. Reader! find it! Many Beavers (Dodd, Mead, Husky of the Mounties (Dent, $4.25) by Harry Sinclair Drago, is $3.50) by Francis Dickie is a col• the story of a young Cree Indian boy, lection of Canadian animal stories, crippled from birth, and his friendship written to awaken new interest in the with a bear. This is a heartwarming strange loyalties of animals. The title AMF ALCORT, Dept. CBM-68 story. But it is also a graphic picture of the book is really the title of the P.O. Box 1345, Woterbury, Conn. 06720 of the way an isolated band of Crees, first of the ten stories in this little Division of American Machine & Foundry Company far from their homeland in Manitoba, gem. The last five yarns all concern Please Send Me Your Free Color Folder lived deep in the forest of British Co• themselves with Queen, the Airedale. Name lumbia in 1885. There's a hair-raising one in there Address City State Zip Allan W. Eckert's Wild Season about Black Death, the wolf-dog!

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FINALLY THE QREATCOMPUTER tS F'tEP GREW COMPUTER CZN1RB I MetMHHB Arm m UNABU Tofi&TART TUB4t*CRAFt,0VR L\NP READY' • BUT HWW ARE OUR HEROES & VROF REPAIRS THE /iVlYARPS Wlf ROBERT Pi AyS\ Al OFF IhJ PURSUIT. -W/U. • THEYARR'VB W TTtfE?? TS #f CoHTiNUbO.. track and field, hockey, baseball, painting, drag racing, sailing, and the out-of-doors. He'll correspond with boys or girls, anywhere, who have in• ATTENTION terests similar to his own. Doug Bird, 14, of 17 Phillips Crescent, Terry Love, of 7th Drive, Oliver, HO TRAIN Saskatoon, Sask., collects stamps and B.C., wants a p.p. from Alberta east• coins and is eager to trade with other ward to P.E.I., preferably somebody philatelists and numismatists. He's also who's 12, in grade 7, likes The MODELERS! an amateur photographer. He'll write Monkees, The Beatles, records, TV, to anybody, anywhere. and movies. (Note: Our MOVIES SPECIAL MAIL man is doing two full-length features Shane Downs, 159 Casey Street, St. ORDER SALE!! this year instead of monthly columns, John's, Nfld., is 12 and goes for swim• Terry. Answer your question?) ming and boating, camping and shoot• ing. He's a Scout, and would like a Greg Feeham,* 11 - year - old Scout, penpal from any place at all. lives at 7604 Laurier Drive, Edmon• Brent Kennedy, Box 744, Cloverdale, ton, Alta., likes swimming and ski• B.C., is interested in matchbook col• ing, and will correspond with any• lecting. If you want to send him inter• body, anywhere. esting items for his collection, he offers Grant Parsons, 21 Woodgrove Drive, to help you with any collection you West Hill, Ont., wants a penpal out• might have. (Keep it down to some• thing you can get into a mailbox, side Ontario. He is 12 and is inter• VARNEY F-7 ested in radio, jazz, crafts, and nature. guys! — LS) Eight-wheel drive, lighted, fully David McLean of 1167 Albany Drive, geared, traction bands. Most power• Barry Hay ward of Apartment 27, at ful F-unit ever built! 717 Irvine Street, Fredericton, N.B., Ottawa 5, Ont., is looking for a p.p. likes hockey, baseball, books, and around 11 or 12, interested in avia• Regularly $18.95 model building. He's 10 and wants a tion and life in the Northwest. SALE PRICE only p.p. from outside New Brunswick. s Brian Speck of 30 Kesler Avenue, Ot• Mark Si ink ins, 36 Lawrence Drive, tawa 5, Ont., would like a p.p. outside $10.95 M.P., Trenton, Ont., and Doug Frey, Ontario or Quebec. He's 10 and likes I 660 Davis Street, Prince Albert, girls, sports, music, and chemistry. Sask., are joining forces to offer a stamp collector's service. Write to Scott Edgett, 150 Mount Edward either of them for more information Road, Charlottetown, P.E.I., is 11, " about their trading service. likes stamp collecting and wants a penpal from outside Canada. Robert Fairbairn of 314 Cartier Street, Drummondville, Que., is Paul Chantler of 610 McCowan Road, organizing a worldwide stamp service Scarborough, Ont., is 10 and would for collectors who are interested in like a p.p. in Newfoundland or Que• mint specimens, at current face bec. He goes for boating, stamps, and VARNEY SW-7 values. wild animals! Eight-wheel drive yard or road switcher, fully geared, die-cast body. Donald Desserud, Box 6, Grove Hill, Cam Patterson, 13, of Box 607, In• Tough! dian Head, Sask., has been an avid Bathurst, N.B., is 11 and is actively stamp collector for more than eight interested in fishing, hunting, cars, Regularly $20.95 years. He'll trade British Common• model cars, drag races and the sci• SALE PRICE only wealth issues. ences. He'd like a p.p. from Jamaica, West Indies. $15.95 Ivo Finorri of 9598 Hamelin, Mont• r real 12, Que., will trade stamps with Barry Adams of 1930 Bancroft Drive, anyone. Just send him a stamped self- Sudbury, Ont., is a Sea Cadet who's Send cheque or money order looking for a penpal. His favorite ac• addressed envelope. He has a world• No CODs wide selection available. tivities, besides reading CB, are fish• ing, skiing, chess and competitive Geoffery Nowak of 137 Camelot sports. Drive, North Bay, Ont., has a bunch NOREL of stamps he'll trade off for pre-1954 Clayton Savage, 121 Crofton Bay, coins. Write to him and see what you Winnipeg 8, Manitoba, would like a HOBBIES LIMITED p.p. anywhere in Canada interested in can work out! 1523 MERIVALE ROAD radiation, science, the future, and bas• Mike Martin, 16, of 1747 Christmas ic chemistry. Eight-or-nine-year-olds, OTTAWA 5, ONTARIO Avenue, Victoria, B.C., is interested in please.

JUNE, 1968 23 THOSE WONDERFUL TWO-W11EELED HACHIN ES!

By Roger Appleton PART TWO

Bicycles make surprisingly good tricks until you know the fundamen• a friend or braced up against a tree. drag racers, particularly if the course tals. Then you can work on getting your is paved and shortened to one-eighth For stunt riding, always wear full own balance right without having to of a mile, half the length of the nor• protective equipment and make it the worry about balancing the bicycle, mal quarter-mile car drag strip. A best quality you can find. There's no too. good bike man can skid the rear tire way to avoid it . . . you're going to On a bicycle you can do almost easily on takeoff; a real expert can get a few hard knocks while practising everything you can on a motorcycle, even make the rear skin smoke a little your routines. Hard knocks are part of except that you can't do it as fast, or on asphalt or concrete. Bike drags, many sports, and you'll certainly get nearly as long. When you have a mo• like car drags, should have a starter some stiff jolts playing hockey or foot• torbike, the world is at your throttle with a flag, to make sure everyone ball, but it's always better to be well hand. You can travel hundreds of gets off fairly. prepared for them. miles a day, or cross Canada in a Now let's consider another type of If you have four or five friends in• week! bike sport — stunt riding. This is best terested in stunt cycling you can get With a motorcycle the streets are for older fellows who have learned all together and work out a full stunt fair game, but drive carefully. Notice there is to know about the basics of show with a complete program of rid• I'm not saying drive slowly. Slowpoke cycle riding. Stunt cycling is like any ing tricks! driving isn't safe driving by any other sport; you don't try the fancy A good way to open the show is a means. Caution is fine and necessary- fast skid turn, with every rider doing but dawdling along a busy street or the trick at the same time. To make a highway just invites accidents. skid turn to the right, stand on the Most of the time, cars and trucks, brake pedal with your right foot and are travelling close to the legal speed cut the handlebars right gently. When limit. A slow moving vehicle in the the skid starts, make it sharper by way is a real hazard. If your motorcy• shifting your weight to increase the cle is one of the small-engined, low outward slide of the back wheel. speed jobs, keep it off the main arte• When the bicycle begins to tip over, rial roads or freeways. Here's a good step off. You should finish the turn guide to follow: if your bike's top standing upright, your weight planted speed isn't at least as high as the post• firmly on your right foot, with the bi• ed speed limit . . . say 60 miles per cycle leaning on an angle, held grace• hour on a 60 mph limit freeway . . . fully by the handlebars in your left you shouldn't be on that road. You're hand. safer taking some other route. Switching riders is spectacular, with As commonsense will tell you, some cyclists changing machines on the games that were merely rugged on bi• move. Experts can stand up on the cycles become murder on motorbikes! seat or crossbar, or do headstands. Hockey-stick polo is an example. Peo• You can lift the front wheel high off ple are going to get badly hurt. the ground and pedal along, balancing Scavenger hunts are fine, but don't on the rear wheel like a prancing mus• set a time limit, or riders will be rac• tang. You can also practise building ing around the country at 70 or 80 pyramids, with two, three or more rid• miles an hour, trying to beat the clock. ers on the same machine. The hunt list should be made out so It's better to practise in the begin• brains are more important than an ning with the machine held firmly by itchy throttle hand.

24 CANADIAN BOY With a few minor changes, almost tougher the course, the harder it is to no place to hunt cheap bargains. If any lightweight motorcycle can be keep up the right average speed. you can't afford the best crash-helmet rigged for trail riding. There are few To make sure riders hold a steady made, you can't afford to go things more satisfiyng than a good run pace, "checkpoints" are set up along motorcycling! on an eager trail bike, turning swiftly the course. Five miles apart would be So get a good hat, kick the engine away from the highway's noise and fine. A rider gets penalty points for into life and head for open country. traffic to explore the cool, quiet hills passing a checkpoint too early, or too There's lots of fun, with plenty of and woods and blue lake country. Just late. The man with the fewest penalty good company along the trails and take it easy and don't ride rough. If points wins. A rider who misses a highways. It makes no difference something breaks, you're a long way checkpoint completely is automatically whether you own a fifty-centimetre from the garage! disqualified. puttputt or an eight-cubic-inch twin Because of the chance of mechani• Long distance travelling, tenting, cylinder streak of lightning. As long as cal failure out in the wilderness, it's al• camping and touring are all great on you have two wheels, a set of handle• ways better to ride trail with a buddy motorcycles. You're out in the open bars and a sweet-running motor, that's or two on machines of their own. If air, seeing the country better than you all that really matters. rife? you break down, at least someone can ever could by car. When travelling al• tow you over the smooth spots on the ways pack a heavy waterproof cape or BACK ISSUES way back home. It's also a good idea slicker and put a couple of changes of Some back issues of Canadian to carry a tow rope, a basic set of dry clothing in the saddlebags. Noth• Boy from 1965 and 1966 are hand tools and a few spare parts and ing ruins a bike trip faster than cold, still available. Cost is 10 cents learn how to make small on-the-spot soppy clothing. per magazine. Write to Back repairs. The main rule for successful motor• Issues, CANADIAN BOY, P.O. Motorcycle enduros are interesting cycling is to learn to handle your ma• Box 5151, Station F, Ottawa 5. events, especially for riders who be• chine well and use common sense. A long to a cycle club. The object of an fall off a bicycle is seldom serious; a enduro is to travel a certain distance spill with a fast moving motorcycle al• at a regular speed. For example, if the most always means big trouble. Never Walter Safety says, course is 30 miles long, the time al• mount a motorbike without first put• "Think, don't sink! lowed to cover it could be 60 minutes. ting on a crash helmet! Make it a Be water wise! Learn and practise water The trick is to ride at a steady 30 proper road or racing helmet, not safety every day." miles an hour, not jackrabbit along in hockey or football gear, and get the a bunch of different speed ranges. The best one you can possibly buy. This is

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JUNE, 1968 25 The Square Page DEDICATED TO THE GREAT KNOW-IT-ALL

Start a Tape Exchange Brotherhood Fnnd In a hundred lands, Cubs go places You can help Scouting in other and do.things — things you'd like parts of the world if you support, to hear about. Getting to know the Scout Brotherhood Fund. It some of these people, and letting brings equipment, training, and them get to know you, can be a service to developing countries, ball! and helps places hit by natural dis• asters. Next time you have a little Make and exchange tapes with good fortune, share it by sending a Cubs in other countries, and in donation to the Fund, in care of other parts of Canada. Trade ideas your local council, or to: Scout on sports, hobbies, records, school, Brotherhood Fund, Boy Scouts of and Scouting. Canada, Box 5151, Station F, Ot• tawa 5. To get a penpal or start up a tape exchange, write to Lester Square at CANADIAN BOY Magazine, Box Are Yon Twinned? 5151, Station F, Ottawa 5. Be sure Tune in you give details of your age, your If your community has a "twin" grade in school, your hobbies or town or city in another country or special interests, and anything on the World! another part of Canada, get in else that might help Lester line you touch with a Cub pack there up with new friends. and trade badges, pictures, flags, The Withit Pack is Alive and stamps or anything that would make a lasting souvenir. You can Working in South America write to Lester about this, too. and Asia and Africa and India and Europe and Canada!!! Scouts on Stamps Do you have Scout stamps in your The Uth Jamboree-on-the-Air collection? Dozens of countries takes place on October 19 and 20 have issued Scout stamps, and this this year. All over the world, Scouts topical specialty has grown at a will use shortwave radio to contact tremendous rate in recent years. If as many stations in different coun• you'd like to join a worldwide group tries as they can. Contact your of Scout stamp collectors, write to local amateur radio club and make CB's Stamp Editor, and ask about your plans to tune in on the world. the Scouts on Stamps Society In• You can talk your way around the ternational (SOSSI). globe! Meet new people!! TAR SANDS chamber. Rising to return the fire, ing roar was deafening and the yel• lowish-green flames darted across the Continued from page 19 Grant felt his heart sink when the fir• ing-pin clicked on an empty chamber! sky to bathe the helicopter in a weird found himself in a smaller chamber, "Okay, wise guy! Duncan shouted light. With a blinding flash, the heli• much like the control room of the in'a lull in the firing. "It might mess copter exploded! huge cranes he had seen working car• up our machinery a bit, but we'll fix "One down, one to go," Grant go along the docks of the big city you!" breathed, swinging the chamber ports. Two huge windows of thick Grant heard a sputter, followed by around. But the second helicopter was glass sloped over the control panel, a familiar roar. Peeping over the top more cautious. Zooming high, it cir• which contained a baffling array of of the control panel, he could see the cled behind the slowly revolving dials, switches, and levers. This, he laser helicopters warming up. Sunlight chamber and its laser darted fire. realized, must be the small, revolving suddenly spilled into the huge tent as Grant felt the chamber rock, while control chamber atop the huge drill• the roof was rolled back. pieces of steel expoded from one cor• ing rig. In a matter of minutes, Grant ner. Turning, he could see the wall There was a faint shout, muffled by .knew, those deadly little machines glowing red hot behind him. the thick steel walls, and Grant could would be airborne and ready to shoot "One more like that, and my goose see a man pointing at him. Almost at their searing beams into the control will be well and thoroughly cooked!" the same time, a bullet left a sunburst room. Frantically, he studied the con• The helicopter was manoeuvring of smashed glass on the window. trol panel. Two buttons caught his furiously, darting in on an angle for There was a scramble of feet on the eye. A tiny plaque on each bore the another shot. Grant switched his steel ladder. Grant triggered a shot legends, ACTIVATE BASE and ACTI• beam to full power then pulled the down the long, dark passage, then VATE LASER. control lever back as far as it would slammed a steel hatch into place over Without thinking, Grant pushed the go, so that the tower began to swing the opening, bolting it with a metal first. He felt the floor tremble under• at full speed, hosing the air around bar. foot. The control room was rising into with deadly beams. More shots were slamming through the air. He heard a tearing sound as Too late, the pilot of the helicopter the glass. From his vantage point in the huge machine pushed its way saw his danger and tried to rise. The the control chamber, Grant could see through the roof of the tent, and al• deadly fire surrounded his craft and Chuck fumbling with the ropes bind• most immediately found himself in there was another blinding flash. ing Madeleine and Corporal Davis. sunlight, high above the tiny figures Grant mopped his forehead. "Much Then they were free. A black-clad fig• on the ground. too close," he told himself. ure levelled a rifle at them. Grant "I'd better take a fast lesson in las• Below, he could hear shots crack• dropped him with a shot. He saw er control!" Grant muttered. Shots ing. Corporal Davis scoop up the fallen spanged from the metal walls around "Lasers to the rescue," he thought, man's rifle, then follow Chuck and him. studying the control panel. A touch of Madeleine behind a barricade cf large A lever beside the buttons proved the right button sent the tower back packing cases. to be the controls of the chamber, towards the ground, its tripod legs Grant crouched behind the control swinging it from right to left. Grant sliding noiselessly back into their panel as more bullets smashed eyed the button labelled ACTIVATE sheath. through the glass and flattened LASER then, taking a deep breath, As it descended, Grant swung the against the steel walls of the chamber. pushed it. Immediately, there was a chamber from left to right like the Then the firing died down. Cu• soaring whine from deep within the muzzle of a machine gun. rious, Grant raised his head. steel structure. "Okay, Duncan," he called. "My "Mackenzie!" Grant recognized the Through the bullet-shaped win• turn to make demands. I want to see voice of Duncan. "Mackenzie. There's dows, he could see the helicopters a pile of guns tossed out into the no way out. Why don't you be a good surging into the air and swinging open. Otherwise, I activate this thing fellow and toss that gun down! We'll away in a circle. Leaning out of the and we'll see how you stand the let you, Johnson, and the girl go, with window, Grant caught a glimpse of heat!" no hard feelings." the red eye shining on the front of the There was a pause, then, under the "What about the Mountie?" Grant control chamber. menace of the unblinking red eye, a shouted back. "Now, it's going, but how do I fire black-clad man stood up and tossed There was a brief pause, then Dun• it?" he muttered, searching through his weapon away. More followed suit, can's voice came back. "Sure, him the maze of controls. A small switch then Duncan, his face flushed with too. We have work to do here and beside a dial labelled HALF POWER anger, threw his gun into the pile and you're holding us up." and FULL POWER seemed to offer the raised his hands. Grant smiled bleakly. Duncan, he best solution. Grant gave it a twist. Grant risked a look over his shoul• knew, had no intention of letting There was a screeching roar, and der, Madeleine, Chuck, and Corporal them go. even in the bright sunlight the yel• Davis rose from their hiding place. "No dice, Duncan. Tell you what, low-green rays were clearly visible. "Okay, corporal," Grarlt shouted. you throw down your guns and we'll "I feel like an anti-aircraft gunner," "Make the arrest!" ^ make sure you get a good lawyer Grant thought, with his left hand

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guys who want to breed weird and north into the Scandinavian countries, wonderful plant life, can learn the and west into England and Ireland. basics by building Renwal's botany kit He nests in holes he finds in old trees and using their Nature Scope outfit. and is a ground feeder whose diet is 1 There's insect and reptile stuff, too! mostly insects. Pyro Plastics Corporation of Un• He has a distinctive sandy-colored Maybe you want to be a doctor or a ion, New Jersey, has a full lifesize hu• body with black-and-white back biologist, or an astronomer. An engi• man heart kit and a human eye kit, wings, and his tail and crest trim are neer? Well, plastic model cars, ships, four times lifesize. also black-and-white. and aircraft can help you there. But Pyro also puts out a whole series of Other birds in the series: Scarlet for the would-be physicians and sur• prehistoric monster kits: Stegosaurus, Tanager, Baltimore oriole, painted geons, vets, tree and plant experts, or Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus, bunting, robin, parrot, red-headed full-time stargazers, there are special Triceratops (the horned dinosaur), woodpecker, canary, barn swallow, kits that zero in on your pet interests, Ankylosaurus (the fortress lizard), goldfinch, bluebird, and Bohemian bang-on. and Dimetrodon (the sail lizard). waxwing. They're in almost every hobby shop In all cases with these kits — and, Before this begins to sound like a in Canada and they don't cost a lot. Careers column, let's get right down in general with plastic model kits — to what it's all about in the field of Birds of the World is an interesting do not bug your dealer about missing medical kits, wildlife models and sci• series of plastic kits by Bachmann or defective parts. Write direct to the ence specialties. Bros. Inc. of Philadelphia. These fel• manufacturer or his North American las have been in business since 1833, agent. Look for his address some• First, the medical material. Renwal and they've learned to keep costs to where in the plans or assembly in• Products Inc. of Mineola, New York, you 'way down by dispensing with structions for your kit. A hobby deal• started producing human anatomy fancy packaging. Their boxes aren't er can do nothing for you if one eye kits for plastic modelers some time the greatest on your hobby shop or one leg is missing, or you get two back. Now they've got a series list as shelves, but what's in them is good left halves of a body. That's a factory long as your ulna and it includes the stuff. goof, and the people at the factory visible man, visible woman, visible Probably the wildest bird of the are ready to make good on it, when head, human skeleton and general bunch by the Bachmanns is the they hear from you. Be sure to in• anatomy. For those who don't want to Hoopoe (Upupidae). This feathered clude your name and address, clearly be doctors or x-ray technicians and freak flies around southern Europe written or printed, with any com• would rather work with animals, there and is never found in the natural state plaints you may be firing off to the are kits like the visible horse, dog, in the Americas. You'll maybe run kit-makers. cow, pigeon or trout. across him in a zoo or a pet shop. Now, go man, and develop skills! Tree surgeons of the future, and In summertime, the Hoopoe moves By George Bourne

28 CANADIAN BOY LETTERS MAKE MONEY! Continued from page 6 EARN PRIZES!

WELL, IF WMATW>U SAY IS WOT? NO PENPALS? ILTKY TWO PACtfASES ORANGE IS DJHJC/OUS.' Expo -C'MOM OUT AND TRY A Dear Lester: DRINK, OZBrKI AL/ "SPACEMAN You've got a pretty fair magazine ex• Ptef- SWEETENED - ibu cept for two things. It's geared too DON'T NEED AMY SUMfc much toward the Cub and Scout and lives not enough toward the Venturer and

Rover. Secondly, I've written to Pen• ! A R6FRMHIN© DRINK O'SBACt- YOU*«» RIGHT, LIGHTS MAN 'LL LIKtLY MAKt pals 29 times but never get in! Con• o'-MY-Lir-e. TK" HIRED H sequently, I can't swap district badges •^•SPACEMAN'1 TASTCS UK* Monmf again with other Scouts. Bob Kominar, Windsor, Ont. Bob's the kinda fella who never gives

THis'SPACCMAM TAKE IOMOBH 3-SORBY, up! If he can't get his name into CB PACKAGES OF "SPACE-/ ROT I IS A •*/ONPBKf*JL one way, he tries another, and this TKmAT, BOSS/ IAAN INSTANT / time it worked. His home is at 542 —'SPECIALLY ON DRINK Ml* A, HOT MY' Victoria,. in Windsor. Somebody, please write? — LS

BRAINWAVES Dear Lester: I think at the end of the year you "You" Too, Can Sell And the Scout should have a CANADIAN BOY "SPACEMAN" Annual. But you have a terrific DRINK MIX Service Corps magazine. Walter Crane, Toronto, Ont. at 2 packages for 250 Now, you con supply your Friends and Neighbours with needs you now! CANADIAN BOY CHESS CLUB (he new "SPACEMAN" Instant Drink Mix at 2 pkgs. for only 25c. Spaceman is Dear Lester: Pre- Sweetened — NO This year's version of the The Canadian Boy Chess Club has SUGAR NEEDED! Just mix greatest show on earth, been in continuous operation since with water and ENJOY— each pkg. makes 2 quarts called Man and His World, January of 1965, when it was started of delicious Drink. through your magazine. I am wonder• is in full swing in Montreal ing if any new readers of CANADIAN until the fall. Canadian BOY wish to join the club, and play 4 "WAY-OUT" FLAVOURS Scouting is providing a chess by correspondence. Member• That's rightl "There's Count-Down" CHERRY, "Guided- Service Corps, and if ship is free except for a five-cent post• Missile" GRAPE, "Outer-Space" ORANGE and "Lift-Off" age enclosure with each letter to me. LEMON-LIME. They're so downright delicious that your you're a Scout, Venturer Friends will want more and more. We will send you In exchange for a letter of application, 128 Pkgs. (ass't) to sell at 2 Pkgs. for 25c. When sold, or Rover, you can be part the writer will receive the name and you can either choose from Prizes such as Wrist Watches, Cameras, Fishing Sets, Sleeping Bags, Sport Knives, of Canada's greatest hap• address of an opponent along with de• Archery Sets, Sporting Equipment, etc., or keep $5.00 pening this summer! Get tailed information on playing chess by for yourself. "Spaceman" sells like hot cakesl Be the correspondence. Those who are not First in your district— fill in the coupon and mail TO-DAYI your leader's or advisor's familiar with the game are also in• SPECIAL BONUS OFFER! okay, and you can go as an vited; these applicants will receive To the first 1,000 agents who send in this Coupon ordering "Spaceman" we will complete information on how to play include a "Special Bonus Coupon" with individual. Or, if your your order. When you have sold your the game. Kindly enclose ten cents order and sent in the payment, this "Bonus" district decides to send a Coupon will entitle you to a "Two-Cell in postage stamps or coin with your Safety Flashlight Case" absolutely Free patrol or patrols, you can 1 n addition to your Premium or Commission). application to cover initial postage and The Flashlight Case is chrome finished and handling. features Red Plastic Head for Safety on join in. Cost to you is a roads, etc. (Batteries NOT Included.) low $35 a week — that in• Bill McLean, President, Rush your Order in TO-DAY! cludes a Service Corps Canadian Boy Chess Club, SEND NO MONEY - WE TRUST YOU jacket, scarf and crest, ac• 16 D'Amour Drive South, RR 2 Aylmer, VERIBEST SPECIALTY CO., DEPT. SM2, Z commodation, meals and a Lucerne, Que. 183 BATHURST ST., TORONTO 2B, ONT. - Please RUSH me a $16.00 Order (128 Pkgs.) '

pass to the fair. For full of "Spaceman" Instant Drink Mix to sell at a AND THE CROWD ROARS 2 Pkgs. for 25c. When sold, I will send in the • details, get your Scouter to payment and choose either a Premium or Com- ! Dear Lester: mission as my reward for selling. m write Quebec Provincial How about having a story about some NAME Z Council, Boy Scouts of great hockey player like Gordie Howe Canada, 2001 Trans-Can• for the next issue? ADDRESS.. . . i 5 Rolf Dawson, Edmonton, Aha. ada Highway, Dorval, Que. TOWN PROV J Continued on page 30 ••iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiir

june, 1968 29 LETTERS SPORTS EQUIPMENT Continued from page 29

SKATEBOARDS Fun... Satisfaction... Profit! You can Mfgs. Clearance Skateboards. 22", 25" and 28" find all three in this great hobby! board with wide axle, steel assembly and large professional fibre plastic wheels — Reg. $7.95, _ uii • w\\-\ We teach the fascinating Art of Sale $2.50 plus postage; or with forged steel, rREE \iu\v\ preserving and mounting fish, double action assemblies and professional fibre BOOK ^^WVtf D'rds and animaIs...TAXIDERMY! plastic wheels, the top line skateboard — Reg. up You leam how through step-by-step lessons so simple to $12.95. Sale $3.25 plus postage. FOX MANU• even boys of 12 master them. Over 450,000 students have FACTURING COMPANY, Box 821, Chatham, Ont. taken our famous coursel Many take up Taxidermy just as a hobby and soon find opportunities to rum their skill into profit mounting birds, fish and animals for others. p— Send for FREE 24-Page Book! —^ STAMPS NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF TAXIDERMY 6406 Elwood Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. 68102 Please send me your FREE Illustrated Book BRITISH COMMONWEALTH — Send five 5c unused "The Fascinating Art of Taxidermy." Tell me pictorials or commemorotives; receive with approv• how I can learn its Secrets by mail. IT FLOATS! als, 25 LARGE DIFFERENT PICTORIALS WITH FLOWERS, BIRDS, MAPS, ETC. ALL MINT — British Dear Lester: Colonials are the most valuable and collected Name. Thank you very much for the ca• stamps. H & D ALOMIA, 5103 Mercer, Houston, Texas 77005. Address. noe plans you sent me. I com• pleted the canoe from your plans SPECIAL 250 Different U.S.A. $1.10; 500 Different -Age. Worldwide $1.00. No Approvals. Anthony Coppola, (see photos), but I used a rubber• R. 1, Highland, Michigan 48031. ized paint instead of airplane dope. WORLD'S LARGEST STAMP 25c; 500 Worldwide I have enclosed some pictures that stamps $1.00; Iceland Ponies set 25c; 100 Canada 50c; 100 Poland 50c; All $2.00. Gift set and FREE BODY• might interest you. approvals included. DAUFELDT-CB, Atalissa, Iowa 52720. BUILDING Bob Bogue, North Vancouver, B.C. RARE STAMP FREE. Also new packet Aden to COURSE Urundl, with Kennedy, Triangles, Space, Sports, Ships, Dogs, Cats, Reptiles, plus others. ALL FREE. Send 10c for mailing. EMPIRE STAMP CO., To• ronto, Canada. 32 pages containing 15 illustrated exercises which LOOKI 200 different U.S.A. for $1.00; Quality can be followed in your Approvals only on Request. HALEY STAMPS, Box home. You can build mus• 81, Irvington, Nebr., U.S.A. cles, increase your strength and endurance. Send only 25 DIFFERENT TOPICALS, Birds, Flowers, Triangles, 25 cents to cover handling Fish, Kennedy, Butterflies, many different countries, 25c with approval selection. Worldwide, U.S.A., and postage charges to: and U.N. KNOLL, 529 West 111 Street, New York, N.Y. 10025, U.S.A.

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30 CANADIAN BOY The Chinese New Year is a time Wash all ornaments, like castles, for celebration, but it also carries res• sunken wrecks, divers, treasure chests, ponsibilities. All debts are supposed to lighthouses or natural shells, using the be settled then. Feuds and grudges are same strong salt water solution you forgotten. used to clean the tank. Rinse thor• oughly in fresh water. To keep our readers informed about Branches of fir, sesame, and cy• Dump the clean gravel into the tank interesting new issues it has been nec• press are burned on New Year's Eve, to a depth of from one to two inches. essary from time to time to make and doors are locked until 5 a.m. the Create an uneven, natural-looking bed. reference to the Crown Agents Stamp following day. At this time, the mas• Then set your tank in its permanent Bureau. Recently we've had a number ter of the house assembles the family position, on a sturdy table. Never at• of requests for information about this to watch him unbolt the doors and tempt to move an aquarium with water agency. So we'll devote part of a col• windows, and extend a welcome to in it. You will strain all the corner umn to it. ' the new year. Heaven and Earth and the family seals, so play it safe and move the Stamps which have come to be tank only when it is empty. known as "British Colonials" are ancestors are honored, through the Crown Agents productions. The agen• burning of incense. Avoid placing your aquarium in di• New Year's is the most important rect sunlight. Too much algae, green cy's headquarters is in London, just a s few yards from famed Westminster of all Chinese festivals. The season's scum, will form on the glass, and even Abbey and practically on the site greetings are said this way: "Kung hei a tankful of algae-eating fish and a where William Caxton, the father of fat choy". good hard-working snail won't be able modern printing, operated his first Hong Kong's new set, 10 cents and to keep up with it! shop. $1.30 face values, were printed by Avoid drafts, because the tempera• Harrison and Sons — one of the se• ture of your aquarium will change too Crown Agents got into the stamp curity printers in Britain. As you suddenly — murder for tropical fish. business in 1848 when the bureau might expect, monkeys are promi• When you have decided on a place placed an order on behalf of Mauri• nently featured on both the new Hong for it, half-fill the tank with tap water. tius and Trinidad with Perkins Bacon, Kong stamps. By H. L. Woodman Now, aquascape. Why? Because printers. The agency was then known green plants, besides adding natural as Agents General for Crown Colo• beauty, provide healthy surroundings nies. in the aquarium. They draw nitrogen• This order was followed by others ous wastes from the water and gravel for Western Australia, Cape of Good bed and give the fish natural food. Hope and other parts of the Empire. When you've got all this set up to Crown Agents has been in the stamp your satisfaction, carefully fill the business ever since. • tank to about one inch from the top. They don't print stamps. But the Starting your own aquarium is fun. From the many varieties you can get bureau does have an arrangement But, in your haste to get going, don't easily, there's no better fish for the be• with all of Britain's security printers. skip the preliminaries. You'll regret it! ginner than the guppy. This is a true And it co-ordinates the work involved A good tank is recommended, the tropical fish, Lebistes reticulatus, a in issuing a new set of stamps. C.A. bigger the better. A large glass bowl small topminnow native to the 75-de- controls production at all stages. It will do the job temporarily for one or gree fresh waters of the Barbados, ships the finished product to the two fish. country concerned, and it distributes Trinidad, and Venezuela. Its common Clean your container with a salt wa• name comes from the name of a man new issues to stamp dealers all over ter solution. Rinse thoroughly. Never the world. who donated many specimens to the use soap or detergents on anything British Museum, R. J. L. Guppy, of Individuals cannot buy stamps connected with this hobby! Trinidad. from Crown Agents. The sales depart• Even a new tank you've bought in a Guppies are fun, interesting to ment is run on a strict wholesale ba• hobby shop or department store should watch — and relaxing! sis, for bona fide dealers only. be cleaned and tested for leakage. Fill We plan to tell you more about to one-third with tap water. Let it Best of all, they are hardy little guys Crown Agents in later columns. The stand for one full hour, checking to and will probably survive your own famous "C.A." and "Crown" water• see if any driplets of water are work• inexperience better than any other marks, and the Winston Churchill ing out through the seals in the cor• tropical fish. memorial issues, are two of the items ners or bottom of your tank. To introduce new fish to your we have earmarked for the future, Then fill to two-thirds. Let it stand aquarium, float the water-filled plastic jte.- "' "I jMifflfflOlK!"' M i • ''' for another full hour. Check in fre• bag you bring them home in, in your In some Eastern countries this is quently for seepage. You can treat any aquarium for a while, to make sure the the Year of the Monkey. bad spots or weaknesses that might water temperatures have settled. Rec• In China, lunar years are arranged show up with aquarium sealer, ac• ommended range is 74 to 78 degrees in cycles, each with a distinctive ani• cording to instructions provided with Fahrenheit. mal symbol. Hong Kong, a British your new tank, or follow the instruc• When you release your new fish colony bounded almost entirely by tions on the package of sealer. Repeat into their new home, just watch them China, observes the Oriental customs the tests after sealing. go! Before you know it, you — and and, in January, issued a set of two Rinse the gravel you've chosen from they — will probably have the whole stamps to commemorate the Year of the several colors available, using hot family hooked on fish-watching in no the Monkey. water to wash away the dust and grit. time! By Irene McCulIoch Bourne

JUNE, 1968 31 Announcing

THE WINNERS OF CBS 1968 HOCKEY PUZZLE CONTEST

2 11 s • o 2. 10 8/ 97 2 5 Stranee Plants 11 s 7 % 4- MARGARET MALCOLM Did you know that some plants are carnivorous? Carnivorous CO means meat-eating. Imagine a plant that eats meat! Of course, the meat only amounts to tiny insects and flies.

As promised in the March-April 68 These plants are unusual, but some of them could grow near where issue of CB, the draw has been duly you live. You may even be able to see one in action. and legally made in our Hockey Nature has provided these plants with a special way of obtaining Puzzle Contest. Although there was a the food they need. These carnivorous plants grow in swampy minor error in the puzzle diagram, and areas. All plants need nitrogen to grow. In swamps there is not for that we do apologize to anyone enough nitrogen in the soil, so the carnivorous plants find their who had trouble with it, a total of own nitrogen — they catch and digest insects. 867 entries were received. The first One of these plants, called Venus's Flytrap, is equipped with a pod• three drawn were correct, right down like leaf. Wnen an insect lands on this leaf it disturbs the tiny hairs to the last zero in that bottom row. FIRST PRIZE, a cheque for $25.00, that cause the leaf to close. It closes like a steel trap. And the goes to Bryan Belyea of Amherstview, insect is digested. One leaf is used only once or twice. The l it Ont. He's 17. Bryan's entry was the shrivels and dies. Venus's Flytrap has small clusters of white first correct solution drawn, in ac• flowers and is found in Florida and the Carolinas. cordance with the published contest Another insect-eating plant is the Pitcher Plant which grows from rules. SECOND PRIZE, a cheque for Labrador to Florida. It has a red flower, which may attract the $10.00, will be sent to 16-year-old insect. The "pitcher" is a cone-shaped leaf that collects water. John Barratt of Cookstown, Ont. And When an insect falls into the "pitcher" it is doomed. There are the THIRD PRIZE cheque of $5.00 tiny hairs that grow downward, and the insect cannot climb out. belongs to Bruce Spicer, 11, of Bridge• Still another is the butterwort. It grows in Northern countries. It town, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. has small purple flowers. Near the ground it has sticky thick Congrats to the winners! The rest leaves. The sticky substance attracts insects and when an insect of you puzzled puzzlers try us again, ' lands on the leaf — it's stuck. Then the leaf slowly closes. in our next big brain-twisting contest. That'll be soon! The bladderwort is one that grows in water in Canada and the United States. It has tiny bladders filled with water. There is a door, like a valve, that opens. When a curious or hungry insect BACK ISSUES crawls in, the door snaps shut. The bladderwort digests the part of the insect it needs and opens its door to await another victim. Some back issues of Canadian Boy from 1965 and 1966 are So you see, nature has provided a way for even the still available. Cost is 10 cents lowliest plants to survive. Even innocent-looking per magazine. Write to Back flowers can be devious—especially if they are hungry. Issues, CANADIAN BOY, P.O. Box 5151, Station F, Ottawa 5.

32 CANADIAN BOY I ANNOUNCING THE AMORY BEE TALK — Jostling, dancing, buzzing bees can tell their comrades exactly what they've found, how big a crop, and in what direction they'll have to fly ADVENTURE from the home hive to harvest it

It was Dr. Karl Von Frisch, an Austrian- scientist, who AWARD 1968 carried out some of the most interesting studies on bees. He knew, as you do, that bees in search of nectar travel For adventurous activity requiring originality great distances from their hives. They fly around hills, and initiative on the part of Scout and Ven• through valleys, across lakes and streams, far out of sight turer teams. Permanent awards will be made or scent of home, yet always find their way back to hive to members of the winning team and recog• easily. nition given to all participants. Dr. Von Frisch wanted to learn how bees navigate so well. He recalled that travellers in Marco Polo's time used the stars and the sun to find direction. Since bees are most active in the daytime, was it possible they might navigate by the sun, too? In his investigations, Von Frisch learned that bees do use the sun to find their way but, far more exciting than that, he discovered that bees can communicate with one another! Here are some examples of bee code: "Attention! I have found a field of clover blossoms." The bee communicates this message by jostling the other bees so they can get the scent of the flowers he has been • investigating. "I need many bees to help." The greater his agitation and jostling, the richer and sweeter the nectar he has found, hence the greater the number of bees required to CONDITIONS transport it back to the hive. "The field is exactly in line with the sun." The bee per• 1. Open to teams of from four to ten mem• forms a dance to get this message across. Waggling its ab• bers, Scouts or Venturers, age 11-17 years at domen, it takes a few steps in a straight line, stops, turns the time of the activity. The competition is around to its starting point, and advances with a waggle, not open to Rover Scouts. ;n the same direction again. It stops and repeats this rou• 2. Anyone 18 years or older may not take part tine for several minutes. The other bees follow behind the in the planning, preparation or execution of dancing bee until they get the message, then take off to the the activity, but may be consulted. clover field. 3. Competition period: January 1st to Decem• In this case, where the food is in a line with the sun, ber 31st, annually. the bee dances in a line straight up the comb. If the food 4. Entry forms to be received at Boy Scouts of lies to the left of the sun, the dance is performed on an angle to the left. The sun is the bee's compass. Canada, National Headquarters, Box 5151, In the darkness of the hive, the bees substitute the Station F, Ottawa 5, Ont., no later than Janu• force of gravity — an astonishing brain achievement for ary 31st of the year following the activity. the little creatures! 5. An entry fee of $2.00 per team is to be sub• The distance from the hive to the food is indicated by mitted with entry form. the speed with which the bee moves in its communicative 6. The.'adventure activity must last a mini• dancing. mum of 72 hours, of which at least 60 hours Another form of communication is by sound — buzz• must be consecutive. ing. However, not all bees can communicate in these ways. 7. Each team will submit an illustrated log. Some of the more primitive bees do not even guide other 8. Completed logs to be received at Boy bees to food discoveries. More advanced, stingless bees use Scouts of Canada, National Headquarters, no sound communication but do not dance. later than January 31st, 1969. Entry forms are It is Apis mellifera, our honey bee, that has developed an extraordinary memory for direction and distance and, available from your Scout office. For complete from its distant ancestry in prehistoric times, this variety info ask your Scouter. He'll find all the details of bee has become the most brilliant "talker'' in all the ani• in the February '68 issue of THE SCOUT mal kingdom. By D. A. Coburn LEADER.

JUNE, 1968 33 Q: Why did Humpty Dumpty have a Q: What two inventions help a man Paul: Why did you wake me out of a great fall? get up in the world? sound sleep? A: To make up for the terrible sum• A: The elevator and the alarm clock. Fred: The sound was too loud! mer. Warren Henki, Donalda, Alta. Don Wright, Edmonton, Alta. Bruce Greenwood, Vancouver, B.C. Policeman: Pull over there! You're Frank: Did you see the eclipse last Q: Why didn't the shark eat that lady under arrest for speeding and danger• night? when she fell into the water? ous driving. John: No! What channel was it on? A: Because it was a man-eating Motorist: I wasn't speeding, but I Frank Erschen, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. shark! passed a couple of idiots who were! Bart Blackford, Scarborough, Ont. Alan Graham, Campbellton, N.B. Joe: If you had your choice, would you rather be in a collision or an ex• Hester: What animal eats relatives? Teacher: I want you to do a picture plosion? Pester: An ant eater! of a horse drawing a wagon. Jack: A collision. Robert Herweyer, Ottawa, Ont. Teacher (later): Timmy, where is the Joe: Why? wagon in your picture? Jack: In a collision, there you are. Teacher: Jill, if you had 15 chocolate Timmy: I thought the horse was But in an explosion, where are you? bars and you gave five to John and going to draw the wagon! Jeff Chad, Calgary, Alta. five to Bill and five to Glenn, what Louis Van Belkom, Toronto, Ont. would you have? Paratroop trainee: But what if the Jill: Three new boy friends! Q: What did one deer say to the other parachute doesn't open? Bob Swainson, Agincourt, Ont. deer? Instructor: That is what we call jump-; A: Boy! Would I like to have his doe! ing to a conclusion! Saleslady: Well, Mrs. Jones, didn't I Gary Moore, Paris, Ont. Alan Robb, Windsor, Que. tell you that new detergent would make your husband's shirts whiter than they've ever been? Mrs. Jones: You did. Only trouble is two of those shirts were my husband's CHOPPER By Simpkins best blue ones! Gordon J. Herridge, Sudbury, Ont. I Voice on phone: George Smith, your delivery boy is sick today and can't work. ,He asked that I call you. Employer: Thank you. Who is calling, r please? ^ Voice: Tbis is my room-mate. ••• Jean-Paul Dubois, St.-Jean, Que. i E A man was walking down the street dragging a piece of rope, when a second man came up to him and asked: "Why are you pulling that piece of rope around?" And the first man replied: "Have you ever tried pushing a piece of rope?" Martin Pallett, Calgary, Alta. "Don't interfere with Nature, Harry! Let him cut it down if he wants to!

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