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WHITE FAECON
Saturday, November 17, 1962
Boy Scouts Hold "Court of Honor"
On the 18th of October at 7:30
p.m., Troop 364 of the Boy Scouts
of America held a Court of Honor
at the Viking’ Service Club. All
the Scouts of the troop had ad-
vanced at least one rank since the
last Court of Honor and some had
even advanced two. All personnel
of the Naval Station were invited
to attend this ceremony—and the
parents of the scouts who were
advanced received a special in-
vitation.
RECENT ADVANCEMENTS—At the last Boy Scout Court of
Honor, the following named people achieved the rank of Tender-
foot: Back row, L. to R.; John Zeltner, Neil Svenningsen, Freddy
Am and Broge Miner. Center row, L. to R.; Kit Freed, Layton
Moore and Richard Canepari and kneeling is Byron Van Wey.
Norman Arons, Life Scout, act-
ed as Master of Ceremonies for
the Court of Honor.
The Color Guard Ceremony
started at 7:30 p.m. and the Color
Guard was composed of Stanley
Ellison, Jr. Assistant Scoutmaster,
Bob Arons, Jr. Assistant Scout-
master, Richard Vogel, Star
Scout, and Eric Miner, First Class
Scout.
After the Color Guard cere-
mony, Chaplain Walter A. Hitch-
ens lead the Invocation. After the
Invocation, there were demonstra-
tions in Campcraft and First Aid
staged by the patrols under the
direction of the Patrol leaders,
Eric Miner and Bobby Storrs.
Freddy Arn, Kit Freed, Layton
Moore, Richard Canepari, John
Zeltner, Byron Van Wey, Broge
Miner, and Lindo Nunez received
their Tenderfoot investiture con-
ducted by Joseph Toman, Scout-
master.
Commander T. W. Ray, Commit-
tee Chairman lead the Second and
First Class Court, for Richard
Canepari, Robert Canepari,
HIGHER RANKS—L. to R.; Ron Ray, Life Rank; Robert Arons,
Star Rank; Eric Miner, First Class; Freddy Arn, Second Class;
Norman Arons, MC; and Stanley Ellison, Junior Assistant Scout-
master. Middle Row, L. to R.; Bobby Canepari, First Class; Richard
Vogel, Star Rank; and Tim Clem, Second Class. Front Row; L.
to R.; Kit Freed, Richard Canepari, and Broge Miner, they all
achieved the rank of Second Class.
Freddy Arn, Broge Miner, Tim
Clem, Kaj Devaney, Peter Castel-
lan and Kit Fred. Richard Vogel
and Eric Miner were advanced
to first class.
Captain Stanley Ellison, Com-
manding Officer, Naval Station,
presented Star Badges to Richard
Vogel and Robert Arons and
Merit Badges to Robert Arons,
Normand Arons and Richard
Vogel.
Ronald Ray, son of Commander
Ray, was to receive the Life
award in Scouting but was un-
able to be present because he
was in the hospital.
A surprise was staged for the
Scoutmaster by the troop as
they presented him with an Ice-
landic Pony hide as the cere-
mony started.
A special cake was given to
the troop for the event design-
ed by Robert Cox, SA, of the
Base bakery. The two new Star
Scouts cut the cake in cere-
mony after the program.
Jacob Blaustein Tells:
How You Can Help Your Country
Bts Guns Still Stand
Jungled Corregidor
To Be Tourist Lure
Twenty years after American and Filippino troops made
their gallant but hopeless stand on Corregidor before its
surrender on May 6, 1942, the Philippine Government has
plans to make the rocky island a tourist attraction in
Southeast Asia.
It may seem presumptuous in a way
for anyone not in uniform to be dis-
cussing what you in the Armed For-
ces and your families can do to help
our country. After all, you are al-
ready doing one of the most essen-
tial jobs of all.'Yet national defense
has come to take many forms which
call for extra effort from soldier
and civilian alike.
Missiles and moonshots have made
distance obsolete. The most remote
place or earth is but a rocket’s throw
away. As a resut, our personal out-
look on people overseas has become
part of our national security. Equal-
ly important is the way they look
at us.
The more the world shrinks, the
more our attitudes must broaden.
One way to do what is best for us
is to think of what is best for people
everywhere, whatever their nation,
race or religion. Because today more
than ever before, people everywhere
are in the same boat, share the same
anxieties as the same aspiration to
live in dignity.
Every man’s right to live in dig-
nity: this is the cornerstone of our
American creed, the central moral
and spiritual value in our Ameri-
can tradition. Individual dignity
is a more precious guarantee than
any ism has to offer, and one that
communism shies away from most
of all. Making this clear to people
in other lands is a job for all
Americans, in or out of uniform,
but those of us who are stationed
or otherwise visit overseas have
the greatest opportunity to do it.
Do not let us pretend we are per-
fect. Sit-ins and freedom riders
make headlines all over the world.
When you are questioned about such
happenings, it is important to give
honest answers. But one’s own friend-
ly attitudes and behavior will go
further than words to set the picture
straight — to prove that obstacles,
even setbacks, cannot make us stop
working, as a nation and as individ-
uals, with an increasing measure of
success, to overcome old prejudices
and develop new understandings.
Do try to show what our coundtry
seeks to accomplish as a leader in
world affairs. Here again, it is im-
portant to talk thoughtfully about
America’s policy, epecially such
features which most affect other peo-
ple’s lives: our support of the United
Nations ... our exstensive foreign aid.
But just sounding off about our
deep commitment to the U.N will
not convince anyone — unless we
show we have caught the spirit be-
hind it. The U. N. idea is that every-
body counts — small and big, weak
and strong. Not long ago, as a U.S.
delegate to the United Nations I
watched that idea in action. It was
one of the most inspiring experiences
of my life. The U.N. is serving as a
forum for divergent views, a meet-
ing ground for people of all kinds
and conditions. The U.N. is striving
to win basic human rights for all
mankind — the same guarantees of
freedom and equality we won for
ourselves in our own Bill of Rights.
America’s backing of the U.N. is most
vividly expressed by your own open
mind, your own unmistakable con-
cern for other people’s rights.
The same applies to foreign aid:
there is a human equation behind it.
Two many people abroad have un-
fortunately been sold on the false
idea that our American goal, “the
pursuit of happiness,” means noth-
ing more than the selfish pursuit of
our own material comforts. You can
help explode the shabby myth. You
can show that our goal in “the pur-
suit of happiness” includes an all-out
drive to overcome poverty, ignorance
and disease — not only from Maine
to California, but in other conitin-
ents as well. That is the meaning of
our foreign aid. Your own instinctive
helping hand to those in need re-
flects our country’s desire to see that
everyone gets a chance to live in
dignity.
After all, the serviceman and his
family are almost the only Ameri-
cans that millions of people know
— and these millions believe or
reject Communist propaganda ac-
cording to the way the Americans
they know bear out or belie what
they have heard. They see in each
of you the image of Uncle Sam.
Meanwhile, you have a right to ex-
pect that we at home will be doing
our job too: measuring up in our
everyday lives, to our country’s ideals.
We can help you and our country
by showing we believe that every
American, regardless of color or
creed, is entitled to a fair and equal
chance — in our factories and stores,
in the schools our youngsters attend,
in the places we go for recreation.
And we at home can also prove that
Americans really want to make life
better for people in other lands. Our
votes, our year-round support of
measures that help others raise their
living standards, tell the world that
“the pursuit of happiness” means
Americans in the march for univer-
sal human dignity
These are missions that only we,
all of us indvidual citizens, can ac-
complish for our country. Thus, in
a very real sense, each of us in a
major degree holds the future in our
hands..
Jacob Blaustein
Former U. S. Delegate
in the United Nations.
Corregidor, in the mouth of
Manila Bay 28 miles from the old
capital city, has been reclaimed
by the jungle through the years.
Its corroded guns that barked de-
fiance for four months stand
silent, festooned with creepers,
monuments to its defenders. For
the island has a special place in
the history of the Pacific War;
its surrender marked the end of
organized American resistence in
the Philippines.
The government’s plans for
the island include cutting back
the dense tropical vegetation,
restoring the old military roads
and providing regular boat ser-
vice from Manila. It will en-
courage businessmen to build re-
sort hotels, restaurants and a
golf course. Nets will be hung
at the beaches to protect bathers
from sharks.
Often called “the Gibraltar of
the Pacific” in the pre-war days,
the island’s defenses extended
deep underground where a sub-
terranean railroad connected the
main part of Ft. Mills with a six-
inch gun battery offshore. Cor-
regidor was considered impreg-
nable as far back as 1795 when
the Spanish fortified it to ward
off hostile tribesmen and pirates
of the South China Sea.
It was in the island’s concrete-
lined Manila Tunnel — dark and
deserted today — that American
nurses heroically tended the
wounded and the dying in emer-
gency wards. And it was Correg-
idor and Bataan, both secure in
history as a shining epic of Amer-
ican valor, that inspired the words
of General of the Army Douglas
Mac Arthur:
“Through the bloody haze of
its last reverberating shot, I shall
always seem to see a vision of
grim, gaunt, ghastly men, still
unafraid.”
President Kennedy has chall-
enged our people in the memor-
able words of his inauguration:
“Ask not what your country can
do for you — ask what you can
do for your country”. Today mill-
ions of American people are des-
irous of meeting that challenge,
and they find that the purchase
of United States Savings Bonds
is one important way in which
everyone can help.