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How To Stage
The World's Biggest
Scoutorama
BY KEITH MONROE
Photographs by Jeff Allred
Event chairman James Jones greets LDS
Church President Ezra Taft Benson.
(Below) Cookery demo will lure visitors.
WOULD YOU BELIEVE
that every year, in one Feb-
ruary day, 60,000 tickets
are sold to a Scouting booth
show? And that another 30,000 are sold
later in follow-up?
"Well, yeah," you may think to your-
self. "I guess it could happen if a flock of
high-powered business people put the
arm on all their friends, pushing tickets
by handfuls and hundreds. I've heard of
big charity shows like that."
But wait. Suppose you hear that nearly
all these tickets are sold by youngsters,
one at a time, for a price of three dollars
per family?
And suppose 58,000 spectators and
participants actually gather from four
counties to spend most of a Saturday at the
show itself, thronging around 847 differ-
ent booths jammed within five acres?
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Belayed from above, Bryan Barker, Troop
360, Salt Lake City, eases down a wooden
rappelling tower.
"At one council's show? Hard to be-
lieve," you might retort if you've seen
much Scouting across the country "I'd
say such totals are unheard-of for a one-
day Scouting activity in any council."
Yes, they are unheard-of—except among
Utah people where these numbers be-
come realities every year.
Scouts get a crack at some fun. A race with
plywood turtles offers laughs and keen
competition.
September 1990 Scouting
Oh, Utah. "Mormon" country, right?
Those Latter-day Saints are a special
case. Terrific enthusiasts for Scouting.
Maybe that's the key to a get-together like
none other.
Only partly. The Great Salt Lake
Council, now the BSA's fourth biggest
with 57,000 boys on its active rosters plus
a volunteer Scouter for each three Scouts,
comprises not only LDS groups but also
units chartered to Jewish synagogues,
Greek Orthodox churches, Catholic
churches, and the usual array of Protes-
tant persuasions found in other cities.
The council embraces nonsectarian
troops and packs chartered to schools,
service clubs, and government units. Ex-
plorer posts are backed by business enter-
prises, medical centers, and police
stations. Obviously Salt Lake City and
environs aren't as solidly "Mormon" as of
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