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Scouts Danny Kasteler, Steven Pulley, and Tony Fenton see who's
the most dexterous knotter.
Cub Scout Michael Poulsen paints Melanie Lckert s face with
water colors at an art session.
In lieu of a cow, Kyler (harp and Chris Beeman try their hands at
milking rubber gloves.
Scout artists Craig Dinkelman and Brandon I'eh r son turn papier
mache into Teen-age Mutant INinja Iurtles.
yore. Which means that some local influ-
ences are flashier nowadays.
All sorts of youth aggregates are
sprouting. Legal liquor, illegal "crack"
and "coke" and "ice" are in the Salt Lake
picture. Hence its Scouting activities
aren't necessarily sure-fire successes.
And in fact this council's shows were
usually small until recently, as will be
explained in a moment.
Yet the stunning numbers attest the
huge success of its recent Scoutoramas.
Conjurers must be at work to prod so
many Scout units to devise booths, so
many fun-seekers to crowd the walk-
ways.
Even people from elsewhere, with no
particular ties to Scouting, sometimes pay
heed to the show. Utah's governor, both
senators, and a covey of congressmen have
put in appearances. Ezra Taft Benson,
president of the far-flung Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, was grand
marshal this year.
In 1988 the Disney empire dispatched a
full-size cavorting Mickey Mouse to en-
liven the day. In 1989 cartoonist Charles
Schulz lent a hand, preparing unique
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sketches of "Beagle Scout Snoopy" from
his Peanuts strip and sending Snoopy in-
carnate. Snoopy not only presided at the
Scoutorama but promoted it in advance by
touring a local children's hospital and—to
the utter amazement of all but a few who'd
connived—by confronting the "Mormon"
Tabernacle Choir and directing it in
breezy songs. With such mythic benefac-
tors, no wonder the populace took notice.
So did Scouters from afar. "Green Bar
Bill" Hillcourt and retired Chief Scout
Executive Jim Tarr, along with other old-
timers of note in the movement, came and
helped personify a "Scouting Memories"
theme chosen for the 1990 show. What did
they see? Suppose we join them mentally.
All around town we see big banners
and pennants, some 150 of them above
main streets, emblazoned with Scout em-
blems, proclaiming SCOUT-O-R AMA in
red and white and blue. On KSL radio and
TV we hear mentions of 7,500 cameras
bestowed as prizes for ticket selling, of a
Chevrolet pickup truck to be given as a
door prize. So there's wide anticipation.
Energetic promoters, we surmise, must
have been busy. We wonder who they are
September 1990 Scouting
and how they've marshaled such potent
help, but these are questions for later.
Soon after breakfast time on the big
Saturday, March 3, street traffic is quick-
ening steadily. Scout uniforms go by on all
sides. We glimpse them in cars and vans
and trucks, on bikes and skateboards and
afoot—thousands and thousands of uni-
formed Scouts and Scouters, all sizes
from smallest Cubs through strapping
Explorers amid a mingling of assorted
officialdom of both genders. They are
mostly clustered with families in casual
garb, flocking through downtown and
flowing together in steady streams to-
ward the huge arena called the Salt Pal-
ace.
Sports fans know the Salt Palace as a
citadel of professional hockey and basket-
ball. Business circles know it as a site of
trade shows. Today it is a hive for Scout-
ing's rank and file, many of whom come
here only once during the year.
Almost all those swarming through the
doorways know approximately what
awaits them. During the Scoutorama's
five hours there will be no big surprises,
no suspense, no en- (continued on page 81)
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