Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, August 8, 1993                   TAG: 9308060044
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS-BANKS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

CAMP POWHATAN

The council has 22 full-time employees and is directed by Scout Executive Dan Clifton. Summer job-training programs are available for youths in the scouting program.

In 1926, the cost for a 13-day stay at Camp Powhatan was $10 per boy. In 1993, the cost for a seven-day stay at Camp Powhatan was $105 per boy. Boys enrolled in the council's High Adventure Program paid $120. n 1,525 campers attended Camp Powhatan this summer.

Christiansburg Troop 141 was the first Boy Scout troop to spend a week at Camp Powhatan in Pulaski County. The year was 1950.

Since its first American printing in 1910, The Boy Scout Handbook has issued 34,360,000 copies.

For as long as any scout can remember, Kool-Aid has been called "bug juice."

Fred Thompson holds the unofficial record for eating prunes at Camp Powhatan. He once downed 134 at a summer-camp prune-eating contest.

Pulaski Troop 249 once stuffed 13 scouts in the phone booth at Camp Powhatan.

In an effort to work more closely with American Indians, the national Boy Scout council now requires that local councils contact the nearest tribe for permission to use face paint in ceremonies such as the Order of the Arrow inductions. This year, the Monacan tribe of central Virginia granted permission with the condition that the scouts not use a combination of red and black. Used together, the colors have religious significance in the Monacan tradition.