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Nest Egg. In Lubbock, Texas, Robert Lee was arrested for illegal possession of liquor after agents searched his farm, found bottles hidden in the turkey pen, under a rabbit hutch, in the chicken coop, under a setting...
Tailored Program. The Lubbock troop was organized in 1953, after the mother of a 13-year-old retarded boy went to the local Boy Scout office with the suggestion that scouting instruction might give her son and others like him the sense of belonging that they so desperately needed. A group of Texas Tech students who were members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity of former Boy Scouts, agreed to take over the instruction of a group of handicapped youngsters. Lucian Thomas, a local jeweler who had been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years, sponsored the troop...
Although other cities have organized more than 450 troops, patrols, or small groups for handicapped youngsters, Lubbock's Scout leaders found that there was all too little published material to guide them in their work. "We felt our way along," says one official. "We had to learn everything the hard way." Gradually, the A.P.O. leaders developed a program tailored to the capabilities of the handicapped...
Officials at Lubbock's School for Exceptional Children have noticed that the new sense of responsibility is reflected in the boys' schoolwork; after several months in the Scouting program, their interest in what they are studying invariably picks up. "It has given my boy a desire to live and to do different things," says Mrs. R. W. Pope, whose 16-year-old son spends much of his time in a respirator as a result of polio. Adds another mother: "The main thing he has learned is that he is not forgotten, that he can do things that other...