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Show ;-every 92 enrollees. "S A breakdown of types of offense of-fense showed that stealing (other than burglary or automobiles) was the most frequent charge .before juvenile court judges. A total of 806 cases was reported for th last fiscal year a drop of 88 from the preceding 12-month period. Burglary or unlawful -entry cases cas-es totaled 432 compared with 375 cases for the preceding year but automobile stealing dropped from 190 to 113 cases during the compared com-pared periods. Truancy throughout the state showed th-e largest decrease drop-ing drop-ing from 563 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1947 to 299 for the subsequent 12 months. Other offenses (with the preceding pre-ceding fiscal year's total in parentheses) par-entheses) were: holdup,, 17 (21); running away, 167 (203); ungovernable, ungov-ernable, 151 (148); injury to person, per-son, 32 (37); and carelessness or mischief, 461 (640). -crime DECREASES 4 I IN UTAH I STATES REPORT Although cases of juvenile delinquency de-linquency dropped for the third consecutive year in Utah, the 7927 offenses listed for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted to one offense for every 18 school age children in the state. Of the 7927 total, 2511 were traffic cases. For the preceding fiscal year, there were 8067 cases of delinquency including 2237 traffic traf-fic offenses. The report released by the state welfare commission shows that boys are the leading trouble makers. mak-ers. Of the 5416 delinquency cases, boys were involved in 4947 of them and boys were the offenders in 2427 of the 2511 traffic cases. The boys' rate was one case of delinquency or traffic for every II enrolled in public school. The girls' rate was only one case for |