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Show CACHE SCOUT GROUP MEETS Plans Mapped for ! Training School ! Pians for continuing the Cache j Valley Council "University of Scouting" suspended last year, and the naming of a nomination committee for new council officials offi-cials featured the quarterly meeting Sunday in Logan of all council members. The group also made temporary plans for the annual meeting, discussed membmership objectives, set up a senior scouting basketball basket-ball program and approved plans for additional construction at Camp Hunt on Bear Lake, Executive Ex-ecutive Preston W. Pond reported report-ed today. Dr. John C. Carlisle, chairman of the leadership training committee, com-mittee, was named chairman of the committee to nominate council coun-cil officials for the coming year. Other members are Adrian W. Hatch of Logan; Phenoi Edgley of Preston. Idaho: Reed Halver. new air scout program, be held for the scouts themselves. ! Construction of a mess hall and; kitchen at Camp Hunt was ap-1 proved by council members after j reviewing plans presented by the ! camping and activities committee. commit-tee. Funds are available, Mr. Pond announced, and it is hoped to have the building ready for use next summer. Members of the committee vis- son of Smithfield; Dr. G. S. Francis of Wellsville; Peter D. Rosendale of Rock Springs, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, and Joseph I. Williams of Evanston, Wyoming. H. R. Hurren of Logan was named chairman of the annual council meeting to be held in January. Mr. Hurren will select members of a committee to work with him and set a definite date for the event, Mr. Pond an-nonnced. an-nonnced. Dr. Carlisle reported that the leadership training committee has approved plans for a modified "University of Scouting" to be conducted early in December. He pointed out that the University was cancelled last year and the council has suffered throughout the present year because of it. Tentative plans call for a joint session of scouters and institutional in-stitutional sponsors on November 29 in Logan to be followed by six courses for leaders. The courses, to be given both in Preston, Idaho and Logan, will cover one phase of scouting each night. In conjunction with this annual school, Alvin W. Hess, chairman of the advancement committee, recommended that brief , merit badge courses, especially - in the ited the new cafeterias set up at Utah State Agricultural college to accommodate service men before making a definite decision on the construction. The council approved a senior scout basketball program to replace re-place the vanball program carried car-ried out in past years. Substitute j ing for M-men basTcetball in the i MIA program, they set up a ! schedule in each, district and made plans for a tournament to determine deter-mine a division champion. They recommended that athletic athlet-ic representatives from each unit meet soon with all high school coaches to correlate a program with school athletics. Definite playing schedules probably will be drawn up at this meeting. A new air scouting program was taken under advisement after discussion. Dr. E. Allen Bateman, council president, said he would announce a committee in the near future to launch the activities activi-ties on a council-wide basis. New members of the council introduced at the meeting are: J. A. Watts of Logan, Cache district chairman, replacing Dr., H.H. Cutler Cut-ler of North Logan, who. was re-leased re-leased because of conflicting church duties; ' Ralph Miller of Preston,. Idaho, new advancement chairman in the Franklin district; Doan Chambers of Smithfield and W. H. Simmons of Preston, members of the organization and extension committee. |