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Show LEADER PRAISES CACHE COUNCIL F. J. Carlson Tells Of Boy Scout Progress High tribute was paid to the Cache Valley Boy Scout council, both the scouts and their leaders, b,y F. J. Carlson, of Los Angeles, Cal., executive of region 12, at the first 1945 quarterly meeting Wednesday night in the council offices. "This particular council rates among the top two or three in the nation in regard to enrollment enroll-ment and participation of the number of scouts in proportion to the population," Mr. Carlson said. "I compliment everyone concerned concern-ed about the condition of the unit. Mr. Carlson predicted that the entire area of the council is ready for a "program of enrichment," enrich-ment," which will mean a larger executive staff and probably a larger budget. This will be arranged ar-ranged as soon as possible. Discussing the national scout situation briefly, he said "last year we made the greatest growth in history with approximately 250,000 new members added to the scout ranks. Councils over the nation generally are in excellent excel-lent condition, both financially and in regard to leadership." He cited the Scout's participation participa-tion in war service, painting out they have met every request of the government and war depart ment. The organization has collected col-lected more than 1,000,000,000 lbs. of scrap paper, metal and other salvage. Mr. Carlson praised scout training train-ing as a valuable prelude to military! mil-itary! service. "More than 3.500.000 men in the armed forces have had scout training and the latest lat-est figures reveal that 83 per cent of the men cited for valor and bravery are former scouts," he declared. . The : region executive met first with the various council committees commit-tees and discussed improvement of program. This was followed by the general session . The meeting was the first under direction of N. D. Salisbury, newly elected council president. |