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Show Scout Financing Failing Short In Uintah Basin With monthly district courts of honor planned for each month, monthly district Cub, Boy Scout, and Explorer Roundtables, two Universities of scouting underway, and a score of other major scouting scout-ing events planned for the 1956-57 Scouting year, field scout executive execu-tive Rulon Dean Skinner reported all four Uintah Basin Scout Districts Dis-tricts were falling short of their share of the finances necessary to support the Utah National Parks Council which makes such events posible. AH four Uintah Basin scout districts dis-tricts have ben asked by Council officials at Provo to complete their share of the Council budget by December 1. Roosevelt is the only district which to date has submitted any of its 1956-57 finances to the Council Coun-cil office. Joseph E. Olpin, Roosevelt Roose-velt district finance chairman, re-Ported, re-Ported, "I'll surely be disappointed if we are unable to meet the Dec. 1 deadline set by the Council." No Money Reported When Glen Mohlman, Moon Lake District Chairman, was asked hpw much of the $679 required of that district had been raised to date, he replied, "Not a penny." He added that in the Moon Lake District Dis-trict where all scouting units are LDS the collection of the Council finance had been left in the hands of the Bishops. To date not one of the seven have turned any finances to the district. Elvin O. 'Barker, Duchesne District Dis-trict Chairman, reported that the (Continued on Back Page) i( Scout Financing (continued from page 1) Duchesne District was about half completed. Under the direction of William Case, finance chairman for Duchesne District, we are making mak-ing an effort to meet the Dec. 1 deadline, stated Mr. Barker. Last year Uintah, Roosevelt and Duchesne District paid 100 of their assignment made by the Utah National Parks Council. Moon Lake District paid $802.87 of an assignment assign-ment of $880.00. "Although we haven't reached Utopia yet in scouting in the Uintah Basin, the progress noted during the past few years' have been remarkable in every field, except finance In leadership training, train-ing, advancement, camping, district dis-trict operation, organization, and extension our districts have been among the leaders of the Council. However, the financial support of such activities continue to be our No. 1 problem," concluded Mr. Skinner. |