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Show Springville Scouter wins highest award on coast Dual Scouting honors have been given to Wilford W. Clyde, President of the Utah National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America according to 3 r.l word received here today from Sacramento, Calif. The Silver Antelope, the highest recognition given on a regional level to men who have devoted years of service to youth and particularly Boy Scouting, was the first recognition recog-nition given to Mr. Clyde at the Annual Regional meeting of Region 12 held at the Hotel El Dorado in Sacramento Friday Fri-day and Saturday. Mr. Clyde was sponsored at the recognition recogni-tion ceremony by Ernest A. Strong of Springville who is chairman of section 6 of Region Re-gion 12. The second honor to Mr. Clyde was the appointment as vice-chairman of Region 12. Mr. Loveridge reports that a new regional chairman, Philip Phil-ip S. Magruder, Vice President of Mobile Oil Company at Los Angeles was appointed to replace re-place former Regional Chairman Chair-man P. Tremain Loud. Also called to vice-chairman positions posi-tions were, George Mardikia, owner and operator of the Omar Khayyam Restaurant in San Francisco, a man well known in this area from his appearances here and from his high praise of the people of Utah; Rex Bell, Lt. Gov. of the State of Nevada and D. Ray Grable of Santa Monica, Calif. Mr. Clyde is President of the W. W. Clyde Construction Co. of Springville, Utah Valley Builders Supply Company and the Knight Ideal Coal Company. Com-pany. He has served in many positions of responsibility in the civic affairs of the community com-munity including a term as Mayor. He has been very active ac-tive in church affairs in positions posi-tions of responsibility and is at present a member of the Wilford W. Clyde High Council of Springville Stake. He is serving his ninth term as President of the Utah National Na-tional Parks Council. During this time, membership has grown from 8,208 boys to 17,518 and from 2,895 scouters to 5,748. The council staff has increased in-creased from five executives to eight with a proportionate increase in budget. Largely through his efforts, the Council Coun-cil built a modern council office of-fice in 1957 and in 1959 Mr. Clyde built for the council a lodge at Camp Maple Dell as (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) Springville Scouter wins high award on coast (Continued from Page one ) a gift to scouting. The lodge was dedicated June 25 this year and has since been enjoyed enjoy-ed by members of Boy Scouts, Scouters, Parents of boys and friends of scouting that reach into the thousands. "The leadership lead-ership of Mr .Clyde has been an inspiration to all," said Mr. Loveridge. |