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Show SCOUT HONOR COURT HELD A Kolob district scout court of honor was conducted at the I Fourth ward chapel. Sunday night with Commissioner Charles Boyer in charge. John, S. Boyer, scout executive, presented merit awards. Although a number of scouts were unable to attend the exercises, due to special programs in, their home wards, the following had passed the court of exams and wore eligible for the merit badges. First ward troop Gerald Smith, merit badge in leathercraft; Frank Whitney, handicraft, painting; paint-ing; Grant Clyde, art, sheetmetal, woodwork, LaVere Clegg, Second clas badge. Second ward troop Del Leighty, merit badge in personal health; Lamar Miner, metal, art, poultry, painting, woodwork; Earl Whitney, Whit-ney, civics, pathfinding, animal husbandry, First class badge; Rex Bronson, second class. Third ward troop Joe Salisbury, Salis-bury, First class badge; Gerald Newman, merit in, safety. Fourth ward troop Ray Whiting, Whit-ing, merit badge in animal husbandry; hus-bandry; Taylor Reynolds, First class badge; James K. Alleman, Star and First class badge, merit badges in farm mechanics and woodwork. Gordon Weight who is making his home in southern Utah was unable to attend the meeting Sunday night, but had qualified for a ten-year scout pin and he had received the award, it was announce. Mapleton ward troop Ray Whiting, Whit-ing, merit bagde in cooking; Floyd Stoker, metal and painting; Russell Rus-sell Holley and Cecil Johnson, Second Sec-ond class badges. Following the scout court of honor exercises, the meeting was turned over to the M. I. A. who conducted a program in honor of the pioneers ,with the principal a ddress given by Mrs. Mary J. Finley on Pioneer customs and types of amusement. - WAUKEGAN, 111., Dec. 4 (U.E Charles Schroff, 40, today planned a reunion with his father, James M. Schroff, 70, Brandon, Mo., after 18 years, during which each believed the other dead. They last saw each other when Charles enlisted in the army and was sent overseas. The elder Schroff also served overseas. Neither could find a trace of the other when they returned from the war. The American Legion traced the son through war department files and they exchanged letters. |