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Show INCREASE NOTED BY BOYJCOUTS Recording a gain of 147,557 members in 1951, or an 5.3 per cent increase, the Boy Scouts of America reached its all-time highest membership peak last December 31, with 2,942,779 boys and , adult leaders enrolled, it was announced last Wednesday night by Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, chief scout executive. With a total boy membership of 11,328, Great Salt Lake Council Coun-cil led the nation with a 12.6 per cent gain of members over the previous year. This was nearly two and a half times the national average increase. The boy membership shows 2,178,690 enrolled, nationally, a gain of 107,041 during the year. Cub Scouts, a program for boys 8, 9, and 10 years of age number 924,258, a gain of 95,914 or 11.6 per cent. Membership in Boy Scout Troops is 1,127,627, a gain of 5,907. This membership includes in-cludes 858,995 Boy Scouts 11, 12 and 13 years of age and the 268,-632 268,-632 Explorers in the Troops who are 14 years of age and over. Explorers in Explorer Units are 126,805, a gain of 5,220 or 4.3 per cent. In Great Salt Lake Council, Explorers in Explorer Units total to-tal 2,662 or 2.9 per cent of the nation's total membership of Explorers Ex-plorers in Posts, Ships, or Squadrons, according to figures revealed in the annual report of the local council last month. Dr. Schuck announced that there are now 764,089 adult leaders in the movement, a gain of 40,516 leaders over the preceding pre-ceding year or 5.6 per cent. On December 31 last there were 81,178 Units, a gain of 2,462 over the previous year, or 3.1 per cent. There are now 24,734 Cub Scout Units, 46,795 Boy Scout Units and 9,649 Explorer Units. Since its founding, February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America Am-erica has ended each year with a higher membership, Dr. Schuck said. |