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Show Eighteen Eagles Awarded At Honor Court Adult leadership in the Cedar Creaks District, Boy Scouts of America, received a compliment Sunday evening from Floyd Lov-eridge. Lov-eridge. scout executive of the Utah National Parks Council. Loverldge was on hand for the .special March Court of Honor at which an unprecedented 18 young men received the highest rank In scouting, the Eagle Award. Sixteen of the 18 young men represented a single troop in Cedar City, Troop 347, sponsored sponsor-ed by the Cedar Seventh Ward. Two other recipients were from Troop 333, sponsored by .the First Ward. Member of Troop 317 who re-wived re-wived the Eagle award at the special ceremony included Lenny Len-ny Olafson, Danny Webster, Garth Green. Randy Bunnell. Kussell Dover, Doug Cox, Gordon Topham, Richard Cox, Terry Woolf, Evan Jones. Larry Nae-gle, Nae-gle, Stew Lunt, Pat Dover, Clinton Clin-ton Ramsay, Michael Cox and Mace Church. Keith Nelson and Dale Han-sink Han-sink from Troop 333 were the other two recipients. Loverldge In paying tribute to the leadership in the district pointed out that three recipients of the Silver Beaver award were located In Cedar City, including Albert Albertson, Newel Wasden and Smoot Seaman, "With leadership lea-dership such as these men provide, pro-vide, along with the work by such dedicated scoutmasters as Morris Mor-ris Shirts, leader of Troop 347, a program of outstanding scouting scout-ing is going forth in this area," the executive said. The Eagle recipients received a charge from Loverldge to "live well and remember the Importance Import-ance of their own names." Your names, he said, are your most important possession don't sully sul-ly them. Importance of the scout oath was expressed by the scout eve-cutive. eve-cutive. He pointed out that according ac-cording to the oath the Scout placed himself third, behind his 'duty and responsibility, first to God and his county, and second, .to Axis Icllowmen. He suggested that if a list was prepared by those In the audience, of their expectations ex-pectations for their boys, the results re-sults would approximate the eth-( lcs of scouting. The Importance of scouting is not "what the boys end up wearing wear-ing on their chest in the form of merit badges, loverldge stated, but of more importance is what is In the head and heart. If the -lessons of scouting can be applied ap-plied to these vital points the . objectives of the program will be iuUfUled. |