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Show Scout Merit Badge Examiners Exam-iners Named for District Tire board of merit badge counselors counse-lors of the Alpine district, Boy Scouts of America, was revised at aj meeting of the executive committee Thursday night. Most of the changes centered about a new policy of assigning any one particular merit badge to only one examiner. Heretofore, it has been possible for several examiners to give examinations for the same merit badge. With the idea of eli-minatiny eli-minatiny the objectionable feature cf scouts' going to the "easy" examiner ex-aminer in order to get by with incomplete in-complete preparation, it was decided to adopt the new policy. However, each examiner will have several merit badges. Since merit badge requirements change considerably from year to year, it was urged that the counselors famliarize themselves with the requirements re-quirements of the badges for which they are to examine. The latest edition of the Boy Scout manual is the source of this information. It was asked that counselors give a thorough examination, and that Boy Soouts come prepared to show that they have more than a super-! ficial knowledge of the work required. re-quired. The merit badge counselors are as follows: A. B. Allen agriculture, animal industry, astromony, beef production, produc-tion, bird study, botany, corn farming, farm-ing, dairying, farm layout and building build-ing arrangement, farm records and bookkeeping, first aid to animals, fruit culture, gardening, hog and pork production, horsemanship, insect in-sect life, landscape gardening, poultry poul-try keeping, reptile study, sheep farming, soil management, weather. Reed H. Robinson angling, auto-mobiling, auto-mobiling, cycling, machinery, marksmanship,, marks-manship,, pioneering; plumbing, salesmanship, aviation, bee keeping, canoeing, dramatics, foundry practice, prac-tice, nut culture, pigeon raising, pottery, pot-tery, rowing, new badges. Leland Mitchell archery, leather work. Glen Wrivht architecture, cement work, masonry, painting. Clifford E. Young art, interpreting, interpret-ing, reading. Francis Foster Journalism, business, busi-ness, photography. Leo Nelson athletics, chemistry, personal health, physical development, develop-ment, public health. J. W. Phillips basketry, black-smithing, black-smithing, carpentry, handicraft, mechanical me-chanical drawing, metal work, wood carving, wood turning, wood work. Charles B. Walker bookbinding, conservation, farm home and its planning, farm mechanics, forestry, scholarship, stamp collecting, surveying. sur-veying. Kenneth J. Bird bugling, music. Thomas Priday camping. Floyd Loveridge cooking, fust aid. Irving L. Pratt firemanship, safety. safe-ty. Norvin Brown hiking, life saving, pathfinding, public speaking. Joseph H. Storrs mining. William Ashby radio, signaling. o |