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Show ftlyfon Troop Advances Five Eagles During Year Buddy Holgate and LaVon Ed-" wards of Myton Troop 253 received re-ceived their Eagle Scout badges at the November 4 Court of Honor Hon-or of the Roosevelt District, Utah National Parks Council, reports Sharon Cummings, Roosevelt District Dis-trict Advancement chairman. With the Eagles of Buddy and LaVon, Myton Troop 253 has seen five of its scouts receive the highest high-est boy scouting award for proficiency pro-ficiency in living the Scout Oath and Law, active participation in church, school, home, troop and community activities and scout-craft scout-craft skills. Wilmer Murray is scoutmaster of Myton Troop 253, and has seen five boys achieve this honor not in a few months, nor b year, but over a period of three years for all except Jerry, who worked on his for five years, stated Mr. Cummings. Boys receiving Eagle awards in 1956 from Myton are Buddy Holgate, Hol-gate, LaVon Edwards, Wayne Martin, Jerry Murray and Robert Duke. Scoutmaster Murray has achieved achiev-ed over 15 times the national record of the ' chances of a boy becoming an Eagle Scout when you know that nationally only about one in a hundred tenderfoot tender-foot scouts ever get their Eagle badge, he exlained. Started In 1953 Buddy Holgate received his tenderfoot badge in 1953. On March 6, 1956, at the Roosevelt District Court of Honor held at Myton he was awarded his 2nd (Continued on Back Page) MYTON EAGLE SCOUTS (Continued lrom page one) class. It was during the White-rocks White-rocks Court of Honor August 7, 1955, that he became a first class scout. Star badge was present January 8, 1956, at Montwel. His Life was pinned on him April 8, E956, at Randlett. November 4, 1956, he received scouting's highest-award. LaVon Edwards received his Tenderfoot in 1953, his second class March 6, 1955', his first class August 7, 1955, his Star November 6, 1955, his Life on February 12, 1956, and his Eagle Badge Nov. 4, 1956. Advance Together Wayne Martin and Robert Duke advanced all the way from Tenderfoot Tender-foot to Eagle Scouts together receiving re-ceiving all their badges the same days. They were made Tenderfoots Tender-foots in 1953, second class on March 6, 1955, first class August 7, 1955, Star scouts on November 6, 1955, Life Scouts February 12, 1956, and had their Eagles pinned on them September 2, 1956. Jerry Murray became a Tenderfoot Tender-foot November 29, 1951. August 1952 he became a second class. March 6, 1955' was the date of his first class while three months later, June 5, he was made a Star Scout. December 4, 1955, he received his Life badge. It was at the 1956 High Uintah Scout Camp that Floyd Loveridge, Scout Executive of the Utah National Parks Council, pinned Jerry's Eagle badge on him and declared him to be an Eagle Scout. |