The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-30
SERVICE OF SCOUTS |S WORTH $4O,OO0
This Is Value To Birmingham Estimated Prior To Annual
 Meeting Friday

Public services rendered by the Boy Scouts of America in Birming- ham would amount to $40,0OO for the year 1923 if figured in dollars and cents, according to Roland L. shine, scout executive. This means that the services of the scouts in such things as parades and exhibitions could not have been substituted without great expense to the city of Birmingham and does not include the amount of good they have done in small ways which are too numerous to emu merate
 Over 800 scouts have been added to the roster during the last year, said Mir Shine, as the report will show when the Birmingham counci' holds it's annual meeting at o'clock Friday night. January 1. The at tendance at Camp Andrews is prac- tically twice the number of the pre- vious year, and although many inn proVements have been made at the camp, it is thought that the budget for the year will not be exceeded. Annual Meeting Friday.
 The Birmingham council of Boy Scouts of America will hold their annual meeting Friday, January at s o'clock at the Southern club, ac- cording to announcement made Sat urday by D. 5. Dimicl, president.
 "The scout council is composed of one representative from each troop and a number of members at large The annual meeting is for the pur- pose of electing officers and the executive board for the year and to hear reports of the various depart ments of local scouting, covering the past 12 months.
 "The chairman of every depart ment of the scout work will make q written report at the meeting as vii! President Dimick and Roland L. Shine, scout executive. It is expected that report of the chairman, John McCleary, Jr., of the organization commission will show splendid growth in scouts and troops during the past year. A net gain of more than 500 scouts will be shown by re- port of the organization commission The camping department, under Karl Landgrebe will reveal an in creased attendance over the previous year at Camp Andrews. the out door home of Boy Scouts of Birmingham and a great increase in cabin con struction by individual troops The attendance of scouts at general canr for the past year was practically twice that of .he previous year."
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 The training commission report 1 by l.. Fraser Banks, chairman. wil show a well planned and execute co training program for both scouts and leaders during the year. It will also i outline the plans which have al ready been set up for 1921. Report of Colman Blach, treasurer of tho council, will show that the organ ization has operated within its budget, in spite of the fact that con siderable improvements have beer made at Camp Andrews entailins heavy expense.
 The amount of public service rendered to the community during the past 12 months, if figured il dollars and cents. would be approXi mately $40,000, according to Chic | Shine.
 At this meeting the officers of tn, Birmingham council and the eNecu | tive board will be elected The nomi mating committee, which was ap pointed at the December meeting .o report. L. Frazer Banks is chair man. with F. J. Rowe and Claud | Estes on the committee.
 Following is the executive boar of the Birmingham council durinl 1 the past year:
 | ID. B. .Dlmlck, president; c. Wofford, vice president; E. II. An drews, vice president K l.. Land grebe. vice president; Colman Blacf treasurer; c. A. Moffett, scout com missioner; w. F. Mitchell deput commissioner; l.. Fraser Banks, Sc Caheen, Donald Conner, G. W. Con nors, Claude H. Estes, w. B. Fowlke. Louis Gelders, Victor Hanson, Joh 1 McCleary, Jr., F. H. Mohns, F. Rowe, c. w. Shropshire, Julian Smith, F. V. Underwood