Evening star., 1948-02-09
Boy Scouts 10 Present
Civic Service Report
To Truman Tomorrow

Twelve Boy Scout leaders, repre-
senting as. many States, will visit
the White House tomorrow and
present d full report on Scout &C
aVftfes TO the President. ''''1 o'
Their call on President Truman
will be one of the high lights of
National Scout Week, now being
observed in the Washington! area
The Scouts White House report will
include a statement of service rem
dered during 1947 and an outline
of the Scouts 1948 program.
The youths will be introduced to
President Truman by John M. Schiff
of New York. DR.. Pliny H. Powers,
deputy chief scout executive of the
Boy Scouts of America, will head
the group.
Scroll to Contain Report.
The scouts will present an illu-
minated scroll to the President con-
tanning a condensed report of serv-
ices rendered by the Nations scouts.
The official Boy Scout statuette, de-
signed by the late r. TAFT McKen-
zie, will be presented to President
Truman.
Names of the scouts, who will
meet each other for the first time
when they have luncheon at the
Willard today, are: James F. Nc
Intyre, Fall River, Mass; Jack
Brader, Stone Church, Pa; Thomas
G. Sage, Wheeling; Joseph E. Mel
ton, Shreveport; John c. Wyatt, jr,
Candor, N. c.; Karl Young, Memo
monte, Wis; Dale Gallagher, Mont
rose, Colo; Morris Lee Frye, Miami,
Okla; Myron T. Shervheim, Kens-
ington, Mimi; Daniel L. Soss,
Spokane, Wash; Richard Goodrich,
Redlands, Calf, and Raymond w.
Schwab, New York.
Breakfast Tribute to Boys.
The Boy Scout delegation will be
honored at a breakfast at 8 am,
Wednesday, in the Washington
Hotel with cabinet officers, Senators,
Representative and Government
leaders in attendance. Later in the
day they will attend ceremony at
Lake Success, N Y. The scouts here
will report on THE Scout Citizen at
Work in His World
In message to the Boy Scouts,
President Truman said the move
ments 1948 program will streng-
then the home, the community, our
Nation and the world"
Yesterday Boy Scouts observed
Scout Sunday" with special cere-
monies and services in various
Washington churches.
The Most Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle,
archbishop of Washington, in spe-
cial ceremonies at st. Patrick's
Church, presented the Ad Altare
Del cross. to IL Scouts and the
scouting chairman of the Washing
ton archdiocese. Marden Brue
King. Awards were made in recog-
milton of a6vancements in religious
training as we'll as in Scout craft.
Special Rites in Arlington.
Scouts who received the religious
awards we're: William Bright, Louis
Donatelli, jr.. Joseph Hartinger
James C. Henderson, Robert Holden
Kenneth L. Miller, Earl Peterson
Henry Williamson, William Taylor
Harry Caputo, and Gerald Cahill
Robert Taylor, who was Ill, was
presented with the award In ab-
sentia.
In special ceremonies sponsored
by the Calvary Methodist Church,
Twenty-third and South Grant
streets, Arlington, Malcolm MacCoy
received the new God and Coun-
| try Award of the Boy Scouts OF
America. 1t was the first time the
award has been made in the Wash
ington area. The winner, an
Eagle Scout, is the son of Maj. and
Mrs. w. Pierce MacCoy. 1881 South
! Grant, Arlington.
Approximately 4,500 persons at
tend the three-day Boy Scout Merit
Badge show held at the Hyattsville
National Guard Armory under
sponsorship of the Southern Mary
land District of the National Capt.
tai Area Boy Scout Council.
Boy Scout Troop 227. sponsored
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