The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-21
ALA5kA COUNCIL
 OF BOY SCOUTS
 MEETS, FAIRBANKS

First section of the annual meet ing of the Alaska Council will be held Friday evening, Feb. 24, at Fairbanks, according to an an- nouncement by scout executive Maurice Powers of Juneau, who will attend. w. L. Lhamon, one of the Vice Presidents of the Coun- cil will preside at the Fairbanks session, at which reports for 1949's operation, election of officers and executive committeeman, and ap- proval of the 1850 budget will occur. Second section Of the annual meet ing will be held in Anchorage, Pow CTS reports, during the week of February 27 to March B. During the following week, the scout executive will take the records and reports to Ketchikan, after which the final session will be held in Juneau.
 Boy scout officials have found that through holding their annual meeting in the four sections, much better participation results from the voting members of the Coun- cil Vice presidents slated to pre- side at the Anchorage and Ketch- ikan sections are Keith M Lesh and Dr. Dwight Cramer respective ly. Council president George A. Parks will be chairman of the fourth section, when it is held in Juneau.
 Council voting. membership IS made up of 66 men scattered all through the Territory, each o1 whom represents one cf the insti- tutions which sponsor Boy Scouts of American unit.
 Supplementing this group are the members-at-large, 65 in number who serve on the Councils execu- tive board and committees.
 The 1949 expenditures for the boy scouts program in Alaska were some $4,000 higher than for l948, Powers said, hut total membership for the same period has risen from 15O5 to 2123. The Alaska Council is Territory wide in it's scope, be- ing the governing agency for the cub scout, boy scout, and explorer programs everywhere in Alaska. Headquarters office is maintained at Juneau, with field offices at Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Ketchl- kan, the latter under the direction of field executives Eugene c. But Ter, Russell A. Apple, and Doremus P. Scudder, respectively. Entire SUD- port for the program of the Boy Scouts of America comes through voluntary contributions at the time of the annual finance campaigns in each community. Powers said, as he emphasized that the Alaska Council is entirely self-supporting and is not government supported agency.
 Objective of the Alaska Council is to make the scouting program for boys available to every boy ol scout age in Alaska. Tremendous progress has been made in this d. rection," Powers said, with credit due almost entirely to the 6O1 de-
 voted volunteers who serve as lead CTS and committeeman for the 76 1 packs, troops, and posts which are l in all the major communities of the Territory. No amount of money could buy the immeasurable inTlu- 1 ence of the cubmasters, scoutmast-
 CTS, and explorer advisors who spend literally thousands of volun- teer hours every month providing I the scouting program for Alaska $ boys. Their aim is that of the Boy
 Scouts of America, the building o1 character, participating citizenship, and physical well-being of the boys
 who are Scouts. No state-side boy
 scout council has any finer corps of volunteer leaders than we have
 here in the Territory.