Scouting, Volume 49, Number 6, July-August 1961 Page: 2
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SCOUTERGRAM
President Kennedy has said that com-
pletion of the 41,000-mile National
Interstate Highway system will save at
least 4,000 lives a year. Seat belts
on all vehicles will save an even larger
number. Scouting backs the campaign to
educate the public on the value of seat
belts. See Governor Pyle's article on
page 10 this issue.
Don W. Douglas, Jr., president of both
Lockheed Aircraft and the Crescent Bay
Council in southern California, has
announced that Richard Nixon has ac-
cepted membership on the Council's
executive board. In accepting, Nixon
said: "Up to this time I have followed a
policy of not going on any boards either
corporate or institutional. Because
of my great interest in the work of the
Boy Scouts, I shall be happy to make an
exception and accept your invitation.
I will do my best to attend the meetings
and hope that you will understand if I
am unable to do so."
First Class Astronaut Alan Shepard was
a First Class Scout in East Derry, New
Hampshire, back in 1935-38. His father
was chairman of the troop committee.
Hiking and camping interested Alan most
in Scouting.
166, Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, and the
Kansas City Council, Kansas City,
Missouri.
Michigan's new governor, John Swain-
son, was an Eagle Scout and has been
active in Scouting. Governor Otto Kerner
of Illinois is vice president of the
Chicago Council and regularly attends
Region Seven's Executive Committee
meetings. Connecticut's governor, John
Dempsey, was a Scout and his father
served with Baden-Powell in the Boer
War when B-P was designing the program
that became Scouting.
The most recent study of SCOUTING
magazine's readers indicate that 10 per
cent of them move from one state to
another or one county to another each
year. That means that more than 135,000
Scouters move each year and unless a
man's previous council notifies his new
council of his Scouting experience, he
may be lost to Scouting. Good Scouters
are often hard to find; let's not lose
them just because they move. It costs
SCOUTING magazine thousands of dollars
a year to pay for returned copies of
SCOUTING magazine (50 each) because the
readers who move don't notify us of the
change of address. They miss one or
more copies and it's wasteful.
Scouters are thrifty, too.
Two thirds of the 1,500 Rhodes scholar-
ships to Oxford University, England,
awarded to Americans in the last sixteen
years went to young men who had been
Boy Scouts.
Add to the George Washington Honor
Medal Award winners from the Freedoms
Foundation—plus $100 in cash—Troop
Eagle Scout John Joseph Kelly, Jr.,
West Warwick, Rhode Island, is a recip-
ient of a $1,000 savings bond in the
1961 Elks annual national youth leader-
ship contest. He's class president,
outstanding science and mathematics
student, football team captain, junior
assistant Scoutmaster, and holder of
the Ad Altare Dei, Catholic Church
Scouting award.
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