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SCOUTING ...His Excel!*.n y the Governor-General, Chief Scut for Canada ha* approved of *he week of February 20-26 as B«y Scout Week in Canada.» • •Boy Scout leaders in Windsor, Ontario, have prepared a brief suggesting means of overcoming the increase in Juvenile delinquency in Ontario.• • •Six hundred and fifty Boy Scout leaders in Toronto have enlisted since the outbreak of war. Thirty of these have ben killed, a number have been decorated, and 12per cent have earned commissions.• # »It has been revealed that the first British pilot to drop an S.000 lb. bomb on enemy territory wasRover Scout Beter Merrall, D.F.M., who was posthumously awarded the D.F C.• • •For more than 20 years of service to th** Boy Scout Movement, Louis L Lang of Kitchener. Ont., President of die Mutual Life Assurance Co. a former President of the Canadian Manufacturers' Assn., and a director of the Canadian Pa ific Railway has been awarded the Silver Wolf by theGovernor-General.• • •Gilt Crosses for Gallantry have been awarded by the Governor-General to Scout Herbert Ileld-:uan of the 1st Oakville. Ont. Troop for the. rescue of ^ boy who had fallen from the pier at Oakville. and to Patrol Leader Albert John Lee. 15. of the 7C*th Toronto Troop for rescuing a boy who had fallen into the Grenadier Pond.
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Birtle Eye Witness
Birtle, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Feb 08, 1944
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