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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
8
The article lists staff members including Jack Vincent Lacy Crouch George Nethercutt Eugene Shell May and John Buck in the Scout News editorial team with positions noted.
Literary Digest reports nearly a million Boy Scouts in the United States toward a 1935 Silver Jubilee goal. March membership 953,603, up 26,856 from 1933, with Britain second at 756,883 and others including Siam Japan and Poland.
The weekly Troop 2 gathering met Friday night May 4 at 7 30. The scribe opened the session by recording attendance and dues, with Scout Mas continuing the routine.
Any boy of twelve or over may become a Boy Scout. Rural boys may join as Lone Scouts. To join, apply to the Scoutmaster of a local troop. Scouts are organized into patrols and troops with patrols of four to eight boys led by a Patrol Leader and an Assistant Patrol Leader.
Intimations are that the fate of the proposed new constitution will be decided by informed citizens rather than politicians. Fear of political harm has killed amendments as voters stay uninformed. State Senator Capus M. Waynick favored it. Attorney General D. G. Brummit opposed, in a debate before the State Federation of Women's Clubs at Asheville.
The passage lists roles within a Scout unit led by a Scout master and Assistant Scoutmasters with a Senior Patrol Leader and Junior Assistant Scoutmasters. It defines a Cub as a boy age nine to eleven with parental consent who joins the Cub Pack and vows to follow the Club oath and law and attend Den and Pack meetings.
An old medicine note promotes 666 Liquid Tablets Salve as a complete treatment for colds. It claims internal use of the liquid or tablets and external application of the salve for a full remedy.
Mrs. P E Davenport of Chapel Hill visited her sister Mrs L J Meade the past week. Mr and Mrs H T Davis and family spent Sunday at Severn. Miss Sibyl Simmins and Daisy McCommons, student nurses at Philadelphia General Hospital, are home for vacation.
Mr and Mrs W F Edwards and Mr and Mrs EB W W Smith with families visited Ocean View during the weekend.
Members met Monday afternoon at Mrs. TR Manning's home to discuss a Wednesday trip to Raleigh to visit the Flower Show by the Raleigh Woman's Club. Plans were set and useful information hoped to improve the local club's upcoming flower show.
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