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NEGRO BOY SCOUT I
· LEADER IS·HONORED I

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Scoutmaster Bell Given Silver
Beaver Award

Memphis' first negro Boy Scout
leader to get a Silver Beaver award '
"for outstanding service to Scouts"
is Claude Bell, scoutmaster of
Troop 100 in the Seminole division
of Chickasaw Council.
He was presented the award this
week by Ed Dalstrom, vice president of the council ai:J.d chairman
of inter-racial committee. Bell has
a store on Mississippi. He has been
a scoutmaster for 12 years and long
active in church an d civic work.
·1 Chickasaw Coun cil during its hi story h as presen ted 21 Beaver
· awards.
One of th e speakers at the meet
ing when Bell received tbe awar e
was Dr. J. E. Walker, past cha irm a n of t he division, who made tw
remarks that were described by Dr
T . S. Eliot, Scout leader, as "exam. pl es of how our negro leaders
1
1sometimes say something short but
powerful."
One remark was this: "I love
music, I love flowers, I love people.
Tha t 's how I love God." The other:
was: "Any man who can't lay his
business aside long enough to help
somebody hasn't got business
· worth attending to."

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