Palmer, Alaska Dorothy M. Bell Editor
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YOUTH RECREATION PROGRAM
2nd(Cont. from last week)
Recreation plans are advancing since Martha helped to get things
started. A civic recreation committee has been elected out of a meeting
of representatives of the various civic groups and Farmers Union. A
high school governing, board has been elected, a Junior High germing
board set up separately to plan THFIR activities.
The Conrad Lion's Youth committee is meeting with the City Council
to make arrangements to use the city .hall for the youth center where
all their activities can be centered. The Conrad ministerial associa
tion is endorsing the program 100$. Handicraft, hobbies,- shop work,
and a choral group are being planned. A reading .room, lunch count
and fountain will be. furnished, a juke box and coke disponsor will -e
installed. The young people will clean and pai»f"nnd decorate their 'f'w
rooms with the help and advise of an art teacher. The furnishings will
be largely donated by business houses und interested individu1 Is, A
paid supervisor will be obtai ned to be on hand at all tin* s .hyplan
to have’ doors open 4:30 'p*m. to 10 p.m. week nights, and i .it'. l 11:00 or
12:CO p.m. on Friday and Saturday and on Sunday afternoons from 1 o*
?•clock to about 7 so it will not interfere with church attend nee Sun
day evenings* At least one‘night a week will be r served for junior
High exclusively.
Arrangements were made with the manager of the City Roll skating
rink, to have tfis rink reserved for high school‘students ONLY, on one
or two nights t month and at another time for Junior Highaouo stars.
The bowling alley is also beiobtained for the high school - rowd one
night a nenth, so they cm lerrn the game and have..a chance t v v ctice,
A petition was circulated in the high school demanding an ’c« skat
ing rink, and wrs presented to the City Council. The Ccutlcil . rr-. d to
pr jpare'a good rink for skating in thf residential' part of to.an Inst? 11
lights and provide a warming, PROVIDING the kids would take care-of it,
and not be destructive as they have been in the past.
Information on the youth centers may be obtained from the f allowing:
Teen Trouble--Problems of Youth in Wartime, 10/
"Gotta Date Tonight?" Number of Cities Help Solve Youth Recr ation
Problems, 15/ . . ■
Centers All Their OwnJ 15/
Preventing War Time Delinquency, 15/ • . *
Teen Age Centers, Birds Tye View, 10/
The Coca Cola Bpttling Co. has a pamphlet on Youth,Centers also. It
is "Teen Town Clinton Oklahoma Plan." Clinton Notary, *Club, Cl into ,
Oklahoma •
mother pamphlet is l*What About Us?" free from Federal Security
Agency*, 'Washington, D.0.
Write to—National Recreation Association
315 Fourth Ave., New York 10, N.Y.
for any or all of the above bulletins.
From Chinn we hear-- , , ,
'‘The Chinese Industrial Co-operative Movement is one of the few good
things which hi ve emerged from the holocaust of this war against fascism
In six years of existence it has proved not only the fensibil y but the
desirability of co-operative production of consumer goodp. It as prcr
vided large numbers of people in free Chino with essential products and
other thousands with the means of livelihood; but most important has
been its contribution to the education pf hundred., of thousands o+’
Chinese in the fundamentals of democrotlc■ methcos nnd preccdur s0
“Those Americans who have aided this great movement have satis. .'action
in knowing they have contributed to another import nt nsep i '• ■' e .level
cpment of an eqrit ble and harmonious democratic nty "
From—SFFAKTRS PR/ 1ST CO-OPS in Farmer;; on iT^v'a