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Show Little League Wins Presidential Praise For This Week's Foundation Celebration Tliia wtrek Ceuar Ciiy Lillie League organizations will join with leagues throughout the United States and Canada, Europe Eur-ope and other areas of the world in observing National Little League Foundation Week. Today, June 14, is Foundation Day of Little League throughout the world, and activities everywhere will emphasize the Importance of the program in the lives of young boys and funds will be raised to guarantee the continuation continu-ation of the program. A Foundation Fund is being accumulated which will perpetuate perpetu-ate Little League in the future. This Foundation is growing rapidly, rap-idly, and any contribution made to Little League anywhere today will be added to the Foundation, and promote the future of youth activities on the Little League level. Foundation Week has been1 proclaimed by Presidents Eisenhower Eisen-hower and Kennedy, in recognition recogni-tion of the fine work being done through the program. President Kennedy has called on the nation to recognize the movement of Little League as a family and community asset and a stmulus to national vigor and fitness. The President has asked that people observe Foundation Week with appropriate ceremonies and activities designed to emphasize the Importance of physical development devel-opment of our nation's youth. The President's proclamation In which he invites all people to support the program points out that "Whereas active participation participat-ion by youth in appropriate physical phy-sical acivities contributes to their fitness and to the maintenance of our naional vigor and vitality; and Little Leagues In communities communi-ties throughout the nation have made it possible for thousands thous-ands of young boys to take an active part in our national game of baseball, and Whereas Little League Baseball not only promotes pro-motes the physical well-being of the players, but also Instills into them the qualities of fairness, cooperation, and discipline qualities which contribute to the development of good citizenship; i Now tereiore, 1 Jonn K. Kennedy, President of the United States, .... invite the people to observe Little League Foundation Week with appropriate activities designed de-signed to emphasize the import-ace import-ace of he physical development of our Nation's Youth." |
