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Show YOUTHS START LIBRARY AID FOR SHUT-INS Library service for shut-ins was advanced as a major youth program pro-gram this week as several cities furthered junior achievement moves and others had stressed eduation for crime prevention. Boy Scouts at Bangor, Maine, joined the city's public library re-ently re-ently in an effort to deliver books to persons shut-in at hospitals or at home because of illness. The boys call at the library two days each week and make deliveries of requested books to the shut-ins. The service continues until the closin of the city's schools in June. Dorohester, Mass., reported its teen-age unit of Junior Achievement, Achieve-ment, Inc,. a national organization, organiza-tion, had met its first payroll in producing as its own .venture, 250 bottles of a hand lotion. The pro-jet pro-jet was sponsored by a local manufacturer. man-ufacturer. Massachusetts had reported similar junior achievement groups organized in 28 other communities. communi-ties. One group at Newton, entering enter-ing the publishing field, reported that it had sold $250 worth of stock at $1 per share. It used $100 to purchase a press, $45 for paper and $2 per month for rent. ' Jr. Achievement, Inc., stresses "learning by doing." It enourages the organization of 'teen-age companies and enlists the support of prominent industrialists and i business men in each community. |