Show 316 MILLION STATE BUDGET SEED MONEY V FRUITS OF SEED MONEY INCLUDE: J Spearheaded by Utica communities throughout New York State M f V Jrv I4A have developed a program that stamps out iuvenile problems before they take root 0 0 Si r 1 BY JOSEPH N BELL r fair J Utwwl W t unusual formula one more important ingredient is (pop 101000) in New York's added—an $8000 contribution and skilled help from Mohawk Valley have discovered the New York State Youth Commission that a small investment in youth This adds up to Utica as the center of one of the can pay enormous dividends in most enlightened delinquency prevention sections in state in the nation With the most positive community understandUtica as a hub the spokes of this Mohawk Valley ing between young people and adults As a consequence Uti-cayouth recreation program now poke into many neighare multiplying the money boring communities Mark Mc Closkey For example a few years ago the hustling nearby heads program time and effort being put into their youth centers playground town of New Hartford faced a problem common to programs organized Summer vacation activities and many US towns A large factory had moved into the enlightened handling of youngsters in trouble community swelling the population almost overnight Result: young people in the Utica area are seldom The plant was a welcome addition but it brought at a loss for constructive pastimes the kind that keep with it all the problems of sudden growth One of the them on the right side of the law most potent was how to provide a constructive recreIn addition to hundreds of hours of freely contribation program for the burgeoning number of young uted effort each citizen of Utica today invests a dollar people who were on the verge of getting out of hand A phone call to the Youth Commission brought a year in a formal program of recreation and guidance for young people in the area To this simple but district representative Jim Cosgrove on the scene HE CITIZENS Ot UtlCa youth-conscio- us ns i Family Weekly August II 1957 — T- J -' He offered the citizens of New Hartford two things: advice on how to organize a juvenile recreation program and $1000 of state aid— providing New Hartford would match this amount— to get the program rolling toward reality Within a few weeks New Hartford—with the commission's help and Utica's example before them — had organized a community recreation program directed by a representative group of citizens who were willing to contribute time and effort Last June the citizens of New Hartford proudly unveiled their prize recreation exhibit: a $285000 indoor swimming pool financed by a bond issue Idleness is no longer a major problem among the kids in New Hartford About the same time young people were getting towns In Clinsimilar attention in other Utica-are- a ton (pop 2000) One of the largest indoor skating rinks in the nation was being erected by private citizens who supplied the money and did most of the |